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Old 11-11-2020, 01:47 PM   #721 (permalink)
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Is that the first SpaceX manned rocket mission?

I think they have sent cockpits to the ISS before, aboard Soyuz iirc.

EDIT: Apparently they sent their first people May 30th on the demo 2 mission.
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Old 11-11-2020, 01:55 PM   #722 (permalink)
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Is that the first SpaceX manned rocket mission?

I think they have sent cockpits to the ISS before, aboard Soyuz iirc.

EDIT: Apparently they sent their first people May 30th on the demo 2 mission.
Earlier this year Bob and Doug went up.
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Old 12-06-2020, 12:01 AM   #723 (permalink)
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https://deepmind.com/blog/article/al...nge-in-biology

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AlphaFold is a once in a generation advance, predicting protein structures with incredible speed and precision. This leap forward demonstrates how computational methods are poised to transform research in biology and hold much promise for accelerating the drug discovery process.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/futuris...-algorithm/amp

Scientists Unimpressed by Google's Protein Folding Algorithm

We’ll see but I think there’s going to game changing applications with this.
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https://gcn.com/articles/2020/12/11/...opter.aspx?m=1

‘Smellicopter’ uses a live moth antenna to hunt for scents
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Old 12-12-2020, 08:45 PM   #725 (permalink)
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Riddle me this

It’s a fact that if a near sighted person looks at objects in a mirror objects that are farther away they will become blurry same as if they were just looking out at a landscape

I read that it’s because the light still has to travel farther to get to the mirror if the object is farther away but that doesn’t make sense to me because the light from the mirror only has to travel from the surface of the mirror to your eyes

Another explanation is because it’s because your brain is trained to blur things out from a distance if you’re near sighted. Well if that’s true then why doesn’t your brain blur out far away objects in a photograph?

Riddle me that, smarties
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Old 12-13-2020, 02:25 AM   #726 (permalink)
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Riddle me this

It’s a fact that if a near sighted person looks at objects in a mirror objects that are farther away they will become blurry same as if they were just looking out at a landscape

I read that it’s because the light still has to travel farther to get to the mirror if the object is farther away but that doesn’t make sense to me because the light from the mirror only has to travel from the surface of the mirror to your eyes

Another explanation is because it’s because your brain is trained to blur things out from a distance if you’re near sighted. Well if that’s true then why doesn’t your brain blur out far away objects in a photograph?

Riddle me that, smarties
The distance argument is right. Near sightedness means things get blurry because your eye focuses too strongly, so approximately parallel light rays from for away objects don't end up focused on your retina. So it depends on how much the light rays diverge/converge.
The picture below shows that the rays are reflected by the mirror, but not refocused. Effectively, if you consider how much they diverge, they come from the original source; you can even get the same result by setting an imaginary source point behind the mirror.
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So it depends on how much the light rays diverge/converge
Ah yeah. My problem was I was focused on the distance instead of the behavior of light. That also explains why at the DMV they can test your vision with a machine that isn’t fifty meters long. The machine only has to recreate how much the light rays diverge/converge.

I think the reason that’s a bit of a mind **** for me is because even though I know on paper that the light obviously has to travel to my eyes it seems like my eyes are reaching out to the object that’s reflecting the light.

You did a great job of explaining that. Thank you.
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No problem, the prissy schoolteacher in me enjoys these things. Mirrors are freaky objects for sure
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So are eyes.
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