death tribble Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 Something stirring down below. Dark oxygen made by deep sea defies conventional knowledge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 More controversies afoot at the Hugo Awards... https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 1 hour ago, Old Man said: Word on the street is ClownStrike canned most of their QA department a while back and gave those duties to the devs and maybe AI. Oh look, if it isn't the consequences of my actions! If that's true, then their liability exposure may have just greatly increased. The CNN story talks about it. If they fired the QA department, then there may be grounds to void the contract provisions, for gross negligence. Given that the damage estimate is about 1/4 of their total revenue, they may be in serious!!! trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 How two Perth sisters are selling off the largest toy car collection in the southern hemisphere (msn.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 https://stageberry.com/weird-al-yankovic-reveals-plans-for-broadway-musical/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 3 hours ago, unclevlad said: If that's true, then their liability exposure may have just greatly increased. The CNN story talks about it. If they fired the QA department, then there may be grounds to void the contract provisions, for gross negligence. Given that the damage estimate is about 1/4 of their total revenue, they may be in serious!!! trouble. Good. They took a lot of internet offline, including airlines and hospital emergency rooms. People could have died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 Did Pornhub go down? Asking for a friend.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 28 minutes ago, Starlord said: Did Pornhub go down? Asking for a friend.... There are pills and creams for that... Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentArthurDent Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 (edited) Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cek9mr43x1xo Edited July 23 by DentArthurDent tkdguy, Pattern Ghost and Lawnmower Boy 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 I told you that they would find out ! DentArthurDent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 Navy Pilot Becomes First U.S. Woman To "Kill An Air-To-Air Contact" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park temporarily closed due to hydrothermal explosion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 4 hours ago, DentArthurDent said: Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cek9mr43x1xo I see the sequel to Cocaine Bear is coming along nicely DentArthurDent, Starlord and Tom Cowan 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 2 hours ago, dmjalund said: I see the sequel to Cocaine Bear is coming along nicely And Sharknado gets new life into the franchise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Down my way...FBI has 2 clear persons of interest for arson, for starting the Salt River fire...and multiple others. Based on shoe prints and tire tracks, and sightings at multiple events. I wish them the best, and hope the culprits' remaining time outside a jail cell is quite limited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Might be from living in Australia, but I don't find anyone as scummy as bushfire arsonists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Talking of Australia Australia surfer's leg washes up after shark attack. The surfer survived and they might be able to reattach the leg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cprqxqz2deno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 John Mayall, Legendary Pioneer of British Blues, Dead at 90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Let's review: NO POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS OUTSIDE OF THE POLITICAL DISCUSSION THREAD. I'd hate to shut this thread down. Again. There won't be another one if that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 I assume something got deleted. I, too, would not like to see this thread shut down. Perhaps the thread title should be amended to include, "No Politics." Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Offending post removed and poster issued a warning. I'm not going to change the title of the thread for the same reason that I'm not going to change the title of every other thread on these forums -- there is a singular thread on this site where political discussions are allowed. The poster in question is well aware of that. A new user on the site who appears to honestly not know any better will be handled accordingly. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-finally-know-how-the-strong-force-gets-its-strength/ I don't know how many people here are interested in particle physics, but the article ends in a conclusion I find rather gobsmacking. In brief, the "Strong Force" is one of the four fundamental forces of the Universe. It holds quarks together into protons and neutrons, and those particles into atomic nuclei. It is also difficult to study because it only operates on very short ranges. Mathematically, it is also incredibly difficult because it interacts with itself. In contrast, for instance, electromagnetism is relatively easy to handle mathematically because photons, which carry the EM force between charged particles, do not themselves have charge. But th whimsically named glueons -- the particles that convey the strong force -- themselves have the charges that they mediate, so while a gluon passes between two quarks, it also exchanges gluons with other gluons, which exchange gluons with even more gluons, and so one forever. By a mix of good luck and hard work, the authors found a way to measure the strength of strong force interactions, and some mathematical hacks with which to interpret the resulting data. One consequence is that quantum chromodynamics -- the quantum theory describing the strong force -- now generates only finite values. Others (notably quantum electrodynamics, the theory describing the EM force) can generate infinities, which are mathematically awkward. Second, physicists now can say how much of the mass of ordinary matter (ot dark matter, which remains unidentified) comes from the strong force interactions within protons and neutrons. (Resmember your Einstein: All energy has a mass equivalence.) It's 99%. The remaining 1% -- the mass of electrons and the quarks themselves -- comes from the Higgs field. So, yeah. The strong force is a big deal. It's most of what we are. Dean Shomshak rravenwood, unclevlad, L. Marcus and 3 others 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 French police break up Russian plot to commit "destabilizing acts" during the Olympics No details on exactly what the "acts" would have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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