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TildalWave

1:29 AM

Recording of the New Horizon's lecture is available here: ustream.tv/recorded/50177762

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Stack Exchange

4:49 AM

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TildalWave

5:16 AM

OT but potentially cool event: Nikola Tesla: Mad scientist or genius inventor? (will be webcast live via this LiveStream page, Sun Jul, 20 2014 4:00 PM EDT)

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John Riselvato

1:37 PM

wow it's been more then a year since this was create. that's awesome.

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Stack Exchange

3:02 PM

NASA Image of the Day: Caribbean Sea Viewed From the International Space Station

posted on July 17, 2014

From the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, flying some 225 nautical miles above the Caribbean Sea in the early morning hours of July 15, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman photographed this north-looking panorama that includes parts of Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida, and even runs into several other areas in the southeastern U.S. The long stretch of lights to the left of center frame gives th…

Rory Alsop

3:33 PM

@StackExchange pretty

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Stack Exchange

5:52 PM

astrobites: Bars: Star Mixologists

posted on July 10, 2014 by Becky Smethurst

Can bars in a galaxy cause radial migrations of stars? The simulations say yes, but these observations suggest otherwise...

astrobites: Growth of structure tells us how normal and dark matter scatter

posted on July 11, 2014 by Zachary Slepian

What can the growth of structure in the Universe tell us about how regular matter and dark matter scatter? The authors develop a simple framework and get model-independent constraints; read on for the answer.

astrobites: Can gamma ray bursts be used as standard candles?

posted on July 14, 2014 by Anson Lam

Some GRB-SNe pairs show interesting correlations across their light curves.

astrobites: Mercury’s surprising density: What about magnets?

posted on July 16, 2014 by Jaime Green

A new model explains Mercury's major density with magnetism.

astrobites: How does structure grow? Understanding the Meszaros effect

posted on July 17, 2014 by Zachary Slepian

Explore an astrophysical classic describing the effect of the Universe's expansion on the seeds of galaxies.

TildalWave

Hmmm what's going on with the feed? LOL

David Freitag

@TildalWave You broke it!

TildalWave

6:09 PM

I didn't touch it, honest

geoffc

@TildalWave It was very refreshing, in Provo, UT, at a TEENY tiny airport, seeing 2-300 people in line, to go see the inside of a B-29. And TONS of kids.

Nice to see the interest.

Last night, sitting in the lobby of the hotel with friends, EMT's come in from an ambulance. Was worried it was one of the B-29 guys, they were pretty old looking, some of them.

But was not.

Undo

6:27 PM

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The Boeing 777-200ER crashed near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, about from the Ukrainian border with Russia on 17 July 2014, carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members. This area is currently part of the ongoing 2014 insurgency in Donbass conflict zone. Initial reports stated that the Ukrainian government suggested that the aircraft was shot down at an altitude of by a surface-to-air missile. With 280 passengers and 15 crew members on board, this is the la...

sigh Another one :(

geoffc

@Undo

@Undo I saw that it went down on the news... Shot down is bad news. 777 is a pretty big airplane too!

Undo

Yeah

295 people. Terrible

geoffc

SAM against an airplane is really bad news for everyone.

Israel already requires counter measures on commercial airplanes. Get ready for that in the rest of teh world.

Converesly, Rafael has a fairly cheap DIRCM system for commercial air transports.

Undo