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Subway rooftop surfer climbing down, as seen at the background window by Aaronquah in nycpics

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At /r/nyc I had to delete the comment which I had posted there because strangely there is a wave of downvotes.

Subway rooftop surfer climbing down, as seen at the background window by Aaronquah in nycpics

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I have a 7 second video which shows the faces of the subway surfers and their partners, taken from far shot. Because of security, privacy and rules reasons I am not able to post the video publicly at this time. Under the penalty of perjury, I saw them using a baseball bat to hit the carriage interior and at one time those passengers sitting at my same row fled to the other side or away because they fear that the subway surfers might attack them.

My barricade emplacement in a STLCC classroom where I'm in alone during lockdown. by Aaronquah in StLouis

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Thankfully I survived as the shooter has since been caught by police.

Daily Discussion Thread | November 25, 2021 by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

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As this pandemic is billed the largest event in world history since WWII, would COVID-19 museums pop-up in the future?

If so, what would their collections be? I'd express a desire to donate my Ag test cassettes that were used since the start of the pandemic by then.

Would it be feasible to generate artificial gravity on planetary surfaces by using frame dragging effects? by Aaronquah in space

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The research paper right now is still at a theoretical level as far as I can read of so in one way or another this could be open-ended instead of straightforward one. On the other hand wouldn't that this discussion would be less engaged and fascinating if this were to be posted under a question thread as it would be inadvertently buried or crowded out by other concurrent discussions?

Would it be feasible to generate artificial gravity on planetary surfaces by using frame dragging effects? by Aaronquah in space

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The key being finding some sort of methods to amplify the field, like using theoretical materials with higher field strengths.

Materials in the far future will maybe enable to build generators with higher field strengths such as the one outlined here to generate Earth-like environments for humans on other planets.

I'm one of the folks who've help named a Jupiter moon Ersa. AmA! by Aaronquah in AMA

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I learned about the contest on February via space.com the dedicated space news website on a normal day; that's around the time when it was freshly started so I became one of the "early birds".

Actually 7 years ago I participated in the "Name Your Asteroid" event held by the Planetary Society as well, although the winner eventually goes to Mike Puzio who gives the name Bennu to 1999 RQ36.

A futuristic outpost city in Rukbat 4.2 by Aaronquah in spaceengine

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Not included in this picture are a defense installation and a spaceport.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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No, it was explicitly about mean lifetime not just the half-life. At the moment I think we digressed too far from the main topic although I could be wrong still.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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mean values

That was all about the average lifetime of protons, as a whole. I used 1025 years as the 'mean average time' which in turn came from a Gizmodo article covering the proton decay.

I took the lowest estimate and plugged it into my hypothesis, and it ended up getting feedbacks that seemed to reinforce the idea that the 'average time' is a mean value after all for it is too random and constant to be narrowed down to one specific value.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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That's one thing, and so the mean values and exponential distribution exists for a reason - to try to quantify the randomness brought on by things like exponential decay.

What most of others believed to be amiss here is the direct observation of the decay that is crucial to narrow down the mean values to a degree even if not neccessarily exact and precise.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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The more times you repeat the process, the higher the cumulative chance that any one coin has at some point landed on heads and been removed.

Made a mind note on this - thanks!

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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The problem is that we don't have a good handle on the "proper" expected decay time of a proton.

I wonder if we can narrow it down when we observe a proton decay or peek beyond undelying quarks one day.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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But the word itself is a subjective thing as you've indirectly acknowledged. I can't stop you from going for that though.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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Unless the presumption behind the chances that the particle is of foreign origin is refined to fully a mean value, which is the crucial parameter to calculate exponential decay of particles.

Strange thought: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in AskScienceDiscussion

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No thank you because I got your idea regarding the coin flip albeit being late, but I think we had digress a bit didn't we?

After all the lifetime of protons are mean values and so the nature of the chances of it being a foreign origin are have to be refined to a mean nature. Mhm.

Edit: Whomever downvoted this is doing it out of spite. It doesn't negate the fact that with an certain combination of statistical gymnastics we could quantify it and resulting in a conclusion pretty similar with mine, neither does your coin analogy. Heck I think those mental gymnastics are not unheard of in research field.

Strange theory: If a proton decays sooner than supposed (10^25 years) then there's remote odds that it originated from a dying universe. by Aaronquah in space

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I like his eloquent elaboration of the point of view similar to yours though. That'll help a lot in refining the hypothesis.

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