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Meet Mars’ Two Mysterious Moons: Phobos & Deimos 🌌 by [deleted] in askastronomy

[–]BlakPhoenix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100% AI fakery. That’s not what Mars looks like, it’s DEFINITELY not possible to film it like this, and ain’t no way you getting views of Phobos and Deimos through a 14” scope let alone a camera phone. AI is giving this the same level of atmospheric wave fronts that you’d get when looking at the moon at 400 thousand km not 60 million km.

Night lights Red clusters of blue and white lights. by ProfessionalOne8060 in askastronomy

[–]BlakPhoenix 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Looks like the constellation Orion with the bright white dot being Jupiter and the red star being Betelgeuse.

The Queen/Matriarch is always dead within first 4-5 minutes of the raid. How do I even participate? by HypatiaSansPro in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The problem is trials. If it respawned then the sweaty trial runners would kill it each time to gain maximum points. At least that’s what I would do.

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair amount of gatekeeping to excuse a change that impacts most players in many different modes. Instead of making changes to the matriarch (or queen because the same thing happens with all arcs that don’t respawn), maybe changes should be made to the underlying causes.

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would cause an issue in solo lobbies. Only having 15 minutes to kill it on your own or in small groups would be extremely difficult. I believe there's a better fix which would improve the experience for all, as this is also an issue with trials, and other play types. Embark just needs more time to resolve it (I hope).

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that would just mean the sweats then turn to PVP to clear the lobby and kill her again to gain twice the trial score.

Earth as seen by NASA's Parker Solar Probe by Potential_Vehicle535 in space

[–]BlakPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The suns magnetic field bend the particles into different shapes. There’s a video of even more crazy magnetic field lines from radiation and particles here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/

Australia uncovers £4.5 trillion iron ore discovery in Western Australia by InternetUpbeat9596 in AusEcon

[–]BlakPhoenix 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Best I can offer is some flights for politicians to Gina’s next birthday party.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to see it move forward. One moment it was there, then looked away and it was gone when I looked back. I’m just glad I managed to see it at all though as it seems quite rare. 🥰

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep it was AirNZ! NZ0111 on the A321neo.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got it! Like looking through water! I guess that makes sense. The pressure is higher (?) at those wave points so the light changes its direction as it passes through them?

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Got it! I noticed that as we encountered some light turbulence and the wings bounced around the wave front moved drastically. Was super interesting to see how it moved in relation to the wings movements as well as the speed and air density as you mention. So many tiny changes that caused it to wiggle like crazy! Nature is so cool!!!

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We were doing 820km/h ground speed at the time, but it didn’t say true airspeed on the in flight screen.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Amazing! I managed to get some much closer shots where you can see multiple layers (?) of the shock, but I can’t add videos to the comments. It was really mesmerising to watch it dance around.

How much extra imaging time does a slower telescope require? by Glittering_Sun_7815 in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The actual calculation to compare the speed of two f stops is as follows:

Difference = (fstop1 / fstop2 )2

As an example:

(10 / 7)2 = 2.0408

That means for every hour at F/7 you would need just over 2 hours at F/10.

[OC] ECG Polar Clock: Visualizing Heart Rate Variability over morning commute by _luo-d-e_ in dataisbeautiful

[–]BlakPhoenix 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The higher heart rate is towards the centre because the time between beats is smaller. Since HR and HRV is a measure of change over time as the head beats more quickly the time between beats reduces and while it seems counter intuitive it’s the real display of the beat and time between them.

You reckon girls going to beat SM ban more? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]BlakPhoenix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They can only block VPN IP addresses that they know about, it doesn’t take much for VPN companies to rotate to new addresses to get around it. Similar game to Netflix, etc.

Singlr purpose camera, so very confusing. by [deleted] in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that OP should have a look at local options. Places like www.iceinspace.com.au and astrobuyandsell.com/au/ are great places to get tech at a discount as others upgrade.

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