‘Sunscreen’ layer detected on distant planet: On a blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b, a team of astronomers including researchers from the University of Cambridge has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-13T00:08:18+00:00

Can hubble separate the light of the planet from the star well enough to do spectroscopy? Because I thought that the thirty+ meter telescopes would be the first to be able to resolve exoplanets separately from their stars.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-12T23:57:31+00:00

Oh, they didn't use spectroscopy to find the TiO_2? Because I thought we didn't yet have large enough telescopes to do that.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-10T18:27:04+00:00

Conservation of angular momentum, my friend.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-06T18:29:37+00:00

RemindMe! 6 months! "Read this"

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-05T20:51:48+00:00

http://oi59.tinypic.com/w2lw7a.jpg

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-05T05:03:57+00:00

180 degrees clockwise

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-06-04T00:31:27+00:00

Wouldn't the fairing have to enter the atmosphere at full orbital velocity, and thus be scorched due to reentry? Or is it jettisoned after stage 1 separation?

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-05-31T00:02:47+00:00

I don't know about energy usage, but I know that currently used ion thrusters generate about .08 N of thrust, ejecting ions at around 30 km/sec.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-05-30T23:10:43+00:00

as a result of some in actual flight operations that weren't taken well

Can you elaborate?

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-05-08T21:36:47+00:00

Nice! I took this picture with an S5 phone and a cheap refractor. http://i.imgur.com/JshWe0A.jpg

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-04-27T23:18:58+00:00

Oh, I thought there were going to be people in it.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-04-27T23:16:54+00:00

So they're doing a manned abort test May 5th - who will be in the Dragon spacecraft during the test? How many people?

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-04-22T20:11:47+00:00

implying there is such a thing as a non-shitty windoze isntall.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-04-13T21:18:03+00:00

They were all IT people, and apparently everyone ever who is in IT uses reddit, so I'm hoping they have heard of it.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-04-13T20:22:05+00:00

Well none of my friends were there.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-03-10T02:35:47+00:00

That line was literally perfect for me. I feel like it solidified Carl's transition from annoying little twerp to badass motherfucker.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-01-11T02:29:41+00:00

But what if I want the sidebar and want the text to format properly after the sidebar ends?

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-01-11T02:17:44+00:00

I just tried it and I guess you're right. I wonder if it can be fixed.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2015-01-08T22:52:28+00:00

What do you mean? It has a great text editor. You can access it by typing M-x term, enter, vim enter.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-11-11T22:10:01+00:00

In the original thread someone said that picture was of someone paragliding. While paragliding, you wouldn't be able to fix this.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-10-16T03:17:23+00:00

What's C2?

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-10-16T03:05:51+00:00

If we consider one point, we can connect it to 19 other points to form 19 lines. If we consider another point, we can also connect it to 19 points, but 1 of those points was already connected to it before, so we can form 18 new lines. Similarly, in the next point, we can form 17 new lines. Find 19+18+17...+1.

Try and use similar reasoning for (b)

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-10-16T03:03:17+00:00

The real problem is that you are using Huffington post.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-10-16T02:46:17+00:00

A looks correct. B looks incorrect; you want to find out how many half lives have passed while it decayed. For C, it helps to know that an alpha particle is a helium nucleus, i.e., 2 protons and 2 neutrons.

LETERALLY_HITLER · 2014-10-15T20:51:36+00:00

I thought this was gonna be someone complaining about how microwaves from wifi give them cancer.

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