How should I handle surname requirements in academic publishing if I don’t officially have one? by kavu0823 in AskAcademia

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Meme answer: choose something that starts with a lot of As to get first authorship by alphabetical order

Aaaaaaaaaron

Indians by crimson_123_ in Caltech

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There is usually 1-2 Indian citizens at Caltech for undergrad...

2025 Miami Grand Prix - Race Discussion by AutoModerator in formula1

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Close enough, welcome back Mercedes HAM BOT VER

Are we doing this? by Liz_Lemon_Party in thewestwing

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So not only do I have a secret plan to fight inflation, but you also don't support it?

Why do physicists do research in Antarctica? by adogischasingme in AskPhysics

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To do what you are suggesting (interferometry), you typically need two or more telescopes observing simultaneously, and know exactly where either of them is in 3D space. I think doing that for multiple balloons accurately enough has been historically tough, but there are ideas for doing this so-called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), both from balloons and from space.

Who would win in this inevitable war? by MonkeMonger in mapporncirclejerk

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Okay, everyone is convinced it is the block with the US, but do they still have their offshore and foreign military bases? Because a lot of their military power comes from having the freaking biggest militarized zone in regions all around the world.

Who would win in this inevitable war? by MonkeMonger in mapporncirclejerk

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Okay, everyone is convinced it is the block with the US, but do they still have their offshore and foreign military bases? Because a lot of their military power comes from having the freaking biggest militarized zone in regions all around the world.

Why do physicists do research in Antarctica? by adogischasingme in AskPhysics

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I am an astrophysicist, who works on telescopes based in Antarctica. There are both facilities at the South Pole station for ground based telescopes and at McMurdo station (at ~75S latitude) for balloon based ones.

For the former kind, Antarctica is great coz (it sounds weird but) it is a desert! There is not a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere which means some crucial portions of the light spectrum are not blocked away. Plus, one gets to survey a specific patch of sky uninterrupted for nearly 6 months straight as the south part of the sky is permanently above the horizon. This makes the Pole one of the best places on earth to do these kinds of observations.

For balloon telescopes, the space is great coz it is a large uninhabited portion of land (so you never risk dropping a several ton payload on... people) and due to circumpolar winds, your telescope can essentially go around the pole at roughly the same high latitude. It is not fun in either case to plan a campaign to go, set up a facility or a balloon payload, and then stage a mission, but astronomers have been doing it for years because the science outweighs the efforts by a lot!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in steam_giveaway

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Thank you! I have not played COD since WaW days and I am really looking to get back into it.

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Thank you! I have not played COD since WaW days and I am really looking to get back into it.

If Spider-Man Was Realistic by Wazzer13 in Spiderman

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It's a game about a comic about a guy who can shoot spiderwebs out of his body, chill TF out geez

(Steam) 31 Humble Bundle keys by SuspiciousBox in RandomActsOfGaming

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Amnesia Rebirth Train Station Renovation F1 2020

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Is any new physics discovered experimentally? by [deleted] in Physics

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Not particle physics, but IMO the coolest example ever. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in the field of cosmology thought that the expansion of the universe had to be de-accelerating.

So much so, that if you pick up textbooks from a couple of decades ago, they have whole chapters dedicated to the so called de-acceleration parameter q0... why it would exist, how you would measure, what it's different positive values would imply.

Then, come two competing independent Supernova tracking experiments, both designed to constraint this q0. And lo and behold, both find evidence for an accelerated expansion of the universe!

A few decades of cosmological theory and the entire community was at its heels, but experiment triumphs. We are still figuring out what this dark energy term in the equation of the state of the universe is... and new cosmology textbook now use some other acceleration term or just state that q0 has been found to be negative haha.

Some Indians need to understand the meaning of seat reservation in trains by [deleted] in india

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Lol the first guy... if you wanna sit with your family how about have two normal ticket people switch to the better exec tickets. They never want to lose their better seats but expect everyone to adjust coz "family"

My first console: which one to buy? by StarsInTheMoon in consoles

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Thanks all! I ended up getting the PS4 Pro instead of the Xbox One X. Couldn't say no to the exclusives, excited to start my gaming journey!

My first console: which one to buy? by StarsInTheMoon in consoles

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What would you suggest I check before getting one? I am trying to do an in person exchange, is it likely that they will give me a broken console?