In his essay "To Tell a Chemist" (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word "unionized". Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).
Breakthrough Starshot project is working towards accelerating a probe close to 20% of C. That's a significant fraction of C in these terms.
Even if we could get to .25 C, that would be 80 years for the probe to get there, and then 20 more for the data to come back.
But yes, that is still VERY close.
Isaac Asimov is considered one of the greats of 20th century science fiction. Again, while most famous for writing science fiction he wrote much more than just that.
Isaac Asimov has won scores of Hugo Awards for stories and for Best Editor; dozens of Nebula Awards; several World Fantasy Awards; over a dozen Theodore Sturgeon Awards and Homer Awards; and multiple Sidewise Awards1. He has won Hugo Awards for Best Related Work, Best Novelette, and Best Editor.
He wrote 40 novels and a lot of short stories, and is a great read almost always. He also wrote textbooks because he was just amazing.
I saw a trailer the other day. It's real.
Unless you were early eighties baby and introduced to BBS at a remarkably young age like me. Oregon Trail generation FTW.
Well, presumably more than a few dozen light years away. A few dozen lightyears is nothing on a cosmic scale.
Great times!
Introducing my daughter to Trek this year, just wrapped up S4 of DS9 a few weeks ago and S3 of Voyager the week after.
We have a few more months of golden age Trek... soaking it in.
The meme is correct. I can't bring myself to rewatch it in your link.
That said... good game and plenty to be pleased about.
Dunno. I was going off common wisdom I'd heard over the years about people over salting their food as they get older.
Mayo clinic says yes though.
People also tend to add more seasoning (particularly salt) as they get older and their senses dull.
Ah, I could see that. It can be read either way, but I think the author intended it to be read this way. 'Wow!' As the reaction to the father's statement that he won't have to work if he does something he loves.
Wife and I watched through it for the first time last month.
We watched it for the second time last month as well.
Actually, we started our third watch last night.
Long overdue, I know, but looking to start at least partially migrating and working with Dual boot, coming from Windows 10 (putting off 11 as much as possible)...
I have limited Linux experience, mostly in college several years back.
I work remotely with Windows software development, including Winforms, Asp.net, .net core, etc. Not sure what I need to best work with these, particularly Winforms. That may not even be possible, I know.
Looking for any general guidance/recommendations.
Long term, I'm interested in migrating as much as possible, outside of whatever I have to keep up for work... starting with dual boot options then moving towards linux as a primary driver. I have an old media server (also win10, not win11 compatable) not really doing much but running plex when I need it... would love to also eventually poke around with Home Assistant or similar, maybe some LLM tinkering etc.
If this isn't a good community for this, I apologize, and please point me to a better one if you know of one.
I see him nearly every day. I don't post a lot online, but felt like sharing him today.