Congrats! I however have only read the abstract and surmised it might be pretty cool. If only there were no paywall...
Great article. It ends with: "If this is real, we’ll know within a week.”
Here is another article I found to have a good discussion of this story:
101°F in the Ocean Off Florida: Was It a World Record? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/climate/florida-100-degree-water.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
That makes sense. Still, it's hard to imagine a swimming pool in Arizona getting this hot!
This guy is a rock star! I wanna go back to school for astrophysics! If only it paid the bills...
This the temp of the water - absolutely insane. At what point does the life die off? Is this common in this area?
Very neat! Interesting to consider the rupture of pollens through "osmotic shock" and lightning. I wonder if these can make up significant populations of accumulation mode particles. Single particle fluorescence should be able to answer that. And, even if numbers are low, might they be efficient cloud nuclei?
What? the keeling curve got overlooked for 3 pie charts??!!
Absolutely. Press releases will always overhype research to make it interesting to read. It is unfortunate those in the scientific community feel they need to do this. Many institutions pressure their researchers to submit these press releases so they can show off what they do to the public. As I type this, I realize how the institutions themselves feel they need these public summaries for their survival. Would taxpayers ever support research if they don't understand it??
Perhaps what is most needed is to drop the spin and hype while still informing the public about the scientific process and results!
Hunng...this is so unsatisfying. I get that we can infer the presence of dark matter, but we (me and others likewise uninformed) are lacking a good, physically plausable explanation of what it really is. WIMPs? Axions? What process is so pervasive that makes these represent so much mass and energy in the universe?
I don't know why, but the big bang does not sit well with me. Not from any scientifically informed perspective, it doesn't seem right to have something that finite.
These are some key graphs for me. It would be interesting to see how we are tracking ar1 model predictions.
I just discovered mander today and am super excited by it. At numerous points in my musings on lemmy communities, I have returned to the question of sustainability. This is what brought me to mander: the thought that an instance can shut down at any moment, so I sought to diversify. Now I am encouraging some of my favorite subreddits to migrate here, and I was confronted with the same question of sustainability. It was phrased a bit more bluntly: " who pays for it and for how long?"
When the means dry up, what happens? Is the server transferred to another "owner"?
Are the costs low enough that it can be supported by existing resources (assuming user donations and a generous "owner")?
External funding: Wikipedia might be a good model to follow? Government funding? Surely some of us have written grants.
I really want to see something like this grow and prosper. However I also want to be sure it is worth the time for the contributors and that I have good answers to my favorite forums when presented with the above questions.
Onward!
- Astrophotography
- Printed circuit boards
- Electronics
- Optics
- Atmospheric science
- Air quality
- Meteorology
- Sensors (also noted by Salamander)
- arduino
- 3dprinting
- minerals
- fluorescent minerals
I'll add more as I think of more