Cool science stuff

You can take your post-season baseball, NBA finals whatever - I'll go with the Fat Bears. 151 FTW!

Fat Bear Week 2020

 

Just saw a commercial for a car that backs up using the keyfob. Not only can you get out of a tight parking space, but the fob will also key the door of the jackwagon who parked too close to you in the first place.

 

Just caught up on this thread and was going to post on this. This idea seems like a big DVR.

"“You can send information back,” he told CNN, “but you can only send it back to the point at which you turn the machine on.”

 

Not science exactly, more engineering maybe? Anyhow, take a pile of plywood and lumber, a CNC machine, some fiberglass and a smallish amount of money and make a 5.8 meter racing sailboat on the cheap. Cheap for that sort of thing anyhow, given that "Boat" is defined as "A hole in the water you line with money." It's still an interesting concept executed well.

Boat in a box: The Globe Mini 5.80 is taking off around the world

 

I've been meaning to post this since I first saw it last week:

Telescope gives closer look at asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion

Not because it's cool (maybe it's mildly cool), but because they keep referring to the asteroid's mineral worth as "$10,000 quadrillion."

Isn't $10,000 quadrillion the same as $10 quintillion? And if they said it that way to make it more understandable to the general public who might not know what a quintillion is, then shouldn't they said something like "$10 billion billion"? Because these days everyone understands what a billion is, and probably a trillion -- but would a person who doesn't know "quintillion" be any more likely to know "quadrillion"? Besides, they don't even need to do that since the story explains that $10,000 quadrillion is "a one followed by 19 zeroes."

These are the things that keep me up at night.

I do feel better since I found stories from several other outlets that use "$10 quintillion."

 

$10 quintillion bucks. /starman

 

That’ll buy 2 quintillion hamberders! /Trump

 

Interesting.

 

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Two meteor showers are bringing shooting stars and fireballs to the night sky this week

 

How to see the 2020 Leonid meteor shower this week

Tonight!!