Dr Karl @DoctorKarl
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ~ an answer looking for a question. I do not endorse any commercial products. drkarl.com Australia Joined February 2009-
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"In 2014, NASA → Boeing & SpaceX contracts to provide launch services for crew & cargo to the ISS. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was the less expensive proposal at $2.6 billion, eight crewed launches to date while Boeing still remains at zero." gizmodo.com/review-boeing-…
"NASA’s ACS3 is designed to test new materials and deployable structures for solar sail propulsion systems, including new composite booms that will be used to unfurl the solar sail. Once unfurled, the solar sail will stretch 9 meters per side" gizmodo.com/nasa-solar-sai…
"At its surface, the sun is a toasty 6,000 degrees Celsius. But the outer layers of its atmosphere can be a blistering 1 million degrees hotter. The sun’s magnetic engine, called the solar dynamo, lies about 200,000 kilometers beneath the sun’s surface. " quantamagazine.org/how-a-nasa-pro…
"it's definitely not the time to start drinking raw cow's milk. While drinking raw milk is always dangerous because it carries the threat of various nasty bacterial infections, H5N1 also appears to be infectious in raw milk. " arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…
" portion of the subsystem's memory wasn't working. Unfortunately, the team couldn't simply store the affected code in other parts of the memory, since the code was too large to be stored in its entirety elsewhere — these systems are from early 1970s." futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-…
"Magnetars release energy in explosive flares. Astronomers have only seen three such eruptions during the past 50 years. One originated on a magnetar 30,000 light-years from Earth. It was so powerful that it even had an effect on Earth’s upper atmosphere." earthsky.org/space/giant-ma…
"the world’s largest electric container ship (regular service between Shanghai and Nanjing - an all-electric container ship measuring 119.8 meters in length, width of 23.6 metres and depth of 9 metres." thedriven.io/2024/05/01/chi…
You are correct. However, there are increasing "anecdotal" (Yes, the plural of anecdote is anecdotes, not data) reports of some coloured lenses being able to help in very specific cases. Like you, I'm waiting for the proper peer-reviewed control studies to come on-line.
You are correct. However, there are increasing "anecdotal" (Yes, the plural of anecdote is anecdotes, not data) reports of some coloured lenses being able to help in very specific cases. Like you, I'm waiting for the proper peer-reviewed control studies to come on-line.
I've been to Antarctica 6 times. The general rule is that you can withstand 1 knot of wind for each kilogram of body weight. But you're not allowed out over 80 knots.
I've been to Antarctica 6 times. The general rule is that you can withstand 1 knot of wind for each kilogram of body weight. But you're not allowed out over 80 knots.
Crops under attack, falling nutrition, viruses spread by insects. @PiotrTrebicki researches agriculture on a warming planet and the news is not great. #shirtloadsofscience 🎧Apple: bit.ly/3JBGp5A 🎧Android: bit.ly/3Umfpff
@DoctorKarl I am forever amazed at the number of cookers who think vaccines, climate change & renewable energy are massive hoaxes but crypto is money
"In the early 1970s, Roland Madden & Paul Julian, long-time scientists at National Center for Atmospheric Research, discovered a regularly occurring wind pattern that moved heavy rain from the Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific every few weeks. " thebulletin.org/2024/04/how-an…
(Do not sign into your Android-capable TV with your Google Account details.) ?For TVs, it's not obvious to the user that you're granting this device access to your entire Google account—including location history, emails, and messages." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
When a wave smashed my 9'6" mal into the ball of my left shoulder and smashed it into 40 pieces (held together by clotted blood), the impact was NOT time dilated, BUT the resulting pain was so bad that there was "no pain" (very strange).
When a wave smashed my 9'6" mal into the ball of my left shoulder and smashed it into 40 pieces (held together by clotted blood), the impact was NOT time dilated, BUT the resulting pain was so bad that there was "no pain" (very strange).
If we went onto a War Footing, we could do it in less than a decade.
If we went onto a War Footing, we could do it in less than a decade.
" diamonds can be grown at atmospheric pressure in a liquid of gallium, iron, nickel and silicon exposed to a gas of carbon-rich methane as well as hydrogen. The technique also required lower temperatures than HPHT: 1025° C." sciencenews.org/article/diamon…
(How do you vaccinate bees against aggressive bacteria?) "Worker bees eat candy with heat-killed P. larvae→ royal jelly→queen→queen’s gut, bits of the bacteria attach to a protein→transports the vaccine fragments to the ovaries→eggs→Larvae" (!!) sciencenews.org/article/honeyb…
"We have perhaps only 25 years to build a decarbonised economy in order to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, and we are in a race to build the technology and sophisticated manufacturing base to ensure we can compete globally." thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024/0…
"Astronauts n conducted two spacewalks outside the Tiangong space station this winter, most recently on March 1. Chinese media said there had been a partial (but minor) loss of power supply after the outpost's solar panels suffered a debris strike." space.com/china-tiangong…
"Vehicle-to-X (V2X) allows electric vehicles to export power to a home or building (V2H/B), to the grid (V2G) or directly to an electrical appliance (V2L). . The potential economic value of the batteries .. extends well beyond mobility applications." thedriven.io/2024/04/24/maj…
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439K Followers 3K Following Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.@edjegasothy @DoctorKarl Renewable energy is feasible, we just lack the collective Will and big coal and oil interests buying our politicians, flooding media with disinformation and scaremongering. Air pollution is a major hazard to children’s health in poorer communities. Dr Karl is right.
@AndewMeakin @DoctorKarl These are lithium iron phosphate (LiFePo), they don't burn.
Excellent question for @Coles management!!!!
Lots of legitimate arguments for a climate emergency declaration - and even a good one against, from @MichaelEMann. @MatthewRozsa writing in @Salon ft. @ClimateHuman, @profwolff, @Maya4EJ, @mikegreen1122 of @ClimateDefiance and more. #DeclareEmergency salon.com/2023/11/10/is-…
“I’m gonna pause you right there. None of those three things are true.” I gently implore some of my colleagues in the American media to look across the Atlantic and check out how some of their British counterparts conduct live political interviews 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “We are the Party of facts” *VT compilation of Tory lies* Victoria Derbyshire: “There was never a proposal to use 7 bins, we can’t find any council that wants to decide when you can go to the shop & Labour have never proposed taxing meat” #Newsnight
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Rightly so. Commos
@PhillipAdams_1 Gerard ain’t so tolerant of peaceful climate protestors.
@YellowRabbit9 @DoctorKarl No I can't. They aren't constitutionally recognised as the original inhabitants yet. ie. We aren't "one" yet!
@weezmgk @DoctorKarl @TroyTresidder I use Day / Month / Year when noting the date. I use Year.Month.Day when filing on a computer. I never use Month / Day / Year and that US system confuses me. E.g. 9/11 is just a few days away, not a few moths away.
@joeloconnor_oz @DoctorKarl @neiltyson @UNSWScience Hi Joel I am not an expert on hominid evolution but our ancestors probably moved more like something like chimpanzees and gorillas, not completely quadrupedal. Foot print fossils are rare and very specific conditions are needed for them and by far most species haven’t leaft them
In a society where people aren’t allowed to grieve, where we expect humans to be machines and to always just keep going— it’s no surprise the amount of rage in our world. Road rage, people attacking complete strangers. Long term unreleased grief becomes rage.
@DoctorKarl @MichaelEMann makes no sense. we should be talking about adding a #carbontax not taxing solar.
@gnapse @DoctorKarl @bahmutov So are EVs 'greener' than fuel cars? Absolutely, and will continue to improve. theicct.org/publications/g…
This experiment of a fish swimming upstream is truly stunning. Why? The fish is dead. If you're streamlined and flexible, you can do a lot by doing nothing at all. Beal et al. (2006). Passive propulsion in vortex wakes. J. of Fluid Mech., 549, 385-402. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
@DoctorKarl I have see on your Instagram post and was wondering where did you get it? Or did someone presented you
The Lord Downer episode of #QandA absolutely tanked last night, with a capital city audience of just 290,000. An historic low. I cannot imagine why they had him on...but I don’t think they will again.
The elusive particles would be hard to catch, but they’d be a “smoking gun.” sciencenews.org/article/neutri…
@DoctorKarl Wanker Wanker dead set,-----sorry where were we