Clive Silas

Programmer. Loves: films - architecture ancient & modern - science & science fiction. Banner combines two loves: The Routemaster & Arsenal FC

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@AstroMikeMerri Sadly I see many posts from people who just didn't see it, and though they don't realise it the reason is simply no eclipse glasses. Beforehand I myself didn't know that no filter = no eclipse because the Sun drowns out everything.

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@FXMC1957 Why is he Trump-coloured? 🍊

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@JamesCoulter55 @NobelPrize And the Braggs.

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@gaolei06282 @PhysInHistory 10 is the sum of 3 + 7 and 5 + 5. Those fulfill the condition of the conjecture.

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@DavidTrance4 @PhysInHistory If 1 was a prime it would be trivially true. That's why it specified "every even number greater than 2" because 2 is only the sum of 1 and 1.

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@konstructivizm Poorly worded. Astronomers had been using telescopes for more than a century. He was the first to discover a planet using a telescope, because Uranus is the nearest planet to Earth that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Telescopes had made many discoveries like Jupiter's moons.

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@EmersonEff87236 @forallcurious In Europe we don't call a brake you can't use in an emergency, an "emergency brake".

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@TownerJM @drama_doll_ -3³ = -27 not 27. x can be 5,-5 y can only be +3.

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@drama_doll_ 16 and -4.

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@rg_viza @oelma__ kilo is Greek, mill (although used for "thousandth") is from Latin.

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@Matt_Pinner Master Shifu!

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@Inquisitorian77 @konstructivizm Why didn't you Google the lunar rover design. The fact that the "tires" are made of springy mesh metal instead of pneumatic rubber isn't a secret. And all four wheels contributed to the steering, though I can't see any wheels pointing inappropriately.

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@Matt_Pinner Pretty much anyone who was a grown adult at the Millennium.

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@TerryHi92638770 @konstructivizm 186,000 is a terrible approximation. The actual figure is 186,282.4, more than ¼ of the way to 187,000.

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@konstructivizm 8 minutes 20 seconds is not 8.2 minutes, it's 8.333 minutes

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@Godsx2023 @PhysInHistory John Conway headed the Sporadic Finite Groups project.
The Langlands program is a large collaboration to unify two sides of mathematics.
To solve Fermat Andrew instituted the Wiles program to chase down all the primes for T-S. But he forgot to invite any other mathematicians!

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@PhysInHistory In a lecture Andrew said that solving Fermat itself would not be particularly useful to mathematics. But the *route* to solving it, proving Taniyama-Shimura, was essential to the progress Mathematics was making. I loved that.

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Terrible night for Pat Nevin. #arseve 2-0 #chenew 0-1

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I always knew those hours on Defender weren't wasted!

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Chapeau to that Cold Olympics drone pilot! #Drone #WinterOlympics #PunnedIt