[QUOTE=kladner;414992][url]http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/11/05/nasa-releases-hd-sun-video?videoId=366196450&videoChannel=1[/url][/QUOTE]

It's quite a shame that there isn't any time scale included in the video.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;415018]It's quite a shame that there isn't any time scale included in the video.[/QUOTE]

Yes. It would really help in grasping the video. Some sense of physical scale would be good, too, as in, "How many earths could fit in a particular little whirlpool?"

WTF?!?!
 

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/failed-windows-3-1-system-blamed-for-taking-out-paris-airport/"]Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport[/URL]
And the people who understand the old operating system are all retiring.
O Rly? Ya Rly!
(I put in the cat ping pong animation, but I couldn't stand it in seconds.)

How Do Transistors Work?
 

A nice explanation for those that have been mis-taught in their schooling that BJTs are current controlled devices (or current amplifiers).

[url]http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;416131]O Rly? Ya Rly![/QUOTE]
:davar55: I have a small collection of photos from airports around the world, showing blue screens and crashed terminals (different errors), all "personal", i.e. the photos taken by myself. The last one is a 20 meter screen in one of the road intersections in Chiang Mai, showing a beautiful blue screen, but it is a bit unclear due to the fact that it was in the night (lot of "wrong" ambient lights) and I took it "in traffic", i.e. I tried not to stop (too long), and through the car's window, which wasn't extremely clear. But I may look for it and attached it to "post whoring" thread.

[QUOTE=retina;416145]A nice explanation for those that have been mis-taught in their schooling that BJTs are current controlled devices (or current amplifiers).

[URL]http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

Excellent! Thank you, Your Evilness! :smile:

[URL="http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-time-weve-witnessed-a-planet-forming-1743339171"]This is the First Time We've Witnessed a Planet Forming[/URL]

[QUOTE]Four and a half billion years ago, a whirling cloud of cosmic dust condensed into the lump of rock we call home. For the first time, astronomers are now watching that same planet-forming process playing out around a distant star.[/QUOTE]

Interesting anti-conventional wisdom w.r.to annual flu shots:

[url=http://www.statnews.com/2015/11/11/flu-shots-reduce-effectiveness/]Getting a flu shot every year? More may not be better[/url]: [i]The evidence, which is confounding some researchers, suggests that getting flu shots repeatedly can gradually reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines under some circumstances.[/i]
[quote]Then in 1999, a leading influenza researcher, Derek Smith, suggested that in years when a component of the vaccine — say the part that protects against the influenza A family called H3N2 — had changed little or not at all from the previous year’s vaccine, the second year’s vaccine would induce less protection. Smith, now based at Britain’s University of Cambridge, called it negative interference.

The idea is that the antibodies produced in year one may neutralize some of the vaccine in year two’s shot before it can trigger a full immune response, explained Dr. John Treanor, a vaccine expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.

Smith also argued that when the vaccine viruses were quite different from one year to the next the recipient would actually get enhanced protection. Positive interference, he called it.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;390136][URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/12/15/a-northern-white-rhino-has-died-there-are-now-five-left-in-the-entire-world/[/URL][/QUOTE][url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/23/one-of-last-four-northern-white-rhinos-on-earth-is-euthanized/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;416975][url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/23/one-of-last-four-northern-white-rhinos-on-earth-is-euthanized/[/url][/QUOTE]I know some one that works/worked there. There is much grief and mourning going on.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;416983]I know some one that works/worked there. There is much grief and mourning going on.[/QUOTE]I sincerely hope they are storing genetic samples in widely separated locations. Should be possible to reboot the species within a few decades.