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Angular resolution through the Atmosphere has been solved with adaptive optics and advanced mathematical techniques. Unfortunately, nothing can remove the temperature of the atmosp…

Only maybe in the dense core of a galaxy because incident radiation falls off with the square of distance. The nearest star to us after the Sun is ~4ly away, or ~250k AU. The Sun w…

Nobody who had to work with 6509's/7609's at an ISP is shedding a tear over this. Someone (Richard Steenbergen?) once made a joke that we should take the last 6509/7609 and launch …

I remember Hale-Bopp in 1997. At it's peak it was so bright you could easily see it from inside a brightly lit restaurant, looking out a window 20 feet away.

> Never have more than 79 characters per line Never write lines longer than 79 characters. I'm sorry, I just cannot do this. I start to feel somewhat guity after 300 characters but…

I bought a CD from CDNOW over Telnet in the early 90's! I also remember telnet BBS's became popular for a few years when I was in college 91-93.

> n 1976, while Van Flandern was employed by the USNO, he began to promote the belief that major planets sometimes explode.[30] Van Flandern also speculated that the origin of the …

> Mistake it may well be, but the fact remains that this sense of the word is in widespread use today, and may be found often enough in well regarded and highly edited, publication…

I just had an idea that may be my worst technology idea ever. Assemble some unstable atoms (that decay into carbon) into the desired cubic structure. When they decay you have a dia…

I did indeed mean a singe, byte-valued parameter indicating angle (similar to the single angle parameter of a mechanical polarizing filter) Full polarization and phase info would b…

What we need is sensors that can scan polarization on a per-pixel basis (like 256 orientations per pixel per image. Then it would be much easier to detect and remove consistently p…

> Physicists actually use spherical cows-- it's a useful simplification to make calculations tractable https://x.com/kevinmloch/status/1770484487689798030

I have a personal theory about human intuition. It feels like answers come "from outer space" or "from God" but it's really just a highly optimized and efficient part of the brain …

Thank you for the clarification. I have removed "Show HN:" from the title

In this case I wanted to make clear it was not my drone