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What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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> sterile neutrinos

It's funny when one encounters serious real-world discussion on something previously seen as sci-fi technobabble.

In this case, I'm thinking of the Destiny universe, such as this apocalyptic alert from a military AI. [0]

> Multiple distributed ISR assets report a TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT. Event duration ZERO POINT THREE SECONDS. Event footprint includes sterile neutrino scattering and gravity waves. Omnibus analysis detects deep structure information content (nine sigma) and internal teleonomy. No hypothesis on event mechanism (FLAG ACAUSAL). Bootstrap simulation suggests event is DIRECTED and INIMICABLE (convergent q-Bayes/Monte Carlo probability approaches 1). No hypothesis on deep structure encoding (TCC/NP-HARD).

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> In the lab that houses the BEST experiment, fish serve as an early warning system about any leaking radiation.

I'm curious how this works, it looks as if there's one central underwater valve and two above-water valves, perhaps supposedly-breathable air is getting bubbled up through the tank?

> SAGE used a tank of 57 metric tons of gallium.

Some napkin-math [egregious mistake corrected] to visualize how much that is, and I get "45 oil drums".

    Line item               Amt Units
    Gallium Mass            5.70E+01    metric tons
    Gallium Mass            5.70E+04    kg
    Gallium Mass            5.70E+07    grams
    Liq. Gallium Density    6.10E+00    grams/cm3
    Gallium Vol             9.35E+06    cm3
    Oil Drum Volume         5.50E+01    gallons
    Vol Ratio               3.79E+03    gallons/cm3
    Oil Drum Volume         2.08E+05    cm3
    Gallium Volume          4.49E+01    oil drums

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Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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> sterile neutrinos It's funny when one encounters serious real-world discussion on something previously seen as sci-fi technobabble. In this case, I'm thinking of the Destiny universe, such as this apocalyptic alert from a military AI. [0] > Multiple distributed ISR assets report a TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT. Event duration ZERO POINT THREE SECONDS. Event footprint includes sterile neutrino scattering and gravi…

double check that math - olympic pool is 50x25x2 meters, or 2500m3. 1 m3 of water is roughly 1 metric ton (1 g/cc = 1 kg/L = 1 t/m3) depending on temperature and such.

57000000g / 5.9 g/cc = 9661017 cc = 9.661m3

Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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Photo caption: In the lab that houses the BEST experiment, fish serve as an early warning system about any leaking radiation. Never change, Russia. Never change.

You can't get them all right. To be fair, they used pencils while NASA spent time and money to have a pen that writes in 0g.

Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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post #6

Photo caption: In the lab that houses the BEST experiment, fish serve as an early warning system about any leaking radiation. Never change, Russia. Never change.

You can't get them all right. To be fair, they used pencils while NASA spent time and money to have a pen that writes in 0g.

That's just a myth, you know: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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post #5
post #4

> sterile neutrinos It's funny when one encounters serious real-world discussion on something previously seen as sci-fi technobabble. In this case, I'm thinking of the Destiny universe, such as this apocalyptic alert from a military AI. [0] > Multiple distributed ISR assets report a TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT. Event duration ZERO POINT THREE SECONDS. Event footprint includes sterile neutrino scattering and gravi…

double check that math - olympic pool is 50x25x2 meters, or 2500m3. 1 m3 of water is roughly 1 metric ton (1 g/cc = 1 kg/L = 1 t/m3) depending on temperature and such. 57000000g / 5.9 g/cc = 9661017 cc = 9.661m3

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Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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post #5
post #4

> sterile neutrinos It's funny when one encounters serious real-world discussion on something previously seen as sci-fi technobabble. In this case, I'm thinking of the Destiny universe, such as this apocalyptic alert from a military AI. [0] > Multiple distributed ISR assets report a TRANSIENT NEAR EXTRASOLAR EVENT. Event duration ZERO POINT THREE SECONDS. Event footprint includes sterile neutrino scattering and gravi…

double check that math - olympic pool is 50x25x2 meters, or 2500m3. 1 m3 of water is roughly 1 metric ton (1 g/cc = 1 kg/L = 1 t/m3) depending on temperature and such. 57000000g / 5.9 g/cc = 9661017 cc = 9.661m3

Whoops, yeah, made a few mistakes. Next time I'll do the usual and open a throwaway spreadsheet. Also, picking gallium-density from a slightly higher temperature where it's liquid.

Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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post #6

Photo caption: In the lab that houses the BEST experiment, fish serve as an early warning system about any leaking radiation. Never change, Russia. Never change.

You can't get them all right. To be fair, they used pencils while NASA spent time and money to have a pen that writes in 0g.

Fischer made the space pen as a commercial product, all R+D entirely at their own expense. NASA just bought some of the pens from them.
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