Science, Experiment, and the failure of Reality.

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Re: Science, Experiment, and the failure of Reality.

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Wed Apr 10, 2019 1:35 pm

I'm still waiting for this photo of a hole of colour.
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Post by jimbo » Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:15 pm

It just looks blurry. Like a picture from a phone using maximum zoom.

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:19 pm

jimbo wrote:
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It just looks blurry. Like a picture from a phone using maximum zoom.
Who's posted it?
Where? Giz a link...
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:22 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:19 pm
jimbo wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:15 pm
It just looks blurry. Like a picture from a phone using maximum zoom.
Who's posted it?
Where? Giz a link...
Oh dear, never mind, just seen it on BBC.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Wed Apr 10, 2019 2:30 pm

Very photoshopped. Badly photoshopped. And then colourised. Poor effort. One out of five.
A week's worth of anticipation just because some PR bod thought he can get a better wage somewhere else...


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Post by TANGODANCER » Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:02 pm

B.B.C 4, 9-0'clock tonight ..Get yer blackholes ere..!
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Post by Enoch » Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:03 am

Enoch wrote:
Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:58 pm
I'm bound to agree with your assertion regard disappointment, unless they have photoshop.

By the by, looks like my accretion disk most mornings.

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:26 pm

So, today, in The Times, to illustrate the article regarding the first ever release of an image of a black hole, they use 'An artist's impression'. You couldn't make it up!
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Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:26 pm
So, today, in The Times, to illustrate the article regarding the first ever release of an image of a black hole, they use 'An artist's impression'. You couldn't make it up!
And it now seems we must all celebrate 'the genius' behind the massive Photoshop.
A woman, hence the furious PC effort, and the spin doctor usage of 'genious'.
She wrote a fxcking algorithm - continuous high-resolution image reconstruction using patch priors - a quite routine algorithm, hardly genius!
In her own words: (after four teams were given the same raw data, and used her algorithm :roll: ) "I saw all the other teams had images that were very similar, with the lower half brighter than the top half".
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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:08 pm

Here it is, a black hole. Not new at all....
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:25 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
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Here it is, not new at all....

hole.jpg
Biased. The scientists pictured are all quite clearly young, white, and male. You even have Adolf Hitler stood to the left, overseeing the discovery. It can't be true. :P
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Post by Dujon » Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:49 am

Nah, Spotty, cannot be him - there is a couple of blokes having a smooch in there. I suppose though that it is possible that they were digging their own grave?

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Post by Hoboh » Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:51 pm

Dujon wrote:
Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:49 am
Nah, Spotty, cannot be him - there is a couple of blokes having a smooch in there. I suppose though that it is possible that they were digging their own grave?
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Apr 25, 2019 3:07 pm

Another nail in the coffin of Hawkingsonian rampant theorising:
https://www.livescience.com/65300-hawki ... ikely.html
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:30 pm

Yet more hints that new physics is required. Not only is dark matter unaccounted for, but dark energy doesn't act sensibly:

https://astronomynow.com/2019/04/27/hub ... be-needed/
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Post by TANGODANCER » Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:33 pm

For interfering in matters that don't concern you, ie managing the universe, I'm withdrawing your Blue Peter Badge, Star Wars Jedi identity, Galaxy Telescope and all your Scout woodcraft and first-aid awards. Please return your woggle (post-paid) at your earliest convenience along with membership cards of The Famous Five and Secret Seven societies. Your behaviour is unacceptable. I hope this teaches you a lesson... :spank: :spank:

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:15 pm

Yet another one of Stephen Hawking's theories about to bite the dust:
https://www.livescience.com/65300-hawki ... ikely.html

Which leaves just one left - that black holes evaporate - and even that, his first, best, most well-known theory which established his so-called 'genius' status, hasn't been proved correct yet either.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:51 pm

Then again most people aren't as nutty as this fruitcake. And NASA employ her!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird- ... core-video
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Post by Enoch » Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:32 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:51 pm
Then again most people aren't as nutty as this fruitcake. And NASA employ her!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird- ... core-video
That might explain all those 0.5 magnitude earthquakes rattling Lancashire to the ground of late!

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:20 pm

Enoch wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:32 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:51 pm
Then again most people aren't as nutty as this fruitcake. And NASA employ her!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird- ... core-video
That might explain all those 0.5 magnitude earthquakes rattling Lancashire to the ground of late!
Nah, that's Theresa May banging her head on a table at the same time Tom Watson stomps out of a Labour NEC meeting.
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