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Recent content by iainsteele

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    Coronavirus - the new strain XXIV

    Yep, thats obviously some sort of bug - if you click on the "All Vacinations Data in England" link on that page it gives the correct figures for the Autumn booster.
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    Coronavirus - the new strain XXIV

    Not sure what you mean by "only 28 444 in the past week" in relation to the booster programme? https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/vaccines shows about 1.5 million a week having an autumn...
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    James Webb telescope...

    Yep, the arcs are distorted images of old red galaxies lensed by the cluster of galaxies - you can see they are concentric around "brightest cluster galaxy" - to imagine why they end up distorted into that shape, think about the distorted images you see through a crystal ball - the gravitational...
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    Avondale NCC220 vs Witch Hat Phoenix

    Is the price 340/400 for one or two boards? It’s hard to tell from the website.
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    Any experience of the Volvo D6 PHEV cars?

    I bought one (well the D5 PHEV variant) a couple of months ago from Cazoo - a 2017 model and intend to take out an extended warranty with them which at least seems to claim it covers all the hybrid stuff and the aircon pump. I keep meaning to ring a Volvo dealer up to try and get a copy of the...
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    Concorde - a timely challenge!

    At our telescope we use IRIG for time distribution which has a huge array of different versions! Maybe one of them fits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIG_timecode
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    Apple watch experiences?

    Keeping it in your pocket does not work very well - I sometimes have to do this when working with lasers (to avoid accidentally reflecting the beam into someones eye) - and when I take it out my pocket I find movement while in there has been pressing random buttons on the touch screen etc...
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    Ancient History

    Hi Jim, Many thanks for posting this I really enjoyed it. I last used the 60inch telescope (by then known as the "Carlos Sanchez Telescope") about 15 years ago - to be honest the control and tracking system, while computer controlled now, is still pretty flakey! It was at the very end of the...
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    The Earth's magnetic field stops cosmic rays and the solar wind from ionising our atmosphere. Two of the four rocky planets (Earth and Mercury) in our solar system have magnetic fields and two don't, so they should probably be fairly common on Earth like planets. So far no one has detected...
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    Well they are in the right place temperature wise. One issue might be that cool dwarf stars tend to have very strong "solar" flares which can have a nasty effect on higher life forms (although on the other hand, I suppose the flares may possible help catalyse the very early forms of life...
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    Here is our (smallish) part explained... https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2017/2/22/liverpool-telescope
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    Joe, Tony, Its really just the opportunity to come up with silly names for new things that is the attraction... cheers, iain.
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    Hi Joe, Transmission spectroscopy (where you look at the difference in light from the star through the planets atmosphere when it is behind and in front of the star) is very tricky and does not really have the resolution to resolve the complex spectra of organic molecules at this stage of the...
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    NASA news conference tomorrow

    We wrote the book on that... http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-56672-1 (not that I would recommend paying 82 quid for it!)


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