Hale-Bopping hairstyle

This photo of Comet Hale-Bopp rolling out beyond Jupiter (it is waaaay to cold to melt there: Jupiter still has ice moons) has quite a hairstyle, no?

Said “hairstyle” represents a big problem for canonical cometary theory: how is Hale-Bopp emitting anything? It ain’t Solar heat, out yonder here...

The Thunderbolts crew reckon that any solar power involved herein is basically going to be electrical. I can sort of imagine HB dropping a kind of trailer up which a discharge might bravely endeavour to forge directly and within very few relative minutes, and while this would be well beyond the ordinarily-considered realms of solar heating, it seems to be a much more reasonable proposition than having said heating bypass almost everything between Sol and HB (think Asteroids, over 60 of Jupiter’s moons etc)... only to make Mr Comet do the next-best thing besides explode when it finally arrives...

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Leon RJ Brooks said…

The answer to the first question is "in rays" — and conventional theory has no viable explanation of how this radiative detail might be happening — at all, anywhere — either.

14 May, 2006 19:13

new life for an old (FTX) PSU, improved life for one human

the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.

every-application-is-part-of-a-toolkit at work

I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b...

boundaries

pushing the actual boundaries of the physical (not extremes, the boundaries themselves) can often remove barriers not otherwise perceived. one can then often resolve an issue itself, rather than merely stonewalling at the physical consequences of the issue.

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