Balthazar
@Balthazar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Maybe not nursery rhimes about balloons 19 hours ago:
Elements formed by alpha capture. Since alpha particles have 2 protons, it’s generally elements with an even number of protons.
- Comment on Maybe not nursery rhimes about balloons 1 day ago:
Some stellar atmosphere models also add “alpha”, which provides an extra knob for the abundance of alpha-capture elements. If you need anything more than that, you’re doing some niche astrophysics.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, but that’s not what your meme says. Peer review in this case says the manuscript should be significantly revised before publishing.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 2 weeks ago:
Because Einstein’s science had absolutely no basis in fact.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
The physical miracle demonstrates his identity and power, but they have a spiritual significance beyond the physical. For example, raising the dead indicated that He is the Creator with power over life and death, but also that He can give spiritual life to people dead in their sins.
- Comment on AIRBUD 2 months ago:
“Who rescued who?”
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 3 months ago:
If you are located at the same latitude, you will see the same stars but at different times (like time zones). But if the separation has a north-south component, you will be able to see different stars from each other, because the stars hidden over the horizon to the north and south won’t rotate into view because the rotation is east-west.
- Comment on James Cameron Teases ‘Avatar 3’ Will Be Even Longer Than ‘The Way Of Water’ 3 months ago:
Don’t particularly care about the length. Just make it better than the last one, because it fell a long way down from the first one.
- Comment on [TW] Convicted r**ist runs One Nation election campaign 3 months ago:
I’m lost for words at the gaul of this!
It’s the French’s fault?
- Comment on Potsy Ponciroli to write The Goonies sequel 4 months ago:
Except money.
- Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers 4 months ago:
Physicists are notorious for approximating, and astronomers are even worse. But there are some subfields where they care about being more precise, and you maybe break the product table into a handful of elements plus alphas. And there’s that one out two people getting exquisite spectral resolution and signal-to-noise on a few stars and measuring the abundance of Technetium or whatever.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
That can’t be safe.
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 5 months ago:
Because the date of the election is known in the US, the entire 18 months leading up to the election is all about the election. You don’t want the political exhaustion that goes with that.
- Comment on Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately 5 months ago:
But it sounds like, as the Democrats in America, they have trouble bringing attention to their successes?
- Comment on fake it til you make it 5 months ago:
Thus demonstrating the post title.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 5 months ago:
This guy datas.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 5 months ago:
Sorry, I maintain that processing data that is full of (known) systematic problems or data that is known to be insufficiently sensitive to detect the goal is a drain on limited resources.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 5 months ago:
No data is better than bad data.
- Comment on fake it til you make it 5 months ago:
If you’re not a big fish, find a small pond.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 5 months ago:
Being a cartoon freed him from any physical constraints and allowed him to go wild.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 5 months ago:
Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I’m not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 months ago:
“Love” in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., “God so loved the world…” It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God’s love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 months ago:
Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.
- Comment on Merry Christmas, you filthy animals! 5 months ago:
“Get down on your knees and tell me you love me!”
- Comment on If someone rubs their pennies on you, is it considered a centual massage? 5 months ago:
Light it on fire first.
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 5 months ago:
Mostly both
- Comment on How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective? 6 months ago:
Surely any roadblocks you put in place quickly by one party in power can be removed quickly by the other party in power. Again, I think what’s going to matter is those few people in the administration with standards and allegiance to the country over party, and loud outcries from the people when they touch something important.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 6 months ago:
The British Empire was always a result of the British monarch ruling India, making the British monarch a King/Queen over other kings. When India gained independence from the British monarch after WW2, Britain could no longer claim to be an empire.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 6 months ago:
Party on, Wayne.
- Comment on Know DEEZ NUTS 7 months ago:
Donald Trump Traitorus maxima