Downstrike/science

From the page: "HCRO began in the late 1950s and has been a pioneer in radio astronomy for nearly half a century. Scientists detected polyatomic molecules in space for the first time here. HCRO has also been the site of one of the first millimeter-wave interferometers. An interferometer is an array of dishes connected together to provide information similar to a larger single-dish. Much of what scientists know about star formation today came from observations made by our millimeter-wave interferometer.

One of the primary instruments at HCRO was an 85-foot diameter antenna that was installed in 1962. With the 85 ft dish, astronomers discovered the first interstellar maser, the radio analogue of a laser. Other firsts at Hat Creek include the discovery of polyatomic molecules in space, like water and ammonia.

In the 1970â€s Berkeley astronomers developed a centimeter wavelength radio interferometer at HCRO. The interferometer was used to accurately measure positions of water vapor masers in star-forming regions, to image giant radio galaxies like M87 and Cygnus A, and to study supernova remnants like the Crab Nebula. "

New Radiotelescopy projects are under construction here.

Both natural and man-made climate change causes.

An exposé of several propagandistic falsehoods used by Gobal Warming denialists.

From the page: "What remains unclear is what dark energy is, exactly."

That's OK.  I have faith that it is not sinister, but benevolent.  I even know His name.

From the page:

"Black Holes are interesting. Nothing can escape it, not even light. Some people think that if you go through it, you could use it as a time travel machine (they're called wormholes).
Also, some people think that our universe is just one of many universes. There's so many strange ideas in science so you could just search for anything that interests you."

"There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Earth! Whales were once land animals, why and how did they return to the sea?"

"There are so many possible connections in a human brain that there are more ways to connect your neurons than atoms in the universe (maybe--no one has actually counted the atoms)"

"If lightning strikes something above you, you may not hear it strike, or only a small, "tick" sound, until the the thunder echoes back off of a mountain or building, because the thunder is projected to directions perpendicular to the lightning bolt.

The same amount of sound does travel down the length of the lightning bolt, but identical sounds arriving from different distances are out of phase, and cancel one another.

Tori: What do you think it would look like if a black hole eclipsed a sun? I picture a rainbow effect on the light of the sun, because the intense gravity would bend the light, like light is bent by raindrops and ice crystals."

From the page: "The recognition of definitive signatures in the geological record tells us the January 26, 1700 event was not a unique event, but has repeated many times at irregular intervals of hundreds of years. Geological evidence indicates that 13 great earthquakes have occurred in the last 6000 years.

We now know that a similar offshore event will happen sometime in the future and that it represents a considerable hazard to those who live in southwest B.C. However, because the fault is offshore, it is not the greatest earthquake hazard faced by major west coast cities."

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