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I think the nail on the head here is "with carrier subsidies" it's a great cheap phone. I just bought got one for my kid as his first phone, and with carrier subsidies it cost me $30 activation fee. My cell phone bill will go up $13 a month, adding an extra line. Yes, I'm aware of the downsides...

This is the first time that an emission line has been seen in a Gamma-Ray Burst Spectrum in this energy range. Usually Gamma-ray spectra of GRBs are featureless, i.e. just looking like a curve, where a spectrum with lines looks like a curve with spikes overlaid. The line is indicative of an...

@Wickwick word salad shows you haven't understood how these estimates were made.

For all the naysayers on the 1 every 10,000 year thing, let me tell you that several groups estimated that independently based on different datasets from different instruments, and came to the same conclusions. I've yet to hear much criticism of this number from the GRB community, including some...

Like many, I also bought a 4K last week in Amazon's sale. However, there's nothing here to drive me to return it. If they had included Find Me in the remote, maybe, but otherwise, I'm not gaming on this thing.

People are always worried about GRBs killing them, answer is: not likely. Magnetars are what you should be worried about. Back 2004, SGR 1806, which is in our own Galaxy, went of and dumped about 100x as much energy on the Earth as this guy did. If SGR 1806 was local to us, it would have ended...

You're talking about an "orphan" afterglow, where you don't see the prompt emission because of being off axis, but do see the afterglow. We have found some of these, mostly using optical surveys like ZTF, and I'm sure Vera Rubin will see loads. I will say, for this GRB, Swift triggered on the...

Interesting that NASA only raised Cubesats as an issue. This would impact larger missions too. For example, a SMEX sized LEO mission would not typically have any sort of station keeping thrusters that could perform a de-orbit maneuver. SMEX mission would be launched with a 2 year expected...

As someone who bought a A14 Air because at the time, it seemed to be like a Pro but without all the extra cameras, I agree.

They are totally fine as media consumption devices. Just wait until Amazon sticks them on sale as you can usually get them for $40 then.

So Facebook bans a movie based on its innocuous title, but when I report hate speech, child pornography and upskirt photos, I get "this doesn't violate our community standards". However, I did once soft banned for a week for pointing out to someone what 88 meant, and linking to an explanation...

I'm talking about building something to go into Starship. It represents a huge opportunity to completely change the way we think about building satellites and probes, suddenly being essentially freed of mass restrictions and so cripple us when designing spacecraft. It will take a sea change as...

It's going to be impossible for NASA to use Starship because the cost modeling they use is basically "1kg = $this much", so suddenly having such a large launch capacity will screw this and make building anything for it impossible.

Best deal here is the AppleTV, that must be the lowest price ever. Should have waited on Prime Day rather than going for that $50 gift card deal with Apple.

I still remember watching Clerks back in an arthouse cinema in the UK when I was a student in a double bill with "Living in Oblivion" (featuring a young Peter Dinklage). I remember then, and after watching Mallrats and Chasing Amy that this Silent Bob guy might be a director with a great future...

So is "RISC-V" pronounced "risky"? That would be appropriate given the red flags here.

This overpowered thing is a problem with all ebikes though. I've lost count of the number of times I've been riding down a suburban mixed use path with my kids and some asshole on an ebike flies past us at 20mph or faster. It's not an appropriate speed to be riding on a MUP filled with kids...

Yep, I have a Spigen case for my iPhone 12 Pro, and it not only has yellowed, but darkened in spots where my fingers typically hold it. However, I also only paid $11.65 for the case! I'd be pissed if it was a premium case, and it certainly hasn't warped.

I have a PhD in Astrophysics and don't really care that "doctors" means "medical doctors" unless specified.

"Should we only allow billionaires and formal aerospace engineers to lead our way into space? " Forget the billionaires part, I read this like "should we only allow formal doctors to perform surgeries?"