#science paper

[thefloralmenace]

@thebakingbarbarian I FINALLY REMEMBERED A STORY OF ME DOING MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE.

This was not for activist purposes. I was just being a menace to one of my high school teachers (that I actually liked) because he had a sense of humor, and I knew he'd think it was funny and not actually be annoyed by it.

I was in astronomy class, and we had been instructed to find a "good source" on some astronomy topic and present it to the class. At the time, I was also attending an advanced science high school in the morning, and we had a free subscription to a research paper database. I had an abusive amount of homework all the time at that point, so I asked my astronomy teacher if I could pick an article from the database (to speed up the process for me). He goes "Well that kind of defeats the point of evaluating the source to see if it's good since everything in there is peer-reviewed."

And I said: "Exactly." (and with that, he understood my meaning to be "If I'm looking for a good source, would a smart move not be to go to where I know there are good sources?")

He approved my request, and then told us that we needed to send him a PDF of the article we were doing for him to approve before we started our power points.

I went into the database, and I was just looking for something interesting when I found a paper by a bunch of (Russian?) scientists swearing to god that they had found life on Venus, both plant and animal.

Dear reader, I would like to show you "the animal":

Anyway, I downloaded the PDF and sent it to him since all the sources in that database are good because they're peer-reviewed, and all of a sudden I just hear him yell "[insert my name], get me the DOI of this paper. I do not believe you found this in the database." I obliged, and a week later, I gave a presentation on how there may be scorpions on Venus while he shook his head, and screamed (while trying not to break down laughing) that there are no scorpions on Venus between each slide.

Updating this with the DOI of the original article because people are interested, and I somehow still have it: DOI: 10.1134/S1028335813120057

P.S. There are no Google-able full text access links to the article, but if you put the DOI in SciHub, you can get it after passing a recaptcha test (the instructions are in Russian, but the recaptcha is in English, so just type the symbols and hit enter).

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This teacher has no sense of humor or appreciation for creative writing. An F seems harsh, unless this was supposed to be technical writing. I'd like to read the rest of it.

[noosphe-re]

Weak measurement allows one to empirically determine a set of average trajectories for an ensemble of quantum particles. However, when two particles are entangled, the trajectories of the first particle can depend nonlocally on the position of the second particle. Moreover, the theory describing these trajectories, called Bohmian mechanics, predicts trajectories that were at first deemed “surreal” when the second particle is used to probe the position of the first particle. We entangle two photons and determine a set of Bohmian trajectories for one of them using weak measurements and postselection. We show that the trajectories seem surreal only if one ignores their manifest nonlocality.

Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories (Dylan H. Mahler, Lee Rozema, Kent Fisher, Lydia Vermeyden, Kevin J. Resc, Howard M. Wiseman, and Aephraim Steinberg)

[historysurvivalguide]

How to Read a Paper

Handy paper about reading papers 📝

[cal-1maf]

I found a 2022 paper on reacting hydrogen and antihydrogen within a palladium crystal matrix and if this sounds familiar to you then I'm kissing you with tongue

I need to review it, of course, so that's my Saturday plan. Depending on what I find, I may be amending my academy post on matter/antimatter warp cores.

[miscellaneousmeditations]

Wernher von Braun

It was spring in 1912 and Wernher von Braun is born into a torn and devastated Germany. He would soon become a legend within the space exploration hall of fame. He grew up reading Jukes Verne and H.G. Wells, feeding his science-fiction imagination that would soon manifest into rocketry greatness.

His keen interest in rocket development led him to the German Army in 1929. He was a significant help to the German Society for Space Travel. They promoted him and elected him to finally build rockets. However, Braun quickly found himself in a pool of controversial activities.

In sure time Braun, technical director, became the leader of the “rocket team” and forced labor factory called Mittlewerk. This secret factory in Peenemünde became the home of the liquid propellant missile. It had a 200-pound warhead, extending 46 feet and lands on a target up to 500 miles away, an astonishment at the time. It was virtually impossible to stop after launching and had effectively killed 2724 people and critically injured another six thousand. This secret weapon eventually became the V-2 ballistic missile for the Nazis in the Second World War. After working with the team for multiple years and successfully building two rockets, he received a Ph.D in physics in 1934. Everything had been going smoothly, Braun was in his prime and the rockets were successful.

The Red Army’s invasion of the Peenemunde Research Station eventually led Braun to surrender to the U.S. Army along with 40 other German rocket scientists. The US decided to have them work on nuclear missiles. Braun, with a new citizenship and frame of mind was ready to get back to work. He developed the A4 and supersonic anti-aircraft missile, Wasserfall. 

In 1952, fifteen years post World War II, Project Paperclip was tested. This so-called “project” was designed to prepare the foundation of the American Space Program. Braun took his position once again as technical director, for US Army's Ballistic Missile Agency in Redstone, Alabama. Their experiments consisted of many. One of them, The Redstone Rocket, one that Joseph Goebbels' claimed: “That the ‘machine’ (Vengeance Weapon No.2) to be a step in the climb toward space”. Another was, Jupiter-C, a modified ballistic missile with three solid propellant upper stages. Also manufactured were Juno and Pershing missiles. The U.S. government quickly became interested. Finally, Explorer I was launched, the first US earth satellite to successfully send into space.

Braun directed Marshall Space Flight Center and developed Saturn Rocket that helped US land on the moon in 1969, a monumental victory.

Sadly, in 1972, Braun resigned his position as director after Richard Nixon, the president in office at the time, dramatically reduced space budget.

But retiring was not an option, he became vice-president of Fairchild Industries, an Aerospace Company.

Considered an honorary US citizen, Braun became a prominent spokesperson in space exploration in the 1950s. He eventually died of cancer in 1977.

Wernher von Braun, started as an intelligent and starved mathematician, using his work for negative consequence, only to be reborn and assist our country with developments in space conquest and exploration. Braun, creator who propelled Americans to the moon had evolved as both an innovator and a man. 

We thank him, because if not, we wouldn’t have: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” –Neil Armstrong

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Bibliography: http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html

http://helix.gatech.edu/Classes/ME4182/1999Q2/Webs/ProjectPaperClip/pcliphistory.htm

http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/expinfo.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbraun.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/peenemunde.htm

http://www.astronautix.com/fam/saturnv.htm

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