AstroStelar

As someone who struggles with self-discipline for assignments at home I like this

*MSNBC, Brian Williams specifically: https://www.businessinsider.nl/brian-williams-beautiful-missile-launch-syria-2017-4?international=true&r=US

• A "super moon" is when the full moon takes place when the Moon is closest to Earth and appears larger (its orbit is not perfectly circular).
• A "blood moon" refers to a lunar eclipse, faint light scattered by Earth gives the Moon a dark red colour, like blood.
• In the United States different full moons of the year have different names, many carried over from Native Americans. The one in January is the "Wolf Moon". These names are kinda obscure and only really used for folklore or astrology, certainly among white people lol.

In January 2019 these three things all coincided, so the tabloid rag did what it does best, smushed the terms together and fearmongered about the end of the world.

I remember when the family separation/kids in cages story blew up during the first Trump administration, a woman defended her description of the detention centers as concentration camps by saying:

"Do we have to wait for an actual Holocaust to happen before we speak up?"

That stuck with me.

Modern CPUs have transistors at least in the tens of millions, the most advanced have billions. A gram of bismuth has ~2*10^21 atoms. Pre-existing impurities would probably be a bigger factor by orders of magnitude.

The hyperlink directs to "nl.farnell.com/en-NL"...

Are you Dutch too? What a coincidence, haha.

Bismuth-209 was long thought to have the heaviest stable nucleus of any element, but in 2003, a research team at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, discovered that 209Bi undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of 20.1 exayears (2.01×1019, or 20.1 quintillion years), over 109 times longer than the estimated age of the universe.

Due to its hugely long half-life, for all known medical and industrial applications, bismuth can be treated as stable.

I had studied "traffic engineering / mobility planning" for 2 years, but I behind, catching up was difficult because of a change in curriculum and I bit off more than I could chew regarding training social skills.

Computer science was too abstract for me and applied physics was too broad, plus I have a lifelong fascination with technology, how things, magnets and electricity. Electrical engineering also seems pretty secure for the job market, given the omnipresence of electricity. I like the physical and the digital and electricity is the medium that connects them! The university I chose also has a lot of international students, I like meeting people from other places.

I've often thought about possibly moving to China and work as an engineer there, given recent developments in Europe and China investing heavily in science right now. I do find it scary to just start a new life in another country like that, I do feel pretty attached to the place I grew up in.

I recently decided to apply for electrical engineering lol

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The lamest Ozymandias

a lawsuit filed by Mr. Perrone on behalf of an inmate who had accused jail officials in Clinton County, Mich., of being “deliberately indifferent” to her when she started vomiting last year.

In a brief order issued on Monday, Judge Kent noted that “each page of plaintiff’s complaint appears on an e-filing which is dominated by a large multicolored cartoon dragon dressed in a suit, presumably because she is represented by the law firm of ‘Dragon Lawyers PC © Award Winning Lawyers.’” “Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent,” Judge Kent wrote. “The Court is not a cartoon.”