Safeguard Experiment @SGE@qoto.org

Hello world!

Getting stared here so #introduction time I guess.

I'm a #nuclear #physics grad student currently working on detector instrumentation and just trying to understand how the world works. Love strategy/tactics games and heavy metal to name a few.

No real plan what to do here yet, so for this once feel free to shamelessly (self-)advertise what's the good stuff!

I'm alive. It just takes time build a new platform to a level it's meaningful and worth one's time. The logistic curve is really in the very slow beginning I guess.

I've been cutting a lot of fat from my internet time lately, which I recommend for everyone to do every now and then.

ngl the "jUsT AskINg QuEsTiONs" has to be the most jading bad faith tactics I see all the time.

Hence I will not interact with any such crap, unless paid upfront for wasting my time. Even then one probably shouldn't, as there's nothing one can say to remedy that crap.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star

"‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star"

Reading about the release and couldn't help, but to have this song in my head

Violence and light resounding
an astral elegy
Stars torn asunder exploding into dust
and vicious winds, equivalent
to the power of a thousand suns
a roaming thunder, a newborn nebula
diminish and begin again
stellar tidal disruption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9V3B9jk0c

#astrophysics #physics #metal

Oh no it's one these come for the memes, stay for the #music because it's actually good days.

On the other hand this precisely why I love indie and fan content. You can make purely whatever makes you happy, and there's a good chance you're not alone with that.

Nothing like a long meeting, but there's only 10 minutes of content relevant to me.
Good thing I could join it remotely even if just this once and had an excuse to leave after 2 hrs.

Ah, it never gets old when someone comes to furiously yell at you in your mentions for views they assume you hold on something, but of course have nothing to do with my actual views.

Somehow it never ceases to amaze me how someone can be so confident in their absolutely and even trivially wrong views they believe to be somehow revolutionary. Also such people tend to be really prolific writers about their delusions, but never really getting anything tangible done to prove them.

The latest one thought he had proven conservation of momentum wrong (with one case example using algebra alone) and was convinced that all scientists are in some conspiracy only he was able to figure out.

Some of my initial thoughts that came up about the Missile hit in #Poland based on limited information available right now.

Reactions to it are again emphasizing how people least in the know tend to overreact the most.
It's understandable, for it's not something laypeople have to ever even think about, but on the other hand nothing new or an unpredictable scenario for anyone who's versed in such matters or Russo-Ukrainian war in particular.
So far nothing unthinkable has happened for which wouldn't be prepared for. Scenarios like this are what militaries and other relevant institutions prepare for as their full time job.

Two likely scenarios involve a simple mistake with soviet/russian made missile systems, for which such an event is not particularly uncommon. Soviet made SAMs in particular tend to stray wildly when they do and Russian missile operations have not impressed with their precision or competence in this conflict. In other words an honest mistake is entirely plausible.

Third, but not necessarily least likely scenario is Russia intentionally testing the reaction for whatever it is planning. This again is also no panic time.

All three are quite easy to overlook politically and even if a reaction is demanded to the third, there's a range of relatively secure courses of action that can be taken in response that are strong, but not really changing anything major about the situation nor one's posture.

I see a lot of misconception about radiation that clearly originate from these public educational materials, which is understandable, as they need to simple and concise. This in turn means they tend to be technically wrong, but close in enough for practical purposes.
E.g. gamma decay emissions being the most energetic radiation type -> most dangerous and hardest to stop.
Or another one of my favourites "We do not know why radioactive decay occurs"

I've been thinking about drafting something like that, but still trying convey means to understand the phenomena in a right way.

What should be addressed? Any other thoughts? #physics

Have to admit nothing has made my day so well lately than Russian's completely collapsing in the north bank of Kherson.

Hello world!

Getting stared here so #introduction time I guess.

I'm a #nuclear #physics grad student currently working on detector instrumentation and just trying to understand how the world works. Love strategy/tactics games and heavy metal to name a few.

No real plan what to do here yet, so for this once feel free to shamelessly (self-)advertise what's the good stuff!