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Dr. Clayton Forrester's Science Roundup

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pretty sure Muir and Tesla both got a page or so in American History, but I never read about this guy before. He sounds kind of fascinating.
 
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FreshFish said:
I thought it would be John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club and a Humboldt contemporary.
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Given that this is a science thread, I was looking at it strictly from a scientific/scientist perspective. When he was pushing out his work with electricity, and the inventions accompanied with it, he was already decrying the use of fossil fuels as shortsighted in their availability and woeful to general living conditions.
 
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This is more tech than science but YES PLEASE.

The NEOCam infrared telescope could help space agencies find asteroids which could cause severe damage to the Earth.

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The device, which will cost around $500 million (£340m) will help protect the planet from Near Earth Objects [NEOs], and would use infrared detectors to find more than 10 times the number already discovered.
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You're welcome.

Using data from the APOGEE survey and the Kepler Space Telescope, Melissa Ness and Marie Martig of the Max Planck Institute in Germany determined the age of nearly 100,000 red giant stars throughout the Milky Way.

“This opens up the possibility of combining ages with all of the chemistry of stars, and mapping that in unprecedented detail across the Milky Way,” Ness told Gizmodo.

Even five years ago, constructing an age map like this was impossible. Despite troves of data on the luminosity of stars in the sky, we were missing key information that would help us determine stellar age. But then the Kepler mission came along, and it gave us something very interesting: stellar mass.

“The Kepler dataset gives you the mass of stars,” Ness said. “From mass, you can deduce age using stellar models.” That’s exactly what Ness and her colleagues did, for approximately 30,000 red giant stars in the Kepler dataset.
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We established earlier that beer is "gluten water," correct? That would make vodka "potato water," gin is "juniper water," tequila is "agave water..." what types of water are bourbon, scotch, and whiskey?

The DHMO is in EVERYTHING.
 
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Scotch is either grain water or malt water depending on how you want to look at it.
 
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Kepler said:
Scotch is either grain water or malt water depending on how you want to look at it.
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Thank you. So far, this is what I've got:

Wheat water: beer
Malt water: scotch
Corn water: bourbon
Rye water: whiskey
Agave water: tequila
Potato water: vodka
Juniper water: gin
LynahFan said:
Don't forget kirschwasser (cherry water).
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walrus said:
"Drinking kirshwasser from a jug, San Fransican show and tell. This ain't no one night stand, it's a real occasion"
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This is the first time I've heard of kirschwasser; am eager to try it.
 
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Not quite on whiskey or bourbon

Bourbon just needs 51% corn, aged 3 years in virgin charred oak barrels, and at least 80 proof. There is also typically 2-5% rye and the bulk is generally wheat.
Whiskey is any kind of distilled spirit at least 80 proof that comes from cereal grains. And that might be too specific even with regards to the cereal grains.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Not quite on whiskey or bourbon

Bourbon just needs 51% corn, aged 3 years in virgin charred oak barrels, and at least 80 proof. There is also typically 2-5% rye and the bulk is generally wheat.
Whiskey is any kind of distilled spirit at least 80 proof that comes from cereal grains. And that might be too specific even with regards to the cereal grains.
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So like milk, whiskey is cereal water?
 
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All bourbons and scotches are whisk(e)y. Not all whiskey is scotch or bourbon or Irish or Canadian or Tennessee etc
 
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