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Post by theallseeingeye on Mar 25, 2024 12:01:57 GMT
We are 4 eps in and loving it..
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Post by theallseeingeye on Mar 25, 2024 12:02:54 GMT
I wonder what else I've missed.... please all suggest Netflix / prime shows that might have slipped my all seeing eyes.... eye
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Post by THE BEAST on Mar 26, 2024 12:47:02 GMT
I wonder what else I've missed.... please all suggest Netflix / prime shows that might have slipped my all seeing eyes.... eye Sweet tooth
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Post by channonite on Mar 26, 2024 13:49:55 GMT
Finished it last night and it is the same as Game of Thrones in that you shouldn't get too invested in any character as several of the main ones get bumped off. There is little in the way of sex and violence is pretty much always implied rather than actual, although the beginning of episode eight had me going "Shite!". Can't wait for series two.
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Post by ivangolac on Mar 27, 2024 0:10:22 GMT
Two down. Lots of threads. I’m drawn to the young Ye character, I’m expecting some fireworks there.
I’ve nicknamed it “Five go mad with a particle accelerator”
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Post by theallseeingeye on Mar 29, 2024 23:17:56 GMT
Just finished season 1…. I’m gripped
Bit gutted second season isn’t ready to go….
Sweet Tooth next then…. Then what???
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Post by channonite on Mar 30, 2024 8:00:05 GMT
The three-body problem is one of the oldest quandaries in physics and astronomy. This is it in a nutshell. The ‘3-body problem’ has long been the bane of astrophysicists. By Chris Lintot in BBC's "The Sky At Night" Magazine, March 2024 Issue
The three-body problem describes the gravitational issues involved in predicting how three objects in an orbital system will behave. Isaac Newton knew that if you have a system involving two objects – a single planet orbiting a star, for example – then with a little understanding of how gravity works you can calculate how both will move.
Add a third object to the system, like a moon, and that predictability disappears. Things start off alright, but even a tiny change in the starting positions of any one of the three objects soon produces wildly different predictions for what the state of things will be in the future.
As we can never know the initial positions of the three objects to infinite precision, then this chaotic behaviour means that the state of the system in the far future (and the distant past) is hidden from us and cannot be calculated.
Solving the three-body problem. The ‘three-body problem’, as it’s come to be known, is a big headache. In physics textbooks and university exam papers, you can have a perfectly isolated system consisting of just a star and an orbiting world, but the real Universe shuns such simplicity.
In star forming regions, in clusters of stars and galaxies, in planet formation and in the interaction of black holes, the movement of celestial objects involves three body systems more often than not.
Although the three-body problem can’t be solved analytically (where a set of equations leads to a single, definitive answer), some progress can be made. There is a paper from two astronomers that shed light on this old problem, taking a statistical approach to what might happen. Enter the third body!
The systems they studied are created when a nice, predictable binary star is approached by a third star, the kind of thing that must happen all the time in young star clusters.
Most of the time, the models show the resulting triple system behaves as a binary with a distant, third star interacting only weakly with the two at the centre. But as that interloper swings around there come periods of time where a mad scramble ensues.
This period ends when one of the stars is thrown back out to a distance where it is just a third star, a process which repeats and repeats until a star is ejected completely.
These calculations aren’t analytical predictions of what might happen; they’re just what the computer program thinks will happen next in any given circumstance. The clever bit is that by running many such simulations the team could get a prediction of what is likely to happen. That will be of enormous help to astronomers working in all sorts of fields.
One group looking extremely closely will be those trying to understand the collisions of black holes that produce the gravitational waves observed by facilities such as LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory).
Trying to understand how and why such black holes might form and collide has been difficult.But if interactions with a third object encourage black holes to eventually merge, the solution might lie in statistical solutions to the three-body problem, one of the oldest problems in the books.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Mar 30, 2024 8:56:15 GMT
Just finished season 1…. I’m gripped Bit gutted second season isn’t ready to go…. Sweet Tooth next then…. Then what??? Have you done The Expanse (prime)? Starts off pretty basic sci-fi, but with an accurate feel, slowly goes quite bonkers. We also enjoyed The Sandman on flix (another Neil Gaiman adaptation), I imagine you're already seen the brilliant Good Omens as everyone has...see also American Gods
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Post by channonite on Mar 30, 2024 21:33:40 GMT
Just finished season 1…. I’m gripped Bit gutted second season isn’t ready to go…. Sweet Tooth next then…. Then what??? Have you done The Expanse (prime)? Starts off pretty basic sci-fi, but with an accurate feel, slowly goes quite bonkers. We also enjoyed The Sandman on flix (another Neil Gaiman adaptation), I imagine you're already seen the brilliant Good Omens as everyone has...see also American Gods You just reminded me I started watching The Expanse before Christmas but never finished it. Will put that right! I can recommend Wolf Like Me, an Australian production on Amazon. Two series of a really good Comedy/Horror. Finished that last night.
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Post by theallseeingeye on Mar 30, 2024 21:55:25 GMT
Just finished season 1…. I’m gripped Bit gutted second season isn’t ready to go…. Sweet Tooth next then…. Then what??? Have you done The Expanse (prime)? Starts off pretty basic sci-fi, but with an accurate feel, slowly goes quite bonkers. We also enjoyed The Sandman on flix (another Neil Gaiman adaptation), I imagine you're already seen the brilliant Good Omens as everyone has...see also American Gods Thank you, not seen any of these (somehow)..... I will do so
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Post by theallseeingeye on Mar 30, 2024 21:56:45 GMT
Thanks.... more to see! Exciting
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Post by orde on Mar 31, 2024 20:29:26 GMT
This a well done series. Really enjoyed it. The boat scene… good god.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Mar 31, 2024 20:38:04 GMT
Finished it last night and it is the same as Game of Thrones in that you shouldn't get too invested in any character as several of the main ones get bumped off. There is little in the way of sex and violence is pretty much always implied rather than actual, although the beginning of episode eight had me going "Shite!". Can't wait for series two. I was confused as to how they'd make more series... but Google tells me there are 2 more books, so that's my book shopping sorted. Not yet having watched it, I'm a bit disappointed that they may've made it less Chinese...but I'll reserve judgement.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Apr 11, 2024 18:14:43 GMT
Ive just finishedthe book and wondeed how they were going to make more than 1 series, but now i see it'sa trilogy, so i guess I'llbe readingthe other 2. ivangolac - having done both the book and telly, is series one basically the first book, or is it not that simple?
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