Violet Club
30/01/2017
fission,nuclear weapons,thermonuclear,violet club
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Interstellar: A Rant
24/02/2015
bad science,film,I also kinda liked the organ music I guess,interstellar
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Rods From God
11/07/2014
death and taxes,kinetic bombardment,rods from god,something something confucius,terminal velocity
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With This Ringworld I… Do What, Exactly?
18/06/2013
ask hentzau,dyson sphere,kardashev,kardashev scale,ringworld
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The Hubble Bubble.
08/05/2013
cosmic microwave background,hubble constant,hubble's law,observable universe,photon decoupling
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Inflation Theory.
01/05/2013
big bang,cosmic microwave background,horizon problem,inflation,observable universe
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Fundamental Forces.
24/04/2013
bosons,fermions,fundamental forces,I may have gone overboard with the footnotes this time,theory of everything
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When Science Posts Go Wrong.
17/04/2013
comets,impact speeds,kepler's laws,orbits
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It Is Dark. You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A WIMP.
10/04/2013
baryons,dark matter,galaxy rotation curve,kepler's third law,leptons,MACHOs,WIMPs
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How To Measure The End Of The World.
13/03/2013
apocalypse,asteroid impacts,earthquakes,richter scale,torino scale,volcanic explosivity index,volcanoes
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The Quickfire Round, Redux.
27/02/2013
contact,craters,impacts,knots,meteor craters,quickfire round,tangled wires
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Asteroids Again.
20/02/2013
asteroid impacts,asteroids,Chelyabinsk,impacts,meteorites,russia,shockwave,sonic boom
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Armageddon Ist Verboten.
13/02/2013
armageddon,ask hentzau,asteroid impacts,asteroids,bad science
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How To Survive A Vacuum.
06/02/2013
decompression sickness,in space no one can hear you eject your lungs via your mouth because you tried to hold your breath,the bends,vacuum
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You May Fire When Ready, Commander.
30/01/2013
critical energy density,death star,earth,gravity regime,jupiter,moon,Q*
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Adaptive Optics, Or: Laser Eye Surgery For Telescopes.
23/01/2013
adaptive optics,hubble space telescope,observatories,telescopes
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You Can Be My Wingman Any Time.
16/01/2013
alvarez,ask hentzau,danger zone,K-T event,maverick,paradigm shifts,top gun
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Where Is Space?
09/01/2013
karman line,lift,space,spaceship one,yeah the ISS video has little to do with the post but I really like it
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Insert Funny Pun About Lightning Here.
19/12/2012
ask hentzau,lightning,lightning gun,quake
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Mars One (Way Ticket To The Afterlife).
12/12/2012
ask hentzau,I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of really bad films about Mars,mars colony,mars one
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Planet Of The Dammed.
07/12/2012
angular momentum,ask hentzau,dams,moment of inertia,rotation of the earth
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Capillary Action.
21/11/2012
ask hentzau,capillary action,cohesion,surface tension
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Rouge Planet.
15/11/2012
exoplanet,paper deciphering,rogue planet,the misspelling is intentional
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If We’re Living In The Future, Then Where Are All The Jetpacks?
31/10/2012
ask hentzau,bell rocket belt,jetpacks,manned maneuvering unit
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Science Miscommunication.
24/10/2012
chicken,earthquakes,l'aquila,science communication,science miscommunication
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Is It Two Pair Or Four Of A Kind?
18/10/2012
ask hentzau,barycentres,binary star systems,exoplanets
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Never Tell Me The Odds.
15/10/2012
ask hentzau,asteroid belt,collisional evolution,resonances,star wars
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Bad Science Journalism, Part 1: The Orbo.
12/10/2012
bad science journalism,entropy,orbo,perpetual motion machine,second law of thermodynamics,steorn
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The SHIELD Helicarrier.
09/10/2012
ask hentzau,drones,helicarrier,I didn't actually like the Avengers all that much as a film,jet engines
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The Theory Of Theories.
05/10/2012
deflection of light,general relativity,how science works,luminiferous aether,michelson morley,scientific method,theories,theory
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Brian Cox.
02/10/2012
ask hentzau,brian cox,Brian EXPLETIVE DELETED Cox,scientists are going to be very happy when this year is over because we're sick and tired of explaining the mayan long count to people,wonders of the solar system,wonders of the universe
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Quantum Erasure.
26/09/2012
delayed choice quantum eraser,double slit experiment,erasure,quantum entanglement,quantum eraser,quantum mechanics
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Double Slit Trouble.
18/09/2012
double slit experiment,entanglement,quantum mechanics,wave-particle duality,wavefunction,wavefunction collapse
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Fast Breeder Reactors.
06/09/2012
fast breeder reactors,generation IV,generation IV sounds like a punk band or something,nuclear power,nuclear proliferation,nuclear reactor
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Probe Landings.
01/09/2012
luna,mars,moon,probe landings,probes,venera,Venus
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The Death Of Ambition.
27/08/2012
apollo,lunar landing,lunar module,NASA,neil armstrong,waxing unexpectedly philosophical
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Global Thermonuclear War.
22/08/2012
fusion,fusion bomb,hydrogen bomb,nuclear weapons,thermonuclear,would you like to play a game?
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Don’t Forget The “Ni”.
17/08/2012
extremophiles,I'm a doctor not a,life,playing god,space,tardigrades,vacuum,water bears
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The Journey Is More Interesting Than The Destination.
13/08/2012
centaur rocket booster,delta V,galileo,gravitational slingshot,hohmann transfer orbit,planetary alignment
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What You Need To Be An Astronaut.
10/08/2012
astronaut,space flight,space space,space toilet,space tourism
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The Shape Of The Universe.
08/08/2012
closed open flat,dark energy,dark matter,einstein,fate of the universe,field equations,general relativity,shape of the universe,universe geometry,WMAP
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To Vee Or Not To Vee.
06/08/2012
aerobraking,delta V,gravity well,rocketry,thrust
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Bussard? Bustard? Buzzard?
27/07/2012
alpha centauri,bussard ramjet,bustard,buzzard,interstellar travel,light sail,nuclear rocket,solar sail
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The Quickfire Round.
24/07/2012
ask hentzau,dome,exoplanets,Kuiper Belt,new horizons,observatory,p4,Pluto
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.
18/07/2012
ask hentzau,fast breeders,lftr,molten salt,molten salt reactors,NERVA,nuclear power,thorium cycle
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Our Words Are Backed By Nuclear Weapons!
12/07/2012
chain reaction,enrichment,fat man and little boy sound like something a bingo caller would say,fission,gun-type,implosion,nuclear weapons
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PWR Overwhelming.
10/07/2012
light water,LWR,nuclear disasters,nuclear power,nuclear reactors,OW,PWR,SR-1
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How Not To Build A Nuclear Reactor.
04/07/2012
chernobyl,chernobyl disaster,get out of here stalker,nuclear power,nuclear reactor,RMBK,runaway criticality
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NUKULAR REEAKTOR FIZZICS.
02/07/2012
bang,chain reaction,critical mass,fission,nuclear power,nuclear reactor,uranium
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Skylon. SKYLON.
26/06/2012
ramjet,scramjet,single stage to orbit,skylon?,space plane
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Panspermia? I Barely Know Her!
20/06/2012
aerogel,panspermia,spore is terrible
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The Latest In Space Fashion.
14/06/2012
manned spaceflight,prometheus,space suits
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Grapefruit + Egg = ???
13/06/2012
ask hentzau,egg,grapefregg,grapefruit,orbital velocity,orbits
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Prometheus Is A Bad Film.
11/06/2012
bad science,film,prometheus,ridley scott what happened to you
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Sick transit, Venus.
08/06/2012
astronomical unit,custard,kepler's third law,parallax,transit of venus
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Lorentz Contraction And The Ladder Paradox.
07/06/2012
ladder paradox,lorentz contraction,simultaneity,special relativity,time dilation,you think that's air you're breathing now?
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Two Weeks.
06/06/2012
ask hentzau,dragon,mars,spaceX
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When This Baby Hits 88 Miles Per Hour.
01/06/2012
ask hentzau,special relativity,speed of light,time dilation
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The Peter Harrison Planetarium: A Review.
28/05/2012
complete shit,greenwich observatory,planetarium,rant,voyager
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How Is Sunspot Formed?
25/05/2012
magnetic field,solar cycle,space weather,sun,sunspot
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Home On The Lagrange.
18/05/2012
asteroids,gravity,James Webb space telescope,lagrange points,never writing about this again goddamn,trojans
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Barry’s Guide To Barycentres.
14/05/2012
barycentres,gravity,lagrange points,orbits,the master of unlocking
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Each New Frontier.
10/05/2012
boneitis,CMEs,effects of weightlessness,long-duration spaceflight,mars,mission to mars,spaceflight
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Voltaire As Applied To Asteroid Mining.
03/05/2012
ask hentzau,asteroid mining,asteroids,self-replicating machines,von neumann
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It Levitates Bullet Trains From Tokyo To Osaka.
02/05/2012
maglev,magnets,OF COURSE,superconductor electromagnetism
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Schrodinger’s Cat Is Stuck In His Box.
26/04/2012
argh argh argh,copenhagen interpretation,epr paradox,quantum mechanics,schrodinger's cat
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Debunk It? I Can’t Even Spell It.
25/04/2012
apocalypse,ask hentzau,dig that funky bongo music,nibiru,rogue planet
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Embalmed Minds.
20/04/2012
ask hentzau,I really need to do something about my Beauty and the Beast fixation,science books
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If Cats Were Scientists.
18/04/2012
ask hentzau,general relativity,planck scale,quantum mechanics,string theory
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Death And Decay.
16/04/2012
radiation,radioactive testicles,testicles
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Is It Love Or Toxic Radiation?
12/04/2012
decay chain,Gamera is friend to all children,radiation,radioactive decay,radioactive poisoning,radioactivity
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Physics Can Be Such A Drag.
11/04/2012
ask hentzau,atmospheric drag,drag,future travel,space travel
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Groovitational Potential
04/04/2012
gravitational potential energy,I hate integration so much
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It’s About The Future, Because That’s Where We’re Going.
03/04/2012
alpha centauri,ask hentzau,deus ex,future,narrative,sci-fi,three seashells
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Science Ain’t Easy.
30/03/2012
argh
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In The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future There Is Only War.
27/03/2012
ask hentzau,drones,explosives,future of spaceflight,guns,missiles,porkins,sci-fi,space
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Super Novario World.
22/03/2012
black hole,degenerate matter,electron degeneracy,neutron star,pulsar,supernova,white dwarf
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HERE IS SOME SCIENCE.
22/03/2012
ALF NOOOOO
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I Banish You To The Black Hole.
20/03/2012
atmosfear,black holes,event horizon,really bad treatment of tidal forces,relativity,singularity,supernova,tidal forces
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The Future Of Spaceflight.
15/03/2012
escape velocity,future of spaceflight,mass drivers,moon colony,rockets,space elevator,space flight
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Ask Hentzau: Peak Science.
14/03/2012
ask hentzau,paradigm shift,peak science,scientific method,singularity
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A Brief History Of Spaceflight, Part Two.
08/03/2012
commercial spaceflight,future of spaceflight,history of spaceflight,orion,space flight,space travel
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Ask Hentzau: Scrat Continental Crack Up.
07/03/2012
ask hentzau,geophysics,planetary physics,smurf I know it was you,tectonic plates
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A Brief History Of Spaceflight, Part One.
05/03/2012
future of spaceflight,history of spaceflight,space flight,space shuttle,space travel
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You Have Discovered Rocketry.
01/03/2012
AAAAAAAAAAAA,delta V,escape velocity,orbits,rocket equation,rockets,space flight,space travel,Tsiolkovsky
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Some Stuff About Satellite Orbits.
27/02/2012
geostationary,orbits,rockets,satellites
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Why The Space Shuttle Sucked.
23/02/2012
comedy space disasters,it sucks metaphorically like a black hole,space flight,space shuttle
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The Rochefort Limit.
20/02/2012
BULLET POINTS,gravity,planetary rings,planets,protoplanetary disc,roche limit
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Nice Model.
16/02/2012
evolution of the Solar System,Kuiper Belt,Late Heavy Bombardment,Nice Model,Oort Cloud,protoplanetary disc,skittles
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I Am Become Q*, Destroyer Of Worlds.
14/02/2012
disruption,gravity,impacts,Q*,thesis
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Just Another Bug Hunt.
09/02/2012
astrobiology,Brian EXPLETIVE DELETED Cox,Europa,extremophiles,life,planetary physics,planets
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Resonating Resonances!
06/02/2012
orbital resonances,orbits,Pluto,resonance
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This Is Why Galactus Likes Eating Planets.
02/02/2012
continental drift,earthquakes,geophysics,magnetic striping,tectonic plates
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Atmospheres, How Do They Work?
30/01/2012
atmospheres,escape velocity,Late Heavy Bombardment,START THE REACTOR,terraforming,thermal escape
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Nukes: The Swiss Army Knife Of Hollywood.
26/01/2012
films,Michael Bay needs to be tried for crimes against humanity,nuclear weapons,nukes,sci-fi
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The Fermi Paradox And Other Aquatic Mammals.
23/01/2012
aliens,Drake equation,Fermi Paradox,life,science-fiction,von Neumann probes
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That’s My Favourite Kind Of Planet.
19/01/2012
Drake equation,exoplanets,Fermi Paradox,habitable zone,planets
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Love Don’t Live Here Anymore.
16/01/2012
dwarf planets,KBOs,Kuiper Belt,planets,Pluto,TNOs
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Light Gas Guns And You.
10/01/2012
I realise this is way less interesting than I think it is,impacts,light gas gun,thesis
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These stars are small.
08/01/2012
parallax,redshift,stars,Ted
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Why Are Planets Round?
07/01/2012
gravity,I can't believe I spent five years of my life on this,planets
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