Thursday Throughput for 8/22/19

Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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7 Responses

  1. Mark says:

    Congratulations and immense thanks to the doctors, scientists, and technicians who made the Ebola treatment possible. Our thoughts and admiration go out, of course, to the patients who participated in the clinical trials; you are real heroes of humanity.
    Interesting development history.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214273/?report=readerReport

    • George Turner in reply to Mark says:

      During the previous outbreak, I seriously considered become a test subject for an Ebola vaccine, but I didn’t feel like driving all the way across town many times to be monitored.Report

  2. Oscar Gordon says:

    Clearly all we need to do is ship all our excess CO2 to Mars!

    Two birds, one big ass flotilla of tanker space ships.Report

  3. Michael Cain says:

    ThTh3: I love when they find treatments that are so effective it’s unethical to keep on with the placebos. Renews my faith that things can work out.

    ThTh5: What should we think if a hundred years from now we still haven’t found such a planet? Idle curiosity, it’s another of those things where I’m almost certainly not going to live long enough to find out if the negative answer is correct. I spent a chunk of my technical career doing predictions, but seldom more than ten years out. I seem to be making longer-term predictions these days, and it’s frustrating as hell that I won’t get to find out if I’m right.Report

  4. George Turner says:

    Texas firm has holy grail of electric motors.

    That’s so different that I haven’t wrapped my head around it yet, but it apparently blows all other electric motors out of the water, even without using any rare earth magnets. It provides double the torque density, three times the power density, and twice the power in a given size, and won’t need a gearbox to directly drive a car.Report