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@Dragoon Interesting article, but the photo appears to take significant artistic liberty.
nitrogen is placed in a diamond stamp cell between opposite diamonds and pressed together
I'm pretty sure the diamonds used in a diamond stamp cell are not fully faceted gem-quality diamonds. I'm also pretty sure the aluminum (?) and bronze support would not withstand the 1.4 million atmospheres and especially the >4000° C they were subjected to in the experiment. (Depending on the alloy, bronze melts around 950° C, and aluminum — again depending on the alloy — between about 460 and 670° C. Even if the silver-colored metal is stainless steel, it melts around 1510° C.) I'd guess the real support is made of some high-tech ceramic. It's certainly possible, though, that they used a laser or some other method to heat the nitrogen only where it's squeezed between the diamond anvils and not the rest of the structure. But I'm not paying for a subscription to find out the answer; I can't even find where to subscribe or how much it costs. (If you have to ask, you can't afford it.)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
But I'm not paying for a subscription to find out the answer
And I'm not going to bother to figure out how to get in with my institutional access. (It'd probably work if I was on campus, but they're not cooperating with the VPN I'm using so screw 'em.)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It's certainly possible, though, that they used a laser or some other method to heat the nitrogen only where it's squeezed between the diamond anvils and not the rest of the structure. But I'm not paying for a subscription to find out the answer
That’s what abstracts are for (emphasis mine):
ABSTRACT
Studies of polynitrogen phases are of great interest for fundamental science and for the design of novel high energy density materials. Laser heating of pure nitrogen at 140 GPa in a diamond anvil cell led to the synthesis of a polymeric nitrogen allotrope with the black phosphorus structure, bp-N. The structure was identified in situ using synchrotron single-crystal x-ray diffraction and further studied by Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. The discovery of bp-N brings nitrogen in line with heavier pnictogen elements, resolves incongruities regarding polymeric nitrogen phases and provides insights into polynitrogen arrangements at extreme densities.
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graphene, which shows great promise as a material for high-tech applications
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OK, who had "the earth collapsing" on their 2020 bingo card?
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@Dragoon quoted in In other news today...:
the modern gyroscope no longer resembles a child's toy
Aww…
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Some people say that everything can have bad side effects, but I don't see how this could have any.
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has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor.
That is racial discrimination
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor.
That is racial discrimination
and very likely is pretty close to, if not over, some legal lines.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor.
That is racial discrimination
One might also wonder whether there's a footprint on the seat of his pants.
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@PJH I think I've found a new favorite insult. I don't know whether to start calling my opponents manky swans or just manky.
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@jinpa Just came across this manke fellow: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/michigan-barber-shutdowns-pandemic/2020/06/05/id/970847/
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I don't know whether to start calling my opponents manky swans or just manky.
I'd go with just 'manky.'
It's a suitable adjective I've applied to many a person since I was around 7.
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I think we might have discussed this a while back before it was found:
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Few days old:
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@Dragoon Damn - what do I have... (off to Amazon, clicks a couple links). Whew. CMR.
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Attention, anyone who hoarded toilet paper back in March/April. This is your fault:
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Few days old:
Article loses all credibility about 3 paragraphs in, when they say:
Typical security protocols combine short public and private keys to encode messages. These protocols are fast but easy to crack because, while private keys are only known by senders and/or recipients, public keys are accessible to everyone.
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Yeah, the article isn't great, but the paper seems sound.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Article loses all credibility about 3 paragraphs in, when they say:
Typical security protocols combine short public and private keys to encode messages. These protocols are fast but easy to crack because, while private keys are only known by senders and/or recipients, public keys are accessible to everyone.
It sounded odd to me, too, so I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed it.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, the article isn't great
Typical tech reporting by reporters who don't understand the tech they're reporting on.
This seems important. Write an article about it.
I don't understand what I just read.
Just Google the words you don't understand. I want your finished article in my inbox first thing in the morning.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, the article isn't great
Typical
techreporting by reporters who don't understandthe tech they're reporting onmuch of anything.This seems important. Write an article about it.
I don't understand what I just read.
Just Google the words you don't understand. I want your finished article in my inbox first thing in the morning.FTFR. This is especially bad (and visible) in technical areas, but it pervades all areas of reporting. Basically, reporters don't know crap.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
This is especially bad (and visible) in
technicalareas you genuinely know something aboutFTFY
Mind you, some journalists do seem to understand an area quite well, often because they're reporting on it a lot and are actually interested in it. They're often the journalists that try to take the time to help people tell their own stories rather than just trimming things down to a soundbite or two. They're definitely a minority of their profession…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
This is especially bad (and visible) in
technicalareas you genuinely know something aboutFTFY
Mind you, some journalists do seem to understand an area quite well, often because they're reporting on it a lot and are actually interested in it. They're often the journalists that try to take the time to help people tell their own stories rather than just trimming things down to a soundbite or two. They're definitely a minority of their profession…
They're a minority of journalists in the same way unicorns are a minority of horses.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
it pervades all areas of reporting. Basically, reporters don't know crap.
Well, there is nothing to understand on celebrity gossip so the need to know gets them by surprise when they occasionally try to report something else.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
FTFR. This is especially bad (and visible) in technical areas, but it pervades all areas of reporting. Basically, reporters don't know crap.
Yes, the Gell-Mann amnesia effect should never be forgotten.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
amnesia effect should never be forgotten
Umm, by definition…
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Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
Apple Inc. is preparing to announce a shift to its own main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel Corp., as early as this month at its annual developer conference, according to people familiar with the plans.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
No, but I play one on the Internet
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
No, but I play one on the Internet
They're "fun". Everytime I read an article, I have to go wipe out their cookies. They only allow 1 free article now.
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If they start defunding police forces, would we see displaced police officers rioting?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
If they start defunding police forces, would we see displaced police officers rioting?
Only white ones.
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She should correct his spelling and grammar and send back to him.
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@boomzilla 403 Access Denied.
Well, if they're going to be like that, then I'm not going to read that. Hmph.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla 403 Access Denied.
The aliens speak internet?
Well, if they're going to be like that, then I'm not going to read that. Hmph.
Oh. That.
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@boomzilla Something else like this happened a few years ago, didn't it? IIRC after a few days they discovered that it didn't actually come from space at all, but their sensors had been pointing back toward Earth or something
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Grand Theft Auto V: Skyrim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6Ifs4d2SQ
(For those unaware: GTA5 is a PS3/X360 game.)
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@Gąska An odd choice for the first game shown in the PS5 reveal stream. A game from 2013 that was originally released on the PS3.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Gąska An odd choice for the first game shown in the PS5 reveal stream. A game from 2013 that was originally released on the PS3.
On a console that looks like a router with some extra plastic stuck to it, no less.
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Fucking hell. I thought I'm being original with that Skyrim joke but the very video that I linked but only half-watched before posting, makes the same comparison at 1:10.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Gąska An odd choice for the first game shown in the PS5 reveal stream. A game from 2013 that was originally released on the PS3.
On a console that looks like a router with some extra plastic stuck to it, no less.
It does? I only watched the first 30 seconds of the reveal video before I got bored; it looked like it's going to be a shapeless mass of black matter.