Gravitons are not part of the Standard Model, they're a separate speculation based on the success of quantum field theory as applied to the Standard Model.

Part of what makes it appear unscripted in comparison to something like the Shuttle program is the nature of the cargo. The impact on the body of being in space for 10 days, and then experiencing a re-entry and landing process that never really exceeds more than 2.5gs in a controlled landing zone with support…

Out of curiosity, what aspects of the Soyuz recovery and extraction process struck you as less professional than a NASA capsule recovery as per the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo eras?

Yeah, looks like KT kept the pre-existing arrangement Gust had with NiS for the Gust studio games.

Did some research today because the only thing that bugs me more than incorrect scientific data is incorrect scientific data that gets repeated.

Missing at minimum a zero on that time from for a 30' temperature increase. 500 million years.

I'll give it to you in case the read-the-article notes are bugging you:

The biggest reason why we use a capsule and not a vehicle that doesn't "shed liftoff apparatus" is because of a simple reason:

I'm failing to find any credible documentation that the Sun presents a present risk to life on the surface of the Earth via CME or flare activity. Can you provide links or cite your sources for this claim?

No worries, our sun will not be capable of life extinguishing solar flares for at least a billion years, if not more. It just isn't energetic enough and the Earth's magnetosphere does a good job of deflecting. Asteroids are a far more likely danger, and Nuclear weapons many more times more likely still to be a…

Hopefully this gets released on the JPN store too. I've had my Vita tethered to my JPN account for the last few weeks for Persona and Ciel. Additional benefit of having the real NicoNico app, but I seriously miss Netflix.

Avatar (the good one). Sokka was waving hello to the friendly mushroom cloud since he was tripping on cactus juice. The GIF is edited though to actually show an explosion and water.

You know the sad thing is that he got to take his camera with him when they undocked so he could take those AWESOME pictures of the Shuttle docked to the ISS.

Clamps. Also, lots of effort to reduce ambient light. Those windows are triple paned (MMOD pain, and two pressure pains, as well as a scratch pane which is removed when taking pictures).

Don coined my favorite quote of all time in his blog explaining why he now jellies both sides of his toast: "Jelly on Both Sides" —

Each photography inclined astronaut will launch with his/her own camera. But as noted in the article, often times they are not allowed to bring them back down for re-entry.

It's there. The no-BSL color and the background are just too similar. That is to say, according to this map, NZ has no BSL.

The biggest thing that everyone overlooks in this "where's the life if planets and water and blah=de=blah is so abundant?!" statement is the time factor.

All I see when I look at that thing is an 8-person workers comp filing in slow motion.

I think the study should probably be compared with the diagnosis parameters for identifying schizophrenia as I'm pretty sure that diagnosis is more common now and more readily presented for less intense cases.