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Stochastic Scribbles
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Random musings from Yoo Chung, where he talks about anything that catches his fancy. He most often talks about science, although he also frequently talks about politics and religion.
Recent Posts
Massive ordnance penetrator
Glenn Greenwald mentions rumblings against Iran with the MOP (massive ordnance penetrator, a huge multiton bomb that could be used to strike hardened underground nuclear facilities. However, what caught my attention was not the politics about the si...
LCROSS saw water
LCROSS infrared spectrum LCROSS crashed into the Moon last month, although the lack of a visible plume in the real-time video feed made the impact less exciting than it could have been. But the lack of a visible plume is hardly a failure, since LCRO...
The 11/3 Project
I often watch The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart’s recent tribute to Glenn Beck was just so awesome that I have to mention it on my blog. He just emulated Glenn Beck so well that I could very well imagine Beck saying the exact same things. It pr...
A glitch in Kepler
The Kepler spacecraft is supposed to continuously watch a hundred thousand stars to detect the slight dimming that would indicate the presence of a planet. The bad news is that the spacecraft has a few noisy electronic components: while Kepler shoul...
Can’t have everything
There’s a common saying concerning the theory of special relativity: Relativity, causality, faster-than-light: pick any two. Paraphrasing this, here is the stochastic scribble of the day concerning any god: Omnipotent, omniscient, omni-benev...
First sky maps from IBEX
IBEX, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, studies the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium by observing energetic neutral atoms created as the solar wind hits interstellar gas. They have just released the first scientific res...
