#balmer — Public Fediverse posts

Heute (01.05.2025) vor...
...100 Jahren wurde Malcolm Scott #Carpenter geboren. Er ist ein ehemaliger amerikanischer #Astronaut.
...200 Jahren wurde Johann Jakob #Balmer geboren. Mit der Balmer-Serie lieferte er eine wichtige #Formel zur #Spektroskopie.
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I wish the fans and occasional users of #ChatGPT would read this, and try to understand that the whole thing is snake oil to trick us into burning the planet even faster than we are - so #gates and #balmer can buy a 10th yacht.

I don't want to die in a flood.
I don't want my kids to die in a mega fire.
I don't want my friends to die from heat stroke.

I don't want to live in a world where electricity is rationed to homes and hospitals because the #ai #datacentres suck up more juice than the region can produce.

I want clean water and a livable planet.

https://taggart-tech.com/year-of-disconnect/

#FuckOligarchs #FuckBillionaires #FuckEnshittification

@bryansmart @onthisday Clinton admin replaced. Bush's Justice department was instructed to go easy. The final punishment was for two DOJ representatives to have an office in Redmond for a decade.

This legalized monopolies, or more specifically using one monopoly to leverage another monopoly.

Being anti- #Microsoft and a fervent #Linux user since ~92, I quickly bought lots of Microsoft stock thinking #Balmer would scorch earth.

Instead, Microsoft became this kinder/gentler competitor??

If we compare the absorption lines in our #Alphecca spectrum to the absorption lines of the known star types, it can be seen that our star is a "Class A" star, a "white to blue white" star. In this star class, #Balmer lines are the most prominent, so they can easily identified.

Did you see the small lines in the spectrum to the right? Those are absorption lines (they are called #Balmer lines, a set of absorption lines caused by interaction of the starlight with #hydrogen atoms in its atmosphere)! When properly plotted, these absorption lines are shown as "dips" in the spectrum curve below. The exact location and how "deep" these dips are, and the overall shape of the curve help me determine which star type #Alphecca is.