Snowwie888

We see the visible universe to be roughly 46.5bn light years in radius. Based on that we calculate the age. It's also said that there is no center of the universe and that from every point the universe would look the same. Fair enough. Now let's get to a galaxy at 45bn light  years distance and let's see how far can they watch around them? Also 46.5bn light years I suppose? And what if 'they' look at the same direction as we do, them being only a 'window' to look through? Would we not encounter a total of 91.5bn light years of universe 'ahead' of us? And based on that simple deduction would that not also mean the universe is just way much older than ~14bn years?

I mean, I notice that there are still daily 7,000 to 8,000 new cases of Covid 19 infections every day. We won't stop this with lockdowns. I would say, just let it go, and speed up the vaccination, and ONLY keep the very weak separated. But let youth just go out, and normal healthy people to a bar or beach and resume flights. The more we try to stop the virus it seems the more time it takes to actually get rid of it. From what I know 2 million Dutch people who already have been infected are now immune (me also) because the bulk of the people can handle this virus. The lockdowns are hurting countries and people far more worse than this virus ever will do. Vaccinations have to be ramped up, made obligated, lift the lockdowns, set people free, keep the weak separated and then in (a shorter) time the virus will die out.

Somewhere in the 16th century (I believe) after some wars and negotiations the English and the Dutch finally settled  their disputes and started to trade. The Dutch, always keen on getting the latest spices basically had not much to gain in New Amsterdam, but Suriname, which was then under control by the English was more lucrative. Some people say that, seeing it from current perspective it was a foolish move of the Dutch to trade New Amsterdam, which the English turned into New York and got Suriname back for it, but in THOSE days, there was no United States of America, and Suriname was economically far more interesting. This trade agreement was for the Dutch at that time far more interesting than keeping New Amsterdam.

But since the United States, 400 years later is now the only world super power, it makes me wonder: How would the world have been looking today if the Dutch and English never came to this agreement and the Dutch kept New Amsterdam. I suppose also the Dutch would seek out all the land behind it, but I am just thinking would I be even alive if they kept that town, which would later be grown to one of the largest cities in the world? And for the record, I am a Dutch guy.

All things we know for sure. New Orleans would not have been flooded in 2005 by Katrina if the Dutch were still there, controlling the entire landmass of the United States. :-)

In theory, if you compress water strong enough would it turn solid and into ice? If not what would water become if you compress it strong enough?

Since yesterday I have this odd problem of not be able to comment properly on YouTube. When the video is in pause mode and I want to type a comment and when hitting the space bar between words then the video continues. If I hit the F key it goes Full Screen. How did this suddenly happen?

That's what I hear and read all the time. How far has NASA progressed with their new Orion spacecraft? Is this really going to happen? A manned mission again already in 2024? That's 3,5 years roughly from now. Not that I don't mind. I hope they take a nice 8K camera with them and broadcast live from the moon. Or at least leave some Webcams there, powered by solar arrays. But I cannot believe people will return to the moon, already in 2024. Is there a real valid source that says so?

Last year I flew for the first time to Mexico. A long trip from Amsterdam to Mexico City. I was surprised by the fact that so little Mexicans, even officials on the airport, customs, security, knew so little English. My stay in Mexico lasted 2 weeks but it was troublesome as a non-Spanish speaker to make yourself clear. I am kind of surprised, with their biggest northern neighbor and probably main tourist attracter, the United States, so few Mexicans know English. With hand and footwork and managed to get a few things done, but without my gf over there I would be lost directly.

So many sources say that the European Union paid huge amounts of money to Turkey to keep immigrants coming from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc to Europe. But this makes no sense. If you take the entire EU military as a whole then you would only need a fraction of it at the borders between Turkey and Bulgaria and Greece, and some navy elements to secure the waters between mostly Turkey and Greece. Furthermore, immigrants coming with boats from Africa are picked up by, mainly the Italian coastguard, but are not brought back. This is also a weird thing, because I know that many Italians are so fed up of all these immigrants, if the EU wants to block immigrants by paying Turkey why do they let them freely in trough the Mediterranean?

Most movies I watch are in 24fps. They work fine on my 60hz tv, which makes me think, why do filmmakers even record movies in 24fps? Would the movie not feel much more 'smoother' if they actually record at 60fps? Or even better at maybe 120fps? These movies run fine on my tv, but once I download some documentary or series which is 25fps, then the screen stutters, even though my tv has some build in options to 'reduce jitter' and a special 24fps mode etc etc. But why shoot movies in 24fps at all? In this digital age? 

I have two ssd's in my system. The main one is an m.2. nvme ssd that also contains Windows and most used programs. The other is a normal Samsung EVO 500GB ssd which is basically my 'work space'.

I play this game called "Cities Skylines" which is a memory hog. My system already has 64GB of ram, but Cities Skylines loves also put as many stuff into virtual memory. When fully loaded, the game uses up to nearly 35GB of normal memory and about 40GB of virtual memory. I thought, why not also enable the pagefile on the second ssd?

Two questions:

- Are both pagefiles being used?

- Will it increase the speed of the system, since there are two storage area's (both ssd's) the computer can read from?

This is purely theoretical, but I saw the footage of the Tsar Bomba and also the Castle Bravo detonation, the two biggest nuclear explosions ever done. To my knowledge there is no real limit in how powerful you can make a nuclear warhead, but the larger the yield the bigger it will be. So, first of all, what would be the largest nuclear warhead we could deliver into space? Is a 500 Megaton warhead possible? If so, when placed on the surface of a 10km wide asteroid, would such a detonation not completely vaporize the asteroid? Just based on the destruction seen by the Tsar Bomba (50 Megaton)?

So many articles state: The universe was xxx in size after 1 second or even after 1 nanosecond. The sizes vary from meters to light-years, at least according to my source. Now this information, which comes from a reasonable scientific site, calls for two interesting questions:

- Since it had a 'size', it also means it had a perimeter, and this begs the question: What was outside of this perimeter?

- Also, if you ask today, where is the center of the Universe, all scientists say, there is no center. How can there be no center if the universe had specific sizes just after the Big Bang, this is conflicting information.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-big-bangan-eyewitnes...

In all scientific books I read that a Black Hole destroys Space/Time in it's core. Nature laws fall and the Black Hole tears a whole in space time. Does it enter that hole? The paths through space/time become infinite to the singularity, but if this is the case, how can it's mass still have effect on it's surrounding? It would suggest the singularity still has some dimensions.

I have my homeserver over here, and the AMD processor on it gets pretty hot. It also has a Radeon R5 onboard GPU with it. So I was thinking, what if buy a cheap a$$ passive cooled GPU for this system, would that even help in keeping the processor cooler? Or does it not even matter? Note: this home server is attached to a monitor but that one is always off. I control it though Remote Desktop and through Shares I can get to my files.

For my home-server that occasionally runs I am busy expanding it. I only had 2 drives, of different size, a 4TB WD Blue and a 3TB WD Red. Now I want to remove the WD Red, and I have bought 3 x 4TB WD Blue drives. These drives perform pretty well in a normal home situation. This home server will definitely not be running 24/7 but I will turn it on now and then to add more movies, tv-shows, update my backup, just my data-rig, sort of. But I am scratching my head about what kind of RAID I would like to use. I have 4 drives of 4TB. Raid 0 is nice and fast, but no fault tolerance. Raid 1 is loosing half of your diskspace. Raid 6 the same. Raid 5 seems the most logical choice. But what to choose, the raid controller on the motherboard? Or do it through Windows 10? And also I cannot really find that much about recover a raid 5 array after 1 drive has failed. JBOD is also an option, but I determined, this is also a form of an 'array' and if one drive fails, then this array fails also, and I don't see any method of retrieving the remaining data, nor do you know which data remains. So JBOD, no. Raid 5 seems to most logical choice, even though I loose 4TB of diskspace because of parity. But, is it okay to do it with WD Blue's, even in a situation I don't use the home (backup) server that much?

If I stick my GPU in my motherboard it takes the x16 slot already. Does this mean that with this brand new Intel processor I cannot even use m.2. nvme ssd's on my motherboard anymore because the CPU is bottlenecked at 16 lanes maximum? Those nvme m.2. ssd's require mostly x4 speed over the same amount of available pci-e lanes.

Is there a time limit on the Samsung S20 4K 60fps?

They talk only about the limit of the 8K option, but I don't care about, I want to know if there is a LIMIT on the 4K 60fps. My current Galaxy S9 has it and I am frustrated by it, but I refuse to step over to an iPhone due to Apple's restrictions.

This seems maybe a weird question since that person who blocked me I cannot see anymore, but the problem is, 'now and then' this person unblocks me, sends me some random 'crap' and then blocks me again. But I cannot block this person while that person has blocked me. So how can I block a person in Facebook that already has blocked me, but cannot send me anything by just unblocking me shortly and then reblock me again.

You guys in the US get a president every 4 or 8 years. I think this is a bad thing because the sitting president is more busy with things that make staying him in power than actually doing something for the people. Those terms are too short for a president to really act upon his promises and before you know it he already is busy again with elections. If I look at Russia, I see that Putin is at the helm for a pretty long time. True, that the other end of the spectrum, because elections in Russia are not that great as well, but at least there is a steady and imo a very reasonable leader, that wants to take care of his people and also wants to help other countries and even is open to serious dialogue with the US. But every time in the US they get another president, presidents like Putin again and again has to form a new relation with that president. It's hopeless. And democracy? only Democrats and Republicans? Nothing more to choose? Pffff. I am happy not to be an American if I had to choose between only those two. So now we get Joe Biden, who says Russia is the biggest threat..jeeezz, that guy still thinks it's the 60s and the 80s. Russia  is by far not that a threat anymore. Not military anyway. They only lean on their nuclear arsenal and maintain the MAD doctrine, otherwise they would be no thread to the US Military. But that's not the point. Putin often said he wanted a good relation with the US, so make that happen. Expand US presidential terms to at least 10 years.

We know liquid hydrogen exists, for example in the outer layers around Jupiter's core, it's basically the biggest ocean in the solar system. Liquid Nitrogen we often see here on Earth being used to cool things down to a very low temperature. Pure speculation: if Hydrogen would become a solid, what temperature would it have? Absolute zero?