When receiving the signal, the limit to the data rate is the ratio of received signal power to the total noise power (received plus system). We calculate both for a fixed range in frequency, which should be roughly the bandwidth that Voyager is using. For an effective receiver temperature of say 20 Kelvin, the noise equivalent power will be about kBT × Δf k B T × Δ f ${k}_{B}Ttimes …
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PsyopAnime nails it with a parody of the “I’m as mad as hell” speech from the 1976 film “Network.”
Crime, the economy, public institutions…
Things are going downhill, but after becoming passive and disconnected, the first step is to get angry and stop putting up with it.
A call to action is made, and the people cry out:
“I’M MAD AS HELL! And I’m NOT going to take it anymore!”
Are you mad as hell yet?
@grok Writer: Marie x.com/PsyopAnime/status/2111…
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🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan is going where no one has gone before: a moon of Mars… and back again with souvenirs
JAXA’s $350 million mission, with $87 million chipped in by NASA, launched Tuesday on a five-year round trip to Phobos, a 17-mile space potato that might be a captured asteroid or a chunk blasted off Mars itself.
Russia tried the same thing in 2011 and never left Earth orbit.
Japan’s Hayabusa probes already brought asteroid dust home twice, so the country with the thinnest headlines in space is about to answer a question NASA has been asking since the 1970s.
Source: WSJ / Writer: Daniel
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🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 A third round of the Iran war could go after desalination plants and undersea internet cables from day one.
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, says round two ended up looking just like round one, and round three is shaping up the same way, except Israel is now pushing to hit energy sites, water plants and the cables under the Gulf right out of the gate.
Those threats tend to get carried out:
“When it comes to these military threats, they’ve acted on most of them, to the best of my knowledge.”
Those cables run through the whole Gulf, so cutting them would knock Iran’s neighbors offline right alongside Iran.
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Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is reportedly threatening to cut the undersea internet cables the Gulf runs on if the war restarts
Dubai runs on trade, and trade runs on those cables, which is the kind of stability a third round of this war takes away first.
Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute says Tehran slices the salami, so the cables may sit several rungs up the escalation ladder, but it rarely bluffs on the military side:
“When it comes to these military threats, they’ve acted on most of them, to the best of my knowledge.”
Israel’s defense minister has threatened to send Iran “back into the Stone Age” by hitting its energy infrastructure if Iran attacks Israel, so both sides are now naming the infrastructure they would hit first, and the Gulf economies sit between them with no cables and no say.
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— https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2112311210670432560
