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You can't use triangulation for anything over a few light-years, the angles are just too acute. And even then, you need to use the full width of Earth's orbit (i.e. repeat a measurement at different times of the year).

I think they just know what the frequency distribution normally is for a burst like this when it is emitted, and use the redshift of the measured frequencies to estimate the distance. Plus they correlate it with the apparent source based on direction (a certain galaxy, in this case, which helped confirm the distance estimate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_(weapon)

Inmates make knives out of the weirdest things.

You know what you did.

There is such a thing as Sun-synchronous polar orbits (an example).

Dread it, run from it...

That really was great, thank you!

No, that's brilliantly executed!

Mmm, high tea... Haven't played that in a while.

It's called a job. You demoncrats wouldn't know anything about that.

/s

I understand the saliva has a benefit for mosquitoes, but not the swelling and the itching (the "unpleasantness" in the title). In essence, our bodies hung this not-otherwise-useful allergic response on something the mosquitoes couldn't/wouldn't/didn't give up and which was firmly specific to their bites, to single them out.

If there was no saliva our bodies would be pressured by natural selection to pick some other mechanism to make their bites unpleasant. An allergy to their chitin or a phobia to the sound of their wings, etc.

Evolutionary pressure from mosquitoes has probably been no small thing.

Ok, I guess the idea that the CMB suggests movement relative to a quasi-absolute reference frame really has become disputed lately... I also found this newer paper by the same authors. It's a pity, I liked the idea.

The image just loaded very slowly for me (i.e. after about 10 seconds). In some posts it never loads at all, but there is a thumbnail in the main screen. This is on sync.