science

14350 readers

417 users here now

just science related topics. please contribute

note: clickbait sources/headlines aren't liked generally. I've posted crap sources and later deleted or edit to improve after complaints. whoops, sry

Rule 1) Be kind.

lemmy.world rules: https://mastodon.world/about

I don't screen everything, lrn2scroll

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

561

Voyager 1 contact restored (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Voyager 1 contact restored

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Just a reminder that half-life is a probabilistic measurement, not an exact one. Given adequate scale of material it’s accurate across the measured sample, but it is not precise at lower volumes of material or in narrower measurement periods.