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As America mourns the loss of its former president, the farewell to Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has begun in his home state of Georgia. Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100, is being honored with a state funeral. The funeral procession began in Americus, Georgia, where Jimmy Carter’s life started. The solemn tribute took place outside Carter’s family farm. It was on this farm he grew up and developed the values that shaped his life. As the nation remembers his legacy, his contributions to peace, human rights, and public service are being celebrated by citizens and world leaders alike. Jimmy Carter’s funeral procession begins in Americus             View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Sky News (@skynews)   His funeral procession began in Americus at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, where the president’s current and former Secret Service agents put his body into a black hearse and walked alongside it as they went to Carter’s small town. As they continued the procession, his flag-draped casket made its way through the town where Carter was born and spent most of his life; while that was going on, the National Park Service rang a bell 39 times in tribute to his place in American history as the 39th president. President Jimmy Carter talking with reporters. Jan. 24, 1977 (CSU_ALPHA_430) CSU Archives/Everett Collection. The streets were lined with mourners, many of whom had known Carter for years. The motorcade also passed familiar landmarks, including the family peanut warehouse and the old train depot that served as the headquarters for his modest 1976 presidential campaign. The funeral ceremonies provided an opportunity for people around the world to reflect on and pay tribute to him. Family and friends pay their respects During the funeral procession, his family also paid their respects to him. His grandson Jason Carter, now chair of the Carter Center, spoke lovingly about his grandfather’s legacy at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. “His spirit fills this place,” he said. In a heartfelt tribute, James “Chip” Carter, Carter’s son, also talked about how his parents worked together to change the world, both in their public service and their personal devotion to each other. President Jimmy Carter addresses the South Baptist Convention in Atlanta Georgia. June 16 1978/Everett Chip also recalled intimate moments from their family life, shedding light on the father who took time to teach his son even during busy moments. The rest of the funeral procession is scheduled to continue on Tuesday, with a departure ceremony to honor Jimmy Carter. He will finally be laid to rest beside his wife of 77 years. Next up: Once-Huge Record Store Chain Finally Closing Its Last-Standing Location The post Jimmy Carter’s Funeral Procession Begins In His Home State of Georgia appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

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Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn’t stop people from working on it. The most visible groups currently doing so are Breakthrough Starshot and the Tau Zero Foundation, both of whom focus on a very particular type of propulsion-beamed power. A paper from the Chairman of Tau Zero’s board, Jeffrey Greason, and Gerrit Bruhaug, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who specializes in laser physics, takes a look at the physics of one such beaming technology – a relativistic electron beam – how it might be used to push a spacecraft to another star. There are plenty of considerations when designing this type of mission. One of the biggest of them (literally) is how heavy the spacecraft is. Breakthrough Starshot focuses on a tiny design with gigantic solar “wings” that would allow them to ride a beam of light to Alpha Centauri. However, for practical purposes, a probe that small will be able to gather little to no actual information once it arrives there—it’s more of a feat of engineering rather than an actual scientific mission. The paper, on the other hand, looks at probe sizes up to about 1000kg—about the size of the Voyager probes built in the 1970s. Obviously, with more advanced technology, it would be possible to fit a lot more sensors and controls on them than what those systems had. But pushing such a large probe with a beam requires another design consideration—what type of beam? Fraser discusses how we might get to Alpha Centauri. Breakthrough Starshot is planning a laser beam, probably in the visible spectrum, that will push directly on light sails attached to the probe. However, given the current state of optical technology, this beam could only push effectively on the probe for around .1 AU of its journey, which totals more than 277,000 AU to Alpha Centauri. Even that minuscule amount of time might be enough to get a probe up to a respectable interstellar speed, but only if it’s tiny and the laser beam doesn’t fry it. At most, the laser would need to be turned on for only a short period of time to accelerate the probe to its cruising speed. However, the authors of the paper take a different approach. Instead of providing power for only a brief period of time, why not do so over a longer period? This would allow more force to build up and allow a much beefier probe to travel at a respectable percentage of the speed of light.  There are plenty of challenges with that kind of design as well. First would be beam spread—at distances more than 10 times the distance from the Sun to the EartSunhow would such a beam be coherent enough to provide any meaningful power? Most of the paper goes into detail about this, focusing on relativistic electron beams. This mission concept, known as Sunbeam, would use just such a beam. Fraser discusses another interstellar probe – Project Dragonfly Utilizing electrons traveling at such high speeds has a couple of advantages. First, it’s relatively easy to speed electrons up to around the speed of light—at least compared to other particles. However, since they all share the same negative charge, they will likely repel each other, diminishing the beam’s effective push. That is not as much of an issue at relativistic speeds due to a phenomenon discovered in particle accelerators known as relativistic pinch. Essentially, due to the time dilation of traveling at relativistic speeds, there isn’t enough relative time experienced by the electrons to start pushing each other apart to any meaningful degree. Calculations in the paper show that such a beam could provide power out to 100 or even 1000 AU, well past the point where any other known propulsion system would be able to have an impact. It also shows that, at the end of the beam powering period, a 1,000kg probe could be moving as fast as 10% of the speed of light – allowing it to reach Alpha Centauri in a little over 40 years. Multi-stage ships could be the key to interstellar travel – as Fraser discusses. There are plenty of challenges to overcome for that to happen, though – one of which is how to get that much power formed into a beam in the first place. The farther a probe is from the beam’s source, the more power is required to transmit the same force. Estimates range up to 19 gigaelectron volts for a probe out at 100 AU, a pretty high energy beam, though well within our technology grasp, as the Large Hadron Collider can form beams with orders of magnitude more energy. To capture that energy in space, the authors suggest using a tool that doesn’t yet exist, but at least in theory could – a solar statite. This platform would sit above the Sun’s surface, using a combination of force from the push of light from the star and a magnetic field that uses the magnetic particles the Sun emits to keep it from falling into the Sun’s gravity well. It would sit as close as the Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the Sun, which means that, at least in theory, we can build materials to withstand that heat.  The beam forming itself would happen behind a massive sun shield, which would allow it to operate in a relatively cool, stable environment and also be able to stay on station for the days to weeks required to push the 1000kg probe out as far as it would go. That is the reason for using a statute rather than an orbit—it could stay stationary relative to the probe and not have to worry about being occluded by the Earth or the Sun. Fraser discusses interstellar travel with Avi Loeb, a Harvard professor and expert in interstellar travel. All this so far is still in the realm of science fiction, which is why the authors met in the first place – on the ToughSF Discord server, where sci-fi enthusiasts congregate. But, at least in theory, it shows that it is possible to push a scientifically useful probe to Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime with minimal advances to existing technology. Learn More:Greason & Bruhaug – Sunbeam: Near-Sun Statites as Beam Platforms for Beam-Driven RocketsUT – Researchers are Working on a Tractor Beam System for SpaceUT – A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it upUT – A Concentrated Beam of Particles and Photons Could Push Us to Proxima Centauri Lead Image:Depiction of the electro beam statite used in the study.Credit – Greason & Bruhaug The post Pushing A Probe To Alpha Centauri Using A Relativistic Electron Beam appeared first on Universe Today.

Ouch. Over the weekend, Riley Green had an incident that led him to the emergency room, after stepping on a nail while out hunting that managed to puncture through his boot and get into his foot. He shared the saga in his Instagram stories, and based on the videos from earlier in the day yesterday that are still up, it seems like he was definitely not hunting in his native Alabama, but somewhere much colder because the snow was coming down in buckets. We know he purchased some hunting property in Kansas, and recently harvested his first buck there, but a good chunk of the country was getting snow this past weekend... he could've been anywhere. From the hospital room, Riley explained what happened and seemed to be in pretty good spirits, laughing at the fact that a bunch of corn fell out of his boot when he took his shoe off to show the doctor his injury: "At the emergency room, 'cuz I stepped on a nail, impaled my foot, and when I took my boot off, corn fell all over the floor. The lady came in here wanting to know where all the corn came from. It's from my boot, you don't want me to take this other one off, either. Real world problems." I imagine this little setback slowed him down just a bit, and it sounds like a nail going all the way through your boot and into your foot would be quite painful, though he doesn't seem too worried or in too much pain in the video a fan page shared from his stories: @riley.green.duckm86 I had an emergency, I step on nails. #reelproblems #rileygreen #viral ♬ original sound - Riley Green Duckman In another video, Riley's friend asks the nurse how soon he can get back to hunting, and she tells him he's good to get back out there as soon as he leaves the ER, and I have no doubt that's exactly what he did (after he got a new pair of shoes on, of course). All is well that ends well, I guess, and it looks like Riley is certainly enjoying his downtime before he heads out on his extensive headlining Damn Country Music tour that kicks off in March. He's also been teasing some new songs on Instagram, so hopefully we can expect to hear some more new music from him this year too: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDyS38SO9YM/ Riley Green Tour Dates: March 27, 2025 – Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre March 28, 2025 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place March 30, 2025 – Regina, SK – Brandt Centre April 3, 2025 – Kingston, ON – Slush Puppie Place April 4, 2025 – Toronto, ON – Coca-Cola Coliseum April 5, 2025 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens May 1, 2025 – Athens, GA – Akins Ford Arena May 9, 2025 – Lake Charles, LA – Lake Charles Event Center May 10, 2025 – Tupelo, MS – Cadence Bank Arena May 29, 2025 – Youngstown, OH – Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre May 30, 2025 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center May 31, 2025 – Detroit, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill June 12, 2025 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion June 13, 2025 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion June 14, 2025 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park June 19, 2025 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater June 21, 2025 – Huntington, WV – Marshall Health Network Arena July 24, 2025 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 July 25, 2025 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway July 26, 2025 – Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion August 21, 2025 – Bonner, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater August 22, 2025 – Idaho Falls, ID – Mountain America Center August 23, 2025 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater