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Comment Who got in trouble at SpaceX or NASA? (Score 1) 72

Allowing a foreign national to access information counts as exporting that information under US Export Control Law. The export happened as soon as he saw the documents, not when he took pictures of them.

What processes failed at SpaceX or NASA to allow this cosmonaut access to export-controlled information? And who is getting in trouble at SpaceX or NASA for the failure of those processes?

Comment Re:What are the synergies here? (Score 1) 7

In higher-power silicon applications, thermal management is a very important consideration. Thermal stresses and TCE mismatch need to be investigated and managed, making FEA appropriate.

New applications like microfluidics might require a combination of the fluid simulations that Ansys can perform with the semiconductor simulations that Synopsys can provide.

What this does is provide a larger toolset that's all under the same umbrella. Any company that's using one of those tools will have a much easier time picking a new tool from the same chest should they need it, rather than establishing all of the infrastructure required to get software from another provider.

Also worth considering is the lower barrier to entry for trial periods of software, and the conversion rate of that into sales. If you're already a customer, most software companies like Synopsys or Cadence are delighted to give you a 2-week trial of another tool. It costs them nothing, there's very little overhead to getting it up and running, and I don't doubt that it frequently turns into paid licenses in the future.

Comment Not tsunami-like (Score 5, Insightful) 29

"Star-quakes" (more accurately, the excitation of one or more internal acoustic or gravity oscillation modes in a star) are neither tsnunami-like or cataclysmic, and TFA is pure clickbait. In most stars in which they've been detected, the brightness fluctuations they cause are well below the one-part-in-a-thousand level.

They do, however, have the potential to uncover the internal structure of stars, via the technique of asteroseismology. So, the Gaia DR3 release is pretty exciting stuff -- just no need to overhype it with Michael Bay adjectives.

Full disclosure: I am a computational asteroseismologist.

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