Use pieces of wood of different thicknesses, a set volume of water, and a small pot.

Test & time how long it takes the water to reach a rolling boil.

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Haha okay ;)

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Do you have an idea of how big the effect is then? Below 0,1% efficiency decrease for a thin cotton kitchen rag?

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Starship HLS is pretty white while the surface of the Moon is pretty dark. Landing near the pole will also mean it's at a nice angle relative to our line of sight. So maybe it's an elongated blob.

Me too.... so I looked it up just to get a grasp on difference! From a purely diameter related measurement, the moon is ~2100 miles, while the earth is around 8000 miles in diameter. The US is around 2700 miles across depending on how you measure. However in actual square miles, the moon is MUCH more massive (sphere, yay!) than any one country on earth; the moon is around 14.6million square miles, wile the entire continent of asia is around 17.2million sq miles (largest country on earth, Russia, is "only" 6.6 million miles).

The More You Know!

Why don't you link the article so others here can understand what it was talking about?

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The general concept is the same. You make a sphere, typically hollow, surrounded by chemical explosives designed to compress the sphere to become critical and add a neutron source that triggers at the time of maximal criticality.

It might a tiny bit. The magnetic field created by the coil in the stove top will decrease in strength the further away from the coil. So putting for example a tea towel to catch water from the pasta pot under the pot might slightly affect that distance. In practical terms it is not noticeable.

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True, and a very good example is the multiplex kits available for simultaneously detecting multiple anti-SARS-CoV-19 isotypes (e.g., IgG, IgA, IgM) in blood in response to infection or immunization.

Antibodies are pretty stable molecules but physically attaching any additional moiety, such as a fluorophore, risks creating steric hindrance issues and reducing antibody binding to it's target antigen sequence. Even the smallest modifications such as biotinylation can slightly reduce binding in some instances.

These physical access issues can be more important with '2D' systems when the target is immobilized on flat microtiter plate bottoms, which effectively hides the bottom side of the molecule from exposure and target binding to the ELISA plate can alter its physical structure presented to the antibody, compared to 3D exposure of target/detection antibody in liquid/suspended environments.

Also, secondary antibodies are great for signal amplification, but non-specific background binding goes up, too, versus using a labeled primary ab. This isn't really an issue if appropriate controls are included, and the signal amplification is proportionally greater than any increased background binding.

Huh, I'd definitely thought bigger. Thanks.

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And for those who benefit from geographic comparison, the moon is almost as wide as the continental United States, or 2/3 as wide as China.

That's a great example! Without any obvious Earth-like features like coastlines and clouds to compare it to, it's easy to look at the crater and think you could walk across it in a day.

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Yeah, this is assuming totally ideal circumstances with perfect optics.