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Carl Witthoft
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Physicist, Photonics and Radar Engineer, cellist, R-evangelist, pinball fanatic, xkcd follower. And owner of "Hells Doggies," one wonderful Papillon and two incredibly sweet motley mutts.

https://github.com/cellocgw for various R- code tools and toys.

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What is behind the Great Red Spot's longevity?
Oct 9, 2020
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Why aren't reflector telescopes built with an offset secondary mirror?
May 2, 2022
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Why is Ganymede's aurora only visible in ultraviolet while Earth's is bright green and red?
Jan 14, 2020
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How to know that the 21cm Hydrogen line is the actual emission and not any other redshifted line?
Aug 23, 2017
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Why are we building larger land-based telescopes instead of launching larger ones into space?
Jun 12, 2018
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Trouble Seeing Distant Planets Such as Jupiter and Uranus
Jan 7, 2022
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Has great eyesight been necessary for astronomers?
Dec 30, 2019
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Are digital adaptive optics possible?
Jul 3, 2019
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Instead of using flexible mirrors, could software be used for adaptive optics?
Apr 3, 2017
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Do comets contain any significant amounts of iridium?
May 9, 2017

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Why do cars have mirrors for rear view rather than cameras?
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Extract file extension from file path
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Getting strings recognized as variable names in R
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What led NASA et al. to decide the ISS should be a zero-g station when the massive negative health and quality of life impacts of zero-g were known?
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Can a flute soloist sit?