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I became a skeptic in Feb 2010.

Why? What does that even mean?

Inspired by
Skeptic of the phenomenon, its causes, or the appropriate response to...

Interesting, mainly for the videos.

Not a mention of anything negative, journalism at it's finest.

You lot tell me if I am going crazy
Not a...

I am going to lay out a straw man scenario for the progression of this disease. Please fix/ammend as necessary. Dates and rates are somewhat WAGs so...

3 meltdowns 1 of which was total, that is to say the entire core liquified.
1, possibly 2 containment breaches.
3 hydrogen explosions.
1 criticality...

There was an Asimov story The Martian Way that featured Mars colonists getting H 2 O by fetching a huge chunk of ice from Saturn's rings. They had to...

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers...

Homeopathy Prevention (Genus Epidemicus) for Coronavirus:
Coronavirus is preventable with homeopathy. Not only Coronavirus but any other epidemic can...

Elon Musk on Digging Big-Ass Tunnel: 'We Have No Idea What We’re Doing'

Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and...

:o

Online porn ‘produces the same amount of carbon emissions as all the households in France’
Russia Today

A new study brings a whole new...

The video below is 15 minutes long but you don't have to watch the whole thing. Just watch one minute, six seconds and turn it off. If you can.

You...

I don't know if there's much reason to be excited about this, but there are private efforts to develop nuclear fusion.

A fusion startup backed by...

Shown: Your Mom

Scientists have detected evidence for a colossal explosion in space - five times bigger than anything observed before Your Mom....

Sorry folks, not Earth. :)

Discovery of a Doomed Planet (NASA)

This hot jupiter is doomed. Hot jupiters are giant planets like Jupiter that orbit...

Just wondering if this is some kind of audiophile woo-woo or if he has a legitimate point:

Neil Young says done with streaming due to 'worst' sound...

I got tired of my new TV's stupid built in speakers--especially with dialog being too quiet compared to music and sound effects--and surrendered to...

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Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto
Science Daily

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Researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University, the Tokyo...

Salt water may periodically form on the surface of Mars
Mars Daily

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The process works as follows: a boulder sitting on the surface at...

I think we're about to enter a new era. Sort of like the Internet and smart phones and Google ushered in a new era in the 90s and aughts, we are...

This guy 8)

Pulsar-white dwarf binary system confirms general relativistic frame-dragging
Space Daily

A century after it was first theorized,...

Mosquitoes engineered to repel dengue virus
Science Daily

Summary:

Scientists have synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the...

AKA Is the Admiral a Pod Person?

The Navy Has Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident

The Pentagon has Top Secret-classified briefings...

I'm so happy there finally is some. :coolspecs:

I found this remarkably interesting video about a new design for a highway interchange. Just wanted to share it.

As some of you like to listen to podcasts:
Charles Darwin's 'Beagle Diary' was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in December 2006.

These mp3...

I figured this one could use its own thread. Seems pretty cool. I wonder how soon it will happen.

It says the video is 4K, if you have a display...

Energy Vault to build grid-level, gravity-fed battery from a tower of concrete blocks

Meeting our growing energy demands without continuing to...

Killer whale grandmothers boost survival of calves
Science Daily

New research finds that killer whale grandmothers who were no longer able to...

Back in the '90's, I used to restore antique radios from the late '30's and early forties. I did it as a hobby in my garage, mostly to get away from...

Very cool.

So, it's 13 years since we installed our gas central heating/hot water system based around a condensing boiler. While it's been fantastic to date,...

Linky

I'd like to say this guy missed his calling, he should have done stand up. Fuck the Nobel Prize in physics, let's do comedy. I've read Surely You're...

The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of Tech
The New York Times

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The bill, called the Algorithmic Accountability Act and...

I've always had an interest in carnivorous plants. When I was a wee lad, just starting out in my endeavors, I tried to use Gibberellic acid to delve...

:o

Pigs caught on video using tools for the first time
Science

Hoping maybe a mathematical thinker or two can devise something that works here.

I have a list of provider groups, each being given a certain...

Gotta wonder if this isn't a case of people counting a whole lot of chickens that haven't hatched yet. Sure, Tesla is much cooler than those old...

Here's an other wise PM to Doc X...

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Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
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The administration’s latest statement came after Russian media reports claimed dozens of medical workers had been exposed to radiation.

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(disclaimer: wife wanted HBO, we got HBO)

It's fucking really good, and the scenes about the 48 hours till doomsday is flat out one of the best ever...

Some Swiss are at it: .

Interestingly it uses waste heat. Let's just hope it can be competitive. They think yes, of course:

Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About the Origin of the Universe

Cosmologists are in the business of figuring out how and why we...

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

For purposes of this study, the planets they are including in this category are as follows:...

This idea is kinda cool, although there's too much history in the Gregorian Calendar to make it worth switching. But if we started history over from...

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