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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...

At 4:33 PM, eastern time.

SpaceX Is About to Launch Two Astronauts Into Space in a Historic First

In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But...

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...

Media incorrectly connects UH research to parallel universe theory
Science Daily

Media outlets from around the world used research out of the...

:D

Would you like to see some graphs?

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...

I've seen a few, but was always able to figure out what they were later. But this high tech video from advanced fighter jets, well, the old pilots...

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...

The drone thing is a whole nother issue

But the tech

Wow

“Someone with a fever stands out in a crowd”

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber

Two tiny wings entombed in amber reveal that plumage (the layering, patterning, coloring, and...

Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…
and It’s Beautiful

It’s unexpected, surprising—and for me incredibly exciting. To...

Because nothing resolves an issue like a bunch of mostly amateurs arguing on an obsolete social media platform in a forgotten corner of the internet....

Found it interesting. Probably old hat but not to me.
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This is a do it yourself project. Below I have computed average monthly deaths for the USA for the period 2012-2015. The red bars are standard...

First a counter-intuitive reality:

Conventional wisdom says that if you put solar panels on your roof in the Northern Hemisphere, you should point...

Tornadoes have always fascinated me. This close up footage of one is just astounding.

Note that this is purely hypothetica l. I will not be taking any of the following opinion into account personally.
...yet. :wink:

Chipotle will stop serving GMO foods — despite zero evidence they're harmful to eat

Chipotle Wants to Sell “Food With Integrity.” Dropping GMOs Is...

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

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

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,...

Cool accomplishment

For the first time ever, a robotic spacecraft caught an old satellite and extended its life

A small spacecraft built by...

Famous British mathematician John Horton Conway passed on April 11

John Horton Conway famous British Mathematician, the John von Neuman Professor...

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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...

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupts, shooting ash and lava
NY Post

A famed Indonesian volcano whose last great eruption in December 2018...

This guy 8)

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

A century after it was first theorized,...

What my company is doing is adapting antibodies to recognize and neutralize the novel coronavirus. So this would ... sort of skipping what a vaccine...

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...

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...

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...

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...