Space News
by Witness » Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:45 am
Nokia secures $14.1m NASA funding to roll out 4G on the Moon
Nokia is teaming up with NASA to ensure that the new wave of lunar astronauts will be...
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Wind Turbines
by ed » Mon Apr 23, 2018 11:13 am
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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...
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Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as...
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Amusing Science
by Witness » Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:54 am
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Viagra makes flowers stand up straight
Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers...
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An unusual view:
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Power Saver Plugs (and other frauds)
by Rob Lister » Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:33 pm
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Here's a scam that I haven't seen here but apparently there's a big market in the UK.
Saving Energy : According to customer habbit and...
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smooth AC with a capacitor?
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Last post by ed Tue Jan 19, 2021 12:36 pm
hyperloop
by Rob Lister » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:05 pm
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Inside the Hyperloop: the pneumatic travel system faster than the speed of sound
It is called “The Hyperloop” and, according to the designer, it...
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Still bilking millions for millions.
Joe Scott does an update.
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Cool astronomy photos
by Anaxagoras » Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:11 am
I really love this one of the Carina Nebula :
Bigger sizes here and related story here .
I have this as my wallpaper now. The colors are just...
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Last post by Witness Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:59 pm
Humans Need Not Apply
by Rob Lister » Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:23 am
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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...
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Facial recognition reveals political party in troubling new research
Researchers have created a machine learning system that they claim can...
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Last post by Witness Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:38 am
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
by Pyrrho » Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:13 pm
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Thread devoted to the various vaccines in development. Here's a good reference.
Graphic 'splainer that illustrates just how remarkably fast the...
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The Trump Administration Was Just Kidding When It Said It Had Tons More Vaccine Doses to Ship Out (It Has Zero)
Surprise: Team Trump has royally...
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Last post by Witness Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:05 pm
T3H Official Net Neutrality Thread and Poll
by gnome » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:52 pm
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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....
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If it helps, I haven't changed my mind just because people I voted for are gaining power. Net neutrality would mean that you don't have to play ball...
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Last post by gnome Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:00 am
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
by ed » Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:12 am
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In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only...
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I don't buy it either.
A (very rough) calculation shows that, in our vicinity, stars are so far away from each other that the volume you can assign...
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Scientific fraud? Or political nonsense? Evidences
by robinson » Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:15 am
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Scientific fraud? Or political nonsense? Something else?
I became a skeptic in Feb 2010.
Why? What does that even mean?
Inspired by
Skeptic of...
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On a slightly related matter:
Egg on Their Faces: 10 Climate Alarmist Predictions for 2020 That Went Horribly Wrong
Scientists discover Arctic...
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Last post by xouper Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:16 am
Fukushima one year on
by sparks » Wed May 16, 2012 8:01 pm
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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...
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Japan puts off decision to release treated Fukushima water into sea
Storage tanks for radioactive water are lined up at the tsunami-crippled...
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Last post by robinson Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:22 am
Deepfake
by ed » Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:05 pm
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Discuss
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Point is that it is pretty good now and will get to be far better in 6 months.
That means sans independent verification, you can trust NOTHING
Even...
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How to stop virus
by robinson » Sun Dec 20, 2020 4:39 pm
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Stop infected people from transmitting it.
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How do know who is sick?
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Olbers paradox
by robinson » Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:59 pm
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Why do we not observe any of the obscuring dust ever glowing as bright as the stars the dust obscures?
And yes, this has been splained many times,...
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Both the high energy photons, and most of the infrared are absorbed by our atmosphere
Most of the visible from distant stars is absorbed by cosmic...
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Last post by robinson Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:46 pm
Google Self-Driving Car Accident Reports
by Rob Lister » Sun Jun 07, 2015 11:35 am
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Google is now publishing a summary of all accidents in which its self-driving have been involved.
Easy to read; fairly easy to understand. They...
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Uber sells off its money-losing self-driving car business:
Uber sells its self-driving unit to Aurora
Bottom line is they are giving up.
Not...
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Last post by Rob Lister Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:37 am
Climate Change/Global Warming Hysteria with graphs!
by robinson » Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:54 pm
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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...
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And here is what it looks like now
The alarmists has no problem when faced with reality bitch slapping them in the face. They just adjust the...
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Relativity puzzle
by Witness » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:23 pm
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A lab and its two equidistant mirrors (M 1 and M 2 ) moves to the right with speed v. There is also an outside observer at rest .
Inside the lab...
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I think you're letting yourself be trolled Witness. I'll admit that I just don't know how to do the math.
Made me laugh. Hint: I don't interact...
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Last post by Witness Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:01 am
Why is it so hot?
by Witness » Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:59 am
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Present situation:
For the US:
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Nature is a mystery
:D
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Last post by robinson Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:46 am
Electric truck
by Witness » Wed Nov 30, 2016 3:55 am
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Just so Rob can bitch some more… :twisted:
Designed by the former Chief Designer of Isuzu’s commercial truck division, Steve Jennes, now Chief...
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Nikola Motor reveals it received subpoenas from DOJ, SEC
Washington, DC (CNN)Nikola Motor Company, a manufacturer of electric and fuel cell trucks,...
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The speed of an object on the equator of the earth
by robinson » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:35 am
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This is an old one. It never goes well, because it makes you have to think, and that is fucking anethama, especially if you already dislike the...
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Of course we are!
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Water found on the moon
by gnome » Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:28 pm
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Independent.co.uk article
Apparently something is allowing water to be sustained even in sunlit areas, which has implications for the practicality...
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They found water
Independent.co.uk article
Apparently something is allowing water to be sustained even in sunlit areas, which has implications...
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Starlink is Live
by Rob Lister » Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:27 am
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I signed up. I'm sure it will be at least another year before anyone actually has the service but I do like to be in the loop!
U.S Customers...
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Yet another today, all went well,
Yawn.
I think there are 800 sats now humming about up there. Full scale beta testing begins
I signed up to...
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Last post by Rob Lister Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:54 pm
Room temperature superconductivity achieved
by Witness » Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:17 pm
Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride
Abstract
One of the long-standing challenges in experimental physics is the...
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It was 40 years ago today
by robinson » Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:06 pm
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I discovered something quite amazing, from a physics POV
Like many “ignorant how the world actually works” people, I thought I should carefully...
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And I would give 1000 to one odds as well
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RIP Vaughan Jones
by Witness » Sun Oct 04, 2020 1:34 am
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Vaughan Jones (1952–2020)
Mathematician whose invention connected knots to quantum physics.
In 1994, mathematician Vaughan Jones walked on stage...
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Too deep. Upside-down grain silo deep.
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Coronavirus, Global warming, and impeaching the sources
by robinson » Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:24 pm
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Over in some other topic about some virus we don't really know much about, I realized after making a comment about it (see below)
I think everybody...
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Of course there is. In fact, the history of science is full of examples where a vested interest, or religious/crazy belief systems try to impeach...
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Last post by robinson Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:50 am
New Ice Age Coming?
by Anaxagoras » Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:02 am
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Now with more :cowbell:
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Deniers aren’t happy with history, because even historic events and data doesn’t support their beliefs about nature.
I call them “alarm ringers”...
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Breakthrough Prize
by Witness » Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:13 am
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Imperial mathematician scoops $3m Breakthrough Prize
Professor Sir Martin Hairer is the single winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in...
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Announced in 2020, awarded in 2021
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Last post by robinson Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:28 pm
Avian dinosaur wings
by Witness » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:20 am
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Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber
Two tiny wings entombed in amber reveal that plumage (the layering, patterning, coloring, and...
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Dinosaurs had feathers and bat wings
The more we learn the more we know almost everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs was wrong
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Megalodon
by ed » Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:17 pm
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Just cool
Thought the shark from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was scary? Think again. For the first time, researchers have determined the 2D body...
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The size of the teeth was well known:
And here's a reconstruction of the jaws:
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Correlation between earthquakes and solar activity?
by Anaxagoras » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:54 pm
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This headline seemed far-fetched to me, but it's in a respectable journal and the correlation does seem to be rather strong.
On the correlation...
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Low solar activity and earthquakes, as well as volcanic activity have been strongly connected for a long time. It was considered ATM so most people...
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Last post by robinson Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:15 pm
Flying-V
by Witness » Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:05 am
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The ‘Flying-V,’ a Fuel-Efficient Alternative to Jumbo Jets, Just Flew for the First Time
A scaled version of the V-Wing made its first flight,...
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Some other weird things, if you care:
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