Antibody treatment?
by ed » Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:22 pm
What my company is doing is adapting antibodies to recognize and neutralize the novel coronavirus. So this would ... sort of skipping what a vaccine...
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The prognosis
by ed » Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:35 pm
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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...
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That was funny. I like him.
My crystal ball sez we're going to see a baby boom in 9 months.
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Homeopathy and Corona Virus
by ed » Fri Feb 14, 2020 11:49 am
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Homeopathy Prevention (Genus Epidemicus) for Coronavirus:
Coronavirus is preventable with homeopathy. Not only Coronavirus but any other epidemic can...
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Alex Jones Is Peddling Toothpaste That He Falsely Says Kills Coronavirus
Jones told listeners on his “Infowars” program Tuesday that silver-infused...
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What the hell is Musk up to now?
by Anaxagoras » Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:23 am
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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...
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Musk is working on a new way to test for Wuhan flu virus
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Biggest Bang Observed Since . . . Your Mom!
by Doctor X » Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:30 am
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Shown: Your Mom
Scientists have detected evidence for a colossal explosion in space - five times bigger than anything observed before Your Mom....
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Apparently they can.
I use to be able to understand it except, you know, math.
– J.D.
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Last post by Zombie Abdul Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:39 am
Is Neil Young right about sound quality?
by Anaxagoras » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:57 am
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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...
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“Devastating” Manufacturing Plant Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Supply
Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell says the destruction of Apollo...
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Last post by Witness Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:49 am
Audio woes
by gnome » Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:57 am
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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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Update again:
The settings that worked best on the cheap 3.0 soundbar performed about exactly as well as the better quality 2.0 soundbar, so now I'm...
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The Genetic Engineering Thread
by Anaxagoras » Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:08 am
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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...
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Life will find a way.
And Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop.
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US Navy & UFO's
by ed » Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:38 am
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...
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Traffic science
by Anaxagoras » Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:48 pm
I found this remarkably interesting video about a new design for a highway interchange. Just wanted to share it.
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Last post by Zombie Abdul Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:35 pm
Darwin's Beagle diary
by Witness » Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:37 am
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...
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Last post by Witness Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:37 am
Concrete battery
by Anaxagoras » Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:24 am
Energy Vault to build grid-level, gravity-fed battery from a tower of concrete blocks
Meeting our growing energy demands without continuing to...
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Antique Radios
by Rob Lister » Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:43 pm
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...
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Last post by Zombie Abdul Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:17 pm
Invisibility Cloak
by Rob Lister » Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:22 am
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Very cool.
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A True Cloaking Device™ :
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Richard Feynman
by Rob Lister » Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:35 pm
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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...
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:De_Bunk:
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Carnivorous plants
by ed » Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:36 am
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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...
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Grow Carnivorous Plants.
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I need a formula!
by gnome » Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:28 pm
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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...
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e=mc 2
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Tesla worth more than GM or Ford now
by Anaxagoras » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:34 am
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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...
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I didn't click the link, how did the fire start? Or why did a fire start?
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Last post by solely Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:28 am
Since PM'ing seems to be fucked up...
by sparks » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:09 pm
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iphone 11
by Rob Lister » Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:20 pm
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Probably more politics than science, but even so
by robinson » Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:49 am
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The administration’s latest statement came after Russian media reports claimed dozens of medical workers had been exposed to radiation.
Reports...
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But that is no reason to stop caring
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Anyone watching the Chernobyl mini series on HBO?
by robinson » Wed May 22, 2019 10:34 pm
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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...
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It just was not a thermonuculer explosion.
I think it would have been especially difficult for a fission reactor to create a thermonuclear...
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Capturing CO2
by Witness » Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:35 am
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Some Swiss are at it: .
Interestingly it uses waste heat. Let's just hope it can be competitive. They think yes, of course:
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Actually the smoky part is really condensation or cloud which form under certain conditions. The spooky part is the clouds are very small and...
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Theological dispute
by Witness » Sat May 13, 2017 5:14 pm
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...
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Alternative Calendar
by Anaxagoras » Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:57 am
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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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12 months of 30 days each. The 5 (or 6, depending on leap year machinery) remaining given to booze & hookers.
Having 6 days weeks would...
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Lightsail
by Witness » Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:49 pm
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LightSail 2 successfully demonstrates solar sailing
It shows that satellites can use the Sun to propel themselves.
LightSail 2 is faring much...
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I'm unimpressed. But sadly so.
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Project ITER
by Nyarlathotep » Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:29 pm
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I hope this can be pulled off. Apparently construction has begun on an experimental commercial scale fusion reactor , and more importantly one that...
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Biofuels!!11 Good Gawd!
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Feigenbaum dead
by Witness » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:15 am
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Interesting bio:
Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist, Dies at 74; He Made Sense of Chaos
Which you can read here: .
To mathematicians (and perhaps...
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I presume he is Jewish. Which conjures up the Nazi notion of Jewish Physics as opposed to Aryan Physics . Some discussion here
How 2 Pro-Nazi...
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Debunking Bad Science
by Doctor X » Fri May 31, 2019 4:15 am
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Say what you will about Thunderf00t --he goes on and on, has agenda, get a hair cut you hippy! --he does very good Bad Science Debunkage.
Perfectly...
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--J.D.
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TV
by ed » Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:12 pm
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Samsung. Who knows TVs?
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You're on! I'll have to arrange the vacation time, just let me know when. 80 is what you're looking for, right?
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Last post by sparks Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:47 pm
Self-driving car updates
by Rob Lister » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:48 pm
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Self-driving cars should be liable for accidents, not the passengers—UK gov’t
Where the manufacturer is found to be liable, the insurer will be...
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ed, the NYC models will have a more aggressive heuristic learning algorithm to make up for the ... challenges ... of NYC driving.
Then, when they...
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Circular runways
by Pyrrho » Sun Apr 02, 2017 2:26 pm
The main feature of the circular runway is that it will become possible to let an aircraft operate always at landing and take-off with headwind....
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