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Summers are getting hotter

by Witness » Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:02 am

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To create the bell curves, Dr. Hansen and two colleagues compared actual summer temperatures for each decade since the 1980s to a fixed baseline...

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No way. #45 said Climate Change is a hoax...

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Sun Jul 30, 2017 5:46 pm
"Gaseous Elbow", smart toilet paper, and other tech jargon

by xouper » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:50 am

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After the invention of RollerBlades™ (inline roller skates), a new word was needed to refer to all those old style roller skates that are not inline...

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:LOL2:

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Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:23 am
Laser Weapon System

by Rob Lister » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:09 pm

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Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser

I know it's been deployed since 2014 but it is back in the news.

Has a 1 mile range....

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Saw that last night. I was thinking, wow. That's exactly how I pictured laser weapons of the future when I was a kid. 8)

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Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:05 am
Is Chipotle promoting food woo?

by Anaxagoras » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:48 am
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Chipotle will stop serving GMO foods — despite zero evidence they're harmful to eat

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

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Lol.
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Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:16 am
Gene drive and biowarfare

by Pyrrho » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:19 pm

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Well this is scary:

Gene drive is a molecular technique that slips a new gene into an organism and guarantees that it will be inherited by...

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Related:
Scientists synthesize smallpox cousin in ominous breakthrough

Scientists in Canada have used commercially available genetic material to...

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Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:43 am
Fields medal

by Witness » Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:28 am

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Won by a lady, Maryam Mirzakhani, hooray! The old dungeon crumbles…

But not everywhere:

standard picture:

retouched to preserve the...

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Maryam Mirzakhani will be remembered as a woman who broke glass ceilings in life and in death. In 2014, the Iranian mathematician became the first...

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Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:47 am
Hackers able to turbo-charge DJI drones way beyond what's legal

by xouper » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:24 am
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This one is for DJI drone owners who are also code monkeys, otherwise this article will either be amusing or incredibly boring.

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Hackers...

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What are the best drones for hacking?
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Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:44 am
World's largest super-soaker

by Pyrrho » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:17 am

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Cuts through watermelons.

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WATERMELONS?!!!!!

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Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:36 pm
your bitcoins may just vanish into the ether next month

by xouper » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:00 am

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I searched the forum for bitcoin and apparently there is some interest in this topic, so here's a recent news item:

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Don't panic, but...

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I have the new 64 bit bitcoins, so I'm soooooo much fucking better than everyone else. I shall remain unconcerned right up to and including the...

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Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:48 pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson Sucks

by Rob Lister » Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:05 pm
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I got to this via PZ Myers.

I'll note first that PZ tore into this guy as being an anti-intellectual reverse-snob, whatever the fuck that is.

But...

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SIN clearly won. :D
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Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:19 am
Spooky action achieved at record distance

by Witness » Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:30 am
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Quantum entanglement has moved out of this world and into space. In a study that shows China's growing mastery of both the quantum world...

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China’s quantum satellite adds two new tricks to its repertoire

A record-breaking quantum satellite has again blown away the competition, achieving...
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Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:11 am
New Iceberg

by ed » Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:18 pm

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Scientists confirmed Wednesday that a much anticipated break at the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has occurred, unleashing a massive iceberg that...

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He is on tour:

to bring Peace and Freedoms to all children!

--J.D.

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Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:18 am
Doomed again

by Witness » Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:11 am

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Abstract

The population extinction pulse we describe here shows, from a quantitative viewpoint, that Earth’s sixth mass extinction is more severe...

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Trumps fault? Or leftover Obama's fault? :BigGrin3:

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Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:19 am
Welcome to the Icelandic Phallological Museum

by Witness » Sun May 21, 2017 1:11 am

About the Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging...

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Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:13 am
Machine Learning for Dummies

by xouper » Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:47 am

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Billionaire Mark Cuban says never stop learning:
Here are the 2 things he is studying now
Catherine Clifford, Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017 | 1:53 PM ET...

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I am knowledgeable about the old ways . I regularly bore the whippersnappers. I am formidable with my recondite and useless knowledge.

I think I...

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Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:01 pm
The Population Bomb

by Anaxagoras » Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:17 am
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Overpopulated and
Underfed: Countries
Near a Breaking Point

By BILL MARSH JUNE 15, 2017

Mass migration, starvation, civil unrest: Overpopulation...

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:guitar: Tomayto/tomato

The rich could build a lot more golf courses if it weren't for all this riffraff mucking about.
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Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:05 am
Existence Proof -- xkcd gets one really really right.

by Abdul Alhazred » Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:08 pm

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8)

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Unless she's got red hair, legs that won't quit, and is fresh and young just out of college.

(Would have added appropriate NBL, but this fucking...

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Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:08 pm
EU courts don't need science when ruling on science

by Grammatron » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:05 pm

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The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of...

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Certainly efficient at ending obnoxious old women, thereby parting them from their wealth.

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Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:29 am
BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2017

by Anaxagoras » Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:03 pm

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Mildly interesting. Total energy use seems to be leveling off. CO2 emissions flat. Coal mining is really starting to decline. Especially in China....

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Interesting.

See what I get for assuming California is part of the United States? :BigGrin3:

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Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:42 pm
Paleo artist

by Witness » Wed May 31, 2017 1:55 am

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Zhao Chuang: Meet the man who brings dinosaurs to life

BEIJING (CNN) -- If you came to this Beijing warehouse at night it would be downright...

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Ray Troll. Yes that his real name.

Nice! (And it's not manga…)

Interesting photos too.

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Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:47 am
New Clouds

by Witness » Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:02 am

Twelve new types of cloud - including the rare, wave-like asperitas cloud - have been recognised for the first time by the International Cloud Atlas....

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Sat Jun 10, 2017 5:07 pm
Fuck Stephen Hawkin

by Rob Lister » Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:23 am
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Fuck him. Fuck the wheelchair he rode in on.

I'm sick of hearing about him and Ted Talks science shows.

If he were right here, right now, I'd kick...

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Worst thread ever
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Sat Jun 10, 2017 5:05 pm
Doomsday vault doomed

by Witness » Sat May 20, 2017 10:04 pm

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Well, not quite yet:
‘Doomsday’ seed vault meant to survive global disasters breached by climate change

The seed bank designed to preserve the...

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Were they expecting doomsday not to be hot? :roll:

It's a problem.

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Sat Jun 10, 2017 4:55 pm
Busting myths of origin

by Witness » Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:18 am

Interesting article in Science about DNA analysis. Excerpt:
Despite their tales of origin, most people are the mixed descendants of many migrations....

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Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:18 am
LIBBERUL "men" *look* like pussies!

by Abdul Alhazred » Sun May 28, 2017 5:02 pm

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THIS! IS! SCIENCE ! :coolspecs:

Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?
Evolution and Human Behavior...

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I just fucking love science!
-- Bill Nye

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Mon May 29, 2017 12:09 pm
The Future is Now

by Pyrrho » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:18 pm
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I got yer flying car right here:

If you still feel like you were somehow “promised” flying cars based on Popular Science magazine covers in the...

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Right up there with the 24 bit digital fireplace!
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Fri May 12, 2017 7:31 pm
Total eek-lips 2017

by Fid » Sat May 06, 2017 1:02 pm

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So what are you doing? I'm putting my telescope on the sidewalk and probably not blinding the kiddos.

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--J.D.

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Sat May 06, 2017 5:13 pm
A TRUE scientific mystery

by Witness » Wed May 03, 2017 12:17 pm

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Paleodictyon is a pattern, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early...

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Fossilized beehive?

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Wed May 03, 2017 1:07 pm
Tired of primping in front of a mirror for hours until you look just right?

by Abdul Alhazred » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:40 pm

Great new technology for you FOR SALE NOW.

:lmao:

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Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:25 am
Ben-Gurion U. researchers develop membranes that remove viruses from drinking water

by Abdul Alhazred » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:49 pm

Ben-Gurion U. researchers develop membranes that remove viruses from drinking water
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Press...

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Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:49 pm
NASA releases new Night Lights images

by Rob Lister » Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:03 pm

The last time they did this was 2002.

The first thing I checked was if Dark Korea got any better.

Nope.

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Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:03 pm
Atomic friggin bombs

by Fid » Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:49 pm
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Lawrence Livermore Labs release videos of previously classified videos of bomb tests. Simultaneously horrifying and Wow how fucking cool is that.
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Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:39 pm
Interesting safety videos endless thread.

by Abdul Alhazred » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:32 pm

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I'll kick things off with this one. 8)

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I never saw that video, but I sure remember peacetime air raid drills.

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Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:44 pm
Hubble spots auroras on Uranus

by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:26 pm

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Hubble spots auroras on Uranus
Science Daily

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have...

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:MuhammadBoom:

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Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:31 pm
Theological Physics

by Witness » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:08 am

In search for unseen dark matter, physicists turn to shadow realm

Scientists hunting unseen dark matter are looking deeper into the shadows. With...

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Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:08 am
A sensible royal...

by asthmatic camel » Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:50 am

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Princess Anne comes out strongly in favour of GM, no doubt infuriating her brother.

Princess Anne has said genetically-modified crops have...

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I want to know what happened to asthmatic .

FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!

--J.D.

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Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:28 pm
lifelong low-dose radiation may be good for you

by Rob Lister » Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:58 pm

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It's just two related animal studies. There may be others of which I'm not aware.

tl;dr: Some radiation may be good for you. Statistically...

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It's distasteful and disgusting, but we have to know.

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Sat Mar 18, 2017 4:12 pm
Flight simulator

by Witness » Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:55 am

The fan is a nice touch.

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Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:55 am
Never mind the microwave snitching on you ...

by Abdul Alhazred » Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:29 pm

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Vibrator users will receive $10,000 each after company tracked their sexual activity
Market Watch

These sex toy customers are happy, but not for...

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Aha! The conclusion of .

:mrgreen:

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Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:03 am
The 1970s have arrived!

by Abdul Alhazred » Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:48 pm

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NASA wind tunnel tests Lockheed Martin X-Plane concept
Space Daily

Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality ......

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No, no they are not.

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Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:46 pm
Faster gait

by Witness » Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:06 am

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Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:01 am
Portable kneeling desk

by Pyrrho » Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:22 pm

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When you're working from wherever

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:P
Anyway, True Believers TM need no desk to kneel! :bishop:

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Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:27 am
Lies, Damned Lies, and Win Probabilities

by Doctor X » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:11 pm

Not sure where to put this. Loved the picture:

The article is a math-allergic friendly discussion of the problems with probabilities and...

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Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:11 pm
Deep-sea pollution

by Witness » Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:09 am

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Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in the deepest ocean fauna

The legacy and reach of anthropogenic influence is most clearly...

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The Earth is big.

But not infinitely so.

Our shit is literally catching up with us.

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Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:15 am
NuScale Nuclear

by Rob Lister » Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:58 pm

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NuScale’s advanced light-water reactor, are designed to be deployed as multiple-module power plants.

In paractice, each 50 MW NuScale module is...

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And we both know what the answer to all this shit is: LFTR.

Not Yet Ready For Prime Time. Plumbing is an issue with liquid metal. But if we get...

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Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:58 pm
A supervolcano is waking up

by Anaxagoras » Thu Dec 22, 2016 4:34 am
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Interesting science story, thought I'd pass it along:

A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it’s stirring again....

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I don't understand that chart. What's it supposed to be showing? If it's just the black line that matters and the things above and below are error...
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Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:33 pm
Benoît Mandelbrot

by Witness » Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:19 am

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Of fractal fame. Interview shortly before his death:

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Closely related to the Mandelbrot set are the Julia sets, studied by Gaston Julia , long before computers (i. e. by hand, without any visualization...

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Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:31 am
The Firehose of Lava!!!!

by ed » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:21 pm

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Wowie Zowie

From an exposed tube in a sea cliff of a volcano near the island of Hawaii, hundreds of millions of gallons of lava have been streaming...

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It's a little known fact but back in the day, women called me The Fire Hose .. just sayin'

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Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:12 pm
Litchi killers

by Witness » Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:35 am

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Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

Background...

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If you're going to eat something that looks like testicles, then pick something that reeeeeally looks like testicles.

:HoppingMad: :HoppingMad2:...

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Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:46 am
Asteroid mining

by Bruce » Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:54 pm
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It's going to become a thing. For real. Hell, there might even be wars fought over the loot.

She said, 16 Psyche is the only known object of its...

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Nanotechnology/von Neumann machines may make it viable at some point in the future but we're a long, long way away from that right now. Makes for...
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Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:26 pm

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