The Cool Science Stuff Thread

[Bacigalupo]

"These fossils aren't very big."

"It's the cold."

"What do you mean?"

"Shrinkage."

http://www.livescience.com/16883-sa...cecom+(LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed)

 

[Bacigalupo]

Eww! Quick! Someone get a tiny fossilized newspaper!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/11/09/3-d-scan-of-spider-fossil-shows-a-hitchhiking-mite/

 

[islandman]

Interesting podcast with Neil Degrasse Tyson: http://www.nerdist.com/2011/11/nerdist-podcast-139-neil-degrasse-tyson/

 

[rosco rathbone]

The latest on a favorite sci fi trope of mine...vat grown meat.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Petri+dish+meat+coming+dinner+table/5701714/story.html

 

[Karen Kraft]

The latest on a favorite sci fi trope of mine...vat grown meat.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Petri+dish+meat+coming+dinner+table/5701714/story.html

http://youtu.be/9IKVj4l5GU4

 

[Bacigalupo]

Totally metal, dude.


http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/the_eiffel_tower_of_microarchi.html

 

[Bacigalupo]

Awww. It's Cutethulhu.

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/22/octopus-walks-on-land.html#disqus_thread

 

[rosco rathbone]

Excellent animated video of the new Mars probe. The robot is way larger than previous probe robots--about the size of a small car. The landing process looks extremely complicated and like many things could go wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o&feature=player_embedded

 

[rosco rathbone]

50 Quadcopters Will Autonomously Build Twenty Foot Tower

 

[rosco rathbone]

File under, "Skynet here we come"

http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/05/5-axis-robot-carves-metal-like-butter-video/

 

[islandman]

File under, "Skynet here we come"

http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/05/5-axis-robot-carves-metal-like-butter-video/

Right, that's sick!

 

[rosco rathbone]

Right, that's sick!

Self-repair and self-manufacture is a big part of the whole "robots take over the world" thing.

These short sighted young nerds, computer wizards and engineers keeping egging the Singularity on. It's almost as if they think they'll get special treatment.

 

[HB1965]

Earthlike Planet found orbiting at the right distance for life.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Earthlike Planet found orbiting at the right distance for life.

Just saw this. Too bad it's 600 light-years away.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Earthlike Planet found orbiting at the right distance for life.

That's neat.

 

[HB1965]

Just saw this. Too bad it's 600 light-years away.

That won't stop NASA from trying to check it out, LOL even if the probe takes 600 years to get there.

 

[Byron In Exile]

That won't stop NASA from trying to check it out, LOL even if the probe takes 600 years to get there.

Nothing but radio signals could travel there at light speed.

Light travels about 5.9 trillion miles per year.

So this planet, at 600 light-years away, is 3.5 quadrillion miles from earth.

Voyager 1 exited the solar system at 38,000 mph. The fastest man-made object is the Helios 2 solar probe at 157,000 mph. Let's be optimistic and say we could send a probe at 500,000 mph. At that speed, it would take 803,520 years to reach its destination (plus 600 years to receive the data from it).

It would be a complete waste of time and money to even attempt it.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Nothing but radio signals could travel there at light speed.

Light travels about 5.9 trillion miles per year.

So this planet, at 600 light-years away, is 3.5 quadrillion miles from earth.

Voyager 1 exited the solar system at 38,000 mph. The fastest man-made object is the Helios 2 solar probe at 157,000 mph. Let's be optimistic and say we could send a probe at 500,000 mph. At that speed, it would take 803,520 years to reach its destination (plus 600 years to receive the data from it).

It would be a complete waste of time and money to even attempt it.

Unless some sort of time-space bend or hole is employed.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Unless some sort of time-space bend or hole is employed.

A time-space bend might be useful, but I fear a hole might merely prove a distraction.

 

[Karen Kraft]

A time-space bend might be useful, but I fear a hole might merely prove a distraction.

Not at all !!!!

I find that things go much faster when a hole is fully employed.

 

[thør]

Deploy the hole!

 

[Karen Kraft]

Deploy the hole!

Always the best solution.

 

[thør]

Always the best solution.

And simple, too.

 

[Byron In Exile]

And simple, too.

Not as much fun, though, as sending two Litsters on an 800,000-year voyage to a new potentially habitable world.

Who would it be best to send?

 

[MonaLittle]

And simple, too.

Im just here to say hello to thor and give him a hug.

Thor!! *hug*