The Cool Science Stuff Thread


"Farnsworth is one of only 15 high-school students to ever achieve nuclear fusion, and the first person to do so in the state of Wyoming. "He made it using parts he ordered online, traded with other fusioneers and created himself," the Star-Tribune reported."

This is what I was thinking. Wyoming doesn't have an abundance of scientific geniuses that they can afford throwing them away willy-nilly.
 
Apparently you can't hack into a government super computer and the try to buy uranium without the department of homeland security tattling to your mother.
 
Lost World Locked in Stone at Fossil Lake

With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable — 50-million-year-old monitor lizards, stingrays and freakishly long-tailed turtles among them.

Fossil showed promise of becoming a train-stop city during America's westward expansion. The town's real golden age, however, may have been the early Eocene, when it was covered in a subtropical lake with an incredible diversity of aquatic life, surrounded by lush mountains and active volcanoes.
 
I had a huge dinner last night. I now realise √(-1/64)

From Jim Al-Khallili's Twitter feed.
 
This is a 1.33 gigapixel image from the Curiosity Rover. You can pan and zoom in. It's fantastic.

http://gigapan.com/gigapans/129480

Looks all, for lack of a better term, rendered. Not saying it is but it looks video gamey. Maybe the images are too crisp or something. Could be the planets surface, because of the monotoneish light, makes it look unreal.
 
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