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I mean, how can a species that built a super collider, explored dark matter, sailed to mars and beyond, and become their own god of genetics, face the possibility of said species making Donald Trump the head of perhaps the main superpower?
Perhaps we're not wise enough for the knowledge we're mastering.
I wish we were wiser than we are smart.
 
pensivepoet said:
I mean, how can a species that built a super collider, explored dark matter, sailed to mars and beyond, and become their own god of genetics, face the possibility of said species making Donald Trump the head of perhaps the main superpower?
Perhaps we're not wise enough for the knowledge we're mastering.
I wish we were wiser than we are smart.
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The Yin and the Yang.
 
LEGO, for grownups

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A new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, WISE, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey, or 2MASS, provides new clues in this mystery of galactic proportions. Scientists have identified a free-floating, planetary-mass object within a young star family, called the TW Hydrae association. The newfound object, termed WISEA J114724.10−204021.3, or just WISEA 1147 for short, is estimated to be between roughly five to 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

WISEA 1147 is one of the few free-floating worlds where astronomers can begin to point to its likely origins as a brown dwarf and not a planet. Because the object was found to be a member of the TW Hydrae family of very young stars, astronomers know that it is also very young -- only 10 million years old. And because planets require at least 10 million years to form, and probably longer to get themselves kicked out of a star system, WISEA 1147 is likely a brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs form like stars but lack the mass to fuse atoms at their cores and shine with starlight.

"With continued monitoring, it may be possible to trace the history of WISEA 1147 to confirm whether or not it formed in isolation," said Adam Schneider of the University of Toledo in Ohio, lead author of a new study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
 
(CNN)The largest scientific experiment has gone offline because of a foreign intruder.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest particle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland, lost power Friday. Engineers who were investigating the outage made a grisly discovery -- the charred remains of a weasel, CERN spokesman Arnaud Marsollier told CNN.
The little critter gnawed through a 66-kilovolt transformer inside an electrical facility outside the main building. Just for perspective, one kilovolt is 1,000 volts of energy.
 
Even more interesting, if you were to stand on Mercury on certain days, you would actually see the sun retrograde in the sky. It would rise and then reverse and set, and then rise again all within the same day. This also is caused by Mercury’s speedy orbit — the planet is trekking around the sun faster than it’s spinning on its axis.
 
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