The Cool Science Stuff Thread

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Are Ancient Phallic Objects ... Exactly What They Look Like?​

The field has long shied away from describing artifacts as sexual. But things may finally be changing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...-sex-toy-history-archaeology-research/673548/

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Paywalled, sadly.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Paywalled, sadly.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www...-sex-toy-history-archaeology-research/673548/

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[Misshotndeep]

No clue why I find the length of owls legs under their feathers so fascinating….

 

[Misshotndeep]

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

https://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/morning_picdump-48.jpg

 

[thør]

 

[aussiegeekygal]

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Bahahahaha this is gold.

 

[jarigi]

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No clue why I find the length of owls legs under their feathers so fascinating….

What else are they hiding??????

 

[Mrtenant]

Here they come. Work replacements. Because we can, goddamit!

We are so screwed

General Purpose Robot Worker

 

[Trubbycat]

Here they come. Work replacements. Because we can, goddamit!

We are so screwed

General Purpose Robot Worker

It’s a race to the bottom. Why pay an American worker 40 bucks an hour when you can offshore it to India or Viet Nam for a minute fraction of that, and when they get too expensive find an even poorer country or bring in the robots. The execs somehow always wind up with more money.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

https://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/daily_picdump-44-10.jpg

 

[Mrtenant]

Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact

https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/050623_cephalopods_feat-1440x700.jpg

Interesting article about how cephalopods rewrite their RNA with respect to their environment. In some ways, it keeps them from evolving, in others, its a fascianting adaptive tool or reflex, or whatever. They're Kinda weird, but I like them.

 

[Strixaluco]

Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact

https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/050623_cephalopods_feat-1440x700.jpg

Interesting article about how cephalopods rewrite their RNA with respect to their environment. In some ways, it keeps them from evolving, in others, its a fascianting adaptive tool or reflex, or whatever. They're Kinda weird, but I like them.

They are very weird - in a fascinating way.

 

[butters]

this blew my mind, mainly because i really can't understand a whole lot of it beyond the most basic, layman terms... but it sounds super interesting:
it involves Einstein, Podolsky & Rosen, Heisenberg, Schrödinger's cat, quantum stuff, the defying of the speed of light.

Physicists Conduct The Most Massive Test Ever of The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox​

EPR paradox, therefore, is complex. When you measure one particle in an entangled system, that measurement somehow influences the other particle, even though the measurement isn't taking place locally.

You also know more about the particles than is allowed under the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. And somehow, that influence happens instantaneously, defying the speed of light.

Colciaghi, Li, and their physicist colleagues Philipp Treutlein and Tilman Zibold, also of the University of Basel, generated two Bose-Einstein condensates using two clouds, each consisting of 700 atoms of rubidium-87. They separated these condensates spatially by up to 100 micrometers and measured the properties.

They measured the quantum properties of the condensates known as pseudospins, independently choosing which value to measure for each cloud.

They found that the two condensates' properties seemed to be correlated in a way that could not be attributed to random chance, demonstrating the EPR paradox holding firm at a much larger scale than previous Bell tests.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...&cvid=84606b357a2643a38981a0b15b65cda5&ei=133

 

[Mrtenant]

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[Misshotndeep]

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[Mrtenant]

https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/

Send your name to Europa in 2024. Pretty simple.

 

[Mrtenant]

North Texas area has some fairly unusual weather sometimes. This is from a recent hailstorm about 45 minutes from my house.
Softball sized spikey hail. Don't get caught outdoors when these happen.

 

[Trubbycat]

North Texas area has some fairly unusual weather sometimes. This is from a recent hailstorm about 45 minutes from my house.
Softball sized spikey hail. Don't get caught outdoors when these happen.
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That would hurt.

 

[Mrtenant]

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I wanna see that in my local botanical garden!

 

[Trubbycat]

https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/

Send your name to Europa in 2024. Pretty simple.

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My stepmother is good hearted but not the greatest at present giving. This reminds me of the time in 1999 she got the family placques informing us our names were on the Milennium Wall in New Zealand.

 

[Trubbycat]

I wanna see that in my local botanical garden!

Would they have a Ladies Night?

 

[Mrtenant]

My stepmother is good hearted but not the greatest at present giving. This reminds me of the time in 1999 she got the family placques informing us our names were on the Milennium Wall in New Zealand.

My family has their names on a Mars orbiter and Solar explorer. NASA usually has a print out for certificates for these things. Its a small gift for them. Not meant to be huge or anything, just different

The Millenium Wall would be cool.