The Cool Science Stuff Thread

[phrodeau]

i read earlier that it was cruise and musk now it seems it's nasa and cruise with musk.... uh.... helping out?

It’s breaking news, which is an unfortunate choice of words for NASA.

 

[Rotadom]

It’s breaking news, which is an unfortunate choice of words for NASA.

Are you saying that NASA is blowing up their own news?

 

[Dribble]

Are you saying that NASA is blowing up their own news?

I will say it...how far the once mighty have fallen

 

[Bas_van_Fraassen]

Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hiding in plain sight

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-closest-black-hole-earth-hiding-plain-sight#

 

[FL30]

Relative rotations of the planets

https://imgur.com/gallery/Ug0baPN

 

[FL30]

Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hiding in plain sight

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-closest-black-hole-earth-hiding-plain-sight#

25 years of star orbits describe the black hole at the centre of our galaxy

https://imgur.com/gallery/oi9A834

 

[LLCox]

Mars helicopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=0RQWv1ybsjM&feature=emb_logo

 

[FL30]

Mystery of snails with iron shells that live in volcanos

https://imgur.com/gallery/0nyFI4G

 

[FL30]

what Astronauts see when reentering Earth's atmosphere

https://imgur.com/gallery/PTvskH2

 

[Sean]

The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble

 

[FL30]

This week in science

https://imgur.com/gallery/e4EcuW0

 

[LLCox]

Mars so needs to be colonised

Mankind is going to have to find a faster way to get anywhere in space or we may arrive blind.

https://www******.com/14876-astronaut-spaceflight-vision-problems.html

 

[thør]

ORNL is printing out reactor cores.

 

[LLCox]

"Electricity will be so cheap you will not even need a meter."

 

[LLCox]

The future is now.

Start at the 3 min. mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv9hHYrItzc


This doesn't get old for me.

 

[Saint Peter]

ORNL is printing out reactor cores.

How many hours did it take? Article does not say. Why does the article not say how long it took?

WE KNOW WHY!

 

[Sean]

I'd love to be able to print with stainless. I'd be fabricating entire fucking engines.

 

[FlowersForFun]

I'd love to be able to print with stainless. I'd be fabricating entire fucking engines.

With stainless?

Be a shitty fucking engine.

Billet 6061 aluminum block with ductile iron sleeves and forged steel internals will do ya better for less weight.

 

[thør]

How many hours did it take? Article does not say. Why does the article not say how long it took?

WE KNOW WHY!

Hey, the ORNL people need some press to keep the funding stream coming.

I very much enjoyed working with folk from ORNL.

 

[FL30]

spiders can fly

https://imgur.com/gallery/UHrOjcs

 

[FL30]

recycled homes

https://imgur.com/gallery/MX05lAu

I've seen stuff like this before, there are some in Arizona, too

 

[phrodeau]

https://imgur.com/gallery/UHrOjcs

I learned that from “Charlotte’s Web”.

 

[thør]

If you're interested in know about the National Renewable Energy Lab, there is a Webinar next week.

 

[FL30]

University of Michigan recovering a 15000 years old Woolly Mammoth

https://imgur.com/gallery/7RQTzoO

 

[FL30]

do ants poop?

https://imgur.com/gallery/OCq7UIv