Breakthrough Prize
by Witness » Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:13 am
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Imperial mathematician scoops $3m Breakthrough Prize
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Announced in 2020, awarded in 2021
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Avian dinosaur wings
by Witness » Sun Jul 03, 2016 3:20 am
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Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber
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Dinosaurs had feathers and bat wings
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Megalodon
by ed » Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:17 pm
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Just cool
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The size of the teeth was well known:
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Correlation between earthquakes and solar activity?
by Anaxagoras » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:54 pm
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This headline seemed far-fetched to me, but it's in a respectable journal and the correlation does seem to be rather strong.
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Low solar activity and earthquakes, as well as volcanic activity have been strongly connected for a long time. It was considered ATM so most people...
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Flying-V
by Witness » Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:05 am
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The ‘Flying-V,’ a Fuel-Efficient Alternative to Jumbo Jets, Just Flew for the First Time
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Some other weird things, if you care:
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Something never seen before captured on video
by robinson » Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:07 am
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I love Twitter and that almost everyone in the world has a video recording device on them
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Back on topic
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How many deaths?
by ed » Mon May 04, 2020 10:56 am
This is a do it yourself project. Below I have computed average monthly deaths for the USA for the period 2012-2015. The red bars are standard...
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Germany to ban single use plastics by 2021
by Anaxagoras » Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:44 pm
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Germany to ban single use plastics by 2021
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I'm not sure if saran wrap is included in the definition. I assume it means things like plastic shopping bags, any kind of plastic packaging, plastic...
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A Battery of Bad News for Bruce
by asthmatic camel » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:54 am
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Durian Fruit shows promise in alternative battery research.
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Reminds me of one particular analyst that came up with the brilliant idea of derivatizing with butyric acid, which works great on paper, and if...
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What will your next car's technology use?
by Rob Lister » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:29 pm
Let Joe Scott Mansplain it to you, in:
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London Crane Collapse | Explained
by Rob Lister » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:07 pm
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Bow crane collapse: Killed woman was 'very caring'
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Optimist! :)
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This is beyond ridiculous
by robinson » Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:21 pm
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So last night I see tweets about Flo
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Just realized it was called Fay not Flo
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World’s pile of e-waste grows ever higher
by Rob Lister » Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:55 pm
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BERLIN (AP) — The world’s mountain of discarded flat-screen TVs, cellphones and other electronic goods grew to a record high last year, according to...
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Excellent!
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Railway anniversary
by Witness » Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:47 am
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The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public...
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Another Monet: Saint Lazare (station), same date:
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Plasma emitters
by Pyrrho » Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:04 pm
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Furnace folks want to sell me one to clean out dust, mold, and that COVID .
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I think the rep meant ion generator . There's a Plasma Air company that makes 'em.
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The White Roof Solution to Global Warming
by Anaxagoras » Thu May 28, 2009 5:59 am
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Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light-coloured...
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Damn
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Doomsday devices
by robinson » Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:24 pm
With out actually meaning to
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Roman roads on flood maps
by Witness » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:38 am
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Long-lost Roman roads discovered on flood maps: Hi-tech Lidar data reveals the route of 2,000-year-old highways across Britain
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It's actually pretty fucking cool how new tech, or new ways to use tech, expands our knowledge of the world. A similar thing was done in Central...
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Video stabilization
by Witness » Tue May 17, 2016 4:01 am
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You may want to turn the sound down.
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Drones changed how videos can be made
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Artemis (NASA moon mission)
by Anaxagoras » Wed Dec 25, 2019 3:40 am
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I figured this one could use its own thread. Seems pretty cool. I wonder how soon it will happen.
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It was pretty good at explaining 2 of the 3 legs. It utterly skipped the part about what they are going to do while they are there. It's okay, we...
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First SpaceX manned mission, May 30th (Sat)
by Anaxagoras » Mon May 25, 2020 11:43 am
At 4:33 PM, eastern time.
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Last post by Zombie Abdul Sun May 31, 2020 10:11 pm
Whoopsie!
by Pyrrho » Fri May 29, 2020 7:49 pm
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Fusion power (fission welcome too)
by Anaxagoras » Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:04 am
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I don't know if there's much reason to be excited about this, but there are private efforts to develop nuclear fusion.
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On 20 August 2019 ONR gave permission for reactor four at Hunterston B nuclear power station to restart, but only until December. The reactor had an...
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It's finally official, there actually are UFOs
by robinson » Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:24 am
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I've seen a few, but was always able to figure out what they were later. But this high tech video from advanced fighter jets, well, the old pilots...
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The Foo fighters of WWII, the nighttime illusions, ball lightning, blue sprites and red jets, the atmospheric electrical wired as fuck shit around...
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Wolfram's Theory of Everything
by Witness » Wed Apr 22, 2020 4:02 am
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Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…
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According to whois, it's a fellow named Joshua Levine in Occidental, CA. Email at ooaahh@yahoo.com.
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Solar Realities and the Electric Company
by Rob Lister » Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:42 pm
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First a counter-intuitive reality:
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Part of the problem is that electrical energy is very difficult to store. (In some places water is pumped uphill when the grid is idle, and used to...
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Tornadoes
by robinson » Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:18 am
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Tornadoes have always fascinated me. This close up footage of one is just astounding.
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Wound up in a totally real alert situation at home the other day. They've taken to distributing emergency instructions by texting people's phones,...
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