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(Wrong thread, but Moogs started it!)
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The diagram of the San Jose mine at the bottom makes it look diabolical. You couldn't pay me to work in a mine! |
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Yah, you'd think there would be other options (ranch hand, farming, construction, whatever). Maybe the pay is a lot better because of the risks. I think I'd rather be a miner than a skyscraper window-washer but that ain't saying much.
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Never ceases to amaze me how large those storms are.
Meantime, get you some new and improved SN1987A. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11184194 |
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It's true what John Bender said... the world is an imperfect place, (nuts) fall out all the time.
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Moon craters mapped in new detail.
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That is seriously cool.
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"Desktop Black Hole" research may confirm Hawking radiation, result in Nobel (via WIRED)
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And Genov of LTU sounds like a buzzkiller. |
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Pfff. Created a black hole in a lab and plugged a hole in astrophysical theories... is that all? Shit why don't these losers do something constructive with their lives?
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Pimp my Rover: Curiosity edition
Curiosity Cam: Activity resumes Monday 8am PDT/1500 UTC. Webcam videos of the wheels going on today. Other MSL Assembly clips when not live. NASA has another Send Your Name to Mars program. Click to add yours to the microchip for launch in 2011. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2010-10-23 at 10:52. Reason: Links fix |
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That is one funky lookin' rover mobile. What a cool project to be working on.
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Odds of Earthlike Exoplanet almost 1-in-4
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Hello Comet Hartley 2.
Nice Jets, dude. Add it to our library... now we've got closeups of 5... including a twofer from this one mission. EPOXI home page has original images and more Quote:
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The Sun.... seen through 13,000 km of Earth...by examining neutrinos.
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But even without fully understanding the physics, that pic is waaaaay cool. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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But I'll try to oblige with a heads-up on tomorrow's announcement. It's life, Jim... but not as we know it. *waves hand* NASA to announce new astrobiology odds based on discovery of new 'alien' life forms in arsenic pools on Earth NASA TV has a press conference to discuss the possible 'second genesis' scheduled for 1900 GMT Dec 2nd Quote:
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And I'll be humming The Firm tune all day. Exciting stuff. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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While you're waiting for the NASA TV webcast of the press conference on Arsenic-based lifeforms and astrobiological odds of finding ET, consider this...
Trillions of Earths may orbit Red Dwarfs in older galaxies Quote:
Six hours and change until the webcast about Aliens among us. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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If only it didn't take 25,000 years -traveling at the speed of light, which we can't do anything close to- to get half way across our own galaxy, some of this news would seem more uplifting. But it is cool nonetheless. I think our knowledge of the cosmos and how it is structured is still in its infant stages, sort of like science at the point where the molecule was discovered but we didn't know what those were made of, etc etc.
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I've met Felisa Wolfe-Simon, otherwise known as Iron Lisa, and she is a horrible horrible horrible person. Not evil, mind you, as far as I know, but certainly prone to self-promote to a level that makes her onerous to be around or near, or listening to, or having the concept that she exists.
I am glad her advisor's research panned out, but I really wish she didn't have anything to do with it... Edit: Seems the announcement is out -- it isn't really all that surprising and the evidence isn't that strong supporting the idea that this organism is completely new -- but basically some atoms of phosphorous in the bacteria's DNA have seemingly been replaced by arsenic, which has very similar properties to phosphorus... And that's all she wrote... Last edited by billybobsky : 2010-12-02 at 13:36. |
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BB, does this "arsenic-infused" DNA surprise you?
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I would have been more surprised if they had found a bacteria that couldn't live on phosphate but instead depended upon arsenic -- that would live up to the hype I have seen...
I am only slightly surprised that the organism is robust enough to handle high concentrations of arsenic, a notable poison, but this has less to do with the theory of how this would work (it is interesting to note that there are also bacteria for which sulfur can be replaced almost entirely with the toxic selenium to no great effect) than with how adaptable even the smallest organisms can be... Unfortunately, the announcement may be a little premature -- there is no evidence that the arsenic is in the DNA, and while I suspect it is, I would have liked if the researchers had proven it before making the announcement... |
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Felisa does seem really irritating.
Not a good presenter... poorly structured presentation. Even if it is interesting science, she detracts from it with a annoying and borderline frivolous style. As for the result... proof of the wider possibilities of life as we know it... and don't know it. Expands the range of habitats where life might be possible, and the biochemistry that might support life. Although I did appreciate Mary's Voytek's reference to Dark Evil and the Horta to illustrate "how big a deal this is" during the Q&A. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2010-12-02 at 19:55. |
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Just to throw in an additional two cents:
It is actually sounding increasingly likely that the DNA itself does not contain much (if any) arsenic. Other small molecules may. The problem comes from the fact that while arsenates can replace phosphates, their stability is much reduced, so for most DNA substitutions, you would expect an increased strand breakage rate, which can be deadly... |
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Not for exploration per se but an important aerospace technology demonstrator to be sure.
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I do think the most significant thing there is the fact that the craft was able to do reentry/land without human assistance.
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NASA also recently pulled some "space planes" out of storage to determine whether they'd be suitable for flight again.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010...d-space-plane/ Stuff like this needs to happen. It really seems as if the manned space industry is going to be heavily privatized in the future. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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..after being in orbit for 7 months. That part kind of shocked me for whatever reason even though I know it's not hard to keep something in orbit. I guess its the psychological aspect that it's a plane, steered by humans, etc coming back like the shuttle. Pretty bad ass.
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