Dated a girl in HS who is working on this project. Cool to see some FB posts and updates from her on it every now and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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Dated a girl in HS who is working on this project. Cool to see some FB posts and updates from her on it every now and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
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Good news for you young skiers who will be aging skiers by the time this comes on line.Quote:
Originally Posted by powpig
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Originally Posted by Dantheman
This. Humanity will change in ways we can't even dream of at the moment.
It really is the change we need for the world to make big progress quickly. Cheap unlimited clean energy for everybody everywhere will change literally everything.
I'm 70 years old. Fusion has been just around the corner since I was in high school.
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/10/29/wn...l-checkerspot/
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Utah startup WNDR Alpine has replaced the polluting, petroleum-based plastics usually used to wrap wooden skis with algae-based bioplastics that make them "more predictable, stable and durable".
That company was started by Matt Sterbenz who founded 4FRNT Skis before he sold it. He also has Pep Fujas on the team. Touring-oriented shapes mostly. Pretty cool stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy lengthens telomeres and decreases senescent T cells in adults aged 64 and older
https://www.sciencealert.com/oxygen-...-s-aging-cells
Neutrinos from carbon-nitrogen-oxygen fusion detected for the first time
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...verse-n1248982
High levels of phosphine on Venus looking less likely
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/p...phosphine-data
The Royal Institution is hosting an online lecture on pattern seeking tomorrow. Free but donations encouraged. Here is the description.
https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events...attern-seekersQuote:
From the first musical instrument to the digital revolutions, what is the unique ability that has driven human progress for 70,000 years?
In this talk, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory. From his book ‘The Pattern Seekers’ he discusses how humans can identify patterns, specifically ‘if-and-then’ patterns.
By linking one of our greatest human strengths with a condition that is so often misunderstood, Simon challenges us to think differently about those who think differently.
8-mile long ice age rock art panel discovered in the Amazon
https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-...rt-amazon.html
RIP Arecibo :(
https://apnews.com/article/technolog...f0c752348e712e
The handprints are amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Very interesting documentary on SR-71 Blackbird...
https://www.kcet.org/shows/blackbird...-of-innovation
Ben Rich who was CEO of Lockheed at the time of skunkworks wrote a great book about all the aviation technology - U2, SR71, F114A stealth fighter etc. great back stories about the tech, the times, Kelly Johnson and others.
That documentary is great. I always was in awe of seeing the SR71 on the deck of the USS Intrepid in Chelsea docks.
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That is so cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
New article on Doggerland and the Storegga tsunami.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journ...F508041CC1B827
Cool is when a 25' 3D printer rolls by your house.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...758c720d51.jpg
what's even cooler is what this printer prints: housesQuote:
Originally Posted by ntblanks
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...dda4d07447.jpg
Whoa!
Ok, THAT is fucking cool!
There is a series on Apple TV+ called Home. One of the episodes was about the company who pioneered the 3D house printing technology. Pretty cool.
What is the media?
Concrete. Needs to be just the right consistency to pump yet hold its shape. It builds up layer after layer. One house a day can be printed.
They are small houses. They go to poor areas of the world and make a small neighborhood of the houses and give them away to the locals. After they are painted and decorated, they are pretty neat.
the company is ICON. not sure what the media is, but it appears to be a specialized cement. i could take a closer look - they just printed 4 units next door.
This project is apparently their first foray into residential real estate. On an expensive lot in atx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sluff
Not cool news but sad science news. Security camera and drone footage of the moment Arecibo's instrument array collapsed. I truly hope the US gets our scientific shit together and rebuild this.
https://www.iflscience.com/space/dro...SfihnUeDohleVg
Ya know, I've heard lots of people lamenting the loss of that array. Are we sure it was worth keeping up? In other words, was their duplicate coverage or a more modern replacement elsewhere which would have made upkeep a bad spend?Quote:
Originally Posted by DJSapp
There are "passive" telescopes, but afaik Arecibo was the only radar telescope (one that can send and observe) of that size..so yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
https://youtu.be/vchDbyIRP44
That was an incredible amount of energy letting go there. The drone closeup looking at the top of that tower really displays how violent the snapping of those cables was.
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Broken cables?!?!?
Ya know who's all over that shit .......
https://www.livescience.com/new-chem...iscovered.html
Just, ya know, your average 10th grade chem class.
Juno mission extended to 2025 with flybys of Io, Europa, and Ganymede
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...n-moon-flybys/
A guided tour of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfWYXY85mBk
January 19, 2021 will go down in history as the day the greatest science headline in history--past, present or future--was published:
1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says
https://www.livescience.com/first-di...ole-found.html
Back to the mundane-yet-still-cool:
Lab-grown meat is getting incredibly close to the real thing
https://www.studyfinds.org/perfect-s...rder-marbling/
Spinning egg yolks hint at how concussions warp the brain
https://www.livescience.com/egg-yolk...ion-study.html
^^^That one seems to support the use of MIPS-type systems in helmets
The science nerd saves the world https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ho...Bls?li=BBnb7Kz Without this guy and his Ah Ha moment we wouldn't have PCR tests.
Super cool. You couldn't find a better example of why basic research is so important.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Cheese aged with hip hop tastes funkier:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...se-180971721/?
Still no Mars sky-copter-crane video in this thread?
Here I'll drop it in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg
I did not know they had dropped that yet. Beyond rad.
Check out this thread:Quote:
Originally Posted by tetzen
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...w-Mars-Cameras
Interesting- Hudson Freeze co-taught the Molecular Glycobiology course that I took during grad school. Didn't know that he was involved with the initial work behind the characterization of Taq polymerase.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
A lot of folks were involved in the development of PCR. The table was pretty much set, the only thing missing was a heat-stable DNA polymerase. Mullis was, like, "Hey, why not Taq"? I seem to recall that the (then) recent discovery of deep ocean sulfur vent-thriving bugs may have inspired him.
This was a k00l time waster- a sort of an accurately-scaled map of our Solar System. While it's t's faster to click the planetary symbols at the top, swiping is funnerer.
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace...larsystem.html
I gave up somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn.