Cool Science thread

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Originally Posted by Viva

Here's a recent k00l study. Very close to the research I was conducting many years ago.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0818135218.htm

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"A calorie is a calorie..."

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Originally Posted by crashtestdummy

There are some interesting entries in this contest. https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-us/2021-entries/

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Indeed.

You guys see China grew cotton on the moon (it came up in a biosphere and sprouted two leaves then froze)?

I’ll try to find the link.

Edit/ apparently it was from two years ago. I just saw it now on some farm feed…

https://www.popsci.com/china-moon-lander-cotton-plant/

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Originally Posted by steepconcrete

You guys see China grew cotton on the moon (it came up in a biosphere and sprouted two leaves then froze)?

I’ll try to find the link.

Edit/ apparently it was from two years ago. I just saw it now on some farm feed…

https://www.popsci.com/china-moon-lander-cotton-plant/

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You can buy space seeds from China.
https://www.superhotchiles.com/produ...v=7516fd43adaa

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Total Eclipse-(Capsicum annuum)- This is one of four Space Chiles we are selling. The Space Chiles are from China. China sent seeds of many plant types into space and claim that cosmic radiation increased everything from germination and growing rates. Also increased productivity as well. The Total Eclipse is similar in shape to the larger Big Bang Space chile but is smaller in size and has more heat. It can be eaten green or red and has some sweetness especially when roasted. The chiles can get over 10 inches long. The Total Eclipse Space Chiles are great for roasting, stuffing, dried seasoning, stir fry and sauces. The Total Eclipse Chile plants grow over 3 feet tall. They need to be staked to support the weight of the chiles.

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And speaking of plants this seems like a pretty cool idea. Using plants which accumulate certain metals as a possible way to mine. I wonder why the focus is on nickel? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/s...ants-farm.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31739090/

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Originally Posted by abraham

I wonder why the focus is on nickel?

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Change for a nickel, duh.

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Originally Posted by steepconcrete

You guys see China grew cotton on the moon (it came up in a biosphere and sprouted two leaves then froze)?

I’ll try to find the link.

Edit/ apparently it was from two years ago. I just saw it now on some farm feed…

https://www.popsci.com/china-moon-lander-cotton-plant/

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Not sure if Science.

More fusion progress. This one is a very big step forward. 30 watts to power a 20 tesla in a small high-temperature superconductor magnet. Leave it to those braniacs at MIT.

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Originally Posted by crashtestdummy

There are some interesting entries in this contest. https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-us/2021-entries/

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Definitely some cool ideas. "Omnom" wins best name award. "Coso" wins the nofuckingway would I use that award. "Hold on honey, I have to boil my balls for a few minutes."

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Originally Posted by huckbucket

More fusion progress. This one is a very big step forward. 30 watts to power a 20 tesla in a small high-temperature superconductor magnet. Leave it to those braniacs at MIT.

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Fuck yeah. 2025 is a bold claim, that will be here in no time. 2025 is also the year that Rick Doblin thinks psilocybin will be become legal for medical use, could be a hell of a year.

The clock that takes 15 billion years to lose one second and can measure time slowing down due to gravity when it is moved just centimeters closer to the ground.

https://www.rawstory.com/what-the-wo...os-2654953202/

Electricity generating flooring.
https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/t...%20electricity

An object just hit Jupiter.

https://www.space.com/jupiter-impact-flash-photo-video



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Originally Posted by ötzi

Definitely some cool ideas. "Omnom" wins best name award. "Coso" wins the nofuckingway would I use that award. "Hold on honey, I have to boil my balls for a few minutes."

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“So far, the procedure has been applied to animals. Therefore, the technical parameters are hypothetically transferred to humans.”

Somewhere out there a bunch of lab beagles are going, “Holy fuck my balls are killing me!!”

I'm like the technology, but do we really need to make the world whiter?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/sc...?ocid=msedgntp

Uh oh… Chernobyl just woke up, and scientists don’t know why.

https://historyofyesterday.com/chern...p-74bedd5fc92d






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I'm sure it's fine.

Yep; proven technology, nothing can go wrong/fail.

Paging Summit....

Modern fission nuclear is certainly far, far safer than the Chernobyl reactors or anything else from that era. But, man, knowing that if something goes wrong it's fucked forever is heavy.

on the topic of russian radiation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J5VUwiAs

I wonder how it's going in Fukushima these days.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

I wonder how it's going in Fukushima these days.

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Let me just check the webcam and…
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23,000 year old human foot prints found at White Sands NM, alongside those of now-extinct animals like mammoth and dire wolves. People were definitely on the continent during the height of the ice age.


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https://phys.org/news/2021-09-earlie...-americas.html

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Originally Posted by Norseman

23,000 year old human foot prints found at White Sands NM, alongside those of now-extinct animals like mammoth and dire wolves. People were definitely on the continent during the height of the ice age.

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-earlie...-americas.html

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Saw this on the NYT. Native history is so incredibly deep, makes me want to learn more.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

I wonder how it's going in Fukushima these days.

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Probably still pumping 100 tons of water into it each day, but it's not leaking (officially). It's fine. Nothing to see.

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Originally Posted by LongShortLong

Probably still pumping 100 tons of water into it each day, but it's not leaking (officially). It's fine. Nothing to see.

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Shame about the price of gold. A few hundred tons of that would be a neat solution.

Japan is actually going ahead with a controlled release of cooling water from the Fukushima reactors.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56728068


I occasionally watch a YouTuber over there and if his videos are any indication the area is still in rough shape and still patrolled.

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Originally Posted by Dantheman

Paging Summit....

Modern fission nuclear is certainly far, far safer than the Chernobyl reactors or anything else from that era. But, man, knowing that if something goes wrong it's fucked forever is heavy.

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Even knowing that the older shit occasionally goes wrong, and humans are gonna f*ck up, the older shit produces so much power with so little environmental damage (including the accidents), that nuclear should be considered as a power source. E = mc^2 is far far more energy productive than chemical reactions or diffuse renewable energy.

They say a coal plant would never be licensed by the NRC because it releases too much radiation. (Dunno if that includes accidents)

Don't you think accidents at coal plants would be pretty acceptable if increased radiation was the only concern? Probably a really telling stat.

These old nuclear plants should all have catch basins under them, shaped to disperse the fuel enough act like un-refineries without letting anything leak lower. Before the accident, the solutions are a lot simpler than convincing anyone to implement them. After the accident you gotta drip gold in there.

This is fascinating. From the event, to the analyses, to the conclusions, to the potential oral tradition that was recorded in the Bible to the reminder of the intensity and length of dense human occupation in some areas of the world.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...iZUZnPh4#Sec95

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Originally Posted by bodywhomper

This is fascinating. From the event, to the analyses, to the conclusions, to the potential oral tradition that was recorded in the Bible to the reminder of the intensity and length of dense human occupation in some areas of the world.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...iZUZnPh4#Sec95

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great stuff. Like you I'm fascinated by this period.

The fact that there are two cases of human settlements being destroyed by meteors is humbling.

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Originally Posted by abraham

The fact that there are two cases of human settlements being destroyed by meteors is humbling.

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Don't worry. The chance that a meteor destroys us before we destroy the world is vanishingly small.

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Originally Posted by old goat

Don't worry. The chance that a meteor destroys us before we destroy the world is vanishingly small.

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It’ll probably happen right after a 100 year period of humans getting climate change under control. We did it! Boom.

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Originally Posted by bodywhomper

This is fascinating. From the event, to the analyses, to the conclusions, to the potential oral tradition that was recorded in the Bible to the reminder of the intensity and length of dense human occupation in some areas of the world.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...iZUZnPh4#Sec95

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Holy shit.

What's the name of the article? The link doesn't work for me.

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Originally Posted by Norseman

What's the name of the article? The link doesn't work for me.

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A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

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So there's been two in ~5,000 years of recorded history. Or one about every 2,500 years on average. And it's been how long since this latest event?

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1100 years overdue - give or take

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Originally Posted by Gepeto

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1100 years overdue - give or take

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Originally Posted by ötzi

So there's been two in ~5,000 years of recorded history. Or one about every 2,500 years on average. And it's been how long since this latest event?

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What is recorded history? (That’s a serious question) How do you/we know how many there have been in that timeframe? The last known one, apparently, was in 1908.