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This is going down on Thursday. Mars here we come.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-or...l#.VH8SNhaEesI
...well it went down Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEuOpxOrA_0
Steve Agid is my favorite, has the perfect launch voice.....huge huge huge day. This is step 1 of the USA's return to human space flight, if we fund this baby it will be by far the most powerful, capable human rated space flight system ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
Gotta love the IV Heavy, what a fucking beast....yo yo yo the whole side of the rocket is on fire !...ULA - it's ok it's designed to do that...
Saw the Orion capsule on display at Cape Canaveral last winter. Great to see it made it off the pad. With room for four, no more fighting over who gets the girl...
Knock yourselves out:
http://breakthroughs.sciencemag.org/...=btotyroundtwo
That's some stupid shit. A cure for HepC in a bottle isn't the story of the year? Investors seem to think it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva
Then take the Forbes poll.
Hot Dam, we got a force field !
came across this from a post by martin Armstrong(one of those crackpot economic types who keeps predicting currency crashes coming), but he posts some very cool science stuff from time to time; figured this went here:
"Star Trek-like invisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth" -
http://www.colorado.edu/news/release...es-above-earth
best snippet imo:
"The latest mystery revolves around an “extremely sharp” boundary at the inner edge of the outer belt at roughly 7,200 miles in altitude that appears to block the ultrafast electrons from breeching the shield and moving deeper towards Earth’s atmosphere. “It’s almost like theses electrons are running into a glass wall in space,” said Baker, the study’s lead author. “Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on Star Trek that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons. It’s an extremely puzzling phenomenon.”
next time a solar storm takes out your phone connection, you can blame it on having the shields up.
Poop transfusions: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...ent-experiment
Check this out...a table-top particle accelerator at Lawerence-Livermoore...pretty damn cool!!
" Scientists Break Energy Record With "Tabletop" Particle Accelerator
MARSHALL LEMON | 9 DECEMBER 2014 5:20 PM
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Laser-Plasma Particle Accelerator
Image Source: Berkeley Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Accelerator, which speeds up electrons in a 9-centimeter plasma tube, just achieved the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator.
When we think about particle accelerators, we usually think of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which has a circumference of 17 miles. But particle accelerators can come in various shapes and sizes and can pull off equally impressive feats. Case in point: A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory uses a laser-plasma accelerator, which they believe can achieve the same results as the LHC while sitting conveniently on a table. And it might be on to something, since their device just broke records for the highest energies seen in a compact accelerator.
Traditional particle accelerators, like the behemoth at CERN, work by modulating electric fields within a metal cavity. The process can only generate about 100 mega-electron volts per meter before the metal wears out, but the laser-plasma accelerator works differently. Using BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator, injected a pulse of laser light into a 9-centimeter plasma tube, creating waves that trapped free electrons and accelerated them to 4.25 giga-electron volts. "It's similar to the way that a surfer gains speed when skimming down the face of a wave," Berkeley wrote in a recent news release.
While this is already an achievement, director of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division Dr. Wim Leemans has no plans of stopping here. Leeman's near-term goal is to accelerate these subatomic particles to 10 giga-electrons, which requires a more precise control of the plasma channel's density. But if the equipment and process can be refined enough to pull it off, you should expect Berkeley to be breaking its own record very soon.
Source: Berkeley Lab"
I assume they are talking in some special physics language that isn't English. I was always shit at physics in school.
And.....
I <3 poop transplants.
Science is great.
For you dirty hippies out there:
moar like practical physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9iLNHGOYI
Gravity can explain entropy?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ysterious-past
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/p1501ay.jpg
Blows my mind this is not computer generated but an actual photo!
ZOOM IN EVEN MORE
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/p1501ay.jpg
^amazing!
Cant seem to inbed today....Andromeda (largest photo ever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU
They are incredible but the color is added, if you parked your space ship out there and took a look you wouldn't see that.
Cool view of the far side of the moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkMHkF7BaA
^^^LRO is on the "not funded" list for the next budget.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31622297
"Researchers at the University of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) managed one terabit per second (Tbps) - many thousands of times faster than current data connections.
The head of the 5GIC said he hoped to demonstrate the technology to the public in 2018.
Ofcom has said 5G could be available in Britain by 2020.
At 1Tbps, it would be theoretically possible to download a file 100 times the size of a feature film in about three seconds. The speed is more than 65,000 times faster than average 4G download speeds.
"5GIC director Prof Rahim Tafazolli said: "We have developed 10 more breakthrough technologies and one of them means we can exceed 1Tbps wirelessly. This is the same capacity as fibreoptics but we are doing it wirelessly."
There must a be a limit to the amount of data that can be transferred between two points in a given time. I wonder what that is and how far this test is from that amount.Quote:
Originally Posted by TomCrac
We will have a better idea of what's possible once the telcoms have everyone on data cap plans.
Mars test rocket....
http://i.imgur.com/s1MbS74.gif
ATK 5 segement booster, shit is hot. Also it's for SLS which may or may not go to Mars.Quote:
Originally Posted by TomCrac
Way way way bigger news today that hydrothermal activity is confirmed on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Mars is so yesterday, its a dry, parched shithole...off to Enceladus we go.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmadaBC
Link for the lazyQuote:
Originally Posted by ArmadaBC
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space...y-says-n321091
Hubble has also confirmed the presence of a sub-surface ocean on Ganymede
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...nasa/70203402/
There's a bunch of other cool shit in the news today:
Dark matter in dwarf galaxies may be emitting gamma rays
http://astronomynow.com/2015/03/11/d...t-dark-matter/
Milky Way is 50% larger the previously thought
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6849548.html
Neanderthals made badass eagle talon jewelry
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ine-180954553/
Machine automates assembly of small molecules
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2...Molecules.html
Over 1,000 new marine species were discovered in 2014
http://www.morningledger.com/scienti...pecies/138827/
Novel anti-cancer nano-device to be tested in patient with a form of terminal leukemia:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/ido...mary-with.html
Fusion just around the corner?
http://www.businessinsider.com/andre...hrough-2014-10
It's been theorized since they starting building fission rx's...if someone can make it work it would be a game changer.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
So now that the military-industrial complex is getting in on the game maybe conservatives will suddenly become cool with alternative energy projects?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
They're basically claiming they have it dialed. It will be a different world if it's true.Quote:
Originally Posted by peck257
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
http://fc09.deviantart.net/images/i/..._hate_ball.jpg
I think yes myself.
Since the article was written over a year and a half ago, I would have hoped to hear more news by now ....Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Micro Robots Can Haul 2,000 Times Their Weight
http://www.forbes.com/sites/leoking/...nize-industry/
IBM Solves Quantum Computing
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326468
Hipsters with tattoo sleeves report problems with their Apple watches
http://www.macworld.com/article/2915...-troubles.html