Very cool that the engineers on the ground can update hard/software with the spacecraft being 15 billion miles from Earth and yet I can't get customer support to update a computer that's shitting the bed at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
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Very cool that the engineers on the ground can update hard/software with the spacecraft being 15 billion miles from Earth and yet I can't get customer support to update a computer that's shitting the bed at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Hey Ma, there's a dead guy in your tile.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024...-kitchen-tile/
More evidence that Planet 9 is out there.
https://www.iflscience.com/astronome...-neptune-73914
Just saw a segment on the evening news about this. Straws (yeah, the drinking kind) can help repopulate coral in reefs. Whoda thunk?
https://apnews.com/article/coral-res...489d40e8cd9e17
It’s not easy for me to wrap my head around this stuff.
A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move
Don't call it a comeback
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-fully-operational
Microcapacitors are coming
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientist...090000848.html
Punkin' chunkin'? https://youtu.be/csFyhYSLwic?si=1MMOvFX7kU84PvLZ
Hell yeah, I would try that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
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+1
For sure.
NASA found elemental sulfur crystals on Mars, that's pretty cool.
Pretty cool looking stuff, interesting how it forms on Earth and those implications for Mars. I'm mostly m20 these days but try to still look at msl images daily. Definitely had a what is that moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images...26R00_DXXX.jpg
Also cool, got a little glow from the UV LEDs it seems:
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images...14C00_DXXX.jpg
Should be an equally interesting press release from m20 next week or after.
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This is wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Mb0cbDenA
pretty fascinating. puts into perspective how rare what we now have is.
But, but, but ....... Paleo!!! Toxic vaccines!!!! Evil Pharma/Medical Industry!!!!!!!!!
Shirley things were infinitely better before big government/deep state crushed us under their spiked heels!?!?!?!?
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-climat...shes-foot.html
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In an East Greenland fjord, a mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami about 200 meters (650 feet) tall. The giant wave rocked back and forth inside the narrow fjord for nine days, generating the seismic waves that reverberated through Earth's crust, baffling scientists around the world.
I've been to a similar one in California and it was super cool - http://www.weal.com/index.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
I'm amazed google can't find any pics of the place I went to but I guess it's only for testing nerds going on their company time and who would never think or care about sharing photos online. The chamber looks just like the Minnesota, of course, and it's a trip walking into into those chambers. The acoustical change as you enter is drastic, especially if you are carrying a conversation as you walk in. It's like putting on noise cancelling headphones but much more disorientating.
Nobody felt like they were gonna tip over right away, maybe that comes after 20-30 minutes.
I bet I could last longer than that. They can't do anything to stop my voices.
"The wheels in the bus go ROUND and ROUND, ROUND and ROUND..."Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
That’s sort of one thing I’m curious about - I have screaming constant tinnitus. Wonder how that’d be.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I'm with this guy. Love to try this thing out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
That's a pretty long way of saying that for most of human history most people died in infancy. (Just like other animals.) Factor in how many women died in childbirth and average life span becomes even less meaningful. Prehistorically, if you survived infancy, childbirth, and trauma you had a good chance of making it at least into your 70's. While the ancients lacked modern medicine they also lacked population density--the main cause of epidemics and other infectious diseases, processed foods, chemicals in the air and water, etc etc. Medicine is good at keeping babies and mothers alive (unless the mother is Black and American.)Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
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Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
There's a cool testing facility that uses the cooling towers from some unfinished nuclear reactors in Washington. https://nwaalabs.ipower.com/index.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
I've been in a bunch of those chambers of various sizes but I haven't had solo time in any of the really quiet ones. Usually it's with several people making adjustments or trying to troubleshoot a test.
Dont forget that medicine is nice to keep a small scratch from getting infected, causing your arm to go septic and then killing you!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
it probably becomes deafening, that would be interesting to know how it went.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Good place to sneak a fart out.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Ha, that place also has a twenty-ish year old website. No need to update it of course, it's 'just the facts' with no b.s. or fancy graphics.
https://www.sciencealert.com/rock-us...over-1-million
Check your fucking door stop rocks ppl
Reason number 8,432,694 why the open ocean is a scary fucking place: rogue waves, and especially, the biggest ever recorded:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gigantic-...231527533.html
Watch the graphic and imagine you're in a ship riding up that 58' wave that came out of nowhere in the pitch black of night.
Nightmare fuel.
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https://www.menshealth.com/health/a2...ing-rapamycin/
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men quietly experimenting with rapamycin across the country. And if these guys are right, they could be like the lucky rodents in the research, walking around with improved brain health, heart health, and vitality while the rest of us surrender to mortality. Or they could be killing themselves slowly. It’s too soon to tell.
Men's Health? Come on, man. The PubMed article's first words are "From the dawn of civilization..." How's Men's Health gonna compete with that?
I don't portend MH is the goto for definitive research and information, but some of the anecdotal tidbits found in the article did pique my interest and a few more years of study could have me looking for Rapamycin offshore - I'm Old (in years).Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
Dr. Green in Brooklyn is only 90min away. Sadly, he's not accepting Medicare
What’s the latest on metformin? I thought that was the latest anti aging trend my drug?
Tongue got stuck in cheek. More of a reference to the opening line, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gepeto
Harvest Moon, Supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse going on right now. Top left corner is obscured.
According to the researchers’ calculations, the metformin had made these monkeys’ brains six years younger on average, which could potentially translate to 18 years in humansQuote:
Originally Posted by mcski
...the study’s findings are still based on a small sample size, and cynomolgus monkeys may have important biological differences that could affect the activity of metformin. These caveats mean that we can’t be certain about metformin’s fountain-of-youth effect in humans, at least not yet. But the results certainly do provide more incentive to keep digging.
https://gizmodo.com/a-common-diabete...ins-2000499935
Space is big. That’s why we call it “space”
For decades, astronomers and planetary scientists have wondered exactly what it was that hit Earth 66 million years ago and caused the extinction of 75%! of all species of life, including the non-avian dinosaurs. Was it a comet or an asteroid?
We know it was big, 10 kilometers across or so, and hit in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Yucatan coast, a site called Chicxulub (CHICK-shoo-lube). The impact was so large — it dwarfed the combined explosive yield of every nuke on the planet, equaling about a hundred million megatons* — it ended the Cretaceous geological period and introduced the new Paleogene period.
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The dinosaur killer asteroid came from deep space, in the outer solar system. Ruthenium isotopes reveal the secrets of the Chicxulub impactor. By carefully measuring [ruthenium isotope ratios], scientists can identify where the material came from.
In this case, the ratio closely matches not just that of asteroids, but carbonaceous chondrite asteroids. Chondrites are asteroids that don’t show any modification by thermal processes (like melting), and carbonaceous means they have more carbon in them than average. Because they were never heated, these types of asteroids are thought to have formed in the outer solar system when the Sun and planets were born, and have remained largely unmodified by large impacts ever since.
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Seeing as how there are still a lot of asteroids out there, I kinda feel like the more we know the better, especially if we find one headed our way and need to send up a space probe to knock it out of the way à la DART. The asteroid’s composition and tensile strength will make a huge difference in how well that sort of thing would succeed.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/d...r-solar-system
Failed in the ITP: https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab...-interventionsQuote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Reanalysis of the study that initially suggested longevity benefits indicates that it was a false signal in the data:
https://peterattiamd.com/a-recent-me...y-indications/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36287641/
A couple of clinical trials, MILES (Metformin In Longevity Study) and TAME (Targeting Aging with Metformin), are currently in process. Preliminary data from these trials indicates a possible healthspan benefit even if there is no lifespan benefit (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals...21.718942/full), but the likely mechanisms (anti-hyperglycemia, improved insulin sensitivity, reduction of oxidative stress) suggest that you're much better off just exercising.
There's a huge study in progess to assess whether Rapa extends the lifespan of dogs (https://dogagingproject.org/), but sadly it looks like they are going to lose their NIA grant funding and unless they can raise $50 million privately we likely won't ever see the results (https://www.science.org/content/arti...y-lose-funding).Quote:
Originally Posted by whipski
The math of voting.
https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk?si=ldoP_XhWM85jD2uU