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Heh. From the comments in the link:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
53 minutes ago
TJ Hammerle
How does anybody who's sleeved out even have a job that allows them to afford one of these? Lol. Kidding around, but visible tattoos does make it tough and most high paying employers still aren't cool with it.
They just need to come out with a neck choker/collar equivalent to avoid the tats ....... oh, wait .........
I fukken love the Great Lakes so this is right up my alley:
USCG photos of Lake Michigan shipwrecks temporarily visible from air:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...955108/?no-ist
New Test Suggests NASA's "Impossible" EM Drive Will Work In Space
http://io9.com/new-test-suggests-nas...ork-1701188933
Mercury Messenger out of fuel and crashing into Mercury @3:30 ET
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/us/nas...robe-to-crash/
Pretty cool. Did you notice this house?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.c...85_upscale.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Got front elevations on your mind Ice? :) Problems could always be worse, eh.
Yeah that right there is a real problem.
That EM drive is just fucking awesome.
^^^Oh, I want one. Awesome when he played the music into it.
There is indeed a theoretical limit determined by the Shannon-Hartley theorem.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
C = B log2(1+S/N)
C is the channel capacity in bits per second;
B is the bandwidth of the channel in hertz (passband bandwidth in case of a modulated signal);
S is the average received signal power over the bandwidth (in case of a modulated signal, often denoted C, i.e. modulated carrier), measured in watts (or volts squared);
N is the average noise or interference power over the bandwidth, measured in watts (or volts squared); and
S/N is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the communication signal to the Gaussian noise interference expressed as a linear power ratio (not as logarithmic decibels).
So theoretically really comes down to how much bandwidth (simple explanation freq bands) and how much power they are putting into the signal. Introducing amplified noise doesn't help so the electronics have to be designed for low noise up front.
Heh, no, I didn't see that. Looks like a gorgeous house with an unbelievable view! But... I see it ending up like the ship in it's back yard not too far off from now. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
This thread is like diving down the rabbit hole. My stomach had to remind me that time was not relativistically slow in the science thread.
Great read for those into geology:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/...sierra-nevada/
...giving spiders water that is infused with carbon nanotubes makes them weave silk stronger than any known fiber.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view...d-with-carbon/
Think of the possibilities for Shit Knives!!!!!
From the comment...
How long until one of these nano enhanced spiders bites Peter Parker?Quote:
This really is super cool, just one little concern. It has to do with the study quote "This leads to mechanical hardening of teeth, jaws, mandibles, ovipositors and to an enhancement of silk toughness." Now this would produce some seriously kick ass spiders and knowing our previous stellar history in containing dangerous things (especially when there is big money involved) this could get very interesting very fast.
.... just as long as it takes to irradiate the little fuckers. Speaking of little, I vote for splicing in some extinct mastodon DNA to really get this party goin'. If not available, I'd settle for some Honey Badger DNA.
Not sure that this falls under the purview of "science" or that it's necesscelery cool, but it seems the Chinks are trying to outdo the Japs when it comes (cums?) to self-pleasuring technologies.
http://www.iflscience.com/technology...inese-hospital
Wasnt there some guesstimation that the X-37B was carrying a EM drive in its payload for the next mission?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
Not sure how I'll react when these start showing up in the gym, next to the elliptical trainers .......Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva
T-Cells does a body good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntk8...ature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVv40M2aks
The video description on youtube gives a bit of an explanation. And with the shitty TGR video tags, you have to go there to view full screen anyway.
^
SDO is the shit, pre SDO and SOHO we knew a laughable amount about the sun which is only by far the most important body in our solar system.
817mil and we've learned so much about the sun's magnetic field and it's interactions with other fields including earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was good on Charlie Rose last night. Not posted yet but look for it.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by steepconcrete
I should have DVR'd it. I started falling asleep around midnight and missed a couple parts.
As insanely cool as that video is to watch, the amount that has been learned from these projects is even cooler (for something that is so hot :)).Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmadaBC
^^
Cool as fuck, but that's no ordinary skate park. There are permanent electromagnets in the ground.
Yup. Article mentions that but didn't showcase the making of it.
Really cool!
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-diamond...-valuable.html
If even a tenth of this guys science holds, somebody should give him lots of money fast. Making concrete and fertilizer from CO2 wouldn't be able to compete as they are commodities but carbon nanofibers are a another thing altogether. They are just the type of thing to make this type of CO2 capture economically feasible to scale.
That is pretty cool.
You misread about the cement and fertilizer -- they were previous projects by the same team and were made without emitting CO2
Very cool but this quote makes ya wonder about what happens the 10 years after that and the ten years after that...unintended consequences and shit. Not that it is an imminent concern but still.
"We calculate that with a physical area less than 10 percent the size of the Sahara Desert, our process could remove enough CO2 to decrease atmospheric levels to those of the pre-industrial revolution within 10 years," he says.
I think they just need a large are for sunlight capture. On the very superficial read of the article sounds possible and promising.
Probably go into carbon deficit, which will cause all the fartogenic foodstocks to skyrocket in price .... better stock up early.
Free the CO2!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
The Homo Naledi discoveries announced yesterday are pretty fucking cool.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...956559/?no-ist
This isn't a video of any ground breaking science, but it is still well done and interesting to see the scale of our solar system.
https://vimeo.com/139407849
^cool
Xpost,
Human Power!
"The world's fastest human-powered vehicle just topped 85 mph"
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/18/a...wered-vehicle/
(old vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=101&v=Y8bbPmn8q6s