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     Reply #90 - May 11, 2013, 03:16 PM

    Anyone watching the live spacewalk?

    http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
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     Reply #91 - May 18, 2013, 05:34 AM

    Pain ray: The US military's new agony beam weapon

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    THE pain, when it comes, is unbearable. At first it's comparable to a hairdryer blast on the skin. But within a couple of seconds, most of the body surface feels roasted to an excruciating degree. Nobody has ever resisted it: the deep-rooted instinct to writhe and escape is too strong.

    The source of this pain is an entirely new type of weapon, originally developed in secret by the US military – and now ready for use. It is a genuine pain ray, designed to subdue people in war zones, prisons and riots. Its name is Active Denial. In the last decade, no other non-lethal weapon has had as much research and testing, and some $120 million has already been spent on development in the US.

    Many want to shelve this pain ray before it is fired for real but the argument is far from cut and dried. Active Denial's supporters claim that its introduction will save lives: the chances of serious injury are tiny, they claim, and it causes less harm than tasers, rubber bullets or batons. It is a persuasive argument. Until, that is, you bring the dark side of human nature into the equation.


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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #92 - May 21, 2013, 10:04 PM

    Climate change will push up New York's heatwave deaths

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    The Big Apple is cooking: climate change will increase the number of temperature-related deaths within decades.

    A warmer climate means more extremely hot days in summer, and fewer extremely cold days in winter, meaning people are more likely to die in summer than they used to be, and less so in winter.

    Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased almost immediately (Nature Climate Change, doi.org/mkc).

    Death tolls rose by roughly six per cent by 2020, by 10 to 15 per cent by 2050, and up to 30 per cent by 2080.

    The biggest increases occurred in May and September. According to Horton's calculations, death tolls could roughly double by 2080 during these months. "Today New York doesn't think about heatwaves in those months, but in the future they may be part of the summer," says Horton.

    Sounds like fun. Smiley

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #93 - May 21, 2013, 10:39 PM


     


    The goverment is not willing to spend money on a universal healthcare system or more funding to post secondary education but it has enough money to splurge on a new high tech way to delver pain.

    now that is a sad state of affairs....

    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #94 - May 22, 2013, 11:31 PM

    Bugger n bat poo. Effin herbicides are a real nuisance. Unfortunately, they're also essential to some degree in a lot of areas. I live in an agricultural area, that also has severe problems with introduced invasive weeds on both farmland and bushland, so try to keep up to speed on this stuff.

    So, we've had the paraquat (dipyridylium) debacle, which as well as being acutely toxic immediately if ingested has also been linked to Parkinson's disease as a result of long term very low level exposure (minor spray drift, etc). The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority claims on its site that:

     "Paraquat is approved for use in Australia but is heavily regulated because of its acute toxicity.

    <snip>

    Special regulations restrict its availability, possession, storage and use. It is only available, for example, to trained users who have the skills necessary to handle it safely."

    Bollocks. Anyone can buy it, if they know where it's sold and just rock up with a good story. It gets used on food crops too. Roll Eyes

    Anywayz.................one of the safest herbicides is the ubiquitous glyphosate...........which has now been linked to all sorts of nasty shiz. Tongue

    Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases

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    Here, we show how interference with CYP enzymes acts synergistically with disruption of the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids by gut bacteria, as well as impairment in serum sulfate transport. Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. We explain the documented effects of glyphosate and its ability to induce disease, and we show that glyphosate is the “textbook example” of exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins.

    So, I'll be getting a lot more careful about that shit now.

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #95 - June 03, 2013, 05:18 PM

    U.S. Patent 3,216,423
    APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD BY CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

    Honey, I think it's time!...  yes


    http://www.google.com/patents/US3216423
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #96 - June 07, 2013, 04:23 PM

    Palm-Size Fossil Resets Primates’ Clock, Scientists Say

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    A nearly complete skeleton of a tiny, ancient primate — one that weighed no more than an ounce, had a tail longer than its body and would fit in the palm of your hand — is the earliest well-preserved fossil primate ever found, dating back some 55 million years and dialing back the fossil record for primates by an impressive eight million years, a research team declared on Wednesday.

    The finding adds weight to the evidence that primates originated in Asia — not Africa — and that they emerged relatively soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs, which happened about 66 million years ago.

    The older date brings scientists closer to pinpointing a pivotal event in primate and human evolution: the divergence between the lineage leading to anthropoids — which include modern monkeys, apes and humans — and the one leading to tarsiers.

    In a report published in the journal Nature, an international team of paleontologists led by Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing said that the skeleton, recovered from an ancient lake bed in Hubei Province in central China, set a new benchmark for the time that primates started roaming the planet.

    The primate skeleton belongs to a species never seen before, one the researchers identified as the earliest known ancestor of tarsiers — a type of small, nocturnal primate living today in Southeast Asian forests. This unprepossessing early primate was even smaller than today’s smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur of Madagascar.

    Dr. Ni said in a statement that the findings represent “the first time that we have a reasonably complete picture of a primate close to the divergence,” calling it “a big step forward in our efforts to chart the course of the earliest phases of primate and human evolution.”

    K. Christopher Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and an author of the journal report, said: “We’ve heard of the ‘out of Africa’ theory of human evolution, but that’s recent history. So there may now be the ‘into Africa’ problem.”

    How and when did some primates finally make it to Africa, which was an island until as recently as 16 million years ago, to set in motion the emergence of the human species?

    There is evidence that 38 million years ago, some primates had apparently crossed open water to colonize the African continent.

    The fossil from Hubei does not answer the question of how that happened, but it does give paleontologists plenty to work on for years to come. The skeleton “differs radically from any other primate, living or fossil, known to science,” Dr. Beard said. “It looks like an odd hybrid, with the feet of a small monkey, the arms, legs and teeth of a very primitive primate and a primitive skull bearing surprisingly small eyes.”

    Some of the skeleton’s anatomical characteristics resemble in miniature those of its tarsier lineage. Its head and trunk were less than four inches long, the tail a little more than five inches long. Some characteristics, like the monkeylike heel and ankle, appear to reaffirm the close tarsier connection to anthropoids, which is why the species has been named Archicebus achilles, a reference to the best-known heel bone in Western culture.

    The skeleton was found by a farmer a decade ago in a rock near the course of the modern Yangtze River. But it took years of analysis to figure out how to classify the surprising-looking creature. Even today, not all researchers agree. For clues, the researchers looked to the previously oldest primate fossil specimen, a skeleton from Germany that was named in 2009 as Darwinius masillae. But the team concluded that the skeleton from Hubei, which is much smaller, belonged to an entirely separate branch of the primate family tree....


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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #97 - June 07, 2013, 11:46 PM

    Cool. Smiley

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #98 - June 13, 2013, 11:02 PM

    This is kinda cute. Turns out that the top speed of cheetahs isn't such a big deal in real life.

    Cheetahs win races on acceleration but not speed

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    "Everyone thinks cheetahs run at incredibly high top speeds, over 60 miles (97 kilometres) per hour, but these measurements were made with imprecise speedometers," says Alan Wilson of The Royal Veterinary College at the University of London. Plus, they were made on animals raised in captivity, unaccustomed to hunting.

    In the quest for better data, Wilson designed solar-powered collars with GPS trackers, accelerometers, gyroscopes and other bits of kit to get a snapshot of life on the savannah, and fitted them on three females and two males. The fastest speed recorded was 93 kph, but the team was surprised to find their cheetahs tended to run at a more moderate 54 kph. What made them such good hunters was their ability to accelerate up to 3 metres per second and decelerate by 4 mps in a single stride (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature12295). The muscle power required to generate this acceleration was four times what Usain Bolt used for his 100-metre world record.

    3ms-1 and 4ms-1 equate to 7mph and 11mph, which is a shitload of acceleration to fit into one stride. Cheetahs weigh a fair bit less than Bolt too, so they've got some serious power for their size.

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #99 - June 26, 2013, 10:20 PM

    Interesting. Well, Bolt's acceleration is not what wins him the race - it's his speed once he gets going, maybe after the first 10m.  If there was a race testing acceleration, a lighter-built person would win, methinks. parrot

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #100 - August 15, 2013, 12:08 PM

    Scientists accidentally make ‘impossible material’ Upsalite - the world’s most efficient water absorber
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-accidentally-make-impossible-material-upsalite--the-worlds-most-efficient-water-absorber-8760118.html
    Human error solves problem of how to produce world’s most efficient water absorber more cheaply

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    A single gram of this elusive white, dry, powdered form of magnesium carbonate (MgCO3) has an extraordinarily-large surface area of 800 square meters thanks to numerous minuscule pores, each one a million times smaller than the width of a human hair.


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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #101 - August 16, 2013, 12:03 AM

    I love science  Smiley

    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #102 - August 26, 2013, 07:18 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL2DuZPKA3w
    juice....juicy juice .. juice..   yara...... ladda lada ... yara yara yaralave juice...   juicy juice .. juice.

    Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
    by Lawrence Kraus
     i guess that is a book from Kraus..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtnYnoutKk




    And that is truly  RANDOM post..

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #103 - August 28, 2013, 08:38 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFRnd-UugUg


    Morgan Freeman on  god/science/faith ...

    "I am not  "A Man of God"  but man of faith"...........Morgan Freeman

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    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #104 - August 29, 2013, 04:57 AM

    A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief _ Dr. Allan Sandage

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    Q. Can the existence of God be proved?

    I should say not with the same type of certainty that we ascribe to statements such as "the earth is in orbit about the sun at a mean distance of 93 million miles, making a complete journey in 365.25 days," or "genetic information is coded in long protein strings of DNA that, in cells of a particular individual, replicate during mitosis, and in reproduction unite with DNA from another individual to produce the hereditary similarity of progeny with their parents, etc." The enormous success of modern science is undeniable in producing such facts, which have a strong ring of certainty, and this success simply cannot be ignored.

    Proofs of the existence of God have always been of a different kind-a crucial point to be understood by those scientists who will only accept results that can be obtained via the scientific method. God can never be proved to them for that reason (Those who deny God at the outset by some form of circular reasoning will never find God.) Science illumines brightly, but only a part of reality.

    The classical proofs of God by Anselm and by Aquinas via natural theology do not give the same type of satisfaction as proofs of propositions arrived at by the method of science. To the modern mind they seem contrived. Nevertheless, they were sufficient for Pascal to finally approach his certainty in God's existence by preparing his mind for God's necessity, if the world is to make ultimate sense. After that preparation, he simply could then abandon the God of natural theology and of the philosophers, and could at last will himself to faith by leaping across the abyss, from the edge of reason on this side of the chasm. For those who have experienced this way to God, I would say that God's existence has been proved beyond doubt for them.

    Q. Must there necessarily be a conflict between science and religion?

    In my opinion, no, if it is understood that each treats a different aspect of reality. The Bible is certainly not a book of science. One does not study it to find the intensities and the wavelengths of the Balmer spectral lines of hydrogen. But neither is science concerned with the ultimate spiritual properties of the world, which are also real.

    Science makes explicit the quite incredible natural order, the interconnections at many levels between the laws of physics, the chemical reactions in the biological processes of life, etc. But science can answer only a fixed type of question. It is concerned with the what, when, and how. It does not, and indeed cannot, answer within its method (powerful as that method is), why.

    Why is there something instead of nothing? Why do all electrons have the same charge and mass? Why is the design that we see everywhere so truly miraculous? Why are so many processes so deeply interconnected?

    But we must admit that those scientists that want to see design will see design. Those that are content in every part of their being to live as materialistic reductionalists (as we must all do as scientists in the laboratory, which is the place of the practice of our craft) will never admit to a mystery of the design they see, always putting off by one step at a time, awaiting a reductionalist explanation for the present unknown. But to take this reductionalist belief to the deepest level and to an indefinite time into the future (and it will always remain indefinite) when "science will know everything" is itself an act of faith which denies that there can be anything unknown to science, even in principle. But things of the spirit are not things of science.

    There need be no conflict between science and religion if each appreciates its own boundaries and if each takes seriously the claims of the other. The proven success of science simply cannot be ignored by the church. But neither can the church's claim to explain the world at the very deepest level be dismissed. If God did not exist, science would have to (and indeed has) invent the concept to explain what it is discovering at its core. Abelard's 12th century dictum "Truth cannot be contrary to truth. The findings of reason must agree with the truths of scripture, else the God who gave us both has deceived us with one or the other" still rings true.

    If there is no God, nothing makes sense. The atheist's case is based on a deception they wish to play upon themselves that follows already from their initial premise. And if there is a God, he must be true both to science and religion. If it seems not so, then one's hermeneutics (either the pastor's or the scientist's) must wrong.

    I believe there is a clear, heavy, and immediate responsibility for the church to understand and to believe in the extraordinary results and claims of science. Its success is simply too evident and visible to ignore. It is likewise incumbent upon scientists to understand that science is incapable, because of the limitations of its method by reason alone, to explain and to understand everything about reality. If the world must simply be understood by a materialistic reductionalist nihilism, it would make no sense at all. For this, Romans 1:19-21 seems profound. And the deeper any scientist pushes his work, the more profound it does indeed become.

    Q. Do recent astronomical discoveries have theological significance?

    I would say not, although the discovery of the expansion of the Universe with its consequences concerning the possibility that astronomers have identified the creation event does put astronomical cosmology close to the type of medieval natural theology that attempted to find God by identifying the first cause. Astronomers may have found the first effect, but not, thereby, necessarily the first cause sought by Anselm and Aquinas.

    Nevertheless, there are serious scientific papers discussing events very shortly after the big bang creation (ex nihilo?) out of which all the types of matter that we know (baryons, electrons, photons, etc.) were made, and in what quantities. Even the creation of matter is said now to be understood. Astronomical observations have also suggested that this creation event, signaled by the expansion of the Universe, has happened only once. The expansion will continue forever, the Universe will not collapse upon itself, and therefore this type of creation will not happen again.

    But knowledge of the creation is not knowledge of the creator, nor do any astronomical findings tell us why the event occurred. It is truly supernatural (i.e. outside our understanding of the natural order of things), and by this definition a miracle. But the nature of God is not to be found within any part of these findings of science. For that, one must turn to the scriptures, if indeed an answer is to be had within our finite human understanding.

    Q. Can a person be a scientist and also be a Christian?

    Yes. As I said before, the world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect for believers-a mystery to be solved by science (even as to why) sometime in the indefinite future for materialist reductionalists.

    This situation of the complication and the order to function of an organism, where the sum is greater than its parts (i.e. has a higher order), becomes more astonishing every year as the scientific results become more detailed. Because of this, many scientists are now driven to faith by their very work. In the final analysis it is a faith made stronger through the argument by design. I simply do not now believe that the reductionalist philosophy, so necessary to pursue the scientific method and, to repeat, the method which all scientists must master and practice with all their might and skill in their laboratory, can explain everything.

    Having, then, been forced via the route of Pascal and Kierkegaard in their need for purpose to come to the edge of the abyss of reason, scientists can, with Anselm "believe in order to understand" what they see, rather than "understand in order to believe." Having willed oneself to faith by jumping to the other side, one can pull, at first, a wee small thread across the abyss, pulling in turn a still more sturdy rope, until finally one can build a bridge that crosses in reverse the chasm that connects the sides of life that are reason and faith. It is, then, by faith that a scientist can become a Christian, and yet remain a scientist-believing in some form of Abelard's dictum.

    Without that faith there is no purpose, and without purpose all the arguments for its need drive one once again to build Pascal's bridge.


    All that is from dr. Allan Sandage(June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010)



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    Sandage was one of the most influential astronomers of the 20th century.   He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948. In 1953 he received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology; the German-born Wilson Observatory-based astronomer Walter Baade was his advisor. During this time Sandage was a graduate student assistant to cosmologist Edwin Hubble. He continued Hubble's research program after Hubble died in 1953. In 1952 Baade had shaken the astronomical world by announcing   his determination of two separate populations of Cepheid variable stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, resulted in a doubling of the estimated age of the universe (from 1.8 to 3.6 billion years). Hubble had posited the earlier value; he had considered only the weaker Population II Cepheid variables as standard candles. Following Baade's pronouncements, Sandage showed that astronomers' previous assumption, that the brightest stars in galaxies were of approximately equal inherent intensity, was mistaken in the case of H II regions which he found not to be stars and inherently brighter than the brightest stars in distant galaxies. This resulted in another 1.5 factor increase in the calculated age of the universe, to approximately 5.5 billion years  Throughout the 1950s and well into the 1980s Sandage was regarded as the pre-eminent observational cosmologist, making contributions to all aspects of the cosmological distance scale, ranging from calibrators within our own Milky Way Galaxy, to cosmologically distant galaxies.



    " Life is clearly a property of the evolving universe made possible by stellar evolution."......................... (Sandage, 2000)"

    That was indeed a profound statement


    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #105 - September 06, 2013, 10:18 PM

    http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2013/sep/06/nanotechnology-world-pictures
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    The weird world of the incredibly small – in pictures
    This month's collection of postcards from the nanoworld includes bleached hair, a component from a quantum computer, a fleck of Victorian paint and one of the creatures that helped build the White Cliffs of Dover


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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #106 - September 07, 2013, 07:56 AM

    Bloody stupid dolphins. Tongue

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    Dolphin brains are large for their body size, but as they grow they don’t maintain their neuronal density in the way that primate brains do. It is just not the case that dolphins outclass other animals in complex cognition, and in some cases they are bested by pigeons. Problem solving, for example, is not a particular strength of dolphins.

    They don’t seem to have a particularly sophisticated theory of mind (humans develop this around age four) and have never passed a test that would require them to understand that someone else does not know what the dolphin knows. They can’t follow hidden objects in a kind of slow-motion ball-and-cup trick, unlike orangutans. They show no evidence of episodic memory (humans develop this around age three), unlike scrub jays.

    Dolphins: Largely Unexceptional

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #107 - September 07, 2013, 01:07 PM

    Retards
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     Reply #108 - September 07, 2013, 03:53 PM

    Modern medical technologies are causing a degradation in the human gene pool by allowing bad genes to propagate. I've been wondering what will happen to human genes in a few centuries.

    I'm imagining the degradation process to be nature's way of destroying an overpopulating species.
  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #109 - September 14, 2013, 12:25 AM

    Hey this is cool (even if likely not applicable to our actual universe): Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe?

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    In a paper posted last week on the arXiv preprint server, Afshordi and his colleagues turn their attention to a proposal made in 2000 by a team including Gia Dvali, a physicist now at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. In that model, our three-dimensional (3D) Universe is a membrane, or brane, that floats through a ‘bulk universe’ that has four spatial dimensions.

    Ashfordi's team realized that if the bulk universe contained its own four-dimensional (4D) stars, some of them could collapse, forming 4D black holes in the same way that massive stars in our Universe do: they explode as supernovae, violently ejecting their outer layers, while their inner layers collapse into a black hole.

    In our Universe, a black hole is bounded by a spherical surface called an event horizon. Whereas in ordinary three-dimensional space it takes a two-dimensional object (a surface) to create a boundary inside a black hole, in the bulk universe the event horizon of a 4D black hole would be a 3D object — a shape called a hypersphere. When Afshordi’s team modelled the death of a 4D star, they found that the ejected material would form a 3D brane surrounding that 3D event horizon, and slowly expand.

    The authors postulate that the 3D Universe we live in might be just such a brane — and that we detect the brane’s growth as cosmic expansion. “Astronomers measured that expansion and extrapolated back that the Universe must have begun with a Big Bang — but that is just a mirage,” says Afshordi.



    And a nice little one about out of Africa stuff: Ancient rivers cut migration routes through Sahara

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    The Sahara Desert was once criss-crossed by three mighty river systems that flowed northward and could have created the conditions for the first human migrations to Europe and Asia, a study suggests.

    During the period between the two most recent ice ages, some 100,000–130,000 years ago, African monsoons reached as much as 1,000 kilometres farther north than they do now and brought torrential rains to the mountains ranges south of the Sahara Desert.

     Afro

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #110 - September 18, 2013, 10:15 PM

    Zombie apocalypse!  Run for the hills

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    An unsuspecting worker ant in Brazil's rainforest leaves its nest one morning. But instead of following the well-worn treetop paths of its nest mates, this ant stumbles along clumsily, walking in aimless circles, convulsing from time to time.

    At high noon, as if programmed, the ant plunges its mandibles into the juicy main vein of a leaf and soon dies. Within days the stem of a fungus sprouts from the dead ant's head. After growing a stalk, the fungus casts spores to the ground below, where they can be picked up by other passing ants.

    This strange cycle of undead life and death has been well documented and has earned the culprit the moniker: "zombie-ant" fungus—even in the scientific literature. But scientists are just learning the intricacies of this interplay between the Ophiocordyceps parasitic fungus and the Camponotini carpenter ants that it infects. Fossil evidence implies that this zombifying infection might have been happening for at least 48 million years. Recent research also suggests that different species of the fungus might specialize to infect different groups of ants across the globe. And close examination of the infected ant corpses has revealed an even newer level of spooky savagery—other fungi often parasitize the zombie-ant fungus parasite itself.

    "We have advanced a great deal in understanding how the fungus controls ant behavior," David Hughes, an assistant professor of entomology and biology at The Pennsylvania State University, says. Every few months scientists are discovering yet another peculiar trait that, added together, make this parasite one of the most insidious infections—or perhaps that honor goes to the parasite that ultimately kills the killer parasite.

    More stuff on the link. This ecology shit is complicated. Thinking hard

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  • Random Science Posts
     Reply #111 - September 18, 2013, 10:48 PM

    Random post: How the hell did the crane fly (daddy long legs) survive natural selection? They fly in such a slow and clumsy way, and have to feed/sustain a bigass body.

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     Reply #112 - September 18, 2013, 10:51 PM

    Another one to the list that is topped by the bee.

    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
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     Reply #113 - September 19, 2013, 12:21 PM

    As well as the daddy long leg and the bee I would like to add Nicky Minaj to the list. her body seems impossible.

    I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
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     Reply #114 - September 26, 2013, 11:38 PM

    This is interesting.
    Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples.

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    If you think about a cubic foot of this dirt and you just heat it a little bit - a few hundred degrees - you'll actually get off about two pints of water


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     Reply #115 - September 26, 2013, 11:42 PM

    That's a high water content for a planet like that. I would have expected far less.

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     Reply #116 - September 27, 2013, 12:12 AM

    Oh and I found this one interesting too: Climate science: Why the world won't listen

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    WHEN scholars of the future write the history of climate change, they may look to early 2008 as a pivotal moment. Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth was bringing the science to the masses. The economist Nicholas SternMovie Camera had made the financial case for tackling the problem sooner rather than later. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had just issued its most unequivocal report yet on the link between human activity and climatic change.

    The scientific and economic cases were made. Surely with all those facts on the table, soaring public interest and ambitious political action were inevitable?

    The exact opposite happened. Fast-forward to today, the eve of the IPCC's latest report on the state of climate science, and it is clear that public concern and political enthusiasm have not kept up with the science. Apathy, lack of interest and even outright denial are more widespread than they were in 2008.

    How did the rational arguments of science and economics fail to win the day? There are many reasons, but an important one concerns human nature.

    <snip>

    None of it will make any real difference. This is for the simple reason that the argument is not really about the science; it is about politics and values.

    Consider, for example, the finding that people with politically conservative beliefs are more likely to doubt the reality or seriousness of climate change. Accurate information about climate change is no less readily available to these people than anybody else. But climate policies such as the regulation of industrial emissions often seem to clash with conservative political views. And people work backwards from their values, filtering the facts according to their pre-existing beliefs.

    This is particularly relevant in Australia at the moment, given that we have hust been saddled with a conservative government. Sure enough, many of the head honchos in said government interpret the climate science through the filter of their own values, and therefore wish to disregard as much of the science as possible.

    It's a similar situation to arguing with religious people, in that you can't reason them out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. Since taking climate science seriously would necessitate government action, and since their values/dogma hold that government should always stay out of the way of business as usual, they prefer to believe that there is no problem.

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     Reply #117 - September 27, 2013, 12:16 AM

    This is cool too: How many earths?

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     Reply #118 - September 27, 2013, 02:59 AM

    This is cool too: How many earths?

     That is one heck of a cool link Osama ..  let me give the link that gives same thing in words from JPL Kepler Boys.. .. Let me put some nuggets from it..

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    The Two Billion Earthlike Planets in the Milky Way: How Many Will Prove to Support Advanced Life?
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    "Aliens could have been pointing their antennas at Earth for 4.6 billion years, without picking up a signal. Maybe the inhabitants [of a Twin Earth] are at the level of the classical Romans ... or maybe trilobites. We need to check out hundreds of thousands of Earthlike worlds."

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    Our Milky Way galaxy may be home to at least two billion Earthlike planets, a new study based on initial data from from NASA's Kepler space telescope says -- a number that is actually far lower than many scientists anticipated, which could make it hard to find twin "Earths" in our galaxy.


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    "There are about a hundred billion sunlike stars within the Milky Way," said study co-author Joe Catanzarite, a scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Two percent of those might have Earth analogs, so you have two billion Earth analog planets in the galaxy," he added. "Then you start thinking about other galaxies. There are something like 50 billion, and if each one has two billion Earthlike planets, it's mind boggling."



    those numbers are indeed mind boggling..  after that read and think about these guys The Accuracy in Genesis and the size of their brain..

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     Reply #119 - September 27, 2013, 10:38 PM

    Chinese man has new nose grown on forehead

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfNsnUlZOOg

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    A man from China's Fujian province has had a new nose grown on his forehead following a traffic accident last year.

    The 22-year-old man suffered severe nasal trauma and his subsequent treatment caused his nasal cartilage to corrode. Surgeons came up with the idea of growing a nose on his forehead.

    After nine months of growth, surgeons say that the the nose is in good shape and the transplant will be performed soon.

    Damian Grammaticas reports.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLTKTP7Nxeg

    well the days of god are numbering .. That bioengineering is a fantastic technique which one day will allow  Bio scientists  to grow the limbs  of unfortunate folks  who lost them   in accidents ..wars and what not.. 

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