i fucking love science

[JimJams]

That's her in the tree!

 

[mnb089mnb]

We're all descended from Noel Edmunds?

 

[silkyman]

Ffs. Don't show that to David Icke!

 

[mnb089mnb]

What happened to the freshwater fish when Noah's flood covered the earth?

End thread.

 

[silkyman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rees-above-normal-at-north-pole/?sdfsfdsdfdsf

This probably isn't important....

 

[blade1889]

I love how factually correct many scientists want everything to be and how much they seem to enjoy picking holes in things.

Example and Spectre spoiler contained herein...

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/bond-villain-got-his-neuroanatomy-wrong-spectre

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I love how factually correct many scientists want everything to be and how much they seem to enjoy picking holes in things.

Example and Spectre spoiler contained herein...

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/bond-villain-got-his-neuroanatomy-wrong-spectre

This reminds me of the goofs section on IMDB and the bizarre mistakes people spot. My favourite is this, from The Polar Express:

When the train runs into the caribou, the noise they are making is actually that of elk.

Who are these people who actually know that and bother to tell the world about?

 

[blade1889]

This reminds me of the goofs section on IMDB and the bizarre mistakes people spot. My favourite is this, from The Polar Express:



Who are these people who actually know that and bother to tell the world about?

Its like all the mistakes on 'greatest movie mistakes' or whatever, you sit there half the time thinking "how on earth did someone spot that continuation error where a glass was full ten minutes earlier but now isn't".

 

[Renegade]

I can't believe I just spent 10 minutes reading an argument about almonds. It was driving me nuts.

 

[blade1889]

I love how this was a paper

http://www.theladbible.com/articles/here-s-how-you-re-supposed-to-slice-pizza-according-to-maths

Anybody would think scientists had too much time on their hands.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

why is that the 'correct' way

 

[blade1889]

I have no idea tbf and wondered the same...relies on just as much cutting skill as going through the middle 6 times tbh. Maybe its cos going through the middle 6 times is difficult as you have to work in 1/6ths all the time, as opposed to a pizza cut in 4, 8 or 16 where you can always cut in halves. But then that poses the question of why a pizza cut into 12 is needed. I may write a paper on this actually, 'the preferential number of slices a pizza should be cut into'.

 

[SALTIRE]

I love how this was a paper

http://www.theladbible.com/articles/here-s-how-you-re-supposed-to-slice-pizza-according-to-maths

Anybody would think scientists had too much time on their hands.

I was reading that last night and was going to post it here. Its just geometry and very interesting with all the different permutations.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

if u like permutations wait until i rearrange your face, nerd

 

[SALTIRE]

Possible first detection of gravitational waves?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/12/gravitation-waves-signal-rumoured-science

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

because the earth is round....LOL

 

[silkyman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...ough-Pompeii-due-to-amazing-preservation.html

This is quite cool..

 

[SALTIRE]

Quantum spacetime rainbows, fucking love it!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160114113514.htm

 

[blade1889]

Possible cure for some individuals with MS reported from trials in Sheffield

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35065905

The story of the lady who was in a wheelchair and walked out (as far as I can tell from the article) with no symptoms of MS is amazing.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

My wife has MS and although we won't be getting our hopes up yet, it is a pretty big breakthrough. As with all these things, some treatments work for some and not for others and it could be a decade before things are widely available. Watch this space I suppose.

 

[SALTIRE]

Largest prime number so far found. Fantastic.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...e-number-yet-discovered-has-22-million-digits

 

[silkyman]

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...t-nine-may-exist-on-edge-of-our-solar-system/

Planet Nine

 

[Tilbury]

https://twitter.com/bobatl

Some US rapper who genuinely thinks the world is flat. Quite amusing.

 

[SUTSS]

https://twitter.com/bobatl

Some US rapper who genuinely thinks the world is flat. Quite amusing.

Wrong thread for that.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.

 

[blade1889]

UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.

Thoughts?


I think many people in the UK have an amount of knee jerk reaction against things like this but once the benefits are explained most seem for it. Could just be my sheltered view of it though.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

I think far from being a risk it will eventually become a necessity. If you bypass natural selection somewhat with modern medicine then eventually that build up of genes that would otherwise have been selected against is going to catch up with you. It's either this or eugenics, which I don't see catching on.

 

[blade1889]

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/germanys-fusion-reactor-creates-hydrogen-plasma-world-first

Not even gonna pretend to understand most of this but a step closer to Nuclear Fusion being used...great!

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

bout time, been in sim city since the early 00s/late 90s

 

[SALTIRE]

Didn't know Angela Merkel had a doctorate in Physics, she gets hotter by the year.