Science is awesome!

[retrokill]

This picture is from the Cassini probe.

From Bad Astonomy (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/02/cassinis-pentaverate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astro nomy%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)

This shot shows Saturn’s rings nearly edge-on, but dominating the scene is Rhea, 1500 km (950 miles) in diameter, seen here 61,000 km (38,000 miles) distant. Below it is Dione, to the right and just above the rings is Epimetheus, and Tethys is all the way on the right, below the rings......Look to the right of Dione, right at the rings. See that tiny bump? That’s dinky Prometheus, all of 119 km (71 miles) along its longest dimension — it’s basically a spud orbiting Saturn.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2011/05/cassini_fiveworlds.jpg

Check out his post on (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/02/shadow-of-endeavour/)Endeavours last mission to the ISS. Awesome!

[John CANavar]

Science is AWESOME ! Totally agree :) You gotta love Cassini.

[Remi]

Universe is amazing.

Have you seen this video?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6_hdRtJOE

[Jazy2]

Beautiful!

[John CANavar]

And this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-Vl-LTk2U&feature=fvwrel

[retrokill]

They're fantastic!

[retrokill]

Just to bump an old thread.

Quantum levitation.

Harry Potter? Meh!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

[MrMojay]

Luuuuuv it!

[FINArsi]

Thats cool!

[OneEar]

Holy poop!

[big-eye101]

thats cool :D

[big-eye101]

Earth is beautiful:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=430ykbW1zqA&feature=topvideos_science

[OneEar]

Awesome! Retro linked us to this on Teamspeak last night.

[big-eye101]

Awesome! Retro linked us to this on Teamspeak last night.

I'm missing out :(

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[retrokill]

This website (http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/)is the blog of an epidemiologist, the tracking and study of the progression of diseases and disorders through populations. It's an essential medical science and how flu vaccination predictions are made, for just one example.

However, the reasons for this Campylobacter food poisoning outbreak in two men in the US is just....well....not right! On so many levels.

This is how they caught it. Not for the squeamish (http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2011/12/castrating_sheep_with_teeth_no.php), hence only the link.

I caught Campylobacter from undercooked chicken in a restaurant a few years ago. Great weight loss programme but expensive on underwear. Never been the same since.

[Exploding_Silver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1zjRU8hBo

[retrokill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_f3SkxTWxc&feature=player_embedded

[retrokill]

If you did biology at school you may have come across the Peppered Moth as an example of natural selection. In short, during Britain's industrial era lots of trees became darkened with soot and dead lichen killed by acid rain. This caused the local moth population to become largely black in colour around cities but the county population remained white with peppery black spots. After the clean air acts passed by government in the 1950's the city populations reverted back to its peppered form. The selection pressure was from bird predation. A nice simple and elegant story of natural selection in action in less than two centuries but troubled by flawed experiments causing some doubt.

A newly released paper has confirmed the theory of bird predation with new and better designed experiments. Head over here (http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/the-peppered-moth-story-is-solid/) for an easy to read explanation of the Peppered Moth and the new data. It's an interesting slice of science history.

http://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/photography/cats/11321.jpg

[big-eye101]

Japan builds a space elevator?!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57383872-1/japan-plans-snail-paced-space-elevator-for-2050/

[big-eye101]

Uh, something else I came across:

Feel small yet?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

(best viewed in pop out window) :D

[retrokill]

I'm saving for a trip in that elevator!

Nice finds big-eye.

[big-eye101]

Found an article that Mojay will be especially interested in ;)

quantum computing:
http://www.zmescience.com/research/ibm-quantum-computer-28022012/

(http://www.zmescience.com/research/ibm-quantum-computer-28022012/)

[MrMojay]

I see your article and raise you another article with video. :) ;)

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-ibm-advances-device-quantum.html

[retrokill]

...and I raise Mojay Majorana fermion qbits (http://www.nature.com/news/quest-for-quirky-quantum-particles-may-have-struck-gold-1.10124).

[big-eye101]

nice stuff :D


I see your article and raise you another article with video. :) ;)

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-ibm-advances-device-quantum.html

quote from video: "... if there is one place this could happen it is IBM"

*rolles eyes* :S ...

[MrMojay]

...and I raise Mojay Majorana fermion qbits (http://www.nature.com/news/quest-for-quirky-quantum-particles-may-have-struck-gold-1.10124).

eek! ;)




quote from video: "... if there is one place this could happen it is IBM"

*rolles eyes* :S ...

Rolling eyes with you buddy. ;)

[retrokill]

From Schneier on Security (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/implicit_passwo.html)-


The process of learning the password (or cryptographic key) involves the use of a specially crafted computer game that, funnily enough, resembles Guitar Hero.

My kind of password :)

[retrokill]

Footage of the Curiosity landing on Mars, recorded from a camera on the underside of the rover.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I&feature=relmfu

[Jazy2]

How Curiosity is being fooled!!!!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405250_459595820728101_2076298365_n.jpg

[retrokill]

Or....
https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/8/10/8UBvr_44VEWe_-NjkUPBhQ2.gif

[retrokill]

I saw this today (http://answersingenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/in-memoriam.html), in memory of Neil Armstrong. On the left, the earliest known footprint of one of our ancestors, most likely Homo Erectus. On the right...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-awt67oVL6uI/UDniVaSnFeI/AAAAAAAAAiY/cmC2jsRgCLE/s1600/footprints.jpg

[Exploding_Silver]

Thats impressive

[retrokill]

It is, isn't it - the ages of man.

Also from Wil Wheaton (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/08/rest-in-peace-neil-armstrong.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wwdn+%28WIL+WHEATON+dot+NET%3 A+in+Exile%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)

I met Neil Armstrong once, at a dinner to honor Jimmy Doohan in the early 2000s.

He was not much taller than me, but he was a giant of a man. He was as kind as he was intimidating.

I don’t remember what I said to him, or what he said to me, because all I could think the entire time was “This man has walked on the ----ing moon.”

Rest in peace, Neil. Because of your bravery and your courage, an entire species will forever look into the night sky and see not a mystery, but a destination.

[retrokill]

Monkey poop tells the story of why HIV-1 originated where it did and why other regions of Africa did not see a crossover infection to humans. (http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/09/12/monkey-poop-and-the-evolutionary-power-of-hiv/)

Given my reflexive abhorrence to poo in all forms I think it made me really appreciate the lengths the researchers went to get the data.

[retrokill]

From NASA

NASA’s Spot the Station service sends you an email or text message a few hours before the space station passes over your house.

Sign up here (http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/index.cfm).

[big-eye101]

Asteroid-Mining starting 2015
http://www.space.com/19368-asteroid-mining-deep-space-industries.html
science fiction? early april fools?

Press conference live in 4 hours at:
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html


I don't know what to make of it but I am curious :)

[OneEar]

Ooh, sounds interesting!

[retrokill]

It does sound interesting, especially if they are starting in 2 years.

Where can I get a space trucker licence?

[Wabbitbane]

http://youtu.be/I9zBGgpzl0I

[Jazy2]

Sweet!

[retrokill]

Asteroids - tonight will see an asteroid pass quite close to earth, the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/feb/15/asteroid-2012-da14?INTCMP=SRCH)has a decent article on it with links to a NASA livestream incase it's cloudy out by you and also a handy graphic giving viewing times.

Videos and expert commentary (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html)on the 'roid tha broke up over the Urals this morning.

[Jazy2]

Pity about needing binoculars for tonight....I might have taken a break from drinking beer and shooting stuff to take a look at it :(

[retrokill]

A collection of Earth images from 2012 by NASA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sckOSMf-LpY