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Postby Shyster » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:25 pm

Two billion years? Earth will probably be a boiling hot Venus by then.

The sun will destroy Earth a lot sooner than you might think
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 67506.html

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:33 pm

Man.... I love astronomy. I can't wait to visit the Southern Hemisphere to view the LMC, SMC, etc. Even seeing Canopus just above the horizon from Orlando was a thrill. But then again, I'm a dork ;)

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:22 am

You're a whale's penis alright.

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:52 pm

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @obhave

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Postby obhave » Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:59 pm

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @obhave
I had no idea this was a thing!

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I've been rewatching parks and rec, so here is a leslie knope gif

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Feb 11, 2019 4:31 pm

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:39 pm

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:41 pm

First ever air-to-air schlieren photographs of jets flying at supersonic speed, showing their shock collars and wave interactions.

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Absolutely spectacular first-ever air-to-air images of supersonic jets' shockwaves interacting

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Postby shmenguin » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:41 pm

Curing cancer or synthetic organs? Which comes first?

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:42 pm

Synthetic organs are already here, so...

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Postby shmenguin » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:43 pm

Synthetic organs are already here, so...

Ok good. No need to worry about cancer then.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:44 pm

WHAT HAVE I DONE

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat May 18, 2019 3:19 pm

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 10, the 'dress rehearsal' for the 11 moonshot.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue May 28, 2019 9:18 am

The consequences of waking up suddenly, and too early, include sleep inertia and social jetlag.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-o ... type=owned

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Postby Shyster » Tue May 28, 2019 8:02 pm

A dam good series of dam videos:








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Postby Shyster » Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:53 pm

This is fascinating. Canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) is a form of sexually-transmitted cancer in dogs that dates back somewhere around 6,000 years and could plausibly be considered a separate life form.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... es/595246/

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Postby Tomas » Wed Aug 21, 2019 1:52 pm

Television is awesome! :D

Early Childhood Education by Television: Lessons from Sesame Street

Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine


Abstract
We investigate whether preschool-age children exposed to Sesame Street when it aired in 1969 experienced improved educational and labor market outcomes. We exploit geographic variation in broadcast reception derived from technological factors, namely UHF versus VHF transmission. This variation is then related to Census data on grade-for-age status, educational attainment, and labor market outcomes. The results indicate that Sesame Street improved school performance, particularly for boys. The point estimates for long-term educational and labor market outcomes are generally imprecise.
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Kearney, Melissa S., and Phillip B. Levine. 2019. "Early Childhood Education by Television: Lessons from Sesame Street." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (1): 318-50.

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Postby MR25 » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:53 pm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... worts.html

Scientists were able to trace the path taken by Ötzi the Iceman before he died based on his clothes and the contents of his stomach.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:55 pm

So when do we start terraforming?

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:56 pm

Science is pretty damn amazing.

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Postby Kaiser » Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:05 pm

Science has figured out a way to decrease entropy at the molecular level:

https://www.livescience.com/amp/laser-f ... atter.html

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Postby Ad@m » Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:01 pm

NASA weighs in: Meteor over St. Louis was a basketball-sized piece of asteroid

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... b75b4.html

What thousands saw about 8:51 p.m. Monday was a basketball-size hunk of rock that broke off an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter before entering Earth’s atmosphere as a meteor, Bill Cooke, of the NASA Meteoroid Environments Office in Huntsville, Alabama, said Tuesday.

NASA experts used hundreds of eyewitness accounts from as far away as South Dakota and Minnesota along with two videos to calculate surprisingly precise details about the meteor: The approximately 220-pound rock traveled through the sky at 33,500 mph, faster than the speed of sound, causing the sonic boom. A NASA weather satellite helped the agency confirm it was brighter than Venus in the sky, making it a fireball.

Two videos, a standing shot of the Gateway Arch and another taken at the Missouri Skies observatory in Albany, Missouri, helped the NASA team track the meteor’s trajectory and path. It first appeared at an altitude of 59 miles above the town of Cedar Hill, southwest of St. Louis in Jefferson County, and continued for about 70 miles before breaking into pieces 12 miles above the ground, Cooke said.

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