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- utopian1
Evaporating Water Could Power Almost 70% of The US Electrical Grid
- yuekit0
Why Hasn’t Evolution Made Another Platypus?
The debate over whether evolution is predictable or haphazard.
- isn't it because the platypus was a stopgap in the development of live-birth mammals? it has only a tenuous grasp on the niche it still has.sarahfailin
- Or at all (runs and hides under the table!)mugwart
- detritus2
Ah shit, I meant to look heavenward an hour or so ago, about when our noble and loyal friend Cassini dropped into Saturn — it'll be gone now, obliterated into dust under so much pressure.
Earth should receive its final message in about half an hour or so.
So long — thanks for all the pics!
x
- Laterally, our lobbing a radioactive kinetic projectile at the Saturnians might well kick off our first inter-planetary war.detritus
- detritus0
"The great nutrient collapse
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention."
- detritus2
This is so cool to me - Australia's inland plam trees were likely brought to the continent by aboriginal travellers 30,000 years ago...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-…
...and, what's more, 'evidence' of this was apparently transmitted through their oral traditions.
- detritus1
Join Helen Foster/Jodie Hunt in her enthusiasm for a solar storm which could fuck us all (probably won't).
- but no Jodie Foster?monospaced
- I was thinking of her in Contact.
I often do.detritus - Jodie Foster and Helen Hunt, together at last.Continuity
- haha, Helen Hunt ... how did I miss that!?monospaced
- BusterBoy3
- When will all the "#Winning" stop?utopian
- That guys face says "Kick me as hard as you can".section_014
- hans_glib0
This is interesting... Using bacteri to create energy (sort of)
'Cyborg' bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienc…
- _niko1
Theses are cool
- set0
Until I finished this sentence I was assuming it's egg could fly.
"The presence of "flight feathers" suggests the bird could fly when hatched."
- Gnash2
Baby bird discovered in 99-million-year-old amber with feathers, colour intact
- Ahh so that's where he went. Served him rught, I fucking hated 'your gorgeous'.Morning_star
- *right, *you're (i'm drunk, what the fuck do you want from me)Morning_star
- Gnash3
Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins
The evolutionary story of modern humans just got more complicated- fascinating, but it always bugged me that they make these grand assumptions based on a few fossils. there could be older human ancestral remains elsewhere_niko
- given how vast this planet is. We are discovering new species of dinosaurs all the time, full intact specimens, imagine how many more partial human like skeleto_niko
- remain to be discovered in this massive planet._niko
- ^ totally true. next week humanity will have sprung from HobokenGnash
- to be fair, It's really just the media that goes all crazy. the scientists just keep chipping away, minding their own businessGnash
- They are hardly grand assumptions, they are just our best guess based on lifetimes of mounting evidence, forever being refined and updatedmonospaced
- Then don't say humans started here, just say the earliest recorded human remains so far were found here. They've been saying it started from one soecific_niko
- Location and spread to the rest of the planet which we now know is false._niko
- They did say that. They said it's "more complicated," and the world is adjusting its story based on the evidence.monospaced
- *didn'tmonospaced
- uan1
After all, no contact. 40-Year old mystery of the “Wow!” signal was just solved.
Professor Antonio Paris, of St Petersburg College, has now discovered the explanation: A pair of comets.
- yup. just read that, i was so disappointed. should've stayed a mystery.renderedred
- awe, so many hopeful dreams smashed by the hammer of rational realitymonospaced
- Rational reality? There is undoubtedly other life in the universe, what's so irrational about thinking it could possibly be an artefact from other worlds.Morning_star
- relax, I was just fuckin around, I agree with you :)monospaced
- I was talking about the people who considered this PROOF of aliens, that's all. Just nice to see a much simpler, verifiable cause put that to rest.monospaced
- Fair enough. I agree.Morning_star
- who here draws teeny circles to dot their exclamation points?Gnash
- People named after cartoon mice.detritus
- that ends that?since1979