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- utopian3
Einstein’s clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by
Ladies and gentlemen, your challenger. Meet a black hole new to the neighbourhood, weighing 140 million suns. That’s nothing to sneeze at: this plucky upstart is 35 times more massive than the black hole that holds court at the centre of our Milky Way.
- utopian6
A team of researchers using telescopes in space and on Earth announced a new haul of about 100 previously undiscovered alien planets on Monday.
104 newfound alien planets confirmed
The cosmic "treasure trove" was revealed using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and other observatories on Earth, according to a statement from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, which was one of the telescopes that helped corroborate the planetary discoveries.
These newly confirmed worlds will now be added to the approximately 3,300 planets we know of outside the solar system.
- STILL not a belief systemmonospaced
- keckekeksarahfailin
- What makes them "alien"yuekit
- Not in our solar system.monospaced
- utopian2
Physicists just did the impossible, and it could change the way we look at the quantum world
- cannot make sense of it. Can you explain in layman's??hotroddy
- I wish yuri was here to explain this to us retardsmoldero
- holy shit it looks like a close up of a CRT pixelmonospaced
- we used some 3d graphic software to make a thing, and then imagined what it could berobthelad
- lol. great explanation. I understand now.hotroddy
- utopian0
11 Brain-Twisting Paradoxes
Paradoxes have been around since the time of Ancient Greeks & the credit of popularizing them goes to recent logicians. Using logic you can usually find a fatal flaw in the paradox which shows why the seemingly impossible is either possible or the entire paradox is built on flawed thinking. Can you all work out the problems in each of the 11 paradoxes shown here? If you do, post your solutions or the fallacies in the comments.
- utopian0
Knowledge = Power!
http://listverse.com
- utopian0
Are We Alone? - An Odyssey Beyond The Limitations Of Science
Since the beginning of time, mankind has reached out beyond the ceaseless abyss achieving wonders. But the insidious question remains, “Why is there something rather than nothing?”. The universe appears the way it does by virtue of our presence as observers within it, but that makes the mind wonder, what else is out there? Are we alone?
- yuekit1
A team of Chinese scientists will be the first in the world to apply the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as Crispr on human subjects.
- This stuff is amazing...will change science and medicine during our lifetimes.yuekit
- Agreed. Huge for human tech. Let's hope it isn't demonized by ignorant moronsmonospaced
- One of the most potentially dangerous technologies we've ever created, and barely a peep about it, because complex. Will be interesting to see what happens.detritus
- CygnusZero4-5
I dont believe black holes exist. At least not in the dumb sci-fi sense that scientists would have us believe, with them being holes or tunnels. I dont refuse to believe that.
The good thing for me is scientists literally can never prove me wrong.
- movies say holes/tunnels, science just says "a fuck load of gravity, that not even yurimons trolling can escape"moldero
- Reputable scientists don't claim they know what black holes are. Black holes have been observed however, of course pulling everything in...Kuuchuu
- ...but also pushing out a certain type of energy. This energy has been measured using various instruments.Kuuchuu
- NASA's opening line: Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small areaT-Dawg
- Replace the word 'scientists' with 'filmmakers' and this checks out.T-Dawg
- but scientists aren't promoting the sci-fi version that they're holes or tunnelsmonospaced
- black holes exist ... what happens inside them, and what they actually do, that's all subject to the data and evidence we can collect through math and observatimonospaced
- they're real. just go to blackholes.comsarahfailin
- I seen porn. There are some black holes.robthelad
- moldero14
- lolmonospaced
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-devoted yuri fansterry_cloth - heh hehyurimon
- but does he believe in gravity?utopian
- "maybe gravity is like voodoo and only takes ahold of you if you believe in it" ~ Keanu woah facemoldero
- my d has gravity cause you always up on it.yurimon
- lolfadein11
- hahamoldero
- Yurimon made a funny.CyBrainX
- yurimon0
paging....
- Cool beans, seriously. I really hope he finds a way to show a connection and add to the growing body of human understanding.monospaced
- Personally, I would love for there to be a link between my "field of consciousness" and quantum mechanical fields. I hope he can someday show the connection.monospaced
- The idea is fascinating. The theory at this point seems quite rocky, though.monospaced
- Vodoutopian
- PonyBoy-1
"FIVE SECOND RULE" DEBUNKED
... finally someone took the time to prove it's not good to eat food off the floor
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/food…
:P
- sarahfailin2
Images from the Rosetta probe, now destroyed on the surface of the comet and fated to orbit the sun for millions of years. The probe took the close-ups of the comet as it was on a collision course, from a distance of about 10km. Pretty amazing that this probe took 10 years to get to the comet, and that they managed to hit the thing spot on.Neil DeGrasse Tyson said the first guy who figures out how to mine comets will be the world's first Trillionaire.
The Rosetta even managed to snap an image of the previously landed Philae lander that had lost contact with the European Space Agency previously: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/05/eu…
- detritus0
Came across this yesterday, which appears to up the ante where space-based travel's concerned (ie. once you're out of major gravity wells, which only chemical rockets are good for so far)
- utopian6
Did the Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tilt the Solar System?
In January, astronomers revealed evidence for the potential existence of another planet in the solar system. Researchers suggest that if this world — dubbed Planet Nine — exists, it could be about 10 times Earth's mass and orbit the sun at a distance about 500 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.
Previous research suggested that Planet Nine would possess a highly tilted orbit compared with the relatively thin, flat zone in which the eight official planets circle the sun. This led scientists to investigate whether Planet Nine's slant might help explain other tilting seen elsewhere in the solar system.
- Nibiru?PonyBoy
- Wormwood returnsset
- They've been talking about a possible "Planet X" forever.ETM
- And that must make it utterly untrue in your pea brain?set
- Was a bit drunk last night and assumed meaning in your post. You're right, they have been talking about it for ages. Since the beginning of humanity, in fact.set
- Since the beginning of humanity.monospaced
- Yes, since Sumer...set