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- face_melter4
"This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. They commanded the spacecraft to fire a set of four trajectory thrusters for the first time in 37 years..."
- brilliantfadein11
- amazing—they had to wait nearly 40 hours just to see if Voyager accepted the command (20 hours to get there... 20 hours more to see if it even responded)PonyBoy
- ... and we bitch about Netflix lagging from time to time... :)PonyBoy
- ^ hahahamugwart
- Truly remarkable, even more remarkable is the sad state of affairs 40 years later on the country that launched it. I bet it’s glad to be so far from earth lol_niko
- lol ponyfadein11
- dorf4
the word expanding is incorrect. the proper term would be stretching. the universe is stretching just how a balloon stretches when filled with air.
imagine that you draw a number of dots on a balloon. as you pump air in, the dots start to separate and the distance between them increases. this scenario is what's currently happening in the universe.
better explained here:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu…- what about pre-Great Inflation?detritus
- from what I've read it could be that the universe was a small dense object held in check by gravity. then a high energy event occurred to overcome gravity.dorf
- try reading Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. It's a little dense at times but provides good explanation of concepts.dorf
- when u chase a rainbow is it expanding. i think our concepts of beginnings/ends are incorrect. we think of the things as static and solid, but they never are.deathboy
- time and space I always think of as a rainbow. no beginning no end because both are dynamic and relative. tomorrow is yesterday. does it matterdeathboy
- but i also played with the idea that there was a beginning and an end. which would mean there is no infinite. which might fuck math up. need a symbol that meansdeathboy
- almost infinite but not infinite in that it might take near infinite decimal spaces but cant be infinite. but how do u measure something near infinite? a superdeathboy
- computer to run for 1000s year to register a final near infinite number. than their is language and time. many cultures dont have language to perceive timedeathboy
- i really liked the movie arrival with its focus linguistics and time. How linguistics define time and cultures like hopi see it differently.deathboy
- perhaps we have used language wrong to give time a now before and after which altars our perception of it and approach. its convenient for dates thoughdeathboy
- ^ why didn't you just write that in a separate post?dorf
- more of an off the cuff comment. not really deserving of a post for a thread bumpdeathboy
- A balloon is 'expanding' when it's blown up. Stretching... Expanding.... Semanticsset
- I agree with deathboy though. Trying to fit the universe in to our narrow understanding is pretty futile.set
- sted4
- https://advances.sci…sted
- So this how they put the nanobots in the vaccines hmmmmmgrafician
- I need one in me right nowBeeswax
- sted3
Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs
Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.
- * gay japanese scientistsESKEMA
- Why wait?drgs
- ButtOxNonEntity
- the phrase "to blow smoke up your ass" comes from using arse belows to save people from drowning https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- PhanLo3
Novel HIV vaccine approach shows promise in “landmark” first-in-human trial and successfully stimulates the production of the rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV in 97 percent of participants
- Thanks in part to Covid research.PhanLo
- is it an mRNA vaccine? doesn't say in the article.renderedred
- https://www.european… Yep, it says in this one.PhanLo
- so 3% of the population will get HIV if injected vs 0.00000003% if not injected.
wake top sheeple, it's easy math
-pr2_niko - ^ Lol Niko. :-)PhanLo
- remember in the 80s when AIDS was a "Gay" thing, fuck the 80'sGuyFawkes
- uan2
- It was aliens, everyone knows this.
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Actually looks interesting, will watch.PhanLo - Just looking at the walls you can see the air bubbles that remained from the casting, so yeah, this seems plausible.grafician
- So all the monuments are not sculptures made with "alien" lasers or tools, but simply "cement" constructions like we do them today.grafician
- Many natural stones, if you cut them, have “bubbles” and it is in no way an indication of a mould. Large pieces of stone aren’t just softened either.monospaced
- We are talking about clearly man-made structures, not natural stones. But after this doc, it's pretty clear everything South American is made with "concrete".grafician
- If it hardens, it’s even “concrete” or “cocaine”. j/kmaquito
- It’s not science until we’re able to replicate itGnash
- what Gnash saidmonospaced
- @Gnash Huh?! How so? We also know about black holes but we can't replicate them, are they not science? :))grafician
- We know how to make a black hole, we have the recipe. we just don’t have enough energy to make one ourselvesGnash
- Its just theory until we’re able to replicate it,Gnash
- Not that theory isn’t science, but in this case it’s just conjectureGnash
- Gnash didn't say the subject needed to be replicated, just the studies. Studies on black holes are conducted and math is replicated.monospaced
- It was aliens, everyone knows this.
- maquito2
Breakthrough as scientists create a new cowpox-style virus that can kill EVERY type of cancer.
Now in pre-clinical trials.
- cool!renderedred
- brought to you by Umbrella Corp.sarahfailin
- lol yep. This is how many of the finest zombie apocalypses and outbreak scenarios start.MondoMorphic
- *resumes smoking*lajj
- It kills the patients but it also kills cancer.deadsperm
- Gnash3
- we're number 1!_niko
- Greece, bitchesGnash
- http://e.snmc.io/lk/…Gnash
- woohoo, another thing we invented! mankind!!! lol_niko
- Greek is https://en.wikipedia…sonnde
- well, not really. Greeks were already messing the Phoenician alphabet in the 8th c.BC. Punic was a Phoenician dialect that evolved around the same time.Gnash
- but I get your point.Gnash
- but the greeks were already speaking porto-greek, they just 'appropriated' the phoenician letter forms to illustrate their wordsGnash
- you said something about gentrifying?sonnde
- did I?Gnash
- I'll let you figure that one out.sonnde
- linguistic evolution ≠ gentrificationGnash
- social engineering via connotative linguistics = gentrification ... you said appropriate, if greeks are so dope why not invent something ... they are childrensonnde
- https://assets2.ello…sonnde
- I'm not familiar with connotative linguistics - i'll look it up. I only put 'appropriated" in quotes because of the recent social memeGnash
- greeks invented tons of stuff -- including HUMANITY! hence the initial post!Gnash
- Ya, not sure why they riffed on Phoenician letters instead of making new. perhaps was just easier since it was already somewhat knownGnash
- Yeah easy breezysonnde
- I do believe that, Easy Breezy, in the anthropological term for thatGnash
- *is theGnash
- Don't feed the troll, there is no connection between Greeks and Punic no matter what son of ham claims. He's trying to say black people rule_niko
- Even though carthigeans and phoneceans werent black. Then he has the audacity to question the contributions of Greeks to the world? L o fucking L_niko
- Plus clearly the phonecean alphabet is older than the Greek but it was invented by a Greek living in phoenecia at the time :)_niko
- and the phoenecians borrowed from the egyptians, who borrowed from someone else all the way down the line to the first people 7.2 million years ago in Greece._niko
- so suck it, lol :)_niko
- ehehe. /threadGnash
- Good luck w that theory, plus we have more https://www.ted.com/…sonnde
- You holding on to 1 of nothingsonnde
- Caucasians are dark skin not pale, you are not original anything, Original people from Ireland? Briton? SWARTHY!sonnde
- https://en.wikipedia… You're not even original Greek. Shove it!sonnde
- ^ that's a romanGnash
- Its called Greco - Roman for a reasonsonnde
- https://assets2.ello…sonnde
- ^ supposed to be ari and al?Gnash
- Aristotle tutors Alexander the Great. From Animals and their Uses/Kitab na't al-hayawan wa-manafi'ihi by Aristotle, this edition by ibn Bakhtishu'sonnde
- http://68.media.tumb… "but he was white??!!" lolsonnde
- skin colour has nothing to do with race. unless you're a redneck in which case you think Sicilians are black._niko
- race has nothing to do with nationality, you're the one saying 'white' ... https://siciliangodm…sonnde
- Italy = Etruscan ... At least this lady can see it http://68.media.tumb…sonnde
- ^^^ that's socrates, not ari.Gnash
- didn't say it was, you're confusing images, aristotle was in the other image. keep up buddy. http://68.media.tumb…sonnde
- point is 2 for me none for yousonnde
- I know, I said Ari and Al before you posted. You keep dropping random shit, hard to keep up.Gnash
- Interesting thoughGnash
- Socrates sure was an ugly fucker, thoughGnash
- fight tooth and nail for a crumb thats not yours https://consequenceo… = uglysonnde
- "Interesting" I'm sure it issonnde
- ^ not an attractive lot there, eitherGnash
- bottom line -- humans arose out of Greece.Gnash
- mankind not mansonnde
- still. greece.Gnash
- oh cause you say so? i get it eh? okee then aw geezsonnde
- 'cause scienceGnash
- i see where trump gets it from ... btw who actually voted for him? hmmm...sonnde
- not sure how much you see, actually, you don't display much insight.Gnash
- The secret (i.e., “Sacred”) religion arose from the natural and insuperable difficulty of communicating the great truths of astronomy to the ignorant ...sonnde
- ^ The guy who wrote that, while a decent musician, was intellectually, a child. you should choose smarter influences.Gnash
- I'm sure you were at the cool table and he was drooling somewhere, I'm sure.sonnde
- don't be surprised that you can't see too far when your standing on the shoulders of midgetsGnash
- you're* g'dammitGnash
- "don't be surprised that you can't see too far when your standing on the shoulders of midgets". f'lol gnashdetritus
- the masses ... them assessonnde
- the moorons, the mooronsGnash
- wrong spelling, geez get an education you beast https://en.wikipedia…)sonnde
- Maroons were Africans who had escaped from slavery in the Americas and formed independent settlements. The term can also be applied to their descendants.sonnde
- spelling is correct
http://i.imgur.com/n…Gnash - oh yeah, i forgot grunts and squeaks, okey dokey!sonnde
- Bluejam1
- fuck ancient memory techniques!
;-)Bluejam - lol:)uan
- Finally.monospaced
- it will turn out that we can fill that other 90% in just a few days, and still use the other 10% for everything else.sted
- next: buy brain extension hardware, like sd cards for your phone.uan
- we can now upload QBN to brainmoldero
- Uploading COTD thread...nbq
- fuck ancient memory techniques!
- Gnash-2
Decolonize science.
Science is a western "cultural construct" whose claim to a universally valid rationality is no more than a flimsy cover for imperialism and racism- simple, it was Storm from the x-men_niko
- uh... no it's not, it's just a process of figuring shit outmonospaced
- common core safe spaces. you get an A++ for feels.yurimon
- Fascinating!
Upvoted.ORAZAL - I... I can't even... I... Help.face_melter
- I wish the word 'idiocracy' wasn't already the name of a movie, because it's perfect here.detritus
- If they're so anti-science, take away their iPhones.detritus
- I'd be interested to find out how these people get to such a place in their thoughts.Ianbolton
- http://imgur.com/gal…NonEntity
- Once you eliminate the discomfort of being confronted with things you didn't think of yourself, you can arrive at any conclusion.i_monk
- sted4
here is a good search for people like pr2
"mandatory vaccines worldwide -covid"
+ here is an other one:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/to…
- sted4
... Suddenly the team was able to tune different sections of the same magic material into a plethora of electronic states, from superconducting to insulating to somewhere in between. Then, by applying gates in different configurations, they were able to reproduce all of the parts of an electronic circuit that would ordinarily be created with completely different materials.
- keewee2
-New study sows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe
“We don't know much about dark matter other than that it is a heavy and slow particle. But then we wondered -- what if dark matter had some quality that was analogous to magnetism in it? We know that as normal particles move around, they create magnetism. And, magnets attract or repel other magnets -- so what if that's what's going on in the universe? That this constant expansion of dark matter is occurring thanks to some sort of magnetic force?"
- I can buy this. DM is a fix for forces that we don't yet comprehend. DE too, I suspect.Nairn
- What if magnetism is time itself. And ifwe just put a big enough magnet on a DeLorean we'd have a time machine?shapesalad
- FTL is basically time travel...grafician
- Magnets, how the fuck do they workdrgs
- sarahfailin1
https://www.vice.com/en_us/artic…
'The Blowjob Paper:' Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick
The researchers designed a dense neural network (DNN) architecture that predicts a blowjob giver’s next move based on analysis of past movements, kind of like predictive text on your phone.- WANT of the day!eryx
- Blowjob ai: Deep Throating_niko
- am I the only guy for which blowjobs does nothing for him?shapesalad
- Blowiobs are great but i dont get off on them eithercannonball1978
- Still comes down to who they're analysing... I've had some bad blowjobs in my life. What if they used a 'Teethy Tonya' or a 'Limp-lipped Larry'?!!PonyBoy
- Gnash3
Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool
She was in the water for 15 minutes.
https://www.sciencealert.com/sci…- "she could no longer speak, walk, or respond to voices – but would uncontrollably squirm around and shake her head."Gnash
- After treatment "still bore a mild residual injury to her brain, but had experienced a near-complete reversal of cortical and white matter atrophy."Gnash
- amazingGnash
- if it's the only case of its kind, I wonder of there were other factors at play here. The oxygen therapy seems like it boosts the body's ability to regenerate_niko
- cells so it must have been something with this girls's unique physiology that helped her pull through where others failed. x-23? :)_niko
- they're pretty sure it had to do with her age -- the brain is still developing.Gnash
- likely have no effect on us geezersGnash
- it's not clear how often this has been tried beforeGnash
- Interesting. I've read about parts of the young brain taking on another part's job if it's damaged. Crazyset
- Gnash4
Secret of how Roman concrete survived tidal battering for 2,000 years revealed
- Gnash2
First object teleported to Earth's orbit
Chinese researchers have teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting five hundred kilometres above the earth.
This is achieved through quantum entanglement, a process where two particles react as one with no physical connection between them.
- this is great and all but wouldn't we be better off if we stood on corners wearing a fez angrily yelling shit about a glorious past that never happened?_niko
- seriously, who needs scientific progress or any kind of progress when we can just dig up obscure non-factual shit that we read on the internet and break..._niko
- ...everyone's balls about it._niko
- https://darrenjamese…pablo28
- haha, nikoGnash
- you can't even enjoy science anymore niko. lay off this atheist attitude a bit man. And fez is a fashion item, let's not mix it into this.Beeswax
- ^ he's referencing a 'moors' discussion happening elsewhere, bees -- not about god, about pseudo-scienceGnash
- What gnash said. I might break balls about religion in general but I'd never insult the fez! ;)_niko
- as an aside, the fez was originally Greek, ya knowGnash
- The Fez was originally a Greek hat (fesi) the Ottomans adopted in the early 19th Century as part of their efforts to modernize w/ their European counterpartsGnash
- :)Gnash
- interesting. The dude on that video appropriates a greek head dress and dreads which the greeks also rocked thousands of years ago lol._niko
- lulz.Gnash
- sarahfailin1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n…
Larger than Earth and farther away from Pluto, new evidence suggests a NINTH PLANET lurking at the edge of the solar system.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/w…- https://mhlumberjack…Maaku
- Planet X theory rides again.ETM
- surely they can detect it with radar or infrared or something?_niko
- they can detect planets on other star systems, they should be able to use the same method here ie the dimming of stars that it passes in front of_niko
- I'd like to believe that it exists, it would be cool as shit but they're basing this on some exoplanet's erratic orbits? Not sure I buy it._niko
- not that i have any idea of what the fuck i'm talking about_niko
- yeah, that star-dimming technique is for planets much closer to their stars, viewed when the planet comes between us and the star; never happens in this casesarahfailin
- ^+moldero