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- Beeswax1
Scientists discovered that Scottish people are evolved from now extinct forest elves.
- sofas0
Earprints as criminal evidence
“An earprint is an impression of the external ear. House breakers may leave their earprints inadvertently when they listen at doors and windows to check if there is anyone inside before breaking and entering a premises. Owing to uniqueness and individualistic characteristics of the human ear, earprints can be used as evidence to link a criminal with the crime. In the recent past, many suspected thieves have been convicted and several burglaries linked due to the presence of similar earprints.”
- sofas0
"Transgender woman able to breastfeed in first documented case"
- https://www.youtube.…sofas
- how self-absorbed does one need to be in order to put their own child at risk in order to shore up their identityGnash
- seriously_niko
- like either of you understand their experience...imbecile
- isn't the mere act of having children a defining moment for some people? "life begins with kids" that shit, same thing.imbecile
- like anyone needs to understand the experience of poisoning a kid. but stay woke! cause that's more importantGnash
- https://www.youtube.…GM278
- HAHAHAHA SOFAS should have clicked your link.GM278
- PonyBoy0
McDonald's french fries contain chemical that may cure baldness, study says
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drin…
"A Japanese stem cell research team may have found a way to eliminate baldness by using an ingredient in McDonald’s french fries.
The scientists from Yokohama National University discovered the chemical dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicone used in McDonald’s fry oil to prevent splashing, can be used to mass produce hair follicles on mice."
- sofas0
"Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?"
"The electrical activity that moves across neurons is thought by some scientists to contribute to human consciousness. If electrical activity is being disrupted by anesthetic in plants, too, causing them to “lose consciousness,” does that mean, in some way, that they are conscious?"
- sted7
How the Universe Got Its Bounce Back
Cosmologists have shown that it’s theoretically possible for a contracting universe to bounce and expand. The new work resuscitates an old idea that directly challenges the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/b…
animation by qbn member davidope
- you sure he is on qbn?
where's lolcube?uan - sup?lolcube
- This isn't a new concept. From 2006: https://www.theguard…garbage
- Not knocking the idea, just saying.garbage
- It's older than that - i was a big believer in universal expansion/collapse when I was in Uni ... 20 years ago *sobs*detritus
- *note 'believer' :)detritus
- This theory has been around for awhile though. But it's seems unlikely because the rate of expansion is actually accelerating, not decelerating.twooh
- The very cyclical nature of... nature would tend to lend weight to this theory.set
- Looove that animation!!!jagara
- Me too. I stared at it for about 5 minutesset
- I believe (!) that an ever expanding u overseas could be 'cyclical' too - once every sub-atom has utterly faded out, a new null state might be achieved..detritus
- (Ugh *universe, not u overseas, damn phone)
..allowing for whatever event precipitates big bangs to happen againdetritus
- you sure he is on qbn?
- sofas0
Un-backed random thoughts of the day:
Is fear of intimacy widespread?
If intimacy is personal truth, and people are constantly lying because the truth is scary, then I think it's widespread. People are scared of being intimate with themselves and with others.In relationships, it seems sex is used to mask it, make it seem as if it isn't present and keep the mind off it.
Why is it that the first intimate contact between two newly acquainted people who are interested in a long term meaningful relationship, is not an intimate discussion or feeling, but touch and specifically french kissing?
In no time, they go from strangers to sexually engaged with no intimcay involved.It seems as if the more one represses intimacy, the more a yearning for contact manifests in needing touch.
Also with touch alone, one can continue lying, no words are necessary.Interestingly, pedophiles suffer from this, maybe this has to do with circles of violence as the bellow wiki article relates to abuse victims as well -
"Current studies show that people who have an insufficient amount of intimacy or are lonely are more vulnerable to exhibit sexually offending behaviors.[12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe…Going with this rational, maybe it's not surprising that men, who are supposed to be stoic and fear more than a handshake with other men or talking about their feelings, have more fear of intimacy than women.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/…I assume that the fear is increasing.
- OSHO: The Fear of Intimacy
https://www.youtube.…sofas - oh sofas ...monospaced
- :)sofas
- OSHO: The Fear of Intimacy
- Gnash7
Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice - 90 of 90 mice cured of cancers with lymphoma, similar results observed in colon, breast, and melanoma cancers.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/al…
TL;DR
Two immune stimulating agents injected into the tumors of mice eliminated all traces of cancer as well as distant, untreated metastases. 87 of 90 mice were cured of the cancer.
Although the cancer returned in three mice, they again regressed after a second treatment.
The researchers saw similar results in mice bearing breast, colon, and melanoma tumors. Treating the first tumor that arose often prevented the occurrence of future tumors.
One agent is already approved for human use and the other has been tested in other unrelated clinical trials. A clinical trial was launched in January to test the effect of the treatment in patients with lymphoma.
- nice!monospaced
- +GuyFawkes
- Amazing, hope they open source that tech before the pharmaceutical companies buy it and shelve it.slappy
- ^ yup. pharm must be shitting their pants at the idea of curesGnash
- PonyBoy-8
Genetically engineered ‘super-horses’ to be born in 2019 and could soon compete in Olympics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scien…
"Genetically engineered horses designed to be faster, stronger and better jumpers will be born in 2019 after a breakthrough by the same laboratory which clones polo ponies."
- near and dear to my heart (and CALLES')PonyBoy
- I have mixed feeling about this tech. It's one thing to breed preferred traits over generations, another to do it instantly with genetic finagling...Gnash
- ... the end result is the same, why aren't both methods equally disturbing?Gnash
- (I take it by the DV's that most feel that genetic manipulation is bad).Gnash
- isn't almost everything Genetically engineered these days?GuyFawkes
- PonyBoy0
Woman, 26, Has Baby Born From Record Breaking 24-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/20…
“Emma’s embryo was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, when Tina was just a year-and-a-half old.”
- 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
- Gnash0
crap. supposed to be this pic. damn clipboard. oops
- Gnash0
Human Footprints Found In Greece Almost 6-Million-Years-Old, Could Challenge Theories Of Human Evolution
A new discovery of early human footprints in Greece doesn’t just stand out because the footprints are said to be close to 6-million-years-old. Instead, it’s because of where the footprints were spotted, as the findings could challenge the accepted theory that humanity began in Africa and didn’t spread out to other continents until millions of years later.
- 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
- 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
- _niko3
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pretend that dot above is the current size of the universe. How far it has expanded from the big bang until now, 13.82 billion years later. Your screen represents the void that it is expanding into.
Actually the space in the room that you are in, or the space of the entire planet or the space of the universe itself compared to that dot above represents the infinite space that our universe can expand into.
Now what's to say that there isn't another dot 1km away, or 100 km away or a million km away. What's to say that there isn't billions of these dots stretching endlessly into the infinite void.
I've woken up in a cold sweat the past couple of days struggling with the concept of the nothingness before the big bang(s).
How did energy, gravity and everything else arise from nothingness. If there is time after the big bang, was there time before? how much?
- btw, here is the universe for scale
http://scaleofuniver…_niko - smoke a weed for a month straight, isolate yourself in a room, and ponder these thoughts...will lead to an existential crisishotroddy
- lol fuck that, I'm having an existential crisis with just a beer and some coffee I'd hate to see what weed would do to me lol_niko
- go find some lectures on the subject ... online or if you're lucky you can find a live talk at a university or museum seriesmonospaced
- Seriously awe inspiring stuff that makes you see how insignificant we all are in the big scheme of things. Quite humbling, mysterious and perfect in its nature.monospaced
- https://www.youtube.…dorf
- time, space, and matter are inextricably linked. matter compressed to a singularity just means time and space exist in a different form.Gnash
- Thoughts like these are why I had to stop taking acid way back. Getting lost in infinity isn't anywhere near as cool as it sounds. It's a sickeningly big place.detritus
- ... much more fascinating and meaningful than religionmonospaced
- There's not much human-tangible meaning in infinity ... unless you're Numbers Guy and don't understand how much noise there is before value.detritus
- true, there is no tangible benefit to being able to comprehend the universe we live in, but that comprehension is more valuable (to me) than mere superstitionmonospaced
- All religion is superstition? Even the better parts of Jesus' teachings? Buddha's?detritus
- There's a lot more to religion than sky daddy bullshit, irrespective of whether we agnostics agree that bundling morals within is a good idea or not.detritus
- I didn't say that.monospaced
- In my opinion, the better part of Jesus', or Buddha's teachings, have nothing to do with superstition at all. They aren't even really religious. My opinion.monospaced
- In my opinion, the idea that morals are unique to religion is pure nonsense.monospaced
- I just find the actual universe, the one we learn more about all the time, including infinity, to be amazing and humbling, in an almost spiritual way.monospaced
- You implied as much, and I didn't say that.
I sense that you're going to get all reactionary at anything I respond with here, so I'm bowing out.detritus - https://youtu.be/rlm…mtch
- Certainly not reactionary, man. I even clarified that it was my opinion about superstition. I shared a thought, you started the arguing. Chillax please.monospaced
- Go back and read, my friend, we're just having a simple, healthy, discussion, and saying similar things. :)monospaced
- matter spontaneously comes into existence https://www.scientif… quantum fluctuation for the winimbecile
- and fuck ben wexler for once again starting shit and blaming his "victim"imbecile
- dude what is your problem? i didn't start any shit, I was talking about what _niko posted, I didn't say anything antagonisticmonospaced
- this is at least the 3rd time you've attempted to use my real name here too, and incorrectly I might add, which is super cunty ... why on earth would you do thamonospaced
- I feel like the universe is amazing, and then he started getting on my case about my views on religion as if I attacked. I don't deserve this kind of response.monospaced
- I'm literally agreeing with detritus, and he with me, and then you come in and out of nowhere get all weird. You know how fucked up that is? Look in the mirror.monospaced
- NO REAL NAMES!
NO REAL NAMES!detritus - "We are all utterly insignificant in this vast universe, BUT DON'T USE MY REAL NAME"nb
- But seriously, giving out user's real name while being anonymous yourself is so fucking cowardly.nb
- https://youtu.be/4F9…autoflavour
- not sure how this got here, but I was simply relating to niko, and only niko, in the same fucking vein of thought and feeling as niko ...monospaced
- you get a comfy 'fuzzy wuzzy' feeling in religion that you don't get from 'enlightment'. Enlightment is a mind blowing feeling.hotroddy
- i can understand why folks want to snuggle up w jeezus.hotroddy
- mono loses his shitpinkfloyd
- ;)pinkfloyd
- :/monospaced
- i am justin gum
ben wexler is a fuckwitimbecile - love,imbecile
- it goes fuckwit #1 benfal, #2 ben wexler, #3... trolls, then the rest of us fill in the spaces way below the trollsimbecile
- Attn imbecile:
Continuing to dox monospaced is going to result in your banning from QBN. Cease now. This is your only warning.Moderator
- btw, here is the universe for scale
- Gnash2
I good analogue of quantum entanglement not breaking the speed of light law...
The way people get around the idea that entanglement implies instantaneous communication is that no actual information is passed when the entangled particles affect each other. The argument is as follows (using a non-QM example):
Say you agree to send out two beams of light to your two friends who live on opposite sides of the galaxy (you live in the middle). Ahead of time you tell them that if one of the beams of light is red the other will be blue. So you send the blue beam to your friend on one side and immediately she knows that your other friend is receiving a red beam at the same time. Aha! You say, my friends have now communicated at a speed faster than the speed of light and violated relativity, but no real information has been passed between them. You have told both of them at a normal sub-luminal speed about what you just did and that's all. (A way of proving there's no faster than light communication is that you could lie and send them both the same coloured beam of light and they would never know!).
With QM is gets a bit more complicated because theoretically no-one knows the state of the particle until it has been observed, but you still cannot affect the state of the particle so the argument is the same.
- 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