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- neverscared1
Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer's Risk by Over 50%
- neverscared4
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
- that's so damn cool, just beautiful. I've been fascinated by Penrose tilings, this useful application of it is groundbreaking and potentially world-altering._niko
- PhanLo4
- lol christians against science using computers and technology. it's of the devil!futurefood
- What is the exact point to argue with them any longer. For last 1000 years they have decided to throw logic and reasoning out the window.futurefood
- Longer than that really...now, after you present evidence to contradict what they believe, suddenly they will understand?
Please, let them eat dirt.futurefood - Best we can do is think of ways to take their money with little crosses and chocolate bibles.futurefood
- Make the institutions pay taxes, and hold them accountable for all crimes.monospaced
- (that they commit)monospaced
- Religion = Idiotic Moronsutopian
- The proper response to anybody that thinks this? https://www.youtube.…garbage
- The loud-mouthed ignorance of the uneducated should not be our burden. I don't care if you need faith to get you through the day..garbage
- ..but don't be dumb. We have tools that date back 40,000 BCE, and fossils exponentially older than that.garbage
- When I was a teen, an adult once tried to argue that the universe looks old because god “antiqued” it to look as old as it is. He was convinced of this.futurefood
- This is the level of stupidity that we are still dealing with. How are we of the same species as a lot of these wackos?futurefood
- not any mind there to change...neverscared
- Oh my.. that's a special type of stupid. Are you absolutely sure he wasn't fucking with you?garbage
- Good grief. It's one big QBN circle jerk here. Look at you all in your echo chamber of condescension. Predictable and boring. Not one of you commented on the ..Morning_star
- ...on Nathans logically inept response.Morning_star
- @garbage He wasn’t kidding at all. Even after I laughed at the ridiculous idea that an all powerful god needed to fake the scenery....futurefood
- They simply make up whatever nonsense to fit what makes sense to them. Foolish way of thinking.futurefood
- @Morning_star Not sure if you are being flippant here. Nathan provided a great example (one of thousands) of a natural process....futurefood
- That disproves the young earth theoryfuturefood
- Another example I like to use is Entropy, or the second law of thermodynamics to disprove that a god existsfuturefood
- The natural process from order to disorder and the direction of time.
Since this process seems to be outside of a god’s ability to control...futurefood - It should beg the question why would a god start a process like this to begin with? What purpose would it serve him as a creator who needs to be worshipped?futurefood
- Simple, because there was no god there to do it.futurefood
- Nathan’s example also refers to entropyfuturefood
- Thanks for the reply Futurefood. You’ll get no disagreement from me that there are thousands of examples that prove young earthers...Morning_star
- ..are foolish to expect anything productive when challenging science. However, Nathan’s example doesn’t provide a reason for them to change their mind...Morning_star
- Whilst his example would be appropriate if he claimed that the universe is 4000 years old. However the Lead he talks about could have come to earth via a...Morning_star
- ..collision with a lead rich asteroid. A better example would be the seasonal ice layers iwhich you can physically measure that go back 800,000 years.Morning_star
- The lead in the asteroid is also old AF though. Also, asteroids.monospaced
- Whatever mono. The point is that the question referenced EARTH and the answer didn’t. Be accurate or be wrong.Morning_star
- Well, when asteroids become meteors, as in they hit earth, they are relevant. Off the top of my head, the Barringer Crater in Arizona is about 50,000 years oldgarbage
- The Yarrabubba impact site in Australia is estimated to be at least two million years old, and that's a conservative estimate.garbage
- I'm still confused as to why anybody is defending YEC. It's not elitist to call a moron a moron. It's called having a brain.garbage
- Not defending YEC, criticising Nathans answer because it doesn’t make sense. And, pointing out the smug backslapping the QBN ‘enlightened’ seem to enjoy.Morning_star
- Being right and saying so isn't "smug backslapping". It's being educated. I also have no idea who Nathan is.garbage
- But point in the right direction. We pat bottoms here - we're no slackjawed slapbacks.garbage
- Nathan is the chap who replied to the original ‘change my mind’ question.Morning_star
- I think the earth is only two days older than the universe and two days younger than the bible. Take that satanists!_niko
- I'm not sure someone from "Christians Against Science" was ever really open to having their mind changed.MrT
- If you fancy the experiencing the knots these YEC types tie themselves up in have a look at this...Ken Ham & Bill Nye touring the Ark Encounter...Morning_star
- https://www.youtube.…Morning_star
- Religion is not logical. Don't try to disprove religion with logic. It's not possible.jagara
- Oh, that's some negative points for Nye at even entertaining a conversation with someone so irrevocably stupid as Ken Ham.garbage
- To describe Ken Ham as stupid is stupid. He may be delusional, he may be so devoted to his beliefs that nothing can persuade him otherwise. It’s faith...Morning_star
- ..So it’s not be consistent with your world view. Why do you care? And, to arrogantly criticise Nye as though you are the only arbiter of truth is just as...Morning_star
- ...closed minded as Ham.Morning_star
- I think you're mistaking me for some Nye fanboy. Ham believes the earth is 6000 years old. Ham can't grasp the most basic tenets of evolution.garbage
- Ham is an overconfident moron whose bread and butter is children, young and old. You can't possibly posit him as an intellectual.garbage
- uan0
I have no idea if it is science (yet), but Randall Carlson is claiming it is, also that India and France govs are looking into it.
Some kind of modern take on old 20th century 0 point energy stuff with new discoveries and applications...
will be amazing if real:
https://www.strikefoundation.ear…- No testing. No science. Just words and ideas.monospaced
- sounds like terrible pseudo-science from listening to 20 seconds of that video._niko
- it's a hypothesis dude. jfc.doesnotexist
- no it isn’t a hypothesis, it’s nonsense rambling with so many grammatical errors it is borderline full retardmonospaced
- This is the kind of thing only the most mentally weak of all human fucktard morons would take seriously. Hypothesis my ass.monospaced
- hydro7411
- uan1
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ne…
Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published today in the journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy from thin air.
- Down here at sea level I've got lots of thick air if you need, $99 per cubic square metre.shapesalad
- prophetone9
For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN.The result of the experiment is a massive step in a decadeslong quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels. Researchers have for decades attempted to recreate nuclear fusion – replicating the fusion that powers the sun.
The US Department of Energy is expected to officially announce the breakthrough Tuesday.
- So we now have OpenAI performing scary advancements at an exponential rate, laws passing allowing robots to be armed and kill...prophetone
- Yet... we still can't understand what the sperm whales are telling us...shapesalad
- all of our devices from phones to toasters to showerheads to vehicles connected to monitored networks, androids robot dogs that can parkour, getting cheaper...prophetone
- and now a breakthrough that achieves a net energy gain that in ten years will have real world applications that may save us...prophetone
- but in 20 years will be engineered down to the size of a tennis ball, powering the cold heart of the AI-driven, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101's...prophetone
- keeping citizen 'safe' as they patrol neighbourhoods, enforcing newly-enacted restrictions on domestic movement under guise of public safety, emission reductionprophetone
- other than that this news is pretty coolprophetone
- ^ username checks out :)Krassy
- They don't know yet by how much, so this is hopium newsgrafician
- https://www.cnn.com/…prophetone
- 1.5x? "give it ten years"grafician
- https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone
- Projectile0
- Reading about Betelgeuse mass ejection too
https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- Reading about Betelgeuse mass ejection too
- neverscared0
the necrobots are here. ..Rice engineers get a grip with ‘necrobotic’ spiders
This area of soft robotics is a lot of fun because we get to use previously untapped types of actuation and materials,” Preston said. “The spider falls into this line of inquiry. It’s something that hasn't been used before but has a lot of potential.”
- i_monk8
- like the giant puss filled cyst that we are_niko
- We are the invasive species.utopian
- I'd think it would be much more.stewart
- We're here for the Crites.bezoar
- Overpopulation is a fucking scambabydick_
- ^ Oh please elaborate.garbage
- For everyone presently on this planet to enjoy the lifestyle of an average American, we would need about ten planet Earths.robthelad
- ^ Mostly because of their fucking big carsbabydick_
- They do have large cars. I think also cos of infrastructure and services.robthelad
- IF there was another planet Earth would you move there? I think I would.robthelad
- HAS anyone found the entrance to inner earth yet? Or is that pseudo science?robthelad
- There is no planet Bbabydick_
- Does this new Earth have a New Jersey?CyBrainX
- neverscared3
Good news, stoners! Science is finally backing up what you've long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy, to boot.
In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of New Mexico researchers found evidence that cannabis use makes people more empathetic, as well as less motivated by money.
- kerraaang0
I was going for this:
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
- neverscared4
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo
- uan7
‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
The urban centres are the first to be discovered in the region, challenging archaeological dogma.
- Indiana Jones 5?drgs
- That would be a good teaserChimp
- Who's the guy Rogan chats shit with about this? I find it all fascinatingIanbolton
- Don’t get why this is the mind-blowingGnash
- There's a book...1491...grafician
- https://www.amazon.c…grafician
- the Rogan guest is Graham Hancock.
book: 'America Before:...'
There is even a QBNer who knows him or is related to him if I recall right.uan - It just keeps getting older...PhanLo
- Mind blowing? It's a 50 foot pyramid on a 1 acre plot of land...toemaas
- ^ a pyramid of dirt, no lessGnash
- I can see a dickbutt in that map, that's mindblowingIanbolton
- The Lost City of the Monkey God
https://en.wikipedia…
Also full of pandemic fun.hosscreative - Have you read it, grafician?Nairn
- Bolivia is such a cool country to visit, coming directly from the west - it's like an alternative world. Pretty awesome.shapesalad
- lol everyone's a cynic these days...how is it not mind-blowing to discover a previously unknown civilization in the Amazon using lasersyuekit
- does it have a bitcoin logo in the centre like that golden hodl city in el salvador?neverscared
- not an unknown civilization, they just weren't correct about how they lived thereGnash
- LIDAR is the real hero here. It's revolutionizing archeologyGnash
- It says the settlements were spread out over a large area...also we are probably only seeing part of what once existed even with the LIDAR tech.yuekit
- https://www.nature.c…yuekit
- Ya, and? still not an unknown civilizationGnash
- They knew people were living in the region but it was assumed they were nomadic hunters living in the jungle, not building primitive towns and canals.yuekit
- as i said.. "not an unknown civilization, they just weren't correct about how they lived there"Gnash
- primitive towns and canals... in the 1400's, is interesting, perhaps. Mind-blowing, hardlyGnash
- If you are an archeologist studying this part of the world I'm sure it's "mind-blowing" or at least a significant discovery...yuekit
- An archeologist probably isn't going to conclude "well this sucks compared to medieval Britain doesn't it...lame, time to go home"yuekit
- I see a Doppler Boner ╭ᑎ╮utopian
- rzu-rzu0
https://peerj.com/articles/13122…
"Results:
First, we found that infected men had lower facial fluctuating asymmetry whereas infected women had lower body mass, lower body mass index, a tendency for lower facial fluctuating asymmetry, higher self-perceived attractiveness, and a higher number of sexual partners than non-infected ones. Then, we found that infected men and women were rated as more attractive and healthier than non-infected ones."