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- i_monk1
Touchdown streams live here at 6:02 GMT: http://rosetta.esa.int/
- Morning_star-1
Good work humans...and Ben Affleck was nowhere in sight.
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- ukit21
A pill to make you smart? Scientists' breakthrough in unlocking the brain's potential by returning it to child-like state
- scarabin1
interesting talk with chris hadfield
- dang, he just said there's a quart of water in every cubic foot of martian topsoilscarabin
- if that were the case, there'd be a measureable atmospheremonospaced
- it's not like you can squeeze out the H2O. It's part of the chemical composition and must be burned outGnash
- By comparison, earth soil has 10x the waterGnash
- yeah, i'm not imagining it's sitting in little bottles waiting for usscarabin
- Earth topsoil does not have that much water per cubic foot evenmonospaced
- i_monk1
Martian "soil" is sand and pebbles. Earth topsoil is full of organic matter. They aren't remotely comparable. When scientists refer to Martian soil, they only do so to distinguish it from rocks and dust.
- hadfield's point is there are resources (carbon, hydrogen) on the moon. not that you can plant flowers there.scarabin
- IRNlun61
Giant Storms Are Raging on Uranus
- yurimon-1
http://www.activistpost.com/2014…
3 Things You Should Know About the Stupid Virus
- yurimon-1
- fadein111
Problem with science (research) is it is expensive so it relies on funding from outside sources with an agenda. So true and free innovation is rarely achieved and when it is it is often suppressed.
Hence why we still drive around in boxes with four wheels.- Who else, aside from the government, universities and individual companies, would you expect to fund it?ukit2
- lol - universities don't fund it!!fadein11
- Universities get grants from government and private donors, but they often end up spending their own money as well to carry out the researchukit2
- out the research.ukit2
- nope - all scientific research has a donor - university research exist from funding by said donor. only the research that gets funding goes ahead, and the money comes from external sources who have an agenda - its simple what I said no?fadein11
- funding goes ahead, and the money comes from external sources who have an agenda - its simple what I said no?fadein11
- Universities retain some of intellectual property...yurimon
- US University funding's a bit of a different landscape to British university funding.detritus
- not sure - i guess my point was most scientific research is driven by corporate / military / govt interests (dare I mention the industrial militar complex?)fadein11
- the industrial military complex?)fadein11
- that's a pretty big crock of shit, and my friends who are Univ researchers would agreemonospaced
- They can win money/grants, but nobody is fucking telling them what to research and what their results should bemonospaced
- < they not part of the group...yurimon
- @mono - where do you think the grants come from you fuckwit.fadein11
- I'm not talking about minor backwater PHDs in trivial topics - I am talking about science that drives progressfadein11
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- yurimon-1
- uan1
lightsaber here we come:
Physicists at The Australian National Univ. (ANU) have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons.
http://www.laboratoryequipment.c…
- reanimate1
Elon Musk worries Skynet is only five years off
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO voices fears that artificial intelligence could become dangerous by the end of the decade.
- ukit21
Li-Fi Gets Ready to Compete With Wi-Fi
