Science

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  • detritus17

    Wow. I mean - Wow.

    It's only a second long, but here's video from the surface of a comet, from the Rosetta mission.

    https://video.twimg.com/tweet_vi…

    https://twitter.com/landru79/sta…

  • utopian17

    • yes!renderedred
    • +1Morning_star
    • +2MrT
    • No, you got to believe Trump colluded and Republicans are going to frack or that "Libtards" are insane and want to kill your unborn children at a gay wedding.
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    • communism ftwshapesalad
    • "I'm alright Jack"fadein11
    • pink haired libtards vs redneck nazis ftw.inteliboy
    • Conservatives don’t really promote equality or scientific advancement in general though.monospaced
  • kingsteven12

    • lolsrhadden
    • All articles are free if you ask the author directly, or:
      http://people.soc.co…
      drgs
    • ^ aye, i have access to most journals through work, but it's still a pain in the ass esp. as you say the papers are never intended to be paid for...kingsteven
    • for stuff like nature or most news paywalls http://archive.is will do the job.kingsteven
    • No, thanks. Netflix is cheaper.palimpsest
    • Science is the new religionBeeswax
    • Except it isn’t like religion at all and is not a belief system.monospaced
    • https://scienceandth…jtb26
  • Gnash8

    Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scien…

    • fake news?Ianbolton
    • i don't know, i didn't research past the articleGnash
    • Earth is suffering from overpopulation, cancer helps regulate it. Do "they" really want to cure cancer in the end?Bennn
    • like people who invented electric cars years ago were assassinated in a dark alleyBennn
    • cancer should regulate you, bennndoesnotexist
    • do you have brain cancer bennn?
      this is fantastic news!
      chrisRG
    • @benfal please pull your foot out of your mouth, dude. How can you say that?? heartless.chukkaphob
    • Benn, we peaked in the 1960s. Birth rates are slowing, even in developing countries. https://ourworldinda…monoboy
  • moldero14

  • Beeswax8
    • both parts of this are well worth a watch, was a bit sceptical after the first one myself...kingsteven
    • A professor of physics, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson all proven wrong...bunch of arrogant, know-it-all, attention whores.utopian
    • The great thing is though that the scientist who made the bet admitted he was wrong and coughed up the $10K! Science is a process, not an authority.sarahfailin
    • yeah so cool, loved the mike drop moment at the end with the wheeled cart and piece of wood._niko
    • @sarah, exactly. And acting like three individuals are “science” is ridiculous. They aren’t even the ones actively sciencing!monospaced
    • "disagreements are not problems"sted
    • science denier veritasium spreading harmful missinformationmonNom
    • Well put @sarahfailin :clap:dorfsman
  • scarabin8

    some people are so desperate to believe they know something others don't, or that they're somehow ahead of the game, that they leap to believing certain ideas just because they're controversial. it's an ego jerkoff for them, calling people sheep when they're just as guilty of putting themselves in a mental box as the folks they're trying to shit on.

    it's so funny watching yuri call people sheep when all he wants is to be appreciated by the herd. yes yuri, you're such a good boy. you're a handsome little man, you're precious. we love you.

    • see also http://www.qbn.com/t…scarabin
    • I'm on some next level shit.
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    • astute critiquesarahfailin
    • Dude, you are so talking about yourselfyurimon
    • do you get all your replies from pee-wee herman?scarabin
    • i don't tell everyone they're sheep or closed-minded or unenlightened every. single. day. multiple times a day.scarabin
    • that shit's for preteens and insecure people.scarabin
    • if you have to go around telling everyone you're smart, chances are you're not.scarabin
  • uan7

    Science breakthroughs of the Year, 2016

    Gravitational waves,
    Designer Proteins,
    AI beats GO champion,
    Artificial Eggs,
    Exoplanet Next Door,
    One Migration,
    Nanopore Sequencers,
    Super lenses,
    Purging cells,
    Great apes read minds.

    • not a belief system ...monospaced
    • +1monospaced
    • ignoramous
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    • science is a method of investigationscarabin
    • yes it ismonospaced
    • dumb_cloth strikes again!utopian
    • terrence_von_shithim...fadein11
    • he's our special guy on QBNutopian
  • yuekit5


    New biotech startup founded by geneticist George Church will try to reverse engineer woolly mammoths from elephant embryos using CRISPR. Discuss...

    https://colossal.com/

    • Spared no expense.palimpsest
    • Like trying to reverse engineer a wolf from a poodlegrafician
    • Well people have definitely shown that you can sort of get back to a wild dog (wolf like) through breeding. Can’t get to wolf exactly though, not how it works.monospaced
    • With focused intent and some crispr I don’t see why this would be impossible.monospaced
    • Elephants and mammoths seem closer than poodles and wolves from my perspective. Fascinating stuff.monospaced
    • You can breed a poodle with a wolf and you already have half a wolf. They share 99.9% of DNA.palimpsest
    • While mammoths and African elephants share a common ancestor dogs are direct descendants of wolves.
      Up to each one to decide what's closer.
      palimpsest
    • I gave that example exactly because even with very similar DNA you can't do it.
      But sure, let them try. We'll need mammoths for the next ice age anyway
      grafician
  • Gnash5

    Netflix Censors Bill Nye Episode to Remove Segment About Biological Basis for Gender

    When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.

    • I think zhese peepol need to choose another word other than 'gender'.detritus
    • Hold on - isn't this tantamount to admitting that non binary genders are a choice, not genetics?detritus
    • There are lots of factors that affect gender, both physically and mentally, and chromosomes are only 1 of many. It's not a binary issue by any means.monospaced
    • So if I will it, I can grow boobs? Yaay!
      .
      No.
      detritus
    • Gender should be the descriptor for the base physical layout, regardless of sexuality or identity etc.
      If not, then what other word?
      detritus
    • Ummmm..."Sex". To be fair, Gender isn't specifically biological.Morning_star
    • Mm, I suppose. hadn't thought to be so basic. Well, that gives us a decade before that's challenged too...detritus
    • how old are you detritus? you sound more and more like a Daily Mail reader lately :)fadein11
  • kingsteven7

  • yuekit4

    You may have thought you were progressive but are you really compared to this?

    "The Radical Plan To Phase Out Earth's Predatory Species"

    The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

    https://gizmodo.com/the-radical-…

    • Would it be easier to use genetic engineering on ourselves to engineer away empathy/mirror neuronsdrgs
    • Lol, that's funny...shapesalad
    • David Pearce is an Alien plant.Nairn
    • This sounds like a plot out of the original star trek seriesscarabin
    • In the end we’ve made animals and ourselves docile, then lizzid peeple take over while we’re having orgies and feeding each other grapesscarabin
    • fucking humans....ApeRobot
    • We are the predatory speciesutopian
    • Wow, sounds like a bunch of speciesists up in here who aren't in favor of predation abolition, SMH.yuekit
  • PonyBoy4

    Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century

    https://www.theguardian.com/envi…

    "One in five species on Earth now faces extinction, and that will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless urgent action is taken. That is the stark view of the world’s leading biologists, ecologists and economists who will gather on Monday to determine the social and economic changes needed to save the planet’s biosphere."

    • Hopefully humans are on the list.utopian
    • Why is this a problem? Haven't something like 99.5% of all species that have ever existed become extinct. Life finds a way, no?Morning_star
    • http://www.popularme…pablo28
    • there are 8.7 million species on earth. most likely won't lose the rhino but some tiny bugs that no one's ever heard of._niko
    • survival of the fittest, no place for weak ass animalsdrgs
    • humans aren't animals, we are a virusmoldero
    • "We won"yuekit
    • Wow, I actually agree with utopian.BH26
  • utopian5

    Scientists detected ripples in space and time from a potentially new class of collision in the universe. Their observatory cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/scien…

    • Flat Earther's, Climate Deniers and Republican's Rejoice!utopian
    • it's nice you promote science. good for you buddy
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    • Never let the facts get in way of good story buddy....Fox New, Trump and Capitalism for Life!utopian
    • Science IS progress. Anyone who doesn’t promote it is against progress and is probably a fucking idiot too.monospaced
    • And it’s not a belief system either. Only ignorant religious sheep call it that.monospaced
    • Einstein also didn't kill himselfsrhadden
    • Epstein didn't kill himself either.utopian
    • I'm sleep dep'd and still a bit hungover ... I read "detected nipples" and thought for the sake of little boys growing up they could've called it something else
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  • pablo289

    Spain Has First Case Of Diphtheria In 28 Years Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers
    http://www.iflscience.com/health…

    • shit is dev countries has the means to cure some cases, poor country they just die in thousands, millions.

      we can get rid of them once we have solved poverty
      uan
    • if it was only so simple.yurimon
    • Fuck yeah diphtheria!!!!
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    • ^ haha. Spread it thick you tight bastards!Ianbolton
  • palimpsest2

    More evolution facts insipired by shapesalad.

    Herbivorous animals actually need twice as much sleep as carnivores, because they have to spend half of their sleeping time keeping watch with one eye open. That's why you'll often see cows and other herbivores napping during the day - they're catching up on all the sleep they missed while keeping an eye out for danger at night!
    They need extra time to dream up new ways to outsmart carnivores who are always trying to catch them for dinner.

    • It's also why their mating lasts mere seconds as it's a vulnerable time when a predator could potentially get a 2 for 1 lunch option.shapesalad
    • The "my mom could have walked in on us" argument.palimpsest
    • Science isn’t a belief system.monospaced
    • That's why I don't believe in science.palimpsest
    • Science doesn't require your belief. It progresses regardless of what you believe in. Do try to keep up ;)monospaced
    • That's why I don't believe in science.
      Do get hooked on phonics :-*
      palimpsest
    • I would also love to hear more of your theories on evolution, monospaced.palimpsest
    • They’re just tired from all the chewing.scarabin
  • detritus7

    We cannot guarantee trust in ET messages.

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02180…

    "Our main argument is that a message from ETI can-
    not be decontaminated with certainty. For anything
    more complex than easily printable images or plain text,
    the technical risks are impossible to assess beforehand.
    We may only choose to destroy such a message, or take
    the risk. The risk for humanity may be small, but not
    zero. The probability of encountering malicious ETI
    first might be very low. Perhaps it is much more likely
    to receive a message from positive ETI. Also, the poten-
    tial benefits from joining a galactic network might be
    considerable.

    It is always wise to understand the risks and chances
    beforehand, and make a conscious choice for, or against
    it, rather than blindly following a random path. Overall,
    we believe that the risk is very small (but not zero),
    and the potential benefit very large, so that we strongly
    encourage to read an incoming message."

    • Imagine throwing it away without reading it, out of fear. lol to that.
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    • That's not their actual conclusion, but you're pretty naive to simply assume ET = Good.
      If they even exist in any meaningful sense..
      detritus
    • I would never assume that..
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    • Not sure what would make you say that, either.
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    • You tend to deploy 'lol' sardonically so I assumed you were on your usual "Aliens Exist and are really great and if you don't accept this, you're a cretin"detritus
    • My bad if this wasn't the case this time.

      LOL
      detritus
    • Christ, you lot are odd.
      ********
    • Strange assumptions, defensiveness, weird logic and completely made up accusations everywhere by the odd UK anti-set brigade.
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  • scarabin5

    Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories

    https://aeon.co/essays/your-brai…

    • amazing article, thanks for sharing!monospaced
    • so my memory what i'm trying so hard to destroy in the past 33 years isn't in my brain. goodsted
    • and what can Mr. Robert Epstein say about that I can still draw my grandfather who died in '95 without any reference photo?sted
    • Or remember art pieces what i have only seen once?sted
    • very cool! I was skeptical at first but it won me over.sarahfailin
    • i think the point is that it does but not in the way we think it does ie like a computer_niko
    • they reckon it's in them there cells
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    • @sted, it means that you are able to "recreate" that memory, which apparently is different from retrieving itmonospaced
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