Interesting Stuff Thread

Bannasidhe

Jernal wrote: »

It's taken directly from Reuters. They tend to dumb most things down.

Can't have the general reading public confused by technical terms like 'physicist' now can we?
Picture John and Josie Q Public sitting there reading the morning paper, scratching their heads in confusion as to what this article has to do with Sheldon Cooper or wondering what on earth a 'physicist' is - so they reach for the 'big book of hardish word made so simple a tree stump could understand them' and discover a physicist is a kind of scientist. Wow - who knew!

Reuters is performing a public service innit by making stuff soooo simplified a tadpole would understand should one happen to pick up a newspaper.

eoin5

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Can't have the general reading public confused by technical terms like 'physicist' now can we?
Picture John and Josie Q Public sitting there reading the morning paper, scratching their heads in confusion as to what this article has to do with Sheldon Cooper or wondering what on earth a 'physicist' is - so they reach for the 'big book of hardish word made so simple a tree stump could understand them' and discover a physicist is a kind of scientist. Wow - who knew!

Reuters is performing a public service innit by making stuff soooo simplified a tadpole would understand should one happen to pick up a newspaper.

Didn't the Harry Potter publishers change 'The Philosophers Stone' to 'The Sorcerers Stone' for the American market because they figured people wouldn't know what philosopher meant.


Were nearly there!

Dades

Well at least they're not calling them "top boffins".

Bannasidhe

Dades wrote: »

Well at least they're not calling them "top boffins".

Has anyone checked if the article is in The Sun or The Star?

Sulla Felix

Maybe more an issue for skeptics corner but eBay are banning tarot card readings and spells http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19323622

Sonics2k

What with the success of the Curiosity Rover off on Mars, Nasa have come up a follow up project.


NASA will send robot drill to Mars in 2016


I personally think this is truly amazing stuff.

robindch

Sonics2k wrote: »

I personally think this is truly amazing stuff.

Just a brief footnote to that -- the US and the EU (generally) has generally succeeded on Mars, but most people forget the effort the Soviets, and latterly the Russians, put in to reach the planet too. Between 1960 and last November, they launched nineteen missions, every single one of which failed to achieve its mission objective (this is in contrast to their missions to Venus, around half of which were successful).

Within the Russian space industry, it's called the Mars Curse and with the failure of last November's mission in low-Earth orbit, shows no sign of leaving.

Turtwig

A thing of Engineering and Scientific Beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ebHThBdlY

Top Comment:

I wish Carl Sagan lived to see this...

Couldn't agree more.

Kivaro

Jernal wrote: »

A thing of Engineering and Scientific Beauty.

And God's will.

Wiggles88

New rat species discovered. He's a cute little guy.

fitz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU

18AD

The Sanctity of Life Must Be Opposed.

robindch

RIP, Neil Armstrong

Kivaro

This morning I watched a rerun of a classic interview of him by Ed Bradley in a 60 minutes piece (2005), and one of his statements is sticking in my head:

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

Here's the interview.

robindch

Sulla Felix

A bit of Godwin first


And some sig fodder.



And some smart arsery.

Wiggles88

Quite worrying to be honest. I wonder how Ireland would stack up in a similar survey.

Bannasidhe

Wiggles88 wrote: »

Quite worrying to be honest. I wonder how Ireland would stack up in a similar survey.

:eek:

Wiggles88

fitz0 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU

It seems the creationist weren't too pleased with ol Bills comments.

What persuasive arguments they make :rolleyes:
I do love the way creationist videos always disable the comments and like bar :pac:

Sarky

That's funny, because creationist videos are usually the one place on YouTube where the typical comment section actually fits in.

Delirium

Lubricated nanoparticles penetrate the brain

Nanoparticles often meet a sticky end in the brain. In theory, the tiny structures could deliver therapeutic drugs to a brain tumour, but navigating the narrow, syrupy spaces between brain cells is difficult. A spot of lubrication could help.

Justin Hanes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, was surprised to discover just how impermeable brain tissue is to nanoparticles. "It's very sticky stuff," he says, similar in adhesiveness to mucus, which protects parts of the body – such as the respiratory system – by trapping foreign particles.

joseph brand

Supermassive black holes and hot galaxies in giant haul.

A space telescope has added to its list of spectacular finds, spotting millions of supermassive black holes and blisteringly hot, "extreme" galaxies.

The finds, by US space agency Nasa's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise), once lay obscured behind dust.

But Wise can see in wavelengths correlated with heat, seeing for the first time some of the brightest objects in the Universe.

There are so far about 1,000 candidate galaxies, some of which can out-shine our Sun by a factor of 100 trillion.

"These dusty, cataclysmically forming galaxies are so rare Wise had to scan the entire sky to find them," said Peter Eisenhardt of JPL

robindch

A big hug on Saturday for anybody who gets this one without cheating:

Sarky

Why, the answer is elementary!

CerebralCortex

http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/7444/

Sam Vimes

robindch wrote: »

A big hug on Saturday for anybody who gets this one without cheating:

It's clearly sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, BATMAN

Dave!

Batman's a scientist



IT'S NOT BATMAN!!!

Calibos

Sam Vimes wrote: »

It's clearly sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, sodium, BATMAN

Fair play to Sam for not gloating about getting it.

He could quite easily have stuck his tongue out and said, "NaNa, Na, NaNa !!"

Kivaro

Coolest picture on the planet (not saying which one):

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html

Bannasidhe

Kivaro wrote: »

Coolest picture on the planet (not saying which one):

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html

I've linked this to a geologist friend. She'll be up all night now playing 'try and work out the composition of the rocks via a visual link only'.