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  • #1802
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Proof that violence can be fun.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArklvSwKcI8


  • #1803
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Hope this isn't a repost.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFRnd-UugUg


  • #1804
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    "If we can imagine it, we can do it."

    The sum of the human spirit right there. There will be many things we won't be around see. They'll happen though. As we grow up we realise more and more that those things we thought when we were younger were thought be countless others. When we read old sci-fi and the like much of it comes true.

    Politics (whatever side we may all be on) will act as a stumbling block forever but we'll get there eventually.


  • #1805
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    220px-Toshiba_la_vie_claire_%2788.jpg

    Re the fibonacci spirals thing, the method of drawing the nautilus shell on graph paper reminds me of Piet Mondrian's paintings; the patterns used in the designs seem to have an inherently pleasing effect on the mind.


  • #1806
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    3D Printer :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHnMj6dxj4


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  • #1807
    Ambersky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Ambersky


    I thought this looked interesting and Im a lover of the graphic novel form, so I thought Id share.
    Its free and its legal to download here
    http://www.clearbits.net/torrents/382-therefore-repent---a-post-rapture-graphic-novel
    663?type=thumb

    Open Licensed Digital Media
    Graphic Novels
    Therefore Repent - a post-Rapture graphic novel

    What if the religious right… are actually right? Without warning, multitudes of Christians float bodily up into the sky. For the immoral majority, life goes on pretty much as usual. Except that after the Rapture, magic works — for those willing to risk demonic mutations. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship. Praise for Therefore Repent! “It’s completely nuts… It’s a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that’s all I’m gonna tell you.” —Junot Díaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction “Now, just dealing with the Rapture might be enough of a hook, but Jim and Salgood do a great job of characterization from the very beginning. The two protagonists are so interesting that I had to keep turning page after page to see what and who they were. And yes, Salgood can draw like nobody’s business… I give this book two thumbs up.” —Chris Pitzer, AdHouse Books



  • #1808
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    joseph brand wrote: »
    Hope this isn't a repost.
    The interviewers really come off as dumbasses. And it's not like they're interviewing a Nobel-winning physicist - he's just a smart actor. MF seemed like he was being deliberately innocuous.


  • #1809
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    3D Printer :eek:

    Nice, but now find a use for a plastic spanner....


  • #1810
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    recedite wrote: »
    Nice, but now find a use for a plastic spanner....

    Eh, just because it's plastic doesn't mean it doesn't work. The spanner performs to pretty much the same speck as a ordinary "metal" spanner. Honestly, I think a lot of people underestimate the strength of plastics. :)


  • #1811
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Check your local hardware/DIY shop and see how many plastic spanners you can find, although... I did get a tiny one in a Christmas Cracker one time. Hmmm.... now what did I do with that? I think it must have got swept up with the wrapping paper and other debris.


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  • #1812
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Jernal wrote: »
    Eh, just because it's plastic doesn't mean it doesn't work. The spanner performs to pretty much the same speck as a ordinary "metal" spanner. Honestly, I think a lot of people underestimate the strength of plastics. :)

    We call them 'Polymers' in the biz... /smug


    (Not actually in the biz)


  • #1813
    sephir0th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭sephir0th


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    3D Printer :eek:

    But can it run Crys.... copy money?


  • #1814
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    3D printer?! I wouldn't download a car would I not? We'll see....


  • #1815
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Dades wrote: »
    The interviewers really come off as dumbasses. And it's not like they're interviewing a Nobel-winning physicist - he's just a smart actor. MF seemed like he was being deliberately innocuous.

    He's inspirational. The joy in his eyes when he marvels at the advances in technology and the things we've seen in space and the fact that we can do anything we put our minds to. If he was speaking from a pulpit I would attend and listen.
    I reckon he is laughing inside, to himself, at the naivety of those two interviewing him. Morgan lol'd. :)

    BTW, he reminds me of his character in Batman.


  • #1816
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    A thread people here might find interesting, was nearly going to post in this
    forum but it's a bit too philosophical.


  • #1817
    mooliki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭mooliki


    This is a few years old, so apologies if it's been posted before. Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss over 12 parts;

    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3
    Part 4
    Part 5
    Part 6
    Part 7
    Part 8
    Part 9
    Part 10
    Part 11
    Part 12


  • #1818
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    From ./ comes some too-good-for-the-creationism-thread news of biological reverse-engineering:
    ./ wrote:
    By bringing long-dead proteins back to life, researchers have worked out the process by which evolution added a component to a cellular machine. ... In a paper published in Nature, researchers recreated an 'ancestral' version of a cellular machine called the V-ATPase proton pump, which channels protons across membranes and is vital for keeping cell compartments at the right acidity. Part of this machine is a ring of six proteins that threads through the membrane. Animals and most other eukaryotes have a ring composed of two types of protein component; fungi are alone in having a ring with three. The researchers used computational methods to work backwards and find the most likely sequences of these proteins hundreds of millions of years ago. The team inserted the DNA into yeast and found that just two mutations can turn the simple 2-protein ring into the more complex 3-protein ring.

    The Nature article is here, while the PLOS paper is here.


  • #1819
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    It appears each neuron in the brain has a unique genome. Could explain a lot.


  • #1820
    muppeteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭muppeteer


    Light speed rollercoaster ride video
    It's the ultimate ride for thrill-seekers: a rollercoaster hurtling down a track at near-light speed surrounded by colour changes and distortions. Now, an animation developed by physicist Michael Hush from the Australian National University in Canberra lets you see the effects described by Einstein's special theory of relativity, by creating a fictional world where the speed of light is about 5 metres per second.

    Watch while stoned at your own risk


  • #1821
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    muppeteer wrote: »
    Light speed rollercoaster ride video


    Watch while stoned at your own risk

    Click that, mute it, then click this.


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  • #1822
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGz1njqhxU


    K, so um, Sponsoredwalk can explain this. :p

    From the comments -When a droplet impacts a pool at low speed, a layer of air trapped beneath the droplet can often prevent it from immediately coalescing into the pool. As that air layer drains away, surface tension pulls some of the droplet's mass into the pool while a smaller droplet is ejected. When it bounces off the surface of the water, the process is repeated and the droplet grows smaller and smaller until surface tension is able to completely absorb it into the pool.


  • #1823
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Jernal wrote: »
    K, so um, Sponsoredwalk can explain this. :p


    Today has been a pretty good day but holy **** that has just topped my week! :D

    The best I can do is this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWEYeT43W4U


    :(


  • #1824
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand




    I think you'll understand what I mean. :D


  • #1825
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    OMG, look at those supple bananas in the background.


  • #1826
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Spoiler Alert : Rubiks cube in 20 moves. Might not be to everyone's taste.:)


  • #1827
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,894 ✭✭✭Calibos


    joseph brand wrote: »


    I think you'll understand what I mean. :D

    What an ungrateful Bitch!!

    She should be thanking the Lord for the bounty that she has recieved.

    ....Such bounty... almost immeasureable bounty....bounty of the highest order......

    All I really have to say is....'There is a God!!

    :D


  • #1828
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Hmm... need I remind people of coffee in an elevator?


  • #1829
    dmw07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭dmw07


    Jernal wrote: »
    Hmm... need I remind people of coffee in an elevator?

    Don't get the link?


  • #1830
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Jernal wrote: »
    Hmm... need I remind people of coffee in an elevator?

    I'd prefer tea if you don't mind.


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  • #1831
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Aesthetically pleasing violence;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7iYYpSrlo


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