off topic The Science Thread

[darksabre]

The Orion crew module is approximately 20 minutes away from splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Watch it re-enter here:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.VIG_6jHF_g0

 

This is so cool to me. As someone who wasn't alive during all the moon missions, I've never been able to watch a Crew Module re-enter before.

 

I feel like I'm time travelling.

[wjag]

The Orion crew module is approximately 20 minutes away from splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Watch it re-enter here:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/...ml#.VIG_6jHF_g0

 

This is so cool to me. As someone who wasn't alive during all the moon missions, I've never been able to watch a Crew Module re-enter before.

 

I feel like I'm time travelling.

 

Cool... Thanks.. Don't worry about all those Apollo missions. They were faked.

 

The Orion crew module is approximately 20 minutes away from splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Watch it re-enter here:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/...ml#.VIG_6jHF_g0

 

This is so cool to me. As someone who wasn't alive during all the moon missions, I've never been able to watch a Crew Module re-enter before.

 

I feel like I'm time travelling.

 

That was pretty damn cool.

[darksabre]

I've only ever been able to watch videos of this you know? I've never seen a crew module deploy those bright orange chutes live before.

[LastPommerFan]

I've only ever been able to watch videos of this you know? I've never seen a crew module deploy those bright orange chutes live before.

 

Soyuz lands this way. This is just the first American capsule you've had a chance to see splashdown.

[darksabre]

Soyuz lands this way. This is just the first American capsule you've had a chance to see splashdown.

 

And it's awesome. It's friggen awesome.

 

Can we please have a new space age? I want cars designed to look like rocket ships again.

 

[wjag]

Soyuz lands this way. This is just the first American capsule you've had a chance to see splashdown.

 

What was a bit different, at least I think so, was watching it come in from a long way out. Their ability to track and show the event with satellites, onboard telemetry and cameras, drones and planes made for interesting viewing. I watched it come in from 180,000 feet. I watched the last fifteen minutes of its flight from supersonic, to subsonic to parachute deployment.

[wjag]

New Horizons woke up yesterday and began transmitting from 2.9 Billion miles away. The Kuiper Belt or bust.

 

Only 182 million miles to go to Pluto.

Edited December 7, 2014 by wjag

[cdexchange]

This was a really interesting read:

http://www.businessinsider.com/groundbreaking-idea-of-lifes-origin-2014-12

[WildCard]

Here are the most interesting images in Science in 2014.

http://imgur.com/gallery/s4kgs

[WildCard]

In honor of the end of 2014, here are the most important scientific achievements this year.

 

http://www.futurism.co/this-year-in-science-infographic/

 

Of them, here are some of my favorites:

 

Biology:

Incredible, and I mean insane, progress in preventing and treating cancer, autism, memory loss, strokes, increasing lifespan (trials on insects improved lifespan by 30%)

 

Physics:

Space exploration all over, including: Life-sustaining and potentially reachable planets, the ability to send DNA in/out of an atmosphere (this leads to populating other planets), the discovery of 2-3 new fundamental elements in quantum physics, QUANTUM COMPUTERS (i.e. using quantum physics in computing to raise the rate/potential of computers by exponential numbers of powers of 2, Doesn't sound huge, but it is http://time.com/4802/quantum-leap/)

 

There are a ton of of them, so take a minute to check it out and feel good about where we're going in the universe. We are, currently, advancing at a scientific rate equivalent to the Industrial Revolution. We're on the cusp of extending life by a significant amount, stabilizing our ecosystem, understanding the universe, and finally reaching out beyond our solar system. It's incredible

[wjag]

In honor of the end of 2014, here are the most important scientific achievements this year.

 

http://www.futurism....ce-infographic/

 

 

 

That's some wild and scary stuff. The poor mice... Someday they are going to rise up.

[SwampD]

Increasing lifespan? What the hell for? This place is a pain in the ass.

[wjag]

The science: computers, physics, mathematics, etc to do these things always amazes me.

 

From Nasa.gov

 

"NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to enter Ceres orbit in March 2015. Dawn recently emerged from solar conjunction, in which the spacecraft is on the opposite side of the sun, limiting communication with antennas on Earth. Mission controllers have programmed the maneuvers necessary for the next stage of the rendezvous, which they label the Ceres approach phase

 

The spacecraft's arrival at Ceres will mark the first time that a spacecraft has ever orbited two solar system targets. Dawn previously explored the protoplanet Vesta for 14 months, from 2011 to 2012, capturing detailed images and data about that body."

Edited December 31, 2014 by wjag

[biodork]

In honor of the end of 2014, here are the most important scientific achievements this year.

 

http://www.futurism....ce-infographic/

 

Cool stuff, WildCard.

[Sabre Dance]

The science: computers, physics, mathematics, etc to due these things always amazes me.

 

From Nasa.gov

 

"NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to enter Ceres orbit in March 2015. Dawn recently emerged from solar conjunction, in which the spacecraft is on the opposite side of the sun, limiting communication with antennas on Earth. Mission controllers have programmed the maneuvers necessary for the next stage of the rendezvous, which they label the Ceres approach phase

 

The spacecraft's arrival at Ceres will mark the first time that a spacecraft has ever orbited two solar system targets. Dawn previously explored the protoplanet Vesta for 14 months, from 2011 to 2012, capturing detailed images and data about that body."

 

Ceres prefers to be called a "little" planet and is insulted by the word "dwarf". :blink:

[Stoner]

And it's awesome. It's friggen awesome.

 

Can we please have a new space age? I want cars designed to look like rocket ships again.

 

Looks like Jon Hamm had already figured out that women really make the buying decisions.

[biodork]

This is pretty awesome news:

 

Many of the most widely used antibiotics have come out of the dirt. Penicillin came from Penicillium, a fungus found in soil, and vancomycin came from a bacterium found in dirt. Now, researchers from Northeastern University and NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals and their colleagues have identified a new Gram-positive bacteria-targeting antibiotic from a soil sample collected in Maine that can kill species including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Moreover, the researchers have not yet found any bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic, called teixobactin. Their results are published today (January 7) in Nature.

 

lay article:

http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41850/title/New-Antibiotic-from-Soil-Bacteria/

 

full publication from Nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nature14098.pdf

[qwksndmonster]

This is pretty awesome news:

 

 

 

lay article:

http://www.the-scien...-Soil-Bacteria/

 

full publication from Nature:

http://www.nature.co...nature14098.pdf

By publishing it they're going to help bacteria become resistant to it! Rubes.

Edited January 8, 2015 by qwksndmonster

[Hoss]

Somebody finally decided to do a thorough study on one of the more important scientific mysteries of all time...

 

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-squirting-during-sex-may-actually-be-peeing

[dEnnis the Menace]

Somebody finally decided to do a thorough study on one of the more important scientific mysteries of all time...

 

http://www.iflscienc...ually-be-peeing

 

wow. interesting...

[WildCard]

Developing a method to replace hearing adds via impulses sent into your tongue.

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-device-could-allow-individuals-hear-through-their-tongues

 

Developing a computer that is programmed to implement evolution; i.e. it will choose the most desirable/efficient characteristics of other hardware/software, inherit them, combine them, and make a better result. They produce extremely interesting final products, to the point where the engineers apparently aren't aware of how they work

 

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ (if it doesn't load the servers are busy, give it a try later)

[I am Defecting]

Developing a method to replace hearing adds via impulses sent into your tongue.

http://www.iflscienc...h-their-tongues

 

Developing a computer that is programmed to implement evolution; i.e. it will choose the most desirable/efficient characteristics of other hardware/software, inherit them, combine them, and make a better result. They produce extremely interesting final products, to the point where the engineers apparently aren't aware of how they work

 

http://www.damninter...-circuits/��(if it doesn't load the servers are busy, give it a try later)

 

What does this say about your uncanny ability to pull words out of your ass?

[WildCard]

What does this say about your uncanny ability to pull words out of your ass?

They might taste a little worse if I get that implant

[WildCard]

Australia coming in big

[WildCard]

Australia is killing it down under, discovered a way in which they use ultrasounds to restore the memory loss due to Alzheimer's. Thus far it's 75% effective on trial mice

 

 

Publishing in Science Translational Medicine, the team describes the technique as using a particular type of ultrasound called a focused therapeutic ultrasound, which non-invasively beams sound waves into the brain tissue.  By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier, which is a layer that protects the brain against bacteria, and stimulate the brain’s microglial cells to move in. Microglila cells are basically waste-removal cells, so once they get past the blood-brain barrier, they’re able to clear out the toxic beta-amyloid clumps before the blood-brain barrier is restored within a few hours.

The team reports fully restoring the memories of 75 percent of the mice they tested it on, with zero damage to the surrounding brain tissue. They found that the treated mice displayed improved performance in three memory tasks - a maze, a test to get them to recognise new objects, and one to get them to remember the places they should avoid.

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function