WildCard Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 ((alright)^(alright))^(alright) ICE COLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 We could have had it built in the US too but in the end it's probably for the best that it isn't. I could see the tea party stopping the funding for it in order to give rich people another tax cut or something. WTF is your problem? Huh. Found this somewhat overly dramatic documentary on the Cascadia subduction... Pretty much exactly the New Yorker article, even has the same experts interviewed. It was posted on youtube back in 2011. If you can ignore the dramatic music and silly screen shakes, there are some nice visualizations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yukp0bPkQxs Gee, did you notice all of the impending disasters in the "up next" queue on that page's right side? It's amazing we're not all dead already. Anyone want to bet which catastrophe strikes us next? There are plenty to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnkirishone Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I am going with swarm of killer bees taking out all of Kentucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Crippling student loan debt and suicide from the ensuing depression! But any of these will do: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world No point living in fear of things, but it's absolutely natural to have a bit of a fascination with our own dramatic mortality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkard Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 WTF is your problem? Gee, did you notice all of the impending disasters in the "up next" queue on that page's right side? It's amazing we're not all dead already. Anyone want to bet which catastrophe strikes us next? There are plenty to choose from. I don't have a problem. I made a comment and I stand by said comment. If you have a problem with it, feel free to put me on ignore. Or go into a fake outrage. Or a real one. Whatever floats your boat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Gee, did you notice all of the impending disasters in the "up next" queue on that page's right side? It's amazing we're not all dead already. Anyone want to bet which catastrophe strikes us next? There are plenty to choose from. i agree with that sentiment when it comes to meteors crashing into earth and the super volcano beneath yellowstone, but that cascadia subduction one is a horse of a different colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I think it'd be best to save political pot-shots for that other thread. Certainly not thread policing though, just my opinion. I like my science to be awe-inspiring, not headache-inducing : P Correct. I don't have a problem. I made a comment and I stand by said comment. If you have a problem with it, feel free to put me on ignore. Or go into a fake outrage. Or a real one. Whatever floats your boat. You can make and stand by all the comments you like, but please keep political comments in the politics thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 High res pictures of Pluto being released at 3p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkard Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Correct. You can make and stand by all the comments you like, but please keep political comments in the politics thread. Fair enough, although to be fair my comment had to do with science as well given that it was about the location of the LHC. Moving on though. I'm interested in seeing more images of Pluto. Does anyone know if the probe is going to just orbit around everyone's favorite dwarf planet named after the cartoon dog or will it keep traveling out farther and investigate the other dwarf planets in the farthest reaches of our solar system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Fair enough, although to be fair my comment had to do with science as well given that it was about the location of the LHC. Moving on though. For the record, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Fair enough, although to be fair my comment had to do with science as well given that it was about the location of the LHC. Moving on though. I'm interested in seeing more images of Pluto. Does anyone know if the probe is going to just orbit around everyone's favorite dwarf planet named after the cartoon dog or will it keep traveling out farther and investigate the other dwarf planets in the farthest reaches of our solar system? It is long gone. It can't orbit because it did not have fuel and equipment to apply the brakes. It blew past yesterday and is on it's way further into the Kuiper belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkard Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 It is long gone. It can't orbit because it did not have fuel and equipment to apply the brakes. It blew past yesterday and is on it's way further into the Kuiper belt. Nice. Thanks for the update. It'll be interesting to see the other objects it encounters. I wonder it they find some new planets that are big enough to qualify as planets (and not be lumped in with the group of dwarf planets) and if they do, if there will be any resistance to add them to the list. Apparently the main reason they booted out pluto was because it's one of a dozen or more dwarves and they didn't think the general public was capable of learning/memorize 20+ planets and it was easier to kick pluto out than to add all the new ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPie Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Nice. Thanks for the update. It'll be interesting to see the other objects it encounters. I wonder it they find some new planets that are big enough to qualify as planets (and not be lumped in with the group of dwarf planets) and if they do, if there will be any resistance to add them to the list. Apparently the main reason they booted out pluto was because it's one of a dozen or more dwarves and they didn't think the general public was capable of learning/memorize 20+ planets and it was easier to kick pluto out than to add all the new ones. I think it was because the scientist who discovered it chose to name it Xena and not stick with the Roman system. :) I love the names they're giving features on Pluto though: Cthulu, Balrog, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabills Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 First of the hi-res "mosaic" pictures of Pluto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I give you Charon.. First of the hi-res "mosaic" pictures of Pluto. Mountains... 11K tall.. Never saw that coming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sodbuster Posted July 15, 2015 Report Share Posted July 15, 2015 I give you Charon.. Mountains... 11K tall.. Never saw that coming... Charon has a 4-6 mile deep rift in it. Holy chasm, Batman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted July 20, 2015 Report Share Posted July 20, 2015 Enjoy some science. http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 This is kind of cool. A fruit tree grafted with 40 different kinds of stone fruits. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/150720-40-fruit-tree-vin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Kepler 452B, pretty spectacular news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) Oh yeah, forgot about this: The NASA Kepler Project has harvested and, thanks to the drastic spike in computational efficiency/power, processed an incredible amount of data since it's launch. A major discovery of that data today was Kepler 452b, the closest Earth-like planet ever discovered. At slightly more than 2x the mass of Earth, Kepler 452b has an orbit of 385 days around a star nearly the same size as ours, though emitting 10x more energy. The only really terrible thing about this is, well, it sits about 1400 light years away. Or, about 550 million years away at the speed of ~58,000 km/h that the New Horizons journey took. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/science/space/kepler-data-reveals-what-might-be-best-goldilocks-planet-yet.html Edit: Flagg beat me to it Edited July 24, 2015 by WildCard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Bravo with the details though WC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Oh yeah, forgot about this: The NASA Kepler Project has harvested and, thanks to the drastic spike in computational efficiency/power, processed an incredible amount of data since it's launch. A major discovery of that data today was Kepler 452b, the closest Earth-like planet ever discovered. At slightly more than 2x the mass of Earth, Kepler 452b has an orbit of 385 days around a star nearly the same size as ours, though emitting 10x more energy. The only really terrible thing about this is, well, it sits about 1400 light years away. Or, about 550 million years away at the speed of ~58,000 km/h that the New Horizons journey took. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/science/space/kepler-data-reveals-what-might-be-best-goldilocks-planet-yet.html Edit: Flagg beat me to it so.... they don't know we are here yet. :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Bravo with the details though WC Thanks :beer: so.... they don't know we are here yet. :ph34r: They will once we drop our first supplies off there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 so.... they don't know we are here yet. :ph34r: They actually sent out the invasion crew about a thousand years ago. We won't be able to see them coming until it is too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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