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Post by AiA in Atlanta » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:17 pm

British scientists have called off the hunt for exotic life in an ice-bound Antarctic lake after their mission was hit by a technical hitch.

Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey had hoped to drill into Lake Ellsworth, which they believe has been frozen over for hundreds of thousands of years, in the hope of finding microbial life forms that might provide new insight into the evolution of life on Earth. They also hoped the lake floor's sediments might yield a new record of the Earth's climate.

But the project had to be called off following difficulties with drilling. A statement posted to the survey's website on Thursday said the operation had been canceled, and it was not clear if or when the scientists would try again.

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Post by Sexy Lady » Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:08 am

SCIENCE FACT: If you could remove your veins and lay them end to end in a straight line, you would die.

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Post by Super Nova » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:37 pm

Looks like we wuill have to wait a few years for the next installment from the LHC. What an amazing machine. It would be wonderful to discover the answers to some of our next set of big questions.

The Large Hadron Collider atom smasher is being made even more powerful to explore questions of dark matter, extra dimensions and other universes.
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But the LHC was always more than a Higgs hunting machine. There are other mysteries of the universe that it may shed light on. What is the dark matter that clumps invisibly around galaxies? Why are we made of matter, and not antimatter? And why is gravity such a weak force in nature? "We're only a tiny way into the LHC programme," says Pippa Wells, a physicist who works on the LHC's 7000-tonne Atlas detector. "There's a long way to go yet."

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Post by Super Nova » Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:16 pm

An interesting read.

Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Physicists

If a new hypothesis about black hole firewalls proves correct, at least one of three cherished notions in theoretical physics must be wrong.

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Post by Super Nova » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:36 pm

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Post by mellie » Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:58 pm

Re-Gesture-based computing ... what if you suffered with a Tic disorder, say for instance, Copropraxia?

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Post by AiA in Atlanta » Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:47 am

General Electric's robot hand, c. 1967


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Post by Super Nova » Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:42 pm

General Electric's robot hand, c. 1967

It's amasing what they were doing then in 1967. We were about to land on the moon as well.

Robotics will accelerate in the next 50 years. We will have smart robots with significant physical agility initially being our servants. When we great true artifical intelligence combined with the ability to move and self replicate... we will be force to move aside and pray they find a place for us to remain in existence.

I expect the sex industry to lead this as the seem to exploit all new technology first once the miltary make it available to wider society.

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Post by Super Nova » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:17 pm

Why is it acceptable, in certain educated circles, to cheerfully express total ignorance of the largest, and most important, domain of human knowledge? Someone who professed to know nothing about, say, music, or books, would be rightly scoffed at. But it’s fine, apparently, to be clueless about science and maths.

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Post by boxy » Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:21 pm

Super Nova wrote:I expect the sex industry to lead this as the seem to exploit all new technology first once the miltary make it available to wider society.
"All new technology"? Really?

I call bullshit :P
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