Omg that is awesome. Now if only we can use it to power electric cars then we can bankrupt the middle east and america and make the world a better place.
Omg that is awesome. Now if only we can use it to power electric cars then we can bankrupt the middle east and america and make the world a better place.
Omg that is awesome. Now if only we can use it to power electric cars then we can bankrupt the middle east and america and make the world a better place.
They are already bankrupt.
It made the world a worse place....
to follow up from dr wooohooo's post - the official press release
[url]http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR17.12E.html[/url]
tiwaking - doesn't believe in gravity
Why not
Quote from: L|ama;1291380Dark matter and dark energy aren't explanations, they're placeholders.So is the Higgs Boson
I dont believe in a particle that facilitates quantum chromodynamics.
the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.
A new XKCD section. What If?
([url]http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/[/url])
Wait...I realise we're onto higgs tits now but I think given the title of that news item, we need to spend some more time considering the virus...
"A virus that creates electricity"
A virus that creates electricity
A virus called simply M13 has the power (literally) to change the world. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen. M13 poses no threat to humans — it can only infect bacteria — but it could one day serve humanity by powering your laptop, or even your city.
Fuel Cell That Uses Bacteria To Generate Electricity
ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2008) — Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet -- bacteria -- as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology.
M13 poses no threat to humans
[url]http://io9.com/5910682/a-virus-that-creates-electricity[/url]
Colour me skeptical. However:
[url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080103101137.htm[/url]
Was always interesting!
Electricity is an energy.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transphased into other forms of energy. (Yeah that's right, I probably just made that word up. Deal with it.)
Where does the virus harvest the energy from?
Converting the bacterium's chemical potential energy?
Virus' destroy things. They'd destroy the nucleus of the bacterium.
What kind of impact will that have on our environment?
What happens when there's no more bacteria?
The human body relies on bacteria.
The human body also produces electricity.
If the virus cannot infect humans, but can still infect the bacteria in the human, would destroying all the humans bacteria also affect the human? Would they feel ill, would the extra electricity have a harmful effect on the operation of the human body?
CONVERGE ON GREY MASS THEORY, ONLY WITHOUT ROBOTS.
Honestly, wtf science, I thought you were better than this. $#@!off with your genetic engineering.
Self harming virus has to be the most retarded way to end the world.
Bring on homocidal robots.
(Phys.org)—A team of physicists in Germany have succeeded in forcing a gas to become colder than absolute zero. Using lasers and a magnetic field to manipulate an ultra-cold gas, the researchers, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, managed to coax the temperature of the gas to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero.
PUBLISHED: 08:14 GMT, 20 August 2012 | UPDATED: 06:38 GMT, 21 August 2012
Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have broken a record by achieving the hottest man-made temperatures ever - 100,000 times hotter than the interior of the Sun.
Scientists there collided lead ions to create a searingly hot sub-atomic soup known as quark-gluon plasma at about 5.5trillion C, the hottest temperature ever recorded in an experiment.
That's about 40 per cent hotter the old record, set by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, by smashing gold ions together.
Researchers force a gas to a temperature below absolute zero
[url]http://phys.org/news/2013-01-atoms-negative-absolute-temperature-hottest.html[/url]
[url]http://phys.org/news/2013-01-gas-temperature-absolute.html[/url]
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2189318/Atom-smashing-scientists-reach-highest-recorded-man-temperature--100-000-TIMES-hotter-Suns-interior.html[/url]
Atom-smashing scientists reach highest ever recorded man-made temperature - 100,000 TIMES hotter then the Sun's interior
Hmm. I cant seem to find Quark-Muon plasma. Oh well, I guess this stuff will do
Personally if I were converted to a robotic body because my human body was dying I'd build a body capable of space flight and fuck off to mars etc
"I'm not too fond of the idea of immortality, because I think it will be deathly boring," he said, with a twinkle in his eyes. Giving up our bodies could also be problematic, he said.
But you can link hardware, so what I would imagine, is your brain sitting in a vat in some secure location, wirelessly connected to your robotic avatar. If your avatar gets damaged, it can easily be replaced. (aka Surrogates)
Will need to discover some way of communicating instantly across distance.
Or find a way to kill space dinosaurs.
If you thought they don’t come much bigger than the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Argentinosaurus then think again – scientists in Argentina have uncovered the bones of a creature believed to be the world’s biggest dinosaur.
According to the measurements of its gigantic thigh bones, the herbivore would have been 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall, the BBC reported.
Palaeontologists think it is a new species of titanosaur – part of a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs that were characterised by their long necks and tails and small heads – dating from the Cretaceous period.
The mega dino would have weighed in at 77 tonnes (the equivalent of approximately 14 elephants), making it seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder Argentinosaurus.
Researcher invents continuous, zero-toxic-emission system that converts nonrecycled plastics into crude oil
Jun 20, 2014 by Rob Matheson
MIT spinout PK Clean, founded by Priyanka Bakaya MBA '11, aims to end the landfilling of plastic with a cost-effective system that breaks down nonrecycled plastics into oil, while reusing some of the gas it produces to operate.
"Plastic comes from oil to begin with, so it makes sense, instead of landfilling plastic, to convert it back to usable fuel," Bakaya says. "The goal is to end landfilled plastic waste forever—not just domestically, but also globally."
PK Clean's so-called "continuous" system—the first of its kind in the United States, according to Bakaya—runs on a process called catalytic depolymerization, where heat and a catalyst break down plastics into crude oil to sell to refineries.
About 70 to 80 percent of the product comes out as oil. Roughly 10 to 20 percent becomes hydrocarbon gas that heats the system, while the remainder is char residue.
Following a trial in Pune, India, PK Clean last year built and installed its first full-scale commercial plant in Salt Lake City, partnering with Rocky Mountain Recycling, Utah's largest recycler.
Operating continuously, the plant can convert up to 10 tons of plastic per day into 60 barrels of oil, with zero toxic emissions. Produced at around $35 per barrel, the oil is sold to a nearby refinery for around $100 per barrel.
edit: We should turn the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter into one of these factories
Our job will be to build and maintain those robots.
Then it will be our job to serve as a power source for those robots.
Because using human bodies as a power source makes sense.
I am yet to find a suitable explanation for gravity. Science knows what is does, but is left fidgeting uncomfortably, if I ask what it is.
But magnetism as we understand it, is about ferrous metallic objects being attracted to a magnetic force, or replled by way of EMP, or similar.It is the increased percentage flow of electrons in one direction, opposed by an equal flow of electrons in an opposite direction.
Fascinating subject to discuss over a beer or two.
But magnetism as we understand it, is about ferrous metallic objects being attracted to a magnetic force, or replled by way of EMP, or similar.
Fascinating subject to discuss over a beer or two.
But magnetism as we understand it, is about ferrous metallic objects being attracted to a magnetic force, or replled by way of EMP, or similar.
Fascinating subject to discuss over a beer or two.
Are you one of those guys who says words he saw on Wikipedia?
Because I think you're one of those guys.
Everyone is supposed to learn about gravity and magnetism in 4th form science.You learn about gravity when you fall out of a tree.
If you missed it, that's it. You can never go back for another go.
Why is the sky blue?
Makes for an interesting conversation over a beer or two.
But then.. what is blue?
Is what you call blue, what I would perceive as red? but we both call it blue because we have been taught to call them the same thing..
Do we even see colours the same way?
([url]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/155/9/6/blue_strawberry_by_shahaf940-d3i0gv2.jpg[/url])
Yogurt lid licking be banished
What does the peel-off lid of a cup of yogurt have in common with a smartphone screen? They are both likely to benefit from next-generation nonadhesion technologies. These new ways of preventing things from sticking are also beneficial beyond the consumer sphere: Venice uses the new technologies to prevent flooding.
Part of the yogurt eating ritual has always been licking the food off the foil lid. Over the course of a year, the yogurt stuck to lids worldwide is equivalent to the volume consumed in Africa, according to a calculation by Toyo Aluminium. Morinaga Milk Industry is doing something about that: Its lids peel off clean with no stuck yogurt.
I didn't even really know who Higgs Boson was untill yesterday.
New Search Engine Lets Users Look For Relevant Results Faster
By Newsroom America Staff at 1:30 pm Eastern
(Newsroom America) -- Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently.
The SciNet search engine is different because it changes internet searches into recognition tasks, by showing keywords related to the user's search in topic radar. People using SciNet can get relevant and diverse search results faster, especially when they do not know exactly what they are looking for or how to formulate a query to find it.
Sorry to inform you but he was killed :(I didn't even really know who Higgs Boson was untill yesterday.
Is he like famous or something because I like literally cant even think I know him
Why is the sky blue?
Makes for an interesting conversation over a beer or two.
A man who has been paralysed for more than a decade has begun to feel sensations again in his "fingers", thanks to an experimental prosthetic hand being tested by United States military researchers.
Scientists linked the hand to electrodes inserted into the 28-year-old patient's sensory cortex, the part of the brain that identifies tactile sensations, enabling him to perceive a basic sense of touch with the prosthetic fingers.
Why is the sky blue?
Makes for an interesting conversation over a beer or two.
Instead of just belching out useless copy cat posts, howz about explaining the ins and outs of how gravity works. The molecular, sub molecular/atomic aspects, how it affects objects within it's area of influence. Michio Kaku is man enough to admin that science knows what gravity does, but doesn't know what it is, yet, you seem to out rank him in universal outstanding on every topic.
Just when I thought there was no hope for the universe, every googling expert here, seems to have the cosmos all mapped out, by way of belittling posts, and sarcastic quips.
There is a gap of light years between being taught how to learn, and being coached how to think. The level of sheer ignorance here, should be evidence enough we evolved from shit slinging apes.
Motherless babies could be on the horizon after scientists discovered a method of creating offspring without the need for a female egg.
The landmark experiment by the University of Bath rewrites 200 years of biology teaching and could pave the way for a baby to be born from the DNA of two men.
Snoo snoo?