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Catching Atoms with Laser Tweazers

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    nas

    are you denying the majesty of science court

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    Bill Nye was in town to open the new Children's Museum last weekend and I couldn't go!

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    One of my life's dreams is to meet Bill Nye.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    radiolab is ok, but I don't get all the fanaticism about them. That Creep song was pretty good, I guess.

    :^:

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    One of my life's dreams is to meet Bill Nye.

    I wanted to but we drove by and there was literally a million people there and the kids were grumpy so I said fuck it.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Your kids didn't want to see Bill Nye? Somebody needs to be taught that Science Rules.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    Your kids didn't want to see Bill Nye? Somebody needs to be taught that Science Rules.

    They are still too young. 23 months and 7 months.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Ah, that explains it. Well, they will be ready for Science someday soon, I'm sure.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    raijin stop havin' babies

    the hell's the matter with you

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    raijin didn't you just have your first kid

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    raijin didn't you just have your first kid

    2 years ago as of October 26. Then we had another one 17 months later.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    seriously are you havin' babies because you think you have no friends

    I can do everything a baby can do

    and I can buy you beer

    I am better than a baby in every way

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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    you still need to change his diaper, though

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    I have no friends.

    However, I can steal beer in the bottom of their stroller pretty easy.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    nah doggie

    I know to just drop trow and leave it wherever

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I tried to listen to Radiolab once, but the sound effects are fucking infuriating. And they drew out the story they were telling to make it about 5 times longer than it should have been.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    nah doggie

    I know to just drop trow and leave it wherever

    Jesus, don't be gross

    You can't just leave it wherever

    That's why god invented your neighbor's front lawn

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Langly wrote: »
    Seriously they are talking about it on Science Friday right now. Science Friday is a cool NPR show that comes on on...Fridays.

    http://www.sciencefriday.com/

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    Hosted by Ira Flatow, it is seriously the bomb diggity. I mean look at that guy. He is ready to talk about science and also maybe your mom's nice figure. The show covers lots of different subjects, but stays relatively relevant to current science news, which is really helpful.

    If you want to talk about lasers or atoms or also laser tweezers, that is also ok.

    Oh this is the thing at my university again! Awesome!

    Makes me laugh that all the comments on new sites about this here were all 'WOO YEAH NEW ZEALAND', but if you listen to Mikkel speak it's pretty obvious that is not a new zealand accent. We also generally get good things done here despite a lack of funding more than anything else.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Guys so Celestron had this thing

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XlRSJ3wADs

    it is 38 dollars from amazon

    going to get it p sure

    everyone says it's rad

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    pfft science

    the fuck did science ever do for us

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    it wasn't able to prevent the birth of pip

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    huh for some reason I just assumed that it was the magnets that did the work in particle accelerators, but that's completely wrong. Magnetic fields can't do work because they always act at right angles to the direction of motion of a charged particle, and work is Force in the direction of motion * Distance. Turns out they use oscillating electric fields to do it.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    pfft science

    the fuck did science ever do for us
    ice nine

    oh shiiiiiiii

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Faricazy wrote: »
    it wasn't able to prevent the birth of pip

    it's greatest triumph

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    it wasn't able to prevent the birth of pip

    it's greatest triumph

    you're punctuation

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    it wasn't able to prevent the birth of pip

    it's greatest triumph

    you're punctuation

    your gay

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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    Best science program.
    Thanks Ants

    Thants!

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  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I recently came across this:
    http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

    English professors talking about all sorts of physics thingies on the YouTubes.

    Come to think of it, I may have landed there via the YouTube thread.... but it's still worthwhile!

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    this new planet they discovered is pretty interesting! i'm curious about how a tidally locked planet would work if it had liquid water and shit, like what the weather would be like and, if there is complex forms of life, how they'd differ on the dark and light side.

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  • UmaroUmaro Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    this new planet they discovered is pretty interesting! i'm curious about how a tidally locked planet would work if it had liquid water and shit, like what the weather would be like and, if there is complex forms of life, how they'd differ on the dark and light side.

    I'd think that most of the life would be centered around the band separating the light and dark sides, or at least the more developed (i.e. not unicellular) life. I mean I figure that otherwise it would be too hot or too cold all the time, and plants seem to like seasons and cycles and shit. Right?

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Umaro wrote: »
    this new planet they discovered is pretty interesting! i'm curious about how a tidally locked planet would work if it had liquid water and shit, like what the weather would be like and, if there is complex forms of life, how they'd differ on the dark and light side.

    I'd think that most of the life would be centered around the band separating the light and dark sides, or at least the more developed (i.e. not unicellular) life. I mean I figure that otherwise it would be too hot or too cold all the time, and plants seem to like seasons and cycles and shit. Right?

    that seems like the logical conclusion, but of course with a planet in those kind of conditions constantly, i'd be willing to bet that life evolved to survive those extreme conditions on either side of the planet, not just the sort of twilit butterzone. after all, life has evolved on earth to suit some pretty fucking crazy conditions, like volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean and such-like.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    pfft science

    the fuck did science ever do for us

    yo momma

    who yo daddy

    science yo daddy

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  • BEARDBEARD Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    twi'leks

    that planet is covered in twi'leks

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    what the hell was that fuzzbutt.
    Calcium ain't a molecule.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    what the hell was that fuzzbutt.
    Calcium ain't a molecule.

    y u sew dum?

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    what the hell was that fuzzbutt.
    Calcium ain't a molecule.

    swing and a miss

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    someone do science to determine why this pear can be this juicy and delicious.

    it should be impossible.

    i have discovered the quantum pear.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    You know what are better then pears

    plums

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