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Is science badass? The data is positive.
Davoid
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BAD ASS SCIENCE MOTHER FUCKER
Science is pretty badass.
The Large Hadron Collider? Badass.
Makin' pluripotent stem cells from adult skin cells? Badass.
Controlling a robot with your brain? Pretty wicked, son
I did some science a few weeks ago. It was kind of alright.
Who else thinks science is badass?
Or does it totally suck?
Sciencey Videos and Links that have been posted:
Physics/Time and Space:
Ah the double slit experiment, this guy seems to favour the copenhagen interpretation which i was taught (that the observer causes the collapse into one way for the electron to behave), what is now gaining popularity and i've only done a tiny but of reading on (and i think i prefer) is the many worlds interpretation which is basically that the electron does go through both slits but basically the universe (yes the whole universe) splits so that both events can occur in different universes, thus there are an infinite number of universes and whenever you do anything every other possible reality exists in a different universe.
I got some youtube videos because i'm such a nice guy
this is a nice little documentary which is presented by the theories originators son, who also happens to be E from the Eels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2zF8DB_U4
and here's a 2 minute little explanation from some chick who's doing a project for college for those of you who don't want to sit through an hour with E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KN6a8inOF8
Davoid wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OytHzZ72Y
Super Quantum Mario World
Synthetic Orange wrote: »
How about relying on science to protect you from 50,000 volts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UleGgWpeRhI
Rankenphile wrote: »
Rankenphile wrote: »
This stuff is super rad.
Radtastic, even. Wiki says you can get them as scars if you get hit by lightning, which would also be awesome.
why would you build a robot to do something that gravity does so much better?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPFoDkGFrU Bill Nye lays the fucking smackdown on Astrology.
apparently there is such a thing as acoustic levitation
Chemistry:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/video-beautiful.html
Burning Salt Display done with style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCWLpRc1yM&NR=1
Some stupidly destructive chemistry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MvvxndPDTk&NR=1
and more thermite. BOOM.
Biology:
watermark on synthetic life
yeah imagine writing 20 paragraphs of PENIS on artificial genomes
YEEEEEEAH
they made a see through fish to help cancer research
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080206-see-thru-fish.html
which is both disgusting and awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnTCyf5s9B8
talking about abiogenesis on the old Bill Nye the Science Guy show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHxNJnUf0s
Cloning, on Eyes of Nye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmpLGGET6Qg&feature=related
Bill Nye - Evolution
Gadgetry/Robotics/Tech/Misc:
doublehawk00 wrote: »http://leftsideinc.com/
later this year i am going on a mountain biking school trip, and this guy will be one of our teachers
i didn't know he was missing a leg until he told us, i just thought they brought in an awesome prosthetic leg that they designed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvY7NGncCgU
Time fountain; using flourescent dye and strobe lights to create the illusion of time manipulation
Davoid wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGljuievpM
Mixed reality interface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjfBqMPnijY
Mixed reality interface 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAtdsDTt__s&feature=related
The best science is the science of Robots destroying property.
shit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/02/11/scisock111.xml
self cleaning wool and silk
is nanotechnology cool or what
Synthetic Orange wrote: »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGYZSGTQ3c not as cool as that awesome science food restaurant, but also a hi-tech sort of food affair place.
science is pretty badass
did you guys see that new bionic arm
http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5957
shit yeah bitch
it's like 17 degrees of freedom or some shit
that's like 3 less than of a normal arm
autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote: »
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The wheel gave way to the donut.
The donut gave me a soft and sugary hole to stick my penis into on lonely Friday nights when I really need to look in the mirror and cheer myself up.
It's scientists who discover all the cool shit.
It's scientists who get to play with all the cool shit.
It's scientists who get to cool shit to absolute zero then play with it to create... wait, where was I going with this?
Science is awesome.
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The guest was named Science.
I said to Science, "Science, make me laugh. I need to laugh and you are the person for the job."
Science thought for a moment, and Science said, "Trannies."
"Science," I said, "I said make me laugh, not horny. Those are two different things, and I expected you to know that."
"Yes, you did expect me to know that, and I did know that, which is why I told you something that would make you horny. The fact that I would make you horny instead of make you laugh is funny in itself," Science replied.
SCIENCE!
It took them a long time, I know that.
5 Minutes later he would go to the sports oval with some small explosive doo-hickey he made and amuse us greatly.
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Wow, ha ha ha. Maybe around 2992, they'll concede that evolution occurs within self replicating stuff.
but no match for science
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Serious is this stuff real or BS?
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I've seen the video before. I can't remember the authenticity of it.
But creating actual optic camouflage for soldiers or vehicles is daunting because they're a much larger size with odd angles all over and unlike in a freaking dorm room there is gonna be shit moving all around outside or in a war zone. Never mind if they even manage to develop optic tech able to actually update at a rate enough to hide someone from the naked eye - how the hell will they power it in a way that doesn't give off a shit load of heat and is portable/easily replaceable?
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How couldn't science be badass?
It's real, but there is very little practical use for it since you have to be standing right in front of it to work.
Still cool though.
Turtles, all the way down.
nothing that's what
You could do so much cool shit with that like.. ya know... be there..and be quasi-invisible..
and your friends would walk in and be like "hey, your quasi-invisibile"
and you would be like. "yeah.."
that wasn't as cool as I thought.
someone please find a better scenario, or else the terrorists win
Okay yeah did a little research.
The tech is just a projection technique using the background behind the person. It only works in prepared situations on static backgrounds.
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DARPA's bionic hand!
What about a smoke pot where the smoke is really nano roman gladiators with jetpacks.
Edit: too fucking slow.
When the current pope was a cardinal, he made some statement about the church's treatment of Galileo being fair, but said he was quoting someone else, which somehow makes it okay.
I love you for this.
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