This is my new favorite thread. But honestly guys, that jet pack thing is like the sexiest thing I've seen in a long time. I was watching that video and my jaw literally just dropped at about the 3-minute mark. I had no idea how to process it.
It's a man... FLYING.
You think some shitdick in a lab coat designed/built it, though?
A little experiment I ran a few weeks ago to demonstrate natural selection to my class.
So normally those two strains would coexist, but because the 'normal' strain can't survive around the anti-bacterial stuff, the resistant strain dominates?
That sidney uhh something guy who always seems to be the explosives expert for every national geographic/BBC documentary regarding explosives must have an awesome job. Anyone seen that BBC one with Richard Hammond about whether the gunpowder plot would've worked if they had gotten away with it?
A little experiment I ran a few weeks ago to demonstrate natural selection to my class.
So normally those two strains would coexist, but because the 'normal' strain can't survive around the anti-bacterial stuff, the resistant strain dominates?
That happened in one of the dishes, but the fact that it took a few more days of delayed growth to start growing over the tabs in the others suggests that a mutation within the surrounding body had to occur first before it could start surviving. But yes, there is the normal strain, and the resistant strain.
Real time eye tracking. Unfortunatly, you need a camera pointed at one eye, but, this would be totally badass to have a real time HUD, all Metroid Prime style.
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Real time eye tracking. Unfortunatly, you need a camera pointed at one eye, but, this would be totally badass to have a real time HUD, all Metroid Prime style.
Real time eye tracking. Unfortunatly, you need a camera pointed at one eye, but, this would be totally badass to have a real time HUD, all Metroid Prime style.
man this thread comes at a excellent time. me and a mate are having a mad science house party tommorow night. everyone will be rocking labcoats and drinking cocktails from beakers.
if this threads still around on saturday afternoon ill see if i can upload some photos.
also does anyone have that SCIENCE! image with the two scientists with test tubes with an explosion in the background? it was in the last science thread.
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.
It gets worse. Not only does observing which slit the electron goes through force it to only behave one way, but if you observe what happpened after it already has, e.g. with a high powered telescope from a long way away, then your act of observation in the future will actually affect the electron's behaviour in the present.
This guy is nuts - at first I thought he was an Ozie or a Kiwi, you know, another lunatic biologist like Steve Irwin? Nope - maddogs and Englishmen. This guy is an exceedingly hands-on British biologist who does crazy documentaries for The BBC and ITV. Things like swimming with great white sharks without a cage.
My son loves him for the Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters series, in which Marvin travels back in time to investigate various beasties like the Megalodon. The combination of his experience doing actual crazyass wildlife documentaries and some sweet computer animation makes these shows remarkably entertaining. I find myself watching as he 'swims' with a truck sized squid/molusk thing and thinking to myself 'If he actually could travel back in time, he'd actually be doing this. This guy is nuts.
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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.
It gets worse. Not only does observing which slit the electron goes through force it to only behave one way, but if you observe what happpened after it already has, e.g. with a high powered telescope from a long way away, then your act of observation in the future will actually affect the electron's behaviour in the present.
In the Copenhagen Interpretation, which I'm beginning to believe is wrong.
I'm still fuzzy on how The Many Worlds Interpretation accounts for the electron behaving differently when we view the electron as to when we don't, I mean obviously different things do happen but the whole point of Many Worlds was to remove the "power" of the observer defining uh... reality(?) by saying that the electron did actually go through both slits just in different universes, but why does this only occur when we observe, surely that's saying that our concious observtion has one hell of an impact on the universe. You know what I need to get a book on this because it's confusing the hell out of me
Man that is crazy about the telescope though
reality makes no sense whatsoever, the more I hear the more I believe that the whole universe is just magic
man this thread comes at a excellent time. me and a mate are having a mad science house party tommorow night. everyone will be rocking labcoats and drinking cocktails from beakers.
if this threads still around on saturday afternoon ill see if i can upload some photos.
also does anyone have that SCIENCE! image with the two scientists with test tubes with an explosion in the background? it was in the last science thread.
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Also, yea, put up the photos when you have 'em ready.
Also, Quantum Entanglement confuses the living hell out of me. Object in two places at once? Information moving at infinite speeds? Or are both electrons just one object, with space giving the illusion of seperation?
man this thread comes at a excellent time. me and a mate are having a mad science house party tommorow night. everyone will be rocking labcoats and drinking cocktails from beakers.
if this threads still around on saturday afternoon ill see if i can upload some photos.
also does anyone have that SCIENCE! image with the two scientists with test tubes with an explosion in the background? it was in the last science thread.
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Also, yea, put up the photos when you have 'em ready.
Also, Quantum Entanglement confuses the living hell out of me. Object in two places at once? Information moving at infinite speeds? Or are both electrons just one object, with space giving the illusion of seperation?
High end science. Thanks to the fact that we're living in the future, you can do coolass shit like download remotely sensed information from Mars. Want a surface point map of Mars? Can do - you can download the data from the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter. You want that in shapefile or e00? What resolution would you like it in? If you got the bandwidth, NASA got the data. I mean think about it - an object in orbit around Mars --> NASA --> your desktop.
When can we pilot Battlemechs is what I want to know.
Quantum entanglement, while cool, is not that mysterious. Say you take a 2 boxes, a red ball and a blue ball. You close your eyes, drop one ball in each box, close the box, go home with one of them, mail the other box to Tahiti, then open yours up, and see that it's red or blue. Guess what, you know the color of the ball in Tahiti. This is in basis what quantum entanglement is: 2 particles that are linked to each on some quantum number, but until you measure it, you don't know which one is which. You can do interesting stuff with it, but it can't be used to break the speed of light to transmit information.
There is some weird stuff with the statistics in measuring quantum states in different rotations, called Bell's theorem, in which QM behaves very much unlike classical physics (and common sense).
Quantum entanglement, while cool, is not that mysterious. Say you take a 2 boxes, a red ball and a blue ball. You close your eyes, drop one ball in each box, close the box, go home with one of them, mail the other box to Tahiti, then open yours up, and see that it's red or blue. Guess what, you know the color of the ball in Tahiti. This is in basis what quantum entanglement is: 2 particles that are linked to each on some quantum number, but until you measure it, you don't know which one is which. You can do interesting stuff with it, but it can't be used to break the speed of light to transmit information.
That was such a well-put explanation of something that has confused me for a long time, that there must be a catch to this somewhere
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What transpires beyond the event horizon of a black hole? Decent people shouldn't ask about such things.
You think some shitdick in a lab coat designed/built it, though?
Engineers are the unsung heroes of this thread
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0220.html?
Article discussing feasibility of foglet nanotech.
People that can't tell the difference between "Yeah" and "Yea." Those people can go to Hell.
I think I've found my new sig.
A little experiment I ran a few weeks ago to demonstrate natural selection to my class.
that is quite possibly the finest picture I have ever seen.
well done.
So normally those two strains would coexist, but because the 'normal' strain can't survive around the anti-bacterial stuff, the resistant strain dominates?
Oh hey skyboxes don't work through portals, huh.
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That happened in one of the dishes, but the fact that it took a few more days of delayed growth to start growing over the tabs in the others suggests that a mutation within the surrounding body had to occur first before it could start surviving. But yes, there is the normal strain, and the resistant strain.
He doesn't get bottomed.
Real time eye tracking. Unfortunatly, you need a camera pointed at one eye, but, this would be totally badass to have a real time HUD, all Metroid Prime style.
YOU HACKED MY EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAELp7OjvEg
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if this threads still around on saturday afternoon ill see if i can upload some photos.
also does anyone have that SCIENCE! image with the two scientists with test tubes with an explosion in the background? it was in the last science thread.
Ah yes, thank you, I've never been able to make heads or tails of higher-dimension stuff before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Marvin
This guy is nuts - at first I thought he was an Ozie or a Kiwi, you know, another lunatic biologist like Steve Irwin? Nope - maddogs and Englishmen. This guy is an exceedingly hands-on British biologist who does crazy documentaries for The BBC and ITV. Things like swimming with great white sharks without a cage.
My son loves him for the Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters series, in which Marvin travels back in time to investigate various beasties like the Megalodon. The combination of his experience doing actual crazyass wildlife documentaries and some sweet computer animation makes these shows remarkably entertaining. I find myself watching as he 'swims' with a truck sized squid/molusk thing and thinking to myself 'If he actually could travel back in time, he'd actually be doing this. This guy is nuts.
Especially cause hes a lunatic.
In the Copenhagen Interpretation, which I'm beginning to believe is wrong.
I'm still fuzzy on how The Many Worlds Interpretation accounts for the electron behaving differently when we view the electron as to when we don't, I mean obviously different things do happen but the whole point of Many Worlds was to remove the "power" of the observer defining uh... reality(?) by saying that the electron did actually go through both slits just in different universes, but why does this only occur when we observe, surely that's saying that our concious observtion has one hell of an impact on the universe. You know what I need to get a book on this because it's confusing the hell out of me
Man that is crazy about the telescope though
reality makes no sense whatsoever, the more I hear the more I believe that the whole universe is just magic
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Also, yea, put up the photos when you have 'em ready.
Also, Quantum Entanglement confuses the living hell out of me. Object in two places at once? Information moving at infinite speeds? Or are both electrons just one object, with space giving the illusion of seperation?
YES! thanks!
Does a a spider mech doing anything for ya?
There is some weird stuff with the statistics in measuring quantum states in different rotations, called Bell's theorem, in which QM behaves very much unlike classical physics (and common sense).
mind if i use that line at the party? got any other good science related pickup lines?
That was such a well-put explanation of something that has confused me for a long time, that there must be a catch to this somewhere
oh man, that took me a second