JCC Go science?

So this is the tech geek equivalent photopcopying your ass?

 

Go science

http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/08/water-clouds-tentatively-detected-just-7-light-years-earth

 

Science proves that even a new world monkey can benefit from You Tube tutorials.


See also: How to leash-train your baby marmoset

 

European probe lands on a comet 317 million miles away from Earth.

 

Was watching that on BBC News earlier.

 

Size of comet to downtown LA:

 

Science is awesome


Especially when you see stuff like that get done

 

You can't do scale against an ISD it's not the done thing.

London red busses
Blue whales
Football (association) pitches

These are the only respected graphical models that should be used in civilised society

 

But don't you want to see it compared to the inside of a TARDIS?

 

No.

 

Organic matter on Mars confirmed

 

Seriously?! Manned zeppelin missions to Venus.

 

Largest possible airship

In 1992 technology. That was a design study done at the University of IL on how big a rigid airship could be made. Over a mile. I exchanged some emails with the lead Prof, though those emails are lost on an old computer that will never work again. he saw them as crusie ships but he was drowned in emails from people wondering about funding and making them and how they could be used as overpopulation solutions. The maximum crew/passenger was 5,000 which I assume as he put it was with cruise ship conditions not including how you could make it a permanent home.

That Venus airship vid has been all over my facebook stuff and it reminded me of this study.

 

5.5 petabits on a gram of DNA

It’s incredibly dense (you can store one bit per base, and a base is only a few atoms large); it’s volumetric (beaker) rather than planar (hard disk); and it’s incredibly stable — where other bleeding-edge storage mediums need to be kept in sub-zero vacuums, DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.

One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you’d need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos. In Church and Kosuri’s case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA — Church’s latest book, in fact — and proceeded to make 70 billion copies (which they claim, jokingly, makes it the best-selling book of all time!) totaling 44 petabytes of data stored.

 

NASA to send a probe to Europa

 

It looks like a precursor mission. Nothing on the list of things to do includes metling through the surface.

 

No. No mention of a lander or a rover or anything like that, no details at all in fact, just that a mission to Europa is currently being planned.

 

NASA is planning to send a submarine to Titan

 

I look forward to it in 50 years.

 

Chocolate that reduces wrinkles

 

Junk food diet FTW?

 

Stupid like a fox.

Apparently Homer Simpson predicted the mass of the Higgs Boson particle. In 1998.

 

No he didn't.

 

On the flip side, he's got a violation of Fermat's Last Theorem written on the board, so he's clearly just spitballing.

That's a callback to the 3D segment from Treehouse of Horror VI which aired back when the proof was sufficiently obscure - like, had only just been published levels of obscure - that you could still get away with fake "counterexamples."