Well, I imagined that WildCat chasing me with circular saws inserted as jaws and I did not laugh.
Very detailed and interesting hypothesis, bubbles for you.
I think that the abominable Cthulhu is chewing on the plastics while thinking about ways to produce eldritch horrors and frightful vistas upon the unsuspecting mankind.
This got me thinking about how ludicrous it is to care so passionately about this particular allotrope of carbon. I wonder if there are some alien species out there who go nuts about other carbon allotropes like graphite or Buckminsterfullerene.
Vulcanproject: In my country, there is nothing "conspiracist" about linking to a story about confirmed fraud.
That moon rock thing was a fraud, and if a person tries to soften the blow by using some other term to describe the incident, he is not being honest.
When a team of astronauts gives a "Moon rock" as a present to a museum, then of course it is assumed that it is indeed a Moon rock and not a rock somebody picked up up from their back...
Vulcanproject: yeah, let's see the moon rocks, such as the one that was exposed to be petrified wood: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...
I'm not a moon landing conspiracist but there are definitely some dubious things related to the moon landings. US pulled off some big swindles during the cold war era such as the stra...
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In the long run, I think it's the best for everyone to separate science from religion as well as possible. That way, scientists could try and inspire young people to become researchers by telling of the big mysteries that surround some aspects of the history of life without having to worry about creationists who claim that every whole currently unfilled by science is proof for the existence of God, AND the church would stop being affiliated with the backward thinking of creationists.
Yeah, I don't like creationism at all, but I think that it would be useful to teach about how much of a mystery the origin of life still is. That might inspire some young people to become scientists and find out how it happened.
As it is now, some textbooks present the matter in such a way as to give a picture that we have it all figured out: Urey-Miller type reactions created the building blocks of life which then colaesced to form autocatalytic sets that then evolved in...
Exactly. Global warming or not, there's just no point in clinging onto oil or coal as energy sources. They are finite energy sources that get more expensive by the day, while solar energy gets cheaper by the day:
In 1990 the cost of solar electricity was about 10 USD / watt, in 2000 it was about 5 USD / watt. Nowadays it's under 3 USD / watt and solar electricity is predicted to become cheaper than average electricity price in USA by 2020.
Check out ...
The days are very long in Germany's latitutes during the summer. Just now in Berlin, the sun rises at 4:43 am and sets at 21:33 pm. That's almost 17 hours of sun being over the horizon. So there's plenty of sunlight energy to be captured.
thorstein: terraforming Mars will never be easy, no matter what we find from the planet's crust. There are obstacles such as 1) low gravity which means that gases escape from the Mars atmosphere to space and due to the gas pressure being below water's triple point, water cannot exist in liquid phase. 2) no magnetoshpere which means that the surface of Mars is vulnerable to Solar wind and coronal mass ejections, and due to the lack of protecting atmosphere, the levels of cosmic radiati...
It's not water, it's solid rock with mineral that contains hydrogen (protons) and oxygen. The chemical formula of ringwoodite is (Mg,Fe2+)2(SiO4). Read the article.
Jaggedcarpet: I think your hypothesis is based on a false impression brought about by the bad choice of words in the article's headline. Remember that we're not talking about loose water or soil or gravel here. We're talking about cubic miles worth of solid rock composed of minerals that contain hydrogen and oxygen.
If you sprinkle water on a rock, it doesn't get wet inside. To form ringwoodite from precursos minerals, tectonic processes are required that cycl...
Yeah, the idea behind warp drive is to indeed warp space.
What seems to be the biggest obstacle into developing a warp drive / Alcubierre Drive is that it would require negative mass to work, something which has never been observed to exist, and which would be very weird indeed if it could exist.
The elections were on 25th of May. None of the Finnish Pirate Party members were elected to the European Parliament and the Pirate Party of Sweden lost both of it's representatives in the Parliament.
He was actually a candidate of the Pirate Party in the elections for the European Parliament here in Finland this spring (2014).
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Imagine the accidents where the driver's or driven over's limbs come chopped off by the rotor blades...
I will stick to the safer and more economical wheels.
With that many torrents, there might just be some among them that are a breach of copyright. But perhaps we might forgive them for that.
Well all these facts of Earth being at just the right distance from the sun, the sun being of the right size etc., that's just observation selection effect, or part of the anthropic principle.
Ok, so we have a so called habitable zone in our solar system, roughly the zone between planets Venus and Mars, where water may exist in liquid form on the surface of a planet, and where Earth is located. There are also other requirements for complex life to exist such as suitable d...
Sapphire glass actually has value 9 on the Mohs scale so basically it would be really hard to scratch that thing unless you have >9 value material such as diamond to scratch it with. (glass is 5.5-7, hardened steel is 7)