Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Isabeau]

Thread on the Appalachians.

 

[danielravennest]

SpaceX rocket has Easter eggs.

Nosecone with mounting brackets for the forward flaps:

Closeup of second cut-out from the top:

 

[Free]

 

[danielravennest]

 

[Clara D.]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I'm torn and I've decided to be positive about it because Wally Funk.

 

[Beebo Brink]

52-foot-tall 'megaripples' from dinosaur-killing asteroid are hiding under Louisiana

These are the largest known megaripples on Earth.

www.livescience.com

 

[Caete]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The National Weather Service next month is going to start sending emergency warnings to your mobile phone when you are in the path of an exceptionally damaging storm:


The alerts will be sent using the same framework that's used to push tornado and child abduction alerts to your phone already.

These new alerts will only be sent when a severe thunderstorm warning issued by the NWS includes a "destructive" tag, which happens when the conditions are as described in the tweet. The base criteria for a severe thunderstorm remains the same and is 1-inch diameter hail, 58mph winds, or a tornado.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Ancient viruses dating back 15,000 years found in Tibetan glacier

Scientists have discovered previously unknown viruses dating from 15,000 years ago in ice samples taken from a glacier in the Tibetan plateau.

www.cnn.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

 

[Essence Lumin]

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

They are likely to be of a Buddhist variety so a fairly peaceful virus.

 

[Free]

Time for some real space science.

Make Cosmos Raunchy Again! Japanese Company to Send Sex Toy Into Space, Media Says

According to NASA, no astronaut has had rumpy-pumpy in space, and the process could be quite tricky due to microgravity. However, space agencies are planning long missions in the not-so-distant future, so it is likely they will have to...

sputniknews.com

The Japanese adult firm Tenga plans to send a sex toy into space, local media reported. The Tenga Rocket, with a male self-gratification toy, is expected to lift off from the Hokkaido Spaceport next month, if weather conditions are good. Created in collaboration with the Japanese civilian spaceflight company Interstellar Technologies, the project has two objectives.

Firstly, it is to study the effects of space on sex toys. Tenga says it wants to become the first company to develop a sex toy that can be used in space. In order to achieve this, it needs to find out how to make it work in a microgravity environment. Simply put, how to prevent lubricants and semen from floating around and damaging millions of dollars' worth of equipment.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I am pretty sure that with all the young healthy astronauts that have been up there, the space station is no longer a virgin, no matter what NASA says.

 

[danielravennest]

I am pretty sure that with all the young healthy astronauts that have been up there, the space station is no longer a virgin, no matter what NASA says.

I may have told this story before, but if someone did, Houston would *know*.

A main purpose of the ISS is microgravity science. As part of that, they installed an "accelerometer mapping system" to measure just how micro the gravity is. For example, if a crew member pushes off one end of a module with 100 pounds of force, since the station is roughly a million pounds, the whole station moves in the other direction at 100 micro-g. The AMS is sensitive to 1 micro-g, ie a one pound force. There's all kinds of background disturbances from crew moving around, the solar arrays pivoting, etc. But a rhythmic oscillation of rising force and tempo would *clearly* stand out in the data. The only way to avoid getting caught would be to do it entirely free-floating in a quiet corner of the station, and there isn't a lot of privacy on-board.

Now, it might have happened anyway, despite the risk of getting caught. But someone would have to have plausible deniability, or it could be a career-ender.

 

[Essence Lumin]

The only way to avoid getting caught would be to do it entirely free-floating in a quiet corner of the station, and there isn't a lot of privacy on-board.

Now, it might have happened anyway, despite the risk of getting caught. But someone would have to have plausible deniability, or it could be a career-ender.

Then there's the problem of sperm floating around. It's probably harder to collect than pee.

 

[Free]

Then there's the problem of sperm floating around. It's probably harder to collect than pee.

No space glove, no space love.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Jaw dropping find.

First sign of animal life on Earth may be a sponge fossil

A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

phys.org

 

[danielravennest]

Starship rocket stacked for the first time in South Texas. This was a "fit check", to make sure the first stage fits on the launch mount, and the second stage fits on the first stage. Both will now go back for pressure and static engine testing before being restacked for launch.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

SpaceX rocket has Easter eggs.

Nosecone with mounting brackets for the forward flaps:

Closeup of second cut-out from the top:

I feel a copyright infringement law suit incoming...