Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

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Australia is TOO a continent!

Is it true there's a planetoid the size of Pluto sitting in the middle of it?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Is it true there's a planetoid the size of Pluto sitting in the middle of it?

That's a spider.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Dissing Australia AND Pluto. Sad.

 

[Free]

Uh, yum...

Danish scientists concoct fat-free whipped cream out of lactic acid bacteria

Someday our whipped topping could be made from beer-brewing residues or plants.

arstechnica.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

How a team of scientists cured a girl from leukemia using advanced bio-engineered t-cells, where all conventional treatments before failed.

This really sounds like advanced scifi stuff to me, it is nothing short of amazing!

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an "exciting", experimental therapy for a 13-year-old girl.

www.bbc.com

 

[Erich Templar]

Giant VR Robots Are Building Railways In Japan - Virtual Uncle

Could VR-powered humanoid robots be the future of heavy construction? Over the years we’ve seen a number of major corporations try their hands at marrying VR technology and robotics, from VR convenience store employees and a remote-controlled bomb squad bot to a rather unsettling headset that...

virtualuncle.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Confronting the Confounding Cosmic Mind of Homo Sapiens

Personal Perspective: Was Homo erectus the last rational human?

www.psychologytoday.com

First, we must reject the common belief that our cognitive crisis is about dim people vs. bright people or the educated vs. the uneducated. If only it were that simple. To varying degrees, the problem is everywhere because all minds are prone to daily bouts of perfect clarity and self-inflicted folly. Misperceptions and muddled assumptions are standard features of the human condition. Even the best of us are clever and gullible throughout life, often from one moment to the next. We all believe silly things, what matters is how many and how silly.

 

[Khamon]

We all believe silly things; what matters is how many and how silly.

FIFY oh yes I see what you’re saying yes well yes

 

[Grandma Bates]

Moments of Discovery

A web exhibit by the American Institute of Physics that tells the story of three scientific discoveries in the scientists' own words.

history.aip.org

I did not realize this, but when Hahn published his work on fission, which led to a Nobel prize, he did not include Lise Meitner as a co-author on their shared work. Dr. Meitner did the theoretical work which described the results of Hahn's experiments:

Sheril Kirshenbaum (@Sheril@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery. Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she...

mastodon.social

The article:

This Month in Physics History

APS Archives

www.aps.org

 

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[Beebo Brink]

If you can get past the commercial ads, the tale of this voyaging rocket part is interesting.

 

[Caete]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Minor Planet 134340 Pluto is an overgrown comet with delusions of full planethood. ;-)

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

OCCUPY PLUTO

 

[Caete]

Minor Planet 134340 Pluto is an overgrown comet with delusions of full planethood. ;-)

 

[Caete]

Pressurization issue on stage one so no Starship flight test today.

 

[Caete]

 

[Caete]

Starship test flight.
SHort hold at t-40 sec to clear some flags
Launch is go
3 Raptor engines not working on first stage but performance is good
Max Q handled
Stage seperation failed
Entire rocket flipping
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Lots of data to sort through
Anything past clearing the pad (which it did) is considered a win.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It cleared the pad so well the pad ended up in the parking lot.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Couple unearth one of world’s greatest fossil finds in mid-Wales
Discovery could help plug gaps in understanding of evolution after Cambrian explosion more than 500m years ago

Many people discovered new interests closer to home as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns. For Dr Joseph Botting and Dr Lucy Muir, it was a 10-metre-wide quarry in a sheep field near to their home in Llandrindod, central Wales, which appeared to be teeming with tiny fossils.

Now researchers believe the site could help plug gaps in scientific understanding of how evolution proceeded after the Cambrian explosion – the period when the ancestors of most modern animals are believed to have evolved. It could even prove to be as important as the Burgess Shale in Canada that preserves one of the world’s first complex marine ecosystems, experts say.

The Welsh site, known as Castle Bank, dates from the Middle Ordovician period, about 460m-70m years ago. It represents a community of diverse and mostly diminutive (1mm to 5mm in body length) marine organisms that existed at a time when ocean covered what is now mid-Wales.