Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Tigger]

Well this was fun: Is my blue your blue?

“I’m a visual neuroscientist, and my wife, Dr Marissé Masis-Solano, is an ophthalmologist,” says Dr Patrick Mineault, designer of the viral web app ismy.blue. “We have this argument about a blanket in our house. I think it’s unambiguously green and she thinks it’s unambiguously blue.”

What is blue? what is green? is your green the same as my green or your blue?
Test the boundaries of how you identify colour and find what your blue is.

By about the 3rd example it moves from "well that's plainly blue/plainly green" into "er... welll... it's kinda both buuuut"
Ive taken the test a half dozen times now and each time I come out between 169 and 172 which seems more consistent than I expected. My colour boundary is greener than 77% of the population... which, if I'm interpreting it correctly, means that I keep on seeing blue long after most people are seeing green. I think. I could be wrong.

Article about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/sep/16/blue-green-viral-test-color-perception

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

LOL every time I take it my number goes up.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Well this was fun: Is my blue your blue?



What is blue? what is green? is your green the same as my green or your blue?
Test the boundaries of how you identify colour and find what your blue is.

Your boundary is at hue 176, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

 

[Noodles]

Your boundary is at hue 171, greener than 76% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

Your boundary is at hue 176, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

I am surprised on that threshold difference being so close.

 

[Free]

Can you win an option where for you, turquoise is turquoise?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It said Turquoise is "my blue" but I have spent enough time in photography and graphic design that my blue is cyan.

 

[Tigger]

curious that we're coming in on the same side of the scale

 

[Soen Eber]

Well this was fun: Is my blue your blue?



What is blue? what is green? is your green the same as my green or your blue?
Test the boundaries of how you identify colour and find what your blue is.

By about the 3rd example it moves from "well that's plainly blue/plainly green" into "er... welll... it's kinda both buuuut"
Ive taken the test a half dozen times now and each time I come out between 169 and 172 which seems more consistent than I expected. My colour boundary is greener than 77% of the population... which, if I'm interpreting it correctly, means that I keep on seeing blue long after most people are seeing green. I think. I could be wrong.

Article about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/sep/16/blue-green-viral-test-color-perception

I'm getting the same result, 172

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My blue is Miles Davis.

 

[Isabeau]

I was almost split down the middle. I hesitated near the end cause, as Free said, sometimes turquoise is turquoise.

Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I feel like this thing always comes up about the difference between blue and green, but I bet we'd find a similar spread over any other color transition as well. Like, when does yellow become green? When does red become orange? When does blue become purple?

I bet yellow vs. orange would be especially contentious. Like, think of the face emojis for the forum:



When talking about the emoji I would refer to it as yellow, but if we were just talking about that color I would definitely call it orange.

 

[Free]

Scientist Disputes That Big Bang Actually Happened

A researcher from Kansas State University has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened.

futurism.com

The "scientist" researcher is an associate professor of computer science. So take the claim with a large grain of salt.

 

[Isabeau]

I feel like this thing always comes up about the difference between blue and green, but I bet we'd find a similar spread over any other color transition as well. Like, when does yellow become green? When does red become orange? When does blue become purple?

I bet yellow vs. orange would be especially contentious. Like, think of the face emojis for the forum:



When talking about the emoji I would refer to it as yellow, but if we were just talking about that color I would definitely call it orange.

Yeah, I see it as yellow. But I know what you mean about different colours. Some lime or acid greens look yellow, and tomato red almost seems like orange. Also, it may all depend on what screen you’re looking at.

 

[Free]

But the eggplant reaction icon is definitely purple.

 

[Free]

Every Member of 23andMe's Board Except the CEO Just Resigned in Disgust

Nearly the entire board of directors for 23andMe has resigned — a move that apparently was news to its overly-optimistic chief executive.

futurism.com

After a years-long valuation free-for-all, every member of 23andMe's board of directors just resigned — a move that apparently took its ever-optimistic chief executive by surprise.

This week, seven of the DNA testing kit company's eight board members resigned in an open letter addressed to company CEO and cofounder Anne Wojcicki, effectively accusing her of slow-rolling their buyout offers as she attempts to take the company private.

"While we continue to wholeheartedly support the Company’s mission... it is also clear that we differ on the strategic direction for the Company going forward," the newly-resigned directors wrote, adding that Wojcicki's 49 percent ownership of 23andMe made voting against her fruitless.

 

[Free]

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.

futurism.com

Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of years.

As detailed in a new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers propose that the ring may have formed after a large asteroid came within our planet's Roche limit — a distance at which the tidal forces of the Earth's gravity begin to pull the rocky body apart. Gradually, as it continued to deteriorate, the asteroid's remains were scattered across the Earth's orbit, forming a ring like one of Saturn's (though probably not as magnificent.)

If the researchers are correct, our planet still bears the scars of this bygone formation: 21 impacts from meteors that dropped out of the ring, all falling within a window near the Earth's equator too narrow to be random.

 

[Free]

Proof that turquoise is NEITHER BLUE nor GREEN. IT'S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.



Teach people how to detect the color, stupid color test website...

Maglink

 

[Free]

Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas

Polypropylene and polyethylene can be broken down simultaneously.

arstechnica.com

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and polyethylene, found in plastic bags, bottles, toys, and even mulch.

Polypropylene and polyethylene can be recycled, but the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. They are both polyolefins, which are the products of polymerizing ethylene and propylene, raw materials that are mainly derived from fossil fuels. The bonds of polyolefins are also notoriously hard to break.

Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have come up with a method of recycling these polymers that uses catalysts that easily break their bonds, converting them into propylene and isobutylene, which are gases at room temperature. Those gases can then be recycled into new plastics.

The question is, how soon can such a process be commercialized at an effective cost? My thinking is, not very.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas

Polypropylene and polyethylene can be broken down simultaneously.

arstechnica.com

The question is, how soon can such a process be commercialized at an effective cost? My thinking is, not very.

Seems like these "we found a magic catalyst" deals almost always end with either, "Oh, it's only found in the heart of a neutron star" or "Oh, well, yes, it is insanely toxic. But only to living things ....."

 

[Free]

"Oh, well, yes, it is insanely toxic. But only to living things ....."

It's a real shame that non-living things can get away with murder.