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DART's Efficacy results are in:
Too video; didn't watch:
Mission designers hoped the DART collision would alter the asteroid's orbital period by at least 72 seconds...
The impact actually altered the asteroid's orbital period by 32 minutes.
Too video; didn't watch:
Mission designers hoped the DART collision would alter the asteroid's orbital period by at least 72 seconds...
The impact actually altered the asteroid's orbital period by 32 minutes.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
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Sometimes the internet is still fun.
> Biologist finds old soup has turned blue.
> Posts to Twitter.
> Science Twitter demands Science.
> Half a thread later, samples are going out for genomic analysis.
> Also Biologist's mom finds out she didn't finish her homecooked soup.
If it comes to a paper it'll be one of the better back stories about one.
> Biologist finds old soup has turned blue.
> Posts to Twitter.
> Science Twitter demands Science.
> Half a thread later, samples are going out for genomic analysis.
> Also Biologist's mom finds out she didn't finish her homecooked soup.
If it comes to a paper it'll be one of the better back stories about one.
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Many of you will have seen this by now, but India just became the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. This was their second attempt after a successful orbit but failed landing in 2019.
Also, rather than repeating previous visits by the US, Russia, or China, they also opted for a difficult landing on the unexplored and rough south lunar pole.
So congratulations are in order - may they find much interesting stuff!
The landing is expected to boost India’s reputation for cost-competitive space engineering. The Chandrayaan-3 was launched with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees ($74 million)
Also, rather than repeating previous visits by the US, Russia, or China, they also opted for a difficult landing on the unexplored and rough south lunar pole.
So congratulations are in order - may they find much interesting stuff!
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FOX DOG
Honestly surprised this hasn't happened before though, or rather happened in a way which was scientifically observed and confirmed.
Honestly surprised this hasn't happened before though, or rather happened in a way which was scientifically observed and confirmed.
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only in everyone's first fursona
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Mongrel wrote:Honestly surprised this hasn't happened before though, or rather happened in a way which was scientifically observed and confirmed.
Look, the natural world is quite large, and there are only so many field zoologists to go around.
I also feel like, until the extremely recent domestication of foxes by Russian scientists, the only way for this to happen was if the dog involved was wild or feral, and therefore its unusual offspring would be rather unlikely to be noticed as candidates for study.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
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Upthorn wrote:Mongrel wrote:Honestly surprised this hasn't happened before though, or rather happened in a way which was scientifically observed and confirmed.
Look, the natural world is quite large, and there are only so many field zoologists to go around.
I also feel like, until the extremely recent domestication of foxes by Russian scientists, the only way for this to happen was if the dog involved was wild or feral, and therefore its unusual offspring would be rather unlikely to be noticed as candidates for study.
I agree, though the article in question points out that over 80%(!) of the world's dogs are actually feral.
I do think that it's likely people might have seen them many times previously and just dismissed them as a dog given the extreme variety in dog morphology.
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Someone figured how to run Doom on e.coli. No, there isn't some weird tiny OS named 'e.coli', they calculated how to make it run on actual e.coli.
(it would take 600 years to play the entire game though, so no live demo, sorry... for now)
(it would take 600 years to play the entire game though, so no live demo, sorry... for now)
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Scientists may have finally figured out the mystery of why insects are drawn to artificial lights
The tl;dr is that there not drawn to the light, exactly, but that an instinctual response to the light used for orientation during flight results in them becoming trapped near a light source as they fly, unless someone bumps them out of the light's range
The tl;dr is that there not drawn to the light, exactly, but that an instinctual response to the light used for orientation during flight results in them becoming trapped near a light source as they fly, unless someone bumps them out of the light's range
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Huh, nobody has seen humpback whales mating until 2022? And the first photographed encounter was between two males?
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: Go on about Homeworld for X posts
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Humpbacks actually went extinct because Kirk kidnapped a viable breeding pair that WOULD have had calves and eventually restored equilibrium, but because gracie and whatever the other ones name was went mysteriously missing when a bird of prey decloaked in front of a russian whaling ship, panicking them (which is still the funniest scene in that movie) there were not enough whales left to regain their numbers, leading to species collapse and extinction
Also what the fuck happened to gracie and what's his face in the future
like you can't have a viable population recovery with just two parents, too much inbreeding
so like
are they gonna clone them or
Also what the fuck happened to gracie and what's his face in the future
like you can't have a viable population recovery with just two parents, too much inbreeding
so like
are they gonna clone them or
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...I feel like you're not young enough to not know who George Burns and Gracie Allen were.
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you underestimate how stupid I am
but seriously just imagine what those russians said to their friends and families when they got back to port and then all their friends and families just immediately dismissed the story of a giant green monster suddenly appearing floating in the air as just "them being drunk as fuck"
but seriously just imagine what those russians said to their friends and families when they got back to port and then all their friends and families just immediately dismissed the story of a giant green monster suddenly appearing floating in the air as just "them being drunk as fuck"
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Given how bad the Russians are at naval anything, it probably wasn't even the first time they saw a brobdingnagian green monster on that voyage or any other anyway.
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I thought they were Norwegian whalers
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Norwegians or Japanese would make way more sense than Russians, generally. Though there were some Russian whalers.
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