Science!

User avatar
Büge
Posts: 5442
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:56 pm

Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:44 am

Image

User avatar
Upthorn
Posts: 1027
Joined: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:41 pm
Location: mastodon.social/@upthorn
Contact:

Re: Science!

Postby Upthorn » Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:09 am

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.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:16 pm

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.
Image

User avatar
Büge
Posts: 5442
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:56 pm

Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Tue May 16, 2023 9:42 pm

Image

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:19 pm

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.
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!
Image

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:17 pm

FOX DOG

Honestly surprised this hasn't happened before though, or rather happened in a way which was scientifically observed and confirmed.
Image

User avatar
beatbandito
Posts: 4300
Joined: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:04 am

Re: Science!

Postby beatbandito » Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:39 pm

only in everyone's first fursona
Image

User avatar
Upthorn
Posts: 1027
Joined: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:41 pm
Location: mastodon.social/@upthorn
Contact:

Re: Science!

Postby Upthorn » Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:19 pm

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.

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:09 pm

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.
Image

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:03 am

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)
Image

KingRoyal
Posts: 745
Joined: Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:32 am

Re: Science!

Postby KingRoyal » Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:58 am

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
signature

User avatar
Yoji
Posts: 1440
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:12 pm
Location: Screamtown

Re: Science!

Postby Yoji » Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:13 pm

Huh, nobody has seen humpback whales mating until 2022? And the first photographed encounter was between two males?
Image: Mention something from KPCC or Rachel Maddow
Image: Go on about Homeworld for X posts

User avatar
Büge
Posts: 5442
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:56 pm

Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:13 pm

I blame Captain Kirk
Image

User avatar
Friday
Posts: 6272
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:40 pm
Location: Karma: -65373

Re: Science!

Postby Friday » Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:35 pm

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
ImageImageImage

User avatar
Thad
Posts: 13170
Joined: Tue Jan 21, 2014 10:05 am
Location: 1611 Uranus Avenue
Contact:

Re: Science!

Postby Thad » Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:53 pm

...I feel like you're not young enough to not know who George Burns and Gracie Allen were.

User avatar
Friday
Posts: 6272
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:40 pm
Location: Karma: -65373

Re: Science!

Postby Friday » Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:59 pm

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"
ImageImageImage

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:01 pm

Given how bad the Russians are at naval anything, it probably wasn't even the first time they saw a big green monster on that voyage or any other anyway.
Image

User avatar
Büge
Posts: 5442
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:56 pm

Re: Science!

Postby Büge » Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:00 am

I thought they were Norwegian whalers
Image

User avatar
Mongrel
Posts: 21290
Joined: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:28 pm
Location: There's winners and there's losers // And I'm south of that line

Re: Science!

Postby Mongrel » Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:16 am

Norwegians or Japanese would make way more sense than Russians, generally. Though there were some Russian whalers.
Image

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 16 guests