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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #220 on: August 05, 2009, 01:36:36 PM »

Fuck brushing man! I'm just gonna rinse with fucking scope.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #221 on: August 06, 2009, 12:27:44 PM »

Never mind teeth, grow stuff we can't just make out of plastic yet.
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« Reply #222 on: August 06, 2009, 12:33:50 PM »

I am all for my mouth not being made entirely out of bits of molded porcelain held on with shaky cement.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #223 on: August 06, 2009, 12:40:19 PM »

It makes sense to investigate regenerating "surface" tissues before trying to create more invasive replacements, if for no other reason than for the increased risk of the surgeries.

i.e., it's hard enough to regrow stuff from stem cells without having to worry about the test subjects croaking.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #224 on: August 17, 2009, 09:15:29 AM »

Singaporean scientists convert carbon dioxide to methanol.

It doesn't seem to be very big news so maybe I'm missing the catch.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #225 on: August 17, 2009, 09:25:04 AM »

This would not in fact work, but...

Step 1: Put fancy cork in car's ass.
Step 2: Route corked gasses for internal reprocessing into extra fuel.
Step 3: OMG FERPETUAL MO-SHUN MO-CHINE!
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #226 on: August 17, 2009, 11:54:50 AM »

It has to be a net energy loss, even if it's just an endothermic reaction.  Somewhere along the line, entropy gets its dues.
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« Reply #227 on: August 17, 2009, 12:35:17 PM »

Yeah, but the trick is losing energy in a way you don't have to worry about.

I mean solar power is disastrously wasteful if you calculate the net energy loss for the sun itself but it's not like that affects us.
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« Reply #228 on: August 17, 2009, 12:49:41 PM »

This would not in fact work, but...

Yes, I did learn grade-school thermodynamics.

Evidently I didn't learn how to tell jokes though.  ::(:
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #229 on: August 21, 2009, 11:09:23 AM »

Science ponders zombie attack

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In their study, the researchers from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (also in Ottawa) posed a question: If there was to be a battle between zombies and the living, who would win?

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In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's only hope is to "hit them [the undead] hard and hit them often".

They added: "It's imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly or else... we are all in a great deal of trouble."

According to the researchers, the key difference between the zombies and the spread of real infections is that "zombies can come back to life".

Words fail me.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #230 on: August 21, 2009, 12:53:39 PM »

...Is it strange that I think the oddest thing about that article is that the professor's last name is "Smith?", question mark included? That's got to make his name a bitch to enter on online forms.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #232 on: September 04, 2009, 03:15:44 PM »

Probably a little stale news, but whatever. A bunch of eggheads in Zurich snapped a photo of a single molecule. What freaks me out is how it actually looks like a textbook diagram.

Apologies for tainting the boards with a Fox News link, but it seemed like the lesser of two evils; the other article I found was shorter and somehow wandered into why girls scream at spiders. :confused:
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #233 on: September 04, 2009, 03:49:14 PM »

Photos of Atoms exist... not that they're very good, but they do exist (they look like little blurry spheres).
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #235 on: September 04, 2009, 10:30:50 PM »

So uhh, what are the practical uses of this exactly?
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #236 on: September 05, 2009, 12:30:05 AM »

SCIENCE!
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #237 on: September 05, 2009, 06:46:42 AM »

WHY DO I KEEP READING IT AS "MONOPOLIES"?
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #238 on: September 05, 2009, 10:07:55 AM »

Economist Science and Technology Quarterly is out.   Two articles worth persuing:

1)  An informative glance on the status and common uses of 3-dimensional printers

2) The latest attempts at making metal heal itself
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #239 on: September 08, 2009, 01:30:53 AM »

So uhh, what are the practical uses of this exactly?
warp engines, time machines, railguns, closed timelike curves (sorta like a time machine)
i dunno what else needs to be said
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