Topic: ¡Science! (Read 65139 times)

Dooly · « **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2008, 03:50:29 PM »

I can't get past the nipples and package on Captain Planet there.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2008, 07:16:01 AM »

MIT creates windows that provide solar power

Thad · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2008, 10:29:29 AM »

It's about fucking time.

As long as we've got idiots designing glass courthouses to put in downtown fucking Phoenix, we may as well start getting something out of them.

Mongrel · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2008, 03:28:19 PM »

Quote from: Thad on July 14, 2008, 10:29:29 AM

glass courthouses

The best thing about that link is that that courthouse has a poorly functioning swamp cooler.

Thad · « **Reply #24 on:** July 14, 2008, 03:31:21 PM »

Nice catch.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2008, 03:32:16 PM »

Bees deployed to protect Japanese birds

There's a lot to love about this article, but I'm especially fond of

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Conservationists hope bees will repel the crows, based on the insects' tendency to attack anything dark-colored that approaches their hives.

Fucking racist bees.

sei · « **Reply #26 on:** July 18, 2008, 01:07:38 PM »

We're probably going to need a sustainability thread.

On that note:
MIT opens new 'window' on solar energy
Related FAQ.
MIT spin-off plans to manufacture cheap, efficient solar cells

Fun stuff.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #27 on:** July 30, 2008, 10:54:41 AM »

Warp Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light

Essentially using an amount of energy equal to the size of Jupiter to open to the 11th dimension behind a spaceship would push it faster than the speed of light. Cool stuff, and several millenia off at the least. But what caught my attention was

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The tricky part is that the ship wouldn't actually move; space itself would move underneath the stationary spacecraft.

Science is apparently copying Futurama.

Thad · « **Reply #28 on:** August 11, 2008, 12:14:39 AM »

New material curves light, makes wearer invisible. I've seen both James Bond and Tony Stark use similar tech; science fact follows science fiction once again.

Catloaf · « **Reply #29 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:47:52 AM »

I just wonder if it will be truly invisible or just mostly invisible with motion still obviously noticeable to someone looking at it like in videogames.

Norondor · « **Reply #30 on:** August 11, 2008, 06:08:53 AM »

I wonder if you'll become visible if someone bumps into you or you accidentally get hit by a minigun bullet

Kazz · « **Reply #31 on:** August 11, 2008, 06:43:28 AM »

while that's pretty cool, the blog post Thad linked is just retardedly written

Norondor · « **Reply #32 on:** August 11, 2008, 07:54:42 AM »

Here is a significantly better one.

Brentai · « **Reply #33 on:** August 11, 2008, 01:45:30 PM »

Oh goody. You know I felt much better about the world a few minutes ago when I thought that cloaking technology was bullshit.

Norondor · « **Reply #34 on:** August 11, 2008, 01:46:43 PM »

I don't worry too much about invisible carbon molecules.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #35 on:** August 11, 2008, 06:42:20 PM »

don't you mean invisible to red light carbon molecules? It will be a long time, if ever, before something could be made negatively refractive to the entire visible spectrum.

Mongrel · « **Reply #36 on:** August 12, 2008, 08:47:46 PM »

One of these days Alice... POW! Straight to tha' moon!

Oh yeah, this'll end well.

Brentai · « **Reply #37 on:** August 12, 2008, 10:23:23 PM »

At this point I'm positive that anything NASA says could happen, will happen. And at the worst possible time.

...

NASA hasn't said anything about birth control lately, have they?

François · « **Reply #38 on:** August 16, 2008, 07:06:25 AM »

There's electric cars!
There's electric trains!
Here comes a robot with ~~electric~~ organic brains!

Thad · « **Reply #39 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:12:39 AM »

...So how long until the Republicans try to ban THIS potentially life-saving research?

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