Large Hardon Collider

[Mizango]

Some of us aren't that cool.

QQ

All anyone has to do is PM me if they do want to do it publicly, I practically have a BG exclusive list at this point anyway lol. Elise you are always cool enough in my book <3

[Eliseos]

Excellent. One step closer to NDT.

[Mizango]

Excellent. One step closer to NDT.

lol

[Eliseos]

Miz should get a kick out of this, especially with the prospect of us finding alien life anytime soon. New species discovered that lives without oxygen:

Three species of creature, which are only a millimetre long and resemble jellyfish encased in shells, were found 2.2 miles (3.5km) underwater on the ocean floor, 124 miles (200km) off the coast of Crete, in an area with almost no oxygen.
The animals, named Loriciferans due to their protective layer, or lorica, were discovered by a team led by Roberto Danovaro from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy.


One of the species has been named Spinoloricus Cinzia, after Dr Danovaro's wife, while the other two, known as Rugiloricus and Pliciloricus, have yet to be formally named.
They were found during three expeditions to find life in the sediment of L'Atlante basin in the Mediterranean, which took place over the course of a decade.
Professor Danovaro told BBC News bodies of multicellular animals had been found in sediment from a similarly oxygen-starved area of the Black Sea, but they were thought to have been carried there from adjacent oxygenated water.
The species found in the latest expedition were alive, two of them containing eggs, and though they died on extraction the eggs were successfully incubated on the ship, and hatched in an oxygen-starved environment.
The professor said: "It is a real mystery how these creatures are able to live without oxygen because until now we thought only bacteria could do this."
Lisa Levin, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, wrote in the journal BMC Biology that further research into animals that can live without oxygen could help scientists examining the possibility of alien life existing on other planets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wil...ut-oxygen.html

[Max™]

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/scienceshot-animals-that-live-wi.html



This thing may resemble the lifeforms which went extinct after the first photosynthetic life triggered a mass extinction by poisoning the atmosphere with O2.

Interesting, just posting it here for general science thread shit, btw.

>.>

*cough*

Literally 5 posts above yours.

[Eliseos]

My article is better.

[Max™]

They're almost exactly the same, so hah!

[Woozie]

Eli's article's dad could totally beat up your article's dad.

[Chun Liroy]

So Woozy, what do you think of my answers to your survey?

[Woozie]

Well, you seem less concerned about global warming than I am, but we both agree that what humans are doing could have a negative impact on future generations. Although I think it's more than just a mild concern, I don't know enough about the subject to really argue against you or try to prove you wrong.

[Omniyoji]

Miz's friend was on Colbert Report last night

Vid in case you didn't see it:

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-ep...degrasse-tyson


Was there to discuss his web series on pbs The Secret Life of Scientists.

Welcome to “The Secret Life of Scientists,” a web-only series that shows what happens when the lab coats come off. Meet intriguing scientists and engineers. Watch their videos. Ask them questions. Find out how their surprising secret lives fuel their work, and vice versa. Did you know that even Einstein had a secret life?

lol @ Stephen calling out Tyson's wording.

[Max™]

Well, you seem less concerned about global warming than I am, but we both agree that what humans are doing could have a negative impact on future generations. Although I think it's more than just a mild concern, I don't know enough about the subject to really argue against you or try to prove you wrong.

Now, this is something that I actually agree with, what we are doing could indeed have a negative impact on future generations, and should be examined carefully to make sure we do not fuck shit up bad.


Dressing it up with scare tactics though, that I don't dig.


NDT: You should have this (the shot of the Earth from the moon) turned so north is up.
Stephen: There's no up in space, we're looking from the side of the moon.
NDT: Good point.
Stephen: I accept your apology.


Also loved the "I know what a Lagrangian is!" part.

[Mizango]

NDT and Colbert are gold. Not sure if its been mentioned already but NDT is the Colbert guest that has done the most segments on his show

He makes science cool, so that is never a bad thing.

[Max™]

Had Stephen punch his frequent guest card for him, pretty funny.

[Chun Liroy]

He's the only guest on Colbert report where he's not interrupted every 5 seconds lol

[Max™]

Uh, Sharpton out-deadpanned Colbert.

Stephen was being silly, talking about education, Sharpton just stares a hole through him, and says "You're a prime example of the current educational system" or something to that effect, first time I've seen someone catch Colbert off balance.

[Eliseos]

Eli's article's dad could totally beat up your article's dad.

Woozie knows what's up.

[Tristam]

One of my biggest concerns over global warming is how hard it is to reverse the effect. We'll either do something about it now, or do something about it once it's effect starts to take a drastic toll on our lives. However, once it's effect becomes drastic, it's too late to do anything about it.

I agree that scare tactics don't work, but I also think there should be some level of "fear", I guess. By fear, I mean concern. It frustrates me when I see people acting as if global warming doesn't exist at all whatsoever. I don't care if people are less concerned about it than I am, I just hate when people pretend it doesn't exist at all, or that humans don't contribute at all, or that we shouldn't do anything about it at all whatsoever.

This is the ultimate catch-22 of science. The lay public does not understand the data, and the predictions made from the data have implications that might force us to change how we live our lives (although the same could be said of many things). So how then, does one educate the public about something complicated which also completely goes against intuition?

If you make dire predictions, you get called a fear monger or worse. If you stick to the data, you end up getting ignored, or worse, someone who doesn't understand statistics attempts to draw conclusions that don't actually follow from the data. And of course there's the denial-o-matic machine out there that doesn't accept data or models, despite the fact that our understanding of most things is dependent on models that have predictive power.

But the real nail in the coffin of the public understanding of climate science is the fact that there are intellectually dishonest people who confuse the issue and cater to everyon'e's sense of intuition, which is why the cold snap during winter seemed such a powerful argument to many people against AGW when it is completely impossible to draw a conclusion based on isolated events.

tl:dr. I'm beginning to doubt if it's even possible to convince people AGW is real or important until it's far too late and the experiment is over.

[Woozie]

But the real nail in the coffin of the public understanding of climate science is the fact that there are intellectually dishonest people who confuse the issue and cater to everyon'e's sense of intuition, which is why the cold snap during winter seemed such a powerful argument to many people against AGW when it is completely impossible to draw a conclusion based on isolated events.

The whole "It's snowing in Texas, so global warming is wrong" thing made me so mad. I really wanted to choke somebody.

[Tristam]

Miz should get a kick out of this, especially with the prospect of us finding alien life anytime soon. New species discovered that lives without oxygen:




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wil...ut-oxygen.html

This, also is mad cool, glad to see some biology in this thread!

I wish I knew enough about the biochemistry of these things to even think about how they make and use energy efficiently.