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RE: Weird & Interesting science - DHBirr - 02-24-2021
Mars Landing "Easter Egg"
Perseverance displays a "hidden" message.... (I'd like to joke about it perhaps being for the Illuminati, but someone would probably think I was serious.)
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Bob Schroeck - 02-24-2021
There's also a tiny plaque somewhere in one of the camera's sights that shows a progression of all the various landers in what looks like a parody of the classic "evolution of man" pic.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 02-24-2021
I saw those pics compared to the family decals you see on car rear windows.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Labster - 03-11-2021
Just in time for the last Evangelion:
Scientists confirm antimatter explosion in Antarctica
Okay, they detected an antineutrino coming in at 6.3 PeV in their IceCube detector. But that's a lot for a tiny neutrino!
lainga on Hacker News Wrote:6.3 PeV - that's crazy! Wolfram Alpha tells me that'd be about enough energy as work to depress a key on a keyboard.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - hazard - 03-12-2021
Wait, an anti neutrino. I wasn't aware they were even possible, given how neutrinos have no charge.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - classicdrogn - 03-12-2021
Still no charge, but opposite spin I guess? Though I don't know how yoiu could tell until it annihilated against a normal one, which given thee size and speed they tend to be moving at probably makes the sighting a very rare chance indeed...
RE: Weird & Interesting science - robkelk - 03-17-2021
First photos of a glow-in-the-dark shark
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Bob Schroeck - 03-24-2021
Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Bob Schroeck - 03-30-2021
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
RE: Weird & Interesting science - RMH999 - 03-30-2021
Wider spread Denisovan ancestry in SE Asia
(link is to abstract - it's paywalled)
Short pop sci summary of findings
Genetic analysis of inhabitants of SE Asia islands indicated 3 separate Denisovan/Homo Sapiens hybridization events. The original Siberian one, then a SE Asia one, and finally New Guinea. The New Guinea event was between 15-30K years ago, and therefore Denisovans may have been the longest lasting cousin to us. No positive signs of hybridization with either of the other homo species in the area (H. floresiensis or H. luzonensis) - there may have been something, but it was barely above background, so not significant.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-06-2021
Earth appears to have an additioonal hidden layer in the core.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - RMH999 - 04-06-2021
Large blobs in the mantle may be parts of another planet
This was alluded to in the Youtube video Norgarth posted.
The Large Low-Shear Velocity Provinces (about 6% of the mantle) may be remnants of Theia, the believed proto-planet that impacted Earth and formed the Moon.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Jinx999 - 04-07-2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00898-z
Particle Physicists are going "That's Funny . . . . "
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-11-2021
3 discoveries you missed because of COVID
RE: Weird & Interesting science - RMH999 - 04-13-2021
https://newatlas.com/biology/ancient-monkeydactyl-dinosaur-oldest-opposed-thumbs/
Reptiloid/Sleestak/Silurian missing link discovered (dinosaur with oldest known opposable thumbs)
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Bob Schroeck - 04-14-2021
Fireball over Florida on Monday night.
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-17-2021
(04-06-2021, 07:33 PM)RMH999 Wrote: Large blobs in the mantle may be parts of another planet
This was alluded to in the Youtube video Norgarth posted.
The Large Low-Shear Velocity Provinces (about 6% of the mantle) may be remnants of Theia, the believed proto-planet that impacted Earth and formed the Moon.
a video discussing the above concept (roughly 10.5 min)
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-19-2021
Some massive object majorly disrupted the nearby Hyades Cluster and we don't know what
new study suggests 36 alien civilizations in the Milky Way, but ...
RE: Weird & Interesting science - RMH999 - 04-22-2021
How many bubbles in a glass of beer?
I have to applaud the lab that got the grant for this project.
RMH
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Bob Schroeck - 04-23-2021
Disney is developing a free-roving Young Groot robot:
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-24-2021
more Mars stuff
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-25-2021
stars pass through the (distant outskirts of the) solar system every 50,000 years or so
closest and smallest Black Hole to Earth found - V723 Mon, 'The Unicorn'
RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 04-30-2021
How our understanding of Neanderthals changed in the last few years
and somewhat related
did magnetic cataclysm 42000 years ago cause Neanderthal extinction?
RE: Weird & Interesting science - robkelk - 05-01-2021
Aw, darn - we missed The Super Pink Moon of 2021.
(Of course, on this board what we missed was making the Sailor Chibi-Moon jokes...
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RE: Weird & Interesting science - Norgarth - 05-02-2021
How the world almost ended in 2012 and still might later