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RE: Weird & Interesting science
02-24-2021, 09:14 AM
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.)
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
02-24-2021, 01:47 PM
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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
02-24-2021, 01:49 PM
I saw those pics compared to the family decals you see on car rear windows.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-11-2021, 08:24 PM
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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-12-2021, 06:17 AM
Wait, an anti neutrino. I wasn't aware they were even possible, given how neutrinos have no charge.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-12-2021, 06:26 AM
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...
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03-17-2021, 06:18 AM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-24-2021, 02:07 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-30-2021, 04:03 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
03-30-2021, 05:15 PM
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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-06-2021, 06:54 PM
Earth appears to have an additioonal hidden layer in the core.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-06-2021, 07:33 PM
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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.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-07-2021, 12:00 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-11-2021, 06:31 PM
3 discoveries you missed because of COVID
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-13-2021, 08:27 PM
https://newatlas.com/biology/ancient-mon...ed-thumbs/
Reptiloid/Sleestak/Silurian missing link discovered (dinosaur with oldest known opposable thumbs)
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-14-2021, 04:52 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-17-2021, 03:36 PM
(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)
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-19-2021, 12:26 AM
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 ...
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-22-2021, 09:09 PM
How many bubbles in a glass of beer?
I have to applaud the lab that got the grant for this project.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-23-2021, 04:36 PM
Disney is developing a free-roving Young Groot robot:
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-24-2021, 04:47 PM
more Mars stuff
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-25-2021, 01:19 PM
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'
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
04-30-2021, 07:42 PM
How our understanding of Neanderthals changed in the last few years
and somewhat related
did magnetic cataclysm 42000 years ago cause Neanderthal extinction?
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RE: Weird & Interesting science
05-01-2021, 10:14 AM
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
05-02-2021, 08:55 AM
How the world almost ended in 2012 and still might later
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