I used to be in a band called Hard Vacuum.

So you really sucked? HAAAAAAAAAAA!

^ did lol

Just to pour some cold water on the whole EM Drive thing:

Don't Get Too Excited About NASA's New Miracle Engine

Nothing to refute the claims really, but a healthy dose of scepticism.

Lets get excited about a treatment for Alzheimers then!
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33

That does sound exciting.

Some more exciting science, this time from IBM:
https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/p...ease/46725.wss

The TL;DR is basically IBM have found a method of error correct both kinds of errors in q-bits at the same time whereas previously it was only possible to correct one or the other. A major breakthrough apparently.

Time to GTFO of bitcoin!

Robot (software algorith) passes basic self-awareness test:
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-...s-test-1299362

Nobel Prize for discovering Neutrino "flavours":
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34443695

Fascinating stuff.

Covering both bases there...

The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

I'm real excited about this:

World's largest fusion reactor to turn on this month

mmm fusion

detailed componentry breakdown (edit: complete with kooky science backing music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqt6u5_sHA

Looks like modafinil is a legit smart drug:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...afe-smart-drug

Things are going well with the Wendelstein 7-X.

Just an early plasma test. There are a couple of pics inside of the plasma chamber in the article worth looking at.

Scientists Just Proved A Fundamental Quantum Physics Problem is Unsolvable

Could be the work of an intelligent creator! :D :D :D :D

I'm pretty sure someone could make some kind of humanities vs hard sciences dig if they made the effort. Anyone got anything?

fuck yeah.

Awesome!

_b

Elon says it's ready to fire again:
https://www.instagram.com/p/_-d28bQEc9/

If this successfully launches and lands again, I think that's the moment we enter a new age of space travel.

http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archi...dge-transplant

Guy survived for a year and a half with an artificial heart with a backpack power supply while waiting for a transplant

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11666732

I knew global warming was just hysteria

Fire an object at a destination of 1.8 billon miles away and predict down to the second its time of arrival.

Mindsplode

You make it sound like they fired it in a straight line! Bet they used Buzz's formulas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgOfqYE4BjQ

That bloke has a lot of interesting random science bits on is channel

Nothing like a good mystery:

"No known or proposed stellar phenomena can fully explain all aspects of the observed light curve"

Also a raving misogynist from a couple of the vids I glanced through.

OMG did someone actually link to a thunderfoot video?

Check out this boss, hella interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c

Awesome video.

I did a double take when I saw "©The University of Auckland" scroll across. Feynman's comment about NZers being down on themselves was classic.

I love the way he not only describes the theory, but also the frame of understanding the theory fits in.

I for one welcome our bio-hybrid machine overlords.

Ray Kurzweil asserts that by any sane measurement we are now seeing a 20th-century's worth of sci-tech development every ten years, and that it will presumably soon be every nine years. Then eight.

http://www.seeker.com/new-nearby-ear...970197349.html

TLDR? "Unnamed sources" claim scientists are about to announce discovery of an Earthlike planet orbiting in the Goldilocks zone of, get this, PROXIMA FUCKING CENTAURI.

4.35 ly away. That's reachable with 20th-century tech, let alone stuff we might come up with in the near future.