First Genetic Results From Scott Kelly's Year In Space Reveal DNA Mysteries

Among other things:

Sweet. Time to biff humans on to the face of Mars and watch as they evolve into beings genetically distinct from humans... MARTIANS!

Organic molecules found on dwarf planet Ceres

the fuuuuuuuuck

Symbiote confirmed. Digging bunker now.

This is how it starts ...

Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You — world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

Yeah. Boy.

promising
 

Scientists have eliminated HIV in mice using CRISPR
Science. Amirite?

CRISPR is some awesome-slash-bravenewworld shit.

CRISPR is a fucking source-code editor for DNA. Turn off HIV, turn on superintelligence, turn off cancer, turn on viral immunity.

Booo GMOs
Stop spreading your chemiKILLS
Something about big pharma!

It's mundane, but I loves me some domestic science:
Research reveals how to make your vegetables last longer

A shit ton of our taxpayer dollars being blown up right there.

^ antivaxer

"Self driving car avoids collision"

"Mahia peninsula space port"

Two phrases a kid from the 70's would expect to hear in 2017.

Seeing as my post wasn't a critique of the actual science your comment is both irrational and somewhat mentally deficient - which is what I've come to expect so no changes there :rolleyes:

Cool, huh?

Well the technology is cool, no doubt about that. What I find kind of less cool is that it's R&D done on the back of the NZ tax payer (oh and hey they're applying for even more funding), with intellectual property rights going to a US based company, serving a primarily US/Europe based customer base, and then requiring us to spend more NZ tax payer money to set up an agency to oversee it's operations which will be ongoing costs even if Rocket Labs move off shore (which they ostensibly are anyway).

But yeah, the tech is fucking cool, just a pity it's not ours.

What a sad guy.

Seeing as my post wasn't a critique of of your post critquing the actual science your post is all of the above.

It's okay Max, I know words are hard to get into an order that makes sense. You can try again if you like - use the CCS method and keep it short maybe.

The good news is that we're closer to sending Colin Craig to the moon. That's gotta be worth the taxpayer money.

^^ this I'll agree with.

Another detection of a black hole merger by LIGO, I love this shit:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...-on-gravitons/

This is a pretty big deal.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...07-gwmbh2.html

I find it mind blowing to think how long people having been bumping about, getting up to shit. Cause we can get up to some shit. All that churning culture and ritual, age after age.

Oh shit, I just realised we were down when this was released:

FRB 121102 Audio Analysis

This is a fast radio burst from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years away, which means it was a high energy event. We usually observe only a couple of these a year. What's cool about this one is unlike anything we've seen so far, it's repeating, which suggests the source is not a one-time cataclysm like a star collapsing into a black hole.

But really it just wigs me out listening to a "sound" from 3 billion light years away. A call from some ultimate deep.

Here's the write-up that goes with the audio:
The Sounds of Fast Radio Bursts | FRB 121102 Audio Analysis

It almost makes it forgivable that some of us believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (or your deity of choice).

let's not forget the neutron-star collision last week, that was some sciencey shit.

Last week? You're so 130 million years ago.

I wonder if there's any left behind ancient wisdom? Would we even know how to understand it? We'd probably end up cooking up silly memes out of it, acting out exactly what the wisdom warns against.

If you think monkeys using fire to toast marshmallows isn't science, you're wrong.

Seriously, watch this monkey build a fire to toast and eat marshmallows. Best video 2017 quite possibly. Even though it's from 2014.

Because not science
 

Crazy cat man to pilot steam rocket for Flat Earth Science.


This flight isn't to prove flat earthism itself, but a stunt on the way to a higher altitude.


I wonder what happens when he gets to the Karman Line and sees a curved horizon? He declares that the earth is disc shaped?

When it sees that the world is round, then he will just be another one of those in on it, along with Nasa & science.

And then the next craze nutter will come out and try the same.

I think his mind will assplode. Then he will either live in the forest as a hermit or he will come up with something even more retarded.

Looks like he has all the proof he needs:
Govt Shuts Down Flat-Earther's Rocket Launch

When you want to make a statement, go with a glitter ball.

I wonder if it has the controller board from an F&P washing machine attached to play the national anthem.

_b

Ab: Because you don't follow Social Media anymore, here's something positive.

I can help with that.

Looks like it might not be visible from NZ?

Another 20 odd days for an optimal twilight appearance.

How medical MDMA could become part of mainstream psychotherapy

There's some very promising research about the efficacy of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.