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Old 22nd August 2022, 14:02     #401
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More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

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Scientists have found evidence of an asteroid impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean that could force researchers to rethink how the dinosaurs reached the end of their reign.

The team believes the crater was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth around 66 million years ago – around the same time that the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth off the coast of today's Yucatan, Mexico, and wiped out the dinosaurs.

Spanning more than 5 miles in diameter, the crater was discovered using seismic measurements, which allow scientists to probe what lies deep below Earth's surface.
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Old 23rd August 2022, 16:05     #402
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https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/d...jupiter-images

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Old 23rd August 2022, 17:03     #403
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One of the greatest photos I've ever seen.
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Old 23rd August 2022, 18:19     #404
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The second one with the ring and the moons is incredible.
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Old 23rd August 2022, 18:36     #405
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Has the Webb Telescope disproved the Big Bang theory?

WEBB TELESCOPE SHATTERS DISTANCE RECORDS, CHALLENGES ASTRONOMERS

Distant galaxies in Webb images suggest we need to rethink star and galaxy evolution in the early universe.

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Based on the published literature, right now the Big Bang makes 16 wrong predictions and only one right one — the abundance of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen.
From Slashdot
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Old 23rd August 2022, 19:48     #406
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Pretty sure that’s not how telescopes work bro
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Old 23rd August 2022, 20:01     #407
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Are you even an epidemiologist?
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Old 23rd August 2022, 20:39     #408
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lol
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Old 24th August 2022, 09:15     #409
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Enough of that airy fairy space stuff...

T-Rex blood.
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Old 24th August 2022, 11:23     #410
_indigo1
 
TLDR?
I hate when they confuse sharing scientific discovery with writing a biography for the scientist related.
I don't really care about the scientist. Give me the DATA!
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Old 24th August 2022, 12:10     #411
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TLDR?
The lady scientist took a left field approach and sliced up some bone samples from a big T-Rex discovery after a large bone got broken down to enable shipping and some bits chipped off. Then she took the bone samples to a vet convention and someone mentioned that here was blood in them. She realised that using weak acid might dissolve bone and reveal any underlaying tissue - found a weird bit of gunk in a petrie dish after three days, and when she looked under a scope found red circles - another lab assistant was a bird specialist and recognised structures in the bone that matched what female birds do in transferring calcium during breeding season to allow egg creation. Long and short was that the T-Rex was a lady dino and about to lay eggs.

Later on after dissolving the bone, she managed to use Ostrich and Emu protein connectors and found dino proteins in the tissue, which have a much better chance of providing DNA strands.

No word yet on life finding a way.
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Old 2nd October 2022, 21:03     #412
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The natural world in your pocket: How citizen science is democratising discovery

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“It’s a global revolution in biology around the world,” says Jon Sullivan, a senior lecturer in ecology at Lincoln University and one of the team who operates the Aotearoa “node” of iNaturalist, a global platform. The data from my observations as well as thousands of others can be used by scientists here, be fed into international biodiversity databases, and – if the discovery is, say, a new weed – reported to the Ministry for Primary Industries.

iNaturalist is just one of many citizen science projects that use the internet – others spot seals from space, find galaxies in the dark beyond or note kererū numbers across Aotearoa. These online projects, often enabled by omnipresent technology, widen the definition of science and open it up to more people.
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Old 4th October 2022, 16:10     #413
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RIP India's Mars Orbiter.

After an amazing run at Mars, India says its orbiter has no more fuel

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India proved that a durable, capable Mars spacecraft could be developed on a shoestring budget. Instead of costing hundreds of millions of dollars, the Mars mission was developed for only about $25 million, through a process described by Indian officials as "frugal engineering."

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The orbiter most definitely exceeded expectations. Originally designed for a lifetime of six months, it returned data back to Earth for nearly eight years.
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Old 7th October 2022, 14:47     #414
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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

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One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking; “local” means objects can only be influenced by their surroundings, and that any influence cannot travel faster than light. Investigations at the frontiers of quantum physics have found that these things cannot both be true. Instead, the evidence shows objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings and they may also lack definite properties prior to measurement. As Albert Einstein famously bemoaned to a friend, “Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?”

This is, of course, deeply contrary to our everyday experiences. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the demise of local realism has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Old 8th October 2022, 12:26     #415
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Wink

So this leaves a question about the non-local universe, or the Universe. Is there one true Universe? Many true Universes? Or no true Universe?
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Old 8th October 2022, 12:39     #416
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Hey Lightspeed, you still floating around Auckland somewhere? Could I interest you in grabbing a coffee to talk shit about other people at NZG sometime?
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Old 8th October 2022, 13:30     #417
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Sure, send me an email, the address on this account is active.
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Old 8th October 2022, 13:56     #418
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This is the freaking awesome science thread not tinder
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Old 8th October 2022, 14:07     #419
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Not when I last looked!
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Old 8th October 2022, 15:19     #420
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This is the freaking awesome science thread not tinder
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Old 8th October 2022, 16:36     #421
Ab
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I would never assume someone’s gender or sexual orientation like that
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Old 8th October 2022, 16:39     #422
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Wink

Do we even have a gender before we've been observed? If I have not met Nothing before, is their gender in a superposition until I do? Hahaha.
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Old 8th October 2022, 17:55     #423
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Gender uncertainty principle.

Definitely gotta learn that one before a trip to Thailand.
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Old 8th October 2022, 20:20     #424
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THERE’S A COLLAPSING WAVEFORM IN MY PANTS AND EVERYONE’S INVITED
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Old 8th October 2022, 21:47     #425
Nothing
 
Laugh

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This is the freaking awesome science thread not tinder
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Awww, are you guys jealous? Feeling left out because you didn't get an invite?
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Old 9th October 2022, 12:46     #426
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Planets don't exist

Hank and John Green's first ever shared educational video. Which also happens to be exceedingly adorable. I do feel some embarrassment with how much I admire a pair of rich, educated, white American men. At least they're doing good with what they've got.
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Old 14th October 2022, 23:34     #428
Nothing
 
Cladistically speaking, we are all fishes.
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Old 15th October 2022, 10:24     #429
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Pedant alert:
The plural of fish is fish.
`That school of fish as many fish in it`

The plural of fish **species** is fishes
`There are many species of fishes, and of each species there are multiple fish`

So technically, we are all fish.
We are not all fishes because we are all one species (although that is debateable these days)
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Old 15th October 2022, 15:03     #430
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Pedant alert:
The plural of fish is fish.
`That school of fish as many fish in it`

The plural of fish **species** is fishes
`There are many species of fishes, and of each species there are multiple fish`

So technically, we are all fish.
We are not all fishes because we are all one species (although that is debateable these days)
Unless, of course, "we" refers to tetrapods, or mammals, or some superordinal category along those lines, which, given the context of the video talking about a large number of different species, and the way that they are all fishes, isn't at all implausible.
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Old 15th October 2022, 15:52     #431
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Unless, of course, "we" refers to tetrapods, or mammals, or some superordinal category along those lines, which, given the context of the video talking about a large number of different species, and the way that they are all fishes, isn't at all implausible.
The video title uses fish.
You used 'we' and 'fishes' whilst posting on here - ergo on here the context of we is NZG posters - unless there are other species that also use nzg?

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Old 15th October 2022, 17:44     #432
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I mean, ultimately, the reason I wrote it the way I did is because at some point in the NZG past, there was someone who had (iirc) "Cladistically speaking, we are all fishes." in their signature, or on the little title under their name, or something like that, and this video discussing it reminded me of that.

Of course, that's just how I remember it, and there's no guarantee I'm remembering it correctly, I didn't bother to look it up.
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Old 15th October 2022, 18:26     #433
_indigo1
 
Hey, I *did* activate the pedant alert first!
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Old 16th October 2022, 18:54     #434
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There is a resulting podcast you know..?
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Old 21st October 2022, 20:41     #435
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There is a resulting podcast you know..?
That is interesting, quite so.
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Old 2nd November 2022, 07:59     #436
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USSF-44 Mission

SpaceX launch out of the Florida sea mist.

T-01:00 (ish)

After leaving the secret payload to go and do its stuff:

Boostback

Double sonic booms on the return is awesome.

Double booster landing back at the cape.

I think I like the unsynchronised landing better - you can see the front one from the seconds on board camera.
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Old 2nd November 2022, 15:37     #437
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Thumbs up

"We just heard... sonic booms" would make a great sample in a spacewave track, if you could get a clean version.
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Old 2nd November 2022, 21:07     #438
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SpaceX launch out of the Florida sea mist.

T-01:00 (ish)

After leaving the secret payload to go and do its stuff:

Boostback

Double sonic booms on the return is awesome.

Double booster landing back at the cape.

I think I like the unsynchronised landing better - you can see the front one from the seconds on board camera.
This is epic af, thank you for posting, Stoolie. There is something about watching the FH side boosters landing that buzzes me right out
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Old 3rd November 2022, 13:09     #439
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The company seems to be performing well overall:

SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says

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The Raptor rocket engine is crucial to Starship's success. Thirty-three of these Raptor 2 engines power the Super Heavy booster that serves as the vehicle's first stage, and six more are used by the Starship upper stage. For a successful lunar mission, these engines will need to re-light successfully on the surface of the Moon to carry astronauts back to orbit inside Starship. If the engines fail, the astronauts will probably die.

"SpaceX has moved very quickly on development," Kirasich said about Raptor. "We've seen them manufacture what was called Raptor 1.0. They have since upgraded to Raptor 2.0 that first of all increases performance and thrust and secondly reduces the amount of parts, reducing the amount of time to manufacture and test. They build these things very fast. Their goal was seven engines a week, and they hit that about a quarter ago. So they are now building seven engines a week."
I wonder what the next big milestone for space is. One has to be extra-terrestrial mining, but that's probably still a ways off.
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Old 3rd November 2022, 13:24     #440
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I mean, Musk has been fairly open about the target squarely being Mars.

I'm guessing the next milestone would be mars round-trip, then landing on Mars with SpaceX craft; then starting to deliver equipment.
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