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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    The new GOES-16 satellite is settling in and producing some stunning high res images.

    Go to https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/...-image-gallery

    If you click on the image snapshots it blows them up.
    I like this one:




    The images reminded me of this: NOVA - Earth From Space

    It's a few years old now, but fucking awesome. Two hours of global amazingness. If you haven't seen it, do it!

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    "Earth from Space" is the best Nova episode ever. Highly recommend.

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    ^^^very cool

    Don't want to bring politics into this thread, just passing on link for proposed science march on DC and elsewhere.
    Check out March for Science (@ScienceMarchDC): https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC?s=09
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    "There's so many comments on Reddit that are saying it's Photoshopped," Poineau said."...Initially (with the commenters) it was astonishment, but then they settled into conspiracy theories."

    Fucking Trumptards are everywhere.

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    New evidence supports the hypothesis that the universe is a hologram. The 3D world we experience, including the movement of time, may all be a sensory illusion.

    http://www.wired.co.uk/article/our-u...-is-a-hologram

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    In case you missed it, add Poker to the things AI is now better than us at. Pretty cool actually in that there is way more uncertainty and strategy in Poker than past stuff like Chess or Go where the whole current state of the system (board/pieces) is known. It was only a one on one game but still a pretty big advancement.
    https://www.wired.com/2017/02/libratus/
    http://thefutureofai.blogspot.com/20...ds-4-best.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by LegoSkier View Post
    In case you missed it, add Poker to the things AI is now better than us at. Pretty cool actually in that there is way more uncertainty and strategy in Poker than past stuff like Chess or Go where the whole current state of the system (board/pieces) is known. It was only a one on one game but still a pretty big advancement.
    https://www.wired.com/2017/02/libratus/
    http://thefutureofai.blogspot.com/20...ds-4-best.html
    Good timing - I for one would prefer sooner rather than later our robot overlords.
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    Here's a pretty cool experiment about entanglement. At the end there's a note about an idea of superdeterminism that I haven't heard about. Of course I don't understand any of this week enough but it's interesting to see what people are doing

    http://www.quantamagazine.org/201702...ntum-loophole/
    Last edited by abraham; 02-09-2017 at 02:18 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    First time hearing about this material. Spider silk was a hot topic for a while but haven't seen much on it recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abraham View Post
    Here's a pretty cool experiment about entanglement. At the end there's a note about an idea of superdeterminism that I haven't heard about. Of course I don't understand any of this week enough but it's interesting to see what people are doing

    http://www.quantamagazine.Org/201702...ntum-loophole/
    I read a different article about that experiment a few days ago. Quantum mechanics hurts to think about.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mazderati View Post
    First time hearing about this material. Spider silk was a hot topic for a while but haven't seen much on it recently.
    Graphene is wild stuff. It could enable some really cool shit if it could be produced in industrial quantities. The last thing I heard about spider silk was about goats that had been genetically engineered to produce the proteins in their milk. Goats aren't exactly an optimal medium for industrial production though. Plus, it then required a complex process to extract them from the milk, and there were further technical challenges to actually turning the protein into fibers. I did a quick search though and what do you know, this was published yesterday:

    First Synthetic Spider Silk Developed That’s Suitable for Industrial Use

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    Anytime a video is called "Fire Hose of Lava" you know it's going to be good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JnibL8E0s

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    that's amazing. i can't get the quantum mechanics link to open for some reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    Goats aren't exactly an optimal medium for industrial production though.
    I don't know, they've kept most of the Caribbean up and running for centuries. What's one more job for them to do?
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phildo_Baggins View Post
    Anytime a video is called "Fire Hose of Lava" you know it's going to be good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JnibL8E0s
    That's rad. Fire hose of death.

    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    I don't know, they've kept most of the Caribbean up and running for centuries. What's one more job for them to do?
    They can certainly produce themselves at industrial scales. There's a pretty cool Radiolab segment about what it took to eradicate them from the Galapagos: http://www.radiolab.org/story/brink/

    They're tasty, too, and a lot more sustainable than beef. I wish it were a more widely available meat.

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    I'll have to check that out. And I too enjoy some goat meat. Goat cheese, goat milk, all good.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Cool Science thread

    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post

    They're tasty, too, and a lot more sustainable than beef. I wish it were a more widely available meat.
    Not true-> goat meat is the second dirtiest food right behind lamb.

    http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3461e/i3461e04.pdf

    You will also see that small ruminant milk is also dirtier than large ruminant milk

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    Cool Science thread

    ^^^^that's actually not the study i thought. This one says that lamb and goat meat is cleaner than beef(first time I've ever heard that) and that the goat/sheep milk is more than double the footprint of cows.

    I'll have to dig more but most everything I've read other than this states than lamb and goat meat is also almost twice the footprint of beef....

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    Lower milk yields makes sense since goat dairy was never really industrialized. I can't remember where I read that the meat is more sustainable, but that too makes sense since smaller animals generally have better mass conversion rates than large ones. Goats will also eat anything.

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    Well I'm confused- that study I linked above shows goat and sheep footprints as virtually identical. But they also have beef as much higher footprint.

    Other studies don't include goats but show lamb to have a much higher footprint than beef.

    I really like goats. We had them for a while but sold all the does years back yet kept the buck Rebel as a companion to our ram. He finally died last year or two at almost 20. Dude was hilarious and loved beer. I swear he could smell it from 100 yards away and would come running and bleat his head off till you gave him a sip.

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    This 8th continent stuff cracks me up. Everyone (no intended slight to you Norseman) is reporting Zealandia as the 8th continent.

    It's not.

    It's the 7th.




    Eurasia is one continent, not 2.
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    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    Pretty cool drone footage of space X sticking the falcon 9 landing. Time to start building some space elevators -

    https://youtu.be/moMk8SmIlHk
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