Cool Science thread

[PNWbrit]

Meet the Endoterrestrials

They live thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. They eat hydrogen and exhale methane. And they may shape our world more profoundly than we can imagine...

....Templeton is one of a growing number of scientists who believe that the Earth’s deep subsurface is brimming with life. By some estimates, this unexplored biosphere may contain anywhere from a tenth to one-half of all living matter on Earth.

[Kenny Satch]

[PB]

Long lost monty python??

[Dantheman]

Meet the Endoterrestrials

Water + Energy Source = Life

[iceman]

Oil is their waste.

[SkiBall]

Meet the Endoterrestrials

Hopefully they don't invent the internet when they make it to the surface in 3 trillion years.

[iceman]

They won't have to, the internet will still be here. The people will be long gone of course.

[Dantheman]

Quantum computing getting closer:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1018141107.htm
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-breakt...gnet-core.html

Pando is dying
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1017141020.htm

[Dantheman]

The largest oil spill you've never heard of...and it's still happening and won't be stopping any time soon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...c38_story.html

[Norseman]

ESO's GRAVITY instrument observes glowing gas orbiting at 30% of the speed of light around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-materi...lack-hole.html

[Dantheman]

^^Fuck yes

Muscle mass should be considered a medical vital sign
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-mms101718.php

[PNWbrit]

Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can

Kepler, NASA’s vaunted planet-hunting space telescope, has run out of maneuvering fuel and is being retired, the space agency announced on Tuesday.

After nine and a half years in orbit, 530,506 stars observed and 2,662 planets discovered around other stars, the little spacecraft will be left to drift forever around the sun. Astronomers mourned the loss but celebrated a mission that changed their lives and enlarged the universe and its possibilities.

“Kepler has truly opened a new vista in astronomy,” said William Borucki, a physicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., who led the Kepler mission until his retirement in 2015. “We have shown there are more planets than stars in our galaxies.”

Many of these planets, he said, may be just warm enough that they could have liquid water on their surface, “a situation conducive to the existence of life.”...

...Many theories and experiments aspire to transform our view of the universe, but the Kepler mission actually did so. Three decades ago, astronomers could not say reliably whether there were planets around other stars. Now, NASA’s hashtag “moreplanetsthanstars” says it all: the universe is home to more planets than stars, with billions of potentially habitable planets just in our own galaxy.

[grskier]

Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can

Kepler... it's been a great run. thank you for all of your discoveries

[Dantheman]

I hard to overstate how groundbreaking Kepler was. TESS will be a worthy successor.

Hubble:::James Webb
Kepler:::TESS

[Dantheman]

10 ft tall Elephant Birds were blind and nocturnal
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-giant-...-possibly.html

[Timberridge]

10 ft tall Elephant Birds were blind and nocturnal
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-giant-...-possibly.html

Now I get where the phrase "yeah, like when elephant birds fly" comes from.

[Dantheman]

Spinal stimulator allows paralyzed patients towalk again
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...gain-movement/

[Dantheman]

MDMA therapy achieves astounding 76% success rate for treating PTSD
https://newatlas.com/mdma-ptsd-succe...results/57074/

Global air travel may actually reduce the odds of a devastating global pandemic
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/31/404871

[Dantheman]

Searching for the biological basis behind the placebo effect
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/m...-medicine.html

Approaching stream of dark matter offers a unique opportunity to study and possibly detect it directly
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-dark-h...ce-axions.html

[JimmyCarter]

Maybe not as much cool science as cool/terrfiying nature, but more from the deep sea fisherman
https://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fi...rie-1830402780



https://twitter.com/rfedortsov/statu...796352/photo/1

[abraham]

Maybe not as much cool science as cool/terrfiying nature, but more from the deep sea fisherman
https://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fi...rie-1830402780



https://twitter.com/rfedortsov/statu...796352/photo/1

That first picture. The thing in it's mouth isn't food. It's a parasite that eats the fish's tongue, then lives in it's mouth replacing the tongue, stealing the food the fish eats

[JimmyCarter]

That first picture. The thing in it's mouth isn't food. It's a parasite that eats the fish's tongue, then lives in it's mouth replacing the tongue, stealing the food the fish eats

I originally read this 4 hours ago when i was eating lunch and almost threw up.

Also:

https://gizmodo.com/a-massive-impact...een-1830437095

Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet

[Dantheman]

https://gizmodo.com/a-massive-impact...een-1830437095

Damn, estimated to have been from a 1-km iron-rich asteroid.


Water plasma rocket engine
https://spacenews.com/momentus-devel...water-engines/

Carbon-neutral energy from poop
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1113080903.htm

China is going to build an absolutely massive particle accelerator
https://www.newsweek.com/china-build...bosons-1212880

Quantum GPS that doesn't use satellites
https://www.teslarati.com/quantum-co...gps-satellite/

[huckbucket]

I love new ways to visualize data. Check out the second figure on this page that simulates the average day for 1,000 people by time.

https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a...jTke-NP4yGx3GA

[EWG]

A: That is awesome
B: 1 out of every 20 people are sleeping at 2pm? WTF?!?!