Cool Science thread

**stealurface831** · 10-20-2020, 06:58 PM

Gimp Central approves.

**jono** · 10-20-2020, 07:57 PM

I think I speak for most of my fellow Americans when I say: how long until they can grow me a new pancreas?

PB · 10-21-2020, 09:39 AM

.... and spinal discs.

**stealurface831** · 10-21-2020, 10:00 AM

is it too much to ask for some new brain cells while they are at it?

**HappyCamper** · 10-21-2020, 11:03 AM

Mr. Fusion!

Maybe someone else posted this, but the news on fusion reactor developments and superconductivity being available within maybe even 10 years is amazing. Sure, lots of variables and such to go wrong, but still hard to deny a seemingly rare bit of good news in these times.

From article:

“If we’re successful in what we’re doing and in other technologies, fusion energy will start to make a difference in mitigating climate change — not in 100 years, but in 10 years.”

https://news.mit.edu/2020/supercondu...er-fusion-1013

**Dantheman** · 10-22-2020, 10:22 AM

First Bennu touch-and-go successful: https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...steroid-bennu/

**Mazderati** · 10-22-2020, 10:33 AM

^ Was reading about that yesterday. From what I understand, the spacecraft did not land on the asteroid but hovered above it while the collection probe went to work. Which seems even more mind-blowing.

**powdrhound** · 10-24-2020, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Mazderati

^ Was reading about that yesterday. From what I understand, the spacecraft did not land on the asteroid but hovered above it while the collection probe went to work. Which seems even more mind-blowing.

Last night, NOVA was about this mission. Amazing.

**neufox47** · 10-26-2020, 11:21 PM

Fuckin fusion man. I hope I live to see it.

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**Dantheman** · 10-27-2020, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by neufox47

Fuckin fusion man. I hope I live to see it.

It's pretty crazy to think about what we could accomplish and the problems we could solve with a virtually unlimited source of clean energy. Benny might not, but I think you and I might live to see it happen.

**criscam** · 10-27-2020, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

First Bennu touch-and-go successful: https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...steroid-bennu/

Dated a girl in HS who is working on this project. Cool to see some FB posts and updates from her on it every now and then.

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**old goat** · 10-27-2020, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by powpig

Good news for us aging skiers

New Cartilage Grown Using Magnetic Fields and Hydrogels

Good news for you young skiers who will be aging skiers by the time this comes on line.

**huckbucket** · 10-27-2020, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

It's pretty crazy to think about what we could accomplish and the problems we could solve with a virtually unlimited source of clean energy. Benny might not, but I think you and I might live to see it happen.

^
This. Humanity will change in ways we can't even dream of at the moment.

**ötzi** · 10-27-2020, 08:45 PM

It really is the change we need for the world to make big progress quickly. Cheap unlimited clean energy for everybody everywhere will change literally everything.

**old goat** · 10-27-2020, 10:17 PM

I'm 70 years old. Fusion has been just around the corner since I was in high school.

**::: :::** · 10-29-2020, 09:10 AM

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/10/29/wn...l-checkerspot/

Utah startup WNDR Alpine has replaced the polluting, petroleum-based plastics usually used to wrap wooden skis with algae-based bioplastics that make them "more predictable, stable and durable".

**Supermoon** · 10-29-2020, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by ::: :::

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/10/29/wn...l-checkerspot/

That company was started by Matt Sterbenz who founded 4FRNT Skis before he sold it. He also has Pep Fujas on the team. Touring-oriented shapes mostly. Pretty cool stuff.

**Dantheman** · 11-25-2020, 01:09 PM

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy lengthens telomeres and decreases senescent T cells in adults aged 64 and older
https://www.sciencealert.com/oxygen-...-s-aging-cells

Neutrinos from carbon-nitrogen-oxygen fusion detected for the first time
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...verse-n1248982

High levels of phosphine on Venus looking less likely
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/p...phosphine-data

**Mazderati** · 11-25-2020, 05:15 PM

The Royal Institution is hosting an online lecture on pattern seeking tomorrow. Free but donations encouraged. Here is the description.

From the first musical instrument to the digital revolutions, what is the unique ability that has driven human progress for 70,000 years?

In this talk, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory. From his book ‘The Pattern Seekers’ he discusses how humans can identify patterns, specifically ‘if-and-then’ patterns.

By linking one of our greatest human strengths with a condition that is so often misunderstood, Simon challenges us to think differently about those who think differently.

https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events...attern-seekers

**Dantheman** · 12-01-2020, 12:32 PM

8-mile long ice age rock art panel discovered in the Amazon
https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-...rt-amazon.html

RIP Arecibo

https://apnews.com/article/technolog...f0c752348e712e

**Mazderati** · 12-01-2020, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

8-mile long ice age rock art panel discovered in the Amazon
https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-...rt-amazon.html

The handprints are amazing.

**Timberridge** · 12-01-2020, 03:06 PM

Very interesting documentary on SR-71 Blackbird...
https://www.kcet.org/shows/blackbird...-of-innovation

**retirwntm** · 12-01-2020, 03:29 PM

Ben Rich who was CEO of Lockheed at the time of skunkworks wrote a great book about all the aviation technology - U2, SR71, F114A stealth fighter etc. great back stories about the tech, the times, Kelly Johnson and others.

That documentary is great. I always was in awe of seeing the SR71 on the deck of the USS Intrepid in Chelsea docks.

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