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  1. #651
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    Quote Originally Posted by beece View Post
    A: That is awesome
    B: 1 out of every 20 people are sleeping at 2pm? WTF?!?!
    night shift workers?

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    Shift workers was my immediate thought.

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    I don't think it's all shift workers, because at 2am only 1% of the population is working. It looks like it's naps.

    What am I doing wrong? I don't get to nap!
    Last edited by beece; 11-16-2018 at 03:05 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beece View Post
    I don't think it's all shift workers, because at 2am only 1% of the population is working. It looks like it's naps.

    What am I doing wrong? I don't get to nap!
    Siesta?

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    Mars Insight lands next week...

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight


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    Everything you thought about mouth breathers is true
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/w...e=sectionfront

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    First two CRISPR gene-edited babies claimed to be born in China. Scary stuff. A big no, no to the rest of the world.

    They chose to knock out a gene (CCR5) that can prevent HIV infection (although it can increase susceptibility to infection by influenza).


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    Whoops, just came here to post a link to that story, but clearly, I was beaten to the punch.

    What a fucking piece of shit. There is no limit to the gall and lack of ethical fortitude on display there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ripzalot View Post
    Mars Insight lands next week...

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight


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    I watched that live on the NASA channel today. Amazing how so many morons can argue that they know more about climate change and science than people who can land a freaking space ship on Mars.
    Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!

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    ^^^ Watched that too; freaking amazing. The brainpower in that control room is off the charts.

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    Plaid, too, apparently.

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    Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years

    Stars have radiated 4x10 to the 84th photons since the universe begun with formation peaking 11bn years ago.
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    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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    Quote Originally Posted by PNWbrit View Post
    Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years

    Stars have radiated 4x10 to the 84th photons since the universe begun with formation peaking 11bn years ago.
    Pfftt....
    That is barely more than a 1/4 of a Google.
    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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    Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    the situation strikes me as WAY too much drama at this point

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    Successful arrival of OSIRUS-REx at Bennu! Hopefully the sample collection and return to Earth goes smoothly.

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    Dark matter and dark energy may be different properties of a single "dark fluid" that has negative mass: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-bizarr...tive-mass.html

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    Aka the Devil's jizz?????

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    Honda is developing fluoride-based batteries that could achieve order-of-magnitude increases in energy storage over lithium batteries
    https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/...akthrough-evs/

    Of course, "the team still has to figure out how to stabilize the anodes and cathodes, which tend to dissolve completely into the electrolyte" so they've got a ways to go.


    Turn off one gene, eat whatever you want and don't get fat. Color me skeptical.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmac.../#6e70ca551bda

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    OSIRIS-REx confirms there's hydrated minerals on Bennu, which means that liquid water was once present on Bennu's parent body
    https://phys.org/news/2018-12-osiris...t-mission.html

    Loop quantum gravity suggests that white holes emerge from black holes
    https://physics.aps.org/articles/v11/127

    2.6 million years ago Earth was inundated with radiation from distant supernovae that may have killed Megalodon and other megafauna
    https://phys.org/news/2018-12-supern...mals-dawn.html

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    That's not very long ago.

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    Not to worry, just need spf 10,000,000

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    AlphaZero beting its old iteration AlphaGo in 30 hours.
    And to think that it is over 20 years since Deep Blue beat Garri Kasparov in chess.
    Time flies.

    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140

    The floggings will continue until morale improves.

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    Rad.

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