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11-15-2018, 01:02 PM #651
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11-15-2018, 01:59 PM #652
Shift workers was my immediate thought.
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11-15-2018, 05:53 PM #653
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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11-20-2018, 02:09 PM #654
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11-20-2018, 02:10 PM #655
Mars Insight lands next week...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight
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11-23-2018, 03:28 PM #656
Everything you thought about mouth breathers is true
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/w...e=sectionfront
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11-26-2018, 05:31 AM #657
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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11-26-2018, 05:16 PM #658Banned
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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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11-26-2018, 05:30 PM #659
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11-26-2018, 05:35 PM #660
^^^ Watched that too; freaking amazing. The brainpower in that control room is off the charts.
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11-26-2018, 05:48 PM #661
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11-26-2018, 07:48 PM #662Funky But Chic
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Plaid, too, apparently.
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11-30-2018, 12:50 PM #663
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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11-30-2018, 01:23 PM #664Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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12-01-2018, 12:01 PM #665
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12-03-2018, 10:27 AM #666
Successful arrival of OSIRUS-REx at Bennu! Hopefully the sample collection and return to Earth goes smoothly.
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12-06-2018, 03:29 PM #667
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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12-06-2018, 06:15 PM #668Registered User
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Aka the Devil's jizz?????
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12-07-2018, 02:49 PM #669
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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12-12-2018, 03:16 PM #670
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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12-12-2018, 06:10 PM #671Funky But Chic
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That's not very long ago.
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12-13-2018, 06:44 PM #672Registered User
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Not to worry, just need spf 10,000,000
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12-14-2018, 01:11 PM #673
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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12-17-2018, 11:18 AM #674
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12-17-2018, 12:44 PM #675
Rad.
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