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Posts tagged: science
If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot.
Compelling article from Scientific American arguing that willpower doesn’t work as well as we collectively seem to think it does.
[One group] was basically putting their minds into wondering mode, while the [second group] was asserting themselves and their will. It is the difference between “Will I do this?” and “I will do this.”
The results were provocative. People with wondering minds completed significantly more anagrams than did those with willful minds. In other words, the people who kept their minds open were more goal-directed and more motivated than those who declared their objective to themselves.
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the science and godliness of wutang ftw!
Scottish scientists have made cancer tumours vanish within 10 days by sending DNA to seek and destroy the cells.
The system, developed at Strathclyde and Glasgow universities, is being hailed as a breakthrough because it appears to eradicate tumours without causing harmful side-effects. A leading medical journal has described the results so far as remarkable, while Cancer Research UK said they were encouraging.
Scientists make cancer cells vanish - Herald Scotland | News | Health
The quake should have moved Earth’s figure axis about 3 inches (8 centimeters).
Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
This is the stuff that stresses me out… 2012 here we come.
The sky is definitely falling. It always has been.
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Since energy and mass can be converted back and forth (E=MC2), it’s only a matter of time before teleportation is real. 2010!
All this is possible because there are always quantum fluctuations in the energy of any particle. The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point. Of course, the energy of the system as whole is unchanged.Star Trek predicted the future. Star Wars gave us Jar-Jar Binks.
I like that teleportation was not in my spell check dictionary.
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This illustration shows the approximate size of Earth compared to the Sun. The giant coronal mass ejection in the image blasted off the Sun in October 2003. The image was taken by the international SOHO spacecraft.
*Image Credit*: NASA and European Space Agency
When this hits us really hard, every electrical device on the planet could fail.
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If you’re not familiar with or aware of this, you really should take the time. It’s absolutely mind boggling and intermittently scary as hell. Watch the movie.
