azrael Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Now I know why Skynet wants to take over the world.Great. We're already being dicks to our robots and we haven't even taught them how to kill us yet. That's going to help the relationship.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tober Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 ISS Symphony - Timelapse of Earth from International Space Station Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazinger Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 I wonder it they are taking preorders for replacement bodies. My back has been acting up for a couple years and I aint getting any younger. I'd also be up for a lab grown replacement body, but robotics seems to have the lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerli Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Uh guys... Hawking is saying right now we are going to Alpha Centauri... with a solar sail... with a GIANT LASER. Holy..... http://gizmodo.com/watch-live-as-stephen-hawking-deliver-a-mysterious-anno-1770489990?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sketchley Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 (edited) video linky removed Interesting. Is it just me, or is the announcer on that video pronouncing the name of the planet wrong? (turning a short vowel (the eh in heh) into a long vowel (the ee in heel). Edited April 27, 2016 by sketchley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmkjr Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 (edited) To me it should sound like the way you had it. I'm guessing it depends where in Polynesia you're from? Edited May 8, 2016 by wmkjr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiriyu Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Miss Minmay, your Fanliner is ready to go. http://www.cobalt-aircraft.com/#1 The prototype version was called the "Valkyrie-X" (hmmm), while the production version is being called the CO-50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Valkyrie Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Nice, only now the VF-1 is left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 (edited) Juno is entering Jupiter orbit in 16 hours, ridiculous giant solar cells and all. And if all goes well, we will spend the next two years seeing what lies beneath Jupiter's ugly brown cloudtops.Maybe we'll finally learn why the great red spot is red. Edited July 22, 2016 by JB0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scyla Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 (edited) Some crazy scientists build a Pacman maze with bacteria as gaming tokens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=127&v=GvZm9EXqrdU Edited July 6, 2016 by Scyla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Holy wow. Proxima Centauri(the red dwarf orbiting the better-known Alpha Centauri binary) has a planet. But not just any planet, no. The Centauri system doesn't do things by half measures. This planet's at the right distance that it is possible to have liquid water. If it has water, it can have life. So to summarize The nearest known exoplanet is also the nearest POSSIBLE exoplanet, since it is orbiting the nearest star, and it is in the friggin' habitable zone! Not that four light-years is exactly a sunday drive. But it is so tantalizingly close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechaninac Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 The problem I see with a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star is that said zone is so close to the primary that the planet will have an extremely short orbital period and is likely to be tidally locked (one side always faces the star so that it broils while the opposite hemisphere freezes in perpetual darkness, with massive global winds caused by the extreme temperature differential as the cold air from the dark side rushes to fill the low pressure of the rising hot air on the sun-lit side); so, even if Proxima's planet is the right distance, the composition, has the right atmospheric density, an adequate magnetic field, etc. for the presence of liquid water and a proper water cycle, it may not be a very pleasant or even hospitable place for life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 (edited) The orbital period is REALLY short. Just a hair over eleven terran days. And tidal-locking IS a possibility, but the terminator could still be a nice place to live, depending(on if there's air and water there in the first place). There's also a possibility that it locks to a resonance other than 1:1, in which case it would still have day/night cycles. In fact, our own Mercury is in such resonance, giving it one Mecurian day every two Mecurian years... which probably makes things worse instead of better. Slow enough for the vicious day/night extremes to set in, fast enough that the terminator isn't a stable safe space. On the upside, if there's no atmosphere, by the time we can go there we will PROBABLY have figured out how to tow a few million tons of comets from the oort cloud with us. Terraforming au natural. Edited August 25, 2016 by JB0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 So this is cool... http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/12/alpha-observes-light-spectrum-antimatter-first-time  Scientists at CERN have managed to trap antihydrogen in quantities sufficient to do spectral emission testing on it. Testing indicates it has identical spectral emissions to regular hydrogen. Obviously, we have long EXPECTED antimatter to behave identically to regular matter(aside from the "blows up whenever it touches the normal kind" thing), but it is always good to get some confirmation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrael Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 More from the fiction-becomes-reality column: Researchers Discover Safer Earth Re-Entry Thanks to Gundam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchley Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Erm... those writers on Anime News Network have to get out more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballute . The ballute concept has apparently been around since 1958. However, the idea of using it for aerobraking appeared in the 1984 movie "2010". It's highly likely that the producers of 1985's Zeta Gundam got the idea for it from that movie (though Nasa did use it on the Gemini space capsule, so "2010" itself isn't exactly the progenitor of the idea per se - maybe just the idea of putting it in front of the thing being slowed instead of behind...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh9000 Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Nash Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 HELL YEAH!!! One year early Now  Preparing for the Rise of Machines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Q Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 I just noticed the resemblance to our favorite capital ship that the the mysterious, oblong space-rock Oumuamua has.  OUMUAMUA PROBABLY ISN'T A SPACESHIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Nash Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 7 hours ago, Gabe Q said: I just noticed the resemblance to our favorite capital ship that the the mysterious, oblong space-rock Oumuamua has.  OUMUAMUA PROBABLY ISN'T A SPACESHIP It's Rama XD  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmkjr Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 (edited) We are getting closer. lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD9YhS7QlwM Â Â Edited April 26, 2018 by wmkjr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeleader1 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Odd random question, but do scientists have any idea what Halley's comet orbits around to send it back towards the sun every 75-80 years? Exactly how fast and far out into the solar system does it go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB0 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 1 hour ago, renegadeleader1 said: Odd random question, but do scientists have any idea what Halley's comet orbits around to send it back towards the sun every 75-80 years? Exactly how fast and far out into the solar system does it go?  Hailey's comet orbits the sun. It is just a highly eccentric orbit. At the farthest, it is 35 AU out. Which means it gets a little farther out than Neptune, but not as far as Pluto. Due to the eccentricity of the orbit, velocity changes a good deal, from around 1 km/s at aphelion to over 100 km/s when it is closest to the Sun.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'Kyuun Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 On ‎4‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 9:36 AM, wmkjr said: We are getting closer. lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD9YhS7QlwM   It's still a far cry from the animated versions, but it's the first real transforming car I've seen that actually has separate legs and can walk. Def a step in the right direction. Note that this real transforming car has more in common with the 80's toys than with the Bayformer designs. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 I am just in awe of what Japan is doing with their Hayabusa 2 orbiter right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 took a shot of Neowise earlier... Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Q Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 https://futurism.com/the-byte/fully-functional-9000-pound-mech-suit  Pilotable 4.5 ton mech. Real life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerli Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Amazing... we're even closer to Mars now... thanks Elon   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrael Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Currently making its way around the 'net today: Five seconds, 59 megajoules: A new record for tokamak fusion European researchers achieve fusion energy record Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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