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Nov 11, 2015
Mysterious grooves on this tiny moon point to almost certain death
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
We’ve said it before: Mars’ moon Phobos is doomed. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought.
One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon’s surface.
They were originally thought to be fractures caused by an impact long ago. But scientists now say the grooves are early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon.
Nov 11, 2015
David Eagleman: Can a Computer Simulate Consciousness?
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: computing, information science, neuroscience, space travel
Yes, conceivably. And if/when we achieve the levels of technology necessary for simulation, the universe will become our playground. Eagleman’s latest book is “The Brain: The Story of You” (http://goo.gl/2IgDRb).
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Nov 11, 2015
Billions in Change Official Film
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: education, food
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The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional billionaire spearheading the project.
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Nov 11, 2015
Our Milky Way Galaxy Has a Mysterious ‘Great Dark Lane’
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Called the “Great Dark Lane” by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. “For the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way,” Dante Minniti, a researcher at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and lead author of a study describing the findings, told Space.com by email. “It is very difficult to mapthe structure of our galaxy because we are inside, and it is very large and covered with dust clouds that are opaque in the optical,” Minniti said.
Nov 11, 2015
Newly Discovered Object Revives Speculation of Planet X
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
We’re NEVER gonna hear the end of it now! wink
The likely-dwarf planet adds to the mounting evidence of a dark super Earth at the outer boundary of our solar system.
The future of sex is like the future of art: more immersion, more intensity, deeper subjectivity. Orgasms and mindgasms for all!
Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.
The author of a new book argues that science and science fiction have made civilization more moral.
Nov 11, 2015
Cops Called After Tesla Model S Owners ‘Put A Child In The Trunk’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: habitats, sustainability, transportation
Police waited at the home of a family after someone called in seeing the parents “put a child in the trunk” of the car — someone who clearly wasn’t aware that the Tesla Model S can be equipped with a third row of seats for children.
I stumbled upon this video after comments veteran and Twitter tweeter @_McMike_ tweeted it.
Nov 11, 2015
A New Way of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space
One of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanics is entanglement, because two entangled particles affecting each other across vast distances seems to violate a fundamental principle of physics called locality: things that happen at a particular point in space can only influence the points closest to it. But what if locality — and space itself — is not so fundamental after all? Author George Musser explores the implications in his new book, Spooky Action At a Distance.
When the philosopher Jenann Ismael was ten years old, her father, an Iraqi-born professor at the University of Calgary, bought a big wooden cabinet at an auction. Rummaging through it, she came across an old kaleidoscope, and she was entranced. For hours she experimented with it and figured out how it worked. “I didn’t tell my sister when I found it, because I was scared she’d want it,” she recalls.
As you peer into a kaleidoscope and turn the tube, multicolored shapes begin to blossom, spin and merge, shifting unpredictably in seeming defiance of rational explanation, almost as if they were exerting spooky action at a distance on one another. But the more you marvel at them, the more regularity you notice in their motion. Shapes on opposite sides of your visual field change in unison, and their symmetry clues you in to what’s really going on: those shapes aren’t physical objects, but images of objects — of shards of glass that are jiggling around inside a mirrored tube.