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whoa

http://www.businessinsider.com/astronom ... ar-2015-10

clickbait.. besides, whatever we're seeing now happened about 1,500 years ago!

If you have the patience to wade through this, it is a rather interesting article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin- ... 74502.html

1000steps wrote:It surprised me when I found out genes can be passed between species through interactions at the subcellular level.

And there are organisms that can self-adapt...
http://news.sciencemag.org/2012/01/octo ... -beat-cold

bikejoh was right, you can put away the laser blasters for now
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/pres ... ic-8462852

Scary shyte -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ?tid=a_inl

1000steps wrote:Scary shyte -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ?tid=a_inl

I just read an article on the guardian about zika in brazil. Sad stuff in regards to pregnancies, increased cases of microcephaly. Sad stuff.

Rapper B.o.B. says the Earth is flat; Neil deGrasse Tyson drops diss track in response

http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/2forh0/ ... 2-ep-02055

Was watching a documentary about pulsars - some mind boggling information - they are so dense that a lump of pulsar the size of a sugar cube has the same mass as Mount Everest - and the gravity is so strong that if you were to be teleported to its surface you would be instantly flattened to a paste a few atoms wide.

I love a good firm massage!

This is pretty cool.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/us/gravit ... index.html

And confirmation

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/gravit ... index.html

I guess? It's a neat discovery however the long term effects will not be seen in my lifetime. In fact, most space discoveries, while very cool, will lead to much cooler things that I won't ever get a chance to witness or experience, so it's a bit deflating.

Used to drive by that facility every day on my way to work. Cool to see work like that being done so close to home

TheBeard wrote:I guess? It's a neat discovery however the long term effects will not be seen in my lifetime. In fact, most space discoveries, while very cool, will lead to much cooler things that I won't ever get a chance to witness or experience, so it's a bit deflating.

That's the spirit!

ps this is fuggin' awesome.