Science Megathread

[Frodo]

Seems risky to me.

And isn't one important feature of US passports the datachip?

The newer passports yes -but since these are physical passports, they can still be lost, stolen, or confiscated.  

[Blue3]

I'd rather have the microchip in my passport than in my body.

And facial recognition technology is easily fooled. You just need a good mask.

It would also need to be adopted pretty much universally in order to work... and I don't think the world is ready for that.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Scientists find 'oldest human ancestor.'





Horrifying.

oh and get a load of this

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Some things never change.

[Frodo]

Long Before Making Enigmatic Earthworks, People Reshaped Brazil’s Rain Forest



By JOANNA KLEIN
FEB. 10, 2017

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[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

New underwater continent discovered: Zealandia

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[Blue3]

New underwater continent discovered: Zealandia

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That's been known for a long time.

Indonesia was once a subcontinent like Europe too, until 10,000-12,000 years ago.

Britain was a peninsula of France until 10,000-12,000 years ago too.

More of the Persian Gulf used to be above sea level.

The Kerguelen continent was also 3 times the size of Japan.

The Bering Strait.

The large island of Malta.

The large island of Hawaii (the entire island chain and more).

And smaller islands/coastlands lost even in the last 500 years.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_lands#Submerged_lands


There's also a theory that the Ancient Indian/Harappan civilization (which was remarkably well-organized and popped up out of nowhere, and eventually declined, with sewers and running water 6000 BC) was actually a colony of an ancient civilization in the Now-Sunken Indonesian subcontinent. And that when it had some powerful volcanic eruptions (all the most powerful in modern recorded history come from Indonesia) and when the Ice Age ended and flooded the continent, the civilization collapsed. And the rumor of it became the legend of Atlantis (non-sunken Indonesia / Sundah is the size the Ancient Egyptians said Atlantis was, and it had elephants and a tropical climate, also like the legend). Even today, the seas of Indonesia are hardly explored underwater due to difficulties.

[dead0man]

New underwater continent discovered: Zealandia

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no.  "researchers" don't get to say what makes a continent or not.  Even it was above the water line (it's not, which is kind of important) it would still only be half the size of Australia.  This is a microcontinent or a continental fragment.  So at best it is a continent in the same way Pluto is a planet.  sorta

[Blue3]

Komodo Dragon blood destroys antibiotic-resistant "superbugs"

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blood-dragons-destroy-antibiotic-resistance/







And this pic is just cool: the Giant African Land Snail

[Frodo]

Skulls found in China were part modern human, part Neanderthal; possibly new species

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[Frodo]

Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions

WASHINGTON D.C. --

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Experiments cast doubt on how the Earth was formed

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[Frodo]

The algae that terraformed Earth


The biomolecules were contained in oil extracted from deeply buried rock


By Roland Pease
BBC Radio Science Unit

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3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry



Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
24 August 2017 • 7:00pm

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[Frodo]

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

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Newsweek

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why should the distribution of matter and antimatter be homogeneous? It would seem to make perfect sense that while our local supercluster is predominately matter, other superclusters are predominately antimatter.

[muon2]

New chamber discovered in the Great Pyramid using ... muons!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

New chamber discovered in the Great Pyramid using ... muons!

[Frodo]

Turning emissions into fuel:
MIT-developed method converts carbon dioxide into useful compounds.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
November 28, 2017

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[Kingpoleon]

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

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Newsweek

An impossibility of symmetry includes an assumption of an atheistic worldview.

[HillGoose]

dudes is there been any news on Canada geese recently?

[Storebought]

3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry



Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
24 August 2017 • 7:00pm

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I thought it was understood the ancient Greeks adapted the knowledge they received from their Asian colonies and organized it and made it systematic. Their alphabet, religion, and astronomy certainly were not original creations.

[dead0man]

Science trumps fearmongering in the EU as they legalize glyphosate for 5 more years

[dead0man]

yet another data point suggesting legal weed could help end our opioid problem

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Whether Plimpton 332 was intended for calculations that today would be considered to be more part of what we call algebra or trigonometry has been in dispute for decades. So other than defying the current consensus that it's more algebraic than geometric, this person's contribution to the morass of publish or perish appears inconsequential. Besides, the fundamental distinction between trigonometry and geometry is that the former explicitly links angles and sides, which this person isn't claiming. Dr. Mansfield is only claiming it was used to solve problems we'd use trigonometry to solve, not that the Babylonians developed trig centuries before the Greeks.

[DINGO Joe]

Sure it' just a rock, but it's a really cool one

meteorite older than the solar system found in Sahara