NSFW General Science Thread--You'll Expand Your Mind!!!

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Remember the Large Hadron Collider and how they said them producing black holes would never be a safety concern?

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 28/2247228

Uh, yeah. There were errors in their calcs and we could all die.



Awesome.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Teleportation initial tests:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10150272-1.html

"Three dollars and it only transports matter?!”

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Canada's own Gordan Freeman talks about what he believes is our own Stonehenge:

http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/News ... &date=True

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14119

He's a scientist of sorts who's managed to find a location connected to interstellar study.



We are so totally boned when the Xen levee breaks. Or saved if the 78 year old Freeman finds a crowbar

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Update on new ion engines:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14112

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

5 Forms of Black Magic That Science Is Making Possible:
http://www.cracked.com/article/162_5-fo ... -possible/

6 Badass Tricks You Can (But Shouldn't) Do With Electricity:
http://www.cracked.com/article/183_6-ba ... ectricity/

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness:
http://www.cracked.com/article/127_5-wa ... esomeness/

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Science from toys:

http://gizmodo.com/5503396/toys-that-in ... akthroughs

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

LHC first proton to proton collision:

http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/public/E ... vents.html

http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/events/snapshotA.png

http://i.imgur.com/ugwnl.png



I just think the Star Trek-like graphs are cool

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Computer generated image of a sunken sub from sonar pings:

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/a ... sonar.aspx

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Purple snow in Russia:

http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-03-09/sou ... -snow.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Using dikes to generate power:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/0 ... ?art_pos=5

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Climate scientists getting p!ssy and suing:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/04 ... art_pos=17

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Hot water freezing quicker than cool water:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/G ... water.html

Mpemba Effect

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

The Southern Lights:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... rn-lights/

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

What with the earthquake yesterday, here's a map of seismic activity in Canada:
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/ha ... az-eng.php

NRCAN's page on earthquakes:
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/ha ... ex-eng.php

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Pendulum effect done with black light:

http://videosift.com/video/Pendulum-Wav ... lack-Light