Wyck - Slashdot User

Comment Dynamic equilibrium (Score 1) 492

by Wyck on Monday December 22, 2008 @10:58AM (#26200199) Attached to: Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming

So we need MORE clouds? The Earth is already about 70% covered in clouds.

I think the Earth already does a pretty good job of putting water vapour into the atmosphere on a daily basis.

The cloud cover is in dynamic equilibrium. I don't think that spraying some water air changes that equilibrium. Because, like I said, it's already dynamic equilibrium!.

We need to find the Earth's thermostat and turn it down a bit. I think it has to do more with the composition of the atmosphere.

Comment Yeah, but how many REAL users are there? (Score 2, Funny) 178

by Wyck on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @02:24PM (#26148611) Attached to: Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users

And 150 million of those users are bots.

Either that or facebook has tonnes of supermodels that have only two or three friends. ...not that I've been searching ;)

Scientists Erase Specific Memories In Mice 320

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 23, 2008 @07:57AM from the where's-the-cheese dept.

Ostracus writes "It sounds like science fiction, but scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely. After exposing mice to emotionally powerful stimuli, such as a mild shock to their paws, the scientists then observed how well or poorly the animals subsequently recalled the particular trauma as their brain's expression of CaMKII was manipulated up and down. When the brain was made to overproduce CaMKII at the exact moment the mouse was prodded to retrieve the traumatic memory, the memory wasn't just blocked, it appeared to be fully erased."

New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law 329

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @06:57PM from the I-miss-the-original-three dept.

rennerik writes "Scientists at McGill University in Montreal say they've discovered a new state of matter that could help extend Moore's Law and allow for the fabrication of more tightly packed transistors, or a new kind of transistor altogether. The researchers call the new state of matter 'a quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal.' It was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space, following the application of the most powerful continuous magnetic field on Earth."

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