Comment Whale "scientists' (Score 1) 770
I guess that whale hunters - sorry, whale scientists - would be more than happy to have these when they meet "eco-terrorists" - sorry, greenpeace activists / sea shepherds -?
Submission + - Particles are back at LHC (web.cern.ch)
Tsalg writes: The Large Hadron Collider has switched on the beams again with protons and ions, resuming after a 1-year break. No collisions occured yet, but the ion beam was detected in one of LHC's detector. The first high-energy collisions are still set for after mid-December.
Comment just one half of mv2 (Score 2, Funny) 707
30,000 lbs? Does it have to explode at all when dropped from a plane?
Submission + - (No evidence yet for) Cosmic rays from black holes
Tsalg writes: Two years back there was overwhelming evidence that the most energetic cosmic rays were coming from supermassive black holes, solving a century old puzzle. Now they back off their findings as the correlation no longer holds after having gathered more data, and after their competitors did not agree with them. So the mystery is still on with high hopes that an upcoming space-based experiment will find where in the Universe they're shooting those OMG particles at us.
Comment Myths.. (Score 1) 161
It's amazing how many tabletop cold fusion experiments have attracted public attention, and all turned out to be fraudulent when they claimed to have started nuclear reactions. The worldwide large-scale not-so-cold fusion project ITER has just started, with an estimated cost of 5bn EUR, and there are still guys out there trying to outsmart them on a tabletop and some cookbook chemistry.
Submission + - Full Moon correlated with crime rate
Tsalg writes: In Brighton they have found a correlation between the crime rate and the full Moon. As a result, more cops in the street at that time. However a study of 1998 in the '"Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry" showed no correlation with the full Moon and human behaviour at all...
