Comment Re:Homeopothy ... (Score 4, Funny) 173
And it's been drunk by at least one dinosaur too.
Comment Re:A simple request. (Score 1) 623
No democratic vote results in 90+ percent.
Ironically, the referendum that made Ukraine an independent country resulted in a 90+ percent yes vote with even Crimea voting in favor. At the time, no one disputed the results. It just shows how easily the populace is manipulated.
Comment Re:A simple request. (Score 1) 623
So how would you feel if the Russians tried to annex Alaska? Maybe you don't care now because it seems remote but ignoring the problem will not make it go away.
Submission + - Telescope captures a gravitational echo of the Big Bang
bmahersciwriter writes: Detection of the elusive b-wave, announced today (http://www.nature.com/news/telescope-captures-view-of-gravitational-waves-1.14876), provides the firmest evidence yet of a round of exponential inflation in the universe in the first fractions of a second following the big bang. Einstein predicted the existence of these gravitational waves nearly a century ago (http://www.nature.com/news/all-you-need-to-know-about-gravitational-waves-1.14886) but they've been extremely hard to detect. Now, a telescope in Antarctica called BICEP2 (http://www.nature.com/news/how-astronomers-saw-gravitational-waves-from-the-big-bang-1.14885) was able to pick up the signal by watching the cosmic microwave background, often considered the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang. It is considered a Nobel-worthy discovery.
Comment Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? (Score 1) 187
The size of newborn calves is about the same (~90 kg). The gestation period, which has been deduced from isotopic analysis of newborn teeth is also very similar (21-22 months).
Comment Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? (Score 4, Informative) 187
It doesn't matter that the donor is dead. The process of cloning involves taking out DNA and inserting it into another cell. All that matters is that enough DNA can be collected for a complete organism. Freezing is completely irrelevant as even human embryos used for in-vitro fertilization are routinely frozen.
Comment Re:Shouldn't they start out small first? (Score 4, Interesting) 187
We have been able to clone several species already. That's not the problem. The problem is that you need a surrogate mother for the embryo and the closest we have is the African elephant, which separated from the mammoth a long time ago. From TFA it seems they are already working on cross-species clones but they are still a long way off.
Comment Re:changed my view of it for the better (Score 5, Insightful) 192
No. The older crowd has seen its share of Ponzi schemes and economic bubbles and is simply less naive.
Comment Re:US dollar (Score 1) 192
It has value because the government of the USA says so.
CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC 238
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Not content with the 27-kilometer-round Large Hadron Collider, researchers at CERN have their sights set on a new beast of a particle collider that could have a circumference of 80 to 100 kilometers. The nuclear research organization announced that it was hatching plans for an ambitious successor to the LHC with an international study called the Future Circular Colliders program, which will kick off with a meeting next week. The idea is to consider different hadron collider designs similar to the existing LHC but more powerful — much more powerful. CERN wrote it was looking for a collider 'capable of reaching unprecedented energies in the region of 100 TeV.' The existing LHC will reach a maximum of around 14 TeV."
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Spectacular New Martian Impact Crater Spotted From Orbit 99
New submitter kc123 writes: "The team that runs the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has released a photo showning a new impact crater on Mars, formed sometime early this decade. The crater at the center is about 30 meters in diameter, and the material ejected during its formation extends out as far as 15 kilometers. The impact was originally spotted by the MRO's Context Camera, a wide-field imaging system that provides the context—an image of the surrounding terrain—for the high-resolution images taken by HiRISE. The time window on the impact, between July 2010 and May 2012, simply represents the time between two different Context Camera photos of the same location. Once the crater was spotted, it took until November of 2013 for another pass of the region, at which point HiRISE was able to image it."
Reader astroengine adds some more Mars news:
"On Thursday at 3:41 p.m. EST (20:41 UTC), Mars rover Curiosity beamed back a photo from its rear hazard avoidance camera (Hazcam). In the shot we see wheel tracks in the downward slope of the dune bridging "Dingo Gap" with the peak of Curiosity's eventual goal, Mount Sharp, on the horizon. This can mean only one thing; the one-ton robot has successfully conquered its first Mars dune! Curiosity has also taken a picture of Earth."
Comment Re:At least there is no cameras (Score 1) 664
May I ask which country in Eastern Europe it was? I'm pretty sure in the EU that is completely illegal.
Comment Re:If it bother you that much (Score 4, Informative) 944
The average incandescent bulb lasts about 1000 hours. Currently, the average cost per kilowatt hour is 12 cents in this country. So a 100 watt bulb run for 1000 hours costs about $1.20 in electricity. The bulbs cost about $0.57 each. An equivalent LED bulb costs $36 per, and consumes only 13% of the energy used by an incandescent. They say these will last approximately 50,000 hours.
Except your math is off by a factor of 10. 100 watt is 0.1 kW, times 1000 hours gives 100 kWh, which is $12 dollars of electricity not $1.20. That changes pretty much everything.
I agree about the toxic waste stuff, but if you're worried mostly about energy (and that's what policy mostly focuses on) then incandescents don't make sense.
Comment Re:barking up wrong tree (Score 1) 218
How ignorant. What the fuck does psychopathy have to do with schizophrenia?
