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+ - Football kick obeyed physics laws 1

Submitted by Tsalg on Thursday September 02, 2010 @05:57AM

Tsalg (828169) writes "For those who remember that incredible kick in 1997 which seemed to defy the law of physics — probably because such a shot has not been seen since — well it took a good team of scientist working on bullet trajectories to finally give an explanation as well as predicting what the ball would have done if gravity hadn't taken over command of the flight. Let's teach hydrodynamics to football players and give a whole new dimension to the game!!"

Comment: Re:The rise of ignorance... (Score 1) 269

by Tsalg on Sunday January 24, 2010 @04:29PM (#30882332) Attached to: Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All

The nearest place where events with orders of magnitude more energy occur is just our atmosphere. Particles thousands of times more energetic, coming from yet undetermined sources in the Universe, strike the atmosphere (and the Moon, and the Sun, and all the other planets) all the time. Since the Earth is one of the smaller planets, it is more likely that such a theoretical black hole is created in, say, Jupiter or the Sun, than here.

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Comment: Whale "scientists' (Score 1) 770

by Tsalg on Monday November 30, 2009 @10:13AM (#30270098) Attached to: Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots

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 -?

+ - Particles are back at LHC-> 0

Submitted by Tsalg on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @10:32AM

Tsalg (828169) 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."
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Comment: just one half of mv2 (Score 2, Funny) 707

by Tsalg on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @09:49AM (#28941055) Attached to: 30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment

30,000 lbs? Does it have to explode at all when dropped from a plane?

+ - (No evidence yet for) Cosmic rays from black holes 0

Submitted by Tsalg on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:15AM

Tsalg (828169) 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."

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Comment: Myths.. (Score 1) 161

by Tsalg on Sunday July 20, 2008 @10:29AM (#24262623) Attached to: "Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct

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.

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+ - Full Moon correlated with crime rate

Submitted by Tsalg on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @02:56AM

Tsalg (828169) 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..."

+ - Ariane breaks commercial launch record

Submitted by Tsalg on Sunday May 06, 2007 @09:17AM

Tsalg (828169) writes "From the beeb we learn that "Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has set a new benchmark for a commercial launch — lifting into orbit a two-satellite payload weighing 9.4 tonnes." Nasa's chief came to have a look at how it's done."