As a chemistry undergrad currently studying physical chemistry...

He holds the liquid gold at 1127C. It would take an approximate pressure of 2.1 * 10^-7 atm for liquid gold to boil at 1127C. Now, it strikes me as very unlikely that he is using a close-to-perfect vacuum for this, especially since running any vacuum at all will encourage evaporation, but without further data, who knows, right?

Gender is between your ears. That said, the request for ggp to change their sig is moronic. It's a joke

You're working in the 70s? Aren't wages much lower? Why don't you invest in Apple, Microsoft, or IBM instead?

Oh, won't somebody PLEASE think of the lab mice??

I neglected 'small amounts' as being journalistically synonymous with 'trace amounts'.

How about when the huge ball of intensely hot plasma falls into the water at the end without producing even a hint of steam? Great science in that movie

My mom, between Waterville and Faribault, saw a piece falling and called me. Said it was coming down, not across. Pretty cool. I don't think she's up for hunting it down, though.

If we take 'universe' here to mean Earth, then I think pulsars are excluded anyway.

If autotune is just a function applied to a waveform, then an inverse function should be possible. Probably a fucking difficult thing to do, though, since most autotune I hear makes pitch changes abrupt (ie, the function is not continuous; a piecewise function. That sure makes a mess of things)

//IANA mathematician or acoustician etc

Are you quite sure they're broken?

May I direct you here?

That's not what I said at all. I only said it made sense to suspect that a quake in Japan, for instance, would also have the effect of changing Earth's axis/rotation, and that that action would interfere with this Chile effect. Push, pull, push, pull.

I guess. Welcome to Slashdot, the Fox News of sci/tech.

No, we got it; it's just not that funny.

That's not the problem; the problem is the use of conclusive statements in TFS & TF headline. I thought we were scientifically educated people around here.