Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

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Araysar_sl said:
FTL particles were discovered at CERN but then covered up


http://www.meetstheweird.com/conspir...ed-or-coverup/
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It doesn't look like a coverup. That article was just asking for clarification.

Here is a halfway decent run down of what happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-...utrino_anomaly

From the article (you can click the references from there)

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* A link from a GPS receiver to the OPERA master clock was loose, which increased the delay through the fiber. The glitch's effect was to decrease the reported flight time of the neutrinos by 73 ns, making them seem faster than light.[21][22]

* A clock on an electronic board ticked faster than its expected 10 MHz frequency, lengthening the reported flight-time of neutrinos, thereby somewhat reducing the seeming faster-than-light effect. OPERA stated the component had been operating outside its specifications.[23]
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It does appear the scientists running the experiment were forced to resign though.
 
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Araysar_sl said:
i was just being facetious.
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I knew it!
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These kinds of magnetic engines are awesome and fun and that article took exactly the right stance on it.
 
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Troll_sl said:
These kinds of magnetic engines are awesome and fun and that article took exactly the right stance on it.
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Did the article take the stance that it's a hoax and he rotated it by blowing compressed air on it? Because that's the right stance.
 
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Scientists are saying that the most likely common ancestor of all mammals have, including humans, is a small rat-like insect eating animal.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/s...y.html?hp&_r=0

A team of researchers described the discovery as an important insight into the pattern and timing of early mammal life and a demonstration of the capabilities of a new system for handling copious amounts of fossil and genetic data in the service of evolutionary biology. The formidable new technology is expected to be widely applied in years ahead to similar investigations of plants, insects, fish and fowl.

As researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science, a lowly occupant of the fossil record, Protungulatum donnae, had several anatomical characteristics for live births that anticipated all placental mammals leading to some 5,400 living species, from shrews to elephants, bats to whales, cats to dogs and, not least, humans capable of reconstructing such playbacks of evolution's course.

Pulled out of obscurity and given some belated stature by an artist's brush, the animal - hardly looks the part of a progenitor of so many mammals (which does not include marsupials, like kangaroos and opossums, or monotremes, egg-laying mammals like the duck-billed platypus). It weighed no more than half a pound.
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Edit: Here's the publicly available site for the technology that helped discover this.http://mammaltree.informatics.sunysb.edu/
 
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I was looking for more info on the unnatural appearing object on mars.

http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/...bject-on-mars/


If I had to make a wager, I'd guess that it is the Beagle 2 space craft parts.

Here is a picture of the current terrestrial objects on mars.

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Beagle 2 was targeted for the Isidis Planitia basin (about 90 degrees East, 10 degrees North) not far from Curiosity. It's conceivable that Beagle 2 broke up while crashing and pieces went every where imo.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...bjects_on_Mars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2

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It's Darwin Day, bitches.

I'm going to a talk by Massimo Pigliucci. If you have any questions you want me to try and ask him (if he allows for questions), put em up here.

And if you're in Portland, he's at PSU in the Student Rec Center at 7pm. It's free.

Edit: And if you don't know who he is, he's an all around awesome guy. Has a doctorate in genetics, PhD in biology and PhD in philo-sci.
 
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Troll_sl said:
It's Darwin Day, bitches.

I'm going to a talk by Massimo Pigliucci. If you have any questions you want me to try and ask him (if he allows for questions), put em up here.

And if you're in Portland, he's at PSU in the Student Rec Center at 7pm. It's free.

Edit: And if you don't know who he is, he's an all around awesome guy. Has a doctorate in genetics, PhD in biology and PhD in philo-sci.
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Shovel vs Bat, Who Wins?
Plane on a treadmill...will it take off?
 
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That's a serious journal, grats to your friend. I've got serious respect for physics nerds, that shit is hard.

I start field sampling next week for my own study(s) that I am hopeful to submit for publication before grad school apps get sent out in the fall, and have been assisting every grad student I can find in my concentration (Aquatic Ecology) with their work. It's a grueling process and definitely a worthy accomplishment. Too bad I'll never be able to show off my own work around here if I do ever get published.
 
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Why would I risk having someone like Keg get my RL info? I wouldn't be able to post like an asshole and say retarded shit when I'm drunk if I had a public profile. My goal is to have a very public profile in a few years and the internet is forever.
 
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There's no way any sane person would take what you or anyone else posts here seriously under a pseudonym. Although, maybe I don't understand how regular people work.
 
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