So unnecessary, man.

If true this is pretty huge:

BBC News - Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern

Obviously I'm no physicist, but I do have an interest in physics-related things, especially astrophysics having watched every episode of the History channel's "The Universe". While I'm aware this lies in the realm of quantum mechanics, I am very excited to hear more about this, hopefully, in the coming months. Would this not be one of the greatest discoveries in our lifetimes? Anyways, I'm not really up to speed on the anatomy of a neutrino, but if I'm not mistaken, it's a sub-atomic particle with a mass close to zero, right? The article made it sound like this was legit, but it really blows my fucking mind. Aren't neutrino's the particles that have been observed to literally "jump" instantaneously from one neutron to another? Perhaps this "teleportation" has played a role in the timing differences between the neutrinos and light.

Yes to basically everything you said. If it's true, and wasn't because of an error in measurement or faulty equipment, it has the potential to turn the field of physics on it's head. Pretty much it could do to physics what the theory of relativity did to physics (which might actually turn out to be wrong, or at least big parts of it, which is strange given how accurate using relativity can be). Should be really interesting to see where it goes.

Goddammit, I was just about to post this.

Fuck you, Blonde. Fuck you.

Very cool stuff, can anyone find a better article about it though?

About the same:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/sc...=1&ref=science

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kremlin, congrats on winning the cup:

Janko Tipsarevic, Dominika Cibulkova capture Kremlin Cup titles - ESPN

:breaking:

Kremlin, what must I do to acquire one of your coveted titles?

This bitch knows.

Dominika Cibulkova Stats, News, Pictures, Bio, Videos - ESPN

I've been watching the broadcast all this morning of the Curiosity Mars Rover launch/spacecraft separation/broadcasts. Really intersting: Curiosity Cam, Ustream.TV: UPCOMING BROADCASTS Sat., Nov. 26, 2011 NASA's Mars Curiosity Post-Launch Briefing at approx. 9 a.m. PT (12 p.m. ET) Coverage...

The primary purpose of this mission is not to look for life on Mars but to look for past habitability. Basically if they find any clues of previous life on Mars it could be pretty huge...life on other planets!

I'm so glad there are smart, disciplined scientists out there doing awesome stuff like this for lazy bums such as myself to gawk at and enjoy.

Earthlike Planet Found Orbiting at Right Distance for Life

This isn't very good "news" at all (because Kepler program has discovered fuckloads of planets already) and has been sensationalized as shit. Everybody who has an inkling of interest in space with basically no knowledge of the huge fucking hurdles in our way to traveling to a fucking star system 600 LIGHT YEARS AWAY is getting a fucking hardon about this for no goddamn reason.

"OMG IT'S ANOTHER EARTH OCCUPY KEPLER 22-B"

fucking retarded fucking humans fucking won't even fucking fund NASA, fuck.

The news blurb on the radio this morning pitched this a little differently "a new planet right outside our solar system was discovered with temperatures that could support life"

They aren't experts on this stuff like Blonde, though.

Did you guys see what Repug did? He insinuated I was an expert when I merely pointed out that getting excited about this planet and calling it "another Earth" is ridiculous not only because of how unlikely it is we will ever actually visit it, but also because we have no idea what the atmosphere nor gravity of the planet is actually like. But by inferring I was an expert, which I am clearly not, he is making himself sound superior to both myself and the common people whom I spoke out against, thus satisfying his ego for yet another day.

Yes.

That is exactly what I did.

Blonde has many expertise.

Somebody is compensating for his lack of Space knowledge. I bet you thought this "new planet" was cool until you read my post, didn't you? Is that where all this acting out is coming from? I bet I ruined a short story.

I'm really insecure about my lack of space knowledge, yes.

Expertly put!

The Universe is like a tube.

Can you just back up a truck and put stuff in it?

I don't know but you wouldn't want to put it in a tube.

Study Shows Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Took me a second to realize we were talking about planets, not stars.

Next logical progression is finding more Earth like ones. Real findings, not "it's in the goldilocks zone" shit.

Why do we assume life must be from places like us? What if life enjoys places that are a billion degrees and 25 g forces?

Many scientists do not solely assume that. But being that it is the kind of life we are more familiar with, it is what we will look for first.

Hydrothermal Vent - Biological Communities | Wikipedia

Next logical progression is to figure out how to effectively travel in space ... then we can worry about there being life 10,000 years away.

Next logic progression is to begin funding NASA shuttles again ... then we can worry about how to effectively travel in space.

No point in funding NASA shuttles with the piss poor space traveling technology we have now. We need to find a better way to travel before we start traveling again. We've seen all we can see. Satellites are way cheaper and can go 100,000,000,000 times farther.

Need to build a launchpad on the moon.

I was hoping for a combo. Go fuck yourself.

Sorry :`(

We need to build a space elevator, then we can just have a launch pad in space.

In terms of finding life, furthering our space travel technique is like learning to crawl better to get to the moon.

Theoretical physics would be the most important research to going somewhere worth going, as it's going to take faster than light-speed tech.

100 billion planets in our galaxy and 100-500 billion (depending on who you ask) galaxies in the universe. This is why when dumb Christians/women say stuff like we are the only life in the universe I just want to slam my head against a wall.

Christians and women are the worst.

Which makes me the best.

I've probably posted this before, but I'm seeing Dawkins Dawkins Bangs Garrison (Season 10, Episode 12) - Video Clips - South Park Studios Krauss tonight at a talk at ASU.

I'm going to get a book signed by each, and hopefully get a picture with Dawkins.

I don't

man I just zoned out there for about 5 minutes.


It would be pretty badass if we got to drink with them in Tempe after the thing --- I've heard of each of them doing it once or twice. Ya never know how frisky Dawkins is gonna be. This might be me tonight:

Dawkins Bangs Garrison (Season 10, Episode 12) - Video Clips - South Park Studios

Overall, the thing was a pretty big circlejerk and it was pretty clear the "discussion", at least the first half of it, was contrived over a few days prior to the event (based on offhand comments from them) to seem like a "real, impromptu" discussion. Krauss pretending to be ignorant, asking Dawkins questions he well knew the answer to, for the benefit of people who had not read their books/seen their speeches on Youtube (which was probably a fair amount of people -- probably only 15% of the 3,000 people in attendance stayed after for book signings).

Especially circle-jerky moments:

- Krauss quite obviously setting Dawkins up to deliver his signature irascible wit for the benefit of the clap-happy audience

- Krauss (rather needlessly) deriding the Republican candidates in a funny comment about every 15 minutes, almost all of them stretches compared to whatever the topic at hand was

- The first question from the audience after the main discussion was from what I understood to basically be a Theologian, although he claimed to be some professor of religious studies. He asked kind of a dumb/repetitive question that has been tackled myriad times in philosophy/atheism -- I can't even remember what it was in hindsight. But Krauss basically said "Yeah, we already covered that, i'm not going to go over it again", and then the dude actually tried to quote a Bible verse.

When he tried to that he was booed from the mic, and while I'm sure whatever he had to say was stupid, it would have shown much more class to eloquently address whatever question/verse he was going to say, rather boo him off. That's not going to change any hearts and minds IMO and i'm sure, however wrong he may be, he walked away feeling more justified in his position based on the whole martyr thing.

Overall, it was great to see them in person, and for $20 I'd probably do it again, but will be going into it with the knowledge that there will be very little science talk in these types of events.

Dawkins pic didn't turn out that well. He was pretty clearly tired and about 2-300 people went before me here, and it was fairly rushed -- but it was still pretty cool.

http://www.nubblies.net/forums/Photo...um/dawkins.JPG

Krauss, naturally, wasn't signing nearly as many books as Dawkins was, but his new book was for sale at the event so some people bought that and had him sign it. I only saw one other person with a Krauss book, and many people didn't seem to want a picture with him either, so when I asked if I could have a picture and had him signed my dog-eared copy of The Physics of Star Trek he was much more excited/grateful to have his picture taken. He also gave me a much better/personable signature, versus Dawkins, which was sorta like chickenscratch. (understandably so, as it's fairly likely he has signed hundreds of thousands of books in his lifetime)

http://www.nubblies.net/forums/Photo...ium/krauss.JPG

Both dudes shook hands like girls.


Circlejerk aside, it was great to be around like-minded people, and I think attending science/otherwise cerebral conferences or seminars around once a month would really help me deal with society on a regular basis, if nothing else to know that not everyone is a dullard just coasting through life by working and buying shit.

This event, by the same organization and at the same venue, seems much more thought provoking than the Dawkins/Krauss one and if I can get off work, i'll definitely be attending it: ASU Origins Project

You weren't sure of the number and your best estimate is between 2 and 300 people? How high were you?

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I was at about a [3], but I was under the impression that was the best way to write an estimate of between 200 and 300.

the fuck

I'm really sorry, I was in Brazil when you posted the picture of you and Richard Dawkins, I wasn't really checking nubblies, and so as a result I didn't have the chance to tell you nice tie, queer.

I don't think it's updated yet to show us the earth sized object hitting jupiter, but still a very interesting video.

If any political candidate made space exploration and asteroid defence his number one platform I would support him no matter how communist/evil/fascist/horrible he was in other regards.

Agree, but I find it hard to believe anybody that interested in the continuation of long-term human survival would be that despotic.

But then again, there is always Leto Atreides II....

Don't see anything wrong with asteroid detection, but defence seems just to be another way of hanging ourselves right now.

The attachment is chapter 18 of Pale Blue Dot which goes into the problem beautifully.

Invalid attachment. Edit and upload to Youtube IMO. I don't see chapter 14 on there.

Just found this. Kinda short chapter (I have only heard the audiobook, but I want to buy and re-read the physical).

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/chapter...._in_Space.html