Woo-ha! Ain't science something?

[Andrew_TSKS]

[New science thread--title is a quote from a Garfield strip, in which Jon's dad first sees an indoor toilet]

There's water on the moon

Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.

The new findings, detailed in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Science, come in the wake of further evidence of lunar polar water ice by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and just weeks before the planned lunar impact of NASA's LCROSS satellite, which will hit one of the permanently shadowed craters at the moon's south pole in hope of churning up evidence of water ice deposits in the debris field.

The moon remains drier than any desert on Earth, but the water is said to exist on the moon in very small quantities. One ton of the top layer of the lunar surface would hold about 32 ounces of water, researchers said.

Neat, huh?

[Bernard]

do not leave your dog on the moon with the windows rolled up

[Greg Nog]

BATS DRINKING WATER!

[mixed cats]

I just watched a NOVA episode about epigenetics, which was sort of totally awesome
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

[Andrew_TSKS]

NASA telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn



How about THAT shit?

[mixed cats]

fuuuuuuuuuck.

[mountmccabe]

I wanna visit Saturn.

[diesel_powered]

I'm thinking it's probably cylon technology.

[davy]

 

[donblood]

Whaaaaaaaaaat

[Greg Nog]

saturn's all GUESS WHOS NOT FUCKING AROUND WITH THE RING SCHTICK

[Maaik]

That's actually a huge ring of monoliths waiting to devour the planet and turn into a sun.

[davy]

It's been a pretty significant coupla years for the ol' Solar System!

[FreddyKnuckles]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00295QGHU/

[YojimboMonkey]

giant ring around saturn, yadda yadda yadda



i know, i k now, this one's even gianter, how about A NEW FUCKIN TRICK SATURN jesus

[Anne the Man]

Woo, we're so fallible n shit.

[jess]

I had an example like that for my psych lab on perception the other week, which was fun, because the kids did not believe me at all for a while, and it was the only time to date any of them stayed after at all, to continue staring at the thing.

[Snarfyguy]

Woo, we're so fallible n shit.

 

[Swimmy]

What's really freaky is that, if you cut square B out in a graphical editor and move it closer to A, you can see it change color as you move it out of the shade. Or at least I can.

[Snarfyguy]

What's really freaky is that, if you cut square B out in a graphical editor and move it closer to A, you can see it change color as you move it out of the shade. Or at least I can.

Woah, that's too fucked up!  I just printed out the page, got out the scissors and got the same result. They are the same shade!

Oddly though, if I click and drag the "ghost" of the jpg over the actual jpg, they appear to be different shades.

I demand an explanation!

[diesel_powered]

I demand an explanation!

http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_description.html

[Andrew_TSKS]

After all that hubbub, it turns out that the Large Hadron Collider really DID create a black hole.

A spokesperson for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has confirmed the fears of many in the scientific world after revealing that the reason for the sudden closure of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most expensive physics experiment, was not due to "technical problems" as previously stated, but because its controversial particle collisions have sensationally rendered a "tiny black hole" in the fabric of space.

"I can confirm that, yes, the first stages of the experiment resulted in the appearance of a miniscule black hole," said the spokesperson to gathered reporters on Monday. "The black hole is being kept under quarantine and our scientists have been monitoring its progression," he explained.

I don't know whether to be scared or stoked.

[coldforge]

CERN admits black hole ripped in space by Large Hadron Collider
by Rich Bowden - Apr 1 2009, 04:03

[Andrew_TSKS]

GOD DAMN IT

I wanted to believe it SO BAD.

[donblood]

"The black hole is being kept under quarantine and our scientists have been monitoring its progression," he explained.

Andrew if you're going to stick around on the internet you need to calibrate your bullshit detector.