The SRK Science Thread 2.0

Neil deGrasse Tyson is so cool

Happy birthday, Carl.

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I knew there was a lot of bullshit, but I had no idea that 99% of it was made up.

History Channel shakes head

I would love to know what some of these so called “experts” have to say about this video and other people who have proven them as frauds.

edit: 1 of them has - http://www.philipcoppens.com/aaq_art5.html

This guy defends himself well but still a lot of BS seems to be flowing

response - http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/387/

NASA is awesome, BAM!

Wait, double post time!
Someone re-considered the Alcubierre Drive, aka ‘Warp Drive,’ and found the energy required may be plausbile (1600 pounds) rather than impossible (the mass of jupiter):

The team under NASA has continued ahead on laboratory experiments working to find evidence that the predictions made by the math can be put into practice.

700 billion dollar spent a year on Defense (not counting the untold billions in black budget programs) and yet NASA was spending roughly 1.6 billion yearly and that was too much? Really? REALLY?

…The warp drive concept really looks interesting, I had my own theory how extraterrestrials to move at high speeds through space unhindered:

If a craft could create an isolated region of space (rather than distorted space like with a warp drive) the apparent velocity could simply be based on the X - Y axes rather than true propulsion.

To give an example, imagine if you were completely unaffected by Earth and the Sun’s gravity altogether, the Earth alone is revolving around the sun at over 66,000 mph. So in a flash you would be flying into space while the Earth careens away from you in an instant! Your body, unhindered by the gravitational pull of the Sun would experience the entire Solar System moving away from you at over half a million miles per hour! Put the Milky Way galaxy’s speed of 1.3 million miles in the mix, and your cosmic immunity to gravity will make you zooooooooooom!

Keep in mind this is taking into account that you’re relatively stationary as the universe is expanding around you. So imagine if a ship had its own isolated region of space around it, it could use real space-time to travel, and also propel itself in it’s own space-bubble to fantastic speeds, unhindered by the relative velocities in ordinary space.

Just a thought…

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It’s thought that at the heart of most if not every spiral galaxy (as well as some dwarf galaxies) there’s a supermassive black hole, by definition containing enormous amounts of mass — hundreds of millions, even billions of times the mass of our Sun packed into an area that would fit inside the orbits of the planets. Even our own galaxy has a central SMBH — called Sgr A*, it has the equivalent of 4.1 million solar masses.
[LEFT]Now, astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have identified what appears to be the most massive SMBH ever found, a 17 billion solar mass behemoth residing at the heart of galaxy NGC 1277.[/LEFT]
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Its size dwarfs much of our solar system’s orbit. It’s insane to visual such a giant destructive force. At that size, stars are probably engulfed whole!

Solar panels at 40 cents per watt? Half the price of Chinese produced solar panels? What the fuck? And it is in San Jose, right in my backyard?

100 MW plant in MI:
http://www.mississippi.org/press-room/twin-creeks-technologies-opens-100-megawatt-solar-panel-production-plant-in-mississippi.html

this is my end of the world :sad:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/brontosaurus-never-existed-tale-bone-wars-185524946.html

Land Before Time is all a lie.:shake:

yep yep yep :sad:

also Ducky’s dad murdered her before she even got a chance to see TLBT :sad:

falling with style

Is that Seth McFarlane?

you bastard, i just knew someone was going to make a Buzz Lightyear comment which is why i said it first! i wasn’t prepared for that! >:(

I thought they’d at least consult Lady Gaga

Looks like we might have reached colder than a witch’s tit in Siberia.

Or would this be hotter than a witch’s vag in Hell?

idunno.

the implications of this give me pause. engines of >= 100% effeciency?? just sounds too good to be true.

also it would seem that a system of negative temperature would have negative energy (which might resolve conservation of energy for a system that is >= 100% effeciency?) but this loop explanation doesn’t really make sense…

also lol @ “I wish mi beer was cold as that**”**

I’d bet that it is too good to be true. My guess, as always, is that this fits comfortably into physics in a way that we don’t yet understand.

I think it can be treated the same way as the string theory- mathematically sound but experimentally questionable.

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I was about to come in here and post about the atoms with a negative kelvin. Very interesting experiment.

I’m not so sure it would exceed 100% efficiency, because it would heat up the colder parts of the system and take energy from the hotter parts of the system.

But that’s my random guess and I actually have no fucking clue yet what’s happening in this, for me, unexplored math.