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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #105 on: September 22, 2013, 08:50:51 AM »
Yup, that's pretty much exactly it.
This is as exciting as superluminal neutrinos. The sexy thing is that this actually exists :D

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #106 on: September 22, 2013, 09:12:21 AM »
I had an introductory astronomy course, so all in all I'm not too familiar with stellar models beyond the basics... But there are many technical as well as practical difficulties I would think when you would try to determine the mass of the sun accurately enough to estimate G (even if you ignore that the model itself depends on G). One I can think of is the fact that stars lose mass throughout their lives, so we would need to know the age of the sun in the same order of precision, which is impossible.
But probably there are models for the trajectories of the planets, given a star with a slightly decreasing mass but I doubt that they would be accurate enough for comparison with our present situation.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #107 on: September 22, 2013, 09:22:33 AM »
Age of stars, to my knowledge, are actually estimated through their spectral emissions. E.g. a young red dwarf has different spectra than an old red dwarf.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #108 on: September 22, 2013, 01:32:17 PM »
That is correct. But determining the age to a accuracy good enough to make corrections to the known value of G? I don't think that is possible.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #109 on: September 22, 2013, 01:37:41 PM »
Age of stars, to my knowledge, are actually estimated through their spectral emissions. E.g. a young red dwarf has different spectra than an old red dwarf.
This is really the same thing as guessing one's person age looking at his face. You can almost always guess at what point of its life the star is, but not figure out the exact age with sufficient accuracy.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #110 on: September 25, 2013, 06:13:00 AM »
Milena's sister gave me this pic.



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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #111 on: September 25, 2013, 06:18:07 AM »
Immediately thought of:



But now yellow fins so:

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #113 on: September 25, 2013, 06:33:56 AM »
That's amazing!  :omg:
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #114 on: September 25, 2013, 09:01:41 AM »
Milena's sister gave me this pic.



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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #115 on: September 25, 2013, 12:18:44 PM »
It's a Blue Parrot Fish. They have kinda beak-like mouths, and feed off coral and algae they scrape off of rocks with it.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #116 on: September 25, 2013, 12:32:19 PM »
Being out of the water does not allow its patterns to really shine.





As you can see, underwater, they don't look as blue as a whole. The X-grid pattern makes for some pretty good camouflage.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #117 on: September 25, 2013, 01:20:01 PM »
Wow, earthquake in Pakistan creates a new island:

https://www.emirates247.com/pakistan-earthquake-latest-death-toll-reaches-327-new-island-created-2013-09-24-1.522199

Can you imagine what kind of stories would have come out of this event 2,000 years ago? Shaking earth, flooding, hundreds dead, island appears from nowhere out of water.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #118 on: September 25, 2013, 02:36:58 PM »
Wow, earthquake in Pakistan creates a new island:

https://www.emirates247.com/pakistan-earthquake-latest-death-toll-reaches-327-new-island-created-2013-09-24-1.522199

Can you imagine what kind of stories would have come out of this event 2,000 years ago? Shaking earth, flooding, hundreds dead, island appears from nowhere out of water.

It's insane to think about. I often find myself asking this very question.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #119 on: September 25, 2013, 04:42:38 PM »


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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #120 on: September 29, 2013, 05:47:57 PM »
UK shows a single plant that grows both tomatoes and potatoes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24281192


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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #121 on: September 29, 2013, 09:19:08 PM »
OH GOD that is my dream plant. :| Seriously.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #122 on: September 29, 2013, 09:41:26 PM »
Make it grow sausages, and you can call it the "English breakfast plant".
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #123 on: September 29, 2013, 09:46:26 PM »
What about a pig that lays eggs?
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #124 on: September 30, 2013, 12:20:08 AM »
Nice. It's easy to forget they're both in the same family of plant... As is deadly nightshade.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #125 on: October 15, 2013, 03:21:22 AM »
https://www.thesleuthjournal.com/radioactive-water-from-fukushima-is-systematically-poisoning-the-entire-pacific-ocean/#

What could they possibly do about this now? Scary stuff when you think about it.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #126 on: October 15, 2013, 03:30:28 AM »
One of the comments links to this-
https://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp

I'd like to believe the less dire of the two is true!
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #127 on: October 15, 2013, 03:45:40 AM »
That's a relief, just saw it on facebook so I guess it spreads slowly at my end of the world.  :lol
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #128 on: October 15, 2013, 06:18:36 AM »
Whenever I see anything of that nature on FB, the first thing I do is type it into Google. More often than not, I'll get a page of results debunking it. :lol

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #129 on: October 15, 2013, 07:08:53 AM »
Whenever I see anything of that nature on FB, the first thing I do is type it into Google. More often than not, I'll get a page of results debunking it. :lol

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #130 on: October 15, 2013, 09:11:07 AM »
Whenever I see anything of that nature on FB, the first thing I do is type it into Google. More often than not, I'll get a page of results debunking it. :lol

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This. The amount of crap people would believe is insane.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #131 on: October 15, 2013, 09:37:52 AM »
I have learned over the years that several of my friends are the same kind of people who back in the 80s would continue chain letters.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #132 on: October 15, 2013, 12:26:08 PM »
I have learned over the years that several of my friends are the same kind of people who back in the 80s would continue chain letters.

Ugh. I hate chain anything.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #133 on: October 17, 2013, 01:50:27 AM »
The worst are the ones containing some motivational life lesson ("Happiness is a choice you take one step at a time" or shit like that)
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #134 on: October 17, 2013, 01:54:24 AM »
I had a really really shitty one a couple of weeks ago. I had to save it:


....  Worst analogy ever?

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #135 on: October 17, 2013, 02:09:00 AM »
Oh my god, somebody on my FB list had that too. It is sooo bad.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #136 on: October 17, 2013, 04:50:23 AM »
It still amazes me sometimes how these things literally go around the world.

Anyway, back on topic:
Next week some people from the VUB are coming to talk about the nobel prize in physics at our university, should be cool. Sadly Englert probably won't be there though.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #139 on: November 15, 2013, 10:03:18 PM »
There is a theory that a butterfly is not just transformed from the pupa, but actually created from the dissolved matter of the liquefied pupa's remains.  A separate DNA sequence assembles the butterfly from these remains.

I can't tell if I'm incredibly ignorant of biology, and simply too enamored with this idea to see how ridiculous it is, or if this does actually seem like a plausible theory.  At the end of the article is mention of scientific criticism of this theory.
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