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No white men, that's for sure...hurluberlu on Jun 10 2018, 01:13:59 PM wrote:who would we put on the picture today ?
Based on the genetic analysis they've done so far, the Dalhousie team has determined that hemimastigotes are unique and different enough from other organisms to form their own "supra-kingdom" — a grouping so big that animals and fungi, which have their own kingdoms, are considered similar enough to be part of the same supra-kingdom.
That is the coolest thing I've read in a long time.xianjiro wrote: ↑November 16th, 2018, 5:03 pm Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
Based on the genetic analysis they've done so far, the Dalhousie team has determined that hemimastigotes are unique and different enough from other organisms to form their own "supra-kingdom" — a grouping so big that animals and fungi, which have their own kingdoms, are considered similar enough to be part of the same supra-kingdom.
I actually heard about this a year and a half ago. A friend of mine knows one of the people who discovered the crater.Lakigigar wrote: ↑November 17th, 2018, 7:14 pm They also found a new huge crater... that crashed on our Earth 3 million years ago to 12.000 years ago, and had a diameter of 19km, and is one of the 20 largest asteroid craters found on Earth, under the Greenland Ice Cap... and the largest one of the last 30 million years. It's so huge and an important discovery that it might completely rewritten human history (esp. before 8000BC). Now it's important to exactly date this asteroid, but i think it's indeed likely to be one that crashed 12.000 to 13000 years ago, causing the Younger Dryas, a small extinction wave, maybe some Biblic flood stories (a possibility) and the Clovis Culture and all humans in North-America might have gone extinct, together with some other North-American megafauna, and it might have drastically reduced the population of mammoths as well (at the end of the Ice Age).
If that theory is correct, i'm almost certain that the last 15.000 years are the deadliest 15.000 years since the K-Pg event (the event that killed the Dinosaurs). It's not like asteroid impacts like these are uncommon or cause mass-extinctions, but it's the combination of several factors that will make this event classify as a mass-extinction event: human activity, human overhunting, a period of rapid climate change (because: the earth usually has glacial and interglacial episodes, but in cold ages, those difference between the climate can vary a lot on a short time interval (because of positive feedback mechanisms like ice albedo).
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
-> this was a controversial theory, but they might have nailed it.
I have no doubt that we'll establish new "kingdoms" as we continue to explore the planet. In the old days it was "plant or animal". Then came fungi and bacteria (prokaryotes) and then came the archaea (aka. archaebacteria, a separate grouping of prokaryotes). It's not unreasonable to assume that descendants of early life are still around and that our understanding of the "tree of life" is fairly limited. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a many-branched "bush of life" of which we currently only know 6 branches.
Clearly baldness has its advantages.PirateJenny wrote: ↑February 26th, 2019, 10:19 am https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHairyBallTheorem/
Hairy Ball theorem - "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" - Splat!
To answer as a Fermi Question (scientific estimate). How long before the last one falls out?3eyes wrote: ↑February 26th, 2019, 4:13 pmClearly baldness has its advantages.PirateJenny wrote: ↑February 26th, 2019, 10:19 am https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHairyBallTheorem/
Hairy Ball theorem - "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" - Splat!
PirateJenny wrote: ↑February 26th, 2019, 10:19 am https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHairyBallTheorem/
Hairy Ball theorem - "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" - Splat!
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6131 ... -computer/PirateJenny wrote: ↑March 17th, 2019, 12:07 pm Scientists have reversed time using a quantum computer.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 20516.html
I've always thought time is going to be multidirectional at a quantum level, though if you tried it on a human we'd probably explode.![]()
The problem is semantic/signifier overdoing, and it's not just media sensationalisation and misconstruing, but the physicists themselves who often struggle with interpreting and phrasing experimental results, leading to many inflated ideas. Correct phrasing is a major part of writing papers and if experimental outcomes are phrased in a lurid fashion, the actual signified result is most likely lost in translation, ill-described, dramatically exaggerated, or just plainly misapprehended. And obviously journalists aren't physicists, so they can't proof-read anything even if they wanted to.PirateJenny wrote: ↑March 18th, 2019, 1:32 pm Ah damn,It's still interesting. It's thought that in black holes time is still very unpredictable.
Yeah you're right. That makes sense. Most of the science doesn't really make much sense to me at a deeper lever so it's easier to get misled. From what I've read the quantum level is where it's all kicking off though?Carmel1379 wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2019, 2:11 amThe problem is semantic/signifier overdoing, and it's not just media sensationalisation and misconstruing, but the physicists themselves who often struggle with interpreting and phrasing experimental results, leading to many inflated ideas. Correct phrasing is a major part of writing papers and if experimental outcomes are phrased in a lurid fashion, the actual signified result is most likely lost in translation, ill-described, dramatically exaggerated, or just plainly misapprehended. And obviously journalists aren't physicists, so they can't proof-read anything even if they wanted to.PirateJenny wrote: ↑March 18th, 2019, 1:32 pm Ah damn,It's still interesting. It's thought that in black holes time is still very unpredictable.
Right. Apparently it has about 6,5 billion times the mass of the Sun and is located 55 million light-years from Earth.
The study also concludes that human faces are becoming shorter and jaws smaller, resulting in more people being born without wisdom teeth.
The research found other changes starting to occur in humans, including additional bones and bone connections in the legs and feet.
I read Nestor's previous book, Deep, which was about freediving and the ocean. It was immensely enthralling. I think I finished it in two days. I'm hesitant to read the new book, though. The claims made in the blurb trigger my strong sense of skepticism.nimimerkillinen wrote: ↑October 16th, 2020, 3:19 am James Nestor writes about tooth and jaw thing in his book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890486-breath
(Those gotta do with breathing styles and lack of chewing / solid food)