Science!

Xurtio · 11-30-2017, 06:07 PM

Blueberries aren't blue by western standards, they're purple (white grapes are green, red grapes are purple, etc). The line between colors (e.g. purple purple-blue and blue) is an arbitrary classification, though, and different cultures (and subcutlures, and individuals) draw it different places.

Blue occurs in nature (the sky is blue thanks to raleigh scattering) and even in organics and minerals (that's often where humans get blue pigments from). They're not as common as colors like green, brown, grey, or even red.

RL Clown · 12-01-2017, 06:17 PM

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

Paul Smeenus · 12-01-2017, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Purple.

The Batlord · 12-01-2017, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by RL Clown

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

I got you, bro.

DwnWthVwls · 12-01-2017, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by RL Clown

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

The eggs we eat are a chickens period (after some reading, since they don't menstruate it's not actually a "period", but i still think it's a decent oversimplified analogy), but instead of flushing it down to the toilet, we put it in a frying pan.

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Originally Posted by RL Clown

I have an interesting question for all of you science lovers... Seriously, why don't blue foods exist? (I'm talking about natural foods.) Think about it... Blueberries are not really blue. Blue cheese is not really blue. So why don't blue foods exist??

What about blue mushrooms and potatoes?

GunmouthGrace · 12-01-2017, 06:39 PM

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Mindy · 12-02-2017, 04:58 AM

MusicBanter: "Blueberries" = Purple berries

**Frownland** · 12-10-2017, 07:55 AM

I think that given the current state of science education in the states, I'm not sure that this kind of thing is the best idea, but hey still fun.

The finalists are in - vote for the People’s Choice for Breakthrough of the Year!

4 Finalists:

A drug for many cancers

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drug to treat advanced solid tumors with a specific genetic defect, no matter where in the body the cancer arose. The drug reflects a long-awaited shift from treating cancers based on their origins to one grounded in tumor biology.

Gene Therapy Success

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A treatment for a neuromuscular disease that usually kills infants before they turn 2 scored a dramatic initial success in a small clinical trial. The trial demonstrated the power of a new vector in ferrying genetic cargo across the blood-brain barrier.

Pint-sized neutrino detector

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Physicists used a detector the size of a milk jug to observe neutrinos pinging off atomic nuclei in a way never seen before. The achievement confirms a 40-year-old prediction and opens the way for portable detectors of these elusive particles, which could carry clues to new physics.

Fixing tiny mutations

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Biologists made a big advance in editing DNA and RNA, developing techniques to transform one nucleotide base into another at a precise point in a genome. A team in China used a version of the technique to correct a point mutation in a human embryo.

If you're interested, you can find the runners up here.

Pet_Sounds · 12-10-2017, 02:32 PM

I would have voted for Artificial Intelligence Masters Poker because I've been working on a computer program that "plays" cribbage.

Oddly not listed:

Concrete evidence of Creation

Chula Vista · 12-10-2017, 03:23 PM

Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago. Just last month its thrusters were remotely fired for the first time in 34 years.

Voyager 1 is currently 11.8 billion miles away from the earth.

11-30-2017, 06:07 PM	#161 (permalink)
Xurtio Brain Licker Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1,083	Blueberries aren't blue by western standards, they're purple (white grapes are green, red grapes are purple, etc). The line between colors (e.g. purple purple-blue and blue) is an arbitrary classification, though, and different cultures (and subcutlures, and individuals) draw it different places. Blue occurs in nature (the sky is blue thanks to raleigh scattering) and even in organics and minerals (that's often where humans get blue pigments from). They're not as common as colors like green, brown, grey, or even red. __________________ H̓̇̅̉yͤ͏mͬ͂ͧn͑̽̽̌ͪ̑͐͟o̴͊̈́͑̇m͛͌̓ͦ̑aͫ̽ͤ̇n̅̎͐̒ͫ͐c̆ͯͫ̋ ̔̃́eͯ͒rͬͬ̄҉

12-01-2017, 06:39 PM	#166 (permalink)
GunmouthGrace blah Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Earth Posts: 327	. Last edited by GunmouthGrace; 07-10-2022 at 05:38 PM.

12-02-2017, 04:58 AM	#167 (permalink)
Mindy ask me about cosmology Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Milky Way Galaxy Posts: 9,023	MusicBanter: "Blueberries" = Purple berries __________________ https://www.instagram.com/shhons_meme_agency

12-10-2017, 02:32 PM	#169 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I would have voted for Artificial Intelligence Masters Poker because I've been working on a computer program that "plays" cribbage. Oddly not listed: Concrete evidence of Creation __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

12-10-2017, 03:23 PM	#170 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago. Just last month its thrusters were remotely fired for the first time in 34 years. Voyager 1 is currently 11.8 billion miles away from the earth. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

12-01-2017, 06:17 PM	#162 (permalink)
RL Clown Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 182	Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)