https://www.theguardian.com/environm...400-800-tonnes


World's spiders devour 400-800m metric tons of insects yearly –

Both heartening and terrifying.

Speaking of heartening

Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue

Popeye explained.

Popeye is the OG of Veganism.

Pretty sure Popeye would call you a communist.

uck yuck yuck yuck yuck :laughing:

Get educated by GZA, bitches.

BBC - Earth - There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up

This is more nature than science but oh well

Scary as all ****

Bro, science is the study of nature. Also, Nature and Science are the names of the two highest impact journals in scientific literature.

This sounds exactly like something H. P. Lovecraft would write.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_t...ins_of_Madness

Reeally digging this channel lately.
Very nicely explained and usually interesting stuff.

NASA Live - Earth From Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtU_mdL2vBM

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_...tury_astrolabe

https://youtu.be/gu-yC-g4fcU

How to use an astrolabe. It's funny because the young female student in the second informal video is far more engaging and informative than the guy on stage at the TED Talk.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hardw...ain-1496660400

Wow, I finally found someplace to discuss what has become one of my favorite pasttimes... Quantum reality. Ive seen most of what has been posted here. Are any of you "up there" enough on this subject to answer some of my questions? - I would love to get Leonard Suskind into a room and ask hie a few questions, in regards to the Holgraphic principle, back holes, and most recently Higgs.

Over the past 4 years I have tried to keep up with all this, I have read many books on this subject, simply because I have never been so fascinated by physics. Here is alist of books I've read and highly recommend - unless most of you are writing them yourselves:

Brian Greene: The hidden reality, Fabric of the cosmos
Michio Kaku: Einstein's cosmos
Seth Lloyd: Programming the Universe
Robert Lanza: Biocentrism (a little goofy, but well worth it)
Leonard Suskind: Theoretical minimum, Quantum Mechanics, Cosmic Landscape
Max Tegmar: Our mathematical Universe

Anyway, who is up on what is going on at CERN?

Hope y'all dont mind a newbie cutting in on your excellent thread..

I'm all about that suff, especially lately, although I have to admit that my attention span/free time these days is mostly just enough for youtube videos.
Hope you've enjoyed some of the channels I posted here.
Looks like I'll have to put those books on my reading list.

Dark matter could be seen in GPS time glitches

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/com...king_for_time/

https://apple.news/AU6d4JiboQ3Wrv-FkuCr4nw

Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories

So I guess I underwent major memory surgery, good to know. :)

Mach's principle.
Simple concept that gets weirder and more difficult the longer you think about it and seems to have some huge implications.

Very cool.

It's a bit old, but this technology is amazing... Can't wait to have PCs with this kind of tech.


Quantum computing breakthrough: Qubits made from standard silicon transistors

Watched this last night and found it in equal parts fascinating and unnerving. Amazing to think that in three short years we apparently will have fully autonomous driverless cars in service (presumably over there in the US first of course), and I wonder what you guys think of this? Sure, there are massive pros: no more accidents or deaths due to people being drunk or high behind the wheel. No more road rage. Probably, if we're to believe the hype, no more accidents of any kind. Cleaner air, less congested roads, prettier towns and cities. No more need for a driving test, no boy racers and so on.

But there are of course huge downsides, the most obvious being the human suspicion of automation. Even when, some long time ago, I took a ride on an underground train that had no driver, in London I think it was, or maybe Paris, I was worried. We're always that little bit skeptical of handing over control completely. What if the car DOES have an accident? In Level 5 - totally autonomous - cars, there is NO provision for a human to take over. None. So you're putting your life entirely in the hands of microchips and processors. Other levels (up to I think level 3) allow for human intervention if needed. Level 4 (fully autonomous but only within a prescribed area) and level 5 (fully autonomous with no restrictions) do not.

The other big issue I see is the loss of jobs. Not only those who drive for a living - taximen, bus drivers, truckers, etc - but others associated with say the manufacture, installation and upkeep of the likes of traffic lights, which the programme intimated would no longer be required, as the autonomous cars would be able to predict when the road was clear, and interact with each other.

Argue it any way we want, it's coming: there is no way to stop it. But I just wonder how you feel? Are you excited? Do you dread handing over control to a machine? I'm not a driver, but even I feel a kind of pang of "well if I ever learn to drive this will knock that on the head" and I can't decide whether the advantages outweigh the drawbacks. Interested to hear any comments.

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Just saw this now. Holy ****ing ****. :yikes:

'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads - BBC News

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What is your gif meant to convey? I don't get it. :confused:

I would gladly risk dying in a crash if it meant that I could get schlitzed in the front seat on a road trip.

I bet there are a ton of people who would. I bet there are also a ton of people who love driving, mistrust computers and don't want to lose their jobs. As I say, lots to consider, not that we plebs will have any choice in the matter. It's happening, as sure as night follows day or Chula will drop in another "unprecedented" post about Trump wherever he can.

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Those stubborn bitches don't have to use it. Problem solved. Next!

They do. Do you not think that once driverless cars become the norm (and they're talking about three or four years) that manufacturers will stop making driver ones? They also won't be allowed; the roads will be for autonomous cars only I would think.

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Neither do I. I'm thinking though of taking a taxi and finding there is no driver. I think I might initially be a little freaked out by that. Then, driving along a road which is populated by entirely driverless vehicles. I mean, it's the future: there's nothing can stop it. It just seems such a leap, that is happening in my lifetime and which I admit I did not anticipate was so close, that I'm a little lightheaded thinking about it. I also know many taxi and truck drivers and can't help feeling for the jobs that are going to be lost. And it's not like they can pick up jobs driving elsewhere, cos once this gets a hold it's all over for that sort of skill set.

There are definitely advantages; I'm just not sure if the one outweighs the other, as I said.

To them I say: tough titties.

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