Dariusprime Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 A mixture of lols and Science! Tinfoil hats are the government! They are listening! :D Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 German scientists create weather machine. Link to comment
N/A Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 German scientists create weather machine. So apparently the German science community has decided to stop fighting their reputation as mad scientist supervillains and just embrace it instead. I'm cool with that. But don't they know that weather villains are lame? Link to comment
quotemyname Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 God, playing Bunnies and Burrows with R. K. Milholland was nuts enough. I'd love to see what the man could do with M&M. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 A soft "tissue paper" made from normally brittle germanium and silicon contains individual fibers as strong as bulletproof Kevlar. Woven into traditional fabric or embedded in hard plastics, the new nanowires could stop bullets, harvest solar energy, or perform dozens of other tasks, according to a recent report in Discovery.com's Discovery News. Read more here. Link to comment
N/A Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted June 3, 2010 Author Share Posted June 3, 2010 Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other. Link to comment
N/A Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other. We are like unto GODS!!! Link to comment
Geez3r Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 How we're gonna clean up the oil. Link to comment
N/A Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Wow. Have we finally reached the point of desperation where our best hope is a grown man wearing overalls? :D Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted June 17, 2010 Author Share Posted June 17, 2010 Ever wonder what'd happen if a 50 pound ball of Silly Putty were dropped off a 10 story building? Wonder no more! (Yes, that's the library at which I work.) Fifth Annual Silly Putty Drop. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted July 9, 2010 Author Share Posted July 9, 2010 The Pentagon is launching projects BaTMAN and RoBIN to create super-soldiers DARPA, the Department of Defense's R&D agency, has two new projects: BaTMAN (Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature) and RoBIN (Robustness of Biologically-Inspired Networks). Their goals? To increase troop efficiency using quantum mechanics. They're making superheroes! Well, not exactly. The purpose of BaTMAN and RoBIN is to explore ways in which quantum principles and the understanding of human interaction could improve troop efficacy. Sounds vague? Hey, it's top secret. Here's the official description of BaTMAN... ... and RoBIN. What I like about these acronyms is that they fit the Dynamic Duo's modi operandi to a tee. Batman works like an unflinching automaton, micromanaging every aspect of crime-fighting with clockwork precision. Similarly, Robin's perpetual kidnappings caused crises Batman was forced to react to. Plus, inexplicable disasters on the set of Batman always kept Burt Ward on his toes. Link to comment
N/A Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Don't they know that super-soldier projects are always a bad idea? Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted August 30, 2010 Author Share Posted August 30, 2010 Someone stunts Cold Control as an AP of Sonic Control. Also, Gizmodo's 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors Of All Time. Link to comment
Fox Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Still pretty deep in that uncanny valley, but making progress. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 Some rightly feared what might happen if Doktor Archeville got a chance to study Protectron. Their fears were not unfounded. Developed by the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the fully functional anthropomorphic robot hand can withstand major collisions and even direct pounding with a hammer, baseball bat or metal pipe, making it an essential part of future indestructible humanoid robots. Link to comment
April Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 This falls under SCIENCE! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12354390 Astronomers have identified some 54 new planets where conditions may be suitable for life. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Tonight on Jeopardy!, the IBM Challenge will feature IBM's Watson (an AI designed to answer questions posed in natural language) facing off against two former Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in two matches to be played over three days (Feb 14th-16th). The winner of the competition will receive $1 million, while the second- and third-place contestants will receive $300,000 and $200,000, respectively. Jennings and Rutter have pledged to donate half their winnings to charity, while IBM will donate 100% of Watson's winnings to charity. This is the first ever man-vs.-machine competition in Jeopardy!'s history Link to comment
quotemyname Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Heard about that. Do you know when it's on? Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Tonight on Jeopardy!... Check local listings for specific time/channel. Link to comment
quotemyname Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 It was pretty cool. The changing colors and swirling light patterns make it look like the computer is upset with itself when ever it answers incorrectly. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Wonder Woman as proof of abiogenesis? A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. The research, published online in the journal Soft Matter, shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The authors say the discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells might have formed inside inorganic clay microcompartments. Link to comment
Dr Archeville Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 The Physics of Superman Link to comment
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