Science 'n Shtein

[General_Failure]

Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal

Scientists in the US used high-speed filming techniques and mathematical modelling to show how oyster and shteinake mushrooms release water vapour that cools the air around them, creating convection currents. This in turn generates miniature winds that lift their spores into the air.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/02/05/natpkg-orig-creation-debate-mashup-bill-nye-ken-ham.cnn.html

Bill Nye:  Thats what makes the world so great, we're not sure, so we will continue to study and try to find the answer
Hambone: GOD, GOD, GOD, Jeebus

[General_Failure]

Without even watching it, I'm going to assume that was a waste of Bill Nye's time.

[Seabiscuit36]

When an aussie is saying the world is 6000 years old, and trying to state that Noahs Ark is totally conceivable, and Bill Nye's counterpoint is a tree that is over 9000 years old in what would have surely been a flooded out location.  Game over. 

[ice grillin you]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/

[General_Failure]

Norse Rune code cracked

However, those thinking that the coded runes will reveal deep secrets of the Norse will be disappointed. The messages found so far seem to be either used in learning or have a playful tone. In one case the message was 'Kiss me'.

[General_Failure]

Fusion slightly less impossible, still implausible

Now, researchers at the National Ignition Facility of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S. announce that they managed to use lasers to compress fuel made from two heavier forms of hydrogen enough to kick off a nuclear fusion reaction. And for the first time, the reaction managed to generate more energy than was absorbed by the fuel from the lasers.

"That's a major turning point in our minds," said Omar Hurricane, lead author of a paper describing the results, published in Nature today.

However, he was quick to point out that because the fuel absorbed only a small amount of the energy from the lasers, there is still far more energy put into the entire process than comes out.

[Tomahawk]

Ferrofluid is pretty neat. The plungers move effortlessly until a magnet is applied and "locks" it up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuyP6SWLFAs

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmKMIBvdm9M#t=57

[SD]

http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-started-creating-electr-1521998493

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/world/europe/siberia-giant-virus-discovered/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I saw this on an X Files episode already

[ice grillin you]

what the different planets would look like in the sky if they were the same distance from earth as the moon.....

http://imgur.com/a/v9Bax

[ice grillin you]

this is really cool....

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

[MDS]

its so much easier to just say god

[hbionic]

I just scrolled through the whole thing...and yes...I concur with MDS.