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OT: The F*cking Science Thread

This is where the Meme of dude with the hair saying "Aliens" actually is appropriate.

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For the Americans among us, or those with friends/family in the states here's something you can fill out/pass on that can help prevent planned cuts to NASA Planetary Exploration program....including future exploration of Mars, and Jupiter's moon "Europa".....

[video=youtube;SUikIIdG5Ts]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUikIIdG5Ts[/video]



https://secure3.convio.net/planet/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=139


...fill it out f*ckers, or force someone you know who lives in the states to do it.
 
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/16/us/space-planet-four-suns/index.html

Thirty-five years ago, a scene in the first "Star Wars" film captivated movie-goers: Luke Skywalker peering across the landscape of Tatooine -- a desert planet dominated by a pair of setting suns.
This week, reality trumped (science) fiction with an image even more enthralling: two amateur astronomers poring through data from deep, distant skies and discovering a planet with four suns.
NASA's website calls the phenomenon a circumbinary planet, or a planet that orbits two suns.
Rare enough on its own -- only six other circumbinary planets are known to exist -- this planet is orbited by two more distant stars, making it the first known quadruple sun system.....
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zeke said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/science/space/new-planet-found-in-alpha-centauri.html
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Shame the surface temperature is so insanely hot (think I read somewhere it's upwards of a thousand degrees).....that said it's pretty cool that they found this using the doppler method, and it clears the way for astronomers to potentially find other planets orbiting Alpha Centauri that might be within the Goldilocks zone.

Pull that off and it'll just be a matter of figuring out how to travel at or near the speed of light.....before we can start sending people to Earth 2.0
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...sils_n_1989794.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Raleigh, North Carolina—With domed heads and thick, bony skull protuberances, pachycephalosaurids are well known by seven-year-olds and paleontologists alike. The dinosaurs are thought to have used their thick domes to headbutt each other, perhaps as part of courtship behavior. But whereas children recreating these vicious displays simply ram plastic models of the animals together in a straight line, a study now suggests that pachycephalosaurs may have bashed one another in a number of different ways.

The work, presented this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, started with just one pachycephalosaur fossil. “We were looking at a dome and noticed these lesions that looked like they were from injuries,” explains Joseph Peterson, a paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh. He wondered whether the fossilized injury was one of a kind — or whether such lesions were common. To find out, Peterson and his colleague Collin Dischler started examining more domes.......

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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/italy-scientists-guilty-in-quake-trial/story-e6frf7k6-1226501174787

Next week they start burning witches again.


Italy scientists guilty in quake trial
Ella Ide From: AAP October 23, 2012 9:11AM
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SIX Italian scientists and a government official have been found guilty of multiple manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.


SIX ITALIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR UNDERESTIMATING THE RISKS OF AN EARTHQUAKE. AAP


They were sentenced to six years in jail on Monday in a watershed ruling in a case that has provoked outrage in the international science community.
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