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OT: The F*cking Science Thread

Finally got through this entire video after 3 sittings. I would have watched it all the way through, but I didn't have 2 1/2 hours of continuous time to spare. I could listen to this guy talk all ****ing day and not get bored. Vast amounts of knowledge. I've never heard Joe Rogan be silent for such extended periods of time as in this video. Some of you may not like Joe, but he's an inquisitive mind and he does a great job interviewing NDT here.

[video=youtube;DhcxffIENBU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhcxffIENBU[/video]
 
Joe Rogan's pretty funny but the guy suffers a bit from that stoner mentality. I do like his podcast though as I am a sucker for the stoner talks we used to have as young teens growing up.

Space is big maaaaan!
 
I enjoy the podcast dependant on the guests, but I can't f*cking stand Redban.....guy is easily one of the most unintellectual and annoying people I've ever heard. No clue why Rogan would even hang around him, let alone allow him to be involved on air with his podcast.
 
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do any of you follow the NASA Edge vodcasts?

watching these on xbmc. they're amazing. a few guys who work for nasa (i think at langley) do mini docs where they discuss things ongoing at nasa and discuss those things with nasa's top scientists.
 
More technology than pure science. When I first saw Google Glass I was pretty skeptical - but I think they might be a huge success.

[video=youtube_share;v1uyQZNg2vE]http://youtu.be/v1uyQZNg2vE[/video]
 
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science/more-good-news-on-those-carbon-supercapacitors.html

That battery life video that had gone viral due to a recent post on UpWorthy (and which we told you about Tuesday) now has an update. We told you that researchers at Ric Kamen's lab at UCLA had found a way to make a non-toxic, highly efficient energy storage medium out of pure carbon using absurdly simple technology. Today, we can report that the same team may well have found a way to make that process scale up to mass-production levels.

The recap: Graphene, a very simple carbon polymer, can be used as the basic component of a "supercapacitor" -- an electrical power storage device that charges far more rapidly than chemical batteries. Unlike other supercapacitors, though, graphene's structure also offers a high "energy density," -- it can hold a lot of electrons, meaning that it could conceivably rival or outperform batteries in the amount of charge it can hold. Kaner Lab researcher Maher El-Kady found a way to create sheets of graphene a single carbon atom thick by covering a plastic surface with graphite oxide solution and bombarding it with precisely controlled laser light.

English translation: He painted a DVD with a liquid carbon solution and stuck it into a standard-issue DVD burner.

The result: Absurdly cheap graphene sheets one atom thick, which held a surprising amount of charge without further modification.

That work was reported a year ago; we mentioned it due to the video virally making the rounds this week. Late Tuesday, UCLA announced that El-Kady and Kaner have a new article in press, in the upcoming issue of Nature Communications, describing a method by which El-Kady's earlier, slightly homebrewed fabricating process shown in the video can be made more efficient, raising the possibility of mass production. ..........
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