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Post by Ieldra on Jan 16, 2017 11:51:49 GMT
Pretty much if anything has a colour it absorbs opposite spectrum colour from the wheel the strongest. So if something has a red colour is absorbs radiation of green light. True, but not universally true. A black body absorbs everything but emits electromagnetic radiation depending on its temperature. While there are no ideal black bodies, some objects - like stars - come close enough that their color follows that rule: they emit radiation in frequencies dependent on their surface temperature, while not reflecting anything. At certain temperatures a part of that radiation is visible light.
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Post by Lavochkin on Jan 16, 2017 16:48:11 GMT
The ocean depths are still a very real frontier for science, as we are constantly discovering new species. One example; this guy discovered last year off the Marina Trench. A new species of Jellfish Don't forget the Vampire Squid & Coelecanth either The sea is an interesting place, it has the longest lived vertebrate species, the Greenland Shark, which can live up to 500 years and reaches sexual maturity at 150. s19.postimg.org/o2v2wb5oj/greenland_shark.jpg
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Post by mybudgee on Jan 16, 2017 18:10:13 GMT
Boomers are pretty wild
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Post by dzejkob on Jan 16, 2017 18:50:14 GMT
Pretty much if anything has a colour it absorbs opposite spectrum colour from the wheel the strongest. So if something has a red colour is absorbs radiation of green light. True, but not universally true. A black body absorbs everything but emits electromagnetic radiation depending on its temperature. While there are no ideal black bodies, some objects - like stars - come close enough that their color follows that rule: they emit radiation in frequencies dependent on their surface temperature, while not reflecting anything. At certain temperatures a part of that radiation is visible light. Yep, it was just simple example on a small scale. reality is always much much more advanced... to say the least
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Post by Otter on Jan 17, 2017 2:20:46 GMT
Opabinia was a real thing. Five eyes and all. So was Hallucigenia. It was discovered in 1977. There wasn't a consensus on which end is its head until 1991. That's right: this critter was so weird that paleontologists spent fourteen years before they could agree on whether or not they had it back to front.
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Post by Trilobite Derby on Jan 17, 2017 2:40:11 GMT
The new fossils have it being a little less hilariously weird -- it's a spikey long legged velvet worm, basically. And it's upsidedown! I love fossils and assorted restorations of fossils. Here's assorted restorations of Helicoprion.
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Post by Dobby on Jan 17, 2017 4:00:12 GMT
The largest Megalodon shark jaw fossil ever assebled is 11 ft across and 9 ft tall. It took 20 years to reconstruct it.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Jan 17, 2017 8:02:58 GMT
HOW DARE THEY?! They actually looked like Alligators and Lizards! Don't question my 90s scientific knowledge!
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Post by Trilobite Derby on Jan 17, 2017 8:12:31 GMT
HOW DARE THEY?! They actually looked like Alligators and Lizards! Don't question my 90s scientific knowledge! Dude if you don't have room in your heart for fluffy newly hatched t-rexes your soul is dead. Sorry to be the one to tell you Edit: SLIGHTLY more unclear on the ornithpods, but even they seem to have had some fancy augment.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jan 17, 2017 16:16:50 GMT
The word "wombat" exists.
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Post by dzejkob on Jan 17, 2017 16:42:49 GMT
HOW DARE THEY?! They actually looked like Alligators and Lizards! Don't question my 90s scientific knowledge! Dude if you don't have room in your heart for fluffy newly hatched t-rexes your soul is dead. Sorry to be the one to tell you Edit: SLIGHTLY more unclear on the ornithpods, but even they seem to have had some fancy augment. Well this ruins Jurassic park...
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Post by CrutchCricket on Jan 17, 2017 19:23:34 GMT
Well, who's to say that some kind of observation isn't sufficient to influence the results? We don't really know, we can only assume. I mean, obviously this is nothing more that pointless philosophizing, on the same level of hypothetical theories regarding the nature of reality - like the idea that we are all living in some kind of a Matrix. It's practically impossible to prove or disprove these theories. That hardly makes it pointless. Anyway, on-topic, the stereotypical bald eagle cry depicted in well, anywhere there's a bald eagle is actually a red-tailed hawk. The actual bald eagle cries are closer to seagulls:
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jan 20, 2017 21:10:02 GMT
HOW DARE THEY?! They actually looked like Alligators and Lizards! Don't question my 90s scientific knowledge! Well, I believe even the first found Dinosaur fossils where at that time originally correctly identified as being closely related to birds. Then somebody made a horribly false reconstruction and called it Dinosaur (= terrible lizard) and the Crocodile/Reptilian perception took hold with all connected assumptions, cold blooded, scaly etc. And, I hate to break it to you, but that they were the same kind of animals as birds and probably had feathers, is not only 90s scientific knowledge, but even 1980s. It just takes time to bash it into all the stubborn academia heads, and those are the ones writing popular books and giving talks to journalists. Later, those old stubborn academia heads got together and voted in a new definition of "Reptile", which made it possible to classify Dinosaurs (and a whole lot of other animals which weren't reptilian either) as "Reptiles", despite that they were warmblooded and furred or feathered. Problem solved.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2017 21:27:08 GMT
Kanye means "going to shit" in my language. The name Kanye West means I am going to shit in the west which is kinda poetic I guess.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jan 20, 2017 23:24:48 GMT
If one takes the most advanced, state of art technology available today, and use it to actually do fake the 1969 Moon landing, it wouldn't convince the conspiracy theorists. Because according to their "common sense", realistic light physics aren't realistic. It's ironic that with all the mistakes Hollywood FX would have thrown in, it would probably have looked better to some. How does one seriously believe Hollywood would have left out the stars?
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jan 21, 2017 4:06:41 GMT
When you cool down metallic alloys super fast (several million degrees Fahrenheit per second) the metal becomes metallic glass which has very special properties.
Metallic glass is a metal which cooled down so fast it did not have time to go into the crystalline structure which is typical for metals and gives those materials their typical properties. Instead the atoms are ''frozen'' in a disordered structure, like glass. This material is harder, more resistant to wear, oxidation and deformation, conductibility is vastly increased and the surface is especially uniform and smooth.
I just found it really interesting and fitting. Steel with non-crystalline atomic structures, who knew!
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Post by Sifr on Jan 21, 2017 14:20:24 GMT
Well this ruins Jurassic park... Jurassic World actually did bother to explain away the lack of any dinosaurs with feathers, as being due to frog DNA that InGen used to fill in the missing gaps in the gene sequences. I like to imagine that the investors also told them to continue to engineer them that way, rather than try to fix the cloning errors to be more accurate, because they felt the public would complain about them "ruining" the dinosaurs in the park if they started having feathers.
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Post by dzejkob on Jan 21, 2017 15:42:08 GMT
Well this ruins Jurassic park... Jurassic World actually did bother to explain away the lack of any dinosaurs with feathers, as being due to frog DNA that InGen used to fill in the missing gaps in the gene sequences. I like to imagine that the investors also told them to continue to engineer them that way, rather than try to fix the cloning errors to be more accurate, because they felt the public would complain about them "ruining" the dinosaurs in the park if they started having feathers. Good point i did forget about it (although it was said a lot throughout the movies) still feels bit disappointing, specially that i have a lot of books about dinosaurs from childhood and well them being represented as huge scary lizards rather than birds..
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Jan 21, 2017 16:35:02 GMT
That awkward moment when you realize Dinosaurs weren't huge stupid lizards...
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Post by CrutchCricket on Jan 21, 2017 19:24:52 GMT
You know what, this is one I'm happy to ignore science on. I'll concede that real dinosaurs had feathers. But real dinosaurs also got pwned and are extinct. The dinosaurs in our minds (or at least mine) are the badass ones from Jurassic Park.
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Post by mybudgee on Jan 21, 2017 19:25:07 GMT
Probability and randomness have far more effect than we think. Our brains are programmed to see patterns, but they aren't always there.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 22, 2017 11:54:57 GMT
LOL....2014 in the Darwin Awards: Somewhere in Pakistan, a man volunteered to be killed so that some Sufi could demonstrate his powers of resurrection... of course the Sufi was, as the description puts it, "overly optimistic". www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2014-08.htmlCan you imagine the scene: "Yes, people, I can raise the dead, and I'm willing to prove it to you. All I need is a volunteer who agrees to get killed."
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Post by Reznore on Jan 22, 2017 14:19:26 GMT
Probability and randomness have far more effect than we think. Our brains are programmed to see patterns, but they aren't always there. I vaguely remember something about split brain tests. People who have the right and left hemisphere of the brain separated and even if the results don't necessarily work for people with a "normal" brain, it's kind of funny to think about and wonder what is going on in our brains. For example one side of the brain via the right of left eye was showned some order on paper to get up and leave . So the person do it , but when they were asked they were sure they were leaving because they had dinner to cook , or their wife was waiting outside or whatever. It seems when in doubt it is possible part of our brain without us conciously knowing goes in full bullshit mode.
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Post by opuspace on Jan 23, 2017 8:50:23 GMT
Probability and randomness have far more effect than we think. Our brains are programmed to see patterns, but they aren't always there. I vaguely remember something about split brain tests. People who have the right and left hemisphere of the brain separated and even if the results don't necessarily work for people with a "normal" brain, it's kind of funny to think about and wonder what is going on in our brains. For example one side of the brain via the right of left eye was showned some order on paper to get up and leave . So the person do it , but when they were asked they were sure they were leaving because they had dinner to cook , or their wife was waiting outside or whatever. It seems when in doubt it is possible part of our brain without us conciously knowing goes in full bullshit mode. I think you're referring to when the corpus callosum has been severed for people with severe epilepsy and are now dealing with both hemispheres competing with each other because the bridge of tissue that connects them is down and they can't synchronize and communicate like before. My (vague) recollection was that the left brain controls the language center and dissecting a whole into individual components while the right controls imagery and coalescing individual components into a whole. If told to express what was seen on a slide without looking down, the left brain controlling the right hand will write the name of the concept like "boat" while the other will draw a boat. Fights and conflicts can occur between hands where the off hand can react almost independently, often referred to as "Alien Hand Syndrome". People often treat their renegade hand as though it were a separate entity, able to feel and use it consciously, but unable to control its movements when unaware.
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