The Science Thread!

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Meanwhile:

Scientists SMASH five of the biggest mysteries of modern physics
An absurdly ambitious new theory extends the standard model of particle physics, Cathal O'Connell reports.

Pretty cool if it holds up in experiments.

That's the thing about science - it can be repressed and delayed by moronic RWNJs and greedy corporations, but the truths are still there.

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CBC: Oldest traces of life on Earth found in Quebec, dating back roughly 3.8 billion years

While there is some debate as to whether or not the the age of the rock in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt is 3.8 billion years old or 4.3 billion years old, Jonathan O'Neill, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, believes it to be on the older side. But even if the rock is younger than that, it would still make their finding the oldest record of life on Earth, by 100 million years.

That older limit, 4.3 billion years, is about as far back as we have evidence for liquid water on Earth.

Carl Sagan once remarked that the origin of life cannot be that hard, or it would not have popped up so quickly once Earth became hospitable.

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So, there once was life in Canada.

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So, there once was life in Canada.

Well, not in Winnipeg.

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Quebec, of course.

[Mr.B]

"So, there once was life in Canada."

"Well, not in Winnipeg."

Quick ... ! Run down to your local Walmart ... ! They're on sale in Canada ... !

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I was perfectly fine with our all being descended from Africans, but being descended from Canadians is unacceptable.

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I was perfectly fine with our all being descended from Africans, but being descended from Canadians is unacceptable.

Sorry.

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Sorry.

That's one reason - I reject any alleged humble and polite ancestry.

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I was perfectly fine with our all being descended from Africans, but being descended from Canadians is unacceptable.

Relax; that's an alternate timeline.

If Trump is your President, you're in the timeline where the Confederacy won.

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That timeline is unacceptable, too.

March for Science
Earth Day, April 22, 2017

SCIENCE, NOT SILENCE

ON APRIL 22, 2017, WE WALK OUT OF THE LAB AND INTO THE STREETS.

Details

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4 Satellite Marches in Tennessee
4 Satellite Marches in South Carolina, including Greenville & Clemson
18 Satellite Marches in Florida, including 4 in the panhandle

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Donate for Science

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SCIENCE, NOT SILENCE

ON APRIL 22, 2017, WE WALK OUT OF THE LAB AND INTO THE STREETS.

Trump is way ahead of them:

DOE Secretaries:

2009-13: Steven Chu, former Nobel Prize winner, professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. BA math BS physics Rochester U, PhD physics Cal Berkeley.

2013-16: Ernest Moniz, MIT Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, MIT Director of the Energy Initiative, MIT Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, former undersec of energy. BS summa cum laude in physics Boston College, PhD in theoretical physics Stanford

2016-?: Rick Perry, BA in Animal Science TAMU (2.0 student), Gov of Texas, Dancing with Stars contestant

I think his goal is to have all the scientists out of labs and onto the streets.

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NOVA
The Origami Revolution

Engineers are using origami to design drugs, micro-robots, and future space missions.

Preview

Full show

Way cool, worth the 54 minutes to me.

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NOVA
The Origami Revolution

Engineers are using origami to design drugs, micro-robots, and future space missions.

Preview

Full show

Way cool, worth the 54 minutes to me.

Saw that a couple' weeks ago. It is very cool.

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Honored to sign S.442 today. With this legislation, we support @NASA's scientists, engineers, and astronauts in the… https://t.co/Z5VwluvJQx

So, something that Trump has done that actually might be positive.... other than removing funding for climate science.

[Mr.B]

"So, something that Trump has done that actually might be positive.... other than removing funding for climate science."

Harrumph! Trump creates his own climate. :cussing:

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So, something that Trump has done that actually might be positive.... other than removing funding for climate science.

It's a Ted Cruz bill. So, it might be good for NASA, it might not. I haven't stumbled on an analysis yet.

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So, something that Trump has done that actually might be positive.... other than removing funding for climate science.

It's a Ted Cruz bill. So, it might be good for NASA, it might not. I haven't stumbled on an analysis yet.

I've not either, but it at least looked like the funding wasn't reduced. :thumbsup:

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Phil Plait: Trump's 2018 NASA budget: The good, the bad, and the very, very ugly

Of course, this is only a budget *proposal*. Congress will make its own changes. Granted they can blame everything and anything on Trump, far more than they would do with an actual Republican President.