The Science Thread

[pibbuR]

6 alien worlds have been 'waltzing' in perfect rhythm for 4 billion years

Six exoplanets with sizes between Earth and Neptune have been in rhythm with each other since they were born around the same star 4 billion years ago, new research suggests.

www.livescience.com

pibbuR whose movements probably doesn't sync with anything

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Apparingly, H5N1 is now attacking mammals.
I fear that something big might be rolling on to us ...

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

George Green, the Miller and Baker : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician)

 

[pibbuR]

Apparingly, H5N1 is now attacking mammals.
I fear that something big might be rolling on to us ...

Is this something new you've heard? Just asking because it's well known for a long time that it can infect some mammals, for instance pigs are very susceptible. It can also infect humans but not nearly as easily.

What is worrisome is that if a host is at the same time infected by two strains of virus, genetic material can be mixed (reassorted) giving rise to viruses that combine properties of the two. Viral combination of swine and bird influenza genes lies behind several of the more aggressive pandemics, like the Hong Kong pandemic of '68. The virus behind the 2009 pandemic contained genetic material from bird, swine and human influenza viruses.

pibbuR who is no longer infected

 

[pibbuR]

George Green, the Miller and Baker : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician)

Very interesting Alrik. Thank you.

pubbuR the hobby mathematician

 

[JDR13]

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

Watch how the marine mammals hunt in South Africa, where they have developed a particular taste for shark liver.

www.popsci.com

Great Whites aren't the top ocean predators they thought they were.

 

[Redglyph]

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

Watch how the marine mammals hunt in South Africa, where they have developed a particular taste for shark liver.

www.popsci.com

Great Whites aren't the top ocean predators they thought they were.

They seem to be doing quite a mess, lately.

Apparently, orcas have no known predator... This isn't going to end well.

PS: You've got to appreciate the fine strategy. They're named Port and Starboard, which means they can swap positions and confuse the hell out of their prey.

 

[pibbuR]

Yes. They can also (partly) go on shore to catch seals. Who knows when they'll go even further.

And what's even worse: we will know get a series of orcnado movies. Good for Tara Reid, I guess.

pibbur who observes orcas an orcssess have very similar names, "dolphin" rhymes with "goblin". AND DOLPHINS LIKE TO MAKE RINGS!!!

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

It makes me wonder in how far this will affect the whole ecosystem ...

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

AND DOLPHINS LIKE TO MAKE RINGS!!!

One ring to wave [weave] them all ?

 

[JDR13]

Woolly mammoth de-extinction inches closer after elephant stem cell breakthrough

Scientists at the company Colossal Biosciences have derived induced pluripotent stem cells from elephants, which they say could boost efforts to resurrect woolly mammoths.

www.livescience.com

I want one!

 

[JDR13]

Russia and China plan to have a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2035. Call me skeptical...

Russia and China announce plan to build shared nuclear reactor on the moon by 2035, 'without humans'

The proposed nuclear reactor, which could be transported and assembled without human assistance, would provide energy to a lunar base that Russia and China have agreed to build together.

www.livescience.com

 

[Redglyph]

The problem is Russians don't give a damn about safety. They might try to pull it off at the cost of who knows what. As for building it remotely... yeah, good luck with that. Maybe we'll soon have a new crater.

I also wonder if they think about fusion or fission.

PS: And how the hell will they evacuate the heat?

 

[JDR13]

PS: And how the hell will they evacuate the heat?

Just open an airlock occasionally?

 

[pibbuR]

Scale of the Universe: Discover the vast ranges of our visible and invisible world.

Scale of Universe is an interactive experience to inspire people to learn about the vast ranges of the visible and invisible world.

scaleofuniverse.com

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

pibbuR who found the quote on CodeProject, but assumes someone else originally said it. Who?

 

[SirJames]

Douglas Adams?

 

[pibbuR]

Douglas Adams?

I thought it might have been Monty Python, it's surely like something they could have said. But Douglas Adams it is.

Thank you.

 

[Couchpotato]

New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter

The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it's made of normal matter, dark energy and dark matter. A new University of Ottawa study challenges this.

phys.org

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

LOL , I wonder what the general reaction to it might be.
Another recent theory is that the Dark Matter is inside of Black Holes.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

The "Resurgent Function" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurgent_function
English-language article about it : https://www.quantamagazine.org/alien-calculus-could-save-particle-physics-from-infinities-20230406/
German-language article which is more or less about it : https://www.spektrum.de/news/ecalle-theorie-behebt-unendlichkeiten-in-der-quantenfeldtheorie/2196327