science is golden.

batman's a scientist.

BRILLIANT!

therefore batman is golden.

RESULTS!

no it's stupid and shithouse and i'd blow it up if it wasn't an abstract noun, and if the use of explosives didn't acknowledge and somehow pay homage to the research and development process.

but they can't find a cure for the common cold.

There's a band called "We Are Scientists" = not so brilliant.

SCIENCE!! Where's my friggin' hoverboard? huh?

no it's stupid and shithouse and i'd blow it up if it wasn't an abstract noun, and if the use of explosives didn't acknowledge and somehow pay homage to the research and development process.

hahahaha

There's a band called "We Are Scientists" = not so brilliant.

but "the scientists" went ok.

I got blinded by it.

I like science very much - but I think that my like of science got bigger and bigger after I stopped having to work with it all day

The best science ever!

No, THIS is the best science ever.

cunt in a can!

my god!

Dropping science like when galileo dropped the orange

BRILLIANT!

is that a torch?

So. What's the best thing science has ever done for you?

China pledges no rain at Beijing 2008

Correspondents in Beijing

January 31, 2008 09:41am

CHINESE weather boffins say they have stopped the rain from falling in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony at August's Olympic Games.

With no roof on the showpiece Bird's Nest stadium, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been charged with developing methods of preventing wet weather spoiling what promises to be a spectacular start to the Games on the evening of August 8.

''Our experiments with rain mitigation have been aimed at light rain,'' said Zhang Qian, head of weather manipulation at the bureau.

''With heavy rain it is more difficult. The results with light rain have been satisfactory.''

Ms Qian said different strategies were used to stop rain on different types of clouds, but both had proved not to harm the environment.

''For cold clouds below zero degrees, we use a coolant made from liquid nitrogen to increase the number of droplets while decreasing their mean size,'' she said.

''As a result, the smaller droplets are less likely to fall and precipitation can be reduced.

''For clouds above zero degrees we use the seeding agent silver iodide to accelerate the droplets' collision and coalescence, producing a downdraft which suppresses the formation of clouds.''

China has long used weather manipulation to increase rainfall in the parched north of the country, firing seeding agents into the clouds using anti-aircraft guns.

This method might also be used to prevent wet weather at the stadium by inducing the rain to fall before it reached the target area, said Wang Yubin, deputy chief engineer at the bureau.

''Rain mitigation is a very complex process, though,'' he said.

The weather bureau is also working hard on preparing for one of the pre-Games highlights, the ascent of the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.

''We will have very detailed forecasts,'' Mr Wang said. ''We will be able to tell the organisers: the winds are too strong, you cannot do it on this day, or, you can do it on this day.''

let me be the first to say how much i love the term ''boffins''

I have nothing valuable to add to this discussion. I just really wanted to post that picture.

''I have a degree in homeopathy!''

''You have a degree in BALONEY!!!!''

I studied fluvial geomorphology and all i got was this lousy t-shirt.

In fact i didn't even get that.

RAIN MITIGATION?

w.t.f.?

Doing Science to break out of jail.

We don't seem to have a generic programming/math thread, so this will do.

Now whilst the poor old bubble sort algorithm cops a fair share of flack for its worst case complexity issues, it does create a rather excellent sound.

FFS

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/into-the-abyss-the-diving-suit-that-turns-men-into-fish-2139167.html

The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex

No problems there..

It's National Science Week
The NSW govt is celebrating it by sacking 11 out 31 scientists Forest Science Centre.

The centre is the only unit undertaking research into the ecological sustainability of forests and agriculture. It also employs biodiversity researchers who look at species threatened by logging.

Pffft, that's not science anyway...it's bird watching and advanced filing.

^that's a bit shit

the ARC just announced all the successful candidates for this laureate fellowship which is the biggest lump sum of money an academic research group can be granted. the past years have always shown a bias towards biological/molecular/genetic research and this year only 2 of the 17 candidates were in the biological sciences. most of them were humanities. A BIT SHIT INDEED for science what with this financial climate n all.

I for one welcome our humanity research overlords. Now we can learn more about how people feel about the role of council websites as a tool for dealing with local councils and the greater impact that has on societal unrest.

this is true... but who is going to fund the ongoing research into the opportunistic mating tendencies of cane toads? OR THE HARMFUL CELLULAR COMPONENTS OF SPERM?

I kid, there is plenty of money to do these things

Fuck! I'll never know if my money shots are putting my sexual partners at risk. Someone fund the fucking biosciences!

This is amazing! I can forsee this technology having so many applications in the future.

sub atomic particles moving faster than speed of light

This is possibly even more amazing - scientists believe they have measured particles travelling faster than light.

snap.

hi fives

Mo moves faster than the speed of unvisible.

all science soon to be discredited by mad creationists....

I had a weekend with away with a few of my old school mates recently, and I discovered that a few of them had not changed at all since christian highschool days.

'Science is bullshit, it's always used as an excuse for everything!' was one of the serious comments made. It made me question continuing the relationship.

nice enough dude. just a bit stupid.

Mo moves faster than the speed of unvisible.

Hahaha.

'Science is bullshit, it's always used as an excuse for everything!' was one of the serious comments made. It made me question continuing the relationship.

I can top this.

I used to play indoor soccer with a bunch of uni chums. The team was an interesting mix of engineers and science geeks, with complete boneheads. This is because most of us came from the Western and Northern suburbs, and I'm proud to say most of the mates I grew up with from out that way are boneheads.

Anyway, for whatever reason, me and my maths and stats buddy were talking about Einstein. All of a sudden, one of our mates from high school, who's normally a pretty reticent bloke, blurted out in his distinctly woggy brogue;

'EINSTEIN, IS A FUCKING IDIOT'.

We looked at him. There were no smug looks or whatever, but we were sort of surprised he even knew who we were talking about. I asked him in as inclusive a tone as I could possibly muster, 'why's that ya reckon?'.

He replied;

'Because, what kind of dumb cunt goes on to fucking invent the atomic bomb, and get the Nobel Peace Prize? What a fucking idiot'.

It truly was the most awesome thing I have actually ever heard.

Pagey and I overheard an older man postulating that climate change is bullshit because he hasn't noticed the tide at Brighton beach changing at all. He then suggested that all scientists really need to do is 'go outside'.

Ig nobels were just announced!!!

Here are the highlights:

PHYSIOLOGY PRIZE

Anna Wilkinson (of the UK), Natalie Sebanz (of The Netherlands, Hungary, and Austria), Isabella Mandl (of Austria) and Ludwig Huber (of Austria) for their study ‘No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise.”

CHEMISTRY PRIZE

Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of Japan, for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi fire alarm.

MEDICINE PRIZE

Mirjam Tuk (of The Netherlands and the UK), Debra Trampe (of The Netherlands) and Luk Warlop (of Belgium). and jointly to Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder and Robert Feldman (of the USA), Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, and Paul Maruff (of Australia) for demonstrating that people make better decisions about some kinds of things — but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.

PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE

Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, Norway, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.

LITERATURE PRIZE

John Perry of Stanford University, USA, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that’s even more important.

BIOLOGY PRIZE

Darryl Gwynne (of Canada and Australia and the USA) and David Rentz (of Australia and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle.

PHYSICS PRIZE

Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne and Bruno Ragaru (of France), and Herman Kingma (of The Netherlands), for determining why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don’t.

MATHEMATICS PRIZE

Dorothy Martin of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1954), Pat Robertson of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1982), Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1990), Lee Jang Rim of Korea (who predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia Mwerinde of Uganda (who predicted the world would end in 1999), and Harold Camping of the USA (who predicted the world would end on September 6, 1994 and later predicted that the world will end on October 21, 2011), for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.

PEACE PRIZE

Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.

PUBLIC SAFETY PRIZE

John Senders of the University of Toronto, Canada, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him.

Minute Physics.

I really like this series of youtube vids. Makes me think and make noises like ''hmm''.

''Every time you drink water you're drinking in atoms from the sweat of your parents' coupling that created you.''

Hi science geeks. i'm trying to do some self learning in physics and have some questions. Feel free to answer. ha.

potential energy is the amount of energy that could be used - for example say we had 10 negatively charged ions (anion) just sitting around in a pool (can i just say that for ease or am i stuffing things up by doing so?)... then the potential energy is 10 electrons. yes / no?

then we find another 6 anions just sitting around in another pool.

the potential difference between the two pools of anions is the difference between the two pools. Is the difference 2? (i.e. - what it would take to make them both equal) or is it 4 (the difference?)

so when you have a battery that says 9V - is that saying the difference between the positive and negative sides of the battery is 9volts? if that's the case, does the voltage drop as the battery is used (until it is 0) or does it stay the same?

the speed at which the electrons travel is the current?

The electrons travel at .7 of lightspeed. I don't think it ever varies.
Voltage could be seen as pressure.
Current could be thought of as number of electrons passing per unit of time.
The potential difference is 4.
In no particular order, sorry.
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