Science Squabbling

Nigel Lawson has your back, you'll be fine.
This is some good squabbling.

Thankfully so do the UEA- as they revealed in their own emails.

What we really need is science Scobling. That would be something.

Please don't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16163931

MIT's trillion frames per second light-tracking camera

Oh how little i understand but how much do I love things like this ?

and it's got Laser Beams
To create a moving picture, a laser pulse was used to illuminate the scene - flashing briefly once every 13 billionth of a second.

13 billionth of a second

and now the football thread has been decimated maybe i can keep posting up science stories to keep my post count in the top 50 !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655

Earth 2.0 fixed gear spaceships anyone and a forum journey into the unknown

wonder if they've discovered fixed gear bikes yet ?

wonders of the universe last night
if you are near the surface of a neutron star and jumped off something 6 foot high, by the time you hit the ground you would be doing 3,000,000 mph ... thats how gravity works
PERMANENT DOWNHILL no need for a lo pro there

and in other news the people of samoa have discovered time travel
overnight they went forward 24hrs in time
no dec 30th 2011 will exist in that country

if you are near the surface of a neutron star and jumped off something 6 foot high

There are no hills on neutron stars; due to the intense gravity, they are spherical* to some ludicrous precision like about a million times smaller surface aberration than your ceramic bearing balls.

*if non-rotating. Spinning several times per second makes them oblate spheroids, but the increase in equatorial radius is balanced by the centrifugal inertial reaction, so you still can't coast downhill to the pole.

ok so imagine i brought a very strong 6 foot high box with me on my journey

"There are no hills on neutron stars"

That's what they said about New Oxford Street too but you weren't there man, you weren't there!

It would be compressed to 0.006" high before you could set it on the surface

As would you be

Hippy would be fine, as his density already matches that of a neutron star

It would be compressed to 0.006" high before you could set it on the surface

no i said i brought a strong box with me on my journey
it will not flatten it will remain at 6 foot so i can then do my jump

"There are no hills on neutron stars"

That's what they said about New Oxford Street too but you weren't there man, you weren't there!

ha

Hippy would be fine, as his density already matches that of a neutron star

Boom Boom!*

*sound made when neutron star and I collide.

Hippy would be fine, as his density already matches that of a neutron star

ouch

From what do you plan to make this strong box? Obviously not matter.

I'm just going to 'boost' him.

unobtanium naturally

My department are in the news!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16657122

It took Catherine nearly a year to get this published, nature (the publication) is a right hassle apparently. But she's now on the bbc so I guess it payed off.

We need the planetary equivalent of a comb-over http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16988-why-antarctic-ice-is-growing-despite-global-warming.html

That is a good example of how difficult it is model and predict sea and global climate. The arctic (sea surrounded by land) and antarctic (land surrounded by sea) are vastly different systems, in sea ice terms. The antarctic ice cap is pretty fucked though. All eyes are on Pine Island glacier at the mo, a big collapse is predicted by some.

meh it's all a scare story to keep harold in a job

interesting fact of the day ... not sure it's squabbling but .....

if you put the eiffel tower in a cylinder matching it's dimensions exactly , the air inside that cylinder would weigh more than the eiffel tower