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The Science Thread

louisstamos said:
isn't this how Earthbound started?
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That was an awesome game. Remember how when your character was overmatched against certain enemies you wouldn't even have to fight, the battle would just automatically award you exp? That was cool.
 
Zee said:
Why do so many Russians have dashboard cams?
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Apparently diving in front of cars (either for for insurance claims or lawsuits) is out of control over there. So, protection basically.
 
Rob said:
Zee said:
Why do so many Russians have dashboard cams?
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Apparently diving in front of cars (either for for insurance claims or lawsuits) is out of control over there. So, protection basically.
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Yes and actually they are called 'Kovalev Kams"
 
My son loves watching car crashes on YouTube.

I thank those crazy Russians for providing him with endless entertainment.
 
Bullfrog said:
My son loves watching car crashes on YouTube.

I thank those crazy Russians for providing him with endless entertainment.
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I also love those videos. Thank god so many Russians install dash mounted cameras.

 
lnteresting research on evolution...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/02/22/science-evolution-diversification-doebeli.html?cmp=rss

 
Artificial ear from 3D printer...

Replacement ears are usually constructed with materials that have a Styrofoam-like consistency, or sometimes, surgeons build ears from a patient?s harvested rib. This option is challenging and painful for children, and the ears rarely look completely natural or perform well.

To make the ears, Bonassar and colleagues started with a digitized 3D image of a human subject?s ear and converted the image into a digitized ?solid? ear using a 3D printer to assemble a mold.

They injected the mold with collagen derived from rat tails, and then added 250 million cartilage cells from the ears of cows. The high-density gel has a consistency that is similar to Jell-O when the mold is removed. The collagen serves as a scaffold upon which cartilage can grow.

The process is also fast. ?It takes half a day to design the mold, a day or so to print it, 30 minutes to inject the gel, and we can remove the ear 15 minutes later,? Bonassar says. ?We trim the ear and then let it culture for several days in nourishing cell culture media before it is implanted.?

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?Using human cells, specifically those from the same patient, would reduce any possibility of rejection,? Spector says. He adds that the best time to implant a bioengineered ear on a child would be when they are about 5 or 6 years old. At that age, ears are 80 percent of their adult size.

If all future safety and efficacy tests work out, it might be possible to try the first human implant in as little as three years.
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hockeyfan1 said:
lnteresting research on evolution...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/02/22/science-evolution-diversification-doebeli.html?cmp=rss
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Ray Kurzweil also states as much. He made a parallel of evolution to his law of accelerating returns.
 
So far, disappointmerit...

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up some 25 per cent of the universe, and super symmetry, a theory that says all particles have unseen extra-heavy counterparts, were top of the target list after the finding of the Higgs.

Both are integral parts of the concept of ?New Physics? that should take knowledge of how the universe works beyond that of the Standard Model blueprint.

There is little or no controversy about dark matter, whose existence is deduced from its gravitational influence on the visible galaxies, stars and planets which make up little more than four per cent of the cosmos.

But super symmetry, dubbed SUSY by physicists, is controversial, championed by some physicists and dismissed as fantasy by others ? like the string theory on how the universe is built, with which it is linked.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/higgs-god-particle-a-big-let-down-say-physicists/article9523149/
 
So, Italy, what's up?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-quake-scientists-guilty

Earthquake experts worldwide expressed shock at the manslaughter convictions of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the deadly L'Aquila quake, warning that the decision could severely harm future research.

Two scientists resigned their posts with the government's disaster preparedness agency Tuesday after a court in L'Aquila sentenced six scientists and a government official to six years in prison. The court ruled Monday that the scientists failed to accurately communicate the risk of the 2009 quake, which killed more than 300 people.
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Tigger said:
So, Italy, what's up?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-quake-scientists-guilty

Earthquake experts worldwide expressed shock at the manslaughter convictions of six Italian scientists who failed to predict the deadly L'Aquila quake, warning that the decision could severely harm future research.

Two scientists resigned their posts with the government's disaster preparedness agency Tuesday after a court in L'Aquila sentenced six scientists and a government official to six years in prison. The court ruled Monday that the scientists failed to accurately communicate the risk of the 2009 quake, which killed more than 300 people.
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Italy's courts on science convictions are embarrassing.  They also awarded financial comepnsation on the basis of the MMR vaccine and autism.  A large piece of the ruling consisted of Andrew Wakefield's paper from the 90's that was complete fabrication.  A very disturbing trend.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/italian-court-reignites-mmr-vaccine-debate-after-award-over-child-with-autism-7858596.html
 
L K said:
Italy's courts on science convictions are embarrassing.  They also awarded financial comepnsation on the basis of the MMR vaccine and autism.  A large piece of the ruling consisted of Andrew Wakefield's paper from the 90's that was complete fabrication.  A very disturbing trend.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/italian-court-reignites-mmr-vaccine-debate-after-award-over-child-with-autism-7858596.html
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Valentino Bocca was 15 months old when he received an MMR jab in 2004. His parents said the change in him, after the jab, from a healthy boy to one who was in serious discomfort, was immediate.​

People have a right to be concerned, especially in certain cases such as the boy mentioned above.  Perhaps it doesn't apply to every child nor to the majority, but it can apply to some especially when something happens like that it cannot be termed "coincidental".
 
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