Dariusprime Posted April 23, 2010 Posted April 23, 2010 A mixture of lols and Science! Tinfoil hats are the government! They are listening! :D
N/A Posted May 6, 2010 Posted May 6, 2010 German scientists create weather machine. So apparently the German science community has decided to stop fighting their reputation as mad scientist supervillains and just embrace it instead. I'm cool with that. But don't they know that weather villains are lame?
quotemyname Posted May 6, 2010 Posted May 6, 2010 God, playing Bunnies and Burrows with R. K. Milholland was nuts enough. I'd love to see what the man could do with M&M.
Dr Archeville Posted May 11, 2010 Author Posted May 11, 2010 A soft "tissue paper" made from normally brittle germanium and silicon contains individual fibers as strong as bulletproof Kevlar. Woven into traditional fabric or embedded in hard plastics, the new nanowires could stop bullets, harvest solar energy, or perform dozens of other tasks, according to a recent report in Discovery.com's Discovery News. Read more here.
N/A Posted May 21, 2010 Posted May 21, 2010 Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA.
Dr Archeville Posted June 3, 2010 Author Posted June 3, 2010 Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other.
N/A Posted June 3, 2010 Posted June 3, 2010 Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other. We are like unto GODS!!!
N/A Posted June 6, 2010 Posted June 6, 2010 Wow. Have we finally reached the point of desperation where our best hope is a grown man wearing overalls? :D
Dr Archeville Posted June 17, 2010 Author Posted June 17, 2010 Ever wonder what'd happen if a 50 pound ball of Silly Putty were dropped off a 10 story building? Wonder no more! (Yes, that's the library at which I work.) Fifth Annual Silly Putty Drop.
Dr Archeville Posted July 9, 2010 Author Posted July 9, 2010 The Pentagon is launching projects BaTMAN and RoBIN to create super-soldiers DARPA, the Department of Defense's R&D agency, has two new projects: BaTMAN (Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature) and RoBIN (Robustness of Biologically-Inspired Networks). Their goals? To increase troop efficiency using quantum mechanics. They're making superheroes! Well, not exactly. The purpose of BaTMAN and RoBIN is to explore ways in which quantum principles and the understanding of human interaction could improve troop efficacy. Sounds vague? Hey, it's top secret. Here's the official description of BaTMAN... ... and RoBIN. What I like about these acronyms is that they fit the Dynamic Duo's modi operandi to a tee. Batman works like an unflinching automaton, micromanaging every aspect of crime-fighting with clockwork precision. Similarly, Robin's perpetual kidnappings caused crises Batman was forced to react to. Plus, inexplicable disasters on the set of Batman always kept Burt Ward on his toes.
N/A Posted July 10, 2010 Posted July 10, 2010 Don't they know that super-soldier projects are always a bad idea?
Dr Archeville Posted August 30, 2010 Author Posted August 30, 2010 Someone stunts Cold Control as an AP of Sonic Control. Also, Gizmodo's 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors Of All Time.
Fox Posted November 12, 2010 Posted November 12, 2010 Still pretty deep in that uncanny valley, but making progress.
Dr Archeville Posted January 29, 2011 Author Posted January 29, 2011 Some rightly feared what might happen if Doktor Archeville got a chance to study Protectron. Their fears were not unfounded. Developed by the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the fully functional anthropomorphic robot hand can withstand major collisions and even direct pounding with a hammer, baseball bat or metal pipe, making it an essential part of future indestructible humanoid robots.
April Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 This falls under SCIENCE! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12354390 Astronomers have identified some 54 new planets where conditions may be suitable for life.
Dr Archeville Posted February 14, 2011 Author Posted February 14, 2011 Tonight on Jeopardy!, the IBM Challenge will feature IBM's Watson (an AI designed to answer questions posed in natural language) facing off against two former Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in two matches to be played over three days (Feb 14th-16th). The winner of the competition will receive $1 million, while the second- and third-place contestants will receive $300,000 and $200,000, respectively. Jennings and Rutter have pledged to donate half their winnings to charity, while IBM will donate 100% of Watson's winnings to charity. This is the first ever man-vs.-machine competition in Jeopardy!'s history
quotemyname Posted February 14, 2011 Posted February 14, 2011 Heard about that. Do you know when it's on?
Dr Archeville Posted February 14, 2011 Author Posted February 14, 2011 Tonight on Jeopardy!... Check local listings for specific time/channel.
quotemyname Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 It was pretty cool. The changing colors and swirling light patterns make it look like the computer is upset with itself when ever it answers incorrectly.
Dr Archeville Posted February 16, 2011 Author Posted February 16, 2011 Wonder Woman as proof of abiogenesis? A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. The research, published online in the journal Soft Matter, shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The authors say the discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells might have formed inside inorganic clay microcompartments.
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