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Gentlemen, behold!
Jul. 6th, 2012 07:56 amThis robot ass! (Yes, a guy in Japan has made robot buttocks. Link is SFW unless your work gets pissy about a silicon ass picture.)
Good news everyone!
Jun. 15th, 2012 11:08 amEver wanted to be jammed in a tube and rocket towards your destination at high speeds?
I'm a bit skeptical... and not just of the science behind it, but the cost of travel as well. A penny a mile, my ass. Any corporation that funds this will want to make their money back as quickly as possible, and given that the slowed down version has an estimated cost of $2 million per mile, no one's going to fund that any time soon, much less the 4000 mph version.
I'm a bit skeptical... and not just of the science behind it, but the cost of travel as well. A penny a mile, my ass. Any corporation that funds this will want to make their money back as quickly as possible, and given that the slowed down version has an estimated cost of $2 million per mile, no one's going to fund that any time soon, much less the 4000 mph version.
Science, fuck yeah!
Mar. 22nd, 2012 01:35 amScientists may (I repeat, MAY) have found a way to stop, and possibly reverse male pattern baldness.
Cancer? Fuck that. That's not where the money is. (I'm being only slightly facetious. There is quite probably a shitpile of money involved in cancer research. But there's also several shitpiles of money to be made in protecting male egos from the panic of bald spots.)
Cancer? Fuck that. That's not where the money is. (I'm being only slightly facetious. There is quite probably a shitpile of money involved in cancer research. But there's also several shitpiles of money to be made in protecting male egos from the panic of bald spots.)
We played Blue Planet again last night, and it went okay. We're still learning the rules system, and it's got some fucked up bits, but then what RPG doesn't?
However, we're (probably) going to try something different next week. You see, one of the game possibilities when we ended the D&D game was Deadlands: Weird West. The reason we didn't go with it was because a couple of my players were kind of 'meh' on it.
However, we're going to give it a spin anyway... with the concept that all of the player characters are Mad Scientists. (One's looking at electrical effects, one's probably going to be an alchemist, and I'm going to bring back my old character Mortimer Q. Atkinson as an NPC.)
It should be interesting. And quite Mad. With Science!
However, we're (probably) going to try something different next week. You see, one of the game possibilities when we ended the D&D game was Deadlands: Weird West. The reason we didn't go with it was because a couple of my players were kind of 'meh' on it.
However, we're going to give it a spin anyway... with the concept that all of the player characters are Mad Scientists. (One's looking at electrical effects, one's probably going to be an alchemist, and I'm going to bring back my old character Mortimer Q. Atkinson as an NPC.)
It should be interesting. And quite Mad. With Science!
What indeed?
Feb. 3rd, 2012 12:48 pmSo, there's this team of Russian scientists who are drilling into Lake Vostok in the name of scientific inquiry. This lake may have been cut off from... well, everything else for as much as 20 million years.
What could possibly go wrong? What's that you say? The American scientists who are working with Russians haven't heard from the Russians for five days?
You know what this means.
CTHULHU. IS. PISSED.
What could possibly go wrong? What's that you say? The American scientists who are working with Russians haven't heard from the Russians for five days?
You know what this means.
CTHULHU. IS. PISSED.
Scientists are determined to kill us all
Nov. 3rd, 2011 05:34 amThey lived only to face a new nightmare - wall-climbing gecko-robots.
So, in theory
Oct. 28th, 2011 08:44 amAndrea Rossi is firing up his 1 MW reactor today/tonight. That is, if it isn't a load of hooey, which many suspect it is.
Frankly, I don't understand most of the physics behind it, as many people claim it's cold fusion all over again (cold fusion 2: electric boogaloo?), but Rossi has said it's Low Energy Nuclear Reaction. Which, oddly enough, is another term for cold fusion.
When people refer to cold fusion, it's basically the latest in a long series of scientific 'breakthroughs' that turned out to be bupkiss. So, in a day or so, we'll find out if this is another "but it worked in our lab" boondoggle, or if it's a "holy shit, we changed physics (a bit)" moment.
Frankly, I don't understand most of the physics behind it, as many people claim it's cold fusion all over again (cold fusion 2: electric boogaloo?), but Rossi has said it's Low Energy Nuclear Reaction. Which, oddly enough, is another term for cold fusion.
When people refer to cold fusion, it's basically the latest in a long series of scientific 'breakthroughs' that turned out to be bupkiss. So, in a day or so, we'll find out if this is another "but it worked in our lab" boondoggle, or if it's a "holy shit, we changed physics (a bit)" moment.