Last edited by Jaekus (2011-07-04 04:26:32)
So our existence may be just the Universe trying to understand itself.Carl wrote:
Our lives are intimately linked to the stars. Thermonuclear reactions deep inside the Sun provide the sustenance for life on Earth. The carbon in our cells, the oxygen we breathe, the calcium in our bones, and the iron in our blood were forged inside stars that expired billions of years ago. So, you see that virtually everything is made from star dust, we are star dust.
Well that sucks.. immensely. Hopefully it's just political hot air.The House Appropriations Committee proposed Wednesday to kill the James Webb Space Telescope, the crown jewel of NASA’s astronomy plans for the next two decades.
Tod R. Lauer, an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, echoed his view. “This would be an unmitigated disaster for cosmology,” he said. “After two decades of pushing the Hubble to its limits, which has revolutionized astronomy, the next step would be to pack up and give up. The Hubble is just good enough to see what we’re missing at the start of time.”
The Webb telescope, he said, “would bring it home in full living color.”
This is neat. Always wondered/hoped we could do this.ScienceDaily (July 8, 2011) — Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips.
Didn't know they already figured out how to recreate our airways using stem cells... this is great news tbh.Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant
Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial 'scaffold'
Yeah.ScienceDaily (July 10, 2011) — An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health.
They figured out a little while ago how to grow simple organs on a "scaffold" I saw a documentary where they made a nose and a bladderShocking wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/08/cancer-patient-synthetic-organ-transplantDidn't know they already figured out how to recreate our airways using stem cells... this is great news tbh.Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant
Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial 'scaffold'
Nice.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
They figured out a little while ago how to grow simple organs on a "scaffold" I saw a documentary where they made a nose and a bladderShocking wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/08/cancer-patient-synthetic-organ-transplantDidn't know they already figured out how to recreate our airways using stem cells... this is great news tbh.Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant
Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial 'scaffold'
DiscoveryNews wrote:
If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings.
Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal's Department of Pediatrics and the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center conducted the study with his colleagues. They determined some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals, but only in people of non-African heritage.
more: http://news.discovery.com/human/genetic … 10718.html
A nose? wow lol. Can't wait for when they figure out how to create limbs.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
They figured out a little while ago how to grow simple organs on a "scaffold" I saw a documentary where they made a nose and a bladderShocking wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/08/cancer-patient-synthetic-organ-transplantDidn't know they already figured out how to recreate our airways using stem cells... this is great news tbh.Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant
Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial 'scaffold'
Wasnt a complete functioning nose, more like a fancy skin graft they could only make simple things as was new tech clearly.Shocking wrote:
A nose? wow lol. Can't wait for when they figure out how to create limbs.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
They figured out a little while ago how to grow simple organs on a "scaffold" I saw a documentary where they made a nose and a bladderShocking wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/08/cancer-patient-synthetic-organ-transplant
Didn't know they already figured out how to recreate our airways using stem cells... this is great news tbh.
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You are right.Spark wrote:
IIRC a large proportion, if not the majority (if not the overwhelming majority, in fact, if I recall) of Earth's rare materials and the like came from asteroid impacts, so it would stand to reason that they are comparatively immensely rich in valuable resources.
We happen to need many of them in exponentially increasing amounts to fuel our progress as a civilization. Better from some dead lifeless rock in the middle of nothingness (assuming one has the capability) than from beneath temperate African rainforest, tbh.Dilbert_X wrote:
Um, you guys know they're vaulable because they're rare?
One single metric ton of Helium 3 (rare on earth) could serve the electrical needs of a population of 10 million people for over a year. Uranus has enough Helium 3 to meet Earths energy needs for the next 4 billion years. We better not get it though. We could possibly devalue oil commodities.Spark wrote:
We happen to need many of them in exponentially increasing amounts to fuel our progress as a civilization. Better from some dead lifeless rock in the middle of nothingness (assuming one has the capability) than from beneath temperate African rainforest, tbh.Dilbert_X wrote:
Um, you guys know they're vaulable because they're rare?
Well it shouldnt be tooo long before we can do something with this. Nasa have already launched a mission to land on an asteroid (wont get there for 4 years mind). Europe are developing "space tugs" to possibly facilitate building (assembling) structures and or craft in space rather than launching them from earth in 1 go. There is the 500 day experiment as we are getting close enough to a manned Mars mission to start worrying about psychological stresses.Kmar wrote:
Eros, a near earth asteroid orbiting between Mars and Earth is valued at over 20 Trillion dollars in metals (Copper, Silver, Gold, etc). If you added up all of the metals used in every single structure ever created in the history of human civilization it would only make up a small fraction of what is contained in Eros.
http://skywatcherz.com/blog/2011/07/20/ … e-of-eros/
I had to host the video clip myself..
