dorlomin Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 (edited) 3 Brits, 2 of them Scottish born win the Nobel Prize. Edited October 4, 2016 by dorlomin spleeling 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 26 minutes ago, dorlomin said: 3 Brits, 2 of them Scottish born win the Nobel Prize. Thanks for that extensive report. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Was hoping for Jim Hough, Martin Hendry and the Glasgow Gravitational Waves boys to get it, but two Scots winning here is not a bad substitute. (banana: They won it for some theoretical work they did on the properties of extremely thin, small materials) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 16 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said: (banana: They won it for some theoretical work they did on the properties of extremely thin, small materials) Posh Spice? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 The European Mars lander should have touched ground by now but they're not getting a signal as yet. https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2016/oct/19/mars-landing-esa-attempts-to-set-schiaparelli-probe-on-red-planet-live 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I bet the Martians have got hold of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 1 minute ago, Bully Wee Villa said: I bet the Martians have got hold of it. Or the Yanks have told Mars Curiosity to kill it Robowars style. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Doesn't look good, they're trying to claim that losing the parachutes early and crashing was really a great victory for science though. Not sure how the engineers think. Here's a video of Stephen Hawking going to 5 of his favourite places. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureiknow Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 On 04/10/2016 at 12:43, Ranaldo Bairn said: ( They won it for some theoretical work they did on the properties of extremely thin, small materials) Theories? FFS. maybe I can win one with my theory of why women are b*****ds and us men are so attracted to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Thin materials? God said take a piece of stone and cut those mother fucking genitals off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 On 21/10/2016 at 00:44, sureiknow said: Theories? FFS. maybe I can win one with my theory of why women are b*****ds and us men are so attracted to them. wisbit? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Inspiring (imo) documentary on BBC 4 tonight on the Huygens probe that landed on Titan, the furthest body visited from Earth as yet. The Open University played a part, which is nice. On iplayer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I listened to a documentary on the universe on the radio last night. They were discussing the two options of whether there was an edge to the universe or whether it was infinite. Even the expert asked the obvious questions on how the f**k are you supposed to wrap your head around it being infinite or if there is an end point of the universe, what is on the other side? Then they threw a third theory into the mix of our universe existing within a balloon shaped dimension along with an infinite amount of other universes within a multiverse. Whatever the answer is, this was me after about 15 minutes of the show: I went through a bit of an existential crisis about 8-10 years ago thinking too much about this stuff, and where it places our planet and individual selves in context. You can use it too much as an excuse to not get shit in order as 'it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things'.The additional level of mindfuckery is if this whole shebang, infinite or not, multiverse or not, is just some c**t's after-work game of something like No Man's Sky in the real universe, lying on his sofa in his skidmarked undies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 3 hours ago, Dee Man said: I listened to a documentary on the universe on the radio last night. They were discussing the two options of whether there was an edge to the universe or whether it was infinite. Even the expert asked the obvious questions on how the f**k are you supposed to wrap your head around it being infinite or if there is an end point of the universe, what is on the other side? Then they threw a third theory into the mix of our universe existing within a balloon shaped dimension along with an infinite amount of other universes within a multiverse. Whatever the answer is, this was me after about 15 minutes of the show: Infinite I can just about deal with, but this is the bit that blows my mind when I think about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I've found its best not to think about it too much. Wildest theory I heard was some weird one that theres two universes running parallel to each other, one going forward, one going backwards, but we might be the universe thats playing in reverse, but we just don't realise it, as which ever universe you were in would feel like the one playing the "correct" way. The "mirror universe theory" or something, read it a while back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 We can't be the mirror universe or everyone would have beards and moustaches. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 The wean was explaining the multiverse to me last night, like I was a small child. He's 10. 2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: Wildest theory I heard was some weird one that theres two universes running parallel to each other, one going forward, one going backwards, but we might be the universe thats playing in reverse, but we just don't realise it, as which ever universe you were in would feel like the one playing the "correct" way. The "mirror universe theory" or something, read it a while back. When in Rome, do as the snamoR do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Infinite I can just about deal with, but this is the bit that blows my mind when I think about it. I think one idea is that there is no other side, the universe loops back on itself in 3D (universe's volume) like the earth loops back on itself in 2D (earth surface).I doubt we could ever possibly understand the universe properly without being outside of it.Good opportunity to (re)post Asimov's classic short story, The Last Question.http://multivax.com/last_question.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 1 minute ago, banana said: I think one idea is that there is no other side, the universe loops back on itself in 3D (universe's volume) like the earth loops back on itself in 2D (earth surface). I doubt we could ever possibly understand the universe properly without being outside of it. Good opportunity to (re)post Asimov's classic short story, The Last Question.http://multivax.com/last_question.html ah ok, thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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