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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    04:17 PM

    Nothing about VirginGalactic's Spaceship II? They rolled it out the other day and are doing glide tests.

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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    02:37 PM

    Badger's gonna be in Chuck! Hell yeah!

    [twitter.com]
    [whedonesque.com]

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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    02:53 PM

    @Bigdamnhero: Already in the Morning Spoilers... Duh. Shoulda looked.

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    Image of braak:  You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    10:57 AM

    [www.boingboing.net]

    This is maybe something important

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    10:08 AM

    There's a new Doctor Who clip as of this morning, which shows how Wilf meets up with The Doctor, and the Time Lord faces his most terrible menace yet!

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09:11 AM

    Avatar gets a preliminary rating of 92% on RottenTomatoes

    [www.rottentomatoes.com]

    #tips #avatar #observationdeck
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10:18 AM

    @Roklimber: That's a bit better than I expected. How many reviews? RT is firewalled at my work.

    I'll still wait to get the io9 review. Mostly because if I wait, I'll see it for free.

    #observationdeck
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/11/09 10:18 AM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07:46 PM

    @Ruthless, If you let me:

    90% now, 26 fresh, 3 rotten

    #tips #avatar #observationdeck
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08:56 AM

    LHC well on its way

    A CERN bulletin dated December 14 (that's in the future!) talks about the awesome progress the LHC is making on its way to achieve its planned 3.5 TeV per beam.

    [cdsweb.cern.ch]

    1 eV = 1 electron-volt is the energy that an electron would receive if you were to accelerate it through a potential difference of 1 volt.

    1 TeV = 1 tera eV = 10^12 eV = 1 000 000 000 000 electron-volts.

    To put that energy in perspective, 1 TeV is enough energy to create about 1000 protons at once.

    The LHC is designed to achieve 3.5 TeV per beam, that is, 7.0 TeV when the two proton beams collide.

    So, to grasp what this means, this is like throwing 2 protons against one another with enough energy to produce 7000 more protons.

    (It doesn't actually happen that way, though. The proton-proton collision produces a lot of other stuff, rather than 7000 protons)

    Another way to grasp how awesomely powerful 7 TeV is, consider the fact that *all* chemical reactions (that is, all of chemistry and all of the biochemistry of life) take place at an energy level of a few tens of electron-volts per reaction, that is, about 100 billion times smaller than what the LHC produces in a single collision.

    #tips #LHC #CERN #madscience #physics
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    08:53 AM

    BoingBoing is reporting that Peter Watts (author of Blindsight, etc.) was beaten and arrested at the Canadian border -- [www.boingboing.net]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    03:34 AM

    Bionic eyes!

    Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness
    [edition.cnn.com]

    #tips #madscience #technology
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    01:35 AM

    Giant footsteps found on the moon
    [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

    #tips #spaceporn
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/10/09

    T.rex 'little cousin' discovered
    [news.bbc.co.uk]

    #tips #dinosaurs
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    12/10/09

    Here's a funny mash up of the Team America trailer to the audio of the Avatar trailer: Team Avatar!

    #tips
    #avatar
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/10/09

    Scientists are claiming to have found the "silver bullet" that will enable the cheap, easy printing of electronic components and transform the way we use computers.

    Can the 'silver bullet' of printing revolutionize electronics?
    [edition.cnn.com]

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/09/09

    This is the kind of thing that pisses the hell off of me...

    Does death exist? New Theory Says 'No'
    [www.huffingtonpost.com]

    The article is written by the originator of the "theory", who is a well-respected physician with an ego the size of the universe, but not a physicist.

    ( Check out the way he represents himself at the end of the article and on his own web site, found here: [www.robertlanza.com] )

    His idea (which isn't new, by the way) is that the universe cannot be explained nor understood without taking into account human consciousness. And he uses quantum mechanics and the parallel-universe idea to expand that (un)original idea to imply that there is no death because our "mental energy" (or soul or whatever you want to call it) exists in multiple universes at once, or something like that.

    I'm sure he is a very bright and successful scientist in his own field, but his knowledge of quantum mechanics doesn't seem to measure up.

    What pisses me off about people like him, who think they understand what thousands of brilliant physicists have spent their entire lives and career trying to understand, is not just his arrogance, but the fact that crap like this is what gives false hope to suffering people and also a chance for unscrupulous people to make money off those who are looking for something to hold on to in order to survive.

    More on him, his work, and his "Biocentrism" theory here:
    [en.wikipedia.org]

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/09/09

    *Fantastic* picture of the moon.

    [www.nasa.gov]

    #tips #spaceporn
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/09/09

    Interesting (video) interview with the cast of Harry Potter movies regarding the end of the franchise. Too bad Emma Watson wasn't part of the interview. She's always delightful to watch.

    [edition.cnn.com]

    #tips
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