Science is Drokking Fantastic Because...

[The Legendary Shark]

I didn't know whether to post this link here or in the "Truth?" thread but then I thought, Hell, why not be optimistic?
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COLD FUSION REACTOR VERIFIED BY THIRD-PARTY RESEARCHERS, SEEMS TO HAVE 1 MILLION TIMES THE ENERGY DENSITY OF GASOLINE

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

It probably belongs in the "Truth?" thread because this:

Anyway, now that we've got the necessary cynicism/scrutiny out of the way....

Is a direct quotation from that article.

[The Legendary Shark]

"Obviously, if these third-party findings are to
be believed — if the E-Cat really is performing
cold fusion — then this is rather exciting. We
are talking about an extremely cheap, green,
and dense power source that could quite
literally change the world."
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Another direct quote from the article.

[Theblazeuk]

'Dense' power source?

[Dandontdare]

"Obviously, if these third-party findings are to be believed — if the E-Cat really is performing cold fusion...

Those are humungously big IFs - we've had our hopes raised in the past about cold fusion, I won't be celebrating just yet

[JPMaybe]

I would lay money on this result being false, either by mistake or fraud.  There's all the previous problems with the E-Cat- the proposed Nickel/Hydrogen fusion reaction is unobserved in nature, for one.  This isn't a peer-reviewed paper, for two.  Claiming that no radiation was detected despite stating that "...E-Cat fuel undergoes nuclear transformations" beggars belief.  And the paper acknowledges that Andrea Rossi himself participated in the experiment: "Andrea Rossi...gradually brought it to the power level requested by us. Rossi later intervened to switch off the dummy, and in the following subsequent operations on the E-Cat: charge insertion, reactor startup, reactor shutdown and powder charge extraction. "

It's almost certainly horseshit.

[The Legendary Shark]

I was under the impression that all genes come exclusively from parents but it seems this might not be the case. This paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer might indicate a need to reassess our understanding of evolution...

[The Legendary Shark]

NASA Releases Tool Enabling Citizen
Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta.

[The Legendary Shark]

For the launch of Sentinel-2A, ESA is inviting
you to take part in a photo contest focusing on
the theme of 'colour vision'.
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Up for grabs is the opportunity to visit ESOC,
ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt,
Germany, as a guest at the VIP event on the
night of the launch. Four runners-up will
receive gift packages through the post.
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Photographs should be your artistic
interpretation of the theme 'colour vision'
together with one or more of the Sentinel-2
application areas. Application areas include
vegetation (or lack of), agriculture, changing
landscapes and inland and coastal water bodies.
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This could mean photographs of a patchwork of
fields, close-ups showing the intricate details of
a leaf, sunlight seeping through trees, the edge
of a clear-cut forest, the blues and greens of
waves on a beach or sunset colours reflecting
on a lake. There's no need to go far to capture
an image of how Sentinel-2's colour vision
applies to your own neighbourhood. Be
creative the possibilities are endless!
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How to enter: Photos can be uploaded via the
Earth observation launch blog at http://
blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2015/04/13/
competition-application-form/
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The competition is open now and will accept
entries until 09:00 CEST on 18 May 2015.

[The Legendary Shark]

Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy,
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
(NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of
high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists,
could be the "howls" of dead stars as they feed
on stellar companions.

[The Legendary Shark]

A newly discovered exoplanet which is too big for its parent star.
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The beautiful and majestic 'Pillars of Creation' revealed in 3D.
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The asteroid thought to have done for the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may have triggered the largest global lava flows on the Earth.

[Ancient Otter]

What is The Great Attractor?

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Not to be confused with my Uncle's Massey Ferguson, The Great Tractor. She can pull a busload of hippos so she can!

[ZenArcade]

Stephen Baxter had a terrific explanation for the Great Attractor in his Novel: Ring. Z

[The Legendary Shark]

New research suggests that our Universe could be a giant hologram.
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