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Gems from Science

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a GEM from science, IMMMMMMO. The video is pretty fantastic.
 
. . .So, while I cannot claim to know for sure whether or not the universe has a purpose, the case against it is strong and visible to anyone who sees the universe as it is, rather than as they wish it to be.
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson

“God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
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― Neil deGrasse Tyson
 
the ARDs they have in our schools, hockey rinks(!) and libraries, etc already tells one exactly what to do after they 'read' the heart rate of the victim. all one has to do is press buttons when they tell one to...it's very cool.
 
Today would have been the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, the woman generally considered to be the worlds first computer programmer.

In 1844 a paper was published by an author known only as A.A.L. It described the Analytical Engine, a hypothetical machine designed by a mathematician called Charles Babbage.
In the paper A.A.L. described a set of commands that would enable it to handle complex operations and equations.
It wasn't until twenty years after her death that A.A.L was revealed to have been Augusta Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron.

Although Babbage's machine was never actually built, the commands Lovelace created for it are widely considered the worlds first computer program.

The first 'puter programmer nerd was a GIRL
 
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...oup_of_seven_galaxies_at_the_edge_of_the.html

Hubble Sees Tribe of Galaxies at the Dawn of the Universe

By Phil Plait
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at 3:14 PM ET

An incredibly deep image taken by Hubble Space Telescope has made an amazing discovery: a group of seven galaxies that existed just after the Big Bang itself! One of them may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, a soul-crushing 13.3 billion light years away, and seen as it existed just 380 million years after the Universe itself was born.

The image is a result of 100 hours of Hubble staring at one spot in the sky. They chose the location of the previously-observed Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), a region of the sky where Hubble had already taken a very long look, taking a census of thousands of galaxies at all different distances. This new observation, though, looked in the infrared, where we expect the most distant galaxies to shine most brightly.

The picture above shows the HUDF. The locations of the seven extremely distant galaxies are indicated by colored diamonds; a close-up of each one is shown on top (click the image to get a high-res version). The number listed with each galaxy is a measure of its distance using its redshift: Because the Universe is expanding, more distant galaxies appear to move away from us faster than nearby ones. That can be used (with some fairly complex physics) to determine the distance to each galaxy. I explain this technique in more detail in an earlier post about redshifts.

The redshift is noted by the letter z, and the bigger the number, the farther the galaxy. A z of 8.6 is a galaxy about 13 billion light years away. The most distant galaxy seen was at a redshift of 11.9, which means the light we see from it left a whopping 13.3+ billion light years ago. Since the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, this means we are seeing this galaxy as it was only about 380 million years after the Big Bang. That's a stunning observation.
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If you click the link to the article you can then click on the image and see the high-res version, and read the rest of the article ALSO. I love it when they find stuff out there.
 
Well, then, everyone will want to have a Neanderthal kid. Were they superstrong or supersmart? Who knows? But there's one way to find out."

gobsmacked.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Yes, the "Gems from Twitter" thread was such a runaway success (139 posts and counting!) that I've decided to open my 12th or whatever thread. Hello.

I'm just gonna post whatever interesting science stories I find. Feel free to go ahead and do the same. We're all science nerds, right? But we hardly ever talk about the subject.

So this one's in the "hey, isn't that like the ________ from Star Trek?" category. Some scientists scanned a portion of the Amazon rainforest using LIDAR (basically like the Kinect, but more powerful) and at the same time took spectral data, meaning they ended up with a 3D model of the forest that documented the species of every tree. Yeah, it combines existing technology that's been used for ages in astronomy and geography and other fields, but still. They scanned the planet for lifeforms!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/27/amazon-rainforest-map-biodiversity-detail
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I wasn't aware that the Rain Forest was a planet.
Are we talking about the Brazilian Rain Forest, or the rain forest where the stoner's would slip away into within Laurel Canyon? Laurel Canyon is indeed a planet onto itself.
 
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