New Life

[Sister Fracture]

OMG THIS IS AWESOME I LOVE SCIENCE SO MUCH <3

[Eater of Clowns]

FUCK YOU MY MOM DIED FROM REDUNDANCY THAT MY MOM DIED FROM

Obligatory.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is the third thread about this topic ... Did you know they named a planet Eris?

Wait, hang on a second there, Trip. It's a DWARF planet. It, like Pluto, does not have sufficient mass to clear its orbit of debris. Also, it's populated by dwarves. Very cold, blind dwarves.
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Hee hee hee!

This post made me laugh. For reals.

I spent a few minutes looking for the right picture for this post. I might save it to my computer for further use.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is the third thread about this topic ... Did you know they named a planet Eris?

Wait, hang on a second there, Trip. It's a DWARF planet. It, like Pluto, does not have sufficient mass to clear its orbit of debris. Also, it's populated by dwarves. Very cold, blind dwarves.
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Okay, but SCIENCE needs to know a few things about these Dwarves:


- How do they pronounce the word "atom" ?
- What sort of camera lenses do they buy, or do they prefer just having a load of megapixels?
- Do they have free will?

They pronounce it like "awt-OHM"
They don't need cameras. They're blind. And cold.
Of course they have free will.
They are aware that RAW is dead. It was one of them that did it, after all.

I've heard rumors that there are rumblings about reinstating Pluto in light of new information on Pluto and Eris. 

Ooh, what's the info?

Also, I think the Moon should be upgraded to planet. It's about the same size as Mercury I think.

[Adios]

This is the third thread about this topic ... Did you know they named a planet Eris?

Really? I am not caught up at all but I looked at the latest threads in this sub to see if anyone had posted it yet.  Is it in Apple Talk?

*shrug*

I didn't know it either.

[Jasper]

FUCK YOU MY MOM DIED FROM REDUNDANCY THAT MY MOM DIED FROM

Obligatory.

Caught me off guard, now giggling like a ninny.


On topic:  Would it be theoretically possible to gen-engineer arsenic based human equivalents?

[Adios]

FUCK YOU MY MOM DIED FROM REDUNDANCY THAT MY MOM DIED FROM

Obligatory.

Caught me off guard, now giggling like a ninny.


On topic:  Would it be theoretically possible to gen-engineer arsenic based human equivalents?

I want gills so I can breathe underwater.

[Kai]

NG Tyson is awesome. Haters gotta hate.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

NG Tyson is awesome. Haters gotta hate.

He is. I'm just satisfied with a definition of planet that has spherical, orbits a star, and does not undergo nuclear fusion.

[Triple Zero]

BTW

The supposedly arsenic-based DNA in these bacteria is most probably actually based on plain old phosphorous after all:

http://scienceblogs.com/webeasties/2010/12/guest_post_arsenate-based_dna.php
http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html

Bad science, sloppy research.

Well, at least Eris is still a planet, and RAW is still dead, right ...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

BTW

The supposedly arsenic-based DNA in these bacteria is most probably actually based on plain old phosphorous after all:

http://scienceblogs.com/webeasties/2010/12/guest_post_arsenate-based_dna.php
http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html

Bad science, sloppy research.

Well, at least Eris is still a planet, and RAW is still dead, right ...

Awwww how sad.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Although, I might wait until a source somewhat more credible than a blogger refutes it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Although, I might wait until a source somewhat more credible than a blogger refutes it.

Yeah, my guess is that NASA wouldn't jump the gun on something like this. Of course the results have to be verified, but if the peer reviewers saw nothing wrong with the research (unless I'm thinking of some other recent thing) then it's still a good indicator that what we think are vital elements can be swapped out for similar ones.

[LMNO]

Although, I might wait until a source somewhat more credible than a blogger refutes it.

http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/

Was this merely a case of a few isolated cranks? To find out, I reached out to a dozen experts on Monday. Almost unanimously, they think the NASA scientists have failed to make their case.

"It would be really cool if such a bug existed," said San Diego State University's Forest Rohwer, a microbiologist who looks for new species of bacteria and viruses in coral reefs. But, he added, "none of the arguments are very convincing on their own." That was about as positive as the critics could get.

"This paper should not have been published," said Shelley Copley of the University of Colorado.

[Phox]

Although, I might wait until a source somewhat more credible than a blogger refutes it.

http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/

Was this merely a case of a few isolated cranks? To find out, I reached out to a dozen experts on Monday. Almost unanimously, they think the NASA scientists have failed to make their case.

"It would be really cool if such a bug existed," said San Diego State University's Forest Rohwer, a microbiologist who looks for new species of bacteria and viruses in coral reefs. But, he added, "none of the arguments are very convincing on their own." That was about as positive as the critics could get.

"This paper should not have been published," said Shelley Copley of the University of Colorado.