BS: science surprises

Subject: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 11:30 AM

Where does gold come from?
We always thought it came from supernovas but it doesn't. However supernovas sometimes make neutron stars.
Thanks to LIGO and astronomers, the people who found gravity waves, a hundred second event showed us that gold comes from colliding neutron stars. Neutron stars are uniquely dense. A Neutron star is more massive than our sun but has collapsed to the size of London. 1 teaspoon of Neutron star weighs a billion tons.

The gold produced by the collision we 'saw' is about the mass of 12 solid gold Earths. Along with gold more of the very heavy elements like Platinum and Uranium are produced.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:19 PM

It is very probably produced in both.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:19 PM

When they spin they release a electric kinetic beam at their poles and are called Pulsars.
As they grow old and split they may become magnetars spinning over 700 times a second.
Sometimes if they feed on a nearby star they could grow so much as to collapse further into a black hole.
The pulsar Neutron star may give us some clues as to the state of matter in black holes but we will never see it.

Speaking of new states of matter we have recently cooled/slowed matter more than deep space cold to 1/millionth of a degree which will make quantum computing more resilient.

Dark matter has been suggested to be composed of Fermions left over from the annihilation of matter and anti matter.


Other surprises that are not in text books yet are growing quickly.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 12:23 PM

Dave, probably even in a 1A but like an exam question 'pick the best answer'.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:10 PM

It would have to be a bloody strong teaspoon then. And we don't understand comparisons with the size of London here. Everything must be compared with Wales.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:21 PM

For the heaviest elements to form a neutron rich environment works best.

The really big science surprises are the ones that sound the most unbelievable. I sprained my brain when I entered the mirror universe.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 01:21 PM

Given the relative frequency of supernovae type Ia, and neutron star collisions of the type which give rise to LIGO signals, I would still go for the supernovae as producing the most.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 04:15 PM

Fair enough. While we can't negotiate truth I would place a bet that 1a's make less gold, if any, per event/explosion than pulsar explosions. Pulsars are numerous enough to base space navigation principles upon. Most neutron stars and magnetars can not be seen.
I spoke of gold as a popular curiosity that could intice/attract more questions.
Like bringing up diamond planets and 'diamond rain'.
What is rare here is not rare everywhere.
Perhaps what is rare is life but I usually think life is ubiquitous.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: DMcG
Date: 09 Jan 19 - 04:26 PM

I haven't looked into it, but I have wondered   occasionally how the radioactive elements with relatively short halflives got here from distant stars and nova.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 05:14 AM

1) the signals from LIGO 1 & 2 (& soon VIGO in Italy) use the expected signal to tease out the signal from the noise! Not all astrophysicists (& statisticians) are convinced that the process is realistic. Think - trying to see vibrations that are 1/10000 the amplitude of the width of an atom when those atoms can vibrate more than their diameter, even near absolute zero. The jury is out still. And all detectors use the same algorithms.

2) there is a school of thought that thinks gold is "formed" in the immense pressures/temperatures in fissures in the mantle/crust. We can make artificial diamonds that are used in jewelry. Albeit yellowish. And make transuranic elements. The conditions kilometers below us are anything but benign, or achievable in the lab.


Just saying.

And so does the New Scientist.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 19 - 02:51 PM

Funny coincidence that Spinning neutron stars went viral on the internet 9 hours ago
with a 13 pulse radio signal and then stopped.

Mr Red the mantle creating enough pressure to form gold would need something like impact help. The major gold deposits form roughly around the circle of fire which in fact could have been the impact that eventually became the moon.

Heavy radioactive elements have to be home grown in our own galaxy when you think about it DMcG.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: DMcG
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 05:04 AM

Really short half life isotopes have to be local decomposition products of other radioactive elements. Francium, for example, has a half life of 22 minutes. That is not a problem if the elements it decays from have a long life (eg Neptunium at up to 2 million years). But even so, given we are talking about moving physical objects at a tiny fraction of light speed, even 2 million years is not very long to cross the distances involved.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 19 - 09:23 AM

Surprise! this happened after this thread was started
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/world/second-repeating-fast-radio-burst-detected/index.html

now i'm not saying the Akashic field told me about this but

it is a surprise.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 07:27 PM

The rules of space time are simple but hard to conceptualize.
Matter, in fact any object, tells space time how to curve. The curvature of space time tells matter how to move.

What if the condensation and compression of matter at the center of a black hole tells space time how to expand and accelerate?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 09:41 PM

Plutonium and beyond?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 19 - 10:23 PM

I'll raise you two Ununpentiums.
If there is massless matter is there also heavy space?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 12:14 AM

Birds are dinosaurs! Well, I was surprised...

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 09:44 AM

There's a pretty solid scientific consensus around that.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 10:01 AM

I thought ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium had been renamed as Nihonium, Moscovium,Tennessine, Oganesson.
(I can reel off all 118 elements, boring nerd that I am)

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 10:16 AM

But this all pales into insignificance compared to the revalation
that the water in canned chickpeas can be whipped up with icing sugar into a meringue...!!!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 10:53 AM

I poked around the aLIGO site (CalTech) and looked at information about the Washington and Louisiana collectors. And even sent them a note about some typos and a page design problem (can't read it because the table and background don't align).

And that chick pea water trick - sounds cute but does it taste good?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 15 Jan 19 - 11:46 AM

Vegans reckon it does...

..but then again, sawdust is meat and dairy free....

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 06:15 AM

I had a vegan burger last summer that was not detectable as non meat in flavor. When squeezed it even bled. (beet juice)

I think the European Space Agency is out pacing NASA.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 06:18 AM

I'm no scientist, but that String Theory thing is rather daunting.
If I've rightly understood it, there are parallel Universes all over the place. Perhaps I exist elsewhere? Gulp.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 07:53 AM

Speaking unscientifically, if a cat has nine lives or Voldemort had 8 lives you can think about your entangled similar life elsewhere as eventually winking out in a way that you can almost feel. "Not tonight honey, I feel like I've died". :^/

Scientifically, String theory gives rise to an 11-13 dimensional space and structures that can build the smallest subatomic structures.

on the other hand

A Universe capable of reproducing other universes/multiverses, each with its own separate spacetime, gives rise to a possibility of building a similar you someplace else. Some think the 'womb' of these new universes lies at the center of super massive black holes where energies are beyond understanding.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 08:01 AM

Universes are born small like the biblical mustard seed and 'grow'*

*expansion is a strange and wonderous thing that has no gravity yet

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 10:26 AM

"expansion is a strange and wonderous thing that has no gravity yet"

expansion.. gravity..???

is that something scientificky to do with our bellies and arses as we grow older and fatter...?????

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:00 PM

there is a school of thought that says if there is no scientific reason that disallows negative time, then there is no scientific reason to disallow negative gravity.

Think about it: space time gives rise to gravity so negative space time.....................

But then, some people are up themselves so maybe we have the evidence!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:06 PM

PFR Yes and no. An emerging universe is composed of energy before matter has yet formed. Matter after it has formed creates conditions for gravity. That expansion is remarkable.

An expanding belly emerges as more energy is stored as icky stuff

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:21 PM

I could try to understand an old fat universe theory...

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:23 PM

Matter gives rise to gravity and tells space time how to curve. The curvature of space time tells matter how to move.

Mr. Red There has long been a notion that time also had an anti time component born at the big bang just as there was eventually matter and anti matter that anihilated to leave a billionth more matter than anti matter.. so what the Houdini did you say? no worries-
You made me wonder if time got annihilated in a similar way as matter.
I know I have wasted lots of time.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:41 PM

I have long harbored the notion that the annihilation of matter and anti matter was not a 100% conversion to energy but there was some, very small, left over exotic residue that was neither energy or normal matter. This was my attempt to describe dark matter.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 12:53 PM

Sage, 20 Years ago I did a cartoon of a gravity wave that compressed then stretched the Earth to a huge oval as Einstein and a grey alien squabbled at equations on a black board.


To my thinking if a gravity wave of such proportions did hit us, it would cause no damage. What do you think?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 01:34 PM

There is residue

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 19 - 06:51 PM

https://www.livescience.com/strange-news

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mo the caller
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 07:19 AM

"
Where does gold come from?
We always thought it came from supernovas....."


We did???

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Jan 19 - 08:52 AM

"We always thought it came from supernovas....."

My mum mostly got hers from the Argos catalogue...

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 08:39 AM

Geomagnetic weirdness a couple of weeks ago

I don't know quite what to make of that, in particular I know nothing about the origin of the measurements or the credibility of the narrator.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 09:05 AM

Hahaha pfr! That's where we got our wedding rings from (many years ago)
Certainly not supernovas!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 01:02 PM

I get it but,
I would admit my concept of time is weirder than most. I am not handcuffed by the popular view of time. Only the bounds of mortality tie me to the mast on my exploration of multiuniversal shores.

I have seen how the past present and future are concurrent and that time can travel in a mirrored direction as well. Yep its weird for us 3D holographic humans. You've got yours and I have mine but we share the same river.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Iains
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 01:30 PM

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-gold-gravitational-sighting.html

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 08:19 PM

It looks like I will see the lunar eclipse tonight. The last one I saw was the color of a deep peach red and it was warm out instead of being 10 degrees F.
I've seen seven in total and only two solar eclipse

The best show was in May 25th 1975 when I witnessed a large impact on the moon at the 10 o'clock horizon right before the eclipse. Backlighting helped me see it. It was only a seven second event with an after splash like a drop of water.


I reported it http://www.ufo-hunters.com/sightings/search/514399a10ad2e1e9be44bb28/UFO%20Sighting%20in%20%20Rochester,%20NY%20on%20Sunday%2025

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 08:21 PM

If you mix some of this and some of that you can get a REAL science surprise. I speak from experience. Personal experience.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 19 - 08:38 PM

I'm setting my alarm for about five in the morning.

We had a very good solar eclipse in March 2015. Most, but not all, of the sun was covered. I was in hospital at the time and I showed a load of nurses and doctors how to see it using a cheap pinhole camera (a pin and a piece of cardboard). I wowed the buggers! The best time was on Aug 11 1999. There was a total solar eclipse visible from Cornwall. We climbed Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor, half an hour from our house, along with hundreds of others. Bude was no good as the eclipse was only 99% from there. The clouds came over but, at just after 11, they parted slightly and we got a great view of totality. We saw the diamond ring and the corona and it went eerily dark and chilly for two minutes. We could see the shadow rushing towards us, then rushing away again. Magic! We were just about the only people in the country to see it. The clouds stayed over everywhere else. I have an 8mm videotape of it somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 06:57 AM

The surprise is this second story that Synchronicity has shown an example of in my posting here 3 posts up that precedes the event .
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-meteor-hit-the-moon-during-the-lunar-eclipse-heres-what-we-know/ar-BBSBL1h?ocid=spar

This is not just spooky, it is part of my everyday experience.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 07:01 AM

The impact I reported years ago was huge in comparison and was in the 10 o clock horizon and reached out about 2 inches into space in the full screen picture of Sunday's impact.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 07:32 AM

Gah! I set our alarm too Steve, but there was thick cloud cover and nothing to see. When daylight arrived we had dense,freezing fog.
I was gutted, I so wanted to watch the eclipse. :(

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 10:12 AM

surprise
It was unremarkable and typical.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 02:00 PM

Now for an old journey within.
In his psychoanalytic theory of personality, Sigmund Freud suggested that psychic energy is generated by the libido. But how is this psychic energy used? According to Freud, this energy is released through biological means known as drives. A drive has two parts: a biological need and a psychological need. For example, the state of hunger leads to both a physical need for food and a psychological desire to eat. These two forces work together to form a drive to eat food when it is needed.

Freud believed that people continuously generate psychic energy, but only a certain amount is available for use at any point in time. This psychic energy is then used by the three components of personality: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the first location where all of this psychic energy can be found. The id is responsible for satisfying basic needs and desires and operates through the primary process. This energy eventually moves through the other aspects of personality—the ego and the superego. Just remember the Donald is 98% Id.


All this is the tip of the iceberg, the unconscious floats below conscious awareness and is massive.

Anyone want to go there?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 02:23 PM

Most interesting Donuel.
I have a theory that one can feel hungry, but underneath the body qualifies that by urging one to seek certain foods which it needs at that time. For instance, when in the supermarket, I might suddenly want some oily fish, or some citrus fruit. I've always tried to obey this 'urge' from the subconscious, and thus manage to keep my vitamins and minerals topped up.
I try to 'listen' to my body. If it needs to rest/sleep, I have a nap.
I think this may be the reason I keep in good health!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 04:36 PM

Why is gold more concentrated in some areas, versus being (kinda) evenly distributed throughout the Earths surface?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 05:02 PM

Gold being heavy has a tendency to sink while lighter elements want to float. Deep upwellings from impacts, mountain building to volcanic eruptions brings gold upwards. My theory is if an impact created the circle of fire*, deeper stuff came up if it was down there in the first place.
Where there is quartz there is sometimes gold but so is fool's gold. There are probably better theories about goldmining and origins of gold. Then there could be rare asteroids.

* some think the circle of fire is a massive impact site where the moon came from, composed of Earth+Theo when rock debris was pushed into orbit.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 05:24 PM

The lunar eclipse was absolutely beautiful from my spare bedroom window, which overlooks the Atlantic. I got some quite nice pics, showing the moon in its true colours, but nowhere near as good as some of those in the papers. I only have a Canon Ixus with a 12X zoom but at least I have a pic and I had a half-hour of sheer wonderment in the middle of the night!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 10:25 AM

One of the brightest surprises will be when Betelgeuse goes super nova    (the biggest star in Orion's belt). It will shine with the brightness of the fullmoon for 14 days and nights. For this to happen in your lifetime is less than one in a milion chance but people do win the lottery. This is a conscience guess and not a measure of my daily presience.

PS the super nova will not hurt Earth and to see it in your life time means it has already exploded.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 10:30 AM

I was rather surprised to learn the correct pronunciation of Betelgeuse. It seems it's 'Beetle Juice'. I've always said 'Bett-el-gurze'. I wonder what else I've been mispronouncing all my life?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 11:31 AM

with a name like Beetle Juice they should have called it squashed duck gutz.

Its so big that if it were our sun its outer edge would go all the way out to Jupiter.
The only stars that will outlive our sun are red dwarves

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 06:48 PM

The best time was on Aug 11 1999. There was a total solar eclipse visible from Cornwall

Did you notice the wind? And how cold it went? The two are related.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 07:07 PM

As I said, it went chilly. There wasn't much wind in any case that morning. To be honest, the event was so visually overwhelming that we didn't really notice the breeze. We were dead lucky, up there on Bodmin Moor. Patrick Moore was down the road in Falmouth and was completely clouded out. We thought we were doomed, but there was a miraculous parting of the clouds for just a few minutes after 11. I don't think that anyone else other than us on Sharp Tor saw totality from the ground. It was the second most brilliant moment of my life. No way am I ever going to tell you what numero uno was but it may have been a little more earthbound...

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: DMcG
Date: 25 Jan 19 - 03:20 AM

Here is a different science "surprise."

Something like 55 years ago, I was taken to Battersea funfair and one of the exhibits was "The Invisible Man." This consisted of a large glass box like a shower enclousure and around the vertical edges were lights, perhaps fluorescent tubes. Members of the audience went into this - I had a go myself - and as the showman turned a dial the person faded from view and 'turned invisible.' fFrom inside thre was no visible change to the audience. From neither inside nor outside was there any visible change in the brightness of the lights or anything like that. There was not the space - nor the necessary cooperation - for it to be based on "Pepper's Ghost" being over 55 years ago it must have relied on fundamental physics, not some hi-tech approach.

I wonder if somehow it relied on total internal reflection, but to this day I haven't decided precisely how it was done.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 12:28 PM

When LIGO 1, 2 and 3 are combined with LEGGOS the resolution will be even better.

In a bizarre temporal accident at a successful science lab in Germany someone pressed the clock button on the microwave after making Instant coffee. Suddenly after 20 years of using the microwave, all of Time went backwards the amount of accumulated cooking time. Now the lab has patents for all inventions in the last five years.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 01:29 PM

Donuel:

"Energy" is a word with definite physical meaning. I don't know what Freud said or wrote about mental or psychic 'energy'. I only know what you wrote your post. Let's just put all that libido and conscious and unconscious energy into one big brain, yours for instance. Your brain according to physics has two types of energy. There's the kinetic energy in how fast your brain is moving at a given time. And there's the potential energy in how high above grade your brain is. The brain delivers its energy in the form of work done as its velocity goes from 'v' to '0'. An in the heat or work done when it is dropped to the floor. We would further have to look at how hight it bounced (eleastic collision) or if it went splat (inelastic collision).

As for conscious versus unconscious, my own theory is that the allegory of the human mind is an iceberg. The unconscious part is the iceberg below water level, and the roughly ten percent above the waterline is the conscious part, essentially dragged along with limited capacity to direct things, but always willing to make excuses. Every so often, the part below waterline loses mass on one side and the entire thing does a flip. Then new excuses emerge. These are called theories, revolutions, and explanations.

When two icebergs meet, they have what is called a 'frank exchange of views'.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 06:31 PM

If you punch it up and polish your post more, you might end up with a good stand up routine about the similar unconscious conversations of icebergs and NYC cocktail parties.

I was led to believe the brain itself uses food energy which is the equivalent of 3 peanuts per day. The energy from the rest of the food we eat goes mostly to our bodies that carries our brain around.


NOW LISTEN UP This is the third EXAMPLE of a cosmic topic that an MSN headline which has appeared days AFTER I discussed the topic in this thread.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/earths-collision-with-another-planet-led-to-creation-of-life-says-study/vi-BBSGCC1?ocid


IT PROVES ONE THING
I must be an editor of MSM headline science news.

OR

Surprise - I just have a unique general store psychic quirk.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: BobL
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 03:23 AM

OR

the coincidences are not really remarkable as the events concerned are more frequent than you'd think.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 04:54 AM

I flicked a crumb of toast off the home button of my iPad just as the Scotsman on the radio said the word "crevasse." That's never happened before and will almost certainly never happen again. What a coincidence!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 09:59 AM

Other explanations are the designer of MSN science followed this thread or I have mentioned three times the number of subjects in this post improving my odds of guessing. Coincidence is passe'. Its serendipity today since I believe it allows for quantum variability.

truth is my IP is going to show me results based on my inputs.
These apps will make us all feel a twinge of deja vu.
Comon you feel it too.
Don't you?

Facebook and google matches commercial transactions in our name from computers other than our own. These Ad apps were the beginning of us losing our sovereign control even to our own national elections. The susceptibility of the human mind to 'suggestion' is directed at YOU in new and powerful ways, whether you choose to see it or not. imo

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 10:06 AM

That's nothing...

Both me and my old mum, who lives about 15 miles away, have bowel problems...

Many is the time we phone each other to find we've both been sat on the bog at the very same exact time,
or both need to go pretty damn quickly as soon as we put the phone down...

How's that for strange coincidences...!!!???

very weird telecrapathic communications over the ether...????

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 19 - 11:55 AM

Dear Mr. Crapalot,
Get well soon.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 11:50 AM

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09jun_bigsurprise

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 08:46 AM

If one speaks in terms of CPT transformation, the speed of causation as proven by Lorenz, electrons go back in time or that gravity is a weak force because it spreads out in other dimensions most people would get rather confused in a hurry. Still regular lay English is enough to discuss these things in terms other than its all a crock of shit.

So for the truly curious I will PM possible answers and questions in hopes of satisfying my own curiosity.


The one true surprise in science is the true nature of reality.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 09:06 AM

For example antigravity although real is far from intuitive human understanding. It is math.
A complex exploration

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Feb 19 - 06:51 AM

Flying squirrels fluoresce hot pink

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 19 - 12:49 PM

Wow, did we have a surprise in high school! Do you know what happens if you flush sodium metal down the toilet?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 19 - 01:04 PM

More metals other than sodium will do that. Others will do that in ultra slow motion. Some things will behave that way at super sonic speeds.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 04:08 PM

New science alert they found a cure for jello

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 09:32 AM

Mad cow disease is the cure for jello, making jello too dangerous to eat.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 11:26 PM

Why do they call it PMS? Because "mad cow disease" was already taken.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 04:27 AM

We sometimes pinched a drop or two of mercury during Science experiments to take home and mess around with. The teacher would put some on each lab bench, and we were fascinated by how it rolled about in shiny globules under our fingers.
When I think how dangerous that was, and how (I imagine) mercury is never issued to pupils during Science lessons nowadays, I shudder!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 11:42 AM

I played with mercury too, if we broke a thermometer.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 11:50 AM

You're Ok Its the mercury salts that will get you
MERCURY HAS LONG BEEN USED as a medicine to treat various diseases, such as syphilis and typhoid fever, or parasites. Certainly a treatment with such a "powerful" medicine impressed patients, and when poisoning symptoms appeared they could always be blamed on worsening of the original disease. Dentists made fillings of Merc

The people who use Mercury as medicine are called conservatives or 'the late'.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 06:08 PM

You can be over half a million days old and be in good shape.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 19 - 06:13 PM

Opps that was hours

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 19 - 09:23 PM

Lewis and Clark took 50 dozen on their expedition.

“Rush’s pills,” otherwise known as “Thunderclappers,” combined calomel and jalap into an explosive cathartic. Calomel (six parts mercury to one part chlorine) was used as a purgative and jalap as a laxative. The depleting aspect of this medication was thought to rid the body of any “morbid” elements contained mainly in the blood.

These were called Thunderclappers for their effect. The L&C route has been traced by the excess of mercury in soil in places they stopped -- sometime, I think, for good reason!

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 19 - 12:21 PM

NASA admitted this week that the Mars Observer roving robot had died.
It died back in June but you know how robots sometimes self resurrect.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 19 - 08:04 PM

Geneticly redesign the human being. What would you edit in your genetic code? In others?

Women would no longer have to carry breasts around for a lifetime but only get gene treatments for pregnancy

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 07:29 AM

In a Siberiaan cave bones were found of of a girl that was the offspring of two different species of man from a Neanderthal father and a Denosovian mother.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 12:43 PM

The 'missing mass' conundrum is being answered by WHIM which is wispy hot gas filaments that is hard to detect. The rest of the mass is probably accelerated beyond what we will ever be able to see already.imo

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 08:59 AM

Pregnancy, or rather delivery, could cause breast growth without supplementary treatments. Works for lactation already. But why not have boobs? Are they such a biurden to you?

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 09:52 AM

Magritte did a painting of female attributes hanging in a closet. Wanda Sykes has a routine where she can leave her 'sex' in a drawer.
Concepts of equality gone wild for the metoo era.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 10:12 AM

This morning I invented a new birth control for the 7 women who prefer a normal menstrual cycle but do not want children.

In normal conception the first sperm to arrive activates a chemical signal that immediately fuses the surface of the egg to NOT allow other sperm to penetrate the surface. Duplicate that chemical signature and make a delivery system. All the eggs remain impenetrable for a time.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 19 - 10:20 AM

Standard birth control pills are large quantities of hormones.
Those Birth control pills work by emitting naturally-occurring hormones estrogen and progestin to prevent pregnancy. These hormones stop sperm from fertilizing an egg by stopping ovulation. ... The hormones in the pill also thicken cervix mucus, meaning it is more difficult for the sperm to get to the egg.

I like my idea but it has never been researched.
Fortunately my wife is in charge of research.

Subject: RE: BS: science surprises
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 19 - 09:59 AM

There is so much hormonal birth control in the water sanitation system that it presents a challenge to conception. But another form could create similar problems.