SCIENCE!!

Ordo

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#1
This thread is for videos, articles, artwork or anything else linked to exploration of the universe and all its wonders. Whether we're looking at the Galaxy or the inner workings of a cell.

To start us off, some perspective.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smmNP8G69vc[/video]
 

Juubi

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#2
Nothing like a look at all the giants we know of to make one feel utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
 

PCHeintz72

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#3
Ordo said:
This thread is for videos, articles, artwork or anything else linked to exploration of the universe and all its wonders. Whether we're looking at the Galaxy or the inner workings of a cell.

To start us off, some perspective.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smmNP8G69vc[/video]
I always liked that video... How about this one:

AMNH - The Known Universe by AMNH
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

There is also the following series of videos, not exactly science per se, but does shows different views from around the globe:

Matt Harding - Where the Hell are Matt's Outtakes
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT8jA_pps3o
Matt Harding - Where the Hell is Matt 2008
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
Matt Harding - Where the Hell is Matt 2010 World Cup
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9o5Pw1npAk
Matt Harding - Where the Hell is Matt in South Africa
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22yXljU4NfA
Matt Harding - Where the Hell is Matt Unknown
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4
Matt Harding - Where the Hell WAS Matt 2005
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WmMcqp670s


this caught my eye some time back as very telling and scary, and makes me never want to go to NY

Ron Gabriel - 3 Way Street
  • [Direct URL] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xf3wXRfbc
 

Ordo

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Fellgrave

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#5
Holy shit. I did an essay for my last year of highschool physics on the theory behind using an EMP for propulsion, but I thought it was (mostly) science fiction. That is so cool!
 

Ordo

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#6
[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2UxGrde1NDA[/video]
 

Avider

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#9
it was found that some of the beams were travelling faster than the speed of light.
Einstein vs NASA

I'll bet on Einstein.
 

Fellgrave

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#11
...Aim-assist is real. 0.0

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOaJclkSZg[/video]
 

Lord Raa

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#13
Don't forget that Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics.

Also, this experiment needs the whole "five sigma" confirmation/repeatability thing before I'll start getting really excited.
 

Avider

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#14
Nohvarr said:
Avider said:
it was found that some of the beams were travelling faster than the speed of light.
Einstein vs NASA

I'll bet on Einstein.
....and what do you give up if you lose that bet?
A bottle of tequila.

And I gain a whole new realm of physics in return. Seems a good deal to me.
 

Schema

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#15
I'll raise your bottle of tequila to a bottle of tequila.
 

Ordo

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#16
[video=youtube]https://youtu.be/ZL4yYHdDSWs[/video]
 

akun50

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#18
Fellgrave said:
Swear to god, I was in almost this exact rigging over twelve years ago in the Mall of America.  The difference is that the game displayed in the headset for the gif is infinitely better than the wireframe grenade-esque shooter that I played while in it. (seriously, it was basically a glorified virtual boy that they charged me $25 to play for fifteen minutes against a few rudimentary AI that I ruthlessly murdered and a cheapshotting BS dragon that I only managed to kill once because of how awkward the weird grenade shot was and how fast the dragon moved.)
 

Contrabardus

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#19
akun50 said:
Fellgrave said:
Swear to god, I was in almost this exact rigging over twelve years ago in the Mall of America.  The difference is that the game displayed in the headset for the gif is infinitely better than the wireframe grenade-esque shooter that I played while in it.  (seriously, it was basically a glorified virtual boy that they charged me $25 to play for fifteen minutes against a few rudimentary AI that I ruthlessly murdered and a cheapshotting BS dragon that I only managed to kill once because of how awkward the weird grenade shot was and how fast the dragon moved.)
I know this game. I also played it circa 1990 something in a much bulkier rig similar to this. Somebody ported it to the Oculus Rift. It was a Pterodactyl, not a dragon.

This:

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60wgPuuDpE[/video]
 

akun50

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#20
Huh.  That's definitely the game, though the version I played had half as many colors, if even that many; only one pterodactyl and could handle up to four players; though thinking on it, the colors might've been reduced to help the processor handle the "up to four players" part.  Maybe I preferred to think of that damn pterodactyl as a dragon because dying to even a cheating dragon at least has some dignity. It's a fucking dragon.
 

Ordo

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#21
http://gizmodo.com/boston-dynamics-made-a-robot-baby-giraffe-that-can-do-y-1782491650


[video=youtube]https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng[/video]
Still needs work but...


On the right path.
 

Ordo

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#24
Good news!
 
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