What's Cool in Science This Week?

[Sir Slash]

"OK, but what kind of game could possibly need dice with that many sides"?

[Labbug]

Space travel looks to affect genes.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-twins-study-confirms-preliminary-findings

[Sir Slash]

My luck. "Your twin brother is going into space for a year so you have to do everything just like he does including drinking your own recycled pee and no alcohol or sex".  :'(   Still a very interesting article. Thanks for the post.

[steve58]

Cars available via 3D printing coming in 2019.   From the looks of it, not sure I'd want to get in one just yet...

[Sir Slash]

I would need to 3-D print a set of 'Jaws of Life' to get me out of the damned thing.

[bayonetbrant]

https://futurism.com/videos/watch-oklo-the-two-billion-year-old-nuclear-reactor/

[Emeraldlis]

^ that's so cool! 2 billion years ago sounds like a long time, but in our planets history it isn't. Scientists reckon the earth is about 4 billion years old, so if you put that on a timeline of geological events happening on the earth, it would be at the midway point. I'm fairly happy though that I wouldn't have been around then to be so close to a natural nuclear reactor, and radioactive uranium at that   :bd: Although the sun is a natural nuclear reactor, but its 149.6 million Km away from the earth...... A safe distance  :D

Cool video though, the atom splitting animation and explanation was great to watch  O0

[Labbug]

Could be a hoax but here it is:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/21/loch-ness-monster-found-shocking-pictures-unidentified-sea-creature-surface.html

[Staggerwing]

Could be a hoax but here it is:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/21/loch-ness-monster-found-shocking-pictures-unidentified-sea-creature-surface.html

1-2 meters makes for one tiny Nessie.

[Sir Slash]

Could be Nessie's Dongle. And little as it is could explain why he never shows his face.

[Labbug]

This cuts down the number of states I am willing to move.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/28/7-foot-alligator-spotted-in-tennessee-is-latest-several-confirmed-sightings-wildlife-agency-says.html

[Sir Slash]

The 7 foot ones are still just babies here in Fla. They're probably running up north so the really big ones can't eat them. See, nothing to be alarmed about?

[Pete Dero]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43557446

China's defunct space lab, Tiangong-1, should fall to Earth over the weekend.

At over 10m in length and weighing more than 8 tonnes, it is larger than most of the man-made objects that routinely re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

[Staggerwing]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43557446

China's defunct space lab, Tiangong-1, should fall to Earth over the weekend.

At over 10m in length and weighing more than 8 tonnes, it is larger than most of the man-made objects that routinely re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Cool science for most of Europe maybe, but the Continental US is further south and right along the debris reentry corridor. Time to pile some old mattresses on my roof.

Hmmm, I wonder how much I could get for any of those Tigerdong-1 pieces on eBay...

[Pete Dero]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43557446

China's defunct space lab, Tiangong-1, should fall to Earth over the weekend.

At over 10m in length and weighing more than 8 tonnes, it is larger than most of the man-made objects that routinely re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Cool science for most of Europe maybe, but the Continental US is further south and right along the debris reentry corridor. Time to pile some old mattresses on my roof.

Hmmm, I wonder how much I could get for any of those Tigerdong-1 pieces on eBay...

As noted in the article : experts say there is very low risk that any parts of Tiangong that do not burn up will hit a populated area.

It could be 'cool' if one saw the bigger parts burn up in the atmosphere as a fireball.