The Enlightening Science Thread

Press releases - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Sounds like the beginning of a "death ray" Colin. If it could heat water, it could blood too.

I wonder if you could scale that concept back a little, we have oil-fired hot water baseboard heat and I've been looking into using induction coils to heat the water and stop using home heating oil.

BBC News - In pictures: Best space images of 2013

Artificial worm starts to wriggle

The Open Worm project aims to build a lifelike copy of a nematode roundworm entirely out of computer code.

This week the creature's creators added code that gets the virtual worm wriggling like the real thing.

The next step is to hook the body up to a simulation of the worm's brain to help understand more about how and why it moves.

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Didn't know these existed Cree 60-watt Replacement LED Bulb - Smart home - CNET Reviews

If all members would send me a $1, I can reserve a seat on Space ship Two.

Sleeping spacecraft Rosetta nearly ready to wake up for comet landing

The Rosetta spacecraft is due to wake up on the morning of January 20 after an 30-month hibernation in deep space. For the past ten years, the three-ton spacecraft has been on a one-way trip to a 4 km-wide comet. When it arrives, it will set about performing a maneuver that has never been done before: landing on a comet’s surface.

The spacecraft has already achieved some success on its long journey through the solar system. It has passed by two asteroids—Steins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010—and it tried out some of its instruments on them. Because Rosetta’s journey is so protracted, however, preserving energy has been of the utmost importance, which is why it was put into hibernation in June 2011. The journey has taken so long because the spacecraft needed to be “gravity-assisted” by many planets in order to reach the necessary velocity to match the comet’s orbit.

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Britton30 said:

If all members would send me a $1, I can reserve a seat on Space ship Two.

Would that be economy or business class sir??