Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[10ebbor10]

They tend to die. Especially on Europa, where the outside is very, very cold. And low pressure.

We don't keep the shaft open, we have it freeze after us. There never will be a continuous hole for the water to spout into. After all, as we're melting the ice, pressure inside the shaft will be equal to the pressure in the oceans.

[Scoops Novel]

They tend to die. Especially on Europa, where the outside is very, very cold. And low pressure.

We don't keep the shaft open, we have it freeze after us. There never will be a continuous hole for the water to spout into. After all, as we're melting the ice, pressure inside the shaft will be equal to the pressure in the oceans.

Not that there aren't solutions, but how's the said communication equipment intended to manage in that case?

[10ebbor10]

Power: Radioisotopic
Temperature: See above
Pressure: Well, the probe can manage it, so the tranmitters should too.

[Scoops Novel]

Vostok's met some success. They've discovered the DNA of 3507 organism's in a water sample from Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake isolated for 15 million years. My source says "Most were bacterial DNA, with a few fungi and eukaryotic organisms (both single celled and multi-cellular). Many of these are completely new to science.

The paper is open access, read it here:"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067221

[kaian-a-coel]

Vostok's met some success. They've discovered the DNA of 3507 organism's in a water sample from Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake isolated for 15 million years. My source says "Most were bacterial DNA, with a few fungi and eukaryotic organisms (both single celled and multi-cellular). Many of these are completely new to science.

The paper is open access, read it here:"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067221

HURRAY FOR VOSTOK
Now onto Europa 

[Scoops Novel]

Vostok's met some success. They've discovered the DNA of 3507 organism's in a water sample from Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake isolated for 15 million years. My source says "Most were bacterial DNA, with a few fungi and eukaryotic organisms (both single celled and multi-cellular). Many of these are completely new to science.

The paper is open access, read it here:"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067221

HURRAY FOR VOSTOK
Now onto Europa 

HIGH 5's will happen that day.

[Loud Whispers]

SOOOOON

Sooner.




"-all we’ve learnt will not be forgotten.”

[alway]

This week in science & tech news:
New Boston Dynamics video of ATLAS, their humanoid robot work extending from their earlier PETMAN and ATLAS Proto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zkBnFPBV3f0

Chicago public library now has a 3D printer available for public use: http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013-07/chicago-brings-3-d-printers-its-main-public-library

The X-47B automated drone lands on a carrier for the first time; you've probably already seen this in the news, but here it is: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/autonomous-drone-lands-aircraft-carrier

The color of an exoplanet has been observed for the first time: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/astronomers-discover-color-exoplanet-first-time
It's blue and probably constantly sandblasted by tiny shards of glass forming in its atmosphere's 4000 mph winds.

[Lagslayer]

The color of an exoplanet has been observed for the first time: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/astronomers-discover-color-exoplanet-first-time
It's blue and probably constantly sandblasted by tiny shards of glass forming in its atmosphere's 4000 mph winds.

And athiests keep insisting that hell doesn't exist.

[Dutchling]

The color of an exoplanet has been observed for the first time: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/astronomers-discover-color-exoplanet-first-time
It's blue and probably constantly sandblasted by tiny shards of glass forming in its atmosphere's 4000 mph winds.

And athiests keep insisting that hell doesn't exist.

I've seen more christians insisting that than atheists

[Scoops Novel]

I was wondering recently how scientists involved in fields of enough importance to have any discoveries strictly controlled view their work, such as  (presumably) some medical research. Any first or second-hand sources?

[Lagslayer]

I imagine it's somewhere along the lines of "They won't let us do anything! And everything else costs too much!"

[kaian-a-coel]

Yup. From what my scientist acquaintances/teachers told me, begging for money is half the job.

[Scoops Novel]

How did the scientists coming out of Cold War funding levels find it?

[MonkeyHead]

Yup. From what my scientist acquaintances/teachers told me, begging for money is half the job.

Dont forget the backstabbing. We have to be good at that, too.