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[Sergarr]

I don't think optical zoom is going to help if the sound waves need to reach the recording device to produce vibrations in it...

[miauw62]

I don't think optical zoom is going to help if the sound waves need to reach the recording device to produce vibrations in it...

The sound waves don't need to reach the camera.

[Reelya]

Yeah, there's a reason they're scanning chip packets and plants. the sound is making the plant / packet vibrate, not the camera.

[Sergarr]

I find it amusing that the worst fears of Orwell are coming true, but with one plus factor he couldn't predict: total and utter incompetence of Big Brother.

[martinuzz]

So, Rosetta succesfully completed it's maneuver to orbit the comet.
https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/496954420266270720/photo/1
This flight path video does make me curious if it will ever hit Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iEQuE5N3rwQ

[Il Palazzo]

This flight path video does make me curious if it will ever hit Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iEQuE5N3rwQ

In the planar projection you can't see the Z-axis position of the orbital nodes.
Take a look here: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=67P;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb and you'll see that the orbits never actually cross.

Having said that, orbits are never static, so it's not a definitive "no", but at least we can say it won't happen any time soon.

[martinuzz]

Found this nice TED talk about athletic robots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ

[Reelya]

Science for stupid people.

This article on Slashdot is asking whether finding dark energy / dark matter would invalidated the Big Bang Theory. I'll leave it at that, it sounds really dumb to me as the entire reason they predict dark energy is to make big bang cosmology work.

[Putnam]

wat

[Il Palazzo]

I don't get it. The question links to an article that answers it. What was the point of posting? Or maybe I just don't understand how slashdot works.

[Reelya]

I don't get it. The question links to an article that answers it. What was the point of posting? Or maybe I just don't understand how slashdot works.

Usually slashdot stories are a link and some commentary, provided by a "submitter". These range from people who repost quality news every day to occasional or first-time submitters (which could be good, but could be total crap too). So it's half-way between a news site and a forum, really, with every topic basically being a forum thread.

You're not alone, most of the commenters on slashdot were asking the same question as you. The meat is often in the discussion that articles provoke.

[alway]

So uh, I still don't get it. Why should we care what some random internet-peasant on a different forum thinks enough to bother discussing their implied views? Or is it just "here are the views of a random internet-peasant, begin laughter now." Because that's not really science or newsworthy in any way. >_>

[Putnam]

Does the second law of thermodynamics suggest that evolution is impossible?

(no it doesn't)

[Gentlefish]

I also heard some BS about information theory being used to disprove evolution using the opposite argument.

"You can't find or evolve a discrete signal from background noise so you can't have evolution for random bits!"

Also some BS saying "You change a force by 10^-100 of a degree and THE WHOLE EVERYTHING FALLS APART so religion"

Note: I am okay with religion. It's a great coping mechanism. I just hate when it tries to rationalize alongside science.

Science is the coolest thing out there man.

[Mr. Strange]

Banana confirmed to disprove evolution.