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[Sergarr]

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22292/1/sci-fi-film-interstellar-leads-to-new-scientific-discovery

Spoiler: Behold, the first realistic image of a black hole! (click to show/hide)

It's so magnificent.

[Lagslayer]

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22292/1/sci-fi-film-interstellar-leads-to-new-scientific-discovery

Spoiler: Behold, the first realistic image of a black hole! (click to show/hide)

It's so magnificent.

Never really thought about it that way, but it seems to make sense. Black holes spin and have magnetic poles, so an accretion disc of some sort should be present.

[Frumple]

The universe's power button.

I hope no one holds one down for a few seconds

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I could go full Star Child staring at that thing.

[redwallzyl]

plastic problem solved i guess.

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/08/fungus-discovered-rainforest-capable-eating-plastic-pollution.html

[Bauglir]

Oh god. We're going to have to go back to using metal and shit for things we don't want rotting away. I should look into which ones are likely to see more frequent use, but it'll be nice for disposable things to be actually disposed of.

[lemon10]

Yuck. Depending on how efficient the fungus is we might start to see plastic breaking down everywhere, which while it will be awesome for the environment, will be substantially less awesome for things we *don't* want to break down.
Although from the fact that it hasn't already spread and eaten all our plastic we probably don't really have anything to worry about.

[Gentlefish]

oh no fungus got into my game console fuck.

Oh there goes my cheap laptop. How did it get into my phone.

[freeformschooler]

You guys are overreacting. When have you ever seen fungus invade your home on a massive scale? Except for that time you left the shower curtain out.

[Gentlefish]

I'm kidding.

Mostly.

Fungus invaded my tortoise's habitat frequently when the happy little bastard was still alive. I had mushrooms and shit sprouting every few weeks no matter how much I scrubbed and cleaned the place.

[scrdest]

You guys are overreacting. When have you ever seen fungus invade your home on a massive scale? Except for that time you left the shower curtain out.

Also, microorganisms are not magic. This particular fungus has evolved the specific ability to consume polyurethane. Want something to still not be biodegradable? Use non-polyurethane plastics. Simple as that.

E: There are other fungi that can do that, common even - like Aspergillus niger, which is a common industry workhorse (if you've taken vitamin C... yep, it's probably made with these), although they simply are less efficient - this one can survive on polyurethane alone, and does not demand uselessly long time to do so.

[Bauglir]

These are perfectly good points, but I see no reason to let them get in the way of a good ol' fashioned panic. How do you expect us to cry, "WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?" when you keep calmly explaining what science has done and why it's nothing to worry about?

[scrdest]

These are perfectly good points, but I see no reason to let them get in the way of a good ol' fashioned panic. How do you expect us to cry, "WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?" when you keep calmly explaining what science has done and why it's nothing to worry about?

*shrug*

Sure, but GIT OFF MAH FIELD, DURN KIDS! Go panic over Ebola or sumthin'!

[Sergarr]

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?_mc=sm_eet&doc_id=1324403&page_number=3

An experimental processor achieves 4x the performance compared to the currently existing approaches by using hardware multi-threading.

This may be the technology that will finally allows us to run DF at a reasonable speed! And also will make all people suggesting to add multi-threading to the game finally shut up.

[Angle]

ptw