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[bloop_bleep]

No, there's a wormhole, but in the sense that there is a giant worm eating Uranus and farting out x-rays.

[martinuzz]

Physicists created microscopic 'drums' that play an impossible rythm.
Quantum mechanics in action at a larger scale than thought possible.
Possible implications: Analog mechanical quantum computing

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6542/625

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6542/570

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/minitrommels-in-het-lab-slaan-onmogelijk-ritme-en-dat-verandert-het-beeld-over-de-grenzen-van-onze-wereld~b266b7e1/

[Jimmy]

The effect of football player transfer movements on abnormal fluctuations in oil price futures

A.K.A. Cowen's Second Law in action.

[Starver]

The effect of football player transfer movements on abnormal fluctuations in oil price futures

A.K.A. Cowen's Second Law in action.

Spoiler: Firstly, I can't read that because... (click to show/hide)

Strangely, I get a glimpse of the page and then it goes all-white (within the page part of the browser). I would expect an "Ok, before you have a proper look, we see you haven't subscribed" overlay being annoying. Or possibly a "You're in Europe [sic] and so we have to ask you about Cookies for GDPR purposes"/"You're in Europe and we can't actually bother with GDPR stuff, so you're blocked, go away!". But if it's overlaying anything, it aint getting further than the 100% opaque overlay and then passing onto the 'overlay with' bit...

...but this isn't Science, just badly built websites. (Or bad browsers but, given my browser is a major brand one and doesn't even have plugins they wouldn't expect, its not exactly an edge-case that does strange things and is impossible to account for.) Consider this a side-comment while

If it isn't like the "Israeli fighter pilots have a skewed ratio of daughters to sons" thing that's just a blip found after ploughing through data looking for a group that's a blip (or maybe it's a real thing for real reasons after all?), could it be that people who spend serious money on football (soccer, yes?) spend serious money in the oil business/markets and being flush with the cash in one also translates to the other? (Also, transfer seasons (pre- and mid-) are locked to the competitive season, which are locked to the year's seasons and therefore possible cycles of variatble use of fuel oils, so I could imagine this exagerates the lock-step in some way.)


Maybe that's all addressed, but as my "I can't read it" aside grew larger than intended, so my on-topic (if grievously uninformed) waffle also did.



But you're probably right in that it's very much like Rule 34.

[Jimmy]

Spoiler: Firstly, I can't read that because... (click to show/hide)

Strangely, I get a glimpse of the page and then it goes all-white (within the page part of the browser). I would expect an "Ok, before you have a proper look, we see you haven't subscribed" overlay being annoying. Or possibly a "You're in Europe [sic] and so we have to ask you about Cookies for GDPR purposes"/"You're in Europe and we can't actually bother with GDPR stuff, so you're blocked, go away!". But if it's overlaying anything, it aint getting further than the 100% opaque overlay and then passing onto the 'overlay with' bit...

...but this isn't Science, just badly built websites. (Or bad browsers but, given my browser is a major brand one and doesn't even have plugins they wouldn't expect, its not exactly an edge-case that does strange things and is impossible to account for.) Consider this a side-comment while

Here's the full article, hopefully it works for you

It's also authored by a bunch of Kiwis and Aussies, so I'm pretty sure a lot of beer was involved in the writing.

[Starver]

Here's the full article, hopefully it works for you

Only read the abstract so far, which had a "your privacy is important to us, say Yes for cookies" overlay that worked as it should (and revisted the upper link to check, and it still goes wrong, but I'm not digging into page-sources on this device!).

Interesting abstract, though. If the hypothesis is true then it may well be that Deep Learning auto-trading systems (and/or insightful human traders) might have established this proposed meta-connection between Sports News pages and upcoming Financial News.

It's also authored by a bunch of Kiwis and Aussies, so I'm pretty sure a lot of beer was involved in the writing.

Or that. I'll dive into the actual PDF when I'm on a better connection.

[Jimmy]

Mammalian enteral ventilation ameliorates respiratory failure

A.K.A. We can give you oxygen via your anus.

Spoiler: Because a picture is worth a thousand words (click to show/hide)

[wierd]

Or, for those that have difficulty with pictures, and also cannot read big walls of text:


A class of chemicals that has been known about for decades, Perfluorocarbons, can be shot up your butt when you are suffocating from acute lung dysfunction, and it will help you keep enough oxygen in your body to survive.

Or:

Oxygen rich enema lets you breathe through your ass.

[bloop_bleep]

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Well...at least we know.

[Starver]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema

(While we're in the ar... ea. Though not sure it should be done simultaneously.)

[Bumber]

But was Kellogg onto something with yogurt enemas?

[Arx]

Random question I had about lighter-than-air materials/flight -- how would a closed-cell metal foam filled with hydrogen perform? (alt. phrasing: why doesn't it work?) Obviously production would be kind of a mess because you'd need to do it in an inert gas or vacuum environment and that wouldn't be free, and if the cells weren't completely closed it'd be a bit sad, but it seems markedly less hazardous than the usual fair.

[wierd]

Simple question, complex answer.


Lighter than air machines work, because the total volume of the machine has less mass than the equivalent volume of air.

For most foams (other than an aerogel), the substrate is still heavier than the same volume of air, all on its own. This is why replacing the air in the foam with a lighter than air gas, has no real lifting effect.

Additionally--

Hydrogen is infamously hard to contain, and diffuses through solid materials, by wiggling through the gaps between molecules (since it is so much smaller than other molecules).   As such, an aerogel made with it, would only lift for a very short period of time; the hydrogen would diffuse out of the aerogel, and then it would become heavier than air again.

[Arx]

I do know how lighter-than-air flight works The answer is actually quite simple as it turns out, as crunching the numbers shows I was just underestimating the actual density of foamed aluminium. Something like a "macrofoam" would probably work but rapidly starts raising other questions.

Pedantic aside: I wouldn't expect an aerogel to be practical, I brought up metal foam specifically because it's less diffusible-through. The whole point of the exercise is to reduce the extent to which you're strapping your gondola to a fuel-air bomb waiting for the air