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By Jove! NASA's Juno prepares to slip into orbit around Jupiter
Martha Lane Fox: Brexit is all about MEEEEeeee!
London Stock Exchange's German mega-merger: It's a go, despite Brexit
Humans and bees share the same sociability genes
Last panel in place, China ready to boot up giant telescope
fMRI bugs could upend years of research
Monday 4th July 2016 05:18 GMT
I really like the "This is what your brain looks like on bad data" line.
Question: any chance the raw data is still stored somewhere and can be processed again using revised software? (I guess not, but I've never worked with MRI machines.)
BTW, why the many downvotes for the cargo cult reference? It may be a bit harsh in this context, but the basic point is valid. If you use something in your work that is a "black box" to you, you take a risk.
We'll smash probe into comet 300 million miles away for kicks, er, sorry, ... for science
Sunday 3rd July 2016 16:19 GMT
Re: landing at an angle that denied its solar panels vital sunlight
Pu-238* is about 8,000,000 USD per kg**, and for some years now there isn't that much of it to go around until someone makes some more. Which isn't trivial as you need Neptunium-237 and a nuclear reactor, hence the price tag. Right now a couple*** of kg Pu-238 is produced every year in the USA, after a break of 25 years.
The School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at OSU is working on a better method: Rebuilding the supply of Pu-238. Still in the theoretical / computer simulation phase, though.
* Other isotopes work too (Curium-244, Strontium-90, Polonium-210, Promethium-147, Caesium-137, Cerium-144, Ruthenium-106, Cobalt-60, Curium-242, Americium-241, Thulium), but if you want a small unit that lasts long, Pu-238 is the way to go. There once even was a series of cardiac pacemakers powered by Pu-238 RTGs (some of them still in use), that's how small you can make them.
** Probably not the deceiding factor. Cassini carried 32.7 kg of Pu-238 dioxyde.
*** Some sources suggest 1.5 kg, others 15 kg per year.
Bootnote: 1950ies Doc Brown was wrong. It's 2016, and we still can't buy Plutonium at the local drugstore. Time to invent Mr Fusion, so get cracking!
Friday 1st July 2016 07:28 GMT
"Rosetta's companion craft, the lander Philae, is already on the comet's surface, but has produced very little science after a botched landing."
Maybe so, but it has produced a lot of data for the engineers to make the next one better.
All things considered, the whole mission is amazing, very successful and a huge step forward.
Forget YouTube – meet ChewTube: Strangers watching millennials eat
Sunday 3rd July 2016 06:55 GMT
"I'm a scientist - nothing shocks me."
Mildly amusing. And not as irrelevant as I thought at first. Eating as a social event, aka eating in groups (or at least not alone) is something our species grew up with over thousands of generations. It's so much more than just consuming food. It's interaction. It's sharing information. It's getting to know each other. It's a good way to introduce new members to a group. It's honing social skills, be it the ability to communicate or simply manners and anything inbetween.
Think family dinner. Think romantic date. Think workers on their lunch break. Think soldiers sharing rations. Think state banquets. Think parties. Think barbies. Every single one of you reading this just had mental images of people eating together in your head. That's how ingrained it is.
From cot to coffin, in every culture, the one recurring element in every social gathering is - food.
And as there are more and more people living alone, while at the same time having access to advanced communications technology - how is it a surprise they are using this technology to fill a need that goes beyond physical nourishment?
Irrelevant sidenote: The linked article was informative as well. While I already had heard about Tingle and the Hugo thing (brilliant idea, by the way, that's how to tackle bigots), I didn't know that dinosaur erotica was a thing. You learn something new every day!
SEC probes ex Google bod
Microsoft: Give us better staff
Sunday 3rd July 2016 05:56 GMT
Mark, it's always the fault of the worker bees when things go wrong. Management is incapable of error per definitionem*. That's why they're management, see? If the worker bees were as brilliant as the managers, the worker bees wouldn't be working bees; they would be management too. Stands to reason, doesn't it?
* The crazy (or is it sad) thing is, in a way there is some truth in it - someone who doesn't actually do anything doesn't make a lot of mistakes. And in a very large organisation, doing nothing actually is an option if you use the time to come up for a good reason for doing nothing. Internal regulations or policies are the best reasons, followed by consultant's recommendations and statistics.
Michael Gove says Britain needs to create its own DARPA
Friday 1st July 2016 20:09 GMT
Keep calm & do not worry. Everything will be all right.
BAM! Astroboffins now have a second way of picking up black holes' collision super kicks
Friday 1st July 2016 18:49 GMT
Re: "remnants of the black holes..."
If I've got this right, light can't escape a black hole because it also behaves like a particle and is sucked in by the gravity, so speed isn't really a factor inaroun; it doesn't matter how fast the black hole is moving, and the light always moves at the speed of light anyway.
What I'm trying to wrap my mind around is the bit about "detecting a black hole kick would mean a direct observation that gravitational waves are carrying not just energy, but linear momentum as well."
Training puppies.
Friday 1st July 2016 17:17 GMT
From The Daily Mash
Our astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob:
Leo (23 JUL-22 AUG)
While you’d consider yourself more a dog person than a cat person, either will do if you’re hungry enough.
Music and relationships
Blighty's EU science funding will remain unchanged until new PM triggers Article 50
Cook's role on Nike board
Violin's reverse stock split
Bank tech boss: Where we're going, we don't need mainframes
Chinese gambling site served near record-breaking complex DDoS
A trip to the Twilight Zone with a support guy called Iron Maiden
Here's how police arrested Lauri Love – and what happened next
Friday 1st July 2016 11:34 GMT
This is very confusing. The NCA hat enough material to get a warrant, but not enough to formulate what to charge Love with?
Another thing that is puzzling me: "... three unidentified co-conspirators – two listed as residing near Australia and one near Sweden ..". Well, what is it? Norway? Finland? Or respectively, New Zealand? Papua New Guinea? Antarctica?
Extension to blue light services' Airwave network is on the cards
Can Ireland's grid green satisfy Facebook and Apple?
NRA guns down 38,000 Surge.sh sites in anti-parody spray-and-pray
Man sues YET AGAIN for chance to marry his computer
Cracking Android's full-disk encryption is easy on millions of phones – with a little patience
Man killed in gruesome Tesla autopilot crash was saved by his car's software weeks earlier
Friday 1st July 2016 07:06 GMT
Re: Yes but ... / telemetry
Well, regarding telemetry, Teslas are a bit like Windows-10-on-wheels:
MIT Technology Review - Tesla knows when a crash is your fault
But you can also diddle your driving data yourself: TeslaMS tools for telemetry data visualization
Apple, Amazon and Google are screwing us, warns Elizabeth Warren
Friday 1st July 2016 06:48 GMT
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
As it's friday, with pub o'clock and Malta vs Belgium only hours away, how about a little stroll down memory lane?
Jupiter's throwing a firework party for Juno – and Hubble's peeking in
Office 365 falls over in US
Honey, why are porno apps on your Android?! Er, um, malware did it!
LDAP snafu in Cisco Prime
Weird interview questions
Brexit-bored Brits back to bashing the bishop after ballot box blues
Oh, Red Hat. Contain yourself and your 'new innovations' talk
Google hires black man
Kremlin hackers and the Democratic National Committee: How deep is the rabbit-hole?
Trans-Pacific FASTER fibre fires first photons, finally
Peter Gabriel-backed music startup goes titsup, takes £500k of your money with it
Body of evidence: Biometrics and YOU
Wednesday 29th June 2016 11:17 GMT
Interesting idea: Rubber fingertips to use with fingerprint-based authentication systems. You'd be able to "change" your fingerprints when they get compromised.
What Brexit means for you as a motorist
Florida man sues Apple for $10bn, claims iPod, iPhone was his idea
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