To make chemicals, often reactions need heaps of reagents or something (heat, cold, catalysts, acids, bases) to make it work. This is a whole new way of making reactions work that can be cheaper, easier with less waste.
I had a decent chat with a theoretical physicist who specialises in quantum computing a few years back. I was curious about its use for long range communication and he basically said that it's not possible. Even with quantum entanglement, you're not actually transmitting information. And information still can't travel faster than light.
So you were smart for a quantum second?
Yeah makes sense unfortunately just because we can predict the states of the far particle we can not control the state. Which is why it can be used in encryption sharing a known key because it can be created at one end via quantum states and predicted at the other end. But we still have to send the 'Information' via a separate light speed limited channel. Well from what I understand anyway.
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how does something launch in -3 minutes.
Got to be one hasn’t there.. semantics police..Just was in a little hurry..was coming back to correct it.. Hard to write stuff using a needle in your mouth dude..
Two actually - its a science thread and launching a rocket is engineering. WD40 and gaffer tape....Got to be one hasn’t there.. semantics police..Just was in a little hurry..was coming back to correct it.. Hard to write stuff using a needle in your mouth dude..
Anyway it was a successful launch!
Precedent had been set..way back in January 14th 2020.. the actual day this thread was started..there was no objection then about engineering being science ..Hence why I posted here about the launch..
So they are telling me there is still chance for my pecker to work again!Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze
A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.www.reuters.com
A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.
Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.
The bdelloid rotifer, a multicellular organism found in freshwater habitats across the world, is known to be able to withstand extreme cold.
Previous research suggested it could survive for a decade when frozen at -20 degrees Celsius.
This new case, which was detailed in a study in the journal Current Biology, is by far the creature's longest recorded survival period in a frozen state.
The organism was recovered from samples taken 3.5 metres below ground. The material was dated from between 23,960 and 24,485 years ago, the study said.
The rotifer is ok but the real interesting bit is different researchers have found viable virus cells within these organisms. Probably not a big risk for humans (as these viruses infected amoeba and similar) but does mean as the perma frost degrades, a whole new range of viruses are present in the environment.Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze
A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.
A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.
Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.
The bdelloid rotifer, a multicellular organism found in freshwater habitats across the world, is known to be able to withstand extreme cold.
Previous research suggested it could survive for a decade when frozen at -20 degrees Celsius.
This new case, which was detailed in a study in the journal Current Biology, is by far the creature's longest recorded survival period in a frozen state.
The organism was recovered from samples taken 3.5 metres below ground. The material was dated from between 23,960 and 24,485 years ago, the study said.
100% man, and these viruses developed and lived in a methane rich environment, no one knows what they'll do in an oxygen rich one? I'm hoping one mutates into a virus that makes you lose 20kgs and swells your dick at the same time.
Now I wait until they make it fit in my beast.... lolUS scientists set to announce fusion energy breakthrough
Scientists Tuesday are expected to announce a major advance in the long-running quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and starsabcnews.go.com
WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a “major scientific breakthrough” Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, according to one government official and one scientist familiar with the research. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the breakthrough ahead of the announcement.
Granholm was scheduled to appear alongside Livermore researchers at a morning event in Washington. The Department of Energy declined to give details ahead of time. The news was first reported by the Financial Times.
Proponents of fusion hope that it could one day produce nearly limitless, carbon-free energy, displacing fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources. Producing energy that powers homes and businesses from fusion is still decades away. But researchers said it was a significant step nonetheless.
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