ReadingPhilly wrote:i've become fascinated with solar roadways. hopefully they become viable in the next 10-20 years.

yeah, it's gonna take quite a while from where they are now (if ever- lots of counterindications of why this could never work).

here's my comment on that video:

I am very bearish on the viability of the concept- too many issues that I don't think can be overcome. HOWEVER, what we have here is a PROTOTYPE- picking at its faults servers no purpose. Remember the first iphone launch? Well, Jobs was carrying a dummy prototype there- it was basically just a video simulation on a small screen. And that eventually turned out OK, dontcha think??

The ice over top the volcano is melting.

No big deal, the volcanism is just below the West Antarctic Ice Shelf.

At immediate risk is several feet of sea level rise. Immediate now through the end of our lifetimes.

At intermediate risk is several METERS of sea level rise. The next couple hundred years.

You dont understand climate change but you do understand volcanos.

May I suggest that the Science and Nature thread is an appropriate one for this kind of thing?

I did not see one. Go ahead and flip this into that.

Really interesting article about immunotherapy for cancer. Very promising research.

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-jim-al ... akthrough/

Smoking a brisket next weekend for the first time. Anyone have an injection concoction the recommended?

Fortunately, Apep appears not to be aimed at Earth, because a strike by a gamma-ray burst from this proximity could strip ozone from the atmosphere, drastically increasing our exposure to UV light from the Sun.

A star is IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD is about to explode.

If it was aimed at us, that would be it for us.

Really

momadance wrote:Smoking a brisket next weekend for the first time. Anyone have an injection concoction the recommended?

Yes, don’t. Rendering the fat is enough with the rub.

Think injections are more necessary when you're trying to do a fast smoke

Lol totally wrong thread. But yeah, no injection.

Must’ve been smoking something else when you posted in this thread.

Slowhand wrote:Must’ve been smoking something else when you posted in this thread.

dabs

https://t.co/p0PeiITcWS?amp=1

A ROCKET travels
From Earth to space, as seen from the ISS

Very cool.

BTW, we're landing another rover on Mars today. I think it will land around 2:30 pm. God speed, little metal buddy. Please don't skip off the atmosphere into space, burn up on entry, or fail to deploy your supersonic parachute. And for goodness sake, make sure you turn off your thrusters immediately upon landing so you don't flip over onto your back and remain stuck there like some interplanetary turtle. That would just be embarrassing.

Lander down safely.

The next big things in science

1. Unlimited power from Nuclear fusion. Now that they have super computers and supercoducting magnets they JUST produced a commercial level of power, for about 30 seconds in Germany.

Think the sun in a big crock pot.

Really.

ETA 10-20 years MAny think the group in Vancouver will win this race.

2. Desktop Quantum computing.

This is too freaky to believe so read about it. Especially the Australian effort, which is ahead in some ways.

ETA 10 years

3. Crispr revolution.

You can take out any gene you want if you know how, and then fix it, or delete it or what have you. WOW. China CRISPR babies, human one, will be announced this year or next. Dozens of them.

Really

4. Ultra Ultra fast Internet via starlink.

Elon will be lifting the entire star system of small satellites with the Starship huge rocket ship. When I designed something like this just after the Columbia disaster, the NASA engineers said, no one will want that rocket.

aha.

5. Ford and GM have gone electric, although apparantly they have not committed to doing away with their trucks, yet.

The electric car is only being sold well by Tesla. Jaguar may have hit a home run. Porche will obviously bring it in. Rivian may well sell many of the players the chassis/drivetrain/suspension. Who is Rivian.

6. Along with Crispr the designer drug tsunami will cure all cancer and AD within 30 years.

7. That means we will all be posting here in the year 2060.

Monkeyboy wrote:Very cool.

BTW, we're landing another rover on Mars today. I think it will land around 2:30 pm. God speed, little metal buddy. Please don't skip off the atmosphere into space, burn up on entry, or fail to deploy your supersonic parachute. And for goodness sake, make sure you turn off your thrusters immediately upon landing so you don't flip over onto your back and remain stuck there like some interplanetary turtle. That would just be embarrassing.

If Tesla does that you see the LIVE landing, if NASA does it you see everyone staring at their console and then getting up and cheering. And btw, the NASA engineers do not look as sharp as in years past. The best engineers are at Blue Origin and Space X.

Spacex is about to lap the field AGAIN with the Starship beginning tests in 2019.

joboggi wrote:The next big things in science

1. Unlimited power from Nuclear fusion. Now that they have super computers and supercoducting magnets they JUST produced a commercial level of power, for about 30 seconds in Germany.

Think the sun in a big crock pot.

Really.

ETA 10-20 years MAny think the group in Vancouver will win this race.

2. Desktop Quantum computing.

This is too freaky to believe so read about it. Especially the Australian effort, which is ahead in some ways.

ETA 10 years

3. Crispr revolution.

You can take out any gene you want if you know how, and then fix it, or delete it or what have you. WOW. China CRISPR babies, human one, will be announced this year or next. Dozens of them.

Really

4. Ultra Ultra fast Internet via starlink.

Elon will be lifting the entire star system of small satellites with the Starship huge rocket ship. When I designed something like this just after the Columbia disaster, the NASA engineers said, no one will want that rocket.

aha.

5. Ford and GM have gone electric, although apparantly they have not committed to doing away with their trucks, yet.

The electric car is only being sold well by Tesla. Jaguar may have hit a home run. Porche will obviously bring it in. Rivian may well sell many of the players the chassis/drivetrain/suspension. Who is Rivian.

6. Along with Crispr the designer drug tsunami will cure all cancer and AD within 30 years.

7. That means we will all be posting here in the year 2060.

8. Climate change - by 2100 everyone’s life is going to be shit

I visited the fusion reactor at EFPL in Switzerland. They let us walk right around inside and even touch stuff. I think it's the same style that germany has. Assuming we didn't already go past the tipping point, it's our best bet at not going through horrific climate change. The human migration alone will be devastating, so I hope the fusion stuff comes through