[Hip Priest]

A distant star that hurtles through space at extraordinary speeds has a huge, comet-like tail trailing in its wake, astronomers say. The appendage, which measures a colossal 13 light years in length, was spotted by Nasa's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) space telescope. The researchers said that nothing like it had ever been spotted around a star...

[Hip Priest]

A rock will be hurled into space on a rocket and subjected to the fiery heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere to test whether life could have hitched a ride from one planet to another in debris from an asteroid strike...

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

 

!Bill El Scientifico!

[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

Thanks for that. Very interesting reading.

That comment was directed towards the hip priest.

[pbradley]

Speed of light barrier broken
http://www.science-spirit.org/archiv...php?new_id=305

[afterthefact]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB5VXJXxnNU

[pbradley]

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[Hip Priest]

A study into the mysterious changing skull shape of medieval man casts serious doubt on current theories.

The peculiar shift from long narrow heads to those of a rounder shape, and back again, which took place between the 11th and 13th centuries, has been noted at sites throughout western Europe. But a study of skulls found at the deserted village of Wharram Percy, near Malton, North Yorkshire, suggests that the anatomical blip was not down to an influx of Norman immigrants, or climate change, English Heritage has said.

It examined nearly 700 skeletons recovered from the village. Unlike other research, data from the Wharram site traces the change to a single, indigenous community which has been radiocarbon-dated.

Simon Mays, a skeletal biologist, said: “Our work has yielded few clues on why skulls changed, but we have cast serious doubt on some of the current theories. Despite the best efforts of science, we’re still in the dark to explain why it happened.”

The findings are presented in the latest volume of the Wharram Percy project, which aims to publish the results of 40 years of archaeological excavations at the Yorkshire Wolds village between 1950 and 1990.

[Hip Priest]

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.
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For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

[Hip Priest]

More:

Deep hole in Mars: http://space.newscientist.com/articl...after-all.html

Supersonic 'rain' hits planet-forming disc: http://space.newscientist.com/articl...ming-disc.html

Orchid Fossil reveals flowers' domination of the Earth: http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-of-earth.html

[afterthefact]

cool thread, don't let this one die...

[!@#$%!]

there is no santa

 

[afterthefact]

kinda neat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/health/25brai.html?ex=1356238800&en=d11d5bf61e3892cc&ei=5 124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

[✌➬]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/he...tml?ref=health

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Originally Posted by ✌➬

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/he...tml?ref=health

i was reading about this in the newspaper, it's the first biological organ created in a lab!

[king_buzzo]

science pwns. i'm sorry i didnt take physics or chemistry in school this year but only biology.

damn.

oh well.

[pbradley]

Giant fireball spotted on galatic rampage.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06...balls_of_fire/

God's hadouken?

[m1rr0r dash]

Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan

Dr. Jawad Al-Ali (55), director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra, Iraq stated, at a recent conference in Japan: "Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2 cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney--he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer. Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer".

more at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060503&articl eId=2374

in depth bbc coverage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/...um/default.stm

disturbing pictures of deformed babies in Afghanistan
http://liberty.hypermart.net/cgi-bin...ade_in_america

[✌➬]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/sc...ce&oref=slogin

[krastian]

Disabled spy satellite threatens Earth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/...dead_satellite


Well, see you all in hell.