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Started by ksm32, May 08, 2016, 09:59:42 PM

GravitySucks

Quote from: Inglorious Bitch on August 23, 2016, 01:09:02 PM
Found you! NASA re-establishes contact with missing spacecraft

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/health/nasa-stereo-spacecraft-found/index.html

(CNN)Despite almost two years of silence, NASA never stopped searching for its long lost spacecraft STEREO-B.

This week that determination paid off.

Lost...
NASA announced Sunday that it had re-established contact with STEREO-B after communications were lost in October 2014.
Contact with the spacecraft -- which works in tandem with a second spacecraft STEREO-A to study the sun -- was lost during a test of one of its timers.

Scientists had been testing the timer when STEREO-B's line of sight and communication to Earth was blocked by the sun.
Meanwhile STEREO-A was unaffected by testing, and continued working normally over the past 22 months

...and found
STEREO-B was recovered using NASA's Deep Space Network -- an array of giant radio antennas that tracks interplanetary missions.


more at site

I am glad to hear that. It is one of the missions that myself and my team of IV&V nerds worked on for several years to make sure the spacecraft software and systems would work correctly. Sounds like they still are. We weren't involved in analyzing the mission control software for the ground systems.

starrmtn001

Quote from: GravitySucks on August 23, 2016, 01:59:38 PM
I am glad to hear that. It is one of the missions that myself and my team of IV&V nerds worked on for several years to make sure the spacecraft software and systems would work correctly. Sounds like they still are. We weren't involved in analyzing the mission control software for the ground systems.
I am so glad Ibby posted this for you.  ;) ;D

Good news for leukemia patients and maybe other cancer patients.

Aussie drug melting cancer cells approved for human use in U.S.

MELBOURNE, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A tablet developed in Melbourne that "melts away" cancer cells has been approved for use in the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday that venetoclax was approved for prescription outside of human trials for patients with chronic lymphotic leukemia (CLL).

Venetoclax, which overwhelms the BCL-2 protein that is vital to cancer cell survival, was developed in Melbourne in the 1980s after researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) discovered the importance of BCL-2.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/23/c_135626129.htm


ksm32

Quote from: aldousburbank on August 23, 2016, 09:43:23 PM
LSD Might Make You More Creative

Duh



Yes indeed.  Just don't try to fly, gravity does indeed, suck.


How now am I posting within a quote? This has gone horribly wrong.



Hautex

OH MY GOD!!! IT'S TOO BIG!!!! Not many of y'all have ever heard or said that before......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98KYMpBx9og

Made out with my 1st girlfriend in the balcony of this theatre, so many fond memories of organs in this place....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exZwK9TwOk

Yorkshire pud

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37209726

Researchers at Stanford University have designed a unique wind tunnel to observe how tiny birds fly.
They want to understand how it is done so they give the same skills to flying robots.

Surgeons want to transplant a human head â€" really â€" and a Russian is offering his

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surgeons-want-to-transplant-a-human-head--really--and-a-russian-is-offering-his/2016/08/29/16795a56-6987-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html

This begs the question, which person will this morphed new individual become? The one with the head or the one with the body? Which one will maintain property rights or legal circumstances? I'm thinking of this in general terms rather than for this particular situation. Freaky but interesting.

ksm32

Quote from: Astrid Galactic on August 29, 2016, 04:57:34 PM
Surgeons want to transplant a human head â€" really â€" and a Russian is offering his

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surgeons-want-to-transplant-a-human-head--really--and-a-russian-is-offering-his/2016/08/29/16795a56-6987-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html

This begs the question, which person will this morphed new individual become? The one with the head or the one with the body? Which one will maintain property rights or legal circumstances? I'm thinking of this in general terms rather than for this particular situation. Freaky but interesting.

Head, wins, every time.


Hautex

This is far beyond quirky and it warrants some attention.... http://www.enviroreporter.com/2015/01/high-radiation-detected-in-l-a-rain/
What else is being thrown under the rug.....

starrmtn001

Quote from: HAUnted TEXan on September 02, 2016, 12:40:01 PM
This is far beyond quirky and it warrants some attention.... http://www.enviroreporter.com/2015/01/high-radiation-detected-in-l-a-rain/
What else is being thrown under the rug.....
I was born and raised there. :'(






This poor little thing. Kind of like some mutant porn unicorn.

Here's the link. I won't post a photo though in case some snowflake starts melting all over the place, or maybe falls in love.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mutant-pig-human-face-penis-8775850

I'll leave all the obvious jokes for the rest of you.




Quote from: GravitySucks on September 12, 2016, 02:14:31 PM
Jim Berkland (RIP) had been presenting this hypothesis for years.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2016/09/12/full-moon-high-tides-earthquakes/90259216/

Yeah I know.  I'm not sure where or when I first heard  that a full moon and tides can affect earthquakes but I've believed that for a while now.  It just makes sense.  Mainstream media is always usually the last to report on stories like this and health news.

albrecht

Quote from: GravitySucks on September 12, 2016, 02:14:31 PM
Jim Berkland (RIP) had been presenting this hypothesis for years.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2016/09/12/full-moon-high-tides-earthquakes/90259216/
They didn't even mention him at all in the article.  >:(
I hope someone updates his wikipedia entry and the Skeptical Inquirer etc articles about Berkland.


Quote from: norland2424 on September 12, 2016, 04:16:36 PM
Saw this trending on Facebook, fashion models wearing fake semen.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/models/a17631/hood-by-air-x-rated-hair-and-makeup/

I see the show was done in conjunction with Pornhub. lol. Somehow, I don't think this fashion statement is going to catch on.  It looks like they forgot to rinse off when they were taking a shower.

JesusJuice

Woman files class action lawsuit against manufacturer of "smart" dildo and app for tracking her orgasm habits.

http://www.vocativ.com/358530/smart-dildo-company-sued-for-tracking-users-habits/



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