#March2012
MERCURY Has Frozen Water, Despite Being Hot As F**k? Zounds.
Mercury is straight chilling next to Sol, having the distinction of being the planet closest to the star in this fine system. With temperatures off the chain, one doesn’t generally imagine there be water on the planet. Unless you’re like me and you spend too much time imagining things in the Multiverse like my dumb ass. Going against all (seeming) sense there isn’t just water on the Scorcher. There’s frozen water.
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Scientists Implant FALSE MEMORIES In Mice. #INCEPTIONHORN
Scientists have implanted false memories in mice. The Inception horn is blowing like a mofuckah!
Stars Put Up Safety Barriers For Planets. COSMIC BUMPERS.
As scientists have used their super-technos to discover more and more planets, they’ve come to notice a pattern between the distance of these planets from their stars. At first most thought it was because of an unfavorable smell the stars exuded, but it may turn out to be something more clever. The stars themselves put up barriers. Cosmic bumper bowling.
The Sun’s Furious Sunspots Look Like PINK SPHINCTERS OF DOOM
Listen. We can pretend to be adults, or we can admit that these righteous sunspots look like a goddamn pink sphincter of Armageddon.
Microsoft Is Working On A Universal Translator. Foreign Language Teachers Shitting Themselves.
…Naw!, I’m just kidding. As products of the cultures they reflect, foreign languages will always have worth. Plus French is sexy. However, it would be goddamn glorious if I could have something to translate for me in a pinch. That’s why my boys Microsoft and their Science Daemons have my back.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON VIDEO: “We Stopped Dreaming”
Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t just a cuddly teddy bear and astrophysicist. He’s also a goddamn inspiration of mine, and a space-bound philosopher. This video has him laying it down about our lack of star-gazing in his typically dulcet tones.
Hit the jump for some NdGT.
Video: Huge Coronal Mass Ejection Slammed Into Earth Today. Sun Activity ++
On Tuesday evening, a curmudgeonly old Sun decided to erupt in a violent solar flare. Ole sumbitch Sun has been acting up for a while now. Early this morning, the Solar Puke smashed into our Earth’s atmosphere.
Hit the jump for videos of the ejection and some deets. It’s swoon.
Video: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Us The Most Astounding Fact Of The Universe
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is fucking awesome. Fact. Scientific fact. He was asked be a reader of TIME magazine what the most astounding fact of the universe was. This is his answer.
Hit the jump. Bask in the glory.
Video: The DARPA Cheetah Is The RoboDog Of Our Future Death
What the fuck are we doing here? We’re engineering our own destruction. DARPA is pretty good at building death machines with my tax money, and their latest is goddamn terrifying. The DARPA Cheetah, a dog-looking robot that can run 18 mph. Don’t even both running when the RoboPocalypse hits.
Hit the jump to see your doom in motion.
Oxygen Discovered Around Saturn’s Moon Dione. Spacegasm ++
Man, Cassini keeps paying dividends. According to a new report published in a fancy pants science thing journal, the spacecraft has detected oxygen around Dione.
