One of my heroes - thanks Byron! Disgraceful what was done to him. :(

Well - this thread is literally STUFFED full of interesting science and articles that I'd best get back to them. :)

Edit:
@Dr Who fan - might start with your one about finding alien life in our lifetimes :)

Hi Annie and hi everyone. Thank you for your posts.

April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.

Facts About Earth

thank you for that link.

April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.

Facts About Earth

thank you for that link.

Hello Byron!! :) Lovely to see you!

From TechRepublic.com:
Artificial Intelligence and life beyond the algorithm: Alan Turing and the future of computing

Turing is not just a historical figure; his work is still crammed with relevance - and tricky questions.
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But the interest in Turing is not just historical - his work is still relevant to some of the thorniest problems in tech, particularly around artificial intelligence. While a number of other academics and engineers had a role in the creation of digital computing, what sets Turing apart is the breadth of his influence, says S. Barry Cooper a professor of mathematical logic at the University of Leeds.

"He is bringing ideas about computation to different areas and that's what's really significant about Turing - he made all these connections and he had a global over-arching view of how computation worked in many different contexts," he said.

April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.

Facts About Earth

thank you for that link.

Hello Byron!! :) Lovely to see you!

+1 :)

Today, https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/from-nature-the-chips-are-down-for-moores-law/

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Could people please, instead of just dumping an anonymous link in this thread, take the time and effort to post a little snippet of what is under that link as part of the message? This so in the future when the link goes dead, the news stays, while when multiple of you post things, you don't have to check through the link if that's the same thing you wanted to post about.

With thanks.

Thanks for that link Chris.
I've always been disappointed about that item, and now it's worse. It came so close.
And now there's the new failure as well.

For those of you not so vexed, the previous link was about Beagle 2, the "apparently" failed British mission to Mars in 2003. Latest research now shows that it came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding.

Shame Dr Colin Pillinger ain't alive to hear this news , he was heartbroken when it was all over the papers & television in this country when they said Beagle 2 had failed :-(

Zombie apocalypse would wipe out humankind in just 100 days, students calculate

University of Leicester physics students explore feasibility of surviving viral infection.

A real-life zombie outbreak would leave the world’s population in shambles, with less than 300 survivors remaining a mere one hundred days into the apocalypse, according to students from the University of Leicester.

Assuming that a zombie can find one person each day, with a 90 per cent chance of infecting victims with the zombie infection, the students from the University of Leicester Department of Physics and Astronomy suggest that by day one hundred there be just 273 remaining human survivors, outnumbered a million to one by zombies.

They are normally timed to avoid the exams, and many students are still in "celebration" mode for the next couple of weeks...

Scary...
Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers

Unless... April Fool's Day is around the corner.

Scary, but April's Fool is this Sat so maybe... :-)

Scary...
Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers

Unless... April Fool's Day is around the corner.

I think I will watch a science fiction movie and get inspired.

The Lancet reports Restoration of reaching and grasping movements through brain-controlled muscle stimulation in a person with tetraplegia: a proof-of-concept demonstration.

We report the findings of an individual with traumatic high-cervical spinal cord injury who coordinated reaching and grasping movements using his own paralysed arm and hand, reanimated through implanted FES, and commanded using his own cortical signals through an intracortical brain–computer interface (iBCI).[/url]

We're all going to die, again. Yellowstone Supervolcano May Rumble to Life Faster Than Thought

A new study of ancient ash suggests that the dormant giant could develop the conditions needed to blow in a span of mere decades.

If the supervolcano underneath Yellowstone erupts again, we may have far less advance warning time than we thought.
After analyzing minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption, researchers at Arizona State University think the supervolcano last woke up after two influxes of fresh magma flowed into the reservoir below the caldera.
And in an unsettling twist, the minerals revealed that the critical changes in temperature and composition built up in a matter of decades. Until now, geologists had thought it would take centuries for the supervolcano to make that transition.

A 2013 study, for instance, showed that the magma reservoir that feeds the supervolcano is about two and a half times larger than previous estimates. Scientists also think the reservoir is drained after every monster blast, so they thought it should take a long time to refill. Based on the new study, it seems the magma can rapidly refresh—making the volcano potentially explosive in the geologic blink of an eye.
“It’s shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption,” study co-author Hannah Shamloo told the New York Times.

We're all going to die, again.

Do they allow people to pitch tents on top?

I don't think it matters much. When that thing blows, it'll eject one cubic kilometer of rocks and ash. I suppose if you're on top of it when it does, that you won't know about it.

I don't think it matters much. When that thing blows, it'll eject one cubic kilometer of rocks and ash. I suppose if you're on top of it when it does, that you won't know about it.

Reading the article it said the last time is went it blew 240 cubic miles of rocks and ash, I think that is a bit more than 1 km^3. Orders of magnitude more.

In any case all of us in the USA are screwed and likely everyone in the northern hemisphere.

Of course that isn't the only super out there. Long Valley caldera is a pretty impressive event as well.