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srsly, nice mnml ryoji ikeda soundtrack too

fucking love the space IDM XPOST

that darn nakhchivan

there is always above air by CoH, a 'concept album' abt a pilot floating in and out of consciousness in the upper atmosphere

caek do you know that this is all about (apologies if posted elsewhere)

is it aliens?

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

judging by the people involved giving the conference, it's something in the solar system (so not another exoplanet discovery). a "finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life" suggests it may even be a discovery on earth, which would also make sense given people involved.

findings on earth that would impact the search for evidence of ET life include some new form of life that can survive in very extreme conditions, or, and this would be a very very big deal: clear evidence that life started twice on earth in the form of something that does not share the common ancestor that all currently known life shares.

doesn't sound like aliens though :-(

finally, a noble gas-based lifeform

i was on holiday at the time, but i think bill clinton gave the 1997 one on life on mars, so this is clearly not _that_ big

blast from the past http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/clinton.html

>finally, a noble gas-based lifeform

I, for one, welcome our Argonian overlords and their lilac glow.

caek otm: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/11/mediablogger-ex.html

this would be a very very big deal: clear evidence that life started twice on earth in the form of something that does not share the common ancestor that all currently known life shares.

good call. this would be dope.

if life has started once on earth it doesn't prove much about whether it started elsewhere, especially since, as far as we can tell, the odds against it are overwhelming. if it's started twice on earth than that doesn't just double the number of times we know it started. it also proves there's something wrong with our calculation of the odds, and they're not actually that remote. and that all but guarantees there is life elsewhere.

thinking about it, that would be the kind of news that would be so big they might get the president involved, so maybe it's just arsenic stuff.

someone on this thread has access to the paper.

ne way, i started a phd in this stuff in australia (with the first author on that paper before he moved to AZ, as it happens), so it is relevant to my interests.

although i'm handing my own phd thesis in on friday (conclusion: there is more magnesium in the middle bit of this one galaxy than in the outside bit), so i'm pretty annoyed this is going to blow my stuff off the front page.

WHO HAS IT

Your phd thesis needs some tie-in between magnesium and the prevelance of cute, naked women. Pics helpful. It wouldn't have to be a very strong tie to get yoiu back onto the front page, imo.

caek if u feed me the angle ill sensationalize it on gawker for u

only if the dentonator gives me double what the iphone 4 guy got

caek what is this nonsense about rings in the background microwave radiation proving the universe has started over and over again? is penrose high as usual?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/recycled-universe/

i'm not an expert on CMB analysis, which is something people spend careers on. neither is penrose for that matter. that is utter nonsense imo.

always wondered what happened him after dangermouse got cancelled

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/epic-discovery-nasa-discovers-new-non-dna-based-life-form-to-be-annouced-at-2-pm-est.html

whoa

rad!

so cool

here we go!

trending right now #gävlegoat #arsenic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PENuNVapc&feature=related

so fucking cool

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4Oy_7FFvAeg/Sun71WaOgWI/AAAAAAAAFuE/MSgPNQt8O3A/s400/Arsenic+mouth+stuff+www.amazingribs.com+cary_grant.jpg

hey caek do you think this is a cool graphic why or why not thx love yr stuff

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/4002050596_0c2b6c4dd2_o.jpg

it's amazing data, but the graphic itself is (1) kind of confusing imo (2) loses the opportunity to lay down some serious multi-dimensionality (see VDQI by tufte for details)

the voyager mission is probably my favourite thing re: human space exploration.

via this discussion:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/09/giant-magellan-telescope-robin-mckie

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2011-06-a-large_web.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2K5rH.gif

via

Cox's Wonders Of The Universe (4 parts, first part was on BBC HD yesterday and is on BBC 2 in England tomorrow) : C/D ?
(I'll probably just order the blu-ray if they make one)

if you can deal with the brian cox and the top gear test report style "CINEMATOGRAPHY" then everything he says is pretty solid, i think.

Although he got to it eventually he got my back up by saying there was no physical law that prevented a glacier from reconstituting itself. Nothing in classical mechanics says it can't happen by thermodynamics certainly has something to say on the matter. Are these not physical laws or are they devalued because us engineers came up with them?

hey caek i cant find your email--do you want to give an official comment on this

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-venezuela-chavez-mars-idUSTRE72L61D20110322?

"chavez otm"

haha that is an amazing article

"Careful! Here on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Chavez said, sipping from a glass of water.

haha i wish you had been around last night, i wanted to quote you in my post on the subject

"Chavez OTM," said an astrophysicist familiar with the history of class struggle on Mars.

the best part about the article is the reuters editor going "hmm, this isnt long enough... can we bring in a couple paragraphs about mars missions?"

haha if you can do a follow up i would be literally thrilled to be quoted on this! seriously, my parents would be so happy.

next time i have a good article about economics on other planets ill solicit a quote

i actually read the article last night and tried to think of a comment, but i was really drunk on 241 beer and couldn't make any sense of it. i missed my chance! THANKS jjj and goole.