What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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yes you can. coal costs ~32 cent per kWh, and uranium ~$0.0015 per kWh
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If mass can convert into energy that easily then we’re all in a lot of trouble…
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I dunno whether it counts: but that science has effectively cured AIDS.
In 2004, 2.1m people died from it. Twenty years later that figure was a little over a quarter at 630k. The goal for 2025 is 250k. I think that's absolutely remarkable.
As a child in the 80s I was terrified of AIDS. It made me low-key scared of gay men because the news made it sound like I could I could get it from any one of them. And here we now are, able to provide a medication that can almost completely ensure that you will never be infected by HIV.
Astonishing, really.
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We were talking about the mass-energy conversion, for nuclear fusion.
Not really sure how nuclear fission Vs coal cost/kWh is relevant.
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I mean, you're not wrong.. XD
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I don't know but imagine what crazy processes would lead to creating that magic man floating around in nothingness, without a world to evolve on.
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That our species took millions of years of evolution and the chance for it to be exactly this way was so infinitesimal... And yet here we are, chasing arbitrary numbers on paper-slices and in some bank-account while also being sexists, racists, whatever-ists and destroying the very rock we exist on.
Yet things like star trek are called utopia not actual-ia.This always baffle me.
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Just in general how spread apart everything is in space is wild. As big as planets and stars are, there’s still unfathomably more nothing in between them all. And that’s in a solar system where it’s comparatively “dense” compared to interstellar space let alone intergalactic. It makes the vastness of the ocean look tiny.
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Yeah.
There's waaay worse things you can catch.
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More like homo ignorare, yes?
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You joke, but lemme introduce you to Tacit Blue:
Yes, this thing did actually fly.
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Life is a process of things interacting consistently with each other.
Why would a static screenshot of exact chemical composition matter for any process that involves a moving or animated body?
A bricked computer with a corrupt boot loader is chemically the same as one that actually works.
A car is chemically the same before and after you turn the key on its ignition.
A lightbulb is comprised of the same substances whether or not its turned on or off.
... Part of the difference between an alive and a dead body, is that the chemical reactions that constitute animating the thing into being alive ... have stopped.
A dead body is not metabolizing. It has no brain activity. The chemical reactions required to keep its heart beating are no longer happening.
Decomposition then sets in.
These are all differences in chemical processes.
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How do we stop radar? By obliterating the air around us with cube. Lol
That is actually pretty neat though!
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Recent studies have it at closer to 92% 'junk' DNA, and 8% actively coding.
Also, a lot of non-coding DNA does actually serve other useful functions, it just doesn't actively code.
It could play a role in epigenetics, ie the regulation of what active coding sequences are active and when, it could be telomeres that prevent DNA strands from unravelling at the ends, it could be binding and scaffold sites that assist in the structural stability and integrity of the chromosome.
DNA can be functional, without being active-coding.
Only regions that are both non coding and also totally non functional are truly 'junk', but we keep consistently finding more ways that 'non functional' regions are actually functional.
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The problem is that they will tell people to pray away cancer, that diseases and injuries and such can be healed spiritually.
That means you can end up with kids who need actual medical help, and won't get it, and will then be told that they're sick because they didn't pray hard enough, that their soul is impure and that's why they're sick.
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So humans vision is much more sensitive to green than other colors. it's why camera sensors are 50% green 25% red 25% blue. Which makes sense as being able to detect small differences in plant cover is useful in both detecting predators and prey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
If humans had more flat color detection range we woulda actually be able to see that the sky is purple and not blue.
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My old school had a scale model of the solar system. It used the same scale for the planets size and distance. The sun was a 12" ball on one end of campus. Around campus were poles with little glass domes on top inside were tiny pins with little planet models on them.
