Science Etecetera Saturnday, 20080329

March 29th, 2008

Large Hadron Collider

Before the first atomic bomb was set off, physicists had to prove it wouldn’t set the Earth on fire. Now there is a lawsuit to prevent turning on the Large Hadron Collider for fears that it might create black holes, stranglets, and magnetic monopoles that could hypothetically destroy us all.

Al Gore totally pimp-slaps skeptics on Global Warming.

Hackers have attacked epileptics by posting seizure-inducing images to the Epilepsy Foundation’s forums.

For $10k, Celestis Inc will put a small amount of your cremated ashes on the Moon, as soon as Odyssey Moon Ltd. starts putting rovers up there.

For $5.50, MyBabyTree.org will plant a tree in Indonesia and give you its coordinates in Google Earth so you can watch it grow.

A snag in futurist hopes for space elevators, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon would produce waves in the cable. Simulation below:

The dittohead ~~spin~~ sheep-herding machine is in full force ridiculing tonight’s Earth Hour.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has entered the food chain.

Science meets the humanities with Galapagos Poetry.

Squid Beaks are an amazing merging of materials from hard to soft that will inspire biomimicry in technology.

Moment of Science, Levitating Frogs with superconductivity (HT oranchak)

4 comments to “Science Etecetera Saturnday, 20080329”

Ryan,

Whenever I try to view the levitating frog, I get transported to oranchak’s blog.

-BMF
by BMF March 29th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Uh, the rhyme was purely coincidental.

-BMF
by BMF March 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Thanks BMF! It’s fixed. Cool rhyme too. : )
by ideonexus March 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
It sounds like the magic chant you say to escape cyberland and come back to kansas.
by Clint March 29th, 2008 at 2:33 pm