Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080925

Posted on 25th September 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera
  • The Center for Severe Weather Research’s (CSWR) Doppler on Wheels mobile weather radar gets mad props for being the only scientific team to brave Hurricane Ike.

    • CSWR's Doppler on Wheels

    CSWR’s Doppler on Wheels
    Credit: Josh Wurman
  • A UCLA study of satellite images of Iraq found the lights haven’t come back on since the surge in US forces, suggesting the reason things are relatively peaceful is because the ethnic cleansing succeeded.
  • Segue 1 is nearly a thousand times more massive than its few hundred stars suggest, making it the most dark matter-dominated galaxy yet discovered.
  • Boooo!!! LHC down until next year due to a magnet failure.
  • XKCD sums up my review of Spore.

    • XKCD

    XKCD
    Credit: Randal Monroe
  • GIF zoom into a fly’s eye
  • Simulated asteroid impact set to Pink Floyd (HT Clint and BMF):



    • Comments (6)

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    1. The Zero Punctuation review of Spore is also quite good:

      http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/218-Spore

      Comment by Dave — September 25, 2008 @ 6:08 am

    2. Hilarious and brilliant! Although, I never did get the appeal of “The Sims.” Just listening to my room mate play that game, trying to get his characters to pay their bills and get to work on time just didn’t seem very appealing. :)

      Comment by ideonexus — September 25, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

    3. Ryan: If you want to avoid that, you simply use the infinite money cheat. You shoulda seen the size of my pool! I had this little girl who was dysfunctional… One day, she got off the bus, and just laid in the middle of the road. Til 3AM. Then she crawled behind some bushes and slept all night. Eventually she went inside and laid on her bed til she starved to death. Meanwhile, her two mommies had their first kiss.

      And then, there’s the party I went to where, randomly, 12 people sat in a story and has 12 completely different sims stories.

      As lame as it is… there’s some kind of value to it.

      Comment by ClintJCL — September 25, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

    4. The Sims was awesome! Shannon and I took timed turns on the same character. His name was Insanus. Basically, I would build him up and he’d be all happy, and then after Shannon got done with him, he’d be all ready to commit suicide and burn the house down. Many nights of amusement.

      Comment by Chriggy — September 26, 2008 @ 12:46 am

    5. Yeah, I had fun playing the Sims. I played somewhat seriously. My people cleaned the dishes a lot because I hated when the flies came out, but I also had some fun with it.

      I did get sick of it though.

      Erin had that weird story of how she killed the female character that Dan’s character was flirting with (I don’t remember the details on how that could happen…)… then she said the girl’s ghost came or something weird like that… Maybe she was making it up…

      Comment by Carolyn — September 26, 2008 @ 11:01 am

    6. These are fascinating stories… in a very disturbing sense. I had no idea the game could be so twisted. : )

      Comment by ideonexus — September 30, 2008 @ 11:25 pm

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