Science!: Black Holes, Night Vision and Garbage

[KazNecro]

*Gets Teary-Eyed* :Sniff: Video-Games; Anime reviews; Zero Punctuation; and now a science column?!! :Sniff, sniff: I've finally found my home. I'm just going to curl up into a little ball and bathe in the sunshine that is The Escapist.

 

[bodyklok]

CERN was a gigantic facility built in France that hosted a Large Hadron Collider

Wait, I though CERN was in Switzerland and just very close to the French boarder? Not actually over it.

 

[Frizzle]

Awesome article. Please keep this up! The Escapist gets better every week

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Also, can't we just throw all that trash into black holes?

Because as it gained mass, the black hole would eventually consume more and more of whatever was around it. Sort of like a brother-in-law who "visits" for a "weekend" and eventually expands to the size of your fold-away guest bed while eating all the food in the house.

[small]Seriously, that's exactly how Stephen Hawking described it. Only he did it with his cool speech synthesizer.[/small]

Also, huzzah for a new article! Will Lauren Admire reach those dizzying heights of scientific awesomeness inhabited by the likes of Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye and Beakman? Only time will tell!

 

[Adinoman]

Any article that has night vision eyedrops and the blackhole apocalypse is awesome

 

[Wandrecanada]

MUST CONSUME MORE SCIENCE! Bring on the science please Escapist. I love it!

PS: The plastic garbage story frightens me. Imagine the kinds of mutant crabs and squids that will be bred within those dark filthy garbage patches...

The end is SO nigh.

 

[Silver Scribbler]

*snip*

Also, huzzah for a new article! Will Lauren Admire reach those dizzying heights of scientific awesomeness inhabited by the likes of Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye and Beakman? Only time will tell!

Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science guy!

Couldn't resist, we watched a few of his videos in biology a couple of years ago, they were hilarious.

 

[SquirrelPants]

The link on the black hole one leads to a dead page...Interesting column though.

 

[Andy_Panthro]

I was really hoping for a big photo of a texas-sized plastic/rubbish island... could just make a big sign saying FOR SHAME! out of coloured plastics so it could be seen from the air.

 

[Duke Flipside]

Yay, science!

 

[Lauren Admire]

Wait, I though CERN was in Switzerland and just very close to the French boarder? Not actually over it.

Nice catch, you're right, it's just on the border near Geneva.

 

[Gerazzi]

The Escapist entertains me so...


When's the last time I watched television?

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

Awesome. I want to see more.
That is all.

 

[bodyklok]

Wait, I though CERN was in Switzerland and just very close to the French boarder? Not actually over it.

Nice catch, you're right, it's just on the border near Geneva.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIGGGGHHHHHHT!~??!

Score another one for the Klok-Man!


...Ahhh, I've got too much homework to do... well at lest this kept me distracted for 5 minutes.

 

[Swaki]

The only thing I use a television for is gaming. The internet replaced everything else I'd ever need from a television.

...everything else?, beside watching programs what else did you use it for before you started to use the Internet?

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

Fun stuff, although the article about the swords was a little out of left field. One paragraph of that story had anything remotely science centric about it. I like how scientific research seems to have gone from "What can we study to make life better?" to "What can we study that would be really really cool?"

How is this a bad thing? It's really, really cool!

Also we're overpopulated, we need to make life a little worse so the Earth doesn't end up like a clown car, i.e. way too many people stuffed into a small area. Although that does seem a little mean, because we all know if we need to get rid of some people, the 1st world nations aren't going to be the ones volunteering...

OT: I want those chlorophyl drops!

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Fun stuff, although the article about the swords was a little out of left field. One paragraph of that story had anything remotely science centric about it. I like how scientific research seems to have gone from "What can we study to make life better?" to "What can we study that would be really really cool?"

How is this a bad thing? It's really, really cool!

Also we're overpopulated, we need to make life a little worse so the Earth doesn't end up like a clown car, i.e. way too many people stuffed into a small area. Although that does seem a little mean, because we all know if we need to get rid of some people, the 1st world nations aren't going to be the ones volunteering...

OT: I want those chlorophyl drops!

I was being serious, actually. "I like how..." isn't always used in the sarcastic sense

 

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[Ninja_X]

Interesting article.

My only thoughts are about the sword article. I think the high quality of the swords he produced is more because of carbon remaining from burning dead tissue, not phosphorus, but I'm no expert on this, I guess someone eventually will prove me wrong.

That is closer to the truth than you know.