Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:09 am

Longhorned wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:04 am Maybe the whole thing will grow on me but I still hardly see the point. I'm all in on science involving unmanned space exploration and astronauts for clearly stated purposes, but I don't give two shits about getting rich people into space.

Which was all this is. Alan Shepard did the same thing 60 some odd years ago with the computing power of a Gameboy and balls of steel.

Hell Shepard did a lot more. Bezos only went up 47 miles and on his first flight Shepard went up to 101 miles

Some UA professors had a hand in this.

Going to be the biggest breakthrough in our ability to see deep into space(and back in time) and at solar systems outside our own ever.

UofA scientists are featured prominently here. Bear Down!

For the technologically impaired amongst us…

“A Swedish startup has designed the Jetson ONE, a personal electric aerial vehicle that ‘anyone can own and fly’”.

Rockets are cool again

Also the atmosphere there is about as thick as you'll get on Mars and you have canyon walls and areas to be able to burrow into to hide from solar radiation

If the mirror deploys later this week then everything should be set to go outside of the few months of tests and calibration they have to do. But if the mirror deploys right then we should be on track to have absolutely groundbreaking science done in the next few years

Hopefully they remembered to take the lens cap off before launch.

So awesome. Can't wait to see the first pics.

Me either. Won't it be sometime this summer?

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:05 am Me either. Won't it be sometime this summer?

They said it would take six months to reach it's spot.

azgreg wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:18 am

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:05 am Me either. Won't it be sometime this summer?

They said it would take six months to reach it's spot.

Not quite. It'll be at the Lagrange point and it's designed spot in the next 2-3 weeks but it'll take about 5+ months after that to calibrate it and for the telescope to cool down to almost absolute zero. It needs to be ridiculously cold to operate properly.

ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:39 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:18 am

scumdevils86 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:05 am Me either. Won't it be sometime this summer?

They said it would take six months to reach it's spot.

Not quite. It'll be at the Lagrange point and it's designed spot in the next 2-3 weeks but it'll take about 5+ months after that to calibrate it and for the telescope to cool down to almost absolute zero. It needs to be ridiculously cold to operate properly.

Thanks for the correction.

SATAN'S PORN!!!!

Don't look up!

I saw a TikTok by Hank Green (the brother of John Green who wrote The Fault In Our Stars, and a scientist in his own right) where he talked about how NASA won’t confirm this but they’ve tracked every planet killer asteroid and comet and none of them are on track to hit Earth.

So congrats you semi-evolved monkey beings!

Chicat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:56 am I saw a TikTok by Hank Green (the brother of John Green who wrote The Fault In Our Stars, and a scientist in his own right) where he talked about how NASA won’t confirm this but they’ve tracked every planet killer asteroid and comet and none of them are on track to hit Earth.

So congrats you semi-evolved monkey beings!

That's a shame.

I guess I can put away my Come On Giant Meteor 2022 t-shirt.

I heard recently on NPR that there will be a manned mission back to the moon within 2 years. Amazing!

Is NASA making the same mistake they made 50 years ago-which is to make moon missions boring? I for one, am looking forward to this. Why aren't we hearing more?

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:48 am I heard recently on NPR that there will be a manned mission back to the moon within 2 years. Amazing!

2025 at the earliest as the issues head through the courts between SpaceX and Blue Origin regarding legal issues.

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:48 am I heard recently on NPR that there will be a manned mission back to the moon within 2 years. Amazing!

Is NASA making the same mistake they made 50 years ago-which is to make moon missions boring? I for one, am looking forward to this. Why aren't we hearing more?

Here is the program: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

I thought the Blue Origin stuff was over. They never really had anything to bitch about since Jeff is way behind schedule and BO costs significantly more

Merkin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:34 am

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:48 am I heard recently on NPR that there will be a manned mission back to the moon within 2 years. Amazing!

2025 at the earliest as the issues head through the courts between SpaceX and Blue Origin regarding legal issues.

Yeah it was scheduled for sometime in 2024 (with the first Artemis I mission, an unmanned vehicle test launch, launching in December 2021) but all the legal shit with spacex and blue origin plus covid delays has pushed the unmanned test to later this summer and the actual moon mission being 2025 at the earliest now.

All that's left now is several months of calibration and focusing and it should be good to go

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... d=msedgntp

Biologists surprised to discover that some "random" mutations may not be so random

A peculiar study into malaria resistance in humans, and where and how it occurs in the population, has unexpectedly spurred a re-evaluation of the neo-Darwinist understanding of evolution.


Neo-Darwinism refers to any branch of science which combines Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's discipline of genetics. The overwhelming majority of biologists and geneticists are neo-Darwinists, and one primary tenet of neo-Darwinism is the idea that the genetic mutations which cause living creatures to evolve occur randomly. For humans, this means that mutations from the entirely beneficial (opposable thumbs) and the undesirable (say, those which cause obstructive sleep apnea) can be attributed to chance rather than some kind of purposeful direction. The ones that get passed on permanently do so through natural selection — that is, because they just so happen to help their hosts, who then survive longer and have more opportunities to perpetuate the mutation via reproduction.

At least, that was the prevailing assumption. A new study led by researchers from Israel and Ghana and published in the journal Genome Research reveals that, in fact, at least one helpful genetic mutation was not random at all. They specifically studied the HbS mutation, which protects people against malaria, and found that it arose more frequently within a population where malaria is endemic (Africa) than within a population where it is not (Europe). This might cause some of neo-Darwinism's tenets to be revised.

I'm sure there is much more to the findings of this study and how this conclusion was reached. On the surface though, it seems like the mutation would be expected to be more frequent in a population in which its very presence has allowed the population in which it occurs to survive and therefore pass along the tendency for this mutation to occur.

And BTW nothing here lends any credence, either way, to the existence of God and science never will prove or disprove this notion.

I'd like to hear what Dovecanyon thinks.

Incredible that we have discussions here regarding everything under the sun: Arizona sports AND political, medical, social, family, restaurants, travel, issues and even evolutionary biology! Plus more.

What a forum this is!

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:14 pm Incredible that we have discussions here regarding everything under the sun: Arizona sports AND political, medical, social, family, restaurants, travel, issues and even evolutionary biology! Plus more.

What a forum this is!

It’s what makes it my favorite place on the internet.

Chicat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:16 pm

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:14 pm Incredible that we have discussions here regarding everything under the sun: Arizona sports AND political, medical, social, family, restaurants, travel, issues and even evolutionary biology! Plus more.

What a forum this is!

It’s what makes it my favorite place on the internet.

Yeah mine too. Right now it's helping me pass the time while wifey is busy with some tests.

Im not convinced that that malaria gene being non random report says anything of the sort. I notice that the broader community is so far silent while they review the findings.

It is known that similar mutations occured independently in pre columbian malarial south america.

It is also known that the mutation would be selected against in nonmalarial Europe because it is deadly to offspring of parents who both carry it and it doesn't provide any compensating benefit like it does in malarial areas.

It seems to me that the study is using the experience of rolling a 12 sided die on the results from rolling a six sided die and claiming non random because they never rolled a 7.

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.