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[jedidia]

You guys enjoy that metabolism while it lasts. For many, once you hit middle age, it's over and you have to watch what you eat.

I was always slightly underweight, because my metabolism just didn't store anything up.
When I turned about 28, this started to change slowly. For some time I even had a decent weight.
Then I got twins, lost 10 to 15 kilograms because I just can't eat with blank nerves, and am unsuccesfully trying to recover them ever since :lol:

Currently, you can count my ribs instead of my sixpack... :shifty:

 

[Pipcard]

"Sugar is literally toxic and should be treated like the tobacco industry"

(paraphrased, but that's the bottom line)

Also, people think that "racing snails" is more fun than watching TV or using the computer. :facepalm:

 

[RisingFury]

Other mini-protip:
In Windows 7 and 8 (possibly also Vista) when you have many windows open right click on the clock in the taskbar and you'll see three options one of which
automatically arranges the windows like you did but without overlap.

I wanted overlap. If you look at a browser, it contains a lot of non-website stuff. Tabs, buttons, favorites, toolbars... One of the reasons I like Chrome as much as I do is because it minimizes the waste.

I arranged the windows so that the tabs and buttons are covered over and took the first pic. There was a popup on it from one of the programs minimized to tray so I took the pic again, but I didn't realize I selected windows in the opposite order and instead of hiding the buttons, I showed them

I realized only after I posted and didn't want to change the image

 

[Pipcard]

TIL naked mole rats don't get cancer.

 

[MattBaker]

I should try to get into dwarf fortress...

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Also, what the f is going on here? Is this the latest "neutrinos are faster than light" thingy, does this have a logical explanation or did we just break physics?

 

[Artlav]

Also, what the f is going on here? Is this the latest "neutrinos are faster than light" thingy, does this have a logical explanation or did we just break physics?

Seems legit, at least the "there is some sort of thrust from it" part:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052
http://www.aiaa.org/EventDetail.aspx?id=18582

Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma. Future test plans include independent verification and validation at other test facilities.

No one reputable is bold enough to explain how it works yet.
Conservation of momentum is a fairly fundamental law, so it's quite likely that some parasitic reaction effect was unaccounted for, rather than that it was broken.

So, quite likely to be a new "neutrinos are faster than light" thingy.

 

[jedidia]

I'm just glad that people are finally looking into the matter for real. I was beginning to feel uncomfortable with the prevailing "we don't even have to test that, we know it won't work" -attitude towards such things lately. While understandable, we're neccessarily setting ourselves up for the next "heavier than air flight is impossible" embarassment.

Accidentaly, I have just noticed that ganymedes surface area is 86,999,666 km^2. Rounded of course, but not by much. Now, if I was a numerologist... :hmm:

 

[kamaz]

Inventor's website: http://emdrive.com/theory.html

 

[jedidia]

Well, the website is not encouraging :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

Needs more neon flashing backgrounds and word art.

We're in 2014?

 

[kamaz]

I'm just glad that people are finally looking into the matter for real. I was beginning to feel uncomfortable with the prevailing "we don't even have to test that, we know it won't work" -attitude towards such things lately. While understandable, we're neccessarily setting ourselves up for the next "heavier than air flight is impossible" embarassment.

This is nothing new. Academia was always hostile to disruptive inventions.

For example, the greatest opponent of the NERVA program (on the grounds of alleged technical impossibility) was the National Academy of Science and its main proponent was [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Presba_Anderson"]Congressman Clinton Anderson[/ame] -- a dude with high school diploma.

 

[fsci123]

It'll probably end when somebody realizes that the "thruster" is producing opposing magnetic fields in both the thruster and the chamber.

 

[RisingFury]

It'll probably end when somebody realizes that the "thruster" is producing opposing magnetic fields in both the thruster and the chamber.

Of course!

PhDs couldn't figure out what you did - without looking at the data and test setup!

 

[Quick_Nick]

I should try to get into dwarf fortress...

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Also, what the f is going on here? Is this the latest "neutrinos are faster than light" thingy, does this have a logical explanation or did we just break physics?

You need to get into Dwarf Fortress.

As far as I know, Wired is the only source saying this. And it doesn't even say NASA tested the engine. It says something called 'Nasa'. :lol:

 

[RisingFury]

You need to get into Dwarf Fortress.

As far as I know, Wired is the only source saying this. And it doesn't even say NASA tested the engine. It says something called 'Nasa'. :lol:

Link to the paper hosted on ntrs.nasa.gov:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052

 

[fsci123]

Of course!

PhDs couldn't figure out what you did - without looking at the data and test setup!

Link to the paper hosted on ntrs.nasa.gov:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052

It may be nasa but I'm still pretty skeptical when a person or organization claims to have a macroscopic device that has the ability to produce quantum phenomena on a large and useful scale.

 

[sorindafabico]

Two countries, different lights.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

No one reputable is bold enough to explain how it works yet.
Conservation of momentum is a fairly fundamental law, so it's quite likely that some parasitic reaction effect was unaccounted for, rather than that it was broken.

If conservation of momentum falls, thousands of physicists will probably have a massive existential crisis. :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

If conservation of momentum falls, thousands of physicists will probably have a massive existential crisis. :lol:

And thousands of the "I'm smarter than you, your understanding of physics is wrong!"-nutjobs will have a raging...you know what.

 

[PeterRoss]

Two countries, different lights.

I guess it's not different countries that matter but the different angle. Territory to the north of Portugal has the same colored light as Portugal, although it is Spain.