Science news of the day thread.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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[hackenslash]

Misleading article is misleading. Absolute zero has not been breached here. I need to do some reading in the morning and I'll try to put together a coherent explanation of what they've done and why the article is wrong about it.

Meantime, THIS ARTICLE is pretty good.

[Svartalf]

They managed to find neutrinos going faster than light last year, it is just a matter of finding where the protocol failed.

[FBM]

Misleading article is misleading. Absolute zero has not been breached here. I need to do some reading in the morning and I'll try to put together a coherent explanation of what they've done and why the article is wrong about it.

Meantime, THIS ARTICLE is pretty good.

Ah-ha! Thanks a brazillion for that, hack. I'll cancel the appointment with the fortuneteller, I guess, and stick with science after all.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Misleading article is misleading. Absolute zero has not been breached here. I need to do some reading in the morning and I'll try to put together a coherent explanation of what they've done and why the article is wrong about it.

Meantime, THIS ARTICLE is pretty good.

Ah-ha! Thanks a brazillion for that, hack. I'll cancel the appointment with the fortuneteller, I guess, and stick with science after all.

An excellent knife through the buffoonery butter of that original article! My bullshit detector has reverted from 110% to its normal 99.99999%!

[JimC]

A sleight of hand in terms of any realistic meaning of the word energy, IMO...

[surreptitious57]

Misleading article is misleading. Absolute zero has not been breached here.

Even if it had it would only be a new measurement and absolute zero would still exist though the Third Law would not

[Jason]

Misleading article is misleading. Absolute zero has not been breached here. I need to do some reading in the morning and I'll try to put together a coherent explanation of what they've done and why the article is wrong about it.

Meantime, THIS ARTICLE is pretty good.

Ah-ha! Thanks a brazillion for that, hack. I'll cancel the appointment with the fortuneteller, I guess, and stick with science after all.

Infinity +1

[macdoc]

Yeah article correctly deals with the energy state.

[FBM]

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news174.html

Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Miss Earth on February 15, 2013

Discovered by the LaSagra observatory in southern Spain, the small asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within about 3.5 Earth radii of the Earth's surface on February 15, 2013. Although its size is not well determined, this near-Earth asteroid is thought to be about 45 meters in diameter. Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass inside the geosynchronous satellite ring, located about 35,800 km above the equator. Its orbit about the sun can bring it no closer to the Earth's surface than 3.2 Earth radii on February 15, 2013. On this date, the asteroid will travel rapidly from the southern evening sky into the northern morning sky with its closest Earth approach occurring about 19:26 UTC when it will achieve a magnitude of less than seven, which is somewhat fainter than naked eye visibility. About 4 minutes after its Earth close approach, there is a good chance it will pass into the Earth's shadow for about 18 minutes or so before reappearing from the eclipse. When traveling rapidly into the northern morning sky, 2012 DA14 will quickly fade in brightness.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh sure, they say it will miss just to keep the sheeple from stampeding. I demand the truff!

[FBM]

You'll get it in a few weeks...

[Rum]

I've got an old surfboard somewhere..

[laklak]

You can't handle the truff!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You'll get it in a few weeks...

Too late by then.

You can't handle the truff!

Sure I can. I wear gloves.