scientists

Freeman Dyson has died at the incredible age of 96. https://www.mainepublic.org/post/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-age-96?fbclid=IwAR3u5EKZnyy38FM2jkqmywZ0f6qagy0cDeA4nkY8yVnYMGRkTC0VfTY2_VM :blackcat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard_(scientist) In what may be an apocryphal quote von Braun, when asked to explain the secrets of his rockets, said, "But you already know everything, from Robert Goddard's work!" Bonus von Braun quotes: "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the...

I couldn't find a thread about this. I've read quite a few top ten scientists lists, and none I agree with. Subjective as hell; let's not get into a debate about what "greatest" means; all blokes in my list, sorry about that; but here's mine, in no particular order: Newton Einstein Darwin...

Rustum Roy has died.

A thread for wishing dead scientists Happy Birthday. Today, according to Google is Sir Isaac Newton's. Quite a good logo - complete with falling apple.

Okay, Most of you clicking this aren't going to get any religious crud. Sorry, no troll here. With that said... I've been thinking a lot lately. Science has been a wonderful thing at explaining and discovering things. And since its so good at doing what it does best, why haven't people looked...

Einstein is probably the scientist that pops into most people's minds when they think about who is an important scientist/thinker. Recently, many have called for Darwin's theory of Evolution to be considered the most important idea in science with ramifications for humanity in general. And...

Aristotle, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Edison, Tesla so on and so forth are all considered to be great pioneers in advancing knowledge and/or technology. Most of the people I have ever learned about who were great innovators were almost all white men from the west. Was my...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700324.html?hpid=topnews Breaking news...

So now we're gonna get the scientific view from the CT's, just for you guys on the West Coast. Introduction by Dean Haglund and a Q&A with Michael Berger (of 911Truth and Connect the Dots). I fear that their "scientist" is that fella from Utah, but it'd be good to get a debunker in there for...

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source= If the animal is 15% human, why doesn't it look 15% human? Where is the threshold where a given amount of genetic percentage starts to manifest itself in the way the animal looks?

"Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close...

An article posted in another thread in support of ghosts being real etc.Thoughts? http://www.spiritmindbody.co.uk/news/n26.html Bearing in mind its a woo publication,any meat to the bones? ;)

http://tinyurl.com/y2dhwv Isn't the irony lovely? Thehead of a religion that worships a myth warns scientists by invoking an older mythology.

Well, sort of... More

From www.sefora.org : September 27, 2006: Today a group of scientists and concerned citizens launch a new organization, Scientists and Engineers for America, dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice...

STOCKHOLM — Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one common trait: They're all American. The members who cast the ballots for the winners of the prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry aren't surprised. Gunnar Oquist, the permanent secretary for...

Ladies and Gents... I give you .... the Ig Nobel prizes! :D

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20350407-1702,00.html Yes, they underestimated it by a long way.

well.....they've managed 12metres so far.....nearly there guys! :) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1863755,00.html see, what they need to do is harvest spider-web strands and thread it together to form super strong ropes......if only i was in charge, i'd have us up there in no...

In a recent (now-deleted) thread on a believer forum, one of the believers brought up something I had not heard before, but which has the distinct aroma of an urban legend about it. She said that many people simply cannot handle concepts which they find too much at odds with their currently...

I'm relatively new, and don't know if this subject has been discussed before. If so, my apologies. In view of the increasing presence of fundamentalist groups in the USA, the power they have in the government, the influence they have or could have in the judicial system, the social pressure...

Saw a PBS Frontline documentary on HIV/AIDS last night. They spent a good segment of the program talking about Peter Duesberg and his HIV denialist platform. Ignoring the science is one thing, but what makes Duesberg much more dangerous than a traditional quack is the following: 1) First...

I'd like to read our more betterestly edumacated member's comments on this. I find it facinating...not because I understand it but because their are actually people on this world that 1) can think up theories like this, and 2) find ways to actually test them...

Last Sat. I met up with some of the NY Big Apple Babes at the American Museum of Natural History. Both the company and the museum were absolutely terrific. Some of us broke away and saw the Darwin exhibit -- also absolutely terrific. The Darwin exhibit was extremely thorough and touched upon...

Source I heard this from the local NPR station. It isn't mentioned in the article, but the radio blurb had a catholic priest who told a great one-liner (that he credited to Galileo), "Scripture tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." eta: woot. Here it is.

http://www-ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/index1.html Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. Very telling, and quite interesting.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1568867.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4645708.stm It's really, really tiny: That means it is just 8 times longer then the diameter of the largest bacteria!

Here it is. This one is using Star Wars' 'the force' as a leverage to get into people's good books: ---Quote--- The Field tells the story of a group of frontier scientists who discovered that the Zero Point Field - an ocean of subatomic vibrations in the space between things - connects...