DonnyTJS Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 1 hour ago, Ally Bongo said: Nature's most successful creation for 100 million years being the dominant species and only wiped out by pure chance There must surely be somewhere out there in the universe where there are planets that have themĀ In these days of cladistics, I'm not sure how dinosaurs are classified by them that know, but it won't be as a species... Anyroad, isn't the current thinking that they're not extinct at all? The sparrow is to T. Rex what Portuguese is to Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 8 minutes ago, DonnyTJS said: In these days of cladistics, I'm not sure how dinosaurs are classified by them that know, but it won't be as a species... Anyroad, isn't the current thinking that they're not extinct at all? The sparrow is to T. Rex what Portuguese is to Latin. I'll rephrase Whilst the term "Dinosaur" is arbitrary there may be similar "organisms" on other planets or There could be things similar to the big ass reptiles, like the ones we had up to 65 million years ago, existing on other planets that havent been hit by extinction level asteroidsĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 That was quite a fascinating programme. Mad to think that so much damage was caused by the equivalent of a grain of sand hitting a bowling ball. How fragile we are! Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: There could be things similar to the big ass reptiles, like the ones we had up to 65 million years ago, existing on other planets that havent been hit by extinction level asteroidsĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 4 hours ago, Toepoke said: That was quite a fascinating programme. Mad to think that so much damage was caused by the equivalent of a grain of sand hitting a bowling ball. How fragile we are! Ā maybe is size equivalent,but the rest is different, composition, rigidity etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 13 hours ago, Ally Bongo said: Didnt notice that was on and only caught the last 10 minutes - will get it on catch upĀ When you think about it, and compare how long we have been here, the dinosaurs were really sucessful. Nature's most successful creation for 100 million years being the dominant species and only wiped out by pure chance There must surely be somewhere out there in the universe where there are planets that have themĀ And if you look back at previous mass extinctions, there's been a dominant species each time which was wiped out. The dinosaurs exploited a previous mass extinction about 200 million years ago which wiped out archosaurs and nearly all amphibians. The Premian-Triassic extinction event wiped out 96% of all marine species (it's the biggest massĀ extinction event we know of) including the trilodites which were the dominant marine life form of the time. The earliest mass extinction which we know about was about 450 million years ago, when the giant insects were wiped out. And by giant, I mean these bad boys, dragonflies with a 28 inch wingspan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 (edited) Oh, and a group of researchers claim we might be on the brink of a mass ocean extinction http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/oceans/2014/12/03/ocean-anoxia-can-the-oceans-suffocate/ Ā Edited May 16, 2017 by biffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 One for the science / space thread. Photo of Jupiter's south pole. Incredible stuff! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40053527 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heuch Moray Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 55 minutes ago, Toepoke said: One for the science / space thread. Photo of Jupiter's south pole. Incredible stuff! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40053527 Spectacular!Ā Now how can I make a striking glass pendant from thatĀ image.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Haha it's great when you get there and your'e like, hmmmm this isn't what we expected. Time to re-adjust the theories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 On 2017-5-26 at 9:46 PM, Toepoke said: One for the science / space thread. Photo of Jupiter's south pole. Incredible stuff! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40053527 That's just a marble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Wow. Unhackable satellite communications using quantum entanglement. Beginning of the quantum age... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Teleportation yeah!!! But if everyone teleports to the front of the pie queue at the half time whistle... Ā OK, so I'm getting ahead of myself and I am not gonna be around to see the stramash anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 12 hours ago, thplinth said: Wow. Unhackable satellite communications using quantum entanglement. Beginning of the quantum age... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance Colleagues of mine are involved in developing a similar project.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 Another "close"Ā shave... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41121245 Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 just a matter of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 17 hours ago, phart said: just a matter of time As long as they put it off for another 50 years or so, that will be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertsscot Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 2 minutes ago, Orraloon said: As long as they put it off for another 50 years or so, that will be fine. It would be typical Scotland to qualify for a tournament for the first time in years and then get the whole planet wiped out by an asteroid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 50 minutes ago, Hertsscot said: It would be typical Scotland to qualify for a tournament for the first time in years and then get the whole planet wiped out by an asteroid! We haven't been knocked out that way before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 (edited) On 28/06/2017 at 9:38 PM, Grim Jim said: Teleportation yeah!!! But if everyone teleports to the front of the pie queue at the half time whistle... Ā OK, so I'm getting ahead of myself and I am not gonna be around to see the stramash anyway Your predictions are terrifying. Forest fans fighting over a pie. Apparently he just teleported to the front. Ā Edited September 2, 2017 by Och Aye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Toepoke said: One for the science / space thread. Photo of Jupiter's south pole. Incredible stuff! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40053527 Just watched an excellent Horizon programme about the Juno mission. So Jupiter has an outer core of liquid metal hydrogenĀ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bfdjgp Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 On 8/8/2018 at 1:47 AM, Toepoke said: Just watched an excellent Horizon programme about the Juno mission. So Jupiter has an outer core of liquid metal hydrogenĀ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bfdjgp Ā I have started reading The Martian by Andy Weir.Ā How I wish I had taken science subjects at school. My brain is nippin with all the hydrogen/plutoniumĀ technical jargon.Ā All I have understood so far is himĀ growing tatties in manure.Ā Ā Its depressing to think I am struggling with a book made into a best selling film starting Matt Damon š Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 1 hour ago, TDYER63 said: I have started reading The Martian by Andy Weir.Ā How I wish I had taken science subjects at school. My brain is nippin with all the hydrogen/plutoniumĀ technical jargon.Ā All I have understood so far is himĀ growing tatties in manure.Ā Ā Its depressing to think I am struggling with a book made into a best selling film starting Matt Damon š I gave up and watched the film, it's easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 This mission to explore the sun is mind boggling, at its fastest the probe will be travelling at about half a million mph! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Toepoke said: I gave up and watched the film, it's easier. I dont feelĀ quite so thick after reading this , thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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