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Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.29.2009 17 Comments
In the beginning, there were organic molecules. And they were good, but unorganized. Then, those organic molecules formed proteins, and evolution kicked in and started a three-billion-year journey culminating in you and me. But the question of just how life made the jump from inert organic chemicals to the complex building blocks of life has vexed scientists for years. A company hopes that software originally designed to find extraterrestrial life will now help them unlock the origin of life on this planet.

11.20.2009 at 05:36pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

Look up a peer reviewed scientific publication. It's a helluva lot more reliable than anything i could tell you. If you're about to give the moon thing from allaboutcreation, then stop right there, unless you want it to be proven wrong.
Science

Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.29.2009 17 Comments
In the beginning, there were organic molecules. And they were good, but unorganized. Then, those organic molecules formed proteins, and evolution kicked in and started a three-billion-year journey culminating in you and me. But the question of just how life made the jump from inert organic chemicals to the complex building blocks of life has vexed scientists for years. A company hopes that software originally designed to find extraterrestrial life will now help them unlock the origin of life on this planet.

11.20.2009 at 05:35pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

Look up a peer reviewed scientific publication. It's a helluva lot more reliable than anything i could tell you.
DIY

Guess This Part, Win a Tool

By Vin Marshall Posted on 11.16.2009 74 Comments
Since we inaugurated Guess This Tool, you've all proven way too hard to stump, so for this week's contest, we're mixing it up a bit and giving you a mystery part rather than a tool.

11.16.2009 at 05:13pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

It's obviously a screw on paint shaker weight.
Technology

Fastest Supercomputer in the World Models Dark Matter, HIV Family Tree Simultaneously

By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.30.2009 20 Comments
In November of last year, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory switched on Roadrunner, the world's fastest computer. IBM and the Department of Energy built the machine to model nuclear explosions, but two new studies, both released today, are proof that the computer's massive power has been at least as devoted to peaceful science as to simulating thermonuclear weapons.

10.27.2009 at 09:12pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

Next thing you know it'll become sentient and try to take over the earth. Just you wait.
Technology

Inventor of "Green Bricks" Wants To Build Series of Underground Tubes

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.27.2009 9 Comments
Forget about carrying cargo by truck, and instead imagine shuttling goods around inside a series of underground tubes. That's the hope of Henry Liu, a 73-year-old retired civil engineer and a past winner of PopSci's Inventions Awards for his environmentally safe green bricks.

10.27.2009 at 02:28pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

So, the cargo transportation system of the united states will no longer be big trucks, but instead a series of tubes?
Science

Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.29.2009 17 Comments
In the beginning, there were organic molecules. And they were good, but unorganized. Then, those organic molecules formed proteins, and evolution kicked in and started a three-billion-year journey culminating in you and me. But the question of just how life made the jump from inert organic chemicals to the complex building blocks of life has vexed scientists for years. A company hopes that software originally designed to find extraterrestrial life will now help them unlock the origin of life on this planet.

10.23.2009 at 12:17pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

Natural laws don't have to come from anywhere. A natural law is not something for matter and energy to follow willingly. A natural scientific law is defined as merely a distillation of the results of repeated observation. In other words, something that has repeatedly been observed to the point of being able to be predicted. A scientific natural law is not a rule to be enforced by an institution. Why would nucleosynthesis require intelligence behind it? Why can't a star form without intelligence? The universe looks exactly as one would expect it to look without a guiding intelligence. Even if you did find an unexplainable aspect of matter, the conversation would stop there until you found a reason to formulate an explanation. It's like with a UFO. The very concept of a UFO is that it's unidentified. You don't see flashing lights in the sky and immediately say "it's a UFO! It has to be aliens from outer space!".
Science

Shell's New Ships Will Dwarf Everything on the High Seas

By Jeremy Hsu Posted on 10.9.2009 11 Comments
Gigantic megaships that rival anything afloat could help energy giant Shell drink the proverbial milkshake by tapping undersea gas fields worldwide. They can also safely ignore nature's wrath and weather typhoons while continuing gas sucking operations.

10.9.2009 at 11:48pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

I DRINK IT UP!
Science

Hello, Ardi: New Oldest Humanoid Fossil A Million Years Older Than Lucy

By Susannah F. Locke Posted on 10.1.2009 24 Comments
This morning, scientists revealed an analysis of a female skeleton that seems to be the best example of early hominids around, about a million years older than the famous Lucy specimen that has been a prime example of early humanoids for about 40 years. New species Ardipithecus ramidus, which scientists nicknamed "Ardi," lived in the woodlands of present-day Ethiopia and had a blend of human and chimplike features.

10.1.2009 at 09:16pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

This is like, paleontologist pr0n.
Gadgets

A Week With the Zune HD: 5 Things I Love (and 5 Reasons I'm Keeping My iPod)

By Corinne Iozzio Posted on 9.29.2009 15 Comments
Is Apple unstoppable? If it is, the Zune HD has long appeared to be the best shot at unseating the MP3-player kingpin. Knowing that, when a Zune landed at PopSci HQ, we had to see if such a thing could actually be true. For a week, I split my commute between a Zune HD and a brand new iPod touch (my fourth Apple player). These are the high- (and low-) lights of my week with the Zune HD.

9.29.2009 at 07:48pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

Itunes 9 has watched folders with automatic addition. Investigate more like a decent reporter.
Science

Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.29.2009 17 Comments
In the beginning, there were organic molecules. And they were good, but unorganized. Then, those organic molecules formed proteins, and evolution kicked in and started a three-billion-year journey culminating in you and me. But the question of just how life made the jump from inert organic chemicals to the complex building blocks of life has vexed scientists for years. A company hopes that software originally designed to find extraterrestrial life will now help them unlock the origin of life on this planet.

9.29.2009 at 07:44pm - Comment by Ebrainer1

How many possible directions can a ball go in if you release it from your hand? The answer is an infinite amount of directions. By Vigier's logic, the chances of a ball falling in one direction out of an unlimited amount of possibilities is impossible. Give me a break. A ball does not fall towards the earth by random chance. A water molecule does not form by random chance. Snowflakes do not form based on random chance. There are natural laws, consistent occurrences that happen for natural reasons. Nature is not a drunk stumbling forward aimlessly with a blindfold and no intention. It has behaviors which can seem like intention to unintelligent copypasting laymen like you, vigier.