Official "Science News" Thread

[rogue]

Originally Posted by flagrantflowers

I had a head scan the other week. I found the experience of having your head in a giant square wave generator was rather pleasant. At some point when it felt like my head was in resonance that felt weird, but it was an awesome sensory experience overall. I've never 'felt' noises like that.

I was lucky enough to have two scans of my head in the past month. The first was an MRA, which the doctor accidentally ordered. I had to go back to get the MRI. In my case I was sent due to headaches + tinnitus. Fortunately they didn't find any problems. Hopefully the same could be said for the two of you.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/86...nt-special.htm

I hope I can remember to go out and look!

[xilman]

Originally Posted by rogue

I was lucky enough to have two scans of my head in the past month. The first was an MRA, which the doctor accidentally ordered. I had to go back to get the MRI. In my case I was sent due to headaches + tinnitus. Fortunately they didn't find any problems. Hopefully the same could be said for the two of you.

My most recent was to see whether there was any mechanical problem which might be the cause of my trigeminal neuralgia. The TGN started up again 3 weeks ago and I'm now back on gabapentin. Fortunately the attack isn't too severe and the drug has it well under control.

Tinnitus is a different problem with a different cause for me. Too many years spent in machine rooms and riding bikes at ~70mph has buggered my hearing.

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by kladner

I hope I can remember to go out and look!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-s...eptember-2015/

[Xyzzy]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4720

[ewmayer]

Re. Mars: Lemme guess, 'One of our rovers found what appears to be the shallow grave of Jimmy Hoffa.'

Re. lunar eclipse: Perfect hour-after-sunset totality timing for us US left coasters, but looks like much of the world will have good viewing - weather permitting - even if less spectacular in daylight. BTW, was watching a cheesily-fun 50s 'Hot Lunar Vampire Vixens (ok, they're really supposed to be cat women, but I saw it under a non-catty alternate title) Need Earth Men For Breeding Purposes and Light Housework' SciFi flick on late-nite retro-TV last night, and the earth space crew kept talking about 'the dark side of the moon', rather than the correct 'far side of the moon.' The moon has a roughly-28-earth-day-long day, whose high noon is what we earthlings call 'new moon.' Alas, I have no further information on the alleged presence there of hot lunar vampire vixens with furniture-clawing tendencies and lesbian overtones (but only when there are no manly earth-o-nauts around, just like the classic set-up in the men's mags describes.)

Oh, the aforementioned film stars the 50s/60s hottie pictured below as the sole female on the earth crew, whose IMDB bio includes the following factoid:

Often cast as an adulterous wife, slutty girlfriend, female gang leader or gun moll, she proved so convincing in those roles that she often received Bibles in the mail with passages underlined that covered the "sins" she had committed onscreen, warning her that she would go to hell if she didn't reform. Several of those types of letters dwelt so much on her "immorality" and "evil ways" that, unnerved, she turned them over to the police.

Best line is by stereotypical 50s male chauvinist crewman Walt, to his new lunar-catty g/f: "You're too smart for me, baby. I like 'em stupid."
And believe it or not, the musical score for this SciFi cheeseball is by none other Elmer Bernstein.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

and the earth space crew kept talking about 'the dark side of the moon', rather than the correct 'far side of the moon.'

Presumably you've never traveled to the Dark Continent.

There's no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by xilman

There's no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark.

I'm glad I recognize that quote

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by xilman

Presumably you've never traveled to the Dark Continent.

No, but my Pa was born there.

Which is funny, because I never thought of him as looking very Cameroonian, if there is such a thing.

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[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by rogue

Planets Transit The Desert In 7-Mile Scale Model Of The Solar System

From 2001:
http://cjonline.com/stories/051401/k...arsystem.shtml
I thought that it would be complete.
I was once looking at what ti would take to do this in my "hometown". It would be bigger that 7 miles if it used all the available.

This one is the biggest though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System