Oooh, pretty solar flare

| June 17th, 2011

Ahh! Its coming right at us! Run for the hills! Get as high as you can so the radiation will give us mutant powers! I hope I get the power to stretch. ... No! Not for that reason, I uh, I um. I just want to be able to grab things that are far away. [...]

Voyager

| June 16th, 2011

Voyager 1 Reaches Surprisingly Calm Boundary of Interstellar Space The Voyager 1 spacecraft is at the limit of the 'heliosheath', where particles streaming from the Sun clash with the gases of the galaxy. Contrary to scientists' expectation of a sharp, violent edge, the boundary seems to be a tepid place, where the solar wind mingles [...]

CERN Made a Photon Torpedo

| June 7th, 2011

Not really, they did trap anti-matter for 15 minutes though. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/06/antimatter-atom-held-trapped-for-15-minutes.ars Earlier this year, a research collaboration at CERN announced that it had created a few dozen atoms of antihydrogen, the antimatter equivalent of the more familiar hydrogen atoms. These anti-atoms were kept in existence for just under 200 milliseconds before they annihilated in collisions [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 50: There’s no !#(&!^& carbon in it!

| February 11th, 2011

This is so something I should have covered in part 23.2 but neglected too. mt etna, and mt kilauea both were carbon dated a few years after the lava cooled and were dated to be several thousands of years old Take a rock to a lab to be carbon dated and they'll say: "Oi! We [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 48: Science is naturalistic and naturalism rules out the possibility of a god

| September 17th, 2010

Science is naturalistic but it is a form of naturalism called methodological naturalism. Methodological naturalism does not assume the universe is strictly naturalistic, what it does do is seek to understand the natural world using the scientific method. The super natural (by definition) would be beyond the natural world thus could not be understood by [...]

The Supernatural Does Not Exist. Rewritten

| September 5th, 2010

"Supernatural" means "above" or "beyond" nature. The supernatural is not limited to the laws of the universe. For example: The law of conservation of energy says that energy can not be created or destroyed only changed from one form to another, something that is supernatural may not be limited by this, something that is supernatural [...]

A history of Life and the Universe Part 1: Before the Before

| August 13th, 2010

Its a question that people have grappled with for millennia: Where did the universe come from? People came up with creation myths to answer it but didn't have any concrete answers and its still the same today. While we have strong and well supported theories to explain things all the way back to 10-34 seconds [...]

Stupid Creationist Arguments 40: Flood Geology

| May 13th, 2010

Flood Geology is a creationist pseudo science that attempts to reconcile the the findings of geologists with the story of Noahs flood in the bible. The premise of flood geology is that 4,500 years ago there was a massive global flood that covered the whole of the earth and killed off most of the animals. [...]

We are gods!

| April 9th, 2010

When many people hear about things like genetic modification, geoengineering, etc, many scream "Your playing god!" Well in a sense we are gods. Look at us, look at what we have done, look at what we can do. We can communicate with people on the other side of the world with small devices we hold [...]

Arrogant Religious Theists

| March 12th, 2010

The universe is big. Really big. Really, really big. How big? The observable universe is 27.4 light years across but because the universe is expanding the material that was 13 billion light years 13 billion years ago are not allot further away meaning that the observable universe is larger than 27.4 billion light years. It [...]

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