The Science And Nature Thread - All Welcome

[Keyser]

The magical underwater world of Antarctica.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magaz ... -penguins/

[Keyser]

What a horrible set of stories.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... ation-spd/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... gypt-nile/

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/environm ... ican-park/

[Keyser]

If you could erase your most painful memories would you do it?

https://www.seeker.com/health/mind/a-me ... discovered

[Sunny]

If you could erase your most painful memories would you do it?

https://www.seeker.com/health/mind/a-me ... discovered

Wow, that would be good for folk that have been abused etc, and just painful memories.

Hiya by the way, just want to add you really add to this forum, keep up the good posting.

[Keyser]

If you could erase your most painful memories would you do it?

https://www.seeker.com/health/mind/a-me ... discovered

Wow, that would be good for folk that have been abused etc, and just painful memories.

Hiya by the way, just want to add you really add to this forum, keep up the good posting.

Hi Sunny!

I hope you and your family are ok and thank you for your very kind words.

I agree that traumatised people could really benefit it the treatment is possible in humans - we will just have to wait and see.

[Lambert]

If you could erase your most painful memories would you do it?

https://www.seeker.com/health/mind/a-me ... discovered

What happens if you go through the process and then someone tells you the memory you just had erased? Even if it doesn't trigger the memory again, the knowledge of it could have its own impact.

[Keyser]

If you could erase your most painful memories would you do it?

https://www.seeker.com/health/mind/a-me ... discovered

What happens if you go through the process and then someone tells you the memory you just had erased? Even if it doesn't trigger the memory again, the knowledge of it could have its own impact.

Yes - but being told about something and remembering the traumatic experience are two very different things - I would think that if the treatment ever does become viable specialist mental health experts would be there to counsel the patient every step of the way.

[Gerst Guest]

Reminds me a bit of the relationships-erasing in Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The conclusion there is that, bad as they can be, that's what life is and erasing them is erasing reality.

[Keyser]

Reminds me a bit of the relationships-erasing in Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The conclusion there is that, bad as they can be, that's what life is and erasing them is erasing reality.

Probably true although I have never seen the film - pain is what makes us who we are I suppose.

An article on why the general public may never even see one of the finest fossils ever discovered on this planet - the perfectly preserved remains of a duelling Ceratopsian and Tyrannosaur.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 180963676/

[Keyser]

Ancient whales and Macrauchenia.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ancient-s ... ields.html

https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/an ... er-feeding

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-darwin-st ... amily.html

[wutang]

Houses made out of plastic bottles in the Algerian desert.

Actually better than traditional houses in dealing with the environment (and a good use of recycling)

The houses possess several qualities that equip them for the brutal ecosystem of the Algerian hamada, the so-called desert of all deserts. The walls are made of sand-filled plastic bottles, cement and a mixture of earth and straw that acts as thermal insulation. Compared with the traditional sun-dried bricks, which fall apart in the rains that batter the region from time to time, they are very tough.

Their circular shape serves a dual purpose: not only does it stop dunes forming during sandstorms as happens with square houses, it also – along with the white-painted exterior – reduces the impact of solar rays by up to 90%.

A double roof with a ventilation space and two windows set at different heights to encourage air flow mean that temperatures are 5C lower than in the other houses in the camps.

The work of one crazy genius







https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rn-sahara-

[Keyser]

Houses made out of plastic bottles in the Algerian desert.

Actually better than traditional houses in dealing with the environment (and a good use of recycling)

The houses possess several qualities that equip them for the brutal ecosystem of the Algerian hamada, the so-called desert of all deserts. The walls are made of sand-filled plastic bottles, cement and a mixture of earth and straw that acts as thermal insulation. Compared with the traditional sun-dried bricks, which fall apart in the rains that batter the region from time to time, they are very tough.

Their circular shape serves a dual purpose: not only does it stop dunes forming during sandstorms as happens with square houses, it also – along with the white-painted exterior – reduces the impact of solar rays by up to 90%.

A double roof with a ventilation space and two windows set at different heights to encourage air flow mean that temperatures are 5C lower than in the other houses in the camps.

The work of one crazy genius







https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rn-sahara-

Brilliant stuff.

The future of deep space propulsion?

https://www.seeker.com/space/exploratio ... ly-altered



Manitoba's marine monsters including the massive Vampire squid relative Tusoteuthis.

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/m ... -monsters/

[Keyser]

Big, bad, bone-crushing terrestrial crocodile Razanandrongobe sakalavae was one of the apex predators of Jurassic Madagascar.

http://gizmodo.com/nightmarish-crocodil ... 1796606251

https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/an ... c-predator

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... of-a-t-rex

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discover ... ted-world/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40492978

[charlie]

Big, bad, bone-crushing terrestrial crocodile Razanandrongobe sakalavae was one of the apex predators of Jurassic Madagascar.

http://gizmodo.com/nightmarish-crocodil ... 1796606251

https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/an ... c-predator

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... of-a-t-rex

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discover ... ted-world/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40492978

I saw this on The Mirror's website today.

Despite it being shorter in length than a T. Rex, it was the teeth and jaw that made it comparable to a Rex.

Pretty formidable killing machine - wonder what the pressure per pound per square inch it would have been in comparison to modern day Crocodiles?

[Keyser]

Big, bad, bone-crushing terrestrial crocodile Razanandrongobe sakalavae was one of the apex predators of Jurassic Madagascar.

http://gizmodo.com/nightmarish-crocodil ... 1796606251

https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/an ... c-predator

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... of-a-t-rex

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discover ... ted-world/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40492978

I saw this on The Mirror's website today.

Despite it being shorter in length than a T. Rex, it was the teeth and jaw that made it comparable to a Rex.

Pretty formidable killing machine - wonder what the pressure per pound per square inch it would have been in comparison to modern day Crocodiles?

Just popped on here to reply (not at my best today unfortunately).

It's the usual media hype hun - but pound for pound it would have had an extraordinary jaw pressure - for it's size - don't forget this animal weighed a couple of tons at most compared to the 8.4 - 14 or so (according to the latest estimates) for a fully mature female rexy.

But crocodilians do have incredible bite force - and few people realise the variety of crocs that once existed in the past - 'duck' crocs, 'pancake' crocs, 'armadillo' crocs, 'dog' crocs, 'boar' crocs, 'rabbit' crocs, 'supercrocs', the ocean crocs, etc, etc (modern crocodilians have lost their warm blood and upright posture because they are sit and wait ambush predators - although they still have their archosaur avian style hearts - by far the most advanced in the world).

A badass beast though - not something you would want to run into!