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Okie doke, so as |u| and |v| get huge, |uv| gets huge whether or not u and v have the same sign, and c2 stays constant. So the denominator of the big equation gets huge, making the final answer for |U| get smaller. Okay, I'll buy that. The math checks out. :thumbup:

Fuckin relativity is weird.
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Old 04-26-2016, 07:28 PM
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The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL, Gower Street, London, which is "the only remaining university zoological museum in London", has a jar of moles.



18 moles packed into a preserving jar.

It's one of the most popular exhibits, and has its own Twitter account Glass Jar Of Moles (@GlassJarOfMoles) | Twitter:
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You can read an interview here: The Ministry of Curiosity: Exclusive Interview with the Glass Jar of Moles

Jar. Of. Moles.
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Old 04-26-2016, 07:35 PM
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It's too bad they're not star-nosed moles :duck:

But, seriously, for some reason that is kinda disturbing. I think if they each had their own jar, it would be less so. But even with that, why do you need so many pickled moles?
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Mmm... pickled moles... :homdrool:
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Old 04-27-2016, 12:15 AM
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I'd wondered how Bonsai Kittens were really done.
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It's too bad they're not star-nosed moles :duck:

But, seriously, for some reason that is kinda disturbing. I think if they each had their own jar, it would be less so. But even with that, why do you need so many pickled moles?
That's how many you can fit in a standard sized preserving jar. :shrug: It would be a waste of space to put them in more than one jar, or to leave a jar mostly empty. Clearly it would be wrong to put different species together in the same jar - you wouldn't want, say, a jar of mixed moles and weasles, with perhaps a kingfisher to fill the remaining space.
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why do you need so many pickled moles?
One per student for dissection class. [/srs]
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why do you need so many pickled moles?
How can you not need so many pickled moles?
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Today in Scuttle by science:


Hundreds of thousands of moulting Giant Spider Crabs, stacked ten deep, stretching for hundreds of metres
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Fuck million dollar CGI, just get a couple go pros on the ocean floor, a bit of post production work and you have an invading alien force ready to destroy the white house, golden gate bridge or eiffel tower!
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To calculate the volume of a pizza with radius z and depth a:

V = pi zza
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To calculate the volume of a pizza with radius z and depth a:

V = pi zza
Who cares, that crab meat would make a good pizza.
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Amber is the coolest.

Ancient birds' wings preserved in amber - BBC News

very cool pics :)
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I'm glad they avoid exaggeration by carefully repeating "99-million-year-old".

The artist's impression makes it look like the bird has enormously long legs ... :)
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MIT researchers can read a book without opening the cover - TechSpot
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The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance - ScienceAlert
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The science world is freaking out

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Unlike antibiotics, which 'poison' bacteria, and can also affect healthy cells in the area, the SNAPPs that Lam has designed are so large that they don't seem to affect healthy cells at all.
I can see no possible way in which this could go wrong.
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Darwinolide also looks very promising for the next chapter of anti-biotics.
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The Animals of Chernobyl - Video - NYTimes.com

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