https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/

A fantastic read about the Fukushima clean up efforts.

What some of those brave men did is amazing. I suppose celebrate is the wrong word but it'd be a fuckton worse without their sacrifice.

Chinese had plants sprouting on the far side of the Moon at the turn of this year.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-14-china-tried-to-grow-cotton-on-the-moon.html

davyK wrote:

Chinese had plants sprouting on the far side of the Moon at the turn of this year.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-14-china-tried-to-grow-cotton-on-the-moon.html

Interesting read

Nope nope and nope, with a side order of nope.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/elon-musks-neuralink-looks-to-begin-outfitting-human-brains-with-faster-input-and-output-starting-next-year/

You wouldn't be able to pick anything up.

An array of musk robots is a chilling thought when they could be hacked to bend to his will.

Although there are already enough libertarian fuckos who do that already so maybe nothing will change.

BBC News

Tardigrades: 'Water bears' stuck on the moon after crash

The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most indestructible animals.

Tardigrades - often called water bears - are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero.

They were travelling on an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in April.

And the co-founder of the organisation that put them there thinks they're almost definitely still alive.

The water bears had been dehydrated to place them in suspended animation and then encased in artificial amber.

"We believe the chances of survival for the tardigrades... are extremely high," Arch Mission Foundation boss Nova Spivack said.

The Arch Mission Foundation keeps a "backup" of planet Earth - with human knowledge and the planet's biology stored and sent out to various solar locations in case of a life-ending event.

The "lunar library" - something resembling a DVD that contains a 30-million-page archive of human history viewable under microscopes, as well as human DNA - was being carried on the Beresheet robot lander.

And alongside them were dehyrdrated tardigrades - some in amber and some stuck on tape.

For most creatures there would be no coming back from being dehydrated - life without water is almost impossible.
But water bears - which have another very cute nickname, moss piglets - are not most animals.

They can be brought back to life decades after being dehydrated.

Scientists have found that tardigrades have what seems almost like a super power.

When dried out they retract their heads and their eight legs, shrivel into a tiny ball, and enter a deep state of suspended animation that closely resembles death.

They shed almost all of the water in their body and their metabolism slows to 0.01% of the normal rate.

And if reintroduced to water decades later, they're able to reanimate.

All of that, plus the fact they became the first animal to survive in space back in 2007, made them a perfect candidate for Arch Mission's lunar library.

"Tardigrades are ideal to include because they are microscopic, multicellular, and one of the most durable forms of life on planet Earth," Nova said.

Even though the little moss piglets are likely to have survived the moon crash, it's very unlikely they'll be able to spring back to life without being reintroduced to water.

But it would theoretically be possible for the tardigrades to be collected, brought back to earth, reanimated, and studied to see the effects of being on the moon.

Tardigrades are cool.

I haven't got a link to a site that isn't shit with spam and pop ups, but did anybody else see the Spanish scientists doing stuff with stem cells and mixing human and monkey. Sounds like they've had some success. (aim is to grow organs.)

Working out of China because of laxer ethics laws.

Could be dodge reporting of something mundane, but it sounded pretty out there.

My dad had heart surgery today and I found the procedure he had absolutely amazing.

He has (or hopefully had) an issue with his heart where one half beat slower than the other causing heart flutters. This happens because at some point smaller coils have been created around the larger coil, or that is as far as I understand it.

Being quite a fit person and it being quite an unusual condition they asked if he would take part in a new procedure.

They went in through the groin, all the way up to his heart. In the past they would use acid to burn out the additional coils but this new procedure they freeze burn them which should leave no scarring on the heart, which is obviously a huge bonus.

That all went well. He went into surgery at 11:30am, was eating shepherds pie by 2:30pm and discharge by 6pm.

They also installed a chip below his chest muscle to monitor his heart. He has to wave a device over it once a month or in the event of pain/unusual heart beat and it automatically sends the data to a server for analysis. He will do that for a year before having it taken out.

I find the whole thing brilliant. It wouldnt have been that long ago that it either wouldnt have been treatable at all or would involve opening his chest up.

He didnt even have stitches.

Cheers mate. He will if we can get him to actually stay still for 5 minutes.

How has he been since Face?
If you dont mind me asking.

Good stuff.

That's just fucking cool.