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Fantastic video by Don Pettit on board ISS. Playing some cool tricks with zero-g water and an Alka-Seltzer

You know you just wanna be up there so you can do cool work like this!

Science bods have invented Liquid Armor

The liquid - called shear thickening fluid is actually a mixture of hard nanoparticles and nonevaporating liquid. It flows normally under low-energy conditions, but when agitated or hit with an impact it stiffens and behaves like a solid. This temporary stiffening occurs less than a millisecond after impact, and is caused by the nanoparticles forming tiny clusters inside the fluid.

It’s pretty cool science, almost getting to the stage where soldiers could go into battle in a tracksuit and a pair of nikes and still be fully protected !

“Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. The British author, who wrote the best-seller ‘A Brief History of Time,’ said that the pope made the comments at a cosmology conference at the Vatican.”

Bloody religion, pain in the arse. It’s a wonder we’re not still in the dark ages !

tip: Slashdot

Dr. Sarah’s Futurama Ï€k - Mathematics in the Year 3000

Futurama is a rare exception in broadcast television - a satirical science fiction cartoon that aims its jokes squarely at the top of the brow. Futurama is especially fun to watch because math, science, or programming references seem to appear in almost every episode.

This is one of the reasons why I like Futurama over The Simpsons. The humour is just much more than someone saying ‘Doh’.