More science.
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wolven7Tom Waits - [Downtown Train]--- Quote from me, for today: "I also think that people should be confronted with the stark terror of their own whateverthefuck."
Science: "About a dozen infant stars have been seen to suddenly brighten, sometimes by more than a factor of 100, in events called FUors and EXors, after the identifying letters of the stars first seen to exhibit them. The FUors may last hundreds of years, while the EXors can be as brief as a few months."
"More than one million base pairs of fossilised Neanderthal DNA have now been sequenced – the most of any extinct organism – thanks to a new high-throughput sequencing technique well-suited to handling old, degraded DNA."
Closer and closer.
{4.16pmMC Frontalot - [Yellow Lasers]--- Holy. Shit. "During the middle ages, the Muslims who fought crusaders with swords of Damascus steel had an edge - a very high-tech one. Their sabres contained carbon nanotubes." The forging and annealing processes eld to nanotube and -wire production... Holy shit.}
Science: "About a dozen infant stars have been seen to suddenly brighten, sometimes by more than a factor of 100, in events called FUors and EXors, after the identifying letters of the stars first seen to exhibit them. The FUors may last hundreds of years, while the EXors can be as brief as a few months."
"More than one million base pairs of fossilised Neanderthal DNA have now been sequenced – the most of any extinct organism – thanks to a new high-throughput sequencing technique well-suited to handling old, degraded DNA."
Closer and closer.
{4.16pmMC Frontalot - [Yellow Lasers]--- Holy. Shit. "During the middle ages, the Muslims who fought crusaders with swords of Damascus steel had an edge - a very high-tech one. Their sabres contained carbon nanotubes." The forging and annealing processes eld to nanotube and -wire production... Holy shit.}
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Date: 2006-11-16 04:14 am (UTC)And the planet thing...makes me think of Endless Nights, and the Stars and Planets there, and it just gets kind of horrible from there.
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Date: 2006-11-17 03:08 am (UTC)And yeah, that's a grisly thought process...