FOR SCIENCE!

We need a thread for SCIENCE! porn. We don't have one. Consider this the Derail Thread of SCIENCE! So lets start one with a triumph of awesome.

The first ever launch and landing of the first stage of a rocket delivering cargo to space. FULL VIDEO BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE SCIENCE! AROUND HERE!



Note: It is always pronounced SCIENCE! around these parts.

 

A reminder we all have this guy to thank for all of this:

 

The joint Google & NASA D-Wave computer they bought is showing progress. This may be the Kitty Hawk of Quantum Computers. It makes me wonder who's going to get the first fully functional quantum computer. Whoever gets it, they're going to have the encryption keys to every single network connected to the internet. I'm surprised I don't hear more about that. I like the allusion to this being the development of the aircraft, because aircraft completely changed the dynamic of war, and the Internet has basically become a security battlefield.

Below: D-Wave Sexiness

 

When most people say they love science, what they really mean is they love looking at the results of science. They don't love the long hours of incredibly tedious work it takes to get to the "good" parts.

 

Those people are lame. They're the reason I hate groups like I F*&^ing Love Science! because those groups don't really post science, they post inane memes with science flavor and clickbait science articles that lack any real proper SCIENCE! in them. And they make those sorts of groups popular.

I suck at being good at SCIENCE!, but I still ready phsy.org and lots and lots of science journals! I may not be edumacated on the SCIENCE!es but I make an effort to appreciate and understand the SCIENCE! mumbojumbo because it's important.

 

But science isn't a product, it's a method. The tedious parts ARE the science.

 

Those people are plebs! Let us rejoice in more SCIENCE! anyways! WALLOW IN IT! WALLOW!


Newly developed liquid crystal elastomer material could enable advanced sensors

 

Also, crows are making their own tools. Hitchcock was right.

 

I scienced in my pants once. It was a mess.

 

I hate getting drunk, I like drinking for the sake of drinking *nod*

 

"Why it's great"
http://qr.ae/Rb035B

Essentially, SpaceX already has the cheapest pound or kg to orbit cost and now that they'll be able to reuse their first stage the cost is going to drop to a fraction of what it is.

SpaceX are going to Mars eventually and they need to make going there cheaper and are well on their way with this step.

Also, it's a neat trick being able to land with your rocket on a planet and then take off. Essentially Mars mission can now land their escape rockets to the surface - they don't need to build rockets on site. We can bring rockets from Earth to Mars, land them there and fly them back to Earth and repeat.

Think about that for a second.

 

False.

You cannot break symmetric encryption in a meaningful way even with quantum computing.

The reason Enigma was broken was that they were able to identify elements in the messages compromised the security, such as use of fixed sentences at the start and end of each message and because there was no system to further scramble the messages.

I've myself written symmetric encryption algorithms that if attempted to be 'solved' give a vast amount of different length possible solutions that are equally likely.

You have not cracked a code when it's just as likely that it could be "bird", "yes", "no", "maybe", "cat" etc.

I didn't invent it though, as said symmetric encryption is really old and it's quite easy to make a custom version these days.

The reason people don't use it is because you need to pre share your keys. Asymmetric is all about ease - you create the key on the go using a formula, which really isn't optimal for safety to begin with. It's more about things like the 'opponent' not being able to figure out your code while you briefly visit your online bank.

 

Holy shit, SCIENCE!-hating Congress finally relents and rewards NASA for all of the awesome shit they do.