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Click here to watch Lunar Lion featured on Daily Planet, a show on Discovery Channel Canada. (Starts at around 1:45.) We encourage you to take a look at the feature, which is a fabulous blast from the past. (It’s almost hard to believe we used to have all those issues with testing!) Thanks Discovery!

#damnnnn #very cool #nicely done!#lunar lion

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If something is ‘old as fuck’ then it’s about 1.2 billion years old because that’s when life evolved sexual reproduction.

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#wow #fuck is old

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However, if something is “old as balls” it’s only about 65 million years old, when placental mammals began to evolve proper testicles.

#teh silly

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A Few Ebola Cases Likely In U.S., Air Traffic Analysis Predicts

It’s only a matter of time, some researchers are warning, before isolated cases of Ebola start turning up in developed nations, as well as hitherto-unaffected African countries.

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more people than all previous outbreaks combined, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The official count ;includes about 3,600 cases and 1,800 deaths across four countries.

Meanwhile, the authors of a new analysis say many countries — including the U.S. — should gear up to recognize, isolate and treat imported cases of Ebola.

The probability of seeing at least one imported case of Ebola in the U.S. is as high as 18 percent by late September, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks. That’s compared with less than 5 percent right now.

These predictions are based on the flow of airline passengers from West Africa and the difficulty of preventing an infected passenger from boarding a flight.

As with any such analysis, there’s some uncertainty. The range of a probable U.S. importation of Ebola by Sept. 22 runs from 1 percent to 18 percent. But with time — and a continuing intense outbreak in West Africa — importation is almost inevitable, the researchers told NPR.

"What is happening in West Africa is going to get here. We can’t escape that at this point," says physicist Alessandro Vespignani, the senior author on the study, who analyzes the spread of infectious diseases at Northeastern University.

Image: Air traffic connections from West Africa to the rest of the world: While Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone don’t have many flights outside the region, Nigeria is well-connected to Europe and the U.S. (PLOS Currents: Outbreaks)

#ebola #disease

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Europa hanging over the Great red spot Credit: NASA

#space

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3D Printed Spine Saves 12 Year Old Boy in China

Doctors at China’s Peking University Third Hospital have successfully removed a cancerous vertebra from a 12-year old boy and replaced it with a 3D printed implant in a first such procedure worldwide, Forbes reports.

“This is the first use of a 3D-printed vertebra as an implant for orthopedic spine surgery in the world,” said Dr. Liu Zhongjun, director of the Orthopedics Department at the hospital, as quoted by the CBS News.

The boy, referred to as Minghao, was diagnosed with cancer following a football accident. The tumor was located on the second vertebra in his neck. He is reported to be in good condition following a five-hour surgery and is expected to recover quickly.

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Face time with Joanne and Imani by Stinkersmell

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Storm rising

lunarlionpsu-deactivated2014111

Check out these photos and more by Bobby Chen (a fantastic friend of the team!) of our mission headquarters’ opening. If we ever get around to having open house days, come check it out for yourself! (And see if you can find the corgi in the mural.)

#lunar lion #lunar lion psu #wow!!! it's looking good guys!!! :D

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We had the opening of our new mission headquarters today!!

This is a huge help to our organization for a plethora of reasons. However, for me, it’s about giving all the students/advisers/everyone a place to work and collaborate together! We can’t thank the University enough for this gift! :D In the mean time, we still need a lot more money in order to make the mission succeed (and make it past phase 1 of prototype testing). Check us out here! Thanks for all your support!

#lunar lion #!!!!!!#it looks sooo coool!!!#that's impressive for a group of students #mee thinks

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An Isochrone curve is the curve for which the time taken by an object sliding without friction in uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point. The curve is a cycloid, and the time is equal to π times the square root of the radius over the acceleration of gravity.

- A ball set on an Isocrone (or Tautochrone) curve will reach the bottom at the same length of time no matter where you place the ball, so long as there is no impeding friction.

[Gif] - Four balls slide down a cycloid curve from different positions, but they arrive at the bottom at the same time. The blue arrows show the points’ acceleration along the curve. On the top is the time-position diagram.

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#physics