Crazy Physics Facts. Cloning mammoths may lead directly to prehistoric zombie apocalypse. Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.
Here's an excellent idea that hasn't ever been illustrated as a catastrophic example of scientific hubris in a series of incredibly popular action-horror movies in which people innocently sitting in the john are savagely eaten by giant prehistoric things with big teeth: A researcher at Kyoto University has announced plans to clone, produce and raise a wooly mammoth of a species that died out more than 5,000 years ago, then do it again, enough times to create a kind of Ice-Age version of Jurassic Park, probably without all the screaming and running. There's some debate about the project. It may not be a mammoth, for one thing. The clone would come from the carcass of something large and furry dug from the permafrost in Siberia and preserved in a Russian lab for the past decade. Mammoths aren't the only things being cloned, of course. The first animal to be cloned was a British sheep named Dolly. To these I say: Shut up. Or we slaughtered them all. Io9.
A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory. Ask a Physicist: How long does it take for you to fall into a black hole? - io9. @Pants McCracky: What our friendly physicist didn't explain is that the difference is perceptual.
Time doesn't "slow down" as you approach the event horizon because time isn't a universal thing. Okay, so imagine you're carrying a big clock as you approach the event horizon, and I'm carrying a synchronized clock with me. I can see my clock right next to me, and I can watch yours with a telescope. As you fall closer to the event horizon, it will look like your clock is running slower than mine.
I will see you move closer and closer to the horizon, slower and slower, and I will never see you cross, because your image takes longer and longer to get to me. But from your perspective it's totally different. You can safely stick your hand in liquid nitrogen...but you probably shouldn't - io9. What would happen if I drilled a tunnel through the center of th". Want to really get away from it all?
The farthest you can travel from home (and still remain on Earth) is about 7,900 miles (12,700 kilometers) straight down, but you'll have to journey the long way round to get there: 12,450 miles (20,036 kilometers) over land and sea. Why not take a shortcut, straight down? You can get there in about 42 minutes -- that's short enough for a long lunch, assuming you can avoid Mole Men, prehistoric reptiles and underworld denizens en route. Granted, most Americans would end up in the Indian Ocean, but Chileans could dine out on authentic Chinese, and Kiwis could tuck into Spanish tapas for tea [sources: NOVA; Shegelski]. Of course, you'd be in for a rough ride. For sake of argument (and survival) let's pretend the Earth is a cold, uniform, inert ball of rock. At the Earth's surface, gravity pulls on us at 32 feet (9.8 meters) per second squared. Ten things you don’t know about the Earth.
Look up, look down, look out, look around.— Yes, "It Can Happen" Good advice from the 70s progressive band.
Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it? Below are ten facts about the Earth — the second in my series of Ten Things You Don’t Know (the first was on the Milky Way). 1) The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball. Maybe you’ve heard this statement: if the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would actually be smoother than one. OK, first, how smooth is a billiard ball? The Earth has a diameter of about 12,735 kilometers (on average, see below for more on this). The highest point on Earth is the top of Mt. Hey, those are within the tolerances!
But would it be round enough to qualify? 2) The Earth is an oblate spheroid. Hours of daylight vs latitude vs day of year.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chemical Composition of the Human Body.