Category: Science


Why Would Anyone EVER Waste Money Studying Water on Cereal?


Gizmodo – Researchers from Pontificia University Católica in Santiago, Chile, have determined with cold hard science that milk is definitively superior to water, as far as cereal liquids go.

The argument against water: “The plasticizing effect of water … softened the carbohydrate/protein matrix, inducing partial collapse of the porous structure and eventually disintegration of the whole piece through deep cracks.” Or, more simply, it will turn your Corn Flakes to mush, fast.Better to stick with milk, the fat and other solids in which”become deposited on the flakes’ surface hindering liquid infiltration.”Well, at least it’s nice to know there’s a reason for us to be doing what most of us are already doing.

 

Jesus Christ, Chile… Don’t you have anything better to do than to waste money studying why youshouldn’tput water in cereal? You fucking idiots.

Who in their right mind puts water in cereal? You have to be some kind of moron. It’s common sense. You either eat it dry or put milk in it. No shit water makes cereal soggy and gross – it’s the universal solvent.

I don’t need any study about plasticizing effects of water and protein/carb matrices and how thestructurescollapseand all that scientific bullshit. How much did this cost?

How about this. Instead of wasting thousands of dollars on scientists’ salaries, lab equipment and supplies, go cure diabetes or some shit. Or better yet, throw rager with hundreds of drunk Chilean sluts and invite me as VIP.

WTF Is Fenway Stadium?


Fenway Stadium? Where the hell is that?

Who proofreads this shit?My9 is the shittiest network going. I mean, do they even have any shows that white people watch? Every once in a while when the Yankees are on there instead of YES, you get this Brooklyn accented joker Russ Salzberg like “O. fuggheduhbouddit. Them there Yankees won”

PS – How awesome is my television? Fucking 90s piece of shit. Who the hell has a CRT in 2011?

India Sucks at Launching Rockets


MSNBC – NEW DELHIA rocket carrying an Indiancommunication satellite exploded just after liftoff Saturday in the second launch failure for India’s space agency this year.

What the f! Don’t all Indians have an IQ of 232, study all day and eat, sleep and breathe education? What’s this crap that every time they try to launch something into space, the rocket blows up? I thought a 14 year old Indian could put a rocket in space. This is the second one that blew up. And they’re supposed to put men in space by 2016? Come on India! You’re smarter than that.

If the morons in the United States were smart enough to fake a moon landing in 1969, I think it wouldn’t be too hard for India to toss a rocket into orbit. Should be as simple as breathing for those brainiacs.

WiFi Makes Trees Sick?


Gawker – The dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn commissioned the study five years ago to figure out why their city’s trees were developing weird growths, according to PC World. The study, conducted by a researcher at Wageningen University, found that 70 percent of trees in urban areas exhibited similar symptoms today, while only 10 percent did five years ago. What’s to blame for the increase? Wi-Fi, maybe.

This has to be the dumbest study in the history of scientific studies. WiFi is causing abnormal growths on trees? Please! I’m pretty sure WiFi existed in 2005. Ever think that maybe trees in urban areas are also exposed to smoke, soot, pollution, acid rain and noise? Hmm, maybe that’s it. WiFi is a radio wave. It’s non ionizing and has a long wavelength. It’s no different than radio stations really. It’s not like WiFi is giving off intense high frequency xrays or gamma rays that destroy cells. They should make me a scientist who studies this crap. I’ll put them right.


Apple Misreporting iPhone 4 Signal Strength (And a lesson in dBm transmitting power)


Computerworld – In response to mounting reports that the iPhone 4 offers subpar call reception, Apple Inc. today said that an algorithm used in its new smartphone is flawed and promised to update its iOS 4 operating system in the next few weeks.

Users called the company’s inaccurate algorithm explanation “hooey” and worse on Apple’s support forum.

Apple blamed the faulty formula for problems users have encountered with the iPhone’s signal strength, which has been said to quickly plummet when the phone is held in certain ways.

It just gets worse and worse for these assholes. It is SUPER EASY to calculate signal strength. It’s measured in dBm, an abbreviation for the power ratio indecibels (dB) of the measured power referenced to one milliwatt (mW). When signal is extremely poor, the phone transmits at higher power. -125 dBm is very bad. -60 dBm is very good.

The phone physically reports these raw numbers based on how it’s transmitting. On old phones oyu were able to access the transmitting power in hidden menus. On Android, go to Settings–>About Phone–>Status and it wil ltell you signal strength in dBm.

But obviously users wouldn’t know what this means, so they are converted to bars for convenience. It’s not that hard to program a phone to say “okay, if it is less than -115 dBm, there should be no bars. If it’s between -114dBm to -105dBm, one bar. -104dBm to -95dBm, two. -94 to -85-dBm, three. -85 to -74, four bars and greater than -74dBm should be 5 bars.

Apparently, the iPhone 4 has a software problem where it displays more bars than it should. So when people are seeing 4 bars, it should really be two. In addition, this does not fix the antenna problems when people are holding the phone. Therefore a user can be seeing 4 bars but really have none when holding it wrong.

How do you screw that up Apple? It’s easy to do conditional statements!