[sunnykerr]

I can just begin to imagine what people with little to no ethics would do with that sort of technology, though...

[Firecrest]

That is the downside of such emerging technology.

[sunnykerr]

Asteroid the size of a house flies by Earth, creating 'precious' opportunity for scientists

Hopefully, we never have to find out if an asteroid were actually headed straight at us.

[Firecrest]

"GN1 is about the same size as the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which was 59 feet (18 metres) long, said Mike Hankey, operations manager at the American Meteor Society."

I hope they keep good track of it!

[sunnykerr]

I think once it's passed Earth... I kinda think they'll let it go.

[Firecrest]

Yup!

[sunnykerr]

New study suggests mushrooms may talk to each other with up to 50 'words'

That creeped me out, if I'm honest.

[Firecrest]

"Mushrooms may be able to communicate with each other through patterns in electrical signals."

"Underneath each mushroom lies hyphae, which are underground root-like structures that can be likened to nerve cells in the human nervous system. When hyphae form a network, called a mycelium, this can facilitate communication between fungi."

Wow, could they feel pain or warn others?

[sunnykerr]

I don't know that they have pain receptors to feel pain. But perhaps there's a mushroom version of "stress" that could be communicated to others...

[Firecrest]

I think so too!

[sunnykerr]

Rock found in Quebec could hold answers to early life on Earth

What's 300 million years one way or another?

[Firecrest]

"Using various microscopes, as well as a supercomputer to create 3D models of the rock's structures, the researchers confirmed that they were wavy in shape and contained organic carbon, which are characteristics of iron-eating microbes."

"This means life could have begun as little as 300 million years after Earth formed,"
It is so amazing how fast life expanded!

[sunnykerr]

I'm not sure what it means, to be honest. Like, we were ameobas for 300 million more years? Just because there was "life" doesn't mean it's life that we would recognize.

[Firecrest]

I think so too on the amoebas!

[sunnykerr]

I'm sure that's super exciting to some scientists, but I would need an explanation of the relevence of that period of time to feel that excitement myself...