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Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004

Posted by michael on from the rated-s-for-shoulders-of-giants dept.

TarrVetus writes "Science Magazine's The Top Ten Science Breakthroughs of 2004 have been announced. The winner: The NASA Rovers and their evidence of water on Mars. The runner up was the Hobbit species found in Indonesia. Other breakthroughs include cloned human embryos and the first discovered pulsar pair."

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  1. What about the Beagle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Largest man-created crater on the surface of Mars? That's got to count for something!

    1. Re:What about the Beagle? by jeremyp · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yay!

      We Brits get there first again. Your American Rovers have failed to do anything more spectacular than create a few wheel tracks in spite of being there for months and months.

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  2. Award should go to creation scientists by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 5, Funny

    For discovering that all previous science and history is false and the world is in fact a giant ant farm created 6000 years ago by a cloud dwelling egomaniac

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  3. Just in case the site gets slashdotted by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here is the list:

    1. NASA rover finds water on Mars
    2. Hobbits discovered in Indonesia, still searching for the one ring
    3. Human embryos cloned
    4. First pulsar pair discovered
    5. Atkins diet proved sound
    6. Turmeric found to be highly protective against many forms of cancer
    7. Study shows eating chlorophyll will really oxygenate your blood
    8. Elusive Batboy located
    9. Discovery of hair-straightening treatment that causes water molucules to shrink
    10. New condom developed that contains benzocaine to prolong the sex act
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  4. what about the remaining days in 04? by Dreadlord · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you have a scientific breakthrough, please wait till the next year to announce it, otherwise you won't make it the top 10 list.

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  5. Re:already /.ed? by Vicsun · · Score: 4, Funny

    BBC have more bandwidth than God. Slashdot is more likely to get BBCed than BBC is to get slashdotted. =)

  6. Great, more units... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the pulsar article:
    "Pulsars are intriguing and puzzling objects. They pack as much mass as the Sun crammed into an object with a cross-sectional area about as large as Boston,"
    Now, I'm originally from Philadelphia, so using its area as a unit doesn't particularly faze me... but the size of Boston? Come on! That's not even properly polysyllabic!
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  7. Re:Cloning / Souls by superdude72 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, the final nail in the coffin of God! This'll shut those Christians up for sure.