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Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events
Ethanon writes "In an article posted by BBC, scientists have suggested that two "unassociated" seismic events that occurred in 1993 were actually strange Quark matter passing through the Earth at a speed of perhaps 250 miles per second. A spec of strange Quark matter the size of a human cell is said to be so dense that it could weigh a tonne! Check it out
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Who knew Ferengi were so dense?
scientists have found that multi-posts of stories on slashdot are due to a quirk matter that passes through the slashdot queue at the high speed of 100 submissions/day.
I have seen fat guys whose cells easliy weigh a ton each.
Oprah.
Will lining it with tinfoil help?
I called the BBC and they were no help at all.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
Does this mean that all comments here get modded -1:Redundant?
250 Miles per second?
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now that's what i call a .
QUARK EXPRESS
anything i tell you will cloud your opinion.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified).
;)
Are you sure you are a mathematician?
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
The only calculations you're doing are the ones that pertain to how much bud you can pack into your pipe.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
Perhaps they forgot to synchronize their watches? Scientists are terribly forgetful about things like this :)
He who defends everything, defends nothing. -- Fredrick The Great
No, everyone can get more karma by copy/pasting comments from the previous story.
Odo: "I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Romulans, Quark, the visiting Tarellians..."
Sisko: "You think Quark had anything to do with it?"
Odo: "I always investigate Quark"
People blame sub-atomic particles for everything now.
What caused those earthquakes? Quarks.
What destroyed the World Trade Center? Quarks.
Who left the toilet seat up? Quarks.
Its about time people took responsibility for their actions and quit blaming the poor quarks.
Trolling is a art,
Maybe this is finally a scientific reason for spontaneous human combustion?
If it could actually do damage to you, you'd enter the guiness book of records for being the most unlucky complex of proteins in the universe.
>>> whoooooooosh >>>>
[your head]
an Earth shattering KaBoom!
That pesky Earthling has stolen my Strangium-238 Space Modulator!
Seriously, any one read David Brin's Earth?
Maybe they only winged us.
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
he's using 11th dimentional math where you just make up whatever the fuck numbers you want. It's said that even U.S. school students pick up math pretty easily there.
"I think everyone here is overestimating the size of those things."
Man, are you crazy? Leaving the house? There are neutrinos out there, man! Nothing can stop them! We're all going to die!
Who invited the Christian extremists?
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
" As a mathematician I'm usually very spectical of ..."
"Usually there is some problems..."
Whether or not you're a mathematician is debatable, but I'm pretty sure you'll never get confused with an English major. You have some "specticalular" problems with subject/verb agreements...
"There is almost no experimental proofs for quantum field theory."
Psst! You're a mathematician. You're supposed to be satisfied when the equations work out. Experimental proof is something done by... well... physicists.
"And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified)."
Forget the funky math you just did, if you made up new math functions as often as you made up new words ("compactified?"), you'd be the next Newton.
"can by explained much easier due to the fact that several cohomology groups of the Yang-Chibara manifolds are simple and the remaining ones freely generated."
Dude! Paramount is looking for you! They need you to help write the next Star Trek series!
"The other well known phenomena of earth core oszillations"
We're off to see the wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Osz!
"No, everyone can get more karma by copy/pasting comments from the previous story."
You cut-and-pasted that comment from a previous comment on a repeated story! And the next time this happens, I'm going to post this comment again.
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Damn Chi-Comms!
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You know, that's usually what I do for fun. I and 6 of my friends get drunk then each break into the seven nearest seismographic reseach stations. Then (with our watches synchronized) we all kick the seismographs at the same time then again .73 seconds later (cuz lets face it, .72 is just too hard to pull off).
These guys are real proffessionals though, we could never get to an antarctic station.
omnia tua castra sunt nobis
At least they're right about ONE thing: it probably wouldn't hurt at all :)
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Sounded funny to my until I got all my records out and looked at them, a hole exactly through the center of every one of them!
ObSimpsons Quote:
LISA: "Principal Skinner, how's your transportation project coming?"
SKINNER: "Oh excellent, not only are the trains now running on time, they're running on metric time. Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment."