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'Starquake' Cracks Star
geekroot's dad writes "Space.com is reporting that a huge 'starquake' releasing as much energy as our sun does in 250,000 years, has cracked a nearby neutron star. The magnetar produced the brightest explosion ever seen by man outside of the milky way. Although it is 50,000 light-years away, the blast was so huge it temporarily blinded some satellites and briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere!"
a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
What if you got one of those Japanese rice-writers to do the writing on paper? I mean, we're talking about a font size like 0.01 points. We should get someone on that.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
Man slashdot must be about a lightyear away from this server as this article is from February.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF