His argument doesn't really hold water. Sure, once you have life that can survive on a planet it's a bitch to keep it away from anywhere, but there's no guarantee that you'll get that life to begin with.
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I know that taxi drivers who know a city really well end up having noticeable growth in certain areas of the brain that isn't present in control groups.
Or there are as-yet unknown laws of physics that let you sidestep the whole "speed of light" issue (like, I dunno, something that lets you move in a specific direction at c while traveling backwards in time. Pretty sure that doesn't violate anything other than the assumption of rotational invariance)
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According to wikipedia
"The planet is believed to have a mass of 3.1 to 4.3 times that of the Earth"
So the linguistic ambiguity in this case actually closely follows the actual ambiguity in the measurements.
Just waiting for Chris Hecker to say that this handheld is just three DSes duct-taped together.
You forgot that the red wunz go faster.
His argument doesn't really hold water. Sure, once you have life that can survive on a planet it's a bitch to keep it away from anywhere, but there's no guarantee that you'll get that life to begin with.
The summary is incorrect. The exoplanet has "a mass three times larger than Earth's", not 20% to 50%
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It's a nice reputation you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
announce the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrials
So theoretically passionate enough religious rhetoric could tip the bet over.
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You're misparsing it. He's saying Lucas could have created two {more epic} {six film sagas}, not {two more} {epic six film sagas}
Of course, Penny Arcade predicted this a while back.
Bob the Angry Flower, is that you?
Exactly! Most people would think that it meant bad luck, not good.
So the analogy actually worked out after all. Now, what word would describe this course of events?
I know that taxi drivers who know a city really well end up having noticeable growth in certain areas of the brain that isn't present in control groups.
The shroud of the android has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Like rain on your wedding day?
Well, to be fair, it was a couple years before the Wright Brothers actually got heavier-than-air working.
Of course, there were already naysayers in 1906.
Well, you can see some of the predictions made for the year 2000 in the year 1900 here.
The reaction would probably be along the lines of "so why the hell haven't you guys exterminated mosquitoes yet?"
Or there are as-yet unknown laws of physics that let you sidestep the whole "speed of light" issue (like, I dunno, something that lets you move in a specific direction at c while traveling backwards in time. Pretty sure that doesn't violate anything other than the assumption of rotational invariance)
This doesn't make any sense. I'm *sure* I heard Jobs say that he was against this type of technology.
Yes, but Apple stole that from the iPaq, so they don't have a leg to stand on there.
Yes, but everyone knows there's a giant mirror exactly halfway between us and "Fomalhaut".
This is well documented.
An an imperial unit, the breadbox is no longer standardized in and of itself, and is in fact defined as 1.285 toasters
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The chef grills them for like thirty seconds.
If that isn't rare enough for you, you should order metals tartare.
Have there been any real innovations in word processing software in the last ten years?
I mean sure they've gotten shinier and bloatier, but I haven't seen any real groundbreaking features.