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  1. This is a supermassive black hole. Even if we were competent (we're obviously not) there probably wouldn't be much we could do about this if it was headed to us. The scope of destruction would not be limited to this planet.

  2. DM is touchy subject on here for some bizarre reason. Presumably it's something to do with 'liberals'.

  3. Every astronomy article on slashdot is festooned with mongs who think they're the smartest kid in the class by pointing out that light travels at finite speed. They never tire of it.

  4. "going" = growing.

  5. The temperature of the universe is still no lower anywhere than around 3K. All black holes are still going and will continue to do so for billions of years yet, even just by absorbing background microwave radiation.

  6. Are there any actual physicists here who'd care to speculate?

    This is slashdot. You'd better hope these 'actual physicists' are running it by our armchair blowhards before they pipe up about anything.

  7. Furlongs per fortnight: 1.3439973e+10

  8. Re:Why not use the NASA article instead? on Supermassive Black Hole Rocketing Out of Distant Galaxy At 5 Million MPH (blastr.com) · · Score: 1

    For your own sake I hope a .com TLD site never pisses you off.

  9. Re:All the more reason to avoid protests... on Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    In the case of Parks, definitely and idiot,

    You, on the other hand, sound really smart.

  10. If it's your job to act professionally and within the remit of the law, then fucking do so. Otherwise, go and do something else.

  11. Imagine if Amazon removed paragraphs from the eBook versions to make it easier/faster to read?

    I believe that would have the opposite effect. Paragraphs are not designed to impede reading.

  12. Re:This would upset me... on Netflix Will Explore Mobile-Specific Cuts of Its Original Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything else you don't care about you'd like to tell us all about?

  13. David Lynch's take on things is interesting on Netflix Will Explore Mobile-Specific Cuts of Its Original Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Yeah. If every kid had a 'religious studies' class that looks at all religions and not just one, the implication would be clear... they can't ALL be right, how about NONE of them are right? ;)

  15. Makes Erdogan's popularity all the more bewildering, especially among ex-pats.

  16. The Armenian genocide was a century ago. In terms of history, that's not long ago.

  17. Re:Trump is Empowering Despots and Dictators on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ignoring the significance of the world's 3 billion Muslims (which outnumber Christians btw)

    Your post is one that I agree with in broad terms, but this is incorrect. In 2012 there were 1.6 billion Muslims to Christianity's 2.2 billion.

    It's better to be right, even if it doesn't help your argument.

  18. Re:Islam and Nazism - blood brothers on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd need to check if there are extra-biblical sources for that first, on account of how it is one of the most untrustworthy documents out there.

  19. Re:Islam and Nazism - blood brothers on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of that article:

    There is no dispute that Holocaust denial has been on the rise in Arab countries during the last two decades. This has been illustrated in a disgraceful way by the hero-like reception that Roger Garaudy, the French former communist turned Catholic, turned Muslim, turned Holocaust denier, received in several Arab countries in the late 1990s, after his sentencing by a French court for a Holocaust-denying book.

    You should have had a read through it, because it's an apology in no way, shape or form. Now you just look like an idiot. Sorry, I mean you obviously are an idiot, it's just now you've outed yourself.

    Still, at least you didn't log in.

  20. Re:Well this is quite frankly... on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All I'm wondering is if you even know what the hell you're on about.

  21. Distinct lack of anything to back up some outlandish claims there. Allow me to retort:

    Nah.

  22. Re:You forgot the Fascist+Inquisition bits... on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You don't ban books and tear down churches in a free country. It's not a very dutch attitude. That's why it's not "reasonable".

  23. I agree but I would calm the language down. You can't defeat religion with force. It has to become a popular figure of ridicule.

  24. Pretty much all religions want to force their belief system on others. That's how they exist in the first place.

  25. Re:The real problem is ISALM on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Agreed. What the "alt-right" and other associated dickheads fail to realise is that going after moderate muslims is precisely what the likes of IS want to see happen. They like to see things like the veil ban in France. Anything that adds to their propaganda.

    The best thing to do is to ignore them in terms of public attention, and quietly go after them with law enforcement. Being politicised and seen as a boogey man is again precisely what they are after.

    This is basically another way of saying that the shrill, panicky anti-muslim sentiment is actually just... dumb. Stupid as fuck.

    Then you have the likes of Trump, Sarkozy etc - bigging them up and talking endlessly about how scary they are. They are bigger allies of IS than they realise.