You see, I was in an automobile going through a yellow light, really fast. There was a mountain nearby. The combination of gravity and velocity created localized distortions in the space-time field making time go slower for me (Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilation).
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If you're interesting enough that the NSA is watching what you do on your computer, the NSA is already watching what you do on your computer. Now that you have detected this, other (possibly less subtle) methods will be used to ensure that you are appropriately monitored . . . but kudos to you for catching the NSA! X^D
This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
"We" does not suggest that I am one of the scientists involved . . . "we" in this instance is a reference to "we humans" - a group which you might consider joining some day, if "we" let you. X^D
It's also shared with your vendor and your credit card company. Same holds true if you use ISIS wallet - someone who is not either your vendor or your credit card provider has access to your credit and purchase information. Guess what - if you use Apple's wallet app, Apple will have access to your purchase data - or did you think Apple just hired all of the world's best psychics and decided to take 'em on faith?
But don't worry - you just go ahead and enjoy your applesauce.
I didn't even have to think too hard about that, and the list just goes on from there. Those are all from sci-fi, but the sci-fi authors who invented them didn't make 'em up all by themselves. There were serious scientists even fifty and more years ago who were theorizing about such ideas.
The picture I saw was 1800x1800 pixels. OTOH, the disk appears to span something more like a couple hundred AU's. Offhand, you're probably right, but even if a Jupiter-sized object only resolved to one pixel it would be remarkable.
I guess it's a good thing you're not an astronomer or a cosmologist. One of the things that we've already learned from such images is that our current model of how solar systems form needs tweaking (according to our models, this star isn't old enough to have protoplanets or vote, although it can serve in the military).
HL Tauri is roughly 450ly from Sol - not clear across the galaxy, but not exactly right next door either. I wonder if this array could image extrasolar planetary bodies? It's one thing to image an accretion disk (which is more than a few AU's in size), but the image I saw makes me think this thing might just be able to resolve planets.
Either way, this array was definitely money well spent.
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Not before Monsanto found a market for their products feeding third-world European nations.
X^D
Who's gonna make us - you?
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Europe disappeared from the worldwide web today.
What could possibly go wrong?
Offtopic!?!. Bull - that was damned funny - and dead on-topic, in view of what we're talking about here.
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If not, you just stay right where you are . . . tovarishch.
I thought he committed suicide once or twice . . .
The only nation in human history to fight a nuclear war and win!
N/T
Yeah, but a couple hundred years ago we fought for this.
We like it that way here.
Try them again, I say! That'll show 'em. They'll think twice before becoming scientists in Italy.
As long as we all do it together in the same way!
Mindless troll.
I think Tribbles were carbon-based life with DNA.
Now if only there were some vendors around town actually accepting tap-to-pay . . . :^S
But don't worry - you just go ahead and enjoy your applesauce.
I didn't even have to think too hard about that, and the list just goes on from there. Those are all from sci-fi, but the sci-fi authors who invented them didn't make 'em up all by themselves. There were serious scientists even fifty and more years ago who were theorizing about such ideas.
The picture I saw was 1800x1800 pixels. OTOH, the disk appears to span something more like a couple hundred AU's. Offhand, you're probably right, but even if a Jupiter-sized object only resolved to one pixel it would be remarkable.
I guess it's a good thing you're not an astronomer or a cosmologist. One of the things that we've already learned from such images is that our current model of how solar systems form needs tweaking (according to our models, this star isn't old enough to have protoplanets or vote, although it can serve in the military).
Either way, this array was definitely money well spent.