What's with the exotic asteroid names? Just once, I'd love to see them name an extraterrestrial body "Bob". I can see the headlines now: "Bob threatens impact with Earth". Much less scary than "Apophis threatens to wipe out all life on planet!".
Send up 3 rockets tethered together by cables meeting at a common midpoint into the path of the asteroid. Boom, asteroid hits cable, probes get accelerated by asteroid to matching speed and are dragged off being the asteroid, providing observations for a long time... what could possibly go wrong?
The old 3D cliche of throwing a ball directly at the viewer will be replaced by a new 3D cliche of throwing, uh, something else directly at the viewer... ewwwww!
I still haven't seen a good explanation for the microwave background radiation being "uniform" in all directions. Either 1) It's reflecting off the "edge" of the universe, 2) the universe has wrap-around topology, or 3) By some miracle, earth just happens to be in the center of the universe. A possible fourth alternative is that the microwaves are reflecting off of "something else", but we have no idea what that something else might be. Given we don't know the actual "size" of the universe, accurately determining it's topology would be quite non-trivial. What would be considered evidence that this 13.2 billion year old light has or hasn't been traveling in a straight line for 13.2 billion years in order to reach our eyes?
I used to live in Alaska. I still can't believe half the people up there were stupid enough to vote for this dizzy bitch. Please tell me you weren't one of them! My biggest complaint about Sarah and all the other "conservatives" is that they seem constitutionally incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy... they've adopted self-delusion as a lifestyle, and it fits them well.
How do we know that 13.2 billion year old light hasn't wrapped around the edge of the universe one or more times? That "distant galaxy" could be right next store, only a long time ago! With all the millions of galaxies we've discovered, has anybody checked to see if some of them look just like another galaxy, only viewed from a different angle and point in time? They checked to see if all snowflakes were different (they aren't), couldn't they do the same for galaxies?
For a long time, galaxies were assumed to be rotating around their center of mass, held together by mutual gravitational attraction. Only lately have we been able to prove that most if not all galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center.
Instead of modifying them for shorter lifespans, wouldn't it make more sense to modify them so that they, you know, don't carry dengue fever? Or failing that, modify them so that the females quickly die after first exposure to dengue? I'm not really sure that creating a mosquito that lives fast, dies young, and leaves a beautiful corpse really helps with the "not spreading disease" goal...
An Alaska, they used to put about 500 points of cement blocks or sand bags in the back of pickups to get traction in the winter. Certainly didn't improve their already poor fuel economy! The earlier SUVs were worse roll-over risks than pickups because they combined the height of a pickup with the suspension and tires of a passenger car. After the Ford Explorer / Firestone debacle, the design was improved somewhat.
The principle is that government should not be in the business of picking economic winners and losers, since this inevitably leads to corruption. Subsidizing electric cars violates the principle. Mandating better fuel economy and emissions may not, provided they don't mandate use of a specific technology. (Especially a specific patented technology!)
You're arguing that the government shouldn't be allowed to take your wealth as taxes and redistribute it for the greater common good. Sorry, but that ship sailed a long time ago!
Except for SUVs, which because of their higher center of gravity are more likely to roll over in an accident, making them just as dangerous as cars with much less mass. An old Cadillac sedan is unfortunately the safest car around -- lots of mass, very low center of gravity, 8 mpg, and you can buy them for $500 'cause nobody wants one.
Cash for Clunkers required dealers accepting the cars to destroy the engines (e.g. by running them without oil until they seized) so that they could not be resold. There were no statistics on compliance with this requirement, as far as I know.
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Even more surprising, somewhere there exists a universe in which slashdot posters actually get laid!
In a parallel universe, Brian Greene is lauded as a genius and his interpretation of multiverse theory is universally accepted!
What's with the exotic asteroid names? Just once, I'd love to see them name an extraterrestrial body "Bob". I can see the headlines now: "Bob threatens impact with Earth". Much less scary than "Apophis threatens to wipe out all life on planet!".
Send up 3 rockets tethered together by cables meeting at a common midpoint into the path of the asteroid. Boom, asteroid hits cable, probes get accelerated by asteroid to matching speed and are dragged off being the asteroid, providing observations for a long time... what could possibly go wrong?
The old 3D cliche of throwing a ball directly at the viewer will be replaced by a new 3D cliche of throwing, uh, something else directly at the viewer... ewwwww!
I still haven't seen a good explanation for the microwave background radiation being "uniform" in all directions. Either 1) It's reflecting off the "edge" of the universe, 2) the universe has wrap-around topology, or 3) By some miracle, earth just happens to be in the center of the universe. A possible fourth alternative is that the microwaves are reflecting off of "something else", but we have no idea what that something else might be. Given we don't know the actual "size" of the universe, accurately determining it's topology would be quite non-trivial. What would be considered evidence that this 13.2 billion year old light has or hasn't been traveling in a straight line for 13.2 billion years in order to reach our eyes?
Hey, your mom is a nice girl... show her some respect!
Have you tried calling the number they give out? Usually it's fake. Just sayin'...
I don't have a Facebook page, and it's never been a problem.
Three times zero is still zero...
If they redact everything embarrassing to Palin... that's pretty much everything she's ever said, isn't it?
I used to live in Alaska. I still can't believe half the people up there were stupid enough to vote for this dizzy bitch. Please tell me you weren't one of them! My biggest complaint about Sarah and all the other "conservatives" is that they seem constitutionally incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy... they've adopted self-delusion as a lifestyle, and it fits them well.
Well, they have to redact all of the "state secrets"... after all, Alaska is our first line of defense against invasion from Russia!
Then when two or more of them collide (as galaxies do), it will be known as a "cluster-fsck"!
How do we know that 13.2 billion year old light hasn't wrapped around the edge of the universe one or more times? That "distant galaxy" could be right next store, only a long time ago! With all the millions of galaxies we've discovered, has anybody checked to see if some of them look just like another galaxy, only viewed from a different angle and point in time? They checked to see if all snowflakes were different (they aren't), couldn't they do the same for galaxies?
Ok, I'll go take my meds now...
I prefer the term "cosmological dust bunnies" myself, thank you very much!
For a long time, galaxies were assumed to be rotating around their center of mass, held together by mutual gravitational attraction. Only lately have we been able to prove that most if not all galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center.
I say just make 'em all gay. They'll be too busy decorating their apartments and marching in pride parades to infect anyone.
Instead of modifying them for shorter lifespans, wouldn't it make more sense to modify them so that they, you know, don't carry dengue fever? Or failing that, modify them so that the females quickly die after first exposure to dengue? I'm not really sure that creating a mosquito that lives fast, dies young, and leaves a beautiful corpse really helps with the "not spreading disease" goal...
They were bred for really short life spans and really big penises. Plus, the scientists supplied each one of them with a tiny red Ferrari!
An Alaska, they used to put about 500 points of cement blocks or sand bags in the back of pickups to get traction in the winter. Certainly didn't improve their already poor fuel economy! The earlier SUVs were worse roll-over risks than pickups because they combined the height of a pickup with the suspension and tires of a passenger car. After the Ford Explorer / Firestone debacle, the design was improved somewhat.
The principle is that government should not be in the business of picking economic winners and losers, since this inevitably leads to corruption. Subsidizing electric cars violates the principle. Mandating better fuel economy and emissions may not, provided they don't mandate use of a specific technology. (Especially a specific patented technology!)
You're arguing that the government shouldn't be allowed to take your wealth as taxes and redistribute it for the greater common good. Sorry, but that ship sailed a long time ago!
Except for SUVs, which because of their higher center of gravity are more likely to roll over in an accident, making them just as dangerous as cars with much less mass. An old Cadillac sedan is unfortunately the safest car around -- lots of mass, very low center of gravity, 8 mpg, and you can buy them for $500 'cause nobody wants one.
Cash for Clunkers required dealers accepting the cars to destroy the engines (e.g. by running them without oil until they seized) so that they could not be resold. There were no statistics on compliance with this requirement, as far as I know.
Wow... the white house is going to need a MUCH BIGGER parking lot!