Posts by kryptonaut 220 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2010
There is no centre, and it's not expanding into anything. A reasonable 2D analogy is the skin of an inflating balloon, in which points on its surface are all getting further apart but there is no centre of expansion, and no 'empty skin' that the points are expanding into.
In the case of the universe it's as if the skin is somehow powering its own expansion - the question is what that expansion rate is, and how has it varied over time?
This new electro-magnetic resonance information, combined with the frustum shape of the pyramid, clearly indicates that they are in fact enormous EM-drives. Almost certainly they are designed to propel the occupant's ka to paradise, probably somewhere near Sirius.
Those ancient Egyptians knew so much more than we give them credit for.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, ... However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
False logic. ∞ - x is still ∞
Well, for finite x, yes. But if x is infinite then the result could be finite or infinite.
If we accept that there are an infinite number of worlds then from current observations all we can deduce is that there are between 1 and infinity inhabited worlds, and between some positive number and infinity uninhabited worlds. Which rather spoils the fun.
Benigno Palilla: Don't cross the streams.
Novice Exorcist: Why?
Benigno Palilla: It would be bad.
Novice Exorcist: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Benigno Palilla: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Cardinal Fang: [shocked gasp] Total protonic reversal.
Novice Exorcist: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Benigno.
The pizza they put on my platter
Was like a deep-pan only fatter.
I muttered "Lord save me,
They've served it with gravy
And in place of the base they've put batter".
I started - with some trepidation -
To tackle this hybrid creation,
But to my delight
The thing tasted all right
So I finished with no hesitation.
I washed it all down with some bitter,
Let nobody say I'm a quitter.
And after, I reckoned
I fancied a second -
Then I spent the whole night on the sh**ter.
Two drones downed over Cardigan Bay, and then this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-41790482
Coincidence? I think not.
I, for one, welcome our betentacled cephalopodic overlords.
The trouble with technology that looks like magic to those who don't understand it, is that these people then go on to imagine that any other problem can be solved by simply doing some more of the same magic.
Unquestioning belief in magic is fine for children who don't know any better, but for supposedly well-informed politicians and people in authority, it's rather pathetic.
Get some advice from experts, and try actually listening to it for once.
Welsh leading consonants may undergo mutations depending on what precedes them:
“For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorizing about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
But did he say it in the Carl Sagan voice that I heard in my head when I read that paragraph?
Ok, not the same as bee-vision but worth a look if these things pique your interest...
Jumping spiders have pretty acute vision, but their lenses are fixed to their exoskeletons so if they want to look around they can't just swivel their eyes. Instead they move their retinas behind the lens. If you look a jumping spider in the eye, and the lens turns dark, you know it's looking back at you.
The video on this site shows a jumping spider with a largely transparent exoskeleton, so you can see the retinas moving around - it's amazing. And the page contains a link to another video which uses the spider's lens itself to focus on the retina, showing incredible detail.
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/2014/07/moving-jumping-spider-retinas/
"Fill holes with a clear plastic of suitable refractive index that it fills the holes but leaves the optical properties intact. Plastic hardens in holes to leave smooth flat surface."
That thought struck me too, but then I realised that you'd end up with a smooth shiny surface facing the viewer, and you'd be back where you started. Only way it'd work would be if the filler plastic had the same refractive index as air, in which case you could just use that to make the screen and it would be reflection-free (and effectively invisible).
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ERR: 31 Dec 2016 23:59:60 - Temporal buffer underflow - Rebooting Universe...
The Speed of Light in a vacuum is generally held to be constant - but what if the early universe was sufficiently dense that the SoL was reduced enough that matter could move faster than the SoL in that medium without violating our current theories?
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
"It’s a particular concern when company mergers mean that vast amounts of customers’ personal data become an asset to be bought and sold."
Or when an even less savoury government than our current one takes possession of all that juicy info stored up as a result of the snoopers' charter.
Well, I have a Lumia 640XL running WP10, and I've just put it on charge after it dropped to 20% battery - 8 days after its last charge.
It wasn't always like that though - it used to need charging daily until I disabled as much of Cortana as I could, told it to only sync emails every 2 hrs, and use WiFi only (I'm nearly always either at work or at home when I want to use anything internetty).
Does all I need it to do - texts, calls, maps, browsing, email, calculator, alarms, and the odd app or two.
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