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[Friesiansam]

Only 8 more stops until she arrives ...

Probably with a broken leg, due to poor packaging and careless handling…

 

[jjbomber]

Probably with a broken leg, due to poor packaging and careless handling…

She's now walked slightly in front of Jeff Bezos. She's past her Prime!

 

[Jasonovich]

She's now walked slightly in front of Jeff Bezos. She's past her Prime!

And he'd agreed to give her 30 days free trial.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

When the escape is underway in the film The Great Escape and is almost discovered by a guard, in reality the guard had walked away from the prison compound to take a lengthy dump. Can't imagine why they chose to censor that...

 

[Jasonovich]

When the escape is underway in the film The Great Escape and is almost discovered by a guard, in reality the guard had walked away from the prison compound to take a lengthy dump. Can't imagine why they chose to censor that...

Ah that's crappy man!

 

[Friesiansam]

We’re doomed, doomed I tell you!

YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth

The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

www.bbc.co.uk

Well, 1.3% chance…

 

[Revolutions]

My older brother just called me, which was odd in itself as he never phones me. The strangest part was how excited he was to tell me this new fact he learnt. Apparently Bush are named after they lived: Shepherd’s Bush.

I’m never answering my phone again.

 

[jjbomber]

Did you know that the best acronym in the world belongs to Cyclists Unable to Notice Traffic Signals.

 

[Jasonovich]

Did you know that the best acronym in the world belongs to Cyclists Unable to Notice Traffic Signals.

True.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

There's a non-profit in Tanzania called Apopa, which trains African giant pouched rats. They can sniff out land mines, illegally-traded animals and Tuberculosis. They are considerably better than the available lab methods, and cost $1.10 a test. The far less reliable smear test costs $3, and a more accurate genetic test costs $17. Alas they can only be used as a back-up to lab testing as they are now WHO-approved.

 

[daytona600]

Did you know google Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America

 

[Friesiansam]

Did you know google Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America

Only in Trump's America, it's still Gulf of Mexico everywhere else.

 

[DCarmi]

Only in Trump's America, it's still Gulf of Mexico everywhere else.

And Greenland will become Redwhiteandblueland!

 

[Friesiansam]

And Greenland will become Redwhiteandblueland!

When is America going to be renamed Orangeland?

 

[Jasonovich]

Only in Trump's America, it's still Gulf of Mexico everywhere else.

Trump is like the Sopranos.

 

[Jasonovich]

Only in Trump's America, it's still Gulf of Mexico everywhere else.

Trump is like the Sopranos.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The NASA mission that returned samples from the asteroid Bennu was found to contain 14 of the 20 amino acids, 19 further non-protein amino acids (which are either rare or not found on Earth) and all five nucleobases that form DNA & RNA. A very long way indeed from being life, but gives some credence to the view that some of the ingredients might have formed out there.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I get the impression that most people know there was a period of massive expansion in the early universe, known as inflation. Interesting piece in The Sky at Night this month:

The universe went from being considerably smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. That represents growth by a factor of a million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times. That's the equivalent of a standard shipping container expanding in that time to being bigger than the current observable universe. Boggles my little mind, anyway...

 

[Jasonovich]

I get the impression that most people know there was a period of massive expansion in the early universe, known as inflation. Interesting piece in The Sky at Night this month:

The universe went from being considerably smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. That represents growth by a factor of a million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times. That's the equivalent of a standard shipping container expanding in that time to being bigger than the current observable universe. Boggles my little mind, anyway...

I was wonder can I count trillion within my lifeline, I suspect I need a toilet break. Hmmmm can I do two things or maybe three at the same time?
Trillion trillion trillion of a second is certainly mind boggling 🙂

 

[Friesiansam]

I get the impression that most people know there was a period of massive expansion in the early universe, known as inflation. Interesting piece in The Sky at Night this month:

The universe went from being considerably smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. That represents growth by a factor of a million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times. That's the equivalent of a standard shipping container expanding in that time to being bigger than the current observable universe. Boggles my little mind, anyway...

As we say in Somerset, 'tis a gurt bigun.

 

[Gray]

I get the impression that most people know there was a period of massive expansion in the early universe, known as inflation. Interesting piece in The Sky at Night this month:

The universe went from being considerably smaller than an atom to about the size of a grapefruit in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. That represents growth by a factor of a million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times. That's the equivalent of a standard shipping container expanding in that time to being bigger than the current observable universe. Boggles my little mind, anyway...

I like the way the experts are all so sure about the 'facts' they come out with.

For my sins, I've always watched programmes like Horizon - and often reflected on the fact that the geeks (always in front of boards full of formulae) are being paid good money to hypothesise.

There are some very educated guesses - but guesses are all that certain things will ever be.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I like the way the experts are all so sure about the 'facts' they come out with.

For my sins, I've always watched programmes like Horizon - and often reflected on the fact that the geeks (always in front of boards full of formulae) are being paid good money to hypothesise.

There are some very educated guesses - but guesses are all that certain things will ever be.

At the risk of dancing on the head of a semantic pin, I'd contend that there's a massive difference between a very educated guess and a simple guess. And there's a considerable amount of evidence that leads to these conclusions - the universe simply hasn't had time to reach it's present size without some form of inflation, and the CMB maps out the irregularities in density etc.

I can't help but admire how science is able to keep adding degrees of illumination to things that nothing and no-one could even have been around to witness.

 

[Gray]

At the risk of dancing on the head of a semantic pin, I'd contend that there's a massive difference between a very educated guess and a simple guess. And there's a considerable amount of evidence that leads to these conclusions - the universe simply hasn't had time to reach it's present size without some form of inflation, and the CMB maps out the irregularities in density etc.

I can't help but admire how science is able to keep adding degrees of illumination to things that nothing and no-one could even have been around to witness.

That's all true - and, like you, I'm impressed by what science has done for man's knowledge.
Physics is our evidence for much of course.
But speculation on the unknowns can seem to become common 'knowledge' amongst some scientists.

Still, speculation and guesswork will always exist.....such as that boring old question of "what was there before the big bang?" 😉

 

[Friesiansam]

Still, speculation and guesswork will always exist.....such as that boring old question of "what was there before the big bang?" 😉

Also, where did all that matter come from, how did it come into existence? Are we in an endless cycle, if so, how did it start? And, is Earth an experiment to answer the ultimate question, created and run by mice?

 

[Jasonovich]

That's all true - and, like you, I'm impressed by what science has done for man's knowledge.
Physics is our evidence for much of course.
But speculation on the unknowns can seem to become common 'knowledge' amongst some scientists.

Still, speculation and guesswork will always exist.....such as that boring old question of "what was there before the big bang?" 😉

From nothingness there was a collective consciousness, it formed the heavens, a state of consciousness we experience from death and we forget from birth..

The Big Bang? I call it the Boris Johnson syndrome, the heavens farted and matter was created, all these atoms collided to create a spark, bang and the universe was formed.

We descend from the heavens into our earthly vessels, there we experience unimaginable pain. As entities we have to reacquaint with life, so that we can move forward as a race.

Pub talk, pass over the cheese and onion, thanks. Glug glug, another one?