Brainiac. One of Superman's enemies. He shrinks and preserves civilizations as a hobby, including an entire Kryptonian city.
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It may look like a giant ball oozing with earthworms, but it's actually a simulation of Jupiter's massive and…
IIRC it has a multitude of pigments, but its eyes don't process color the way ours do.
Consider the cat that plays with the mouse (for a while) before it kills it. How about the mother predator that teaches its cubs/babies how to hunt by wounding a prey and letting her kids finish it off for practice. Have you never seen this? Where do you get off making such naive and sweeping statements alluding to…
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Let me introduce you to an something that has been known to play with its food before killing it. The killer whale (there is a reason it is called the killer whale).
"Humans are the only animal that I know of that kill for sport" You've obviously never owned a cat.
I'd like to introduce you to parasitic wasps: http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscien…
The most interesting thing about this scenario is the enforcement opportunities. If a predator backslides and insists on eating other animals, what do the authorities do? They can't kill the predator, because that would cause suffering. Best thing is to allow it to exist in a 'natural' state in some reserved area…
Well it gets really dark and a whole lot cooler.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, shouldn't the headline read "Right Next To The Moon"? The Solar Dynamics Observatory orbits the Earth. :)
Misleading headline is misleading. You can't see a lunar eclipse from "right next to the sun" because the moon is in orbit around the Earth - if you're close enough to the sun to be legitimately called "next to" it, then the moon will never come between you and it, by many millions of miles. Maybe would have been…
Yeah, it's more like what does an eclipse look like from earth's orbit magnified, in HD, and through different filters.
The headline doesn't quite describe what's going on.
...ok fine. Edge of the galaxy. Same diff.
By either estimate the distance is beyond staggering. It's huge conceptual weight bludgeons you repeatedly with a lead pipe in a dark alley in Pyongyang and then expects you stand up and walk away after it's taken your rice ration stamps.
You seem to be suggesting something like Olber's Paradox but there are ways to arrange matter and energy over an infinite space-time so you don't have this problem.
I thought this question had been answered already.
We always have to deal with either there being a place where all existence stops, or infinity. If there are universes outside our universe, either THAT will go on infinitely, or there will be a point at which existence of some sort stops. Neither makes any rational sense.