This reminds me of the plot to Greg Egan's Quarantine: [SPOILER] human observation of the visible universe is collapsing (and killing off) vast swathes of potential quantum states – inhabited quantum states.

"YOU SEEK PASSAGE." It was not a question. Ashara had heard tales of the Keepers of the Vortex, tales of their bluntness and irritability.

El psy congroo

Hmmm, a banana....and CERN, where have I seen this connection before?!

"three times the size" specifically refers to the linear dimension (230 feet across). Mass will depend on volume, which is presumably 27 times as great. The difference between 27 and 50 is probably due to density.

Did research on an STM in undergrad. I always thought the images were prettier than the machine. Picture is an image I took of contaminated Si(111).

The people in line at the Apple store to buy their next toy, genuinely enjoy what the get for their money. The other crowd seems to only enjoy not buying an Apple product. Oddly sad.

Isn't this scenario only valid if proton decay actually occurs? Because otherwise, I would assume the matter would remain intact once to star cools.

So what is it?

The spiders remind me of my favorite nerd joke:

I have honestly never viewed any of The Mummy series with Brendon Fraiser as anything but supernatural action. The actors are too well known for it be horror, and the plot is more action thriller than horror.

"Linc Energy just wants to set the stuff on fire and gobble up the gas emitted by the blaze. What could go wrong?"

Honeypot you say?

Are you sure... ?

Human horn?

You'd think after this they wouldnt fuck around anymore with these types of test, they you hear about the demon core.....

You realize that much of overpopulation is due to low quality of life in poor countries? Also that as poor nations are becoming richer, the worldwide birthrate is going down?