This was *so* close to being an episode of CSI:New York.

@Citizen_Snips: Particularl strands of religion are in conflict with scientific reasoning. This does not mean all religions are in conflict.

@Pope John Peeps II: Here's another video which focuses on the simultaneous sense of scale and connectedness that one has observing the cosmos.

@ShanaLD: What annoys me about that scene (what makes it seem unreal to me) is that I know intuitively that I should not *hear* the meteor at the same time I *see* it. Also, I'm guessing the meteor should be supersonic, so I doubt it would sound like a subsonic jetliner. It would probably not sound like anything…

Excellent. Thanks for writing this.

@Wrathernaut: Heh heh.

@Wrathernaut: Well... did you put your bet in imaginary bucks?

But there's a very real chance these decays could be caused by the Higgs boson

@cicrockets: Sagan should be required viewing.

@cicrockets: This also gets to the question of how the Greeks computed the circumference of the Earth in the first place. Since they didn't have mechanical clocks, they took the measurements at the same local time, noon, rather than simultaneously.

@shift321: The ancient Greeks had a pretty extensive trade empire. They would have had a hard time engaging in the Trojan war if they couldn't sail the Illiac peninsula!

@d.beilfuss:

@chucho87:

@sephycloneno15: They watched the eclipse happen. They could see that the diameter of the earth's shadow was greater than the moon's diameter because of the relative curvatures.

@khrysavek: I was thinking the same thing. But I'm notoriously pedantic.

@KnaveOfDiamonds:

I don't suppose someone has a link to a pre-print. The link provided to Phys Rev Letters requires a subscription.

@Morgan Carpenter: Actually, I'm one of those people who hopes they do create a black hole, because it would be incredibly cool, refute some competing GUT models, and not be at all dangerous.

@crosis101: I thought the X actually carried necessary genes that were not on the Y. But then, I know next to jack about genetics.

@Morgan Carpenter: