Oddly, I never have any problems being somewhere on time.

The bean-orbit is fine if you assume the audience understands that they're viewing it from the point of view of an observer on Earth, but people often assume a heliostationary and heliocentric view of the solar system. Neither view is truly correct, of course, since all the objects in the solar system (including the…

Don't search for kittens. I searched for a kitten story to cheer me up and got "Just Another ‘Dog Rescues Half-Smooshed Bag of Kittens’ Story" ( [gaw.kr] ) instead.

I just happen to like this depiction of Cruithne's orbit better, so I'm posting it. The problem with the "bean" depiction used is that it's relative to Earth and people don't really gain any instinctual understanding of the motion from it.

Know any spray-can-wielding hooligans willing to underline that word for a few bucks and otherwise leave the sign alone?

We can only hope that'll hurt his chances. It might not be too late to recover and restore Texas.

It says he signed the "Personhood USA pledge" which is a bit wishy-washy on the subject, but I think will eventually be interpreted to only allow for life-saving abortions of the strictest sort: The text of the pledge under (2)(c) seems to allow for abortions in the case of the life of the mother, but under (3)(e)…

If dark energy increases with the volume of the universe, then doesn't that imply that it's simply popping out of the vacuum? So, what else pops out of the vacuum? Virtual particles, right?

Given that he doesn't support abortion in the case of the pregnancy being a threat to the mother's life, then it seems his position is that her life is worth less than that of the fetus.

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True. I have no idea how many times I've gone to pick up a roast and had to pry some jerk's flint-tipped spear from it.

Any chance that having four different systems like this will make it easier to have more accurate and lower power geolocation-enabled devices?

Wasn't Deep Thought 2nd? Guess its time has passed.

I'll wait for the moissanite encrusted platinum toilet with bearer-bond TP.

Actually, that'd make a pretty funny saying for the front of a really ugly Christmas sweater.

A bit harsh. I hope they just come to their senses and apologize soon.

To be fair, they did have wheels, but these were used for rather trivial purposes to our eyes: Toys, chronology and astronomy, sculpting and architecture. They had no beasts of burden to help move things around (other than the llama) and while the Yucatan was fairly flat, it was also very uneven; Primarily they used…

So, this CEO decided to intentionally keep his market open to competition to keep price low and the product available... and when the factory burnt down, he kept paying the workers...

I'm personally looking for a good replacement for XChat Aqua, since it seems to no longer be supported or updated.