He probably stuck around for 6 years because he's married and loves his wife?

But isn't it fair to say that if her needs are being met, but his needs are not, his feelings of resentment are pretty justified? Maybe the marriage can't work anymore, but something isn't quite square as described above (which, granted is a small snapshot of a whole).

I get what you're saying completely... but I also understand what Whitman is saying. Mathematics is a powerful tool - perhaps the most powerful tool, but it's easy to get lost in the abstraction that goes along with using mathematics to model nature. I have to say, when studied as an academic pursuit it is easy to…

So long as the color is modest.

As I understand, they all have that possibility - it's kinda a crap shoot whether someone has that outcome or not. Lots of nerves down there, and if the wrong nerve gets nicked or irradiated or absorbs too much cemo, yeah that function is done. However, it's more common to have reduced function rather than no…

Here's the thing - you can just about bet your buttons that someone believed in this with the same fervor that the early Christians who were fed to the lions felt about their Gospels. These sects held Gospels derived from the same oral traditions that the Canonical Gospels were derived from, only they obviously went…

It's quite simple: the Catholic Church wants to put women on a pedestal and if they aren't on that pedestal they're harridans who caused man's fall from grace and deserve horrid treatment. Perhaps some day they'll realize there's only room for Mary on that pedestal, but first they'd have to internalize that women…

I'm always amused when stuff like this comes up because it illustrates how divergent the early Christian sects were in their beliefs and how basic the things they didn't agree on were.

In my plasma processing class our Prof told us for awhile the car manufacturers made windows hydrophobic using a plasma processing technique so you wouldn't need wipers. The only problem was the surface turned opaque over time as it was exposed to the UV light from the sun.

I was told by someone at JSC (I don't recall who anymore, it was either a tour guide, or an astronaut who taught a class I took there years ago) that the astronauts don't actually eat astronaut ice cream in space as it makes lots of crumbs and crumbs are death to machinery in space.

The proposed magnetic sail- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail would mitigate lower energy charged particle impacts - which is quite useful, but it wouldn't do anything for high energy photons and it would do nothing for the HZE particles discussed here - there's just too much energy in the particles for the…

I'd be very interested in any citation you have to back this up, as despite my somewhat extensive familiarity with the literature, I'm not aware of anything to back up the claim that there is an abnormally high instance of mental health problems among the Apollo astronaut corps.

Thank you for the background on this issue!

I don't think Holmes is a bad actress per se, though not the caliber of, nor as invested as, Gyllenhaal. I thought her performance was fine, but her performance was nearly irrelevant once the Tom Cruise relationship sucked all the publicity out of the room.

As much as anything I think it's a comment on the idea we expect our TSA screeners to be savvy, disciplined, and professional, but we pay them so poorly that someone with those attributes would take their skills to a job that pays better (extenuating circumstances notwithstanding).

Ha ha, we all know Zune was just a Microsoft prank, you can give it up now.

Any reason not to use rubbing alcohol, followed by hot water rinse? Why settle for 40-50% when you can go whole hog and not pay booze tax for the privilege? I can't imagine the denaturing will hang around once you rinse it out.

I'm not at all comfortable with the implications for my high likelihood for prostate cancer.

irradiating all the dust and detritus in a hurricane with neutrons == phenomenal idea.

If this was purely a mental health issue then other nations would have the same rates of homicide per person.