...but what causes the gas/dust to become so cold? The linked article links again to the Galactic Cold Cores Project:

spent so much on the stupid F-35, while NASA(!!!) has no budget, and the ISS is borderline unusable

yeah, why go up when you can go down?

My Vizio was doing fine until a report said their tv’s were calling home with your viewing habits. Now I use AppleTV for netflix etc. Also, Vizio won’t show the clock when the network is disconnected. pricks.

...more art than science.

...Wired cover from 1993, or Drone competition from 2016?

...combined in superposition.

Jump through the hoops. So worth it.

If you fell toward the area captured in this image, travelling at the speed of light, you wouldn’t pass the first galaxy shown for several million years. Time dilation should make it feel a little quicker though. And I guess you’d be dead too, so that’s not so fun.

“Why is the night sky black?”

re: Year Zero by Robert Reid...anyone recall a short story from 1960s early 70s where Earth fiction is consumed by alien races and everyone has a.i./wordprocessing machines that pump out fiction for sale/export...but stories sell more if you get the expensive upgrades....? I read it in an anthology during my first…

Eight year old iMac (8,1), max RAM, SSD, latest OSX, running fine. I build magazines with it...and watch Netflix, etc. I replaced the power supply when it went janky ($140), replaced the OEM HD with a bigger one, then later changed it to an SSD. I held back updating OSX, but when I did cave there was a speed bump and…

So...anyone who doesn’t agree with your narrow range of opinion has no sense of value. Check.

here is some more interesting math:

It’s ok. I felt what you meant. my bad too.

yeah, they should fix that.

I would appreciate some numbers to put some perspective on this

....pumping giga-tons of poisonous gas into that environment on a daily basis.

gone downhill since since Esther and Mika left