It does look like something I want to check out, thanks.

Holy shit, you’re right! I recognised that image, but I thought it was from a different, serious movie. Now I can’t figure out if I watched the first bit of Kung Fu Hustle, thought it was a serious movie, and later watched the whole thing, or if there is a different movie out there where the bad guys are a gang that…

How on God’s green Earth do you explain a lack of Kung Fu Hustle here?

And as an added bonus, this is how I taught my Mexican wife the meaning of the word “tough” - (she thought it meant “good fighter”).

That movie was full of great scenes. So was the sequel.

Wow, that just gives me so many more questions...I think I’m going to have to read a text book.

Kids’ll learn, buster, kids’ll learn.

ABSOLUTELY! The only advantage lawn has, apart from some dubious aesthetic value for people who like tedium, is that kids can run on it without parents getting upset. But it’s not the only option for that - put in some swing sets or jungle gym or something.

We know (or think we do) roughly how long it’s been expanding for, right? There seems to be a consensus that it’s expanding faster than the speed of light, and thus is larger than we could possibly see, but there is disagreement on exactly how much faster than light space is expanding. Is that right?

Ok, I can get that...but is there any reason to assume the cosmological constant is a field with a constant value at all spaces and times? I know that we make a lot of assumptions about the universality of natural laws, because otherwise we just couldn’t figure out anything; is this another of those assumptions?

That’s what I always assumed, but in this post/thread the rate of expansion seems to be more than the speed of light, which seems it would overcome gravity easily.

First, the Universe is expanding, but the length scale associated with the cosmological constant is a constant—so why are they roughly equal today?

Here’s the question - if the road is expanding at 100 mph, why isn’t the road between the wheels of the car expanding that fast as well? That would play havok with the tires. So remove the analogy, my question is: Why doesn’t the space between planets expand that fast?

Basically, what you and Bremidon and AmityGames are saying is that the idea that all matter was once in a small dense point (ie, the general understanding of the Big Bang theory) is wrong?

Except, of course, that Pope Boniface VIII did not ban dissection. He banned a particular practice of dismembering slain crusader’s bodies and boiling the parts to make it easier to ship the bones home for burial. (source)

Yeah, this is what annoys me. If you think cats are wild creatures that need to be outside, DO NOT FEED THEM. One of the reasons cats have such a devastating impact on the environment is because the population isn’t kept in check by normal population dynamics. Your neighbour sounds like an a-hole.

And here we have the problem with this government:

You didn’t really read any of the comments, did you?

I’ve heard the argument (and I don’t know how strong it is) that if you kill the cats in an area other cats will move in, but if you neuter them and release them again they’ll protect their territory but won’t breed. Which I guess is good if you have limited funds and are run by volunteers, but a government should be…

Do you mean, by doing things like introducing cats?