This is great, thanks for sharing. There's a theory that you actually can't change the past because if you think you have, you were probably just wrong about how it happened in the first place (for example, if you go back and kill your grandparents...you won't disappear, it's just that you were probably wrong about…
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""It's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter."
You're close. Instead of 2400 bottles, replace that with 2400 lbs of grapes. Grape producers sell 2000 lbs of their best quality grapes to wineries, and the remaining 400 lbs (which are often damaged, less/over ripe, etc.) gets pushed to Charles Shaw. Now some of these vineyards sell their grapes to top wineries, but…
Mr. Maudlin just watched this for the first time, but he's too embarrassed to admit it. Still, I enjoy the though of multiple universes, and don't think there's any evidence that proves it isn't a possibility.
Don't panic.
This. I always wonder why people take the oldest example we have to mean it's the first use in history. Personally, I think 21st century humans are so egotistical to think that civilizations from a few thousand years ago were basically cave men. We perpetually wonder how things like Stonehenge or the Pyramids were…
The only problem is that the studios would come up with some asinine charge for the service...like $1,000 a month or your left nut. This is the group that thinks that over 9 million individuals would have PAID for Fast Five last year had they not been able to download it for free.
The last episode of QL still haunts me. There have been few TV shows to strike a chord with my emotions, and for whatever reason Quantum Leap did it for me. Especially the episode where Al dances with his (third?) ex-wife to Ray Charles. Also, the episode where Sam goes back to his boyhood farm stands out in my…
I think we can agree these guys just got lucky...
I had the pleasure of touring Codelco's El Teniente copper mine in Chile a few years back, which has this huge gypsum crystal buried deep within (picture is not mine). These things just don't seem real when you're standing next to them. The one pictured here is only ~15ft in length and maybe 1.5ft in diameter and…
Yep, I've had this thought too in regards to reincarnation. It makes me feel good to be a human, living in the U.S. during the 21st century, since that HAS to be pretty far down the chain of life. But do you only get to advance if you were "good" or "succeeded", or do you get to keep moving up the chain even if you…
You'd be bangin' yourself, dude.
That was my first thought. Figured there would be that many atoms on a given beach. How many atoms are in a grain of sand?
I figured volcanic events that jettisoned material out of orbit would be rare if not impossible, but considering the lack of atmosphere and low gravity on Mars...maybe it's possible?
If I understand correctly, these were jettisoned off of Mars by an impact event, or potentially a very large volcanic event. Wouldn't that imply that the chance of finding fossilized (or actual) remains of life in these specimens would be nil?
UAV's are currently being used to patrol our borders and to fight the "war on drugs", so they are already in a sky near me. I had the pleasure of touring the General Atomics facilities outside of San Diego. Very cool stuff, and what blew me away was the size of these things (not exactly a "model" airplane). As…
It's not about using older, dirtier technology vs. modern (cleaner?) technology. It's about COST. My bet is Foxconn is pretty damn modern. Like I said, environmentalism is a luxury...it costs. It costs money to ensure things don't pollute the environment, or to clean up afterwards if it did. It's only after you've…