Yes, I understand the premise. Old galaxies, older suns, etc.. if there are aliens, where are they? Well, who knows? Forget our galaxy, intelligent life can potentially exist 10 billion light years that from us..and then it becomes a question of scale.

You simply cannot say intelligent life is not possible, because it is..look at Earth. The Fermi paradox, and all the subsets and whatnot, is a bunch of mumbo jumbo...that seems hinged on whether aliens can travel quickly through interstellar space or have the ability to emit EM waves of whatever flavor. Don't be…

What I wouldn't give to be playing poker right now with Dr. Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein...

As far as I know, they do..although I'm not sure how you'd even display it or how to drive that many pixels...

Isn't Avatar 2 going to be the first wide release that does just that? Really can't wait to see what Cameron has in store..

Check this graphic out..It's lifted from RED promo materials, but it shows 4K to 1080. The green is 4K and the cyan is 1080.

Back in 1999 we got a couple passes to the CES from a couple Sony reps from New Jersey who had no plans on even going to the show. We wanted them because it allowed us access to the adult trade show..but never-the-less we did a lap around the CES and IIRC the big shit then were DVRs. It was like, what the hell do you…

I made another comment in this story about the Retics that my breeder had..yeah, those things are no joke. Good post though, welcome to Giz!

Burmese Pythons have a decent personality as far as it goes, but don't forget about the Reticulated Python..that's a nastyass mean snake..and he can swim in the ocean no problem. I used to buy rats/mice for my python from a breeder and he had a couple monster Retics..and he was scared of them even after they'd been…

I've been struck twice by a Ball Python, thank God not a Retic or a Rock python..one of the times the damn thing held on to my arm for almost 15 minutes before he worked his teeth out of me. I couldn't imagine getting simply bit by one of the big boys.

When a hillbilly wants to go Noodling in your coffee, you've got a problem.

It's gonna be like 5 minutes of wide ICS adoption before they release JuJu Bees (or whatever the hell it's gonna be called) gets released to AOSP. It seems that all the OEMs / Google / whomever need to do a better job of pushing these updates out to end users. Although I'm a fanboy, so maybe I'm not looking at it…

Too much talk of Scotch in the comments, so lemme throw add my .02 for my favorite whiskey...

Weather wasn't the cause of his accident... driving too damn fast cause he thinks he's safe with his AWD is the reason he's got damage on his car now.

I have a decent wine palate and an excellent whiskey palate, but coffee has has always escaped me. Like I've had excellent coffee brewed via french presses and vacuum pots and such, but it always seemed that the quality of the bean was more important than how the hot water is being moved through the grounds. I agree…

Wow, I have seen all the pics before, but I had no idea that the little Vietnamese girl went on to lead such a successful life. It's good stuff!!

True, wool will always serve a good purpose, and I have several items made of wool. As a mid-layer (or even outer) though, I know so few people that wear it out on the trail. Sure, there's a certain nostalgia or whatever with wool, but it's been surpassed by synthetics for everything with the exception of base…

Braun will lose roughly $7M in salary from his suspension..that's a pretty severe penalty.

Virginia is in great shape, economically...partly due to good policy in Virginia and partly due to dumb policy in Maryland.

What a horrible way for Mitt to try to score a knock against Newt. It is perfectly reasonable to talk about the future of space travel and whether a lunar colony could benefit Earth.