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The Key to Quantum Gravity May Lie in the Æther.

Expect the TIMECUBE crazies and the anti-science types who think that the Big Bang is part of "Darwinism" to jump all over this, shrieking, "See? Einstein was wrong!" and insulting the intelligence of everyone who doesn't immediately see that this proves their own ( Read more... )

Yet Another Power Failure Knocks Out The Large Hadron Collider!

This makes me a little nervous; I'd joked earlier that the last few LHC glitches coincided with the escalating assaults on my late, lamented Grape.

I have a NEW car now, dagnabbit!

This is making the rounds of my Friends List; for those who haven't seen it yet, it's my turn to share.

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I always said that Unca Carl was a poet.

From a significant fraction of my f-list, including the_gneech, pyat, and leonard_arlotte:

• If you like, post this meme and your current wallpaper.
  
• Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
  
• Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

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So, the family that runs that Creationist theme park are a bunch of frauds and liars.

Who'da thunk it?

It was a Wednesday. I was 5.

This was the fourth fifth time I'd watched one of those impossibly immense Saturn Vs lift off from Cape Kennedy. My mother insisted on watching every televised moment she could of those flights, and I was right there beside her, as much as I could. During 9 and 10, the school was dutifully notified that I was staying ( Read more... )

A couple of years back, I made a few posts about Louis Michard's Atmospheric Vortex Engine, a plan to use the waste heat from nuclear power plants and other industrial heat sources to produce artificial tornadoes and harness them for energy.

(I'm sorry. That's just so over-the-top that I can't type it without italics.)

Today, I found an article ( Read more... )

Unca Carl said it so well, there's very little I can add.

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"Look again at that dot.
That's here. That's home. That's us."

quelonzia and I just watched the first 45 minutes of Dollhouse.

We didn't bother with the last 15.

The MacGuffin for the pilot episode was a hostage negotiation. If they'd done the same "engagement" on Burn Notice or Leverage, there would have been a lot less twiddling, and a lot more Smart People Doing Smart Things, quite possibly punctuated by ( Read more... )