Wowzers

Sometimes I find it hard to believe how quickly I have become so close to some people out here.

4:35 PM - 5 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

I have the biggest "Dammit" ever

I'm back and I'm very glad to be.
I wasn't able to get in contact with hardly anyone or else I would have.
I'm sorry to have worried anyone.
Ask me and I'll tell you more.

9:10 AM - 2 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

Words words words

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

9:25 PM - 2 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

Birthday

I'm having myself a birthday party next saturday.
If you want the infos, send me a message.

5:28 PM - 9 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

Amazing

I was researching a costume from the TNG episode "I,Borg" earlier and I started thinking about I, Robot and then the Foundation books series.
I found an interesting tidbit that I didn't know; New Line Cinema had been developing a trilogy based on the first three Foundation books and if they had taken off, there would have likely been no LOTR trilogy.
A trilogy based on Foundation that was as good as LOTR would be more than a dream come true for me and if you think about it, with the way that the I, Robot, Foundation, and Empire series' are intertwined, they could keep making movies for a decade or two.

1:38 PM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Ah the sun

The new warehouse we are in is all concrete and brick with no heating whatsoever save the small, portable heaters that we have brought so even when the sun is shining outside, you may still need a coat, a heater and a warm drink.
The walls are gray and there is insufficient lighting so when you go outside you have that Graf Orlock moment where you shrink away from the sun for a moment or two.
I just went to lunch and sat and read while I ate, came back and sat on the steps infront of the new place in a similarly intense sunlight that was shining so brightly that the reflection of it off the pages of my book was hurting my eyes. The hunger in my stomach just being sated I now sat in this sun hungrily eating up the warmth and the light, uncomfortable as it might have been. until I had what felt like a layer of warmth soaked in to my skin. I came back inside and felt that warmth immediately start to dissipate like the warmth off of a freshly cooked dish of food.

I guess I just thought of this because I am worried about my peeps in OK

1:05 PM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Ok, who’s going with?

The Earth-like Gliese 581C circles a star in the constellation of Libra that is cooler than our sun. Photograph: European Southern Observatory/AP

Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky "second Earth" circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone.

The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth's nearest stars, a cool red dwarf called Gliese 581, 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.

Measurements of the planet's celestial path suggest it is 1½ times the size of our home planet, and orbits close to its sun, with a year of just 13 days. The planet's orbit brings it 14 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. But Gliese 581 burns at only 3,000C, half the temperature of our own sun, making conditions on the planet comfortable for life, with average ground temperatures estimated at 0 to 40C. Researchers claim the planet is likely to have an atmosphere. The discovery follows a three-year search for habitable planets by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla in Chile.

"We wouldn't be surprised if there is life on this planet," said Stephane Udry, an astronomer on the project at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland.

Two years ago, the same team discovered a giant Neptune-sized planet orbiting Gliese 581. A closer look revealed the latest planetary discovery, along with a third, larger planet that orbits the star every 84 days. The planets have been named after their star, with the most earthlike called Gliese 581c. The team spotted the planet by searching the "habitable zone".

9:52 AM - 3 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

A little something you can do

with your idle computer time.
I had completely forgotten about this but now it is bigger than I ever thought it would be.
Originally, SETI had a program set up that would use your idle computer time to download and analyze data from radio telescopes it has searches the skies.
Now there are a number of projects you can choose to use your idle time on:
BOINC
Now you can choose almost anything trying to make a database of all possible prime numbers to research on AIDS to genetic and biological research.

1:03 AM - 2 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

Who is

Planning on going to see "Stardust" anytime soon?

2:27 PM - 1 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment

Well, that really sucked

If you have come to my page recently and seen a little cartoon video about a girl proclaiming that she is a "lezzie", it was not my doing, it is apparently a new form of hack that just puts a video on your page as advertisement.
I have an extension on my firefox that doesn't load any embdedded material and replaces it with a play button until I press it.
So yeah, not me.

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