Cosmic, Man: Scientists Speculate That the Great "Cold Spot" in the Universe Might Be the Impact Zone of Another Universe Colliding With Our Own

See Wikipedia for background on the cosmic background microwave "Cold Spot." It is, as the name suggests, notably colder than other parts of the universe.

Which is interesting, at least to people interested by such things, as the Universe tends to have a lot of "isotropy," a word meaning that it appears pretty much the same (in terms of distribution of matter, background radiation, heat, etc.) no matter which way you look.

"Anisotropies," areas which are outliers as far as this generally-roughly-equivalent-dispersion rule, interest scientists -- Why?

(One example of an interesting anisotropy is the Shapely Supercluster, an area of space which is overly dense with galaxies compared to everywhere else, and which is itself being pulled towards a gargantuan pit of supergravity called the Great Attractor, which itself must be an even more superdense region.)

But back to the Cold Spot. Scientists are speculating that the Cold Spot is cold because it might be the impact zone of another universe colliding with our own, which I'm going to analogize is like a meteor pushing away molten rock to its periphery, forming a crater outside it, and a void where it actually hit.

Some scientists are speculating that the normal levels of background radiation were "shunted" away from the impact zone, and that the Cold Spot is therefore maybe physical evidence of universes beyond our own.

Matter seems to have been shunted out of the Cold Spot too, or at least that's what I would guess based on this description of the area as a "supervoid," a curiously large expanse containing far less stuff than other parts of the universe.

Also note, though, that that article notes that these areas of overdensity and underdensity are rare but not singularly so, and I've heard physicists suggest that this can be explained pretty simply -- sure, the universe will tend to be mostly isotropic, but there is no such thing as perfect isotropy, and so it would sort of be odder to see a near-perfectly isotropic universe than a not-so-isotropic one. I think the idea is like if you flip a coin 1000 times -- you'd expect the most likely outcome to be 500 heads, 500 tails, but if you actually got that perfect distribution, you'd be kind of surprised. (And in fact stuff like that -- where experimental results come out too close to the expected -- are often taken as possible evidence of fraud in the experiment, because things just don't work out neatly like that very often.)

Even if you assume nearly perfect distribution of energy in the first bloom of the Big Bang, random fluctuations and Heisenberg-type effects guarantee you're not going to get an actually perfect distribution, and once the distribution isn't perfect, stuff starts happening, like some blobs of matter being drawn towards others by gravity, and voids beginning to form simply because that area's matter got pulled into some other area.

Anyway, cool stuff. Not sure if it proves the existence of other universes, but I'd like to think so, because I think we need another one, stat.

Never Mind? This article from last month says the Cold Spot doesn't even exist, but is just an artifact of the technique of data collection used to produce the WMAP.

Posted by: Ace at 08:23 PM

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1 First.

Posted by: Wontsubmit at May 25, 2017 08:22 PM (122Gu)

2 This post lacks bewbage

Posted by: Bosk at May 25, 2017 08:23 PM (n2K+4)

3 And in 40 years most of what they know now will be wrong.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 25, 2017 08:26 PM (J70i0)

4 It's an isotropic distribution of oil bags.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 25, 2017 08:26 PM (VdICR)

5 ace is a dirty red.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 25, 2017 08:26 PM (CPk08)

6 I have never heard of any of this.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 08:27 PM (LTHVh)

7 That's some epic linky shit right there. I'm scared to click anywhere on it.

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:28 PM (EgOr3)

8 Isn't science settled?

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2017 08:28 PM (ANIFC)

9 More fantasy from modern physicists who cannot really explain anything accurately with current theories. Another untestable dream scenario.

Posted by: Everyone! at May 25, 2017 08:28 PM (S1Ngt)

10 There's a big difference between mostly isotropic and all isotropic.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:29 PM (0mRoj)

11 Isn't this the plot of the last Cities in Flight book?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 08:29 PM (LTHVh)

12 >>>More fantasy from modern physicists who cannot really explain anything accurately with current theories. Another untestable dream scenario.

The fact that they're even able to spot irregularities in the Grand Structure of the Universe, some might say, is pretty impressive.

There are major things physics can't explain at the moment. This makes it a pretty exciting time.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:30 PM (8rNrN)

13 Any time "density" is used more than once and in different connotations your just asking for trouble.

Everyone knows the sun revolves around Barack Hussein Obama....ummm...ummm...ummm.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 25, 2017 08:31 PM (5VlCp)

14 Maybe this other universe will engulf and destroy ours. Like, next week? Next week would be good.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:31 PM (0mRoj)

15 Arm tits and multiverses - lets go to the first time caller line, hello you are on the air.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:31 PM (+mmb1)

16 Any time "density" is used more than once

He likes density.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (0mRoj)

17 I know Dick about this stuff and I love this post.

Posted by: spongeworthy at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (mrfTe)

18 Spindizzys to full power.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (LTHVh)

19 Nice walkback on the linky shit, Ace. This is why you make the big bucks. :-)

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (EgOr3)

20 Nice post, ace.

And I like my superclusters shapely, like I like my women.

Posted by: rickl at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (sdi6R)

21 Ace, if you're around, I just tweeted you some blog fodder.

Posted by: Country Singer at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (yzxic)

22 I have a list of names of people we should earnestly strive to push through a portal to another universe.

The fact that it may trigger an inter-dimensional war is a risk I'm willing to take.

Posted by: PabloD at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (IJTVW)

23 Which Flash does that universe have?

Posted by: Buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:32 PM (z/Ubi)

24 I thought Gaylord getting elected proved there was an alternate universe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:33 PM (zWp1g)

25 >>>Scientists Speculate That the Great "Cold Spot" in the Universe Might Be the Impact Zone of Another Universe Colliding With Our Own

I speculate that Hillary's "G spot" collided with Huma's more often than with Yoko's.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 25, 2017 08:33 PM (vRcUp)

26 >>>23 Which Flash does that universe have?

It has the Flash of Cheap Resolutions and Dumb Cliffhangers.

Oh wait that's the Flash of all universes.

Also the Green Arrow of all universes.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:34 PM (8rNrN)

27 Country Singer, leave us your Twitter address.

Posted by: spongeworthy at May 25, 2017 08:34 PM (mrfTe)

28 I'm in the cold spot right now. Srsly freezing my scrawny ass off. Probably due to the sizeable chunk of my back that got cut out earlier today. I'd like to lie down on the couch, but am working on anesthetizing myself to the point where I can talk myself into it.

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:34 PM (EgOr3)

29 I'm not sleeping in the galactic wetspot.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 08:34 PM (LTHVh)

30 If there is an alternate universe, Kari Wuhrer's boobs will still fail to save the Professor from Roger Daltrey. And Jerry O'Connell's brother will still look like a dufus.

Posted by: wooga, Sliders man! at May 25, 2017 08:35 PM (3I7wr)

31 We have a date... with density.

Posted by: George McFly at May 25, 2017 08:35 PM (ANIFC)

32 Well, if I can't have SMOD, I'd settle for a universal collision.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 25, 2017 08:35 PM (tHwdc)

33 Is Uranus in the cold spot?

Posted by: Weasel at May 25, 2017 08:36 PM (Sfs6o)

34 I have shapely superclusters, haters! Stop bodyshaming!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 25, 2017 08:36 PM (ANIFC)

35 32 Well, if I can't have SMOD, I'd settle for a universal collision.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 25, 2017 08:35 PM (tHwdc)

But then there's the insurance claims, repairs, body work...

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:36 PM (0mRoj)

36 26 >>>23 Which Flash does that universe have?

It has the Flash of Cheap Resolutions and Dumb Cliffhangers.

Oh wait that's the Flash of all universes.

Also the Green Arrow of all universes.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:34 PM (8rNrN)

Does it also have the Supergirl must club the "strong women must talk about being strong women all the time" over your head constantly as well?

Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (z/Ubi)

37 34 I have shapely superclusters, haters! Stop bodyshaming!
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 25, 2017 08:36 PM (ANIFC)

I suppose "potato" is kind of a shape.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (0mRoj)

38 Every night I tell myself

I am the cosmos

Posted by: Chris Bell at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (GsAUU)

39 30 If there is an alternate universe, Kari Wuhrer's boobs will still fail to save the Professor from Roger Daltrey. And Jerry O'Connell's brother will still look like a dufus.
Posted by: wooga, Sliders man! at May 25, 2017 08:35 PM (3I7wr)

***********

^^^^ this. Need a Sliders marathon on Comet stat.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (+mmb1)

40 I no see him until too late!

Posted by: Some Asian Galaxy at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (+GtGJ)

41 Holy crap, just heard this, very great...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2kWS9GKk4o

Posted by: cosmic Charlie at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (7dpmG)

42 you lost me at Big Bang. Thats pron... amirite?

Posted by: Some damn moron at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (E8apb)

43 >>>Does it also have the Supergirl must club the "strong women must talk about being strong women all the time" over your head constantly as well?

i wouldn't know, i'm not a nerd

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (8rNrN)

44 35.

....the Old Ones pouring forth from a universe where the laws of physics were conceived by bland, paranoid schizophrenic chess-players......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (TwwWO)

45 Finally, Tucker's going to talk about the leftards of ESPN.

Posted by: logprof at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (GsAUU)

46 Peaches! you're back? Did you end up moving to San Diego ? or still in El Lay ? Ah the Blue Lagoon daze, eh ? To be young again. Yeah, I still play guitar.

Posted by: KansasCj at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (RQ3Ly)

47 Maybe this cis-normative galactic intersectionality is the cause of many conceptual penises and climate change while suppressing those of alternative gender configurations.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (zWp1g)

48 Does it also have the Supergirl must club the "strong women must talk about being strong women all the time" over your head constantly as well?
Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:37 PM (z/Ubi)

It's annoying as shit, and it's too bad because a) Supergirl is way cute, and b) the show could have been a lot of fun without the grrrrl power crap.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (0mRoj)

49 My damn entropy won't stop increasing.

Posted by: The Universe at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (+GtGJ)

50 New clues in disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370...

Posted by: This...is CNN at May 25, 2017 08:39 PM (qJhUV)

51 But then there's the insurance claims, repairs, body work...

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:36 PM (0mRoj)

The collision is the body work...

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 25, 2017 08:39 PM (tHwdc)

52 Anisotropies was a really crappy playwright, except for "the Birds".

Posted by: Sophocles at May 25, 2017 08:39 PM (vRcUp)

53 It's annoying as shit, and it's too bad because a) Supergirl is way cute, and b) the show could have been a lot of fun without the grrrrl power crap.
Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (0mRo

Its not the grrl power crap that's annoying. Its them being so insecure about it that you have to have Calista Flockhart return and club the audience over the head with it like she's an Inuit and we're a baby seal.

Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (z/Ubi)

54 So where's the All State guy amidst all this?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (zWp1g)

55 The universe alternates from "smooth" to "lumpy" every couple of decades as far as I've seen. And each time it's a description of how the universe couldn't but help be smooth or lumpy, and how it must be just this lumpy or smooth for the Anthropic principle (a philosophical shell game).

Posted by: Axeman at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (2mC6G)

56 Multiverse? Honey, it's a MANiverse!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (+GtGJ)

57 50 New clues in disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370...
Posted by: This...is CNN at May 25, 2017 08:39 PM (qJhUV)

It could've gone up my...I mean, a black hole.

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (0mRoj)

58 Related - I want an alternate universe where:

1) Jim Beam is actually a real bourbon; and
2) Advertises itself as such, using an eminently hittable chick what DON'T do that vocal fry crap.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (TwwWO)

59 47 Maybe this cis-normative galactic intersectionality is the cause of many conceptual penises and climate change while suppressing those of alternative gender configurations.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:38 PM (zWp1g)

Stop it you're getting me excited.

Posted by: Neil Degrassyass at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (E8apb)

60 That's some epic linky shit right there. I'm scared to click anywhere on it.

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:28 PM (EgOr3)

At least, when you get half way through the article, there's not a 'Load More' button.

Posted by: gNewt at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (e3JIL)

61 54
So where's the All State guy amidst all this?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (zWp1g)
Probably re-negotiating his contract.

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (EgOr3)

62 every time I read quotes from Einstein re: Relativity he starts by assuming the universe is isotropic in all directions.

Which I never understand -- why would one assume that?

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (8rNrN)

63 Amy Schumer 'snatched' Malaysian Airlines flight 370

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (zWp1g)

64 I hope we didn't make that other Universe spill it's drink.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (ked5m)

65 Does the other universe make sense? 'Cause I could relocate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (Nwg0u)

66 is this the evil twin universe where everyone evil has a goatee?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (+mmb1)

67 Its not the grrl power crap that's annoying. Its them being so insecure about it that you have to have Calista Flockhart return and club the audience over the head with it like she's an Inuit and we're a baby seal.
Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (z/Ubi)

That's what I was trying to get at.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (0mRoj)

68 every time I read quotes from Einstein re: Relativity he starts by assuming the universe is isotropic in all directions.

Which I never understand -- why would one assume that?

There is one section that's kinda freaky.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (+GtGJ)

69 62 every time I read quotes from Einstein re: Relativity he starts by assuming the universe is isotropic in all directions.

Which I never understand -- why would one assume that?

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:41 PM (8rNrN)

The same reason you would assume a horse is a sphere. To make the math easier.

Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (z/Ubi)

70 OF course it will require billions of federal dollars to fund the necessary research projects, and billions of dollars for new instruments to observe this anomaly, and billions more in funding to keep these new instruments in operation and to staff the PhDs who will analyze the data that these new instruments collect.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (nXQUN)

71 >>>It is, as the name suggests, notably colder than other parts of the universe.

I thought the entire universe was pretty close to absolute zero, so I wouldn't think there was room to get that much colder.

Posted by: Kelvin at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (vRcUp)

72 I dated a single mother with a Shapely Supercluster for a while.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (ked5m)

73 66 is this the evil twin universe where everyone evil has a goatee?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (+mmb1)

What if you already have a goatee?

Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (z/Ubi)

74 And in 40 years most of what they know now will be wrong.

-
But not global warming. Or gender identity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (Nwg0u)

75 54 So where's the All State guy amidst all this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:40 PM (zWp1g)

Giving Jobu cigar and rum.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (0mRoj)

76 So where is the Great Wet Spot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (XUcIQ)

77 I'm more interested in finding another universe to teleport these leftist PC suckers of Islamic cock to. Preferably one that's colliding with something that would scare the balls off Darth Vader.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (aMlLZ)

78 66. Whaddaya mean 'evil'?

Good is a point of view, Anakin & etc.

**combs goatee, remembers trekkie gf what dida private cosplay based on 'Mirror, Mirror.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (TwwWO)

79 76
So where is the Great Wet Spot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (XUcIQ)

You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (EgOr3)

80 Shut up Kneel Dey Gassy Tights-on, don't you have a knob to polish?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (zWp1g)

81 You want the Dry Spot.
You would settle for the Cold Spot.
You will get the Wet Spot.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (ked5m)

82 Do you have to sexually love science to be interested in this?

Or?

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (ZQpd0)

83 I'm surprised we haven't gotten a "So that's where my ex-wife is hiding" comment yet.

Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (z/Ubi)

84 77 I'm more interested in finding another universe to teleport these leftist PC suckers of Islamic cock to. Preferably one that's colliding with something that would scare the balls off Darth Vader.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (aMlLZ)

I think those got burned off in Episode III.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (0mRoj)

85 76 So where is the Great Wet Spot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (XUcIQ)

...right next to the Celestial G spot.

Posted by: Neil Degrassyass at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (E8apb)

86 I thought Michelle the Hulk already had a goatee...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (zWp1g)

87 78 66. Whaddaya mean 'evil'?

Good is a point of view, Anakin & etc.

**combs goatee, remembers trekkie gf what dida private cosplay based on 'Mirror, Mirror.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (TwwWO)

Some guys have all the luck.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (0mRoj)

88 If there's a bright center to the universe, it's the planet that it's farthest from.

Posted by: Luke Skywalker at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (ANIFC)

89 73 66 is this the evil twin universe where everyone evil has a goatee?
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (+mmb1)

What if you already have a goatee?
Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:43 PM (z/Ubi)

************

*goes back to drawing board*

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (+mmb1)

90 86 I thought Michelle the Hulk already had a goatee...
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (zWp1g)

Well...it's not usually visible to the public.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:45 PM (0mRoj)

91 87.

Some guys get all the breaks.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (TwwWO)

92 Eh.

It all pretty much the same over here in our universe, except-

boys are called girls

and girls are called mangos.

also, we don't have the internet.

Instead, we have giant slugs which live in our hair and spit message-slime balls across vast distances.

As you might imagine, Twitter gets messy.

Posted by: Alternate Universe naturalfake at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (9q7Dl)

93
I'd hit it.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (Uxokn)

94 91 87.

Some guys get all the breaks.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (TwwWO)

Either way. Sure as hell ain't me.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (0mRoj)

95 Do you have to sexually love science to be interested in this?

If the term "last scattering surface" gives you a boner, that's how you know you're either a pathetic nerd or Stephen Hawking.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (+GtGJ)

96 >>What if you already have a goatee?

You get a Van Dyke.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (ked5m)

97 Well if a bunch of Galactic Overlords start pouring thru that hole, I'm gonna hunt down Howard the Duck and kick him squarely in his duck nads.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (wTwJ2)

98 every time I read quotes from Einstein re: Relativity he starts by assuming the universe is isotropic in all directions.

Which I never understand -- why would one assume that?
----------------------------

If you're talking about the start, special relativity, it was the assumption that the speed of light was isotropic for all observers.

As for the homogeneous nature of the Universe, see the Cosmological Principle. This is indeed an assumption. It's based on obversation, which is what can be seen, but it is an assumption.

There are all sorts of interesting things in the deviations of this.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (8O3HH)

99 93
I'd hit it.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (Uxokn)

Are you certain?

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (0mRoj)

100 Did MUMR survive the collision?

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (ANIFC)

101 80 Shut up Kneel Dey Gassy Tights-on, don't you have a knob to polish?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (zWp1g)

OK Anna I'm almost at the Celestial Happy Ending.

Posted by: Neil Degrassyass at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (E8apb)

102 >>>I thought the entire universe was pretty close to absolute zero, so I wouldn't think there was room to get that much colder.

it is all close to absolute zero, but the Cold Spot is closer. Most of the universe is slightly warmer (and is fairly uniform, which I think presents another problem -- how could heat wind up distributed so uniformly over such vast distances? Heat needs time to even out, and we're talking trillions of light years separating one edge of the observable universe to another -- how does the heat flow evenly across that distance, even in 13 billion light years? I think the Big Bang theory was proposed partly to explain this away, that thing started out very much more local to one another.)

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (8rNrN)

103 96 >>What if you already have a goatee?

You get a Van Dyke.
Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (ked5m)

I thought they drove Subaru SUVs.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (0mRoj)

104 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (Uxokn)

I would hit it too, but I would never hit it.

Posted by: Schrodinger's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (+GtGJ)

105 New clues in disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370...

-
Holy shit! You mean Don Lemon was right?!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (Nwg0u)

106 I thought this was going to be a metaphor for Hillary!

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (2X7pN)

107 Get me out of this fucking box!

Posted by: Schrodinger's Cat's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (+GtGJ)

108 What part does Conceptual Penis play in this?

Posted by: tu3031 at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (qJhUV)

109 94. Sigh.... Rod Stewart reference.

Here's an earworm, amd you're welcome:

https://youtu.be/sY2WIFGQttE

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (TwwWO)

110 Like a screen door in a hurricane.

In a box.

Posted by: Schrodinger's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (Uxokn)

111 You get a Van Dyke.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (ked5m)

Watch out for the ottoman

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (auHtY)

112 108 What part does Conceptual Penis play in this?
Posted by: tu3031 at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (qJhUV)

We're into theoretical astropenis territory now.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:49 PM (0mRoj)

113 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 08:49 PM (MQDwm)

114 >>>If you're talking about the start, special relativity, it was the assumption that the speed of light was isotropic for all observers.

he seems to mean it to mean more than the speed of light, though maybe that's what he meant but didn't spell it out.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:49 PM (8rNrN)

115 This is way up in the sky, right?
What do I win!?

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (qJhUV)

116 113 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN
Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 08:49 PM (MQDwm)

Ultimately nothing.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (0mRoj)

117 We're into theoretical astropenis territory now.

====

Dammit.

You got me again. You are killing it this week!

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (Uxokn)

118 Another basic assumption is that the laws of physics work the same everywhere in the universe, both in space and time.

This is also an assumption. No deviation has been observed, but it doesn't prove it.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (8O3HH)

119 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (Uxokn)
---
On second thought, I'm not entirely certain.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (2mC6G)

120 After finishing season two of The Expanse, all I want to know is how we can weaponize it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (LTHVh)

121 109 94. Sigh.... Rod Stewart reference.

Here's an earworm, amd you're welcome:

https://youtu.be/sY2WIFGQttE
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (TwwWO)

Oh boy. I had mercifully forgotten that video until just now.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (0mRoj)

122 Oh Ace, the Cold Spot migrated about a foot-and-a-half.

Posted by: Not Dr. Venkman at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (wNxxH)

123 If you're talking about the start, special relativity, it was the assumption that the speed of light was isotropic for all observers.

As for the homogeneous nature of the Universe, see the Cosmological Principle. This is indeed an assumption. It's based on obversation, which is what can be seen, but it is an assumption.

There are all sorts of interesting things in the deviations of this.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 08:47 PM (8O3HH)

Well, to assume the universe were anything other than isotropic would be to assume some sort of structure to be present, absent any evidence thereof. Isotropy is sort of the expected result of a random explosion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (XUcIQ)

124 >>> No deviation has been observed...

the rotational speed of the outer arms of galaxies is a deviation they're trying to explain.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (8rNrN)

125 This is proof that the universe is imperfect, and must be destroyed.

Posted by: Imperfect Logic at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (BO/km)

126 You get a Van Dyke.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (ked5m)
---
I've already got a van, jerk!

Posted by: Silly Kohn at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (2mC6G)

127
You get a Van Dyke.

Posted by: garrett

Oh Rob!

Posted by: Laura Petrie at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (IqV8l)

128 121. Heh....I'm a giver.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (TwwWO)

129 the rotational speed of the outer arms of galaxies is a deviation they're trying to explain.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:51 PM (8rNrN)

Everybody knows that's the dark matter, man. Everybody but you, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (+GtGJ)

130 "Not sure if it proves the existence of other universes, but I'd like to think so, because I think we need another one, stat."

I'm gonna look before I leap.

Just as in accordance with the principle that my hypothetical alluring Japanese sexbot purchase will turn out to be a cheap unlicensed Chinese knock-off that will short out while _in flagrante_ and burn off my junk, if I ever manage to travel to an alternate universe, it'll without a doubt be the one where Hillary successfully stole the election of 2016, where I'll be immediately clapped in irons and sent off to Happy Fun Camp.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (ujwCG)

131 Another basic assumption is that the laws of physics work the same everywhere in the universe, both in space and time.

This is also an assumption. No deviation has been observed, but it doesn't prove it.
Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (8O3HH)

Yup...great point.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (5VlCp)

132 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:46 PM (Uxokn)
---
On second thought, I'm not entirely certain.

Posted by: Heisenberg's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (2mC6G)

I did, and I didn't.

Posted by: Schrödinger's Dick at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (LTHVh)

133 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

There is a giant Sarah Lee pie hovering in the sky over the famous French scientist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (zWp1g)

134 125 This is proof that the universe is imperfect, and must be destroyed.
Posted by: Imperfect Logic at May 25, 2017 08:52 PM (BO/km)

Fucking A.

Posted by: NOMAD at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (0mRoj)

135 Build Eistein Rosen bridges, not duality walls.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (+mmb1)

136 I hope that collision can be linked somehow to Trump.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (+GtGJ)

137 Pirates beating the crap out of your Atlanta Braves again.

Posted by: cosmic Charlie at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (7dpmG)

138 Cold Spot... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAPo0EMfdLw

Posted by: srv at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (XoldI)

139 Actually I'm waiting for the moment 1/3rd of the stars disappear. Those fuckers burned out their candles long ago. Takes several billion years for that light/darkness info to reach us.

Posted by: Corona at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (Vequ/)

140 I'm surprised we haven't gotten a "So that's where my ex-wife is hiding" comment yet.
Posted by: buzzion at May 25, 2017 08:44 PM (z/Ubi)

I was going with the Best Interests Of The Child Law Library.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (2qHjF)

141 When rules across universes do not work the same...

Star Trel: The Animated Series had the "Counter-clock Incident."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (zWp1g)

142 You got me again. You are killing it this week!
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 08:50 PM (Uxokn)

Heh, thanks. There's been a LOT to work with this week!

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (0mRoj)

143 Big Bang- GCC ministers and Fakestinian officials meet in public with an Israeli minister in Ecuador. PDT you magnificent bastard, you were credited with this.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (zqYEz)

144 136 I hope that collision can be linked somehow to Trump.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (+GtGJ)

Trump is SMOD.

Posted by: Not Omicron at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (wNxxH)

145 IT'S COMING FROM INSIDE THE UNIVERSE!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (Nwg0u)

146 Good Lord, my sis in law who just suffered a concussion last night is still going ahead with her plans to go to Mexico. *sigh*

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (CNHr1)

147 141 When rules across universes do not work the same...

Star Trel: The Animated Series had the "Counter-clock Incident."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:54 PM (zWp1g)

This has all been covered in Star Trel ad nauseum.

Posted by: Neil Degrassyass at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (E8apb)

148 Ace,

You may be thinking of the Cosmological Constant, which Einstein described as his "greatest blunder". But, as it worked out, even when Uncle Al blundered, he done good, just not the way he thought.

With General Relativity, Einstein could've predicted the expansion of the Universe before Hubble, and that would've been a coup. But at the time, this wasn't know. They thought it was static.

However, the solutions to the field equations of General Relativity did not admit such a static solution. The universe would expand forever, or stop and collapse back on itself.

So he added a term, the Cosmological Constant, which could be chosen to balance things out and allow the matter distribution to remain static.

And then Hubble came along. Einstein thought it was a blunder.

However, with the accelerating expansion now seen, the Cosmological Constant would do that as well. Or something which acts like it, which they dub dark energy.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (8O3HH)

149 >>>Everybody knows that's the dark matter, man. Everybody but you, I guess.

"Dark matter" is at the moment just a name we're giving to "I don't know."

A lot of physicists propose that we don't understand gravity fully, and have devised variations of it to explain the rotational speed of galaxies without postulating "Dark Matter." See MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) or TeVeS theory.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (8rNrN)

150 144 136 I hope that collision can be linked somehow to Trump.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (+GtGJ)

Trump is SMOD.
Posted by: Not Omicron at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (wNxxH)

Scalp Merkin Of Doom

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (0mRoj)

151 In the alternate universe, I work for NBC news. But I'm still gay.

Posted by: Shep Smith at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (vRcUp)

152 Ah, the miracles of front screen projection never cease to amaze me.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (2qHjF)

153 If you have a graviton (the particle that bears the gravitational force), then there should be an antigraviton. Symmetry, bitches can ya dig it.

Cold spot is loaded up with the antigrav types.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (wTwJ2)

154 *Goes back to hitting firecrackers with a hammer*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (6gk0M)

155 146 Good Lord, my sis in law who just suffered a concussion last night is still going ahead with her plans to go to Mexico. *sigh*

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (CNHr1)

She'll enjoy it more if she doesn't remember it.

Posted by: Neil Degrassyass at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (E8apb)

156 DARK MATTER MATTERS!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (+GtGJ)

157 151 In the alternate universe, I work for NBC news. But I'm still gay.
Posted by: Shep Smith at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (vRcUp)

Hey Shep...just FYI, NBC doesn't actually stand for "Nothing But Cock." Just thought you should know.

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (0mRoj)

158 I think the background microwave radiation (something like 4 K above absolute zero) was the clue that confirmed the Big Bang origin of the Universe. It was like a background hissing noise as the big microwave antenna measured it.

Arno Penzias (Bell Labs) won the Nobel Prize for this sometime in the early '60's.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (S6Pax)

159 Good Lord, my sis in law who just suffered a concussion last night is still going ahead with her plans to go to Mexico. *sigh*
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (CNHr1)

Did she tell her spouse?

Posted by: Feminist WaPo Writer at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (2qHjF)

160 >>>Scientists Speculate That the Great "Cold Spot" in the Universe Might Be
the Impact Zone of Another Universe Colliding With Our Own<<<

I'd
like to speculate that the great cold spot in the universe is created
when the firm sweater kittens of female volunteer lab assistants undulate in and out of phase with the daily expected potentialities of horndog scientists.

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2017 08:57 PM (TNQMS)

161 In at least one and probably more alternate universes, NBC does stand for that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:58 PM (zWp1g)

162 Everybody knows that's the dark matter, man.

-
Please, the preferred term is matter of color.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 08:58 PM (Nwg0u)

163 158 I think the background microwave radiation (something like 4 K above absolute zero) was the clue that confirmed the Big Bang origin of the Universe. It was like a background hissing noise as the big microwave antenna measured it.

Yeah, but can you heat a burrito with it?

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:58 PM (0mRoj)

164 The great refrigerator in the sky.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2017 08:59 PM (IqV8l)

165 >>>ctually I'm waiting for the moment 1/3rd of the stars disappear. Those fuckers burned out their candles long ago.

it's not just that. As the universe expands, our observable universe actually shrinks (or at least the observable stuff within our sphere of observation gets smaller in quantity), as some stars will begin moving beyond the distance where light can reach us. So the universe will get darker for observers even if the stars themselves are still burning. They're still burning, but they're now outside our observation horizon.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 08:59 PM (8rNrN)

166
Scalp Merkin Of Doom
Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 08:56 PM (0mRoj)
The forms of kanly have been obeyed!

Posted by: Not Baron Harkonnen at May 25, 2017 08:59 PM (wNxxH)

167 Feminist, spouse (my brother) is going with her. Taking their kids, the maid of honor etc. A family affair. I'm worried sick. They should postpone it.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 25, 2017 09:00 PM (CNHr1)

168 I see your Cold Spot, and raise you some Throwin' Heat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNJ4irGjek4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 09:00 PM (XUcIQ)

169 In the alternate universe Hillary Clinton still is not president.

But Chelsea's dad really is Bill there.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 25, 2017 09:00 PM (z/Ubi)

170 So the universe will get darker for observers even if the stars themselves are still burning. They're still burning, but they're now outside our observation horizon.

It is kind of interesting that if man had come along many billions of years later there would be only the stars of our own galaxy visible and thus no way to determine that there was ever a Big Bang or that the universe is expanding. We were just lucky, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (+GtGJ)

171 Other Universes and Bush and Joooz, cause Global Warming! I knew that they would finally tie it all together, after only a handful of gay-pride marches and rallies for Hillary! It's the kind of thing you think about while pooping on a police car. The science IS settled.

Posted by: goon at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (EaQ6/)

172 Imagine a universe with no Oh No Yoko...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (zWp1g)

173
I think the idea is like if you flip a coin 1000 times -- you'd expect the most likely outcome to be 500 heads, 500 tails, but if you actually got that perfect distribution, you'd be kind of surprised. (And in fact stuff like that -- where experimental results come out too close to the expected -- are often taken as possible evidence of fraud in the experiment, because things just don't work out neatly like that very often.)

Heads......

Heads......

Heads......

Heads......

Heads......

Heads......

Posted by: Zombie Rosencrantz at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (quw2O)

174 I had an Alternate Universe experience today.

Some guy told me that I look like David Bowie.

Believe me, I look nothing like David Bowie.

The beautiful and glorious Mrs naturalfake is still laughing about that.

On the other hand, with Alternate Universe David Bowie, who knows?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (9q7Dl)

175 Trump is SMOD.

Posted by: Not Omicron at May 25, 2017 08:55 PM (wNxxH)

Posted by: Peaches at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (EgOr3)

176 Here are some vintage SF covers:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/273945589809782246/

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (NT3RT)

177 >>>If you have a graviton (the particle that bears the gravitational force), then there should be an antigraviton. Symmetry, bitches can ya dig it.

interesting fact I just found out:

I always thought that "antimatter" had normal gravity, and was "anti-" only in electric charge.

However, it turns out, we can only produce so little antihydrogen (just a few atoms here and there) that we cannot actually test this tiny, tiny, tiny amount of stuff as to its gravitational effects.

So, as an experimental matter, it remains possible that antimatter produces anti-gravity.

That said, there's no reason to think this is true. Just that no one has been able to design a test so sensitive they can determine that antimatter makes regular or anti- gravity.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (8rNrN)

178 I'm about to put forth a theory that will likely result in me being hailed as one of the great geniuses in human history:

It's boobs.

*shakes hands all around*

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (4ErVI)

179 Cold Spot." It is, as the name suggests, notably colder than other parts of the universe.

I thought it was already established the the coldest spot in the universe was Hillary's heart.

Posted by: pep at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (LAe3v)

180 Yes it could be the mark of an impact with another universe.

Or maybe it is just where Alderan was before the Death Star blew it up.

That is how I read the article. They don't know that and it isn't seriously being proposed as the explanation. It's more like yeah it's weird we don't know why maybe it's this.

Posted by: blaster at May 25, 2017 09:03 PM (tFx3r)

181 I've long said that the Left doesn't come from the same planet that I do. Or the same Solar System or Galaxy for that matter. Now I can say, with some confidence, that they don't come from the same fucking Universe!

Fuck the fucking fuckers. With a fucking fuckstick.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:03 PM (nGMLA)

182 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 08:53 PM (zWp1g)

So...Dali-esque

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:03 PM (MQDwm)

183 Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 25, 2017 08:42 PM (nXQUN)

As long as the research will support global ~~warming~~ ~~cooling~~ climate change, there should be no problem getting funding!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 25, 2017 09:03 PM (gwPgz)

184 So, as an experimental matter, it remains possible that antimatter produces anti-gravity.

Yeah, until the batteries die.

Posted by: Baron Harkonnen at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (+GtGJ)

185 Which Bowie?

Posted by: cosmic Charlie at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (7dpmG)

186 The most profound void in the universe is to be found directly between Maxine Waters' ears.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (v5iqM)

187 "*Goes back to hitting firecrackers with a hammer*"

I have this mental image of the drafted Bugs Bunny ending up in the only suitable military job: sitting on a stool at the end of the production line, gingerly tapping the tips of artillery shells to test for bad fuzes.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (ujwCG)

188 Supervoid is a Sabbath song

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (woKq6)

189 >>>It is kind of interesting that if man had come along many billions of years later there would be only the stars of our own galaxy visible and thus no way to determine that there was ever a Big Bang or that the universe is expanding. We were just lucky, I guess.

someone I was reading pointed out that the age of the observable universe is 13.4 billion years and the guestimated radius of the universe is something very close to that, like 13.32 billion light years, and said "This surely cannot be a coincidence."

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (8rNrN)

190 Actually Kallisto, I am making a ref to this

https://youtu.be/KEkW4es9okU

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 09:05 PM (zWp1g)

191 Maxine Waters, so daft that even her liberal fellow traveler can't hang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8fts_oeRQ

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:06 PM (MQDwm)

192 187. Ren & Stimpy, peeling h-bombs.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:06 PM (TwwWO)

193 Star Trel: The Animated Series had the "Counter-clock Incident."
====

When Phillip K. Dick's book started catching on as movies after Blade Runner , I randomly selected a book of his at the library called Counterclock World.

The premise is that the time on Earth is disrupted in a cosmic accident. Everyone begins aging in reverse.

And their metabolisms go in reverse.

Oh yeah. They ram tubes of what they call "soghum" up their asses and when they go to the bathroom they vomit food.

It gets much worse.

It warped me deeply. And permanently.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 09:06 PM (Uxokn)

194 "I have this mental image of the drafted Bugs Bunny ending up in the only suitable military job: sitting on a stool at the end of the production line, gingerly tapping the tips of artillery shells to test for bad fuzes."
-Posted by: torquewrench at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (ujwCG)

That was exactly the image I was going for!

*writes "dud" on side of firecracker*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 25, 2017 09:06 PM (6gk0M)

195 Supernaut...and Into the Void.

Our Universe threw the other Universe onto the ground and broke its glasses. Our Universe Rulez!!!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 25, 2017 09:07 PM (woKq6)

196 This headline is actually better than most of the "science news" headlines this week.

But it's still bad.

"Unusually cold region in space observed, possible reasons discussed, including super-clickbaity parallel universe hypothesis" would be slightly better still.

"Science News" sold out to the Nye-Tyson axis of barely-literate meme crap. That's kind of unfair, because it happened before they were popular, but facts are dead anyway.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 25, 2017 09:07 PM (wB8Tg)

197 178 I'm about to put forth a theory that will likely result in me being hailed as one of the great geniuses in human history:

It's boobs.

*shakes hands all around*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (4ErVI)

**********

Already top ten NY Times best seller - pick up one, heck pick up a pair.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 09:07 PM (+mmb1)

198 I didn't read scifi for years after that.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (Uxokn)

199 someone I was reading pointed out that the age of the observable universe is 13.4 billion years and the guestimated radius of the universe is something very close to that, like 13.32 billion light years, and said "This surely cannot be a coincidence."

I don't get it.

Objects have been observed that are 40-plus billion light years away. Supposedly, the distance can be greater than the age of the universe (13.7 billion years) because of the intervening expansion of space.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (+GtGJ)

200 I'm not sure I like this. We're observing an effect (a cold void), but we're not observing the cause. It means there's some sort of particle, or something that we can't detect, yet it can affect us. Kind of like seeing a billiard ball roll all of a sudden, without anything touching it (excluding wind, earthquakes, etc.) *cue twilight zone music*

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (vRcUp)

201 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 09:05 PM (zWp1g)

Oh, that was funny!

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (MQDwm)

202 189. I rhink I was maybe 8 oe 9 when I grokked the concept of the light-year. When I looked up at the night sky, I realized all those stars were probably long since dead, and felt absolutely abandoned in the universe.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (TwwWO)

203 109 Sigh.... Rod Stewart reference.

Here's an earworm, amd you're welcome:

https://youtu.be/sY2WIFGQttE
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 08:48 PM (TwwWO)

I watched it, and didn't dislike it as much as I used to.

Posted by: rickl at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (sdi6R)

204 My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2017 09:09 PM (ANIFC)

205
I saw Parallel Universe Hypothesis open for String Cheese Incident at the Cow Palace back in '97.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 25, 2017 09:09 PM (quw2O)

206 Why am I telling you this?

I don't know. I don't know.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 09:09 PM (Uxokn)

207 When I looked up at the night sky, I realized all those stars were probably long since dead, and felt absolutely abandoned in the universe.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:08 PM (TwwWO)

I'm here for you, man.

Posted by: Pluto, A Planet and a Damn Good One at May 25, 2017 09:09 PM (+GtGJ)

208 I'm about to put forth a theory that will likely result in me being hailed as one of the great geniuses in human history:

It's boobs.

*shakes hands all around*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (4ErVI)

**********

Already top ten NY Times best seller - pick up one, heck pick up a pair.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death

Last time I tried to get my hands on that, I got hit with a restraining order.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (66CWr)

209 The premise is that the time on Earth is disrupted in a cosmic accident. Everyone begins aging in reverse.

And their metabolisms go in reverse.

Oh yeah. They ram tubes of what they call "soghum" up their asses and when they go to the bathroom they vomit food.

It gets much worse.

It warped me deeply. And permanently.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 09:06 PM (Uxokn)

There was a pulp fiction series with a female counterpart to Doc Savage, called the Golden Amazon, who owed her super powers to the fact that her metabolism ran very fast in reverse somehow. She was probably an android cobbled up from the transmission of an Egyptian tank.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (XUcIQ)

210 Here are some vintage SF covers:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/273945589809782246/

Posted by: All Hail Eris

That was cool. Amazing how many of those books I read in my wasted youth.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (S6Pax)

211

To get negative or repulsive gravity, you'd need negative mess, which is negative energy. This falls into the category of what is dubbed "exotic matter". There are some rules known as the Energy Conditions which place constraints on the source term of the field equations of general relativity.

You can look that up for a primer on it.

You've probably heard of some exotic spacetime solutions which allow closed timelike curves (which implies time travel) and other oddities. Well, there is a belief that no sane universe should allow such rank obscenity as violation of causality and all that.

THe Energy Conditions are constraints on what matter can be that insure this cannot happen.

However, there is no proof that they cannot be violated, and that this negative energy stuff may be possible.

Womholes and Alcubierre warp drive spacetime all require some of this Energy COndition violating negative energy.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (8O3HH)

212 Ever wonder if the primary sin of the modern era is Pride? So much of modern science seems to not be "I got nothing. We have no frickin clue why this is happening."

But no, instead we get more and more fantasies spread as truth. Instead of saying "Ok our theory on global warming does not seem to fit resultant data, they just keep amending the same theory to fit the results. Or massage the results to fit the theory."

Too much We Know and not enough "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."

Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (9KOoj)

213 177 That said, there's no reason to think this is true. Just that no one has been able to design a test so sensitive they can determine that antimatter makes regular or anti- gravity.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:02 PM (8rNrN)

The entire matter laden universe we see is because of a broken symmetry. The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of quarks and antiquarks, but for some unknown reason more of the regular type were made. This *tiny* variance is all the galaxies and matter we see.

Or so goes the current theory. But it is why I mentioned symmetry.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2017 09:11 PM (wTwJ2)

214 Which Bowie?
Posted by: cosmic Charlie at May 25, 2017 09:04 PM (7dpmG)

I didn't pursue it.

Mrs naturalfake thinks maybe "Heroes" album cover Bowie cuz my hair looks a bit like that.

But, really I have no idea where he got that from.

Weird and irritating.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:11 PM (9q7Dl)

215 I suspect much, I hope for more, but I know little.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (LTHVh)

216 Mrs naturalfake thinks maybe "Heroes" album cover Bowie cuz my hair looks a bit like that.

"Heroes" in German is just brilliant. IMO it's one of the few English rock pieces that translates well to another language.

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (MQDwm)

217 interesting video on hypothetical cosmic superstrings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vIkZR2hNY

the background, I think, is this: if you have any normal matter undergoing a phase transition -- solid to liquid, say -- you have special cases at the boundaries where a solid part and liquid part border on each other. Some half-and-half phase, say, that usually doesn't exist.

When the superhot stuff of the big bang cooled, some must have cooled faster than other parts. And so that created "domains" of stuff in one phase bordering on stuff in another phase.

That could produce strange stuff at the domain borders, and some speculate that relics of the big bang, including impossibly long cosmic superstrings made up of stuff denser than neutronium, or even domain walls (2-dimensional barriers), could have persisted and might still be lurking out there.

no evidence of such exotic relics exist, but as they often say in physics, "The math does not forbid it."

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (8rNrN)

218 Their universe doesn't have Mattress Girl.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (woKq6)

219 Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (8O3HH)

Feynman's preferred description of anti-matter was as normal particles moving backwards in time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (zc3Db)

220 Mrs naturalfake thinks maybe "Heroes" album cover Bowie cuz my hair looks a bit like that.

Do you lay around sphinxing like Diamond Dogs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 25, 2017 09:13 PM (LTHVh)

221 After looking at the news apparently everything bad in the entire friggin universe is Trumps fault so I'm amazed the MSM isn't blaming this cold spot on him too.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 25, 2017 09:14 PM (ARzf8)

222 214. Had an ex who insisted I see 'The Man Who Fell to Earth.' Quirky flick. She said - as have others before and since - that I couldn't possibly be who I seemed to be. My angel even said to me once and more than once, 'did you fall from the moon or something? '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:14 PM (TwwWO)

223 174 I had an Alternate Universe experience today.

Some guy told me that I look like David Bowie.

Believe me, I look nothing like David Bowie.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (9q7Dl)

Well, David Bowie had a lot of different "looks" over the years. Maybe that guy was thinking about one aspect in particular.

Posted by: rickl at May 25, 2017 09:14 PM (sdi6R)

224 I didn't pursue it.

Mrs naturalfake thinks maybe "Heroes" album cover Bowie cuz my hair looks a bit like that.

But, really I have no idea where he got that from.

Weird and irritating.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:11 PM (9q7Dl)

Maybe he thinks you look like Bowie now. Better get your wife to check your pulse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2017 09:14 PM (XUcIQ)

225 That's kind of unfair, because it happened before they were popular, but facts are dead anyway.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith

Print is dead, too.

Posted by: Egon Spengler at May 25, 2017 09:14 PM (S6Pax)

226 >>> Ever wonder if the primary sin of the modern era is Pride? So much of modern science seems to not be "I got nothing. We have no frickin clue why this is happening."

But no, instead we get more and more fantasies spread as truth. Instead of saying "Ok our theory on global warming does not seem to fit resultant data, they just keep amending the same theory to fit the results. Or massage the results to fit the theory."

Too much We Know and not enough "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."

...

so people should just give up, huh?

Do you understand they're proposing theories and just speculating based on limited information?

What do you want them to do? Just give up and start farming beets?

There is very little science that didn't start as a wild-ass guess in response to a question that had no current answer.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:15 PM (8rNrN)

227 That was cool. Amazing how many of those books I read in my wasted youth.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (S6Pax)
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Right? It was a golden age of cheap paperback interstellar exploration the likes of which we shall not see again.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:16 PM (NT3RT)

228 There was a pulp fiction series with a female counterpart to Doc Savage,
called the Golden Amazon, who owed her super powers to the fact that
her metabolism ran very fast in reverse somehow.
===

So she got younger. Huh.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 25, 2017 09:16 PM (Uxokn)

229 >>>My cat's breath smells like cat food.<<<

My ex-girlfriend was always flabbergasted that her puppy's paws smelled like Doritos or Cheetos or Fritos or some damn thing.

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2017 09:16 PM (TNQMS)

230 https://www.universetoday.com/40413/what-no-parallel-universe-cosmic-cold-spot-just-data-artifact/

Posted by: Locke Common at May 25, 2017 09:16 PM (YqvaZ)

231 Ever wonder if the primary sin of the modern era is Pride? So much of modern science seems to not be "I got nothing. We have no frickin clue why this is happening."

Godel established the idea that "we cannot prove everything" as the ultimate law.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (zc3Db)

232 "But back to the Cold Spot."

Just got here. How many ex wife jokes did I miss?

Posted by: Country Boy at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (Jcg9Q)

233 Some guy told me that I look like David Bowie.

Believe me, I look nothing like David Bowie.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (9q7Dl)
---
Be honest.

It was "Labyrinth" Bowie, wasn't it?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (NT3RT)

234 Too much We Know and not enough "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
Posted by: Aetius451AD's work phone at May 25, 2017 09:10 PM (9KOoj)

Knowing that you know nothing is the beginning of wisdom...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 25, 2017 09:18 PM (5VlCp)

235 Matter vs anti-matter: See "CP violation".

Basically, CP symmetry (this stands for charge-parity symmetry, basically), means that we could replace everything with anti-matter. That is all protons become anti-protons. ANd all electrons become positrons. Etc, etc.

And we wouldn't be able to tell this difference. We would just call + charge -, and vice versa, and we wouldn't know the difference.

Well, a violation of this was discovered back in the '60s which resulted in the Noble Prize.

We could tell the difference between the two, and this is the CP violation.

This is not completely understood -- it's not worked out completely, but this CP violation is at the heart of the matter over antimatter imbalance of the universe. The known CP violations are not yet enough to account for how much matter was produced over antimatter.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 09:18 PM (8O3HH)

236 Some guy told me that I look like David Bowie.

Believe me, I look nothing like David Bowie.

Posted by: naturalfake

Has he ever seen anyone besides David Bowie and myself? That would explain it. You look more like David Bowie than I do.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (vRcUp)

237 I thought the Cold Spot was wherever Hillary Clinton was at the time.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (oVJmc)

238 Godel established the idea that "we cannot prove everything" as the ultimate law.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (zc3Db)

I'll see your Godel and raise you one Descarte.

Cogito Ergo Sum, suckazzz. The only thing a conscious being can know with certainty is that its consciousness exists.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (+GtGJ)

239 What do you want them to do? Just give up and start farming beets?

What's wrong with that?

Posted by: Dwight Schrute at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (0mRoj)

240 Godel established the idea that "we cannot prove everything" as the ultimate law.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (zc3Db)

But he still suspended Tom Brady four games for Deflategate

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (ANIFC)

241 Be honest.

It was "Labyrinth" Bowie, wasn't it?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (NT3RT)

*hangs head*

*kicks at dirt*

......yeah.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (9q7Dl)

242 All men desire by nature to know. The proof of this is the delight we take in our senses & etc. - Really brilliant Greek dude what's no longer taught.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (TwwWO)

243 This is not completely understood -- it's not worked out completely, but this CP violation is at the heart of the matter over antimatter imbalance of the universe. The known CP violations are not yet enough to account for how much matter was produced over antimatter.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 09:18 PM (8O3HH)

The Universe just happens to be right-handed

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:20 PM (zc3Db)

244 "'Heroes' in German is just brilliant. IMO it's one of the few English rock pieces that translates well to another language."

This, how do you say, "Louie Louie".

You can be explaining it for us, yes?

Posted by: torquewrench at May 25, 2017 09:20 PM (ujwCG)

245 There is very little science that didn't start as a wild-ass guess in response to a question that had no current answer.

Posted by: ace

The wild ass guesses are just hypothesis. They (scientists) bat those around all the time. A lot of them are wrong or ridiculous, but they do spur ideas for observations or experiments to prove or disprove. An honest scientist isn't afraid of being wrong, but is bothered about sounding stupid, for no good reason.

A hypothesis doesn't become a theory until there is actually a body of experimental or observational evidence to back it up.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 25, 2017 09:20 PM (S6Pax)

246 233 Some guy told me that I look like David Bowie.

Believe me, I look nothing like David Bowie.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:01 PM (9q7Dl)
---
Be honest.

It was "Labyrinth" Bowie, wasn't it?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:17 PM (NT3RT)

White tights a-bulgin'?

Posted by: Insomniac - forgotten but not gone at May 25, 2017 09:20 PM (0mRoj)

247 kallisto, yeah that video is some classic nerd cheese.

So is this - https://youtu.be/0ymFxkFfIhU

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 09:21 PM (zWp1g)

248 Too deep for me but could you smart guys let me know when to duck?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2017 09:21 PM (zqYEz)

249 238. Objection. Assumes 'to think' requires a substrate.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:21 PM (TwwWO)

250 ok, nevermind.

Posted by: KansasCj at May 25, 2017 09:22 PM (RQ3Ly)

251 Matter vs anti-matter: See "CP violation"...

A corollary of that theory is antipasta vs pasta. I never, ever, mix the two when in an Italian restaurant.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:23 PM (nGMLA)

252 Well the Brit snit didn't last long. We are back to sharing intel.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2017 09:23 PM (zqYEz)

253

I am in Miami. Layover by the airport. At the Hilton

I am the only straight white woman here. All blacl, gay, trannies

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:23 PM (KlMv3)

254 Alternate universe me is married with kids. But is a liberal twit.

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2017 09:23 PM (ANIFC)

255 Well the Brit snit didn't last long. We are back to sharing intel.
Posted by: Ben Had

Fake news from the bowels of 30 Rock.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 25, 2017 09:24 PM (S6Pax)

256 What do you want them to do? Just give up and start farming beets?

What's wrong with that?

Posted by: Dwight Schrute at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (0mRoj

Beets me.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:24 PM (nGMLA)

257 I am in Miami. Layover by the airport. At the Hilton

I am the only straight white woman here. All blacl, gay, trannies

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:23 PM (KlMv3)

Fucking Hiltons.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:24 PM (+GtGJ)

258

The entire hotel

Wigs, makeup, crop tops, tatts

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:24 PM (KlMv3)

259 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 25, 2017 09:21 PM (zWp1g)

thanks, I'll take a look at that.

I was just amusing myself on a Stephen Colbert YT. He had cartoon Pope Francis scolding POTUS. The libtards posted their praise of "progressive" Francis, which triggered dozens of comments of wymyn disputing that due to god knows what fuck all.

It's funny to see them fight though.

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:24 PM (MQDwm)

260 Hot pink leggings

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:25 PM (KlMv3)

261 I'll see your Godel and raise you one Descarte.

Cogito Ergo Sum, suckazzz. The only thing a conscious being can know with certainty is that its consciousness exists.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (+GtGJ)

I'm going to have to split with you, here. Mathematical truths exist on their own. They are the only truths that one can know. And Descartes certainly found a shit-ton of them for the rest of us.

Consciousness, itself, may or may not exist, regardless of what any being might "think", since that "thinking" may be nothing more than an emergent property of its physiology.

My view is that Descartes was placing an upper limit on knowledge (of self). "The most" that I can know ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:25 PM (zc3Db)

262 Blond wigs

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (KlMv3)

263 The entire hotel

Wigs, makeup, crop tops, tatts
Posted by: ThunderB

Sometimes, reality makes you question your sanity.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (S6Pax)

264 I'm so old I remember when I could trust a science "study" 90% of the time.

Now it is all bullshit. As an engineer, this is why I constantly break "scientist's" balls. and win every time.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (npdX6)

265 When I read the populist cosmology back in the 90s, they said the universe was "lumpy"--the Big Bang was not a symmetrical explosion in 3 dimension as we would conceive it.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (woKq6)

266 It's old.

Get it?

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (qUNWi)

267
Im drinking gin

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (KlMv3)

268 Beets me.

Lettuce leave this subject and move on to another one.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (nGMLA)

269 ThunderB- Do you have all your shots?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (zqYEz)

270 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (TwwWO)

271 Ever wonder if the primary sin of the modern era is Pride? So much of modern science seems to not be "I got nothing. We have no frickin clue why this is happening."

But no, instead we get more and more fantasies spread as truth. Instead of saying "Ok our theory on global warming does not seem to fit resultant data, they just keep amending the same theory to fit the results. Or massage the results to fit the theory."

Too much We Know and not enough "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
--

Very, very true.

Morning news, circa February : Coffee will kill you.

Morning news, circa April: Coffee is good for you

Lather, rinse, repeat ad infnitum for almost anything

Posted by: shibumi at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (aT+Bx)

272 Let's not throw out an entire Universe because of a few billion retards on Earth.

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (qUNWi)

273 There is very little science that didn't start as a wild-ass guess in response to a question that had no current answer.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:15 PM (8rNrN) fnord (8rNrN)

A lot of people like to pretend that it's not a wild-ass guess.

Like the aforementioned majority of "science news" articles over the last week on this subject that *grossly* overstate certainty.

Or thousands of other examples like the hypothetical Oort cloud (taught in schools as a fact) or the various and sundry distortions around the environment (propaganda about CO2 and photosynthesis, the temperature record, attempts to erase the MWP or early 20th century "flat spot," ad nauseam).

But no one wants to say "I don't know," especially when they're asking for a budget increase or a grant, or a vote.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (wB8Tg)

274 I'll fly you to the Cold Spot. And you can hang out there. Who knows? If that's the interface, you could be the first to slip into an alternate universe!

Posted by: Elon Musk at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (vRcUp)

275 So I rewatched "Prometheus" today just to confirm my opinion.

Yep, still stinks.

Just as the roller-coaster ride of "Aliens" was followed by "Alien 3", wherein Newt and Hicks were unceremoniously dispatched within minutes of the opening credits, so too was the character Elizabeth Shaw coldly excised from the "Covenant" story even though "Prometheus" ended with Shaw determined to search for answers - what happened to that story?

Like a character and follow him or her through 2 hours of pulse-pounding terror, with them ultimately prevailing? Guess what, they're getting the ax in the next installment!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (NT3RT)

276 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.

Fills me with a great humility.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (nGMLA)

277 I think some are hookers

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (KlMv3)

278 267
Im drinking gin
Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:26 PM (KlMv3)

*fistbump*

Posted by: rickl at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (sdi6R)

279 so people should just give up, huh?

Do you understand they're proposing theories and just speculating based on limited information?

What do you want them to do? Just give up and start farming beets?

There is very little science that didn't start as a wild-ass guess in response to a question that had no current answer.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:15 PM (8rNrN)

(switching to laptop since work phone is annoying me with autocucumber)

You mistake my point on this. We do not need less study, we need more. You study things so that you can figure out how they work, and then you can apply those principles in how other things work. You improve both the overall understanding of how the universe works, but also in what we can do within that universe. Also for the sheer pleasure of discovery and exploration.

What I have a problem with is the way people come out with this stuff as though it was in some way established (and I speak much more to prog's sexual love for science than I do here.) Dark Energy has been a big thing the last few years. As I understand it, it is merely a cludge to try to explain things they cannot explain. There is not enough matter or things are responding as if there is matter- but there is none we can observe.

Now this is like you laying out a plan to do something like this:

1) Construct Reactor.
2) Get heavy water.
3) Get generator constructed.
4) ????? Dark Energy?????
5) Cold Fusion

When I speak of approaching science with pride, I am not saying science is wrong in any way shape or form. I am saying that the people who are doing the science are making giant assumptions that they have any idea what they are talking about.

Reality does not give a crap about your feelings or assumptions. If your current theory does not fit the data, maybe you should not find a way to shave things to make it fit into your theory, maybe you need a new theory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (JNqRY)

280

Theyre very nice

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (KlMv3)

281 277. Well, at least they're capitalists/entrepreneurs.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (TwwWO)

282 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (TwwWO)

======

Hell, we don't really know much about our own oceans, nevermind the whole universe.

Posted by: GOULD at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (Hj4t4)

283
I'll see your Godel and raise you one Descarte.

Cogito Ergo Sum, suckazzz. The only thing a conscious being can know with certainty is that its consciousness exists.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:19 PM (+GtGJ)

*********

See you and call.

"Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 25, 2017 09:29 PM (+mmb1)

284 I think some are hookers
Posted by: ThunderB

Well.......it's Florida.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (S6Pax)

285 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.

It's much more staggering to think of how little we are (in time and space) and how much we do know about the universe ... and the fact that the language we use to describe it all grew out of the fundamental act of comparing livestock with the fingers on your hands.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (zc3Db)

286 O/T
But does anybody remember Professor Bike-Loc from Berserkly?

Looks like his day ended badly

http://tinyurl.com/y8cmp3yo

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (J+eG2)

287 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.

Also how impossible it is to even conceive of that immensity. The stars like dust.

I can't even conceive of the immensity of the Earth itself.

I can't even imagine the immensity of Rhode Island fer cripes sake.

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (qUNWi)

288 God almighty, Pierre McGuire and Eddie Olczyk are completely in the tank for Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (YxH2u)

289 A lot of people like to pretend that it's not a wild-ass guess.

Like the aforementioned majority of "science news" articles over the last week on this subject that *grossly* overstate certainty.

Or thousands of other examples like the hypothetical Oort cloud (taught in schools as a fact) or the various and sundry distortions around the environment (propaganda about CO2 and photosynthesis, the temperature record, attempts to erase the MWP or early 20th century "flat spot," ad nauseam).

But no one wants to say "I don't know," especially when they're asking for a budget increase or a grant, or a vote.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (wB8Tg)

This too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (JNqRY)

290 282. Bingo! Hell, we haven't even really finished mapping our home world.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (TwwWO)

291 205
I saw Parallel Universe Hypothesis open for String Cheese Incident at the Cow Palace back in '97.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 25, 2017 09:09 PM (

String Cheese was a fun show in college.

It's far from Yonder Mountain though.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (2qHjF)

292 The terrifying thing no one wants to acknowledge about the cold spot is the Daleks are probably responsible and no one remembers why except Doctor Who.

Posted by: Skunky Choom at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (iVPsD)

293 They keep leaving and coming back

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (KlMv3)

294 I saw Shapely Supercluster open for The Great Attractor at the Manly Vale, 1984.

Posted by: Roscoe at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (zq65o)

295 I can't even imagine the immensity of Rhode Island fer cripes sake.
Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (qUNWi)

Rhode Island is a pimp.

Posted by: Massachusetts at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (+GtGJ)

296 Bingo! Hell, we haven't even really finished mapping our home world.
---
Shhhhh...they lie dreaming.

For now.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:31 PM (NT3RT)

297 I thought about throwing B-52s' "Cosmic Thing" up. Fortunately, my hatred for humanity does not extend to the Horde.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 25, 2017 09:32 PM (66CWr)

298 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (NT3RT)

You'll be glad to know that the same quality of writing that made "Prometheus" such a gem of tight plotting and logical action-

still pervades the script of "Alien:Covenant"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:32 PM (9q7Dl)

299 Peaches,

I hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Quite as Nerdy As You Critic ... at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (AoK0a)

300 Kind of huge badass gay hookers in makeup and hot pink leggings

Like tall wesley snipes in a blond wig

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (KlMv3)

301 How in hell is Rhode Island an island?

The world wonders.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (nGMLA)

302 Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:15

I think the problem is (or at least includes) the circumstance that all traditional methods of determining truth are rendered null and void. We are accused of denying science by people who deny a distinction between male and female. The evidence of our own eyes is discounted on the grounds are biases blind us so we only imagine Islam is more of a threat than Judaism. History is being denied as statues and monuments are destroyed. Michelle is beautiful, Hillary is honest, and Trump is Hitler. The news is more fantasy than reality. Tell the truth and you will be purged or prosecuted. The law applies to who you are not what you do. Our speech is violence. Their violence is speech.

Our search for truth is denied because all sources of truth have been corrupted.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (Nwg0u)

303 >>> Here are some vintage SF covers

"Amazing how many of those books I read in my wasted youth."

I owned a copy of the Heinlein _Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_ with that original cover. May possibly still have it somewhere in the back of the back of the bookshelves.

But, man, get the stacked ginger in the background of the cover of the _Castaways World_ by John Brunner. I would have bought the book just for that. Except I never came across it in my own wasted youth.

_Stand on Zanzibar_, yes. _The Shockwave Rider_, sure. _The Sheep Look Up_, okay, and was that ever a depressing read. So why wasn't this particular Brunner title ever stocked anywhere that I would come across it? UK issue only?

Posted by: torquewrench at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (ujwCG)

304 Brother Cavil at May 25, 2017 09:32 PM (66CWr)

Planet Claire's not so bad!

Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at May 25, 2017 09:34 PM (AoK0a)

305 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 25, 2017 09:30 PM (J+eG2)

That's great news! Interesting that the SF paper named the perps as "radical left". 200k bond, does that mean he has to post 20k to stay out of the slam?

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2017 09:34 PM (MQDwm)

306 Is the cold spot in the universe created by man-made global warming?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 25, 2017 09:34 PM (TdMsT)

307 Kind of huge badass gay hookers in makeup and hot pink leggings

Like tall wesley snipes in a blond wig
Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (KlMv3)

That might be the guy who cleans my pool.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:34 PM (+GtGJ)

308

Weirdly, the bartender is not cheap with the booze

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:34 PM (KlMv3)

309 279 Reality does not give a crap about your feelings or assumptions. If your
current theory does not fit the data, maybe you should not find a way
to shave things to make it fit into your theory, maybe you need a new
theory.

Current theories do not account for all the data observed. There are anomalies. Thus the current theories are wrong, or incomplete.

Thus the search for new theories.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2017 09:35 PM (wTwJ2)

310 think some are hookers
Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (KlMv3)

Hookers on a plane?!?? From a airport?!?? Staying at the Hilton?!?! In Miami?!?!

Please go flirt with one and see how much she quotes you and report back.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 09:35 PM (2qHjF)

311 If God created life, the universe and everything, who created God?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 25, 2017 09:35 PM (TdMsT)

312 Like tall wesley snipes in a blond wig
Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (KlMv3)
---
"Like" or "is"? He's still trying to pay off his taxes.

Ask hirm if shehe is Wesley Snipes!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:35 PM (NT3RT)

313 Kind of huge badass gay hookers in makeup and hot pink leggings

Like tall wesley snipes in a blond wig

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:33 PM (KlMv3)

Oh dear, I hope they don't give Michelle Obama any fashion ideas

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 25, 2017 09:35 PM (auHtY)

314

The are more feminine

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:36 PM (KlMv3)

315 It is enough for me to know a few small things.

Example - I've just about perfected my wok-technique. I can get my veggies & such seared on the outside and still crisp, but not raw. Little things - the universe is a collection of little things.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:36 PM (TwwWO)

316 One example of an interesting anisotropy is the Shapely Supercluster

I've never heard them called that, but I have noted the astronomical number of views I get from The Horde.

Posted by: Kate Upton at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (DMUuz)

317 Yet i am sure they could beat the shit out of someone

Posted by: ThunderB at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (KlMv3)

318 Like the aforementioned majority of "science news" articles over the last week on this subject that *grossly* overstate certainty.

-
How about human noses are just as good as dog's noses?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (Nwg0u)

319 Passed this along to Daughter the Eldest (Physics PhD candidate); her concentration is in Computational Astrophysics, which I *think* is related to this.

I, of course, am clueless.

Posted by: ibguy at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (c5dWW)

320 We haven't even mapped out the vagina yet..... Or proven if the female gspot orgasm is real.

HOLD
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Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (2qHjF)

321 There is very little science that didn't start as a wild-ass guess in response to a question that had no current answer.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:15 PM (8rNrN) fnord (8rNrN)

Yeah ... I'm going to have to disagree. They aren't "wild-ass guesses" for the most part. They are, at worst, educated guesses and more often than not the hypothesizer has some very good reasons why he's proposing some solution.

Sure, there's a lot of trial and error in science. Trial and error is one of the greatest tactics in science. But there's a reason that only a very small minority of people make major scientific breakthroughs and developments. Because they see patterns. They see patterns that are hidden to almost everyone else. They look like wild guesses ... but they aren't.

The wild guesses, usually, end up being incorrect.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (zc3Db)

322 >>>But no one wants to say "I don't know," especially when they're asking for a budget increase or a grant, or a vote.

any time I read a science book they're pretty clear about what is known, what is speculated with solid evidence, what is speculated with weak evidence, and what is in the realm of Wild-Assed Guess/Total Speculation.

Posted by: ace at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (8rNrN)

323 270 It is staggering, isn't it, to think how immense is the universe and how very little we know of it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:27 PM (TwwWO)

Yet at the same time, it's equally staggering to think how much more we know about it than we used to.

400+ years ago, the only "moon" we knew about was the one revolving around Earth. Now we know of hundreds of them in the Solar System, some of may even support life.

90 years ago we didn't know Pluto existed. For 80+ years, it was just a little dot in telescopes. Then after the flyby a couple of years ago, wow! It's a more complex place than anybody imagined.

I remember the first flyby of Mars in 1965 that returned about 20 fuzzy black & white photos. Now we have rovers examining the stratigraphy of the rocks.

Posted by: rickl at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (sdi6R)

324 I've been to Planet Claire.

Nice beaches.

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (qUNWi)

325 If God created life, the universe and everything, who created God?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian

An infinite regress is absurd. There must have been at least one uncreated being. An unmoved mover.

Posted by: Aristotle at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (vRcUp)

326 I was thinking of Poul Anderson's "World Without Stars", about a man stranded on a planet at the edge of the galaxy, and had to see the cover again.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:38 PM (NT3RT)

327 320.

1) speak for yourself; and
2) it is, as they say, a 'jealous phenomenon. '

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:39 PM (TwwWO)

328 Sounds like a Rest Stop on Fury Road.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 09:39 PM (2qHjF)

329 Guess what, they're getting the ax in the next installment!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 09:28 PM (NT3RT) fnord (NT3RT)

I have *so* completely given up on that franchise.

It's kind of distantly interesting to see a gory slasher horror franchise gain enough respectability to start pretending it *is* respectable, even though it still has all the qualities of a gory slasher horror franchise.

Most horror is kind of self-aware about what it is, and thus has an element of parody. Scott and Co. seem to have lost that at some point.

Also the recent interviews suggest they're thinking the same anti-human crap a lot of schlocky filmmakers do.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 25, 2017 09:39 PM (wB8Tg)

330 Oh dear, I hope they don't give Michelle Obama any fashion ideas
Posted by: TheQuietMan

I have some bad news for you.

This sort of thing is more common than you think. It's gotten really weird out there.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 25, 2017 09:40 PM (S6Pax)

331 Wok cooking is great for a student.

You can whip up a yummy dinner in less than 15 minutes, then get to studying.

Lots of variation possible between different veggies and meats and seasonings.

I must've eaten a wokified dinner 5 nights a week when in D school.

Yum!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 25, 2017 09:40 PM (9q7Dl)

332 324. Howzabout Planet Soul?

https://youtu.be/9RtcMZGFgos

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:40 PM (TwwWO)

333 Cogito Ergo Sum, suckazzz. The only thing a conscious being can know with certainty is that its consciousness exists.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

Unless the conscious being happened to fart, and smelled it.

"I stink, therefore I am" would seem better proof of one's existence.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2017 09:41 PM (S1Ngt)

334 Jealous Phenom played for the Knicks right?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 25, 2017 09:41 PM (2qHjF)

335 328.

Thread-winner.

**pours Widespread Pepe a double vodka, adds tendy to Kek altar.**

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:42 PM (TwwWO)

336 Unless the conscious being happened to fart, and smelled it.

"I stink, therefore I am" would seem better proof of one's existence.

Posted by: Sharkman

But the act of smelling is just another act of consciousness. You haven't really given an example of something different.

Posted by: Rene DesFartes at May 25, 2017 09:44 PM (vRcUp)

337 How about human noses are just as good as dog's noses?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (Nwg0u) fnord (Nwg0u)

Do I get to pick the humans and the dogs in the study?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 25, 2017 09:44 PM (wB8Tg)

338 331. Worked for and with Chinese for a decade. Many, many east Asian 'nieces,' and engaged to a Saigon-born angel. Yeah, I know my way around a wok..... greatest thing for cooking ever. A wok - a real one - a rice cooker, and an instant pot pressure cooker - there's not much you can't cook with that kit.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:45 PM (TwwWO)

339 318 Like the aforementioned majority of "science news" articles over the last week on this subject that *grossly* overstate certainty.

-
How about human noses are just as good as dog's noses?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 25, 2017 09:37 PM (Nwg0u)

Funny story and how I know this is bullshit.

I was going to get lunch about a month ago. I was pulled into the turn lane and saw what I thought at the time was dirt. It was brown. I had time enough to think "Who the hell dumped all this dirt on the road?" (This was at night.)

Then my tires went over it and it... squished. I had just enough time to think "What the hell?" when the stench hit me. It was horrific. Someone had dumped the entire contents of a sewage tank (I am thinking one of those big RVs) all over the road. I got to the Steak and Shake and when I got out of the car, I almost vomited. I quickly found a do-it-yourself car wash and pumped every single quarter, nickel and dime I had in my car into the thing. It was like 15 mins. I washed every single thing on that car. I sprayed the underside, I sprayed the wheel wells, I sprayed the splash flaps. I sprayed the tires. I moved the car, so I could spray the parts of the tires That had been touching the group. I did not stop spraying until the 15 mins I had put on the timer ran out. I drove back to work, sniffed as much as I could and could not smell that horrific stench anymore.

Two days later, I was walking my dog and stepped in my garage? My dog went like a lodestone to the tires and wheel wells of my car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2017 09:45 PM (JNqRY)

340

I read with great interest -- and this is real scientific, not prurient interest, I assure you -- the experiments they do about the g-spot, the so-called "female ejaculation", etc, etc.

One can truly love science sexually. Or, I guess, love sex scientifically.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May 25, 2017 09:45 PM (8O3HH)

341 Not to derail the present conversation(s) but for too long Einstein's
spooky action at a distance has been poo-pooed as the ravings of a mad
genius. Forget the math for a moment, Imma telling you that
Information, - not just particle spin, - is instantaneous. Massive
volumes of Information over ridiculous distances. And don't bother
trying to get me to back any of that up with proof, - I'm too lazy and
stupid.

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2017 09:46 PM (TNQMS)

342 I read with great interest -- and this is real scientific, not prurient interest, I assure you -- the experiments they do about the g-spot, the so-called "female ejaculation", etc, etc.

One can truly love science sexually.

Posted by: publius(not Breitbart publius) at May

oh hell yes science likes to be tied naked to a post then whipped publicly.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2017 09:47 PM (cPsPa)

343 Hey who hasn't driven through raw sewage once or twice?

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2017 09:48 PM (qUNWi)

344 Nood big sky

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:49 PM (TwwWO)

345 A wok - a real one - a rice cooker, and an instant pot pressure cooker - there's not much you can't cook with that kit.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:45 PM

G*d's food, BBQ Brisket.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 25, 2017 09:49 PM (DMUuz)

346 Hey space cadets, nood.

Posted by: Imperfect Logic at May 25, 2017 09:50 PM (BO/km)

347 How does a thinker of thoughts like myself keep the universe from destroying thought thinkers like myself from destroying thinkers of thoughts like me?

Posted by: Chelsea at May 25, 2017 09:50 PM (TUTSB)

348 Einstein was suspicious of "spooky action at a distance." He wasn't its promoter. He coined that phrase to mock entanglement theory but he eventually became convinced that it was correct.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2017 09:51 PM (+GtGJ)

349 338 331. Worked for and with Chinese for a decade. Many, many east Asian 'nieces,' and engaged to a Saigon-born angel. Yeah, I know my way around a wok..... greatest thing for cooking ever. A wok - a real one - a rice cooker, and an instant pot pressure cooker - there's not much you can't cook with that kit.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 25, 2017 09:45 PM

I still don't understand how to cook with a wok. I had a Korean boyfriend who tried to show me, but I just ended up using my old skillet and spatula. The rice cooker, though - what a great appliance! When I had the money, I splurged on a stainless steel model (steam basket sold separately).

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 25, 2017 09:52 PM (G8B7r)

350 *ponders*

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

"Heh"

*mic drop*

Posted by: God at May 25, 2017 09:53 PM (S1Ngt)

351 ONT and Montana Election Threads are NOOD!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 25, 2017 09:54 PM (6gk0M)

352 What profiteth a man to flee his fate?
For, he shall surely find...
Worlds within Worlds!

Fantastic Four #75

Stranded in Sub-Atomica!

Fantastic Four #76

Stan Lee explained all this back in the summer of 68.

Posted by: charley horse at May 25, 2017 09:54 PM (+kahX)

353 Jared- grab your nuts because they are coming for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2017 09:54 PM (zqYEz)

354 ...and more robo-centric:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/273945589809782246/

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 25, 2017 10:00 PM (NT3RT)

355 Love the update, which goes staight to my first comment as "Everyone" at post 9.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2017 10:02 PM (S1Ngt)

356 I saw Shapely Supercluster open for ELO 1975 at Arrowhead Stadium.

Posted by: Deacon Blues at May 25, 2017 10:17 PM (dZGNV)

357 Voids will actually be pushing the matter away purely because there is a void. Space-Time warps according to the its local density.

Clumps of matter create gravity wells.
Voids will naturally cause gravity hills.

Eggheads please correct me if I am mistaken- but this has been my understanding.

Posted by: Cluebat at May 25, 2017 10:29 PM (9WTDY)

358 Thanks for "watching" something you can't reproduce!!11!!

Posted by: newrouter at May 25, 2017 11:05 PM (6HXF0)

359 I'm feeling a little cold this morning, must be an alternate universe.

Posted by: bjmugegs at May 26, 2017 08:10 AM (NUlzw)

360 Great "Cold Spot" in the Universe Might Be the Impact Zone of Another Universe Colliding With Our Own

That's not a Cold Spot. That's where Chelsea Clinton's thoughts collide with Known Universe.

Posted by: Einstein in after-school detention at May 26, 2017 11:46 AM (Ndje9)

361 Idiot. Shapley Supercluster.
Google is the retard's friend. You need friends.
Jeez. F'in retards.

Posted by: Not A Retard at May 28, 2017 02:24 PM (1qIrq)

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