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This is the Journal of Baron Grim What I do >> Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 14, 2011 by Hypatia This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 161 When I was younger, I didn't mind driving in traffic. I never had any problems driving in Houston. I've driven in dozens of cities, some quite large, and the only one I genuinely hate is Dallas. I have this mental block about Dallas for some reason. I've gotten lost there more often than all other cities combined. I even got lost there the last time I went with a GPS. The GPS was lost! The second worst city to drive in for me is Boston. Drivers there are crazy. I've never been to California, so have no experience with the dreaded LA traffic. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 14, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 162 This article's writer isn't too impressed by that trillion fps camera, and to be honest, I had my doubts as well. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2...lly-one-trillion-frames-per-second/ I think he's got it a bit wrong, but I think he's on to something. The simple explaination is a bit too simple. I think there is potential here, but it's a bit more complicated than can be easily explained. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 15, 2011 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 163 They did point out that they can only image repeating phenomena, like a pulsed laser, which is in effect a strobe light, so I think this bloke is trying to be a bit too smart for his own good. And he can't spell. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 164 Oh my god, it's full of stars... http://t.co/6bDJf4t3 Set to full screen and 720. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 165 I was just reading about that http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16178112 Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 166 Thanks for the context. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 167 When I started watching that, I wondered if we were about to zoom in on some uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Hypatia This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 168 I find all of this interesting, but I have to admit I don't understand a lot of it. Now they are using particle physics to try to prove the exsistence of god when all along I thought they were doing the opposite. As for black holes, I think I'll use them as one of my possible scenarios this fall in my Doomsday exhibit. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 169 If you're asking about the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the popular term "god particle" is unfortunate. I'm not sure who coined it, but physicists really wish they hadn't. The Higgs boson, when its existence is confirmed will help explain why things have mass and may help explain how gravity works. Gravity is still quite mysterious in how it functions. Does it follow the particle/wave duality like all the other basic forces, or is just an aspect of the fabric of the universe? But no, they're not looking for god per se. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 170 Or are you talking about the astronomers and their search back into the origins of the universe? Either way, physicists and astronomers are just looking to see how the universe works not to prove or disprove imaginary creations. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 16, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 171 Heh... You remember that "earth-like planet" recently discovered by the Kepler observatory that is in the habitable zone around its star? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...-habitable-zone-of-a-sun-like-star/ Well... could it be?... http://i.imgur.com/bg4Po.jpg Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 17, 2011 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 172 Ford, is that you? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 22, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 173 Comet Lovejoy, from orbit. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/vide...llery/index.html?media_id=125774121 And some pretty thunderstorms over the Pacific as an intro act. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 22, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 174 This is just too cool. Musical Math. http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v6 Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 22, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 175 BTW, the prime numbers version is the sound of insanity. http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v12 Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 23, 2011 by Who are you and what have you done with Gosho? This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 176 Did you see those films of Comet Lovejoy passing through the sun's corona and coming out the other side, after everyone though it was going to get swallowed up? Just incredible. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-lovejoy.html Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 29, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 177 If you haven't seen this yet, you're in for a treat. This is basically a web version of the Total Perspective Vortex, but it has some pleasant music so it won't likely annihilate your brain. http://scaleofuniverse.com/ Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 31, 2011 by Lady Pennywhistle - Coming to a city (possibly) near you this summer! Meet me in Leeds (A87792664) or in London (A87795382)! C'mon, it'll be fun! This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 178 My geologist sister showed me this link, which I find very cool: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=76801 (the comparison option is especially neat) Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 31, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 179 On a related note, here's an island... In a lake... On an island... In a lake... On an island. http://i.imgur.com/dH3vY.jpg Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Wow! / Cool. / Hmmm, that's interesting Posted Dec 31, 2011 by Baron Grim This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 180 Read the First Reply to this Posting Conversation list Conversation list

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