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Hypatia Posted Dec 14, 2011
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.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 14, 2011
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/2011/12/is-this-really-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.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 15, 2011
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.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 16, 2011
Oh my god, it's full of stars...
http://t.co/6bDJf4t3 Set to full screen and 720.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 16, 2011
I was just reading about that 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16178112
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 16, 2011
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 
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Hypatia Posted Dec 16, 2011
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.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 16, 2011
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.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 16, 2011
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.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 16, 2011
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/badastronomy/2011/12/05/kepler-confirms-first-planet-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-a-sun-like-star/
Well... could it be?...
http://i.imgur.com/bg4Po.jpg
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 17, 2011
Ford, is that you? 
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 22, 2011
Comet Lovejoy, from orbit.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=125774121
And some pretty thunderstorms over the Pacific as an intro act.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 22, 2011
This is just too cool. Musical Math.
http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v6
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 22, 2011
BTW, the prime numbers version is the sound of insanity. http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v12
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 23, 2011
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
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 29, 2011
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/
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Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] Posted Dec 31, 2011
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)
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 31, 2011
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
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