A lovely animation demonstrating how our world and the sky above would appear if Earth had a series of rings like Saturn. I especially love the image of the night sky over New York City. Enjoy:
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Duuuuude, That Is SO Deep! Pass The Doritos!
Science Daily did a quick re-write of a press release from researchers at Cardiff University in Wales who claim that they can state with some confidence that life on Earth did not originate on this planet — it came from various building blocks inside comets. In fact, they’re willing to say that the odds are 1024-to-1 AGAINST life originating on the planet.
Meanwhile, NY Times op-ed writer John Tierney says he’s willing to buy Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bossom’s theory that there’s a 20% chance we’re actually all just part of a giant computer simulation a la “The Matrix”.
WHOOOOAAA! Duuuuuuude!
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
