How many galaxies are there out there?
So many that when you run a simulation of what happens when two galaxies run into one another, you can find actual examples of two galaxies that ran into each other and are now at the point depicted in the simulation, if you go and look for 'em.
"How many zeroes is that...?"
"Quite a few."
β Buckaroo Banzai
I just spent 3 months designing a mechanism with a huge torsion spring. Over-engineered, but it should have worked well for its purpose.
I just determined that I designed it backwards.
I made this realization after fabricating the parts, tuning it, installing it, and loading it up with 100 lbs of skull-splattering torque.
Sometimes you need to keep asking yourself the most simple questions before asking the harder ones.
We should be clarifying the term "stupid" for use in the cultural arguments clouding our society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
An ethical position cannot be rationalized by a religious belief.
It is, fundamentally, a BELIEF.
A belief might make a person think something is wrong, and therefore unethical or immoral. But, it is still grounded in a belief.
If someone cannot successfully argue, without referring to spirit or soul or God's Creation, that a fully defined human being is created at conception, then we cannot get to the argument about the ethics of abortion.
A belief is insufficient for a morality.
Maybe this is old news, but the ISS has been extended through 2030!
Wow!
10B doses administered thus far.
No other coordinated project has impacted so many humans.
https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1486966455828553728
Former NC Gov. Pat McCrory is bitching about being "cancelled" by Duke because he wasn't offered a job.
The key issue is teaching.
McCrory has positions and opinions based on faulty information.
He lacks an ability to discern the quality of data that generated that information. He begins with his opinion and backs out the logic and supporting data.
This is the opposite of how to educate.
This is why he should not be allowed to teach.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/pat-mccrory-duke-segregration-kfile/index.html
The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its destination: L2 relative to Earth!
Time to start months of calibration before really, really cool photos are taken.
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