This is not a complaint, just a request. And once Luigi sees it, I don't care if it is removed from this board.
Hey Luigi, in the future, can you provide a little bit more information on what it is that is LOL or at the very least some information on the website? Many of the links you provide are more "grown-up" and I'd prefer to have some idea of what it is I'm clicking. (I sometimes have kids around me I prefer not to be exposed to certain things)
Sorry. There wasn't any grown-up stuff on the page linked to above, was there? Or where you talking about in some previous instance.
I think he was talking about when you linked to a George Carlin bit back when he died.
I don't remember the actual site, but a couple of times in the past, its been more adult themed.
As for above, I hadn't checked the link you made directly, I only posted it here because it was fresh in my mind, and hopefully yours too...
Didn't Wesley Crusher create this when his mother disappeared? oh wait... wrong reality...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,430943,00.html
Actually a little summary or some information might be a good idea with links. It can be annoying when someone just posts a link with a generic LOL! or Look at this! since the person reading it has no idea what they'll be getting into when they click it (& given all the spambots this site has had people might be a little hesitant to just click random links.)
I understand that sometimes it's hard to think of something to say with some links, or one doesn't want to say too much for fear of giving away a joke, but if you can think of something to add, please do.
KAM, seconded.
well the link above is about a cosmic bubble surrounding our solar system. Sorry about the lack of description, other news articles sometimes have an indicator as to what the article is about. This one didn't...
Points taken, guys. I'll make sure to do this from now on.
Dang, more than two? That's amazing. I love those images.
Galaxy One to Galaxy Two: "HEY! Watch where you're going!"
Stephen Hawking on life elsewhere in the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Pluto Files.
This is an excellent 79-minute video in which the director of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium discusses how and why Pluto was downgraded from a planet, as well as other things in astronomy and science.
Help classify galaxies.
News story at news(dot)bbc(dot)co(dot)uk/2/hi/science/nature/7894071(dot)stm
Just replace the (dot)s with "."
New telescope scheduled for 2018 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, will have nine times the collecting power of the Keck telescopes and 12 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. Wow.
Black holes are where G-d divided by zero.
So what was the Big Bang? His attempt to solve the Hodge Conjecture without algebra?
Class M planets have been detected.
Not quite. They've detected Earth *SIZE* planets. They've also detected planets with water, but not both at once, and not necessarily in the "Cinderella Zone".
Thanks for the correction-slash-clarification, Scott. My bad.
Voyager 1 will exit solar system soon.
Wow. If diamonds are a girl's best friend, this must be her god.
I don't know if this is real or CGI, but either way, it is cool.
A planet around Alpha Centauri B!
Artist's conception of planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B.
And it looks surprisingly like every other generic "planet orbiting a star" picture. *rolls eyes*
On the other hand the comments about detecting an earth-sized planet around a star 25 trillion miles away brought to mind the sensors of Star Trek which seemed to "magically" chart every planet in a solar system they've never visited before. Hmmm...
A rogue planet has been found just 100 light years from Earth!
And there's a cool video of an artist's impression of it here.
A record-breaking THREE planets have been found in the habitable zone around Gliese 667C.
Remember Cosmos, the 13-part science documentary miniseries hosted by Carl Sagan back in 1980, which revolutionized popular science programming?
It's coming back.
And Neil DeGrasse Tyson is hosting it.
Via Fox and the National Geographic Channel.
And here is the visually beautiful, really trippy official trailer for it:
Fantastic. I loved Cosmos to bits. I hope they'll show this in Britain.
The first music album I ever bought for myself was Albedo 0.39, by Vangelis. That was after watching Cosmos and falling in love with the music it used. I hope they won't do what usually happens in tv documentaries these days, make it all visual effect and almost no real information. Then again, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the helm, I don't think I have to worry about that.
The Kepler spacecraft, who has been so successful at discovering planets orbiting other stars, has sustained malfunctions that will probably put an end to its mission. Two of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels have failed, making it impossible for the satellite to remain pointed with the high accuracy it needs to do its job. Attempts to repair the satellite are underway, but they are unlikely to meet with complete success. That being said, there are still mountains of recorded data to sift through, so the Kepler mission itself is by no means ended yet.
How does a topic like this get no hits in 11 years?
I'm guilty of this, too, but here goes...
How was everyone's experience with the Great Solar Eclipse of 2024?
I personally was at work, but was able to see the very start of the eclipse through a welder's helmet, as the sun looked like it had a bite taken out of a quarter of it's sphere. (But only for a few seconds, because I didn't know if it provided real protection.) Unfortunately, the sporadic cloud cover enveloped the Sun, and I was denied a clear view.
Minutes later, some of my co-workers and I went outside at 3 pm, where the sky had dimmed to the point of feeling like several minutes after sundown. The temperature dropped down enough to need a jacket and there was a bit of a breeze.
As you'll recall, I'm in Toronto, Canada, which didn't give us a great experience, but enough darkening to make it feel like something different was happening. We're over a hundred kilometres from Niagara Falls, which had a full eclipse, so if you looked to the south, towards Lake Ontario (I work just over a kilometre or 0.8 miles north of Lake Ontario), there was an unearthly darkness there, like the scariest thunderstorm or tornado was about to descend on us, but it was just the edge of the Moon's shadow.
It dimmed enough to trigger the street lights to come on, but the sky was completely cloud-covered to the point that you couldn't know the exact position of the Sun.
After about 4 minutes, my co-workers and I witnessed the sky gradually lighten faster than normal, as if sunrise was accelerated by ten times.
And then it was over, but it was an exhilarating experience as we shared a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence with millions of people across other countries.
So, how were your experiences?
Just got slightly dark here in Ottawa.
That was the eclipse for me.
Not in the US, didn't see it
L.A. only got a partial. I dragged out the glasses from last time and was able to see a small chunk missing from the Sun.
We weren't among the lucky.
Was overcast or raining all day here.
Sucks to miss such an event.
I'll accept being on the periphery, if I can at least see SOMETHING of a special event. Years ago when Halley's Comet showed up I barely noticed it here. I was hoping for an experience somewhat similar to 1910, but nope.
In 1910, a lot of folks went berserk when Halley's Comet approached. They thought it was the end of the world.