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[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I love black holes SO much. I can't wait until it warms up so I can use some...

There are a ton a jokes buried in here. I'm jes' sayin'.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I just finished watching "Monster Black Holes." Caribou coffee was closing so I had to put my laptop on sleep mode because I still had more of season two of "The Universe" still downloading. It was by National Geographic, and it was SO good. I love black holes SO much. I can't wait until it warms up so I can use some of my new eyepieces I got for Christmas.

What did they show? You've seen so many black hole documentaries, I'm thinking if you've seen one, you've seen them all. They all say the same thing, don't they?

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

my new eyepieces I got for Christmas.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

What did they show? You've seen so many black hole documentaries, I'm thinking if you've seen one, you've seen them all. They all say the same thing, don't they?

This one had a lot of really cool special effects. Well, they're kind of similar, but no one really knows much about them, so there are all kinds of theories about them. So, each documentary is going to be a little different. They showed what it would look like if our solar system was really close to the one in the center of our galaxy. That was really creepy, because it showed what we normally would see at night, but everything was much brighter because of the amount of stars in the center. Then, sometimes you would be able to see the black hole itself and everything swirling around it. You know how the Earth rotates on its axis, but it looks as though the Sun is rising and setting? Well, according to some astrophysicists that's what it would look like sometimes. Creepy, creepy, creepy. Obsessed, obsessed, obsessed.

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

There are a ton a jokes buried in here. I'm jes' sayin'.

I don't get the joke, but I'm assuming you two are referring to sex. You guys are so bad.

[DaemonSeid]

@CG...I have no idea as to what you mean....



Anywho, the Verizon iPhone is supposed to be announced tomorrow...thoughts?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

@CG...I have no idea as to what you mean....

smh.
...men.

[DaemonSeid]

Online Comic retailer from Heavy Ink drawing criticism for comments

On Saturday morning, a gunman shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords while she was meeting with constituents outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona, and then apparently kept on shooting, leaving six people (including a nine-year-old girl) dead and Rep. Giffords in critical condition.

While the rest of the world was wishing Gifford well, mourning the dead, and denouncing the vitriol that encourages such violence, Travis Corcoran, the president of online comics retailer Heavy Ink, put up a post on his personal blog titled “1 down, 534 to go.” Corcoran was, of course, referring to the 535 members of Congress.

It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot “indiscriminately”.

Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone.

The post drew swift reaction after Rich Johnston picked it up at Bleeding Cool, along with the first round of outrage on Twitter. While some of Corcoran’s longtime readers gave him high fives in the comments of his blog posts, the rest of the world wasn’t so sanguine, and Morning Glories creator Nick Spencer specifically asked that Heavy Ink stop carrying his work, saying, “I respect your right to an opinion, but am not personally comfortable doing business with someone who advocates violence against people they disagree with.” Gail Simone Tweeted, “@tjic, you have my pity. May you grow a soul someday, because you desperately are in need of one.”

Corcoran, who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” confirmed in this thread on the HeavyInk forums that he is indeed the author of the post. He then followed up with a fuller explanation of his politics, including his distaste for laws and government, and why he thinks the U.S. government has overstepped the bounds of the Constitution. While he disavowed armed revolution, he defended his blog post, saying,

I don’t retract my callousness. I dislike Representatives and Senators, and I think that each and every one of them is doing grave harm to the United States, and to the freedoms of the citizens of the US.

As long as they continue to be callous by the laws they pass (and to do massive harm to real people – senior citizens, mothers, fathers, children), I reserve the right to use harsh language towards them.

[cheerfulgreek]

I'm getting ready to watch alien planets. This is why I love my telescope because I like looking at other stars to see if there are any planets rotating around them. Usually, I can tell if there are any because of the movement of the star. So far, I haven't found any. But then again, there's a possibility that I may have, but I just couldn't see them. Sometimes, it's difficult to see because of the bright light from the star, so I usually look for a wobble. That's usually a good indication that there are planets rotating around it. I love astronomy and physics SO much.

[cheerfulgreek]

Ugh!!! I just can't stop thinking about them. It's just that I get so frustrated with black holes, trying to figure out what's inside, and what happens to the information that goes inside. I mean what lies on the other side of a black hole? Like, what would happen if I throw my immunology book inside of a black hole? Is all of that information lost? It's just that according to Einstein's general relativity laws, nothing can ever come out of a black hole. But what about quantum theory? I mean, there are some black holes that do radiate. What about mini black holes? They radiate. According to Stephen Hawking, I remember reading in one of my physics books that he thinks that mini black holes eventually evaporate and disappear. He thinks (based on his mathematical evidence) that anything that went in, never comes back out. This is what I find to be so frustrating because the laws of quantum therory says that information can never be completely destroyed. I dunno, it's just that how do we know the information that went in isn't preserved and instead comes out subtly? I just think the question of what happens to the information that goes into a black hole is (IMO) not fully settled. It's just that I'm speaking of the chemical composition of the objects that went into the black hole, and other aspects of them, like their color, their temperature etc. those kinds of things. I mean, I love Stephen Hawking, but no one really knows what happens to that information, including him. And this really aggravates me! See, this is why I am so glad I chose vet medicine as a profession, because I woud go freaking nuts over not knowing everything about the universe, especially my obsession with black holes. Or at least most things that I think we need to know.

[cheerfulgreek]

^^^dammit! %^&##$

[DaemonSeid]

Everything you need to know about the Verizon iPhone; preorders being taken starting in February.

[Kappamd]

^It's about damn time.

[cheerfulgreek]

[cheerfulgreek]

Question for Daemon.

Daemon, since you're really into comics -Marvel/DC, do you collect or have any of the figurines? Like this one?

[DaemonSeid]

@CG....yup and am running out of space too. One of my most prized is the Predator 2 mint in box figure that Todd McFarlane signed last year in Baltimore.


@drole don't be mad but I think DCUO may be my new poison.