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Well, if there really is a UFO somewhere on the ocean floor, maybe ocean mining will dredge it up. Found this article pretty interesting - - it's about the history, status and likely future of deep ocean exploration and mining: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-feet-under-the-sea/603040/?utm_source=pocket-newtab "Building a vehicle to function at 36,000 feet, under 2 million pounds of pressure per square foot, is a task of interstellar-type engineering. It’s a good deal more rigorous than, say, bolting together a rover to skitter across Mars. Picture the schematic of an iPhone case that can be smashed with a sledgehammer more or less constantly, from every angle at once, without a trace of damage, and you’re in the ballpark—or just consider the fact that more people have walked on the moon than have reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth."

I just read that Tom Brady failed to make the Pro Bowl for the first time in many years , and noticed that his passing stats in recent games have been average at best. Give the guy his do, he's performed at an exceptionally high level through-out his career up til now. Made me think that when the Bills give him a whuppin' on Saturday, and if the Pats don't do well in the play-offs, he's got to at least think about hangin' up his cleats for good. My brother Darryl has issues, but sometimes he has a savant's insight. So he says to me tonight - - "If I was Tom Brady, I'd be thinking about how to cement my legacy as the great ass QB of all time. Best way to go about it would be to do what some of the other really great athletes have done in other sports - - become associated with a disease." At first blush, that didn't sound very savant-like, but then my other brother Darryl explained. "Think about it. None of us were ever really big baseball fans, but even we know that Lou Gehrig was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, even though he retired (and passed away) many years ago. Why? Because he is strongly linked with what has become forever known as Lou Gehrig's disease." He went on - - "And he's not the only great athlete who ensured his legacy by being associated with a terrible disease. You, me and Darryl may not know much about baseball, but we're big basketball fans. Magic Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest point guard of all time. Why? Well OK, he played center in an NBA Finals game 7 and scored a bunch of points to lead the Lakers to a championship, but does anybody remember how many points he scored that day? Nope. What they remember is that when he later announced his retirement, he proudly stepped up to a microphone and stated his intention to become a spokesman for the AIDs virus." We've got a lot of smart people in the Two Bills Drive community, so I'd like your input (no medical degree required). What disease should Brady try to become associated with, so that it can eventually become known as "Tom Brady's disease?" Sadly, Magic Johnson has already staked out the low ground for AIDs, but surely there must be some disease that Tom Brady can claim for posterior. Which disease, and why?

I point you to this website. If you're really interested in truth, you'll read it and actually think about what it means: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nassim_Haramein Believe whatever you want, but if you're seeking converts to join you in whatever your beliefs happen to be, maybe you should present both sides of the story and let people draw their own conclusions. Be well.

Can I do it until my optic nerve swells and my eyeballs flatten? Get your mind out of the gutter - - I'm talking about space travel: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/astronaut-blood-clot/602380/

Speaking of round-bellied old guys with cement in their gloves:

Interesting late 2016 Scientific American article that discusses, among other things, how cosmic radiation issues might make Saturn's moon Titan the place in our solar system most suitable for future human colonization: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Just came across this article originally published about 2 years ago and thought some here might find it interesting. My apologies if previously posted - - I didn't wade through the last 2 years of this thread to check: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-we-ll-have-evidence-of-aliens-if-they-exist-by-2035?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'm not criticizing anyone, and I suspect there are opinions going both ways. I'd just like to know how most members feel about whether topics and posts critical of the Bills should be allowed here. I encourage everyone to participate in the poll.

It involves Ginger, Mary Ann, and unfortunately, a time machine. I'm not sharing any further details.

On the assumption that Al Qaeda hijackers never learned how to turn on an airliner's windshield wipers, Philadelphia successfully tested its new skyscraper defense system.

An even Larger Hadron Collider that inadvertently creates a black hole that consumes the earth, thereby ending all future technological advances by mankind.

Flying cars are so last month: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/tech/boeing-porsche-flying-electric-car/index.html

Hold the door say please say thank you Don't steal don't cheat and don't lie I know you got mountains to climb but Always stay humble and kind

"Dean told deputies the spent .40 caliber shell casings must've fallen out of his truck at some point and he didn't know how or when it may have fallen out of his vehicle" I hate when that happens.

After watching this scene in "A Fish Called Wanda," I seriously considered trying to learn how to speak with a Russian accent: But then I realized that it wouldn't help me answer the "Are you rich?" question.

Maybe we can have the stadium clock operator "forget" to set the clock back an hour next Sunday morning. Then he could "remember" to make the reset whenever the Redskins have the ball with the wind at their backs. That would give us a clear field position advantage, because the Redskins would have a full HOUR less time with the wind at their backs. Wouldn't that give us a MUCH greater wind advantage than just having the wind at our backs during the typical 2nd and 4th quarter time-outs and the 2-minute warnings for each half? Wait . . . . What?

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Of course, it would take no energy at all to speed up the ions in one direction while slowing them down in the other, so yeah, this thing oughta work right out of the box. How'd he get a job at NASA?

Depends - - - how old is the other guy?

Thought this article from Wired was pretty interesting. It's essentially about how astrophysicists are being employed by consumer-oriented tech companies because their expertise in Big Data and machine learning can be used to predict customer preferences. “We were already in Big Data before Big Data became a thing,” says Sudeep Das, an astrophysicist who now works at Netflix. Here's an introductory excerpt from. https://www.wired.com/story/the-style-maven-astrophysicists-of-silicon-valley/?utm_source=pocket-newtab "Chris Moody knows a thing or two about the universe. As an astrophysicist, he built galaxy simulations, using supercomputers to model the way the universe expands and how galaxies crash into one another. One night, not long after he’d finished his PhD at UC Santa Cruz, he met up with a few other astrophysicists for beers. But that night, no one was talking about galaxies. Instead, they were talking about fashion. A couple of Moody’s astrophysicist pals had recently left academia to work for Stitch Fix, the online personal styling company now valued at $2 billion. Moody gawked at them. “They were like, ‘You don’t think this is an interesting problem?’” he says. Indeed, he did not. But when his friends described the work they were doing—sprinkling in phrases like “Bayesian models” and “Poincaré space”—predicting what clothes someone might like started to sound eerily like the work he’d done during his PhD. Quantifying style, he discovered, “turns out to have really close analogues to how general relativity works.”

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So how do they calculate the rarity anyway? If this satellite has only been in place for a few years, and it already saw one example of this kind of event in one particular view direction, doesn't it make you question if the calculated rate of occurrence is way off the mark? Or do we have enough information about all star and black hole locations, trajectories and movement speeds to reliably make the kind of calculations that lead to the "rarity" prediction?

Somehow, this seemed like the appropriate thread for this little tidbit of space knowledge. From http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2018/08/23/farts-an-underappreciated-threat-to-astronauts/#.XY-w9FD_rUo "On Earth, farts are typically no big deal — smelly, harmless, and they quickly dissipate. But if you’re an astronaut, every fart is a ticking time bomb."

Want possible relief (I stress possible)? WebMD is a respected medical information web site, so this isn't a joke - - it's real: https://www.webmd.com/kidney-stones/news/20160928/kidney-stone-roller-coaster