OT - I'm bored, Part 2!

[KillerVee]

Is that a joke at the expense of marriage and sex, or a legitimate question? I would put the question mark face up, but I can't find any of the smilies anymore.

It was a legitimate question.

I don't make jokes.

 

[Darkstone42]

Cool graphic, DS. I'm kind of obsessed with the theory of black holes. The entire idea to me is fascinating.

Black holes always fascinated me, too. It's just incredible that anything that can have a gravitational pull strong enough to keep light from escaping. There's just so much mass in so little volume.

When you think of it from the perspective of the speed of light being 3 X 10^8 m/s and the gravitational constant being 6.67 X 10^-12 m^3/(kg s^2), and then think about how incredible massive, and yet how incredible small, and thus how incredibly dense these things have to be mathematically, it really becomes hard to grasp conceptually. It's just so astonishing.

 

[KillerVee]

Did you know WD-40 has many uses other than lubrication? It can be utilized as a strong underarm antiperspirant, and a cheap alternative to Visine!

Did you know....that you're all beginning to remind me of Rain Man?

 

[Eddie_Shack]

It was a legitimate question.

I don't make jokes.

Good, I hate jokes. I'm getting married this summer (after hockey season is over).

 

[Darkstone42]

I have. Was a while back, however.

Do you remember the funny laws questions? You can do so much with those. If I can't think of anything, I usually go with "...have your dog hump the leg of a man with a profound mustache." I don't win the round, but at least I get some laughs out of it.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Black holes always fascinated me, too. It's just incredible that anything that can have a gravitational pull strong enough to keep light from escaping. There's just so much mass in so little volume.

When you think of it from the perspective of the speed of light being 3 X 10^8 m/s and the gravitational constant being 6.67 X 10^-12 m^3/(kg s^2), and then think about how incredible massive, and yet how incredible small, and thus how incredibly dense these things have to be mathematically, it really becomes hard to grasp conceptually. It's just so astonishing.

The fact that we know just enough about black holes to know they exist, without having any sort of "real" definitive information about them is pretty cool too. The unknown is awesome.

I'm also very interested by what might be going on in the darkest depths of the ocean. We've spent a relatively small amount of time and money investigating that part of our planet.

 

[Darkstone42]

Did you know....that you're all beginning to remind me of Rain Man?

Knowledge is power.

Final Jeopardy from today. If you watched it, you can't answer.

"This author journaled that one day he set groups of boys against each other. This may have been an inspiration for his 1954 novel."

I knew what the book was, but I couldn't for the life of me remember the author. I facepalmed when I heard the answer.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Did you know that in the event of a grizzly bear attack, you can subdue even the most vicious and rabid of bears by an aggressive and well placed tummy tickle?

 

[Destroydacre]

The fact that we know just enough about black holes to know they exist, without having any sort of "real" definitive information about them is pretty cool too. The unknown is awesome.

I'm also very interested by what might be going on in the darkest depths of the ocean. We've spent a relatively small amount of time and money investigating that part of our planet.

Kind of makes me wish I was born 200 years in the future. Just to see how many more things we'd have learned through science.

Of course I can't complain too much. Born 200 years ago and the only way to get ice would be to go to the mountain and bring it back.

 

[IPostedWhat]

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Knowledge is power.

Final Jeopardy from today. If you watched it, you can't answer.

"This author journaled that one day he set groups of boys against each other. This may have been an inspiration for his 1954 novel."

I knew what the book was, but I couldn't for the life of me remember the author. I facepalmed when I heard the answer.

Dumb question, but is it William Golding?

 

[Darkstone42]

The fact that we know just enough about black holes to know they exist, without having any sort of "real" definitive information about them is pretty cool too. The unknown is awesome.

I'm also very interested by what might be going on in the darkest depths of the ocean. We've spent a relatively small amount of time and money investigating that part of our planet.

It may not live in the deepest depths (though it does live pretty deep), but there is a jellyfish that can return at any point to its polyp stage. That would be the equivalent of us returning to a prepubescent state. The transition, though, makes the jellyfish essentially immortal since it can literally reset its lifespan. If it doesn't get eaten or stricken with disease, it will literally live forever.

How cool is that?

 

[KillerVee]

Knowledge is power.

Final Jeopardy from today. If you watched it, you can't answer.

"This author journaled that one day he set groups of boys against each other. This may have been an inspiration for his 1954 novel."

I knew what the book was, but I couldn't for the life of me remember the author. I facepalmed when I heard the answer.

William Golding.

 

[Darkstone42]

Dumb question, but is it William Golding?

Correct question. You'll get rep when I can, sir.

 

[Destroydacre]

Dumb question, but is it William Golding?

I had to read Lord of the Flies in high school. Terrible book.

 

[Darkstone42]

William Golding.

Eddie beat you to it, but not by much. When I have rep again to give, you'll both get some.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Kind of makes me wish I was born 200 years in the future. Just to see how many more things we'd have learned through science.

Of course I can't complain too much. Born 200 years ago and the only way to get ice would be to go to the mountain and bring it back.

I think now is the time to live. 200 years ago if we wanted ice we'd have to go to the mountain and bring it back, 200 years in the future and our robot overlords will be forcing us to work in the diamond mines.

 

[IPostedWhat]

Is the answer, "I just looked it up on Google?"

 

[KillerVee]

Hmmmmm. A boy just texted me and wants to hang out now. I don't like him nearly as much as he likes me but I am really bored tonight because both my roommates are gone and it's raining so I didn't go out. Say yes or say no...

 

[Darkstone42]

I had to read Lord of the Flies in high school. Terrible book.

It almost didn't get published. The outside editor the publishing company hired to preview manuscripts before they were considered for publishing wrote a note on it, "Some nonsense about kids on an island, don't waste your time." The publisher, though, ignored the note and loved it, so he printed it.