December 2011
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Google.
The following phrase should be banned from all software/server administration forums
Nevermind I fixed it.
“There are things one loses in giving up God, and they are not insignificant....”
– Good Minus God: The Moral Atheist - NYTimes.com (via morefunthanbeingsad)
Something I have thought so long but unable to put so eloquently.
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Dinosaurs.
My wife asked me “what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur” and while I fumbled around for an answer, it really comes down to a couple of things.
We often think of dinosaurs as giant reptiles. But this isn’t always the case, there were transitional fish, birds and other vertebrates that make up the taxonomy of dinosaurs.
My wife asked “But why isn’t a turtle a...
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Earth Sized Planets.
Kepler’s recently discovered several Earth sized planets, here is an artist’s rendering of their comparable sizes:
Nasa
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Astrology.
If astrologers really want to impress astronomers they need to start factoring in reltavistic effects.
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Waste your time watch some Lava. →
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Time.
Almost 30 years ago Cheers was on the air for the first time. 30 years before that Apollo 16 was launched.
Phobos.
The orbital period of Phobos is 7.66 hours, so you could measure working shifts by its passing.
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Mercury
Mercury’s surface is hot enough to boil your blood at 354 Degrees Fahrenheit but it’s still not warm enough to burn a book according to Bradbury!
Mars.
In order to reach Mars using nothing but Eiffel towers, you would need to build 576.3 million of them.
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The sun.
If you drove highway speed (70mph) to the sun from earth, it would take 54458 days to reach it. Talk about a road trip!
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Adele.
Adele is such a whiner.
Another talk about the Futurama Theorem →
dcernst:
On December 7, 2011, I gave my second talk about the Futurama Theorem during the Plymouth State University Mathematics Seminar. The Futurama Theorem is a theorem about the symmetric group that was developed for and proved in the episode “The Prisoner of Benda” for the TV show Futurama. The theorem was proved by show writer Ken Keeler, who has a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard.
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Rick Perry.
Rick Perry reminds me of an SNL character.
Anonymous asked: Hi. I saw you reblogged the picture of me after the marathon... do I know you? Can I ask why?
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