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Watched Wilson at Wisconsin. No Badger fan was surprised that he walked into Pete Carroll's training camp as a rookie and took the starting job. As for his off-field, he's nothing short of an authentically good, intelligent, well-behaved human being. It was surprising how mature and composed he was off-field, even as a junior.

I don't really see anyone in this organization doing anything safely. And that's a 180 from two years ago.

Good, funny listen. That's what I love about our fans. We'll ###### talk with anyone for fun, especially the Patriots- and even team up with fans of teams we're playing against to ###### talk Patriots fans. And it goes right up to where it should: the hilarious blind dick-out trough-shove. And no farther. At the end of the day, everyone has a laugh and no one gets killed like it's Oakland. No one gets spit on like a Boston bar. Burr thinks he would get an auto ass beating in this scenario, but that just isn't the case. We'll laugh and get drunk with him after. Just like he's a Leaf fan. Agreed. I think EJ and Taylor show two very different looks, and that could make opposing defenses have to prepare that much more. Maybe Cassel's a good veteran backup/signal caller, but he's not the #1 going forward.

I remember when 1 USD was about 1.50 to 1.60 CAD. That was awesome. Take the train from NF, ONT to Toronto for like $9. Stay at a great hotel off of Yonge for like $40 a night. Go grocery shopping in Ft Erie for the of it. Get all the GST(?) back because we weren't Canadian citizens.

I think we're all on the same page about this. Best available defender that adds veterancy, buys some time for the kids,contributes on the powerplay, may help a playoff look, don't want more than a couple years, and we have the cap space. Chz, make the call to GMTM.

That was a good one. Am I an idiot for thinking about getting Madden 16 (for PS3) because the Bills actually have a roster now?

This try-to-launch-a-rocket-with-a-hurricane-coming business is pretty fun.

The takeaway from that article isn't that anyone's close to an economical commercial fusion plant, but rather that a decent number of small-to-medium scale experiments at private firms are taking on the challenges of magnetically confined fusion empirically with iterative and inexpensive approaches, despite lacking simulation and modeling capability to correlate their findings to theory. Also, I've met the only scientist in that article that doesn't have a stake in those companies. Still do be wary about science that goes right out to press instead of peer-reviewed journals.

Income Inequality was my favorite. "I know this game is rigged, but that's what's going to make it SO SWEET WHEN I WIN THIS THING!"

Argh. Might be right. I'll wait until the day they announce them, when there's hopefully some stock leftover.

Also, not sure why Adidas is forcing their brand, they already have established hockey branding in CCM and, cough, Reebok.

Also, now going to wait to buy jerseys.

Anything for a buck, those pricks.

I liked it. One of the last watchable space-related scifi horror films, excepting the enjoyable Prometheus. Other recent films, like Pandorum, don't quite hold up. FISHBURNE... IN... SPACE!

One of the best trades ever.

Not scientifical: I like to think of space time like a piece of paper, or better, a piece of saran wrap. It stretches a little when you put heavy things on it. Generally, you can only move around on the surface. But with enough energy, or something, you can fold it, and leap from one surface to another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6lDG-bP3zg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cehwiHIlho

Yeah, that's correct. The Milky Way Galaxy had a high rate of star production around 10 billion years ago; our sun is only 5 billion years old. Not sure this is the completely accurate. The Sun's definitely a late bloomer in our galaxy and its age was determined by nucleocosmochronology (word of the day), but I'm struggling to accept that it was because of an especially high content of heavy isotopes (the method examines Uranaium and Thorium concentrations, but doesn't necessitate that the concentrations are especially high). Due to the well-understood r-process and s-process, those higher concentrations of heavy elements usually appear in larger stars than the Sun (the Sun is a yellow dwarf, aka a G-type main sequence star).

Not really. None of those statements is really bulletproof, and the attempted logical extension that faster than light travel is impossible falls flat. There's similar arguments that say that time travel must be impossible, relying only on the argument that we haven't met a time traveler yet (despite some weak efforts). There's also logical similarity to Roko's Basilisk (warning: you may be tortured by an evil supercomputer). The uniqueness that is our form of intelligent species is a product of the physics of our temperature/energy domain, the exacting evolution of our local cosmos, the incredibly specific chemistry and resulting biochemistry of our planet, the hundreds of millions of years of species evolution, the thousand years of mathematical and scientific enlightenment, and the hundred years of aerospace endeavor. We're currently the only known species that has the intelligence, resources, and gravity conditions to attempt space flight and is also interested in attempting space flight. Even if we were being contacted or visited, we may not even know what we're looking for or at. Even reducing our search for intelligence to something comprehensible on our own spatial scale (>0.01mm to <10km) or looking for signs of existence or communication that we could even remotely begin to detect and understand could be limiting the search to narrowly. But there are a lot of planets and there has been and still is a lot of time. As for travel speeds, our current physics models show matter and energy as we know it topping out at light speeds. Is it possible to break beyond that? No, not without adjusting the model. And in all likelihood, we're talking about an incalculable amount of energy required to achieve this, without getting into wormholes and other space-time oddities. Does this kill the chances for interplanetary and interstellar human travel? Naw. Time dilation is probably the single biggest aid to us for long-distance travel. The faster the spacecraft goes, the "faster time goes" on the spacecraft. For instance, for constant acceleration and then deceleration at 1g, to reach the center of the galaxy (30,000 light years away), the time experienced on the spacecraft would only be 20 years. We would just need the energy to accelerate and decelerate a spacecraft like that.

I got you. Wiki is your friend on a lot of these sorts of topics, but some of the articles can be pretty thick and require a pretty good level of understanding. 1) Correct-ish. The metric by which we measure spacial distance in the universe, an inherent property of the universe, is expanding. Imagine a box, and in it is the universe with everything in it. Incorrect thinking: the universe was previously small and in the middle of the box, then it exploded, and it is still expanding to take up more space in the box. Correct thinking: when the box was made, the universe already took up the entirety of the box. In a manner of speaking, we sort of measure distances in space by how far they are in fractions-of-boxes. The distances we measure, because they rely on the size of the box, use a metric, which is an inherent property of the box. But we've figured out that those fractions-of-a-box are getting bigger because the box is getting bigger. And what you can't do is go outside the box and see what's there or how big the box is, because if you could, you'd still be inside the box. The physics models only describe what's in the box and how the box works, not what does not and cannot exist outside the box. 2) Correct. Instead of inventing an easy way to talk about this, I'll point you to Hawking, whom I think writes pretty accessibly about the subject: So, you can imagine what happens before the Big Bang, using our mental concept of time, but time doesn't really actually begin until our universe does, during the Big Bang. A fun aside: particle colliders, like the Large Hadron Collider, make physics conditions of extremely high energies/temperatures. The conditions are similar to the conditions that existed in the universe shortly after the Big Bang, as the universe cooled quickly. By using colliders, we probe the physics of the Big Bang and learn about what types of particles and radiation existed back then. The LHC has been able to make temperatures of ~10^17 degrees Kelvin (13TeV), which corresponds to the temperature that the universe was ~10^-14 seconds after the Big Bang (I could be off by a few orders of magnitude). The higher in energy we go, the closer to the Big Bang we get to look. And there's still a lot we don't know, like what dark energy and dark matter are and what it's up to or when and how it's all going to end.

Taylor is FAST. I know this is as advertised, but it seems to give offensive formations another dimension.

Rex Ryan Offers Roster Spot to Anyone who Punches Bill Belichick in the Dick https://medium.com/sportspickle/rex-ryan-offers-roster-spot-to-anyone-who-punches-bill-belichick-in-the-dick-e1661ff6c33d

Something something bullies.

This is to replace the Sabres' participation in the Traverse City Tournament. HarborCenter: we do it our damn selves.