msbelle, I'm going to put your aprons and gloves in the mail this week. Thanks again for lending them to me!
Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Nov 19, 2005 7:38:54 am PST #5495 of 10006
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jessica - Nov 19, 2005 7:42:53 am PST #5496 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Are we in a vortex of space-time?
We'll soon know the answer: A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, which will take another year to analyze, should reveal the shape of space-time around Earth--and, possibly, the vortex.
Time and space, according to Einstein's theories of relativity, are woven together, forming a four-dimensional fabric called "space-time." The tremendous mass of Earth dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline. Gravity, says Einstein, is simply the motion of objects following the curvaceous lines of the dimple.
If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. But Earth is not stationary. Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple, slightly, pulling it around into a 4-dimensional swirl. This is what GP-B went to space to check.
msbelle - Nov 19, 2005 8:00:48 am PST #5497 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Steph, no problem, happy to help out.
Theodosia - Nov 19, 2005 8:11:00 am PST #5498 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm bored. Somebody help me!
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 19, 2005 8:12:19 am PST #5499 of 10006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday DX!
Not sure I see why the fabric of spacetime should "swirl" - the trampoline thing is just a metaphor, there's not actually anything material to have friction-bearing contact with particular parts of the earth's surface. I would think since it's a basically spherical object, it would have the same effect on spacetime no matter how it's rotating. (Well, as long as it's not rotating fast enough to fling significant masses away into space, anyway...)
Cashmere - Nov 19, 2005 8:35:12 am PST #5500 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.
Don't mean to depersonalize it, but sometimes I am struck by the wonder that is the internets
Me, too.
I'm also struck by the fact that Perkins has a cat that is NILLY-SIZED! Or is it that Nilly is cat-sized?
Perkins, which cat weighs as much as Owen does?
JenP - Nov 19, 2005 8:45:07 am PST #5501 of 10006
Happy Birthday, DX!!
Miracleman - Nov 19, 2005 8:57:46 am PST #5502 of 10006
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I'm bored. Somebody help me!
How can you be bored? WE MAY BE IN A SPACE-TIME VORTEX!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO YOU HAVE NO CONCEPT OF FEAR?!
Or, you know...could be a perfectly natural phenomenon. Like...celery.
erikaj - Nov 19, 2005 9:10:55 am PST #5503 of 10006
Always Anti-fascist!
Is that anything like that place close to Tombstone that gets no cel service? Mom's BFF calls it the "Tombstone vortex" Happy DX Birthday!
Lee - Nov 19, 2005 9:29:57 am PST #5504 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I have JZ and Maidengurl Yay me! They are even being nice about the state of my apartment, which did not get vacuumed due to the change of plans.
Nilly, that is actually Perkins the cat.