So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.
That is awesome.
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Jesse - Mar 10, 2008 8:30:32 am PDT #4003 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:30:47 am PDT #4004 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Giant killer harmless robot to go into space tomorrow....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a "monstrous" two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off in the wee hours of Tuesday, less than three weeks after the last shuttle flight.
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With 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet and a height of 12 feet, the Canadian Space Agency's Dextre — short for dexterous and pronounced like Dexter — is more than a little intimidating, at least for astronaut Garrett Reisman.
"Now I wouldn't go as far to say that we're worried it's going to go run amok and take over the space station or turn evil or anything because we all know how it's operated and it doesn't have a lot of its own intelligence," Reisman told The Associated Press last week.
"But I'll tell you something ... He's enormous and to see him with his giant arms, it is a little scary. It's a little monstrous, it is."
Sue - Mar 10, 2008 8:32:13 am PDT #4005 of 10001
hip deep in pie
shrift - Mar 10, 2008 8:36:51 am PDT #4006 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am so bored. It is only 12:30.
Dana - Mar 10, 2008 8:37:24 am PDT #4007 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am so bored. It is only 12:30.
I KNOW. What the hell, march of time?
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:40:22 am PDT #4008 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Picture of Ginormous crater on Mars, with ice at the bottom: [link]
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Frankenbuddha - Mar 10, 2008 8:40:30 am PDT #4009 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts
Well, at least if he's a killer robot he'll only kill other killer robots.
shrift - Mar 10, 2008 8:41:02 am PDT #4010 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I KNOW. What the hell, march of time?
I HAVE DONE ALL MY WORK. I am faced with documentation to update, and I don't wanna. The internets are not dancing for my amusement.
megan walker - Mar 10, 2008 8:41:04 am PDT #4011 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I am so bored. It is only 12:30.
It could be worse. It could be only 10:30. Le sigh.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:42:36 am PDT #4012 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, we're all about to die: Binary 'deathstar' has Earth in its sights
SYDNEY: A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays – and Earth may be right in the line of fire.
Astronomers at the University of Sydney, in Australia, first discovered the unusual and beguilingly beautiful star system eight years ago in the Constellation Sagittarius. One member of the pair is a highly unstable star known as a Wolf-Rayet, thought to be the final stage of stellar evolution to precede a cataclysmic supernova explosion.
"When it finally explodes as a supernova, it could emit an intense beam of gamma rays coming our way", said Peter Tuthill, lead researcher of the team that report their findings in the current Astrophysical Journal.