Popular Giant Star Shrinks Mysteriously
In 1993, measurements put Betelgeuse's radius at about 5.5 astronomical units (AU), where one AU equals the average Earth-sun distance of 93 million miles, or about 150 million km. Since then it has shrunk in size by 15 percent. That means the star's radius has contracted by a distance equal to the orbit of Venus.
How could the bandwidth for a podcast of This American Life cost $120,000? Couldn't they just have Itunes host it?
Whoa thunderstorm. With hail. Cooled things nicely off, if making the power a little flickery. Now that the rain isn't going sideways, have all the windows open.
The bathroom is really noisy in a hailstorm.
Unfortunate phrasing on the radio: "Springer was allegedly killed in Iraq by someone..."
Surely he was actually killed. It may be a point of allegation as to who did it, but death of soldiers is pretty well into the factual realm.
Timelies all!
Am quite tired of rain and thunderstorms.(Got woken up this working by thunder, followed soon after by Nova meeping at the door)
Environment Maryland came around canvassing. Which is really funny because one of my neighbors works for them.
Stupid old apartment hasn't returned the 3 calls I made to find out what the hell is going on with my last check.
Surely he was actually killed. It may be a point of allegation as to who did it, but death of soldiers is pretty well into the factual realm.
That always irks me. "The alleged killer..." Yeah, NSM. Maybe it was allegedly John Doe, but there was an actual killer.
"The alleged killer" doesn't ping, because it's being alleged that Doe is the one. "Allegedly killed", though... nrrghg.