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'The Message'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


-t - Dec 29, 2009 8:26:32 am PST #27855 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

perhaps I wasn't crazy when I thought they were noticeably low on the ride here.

Probably not crazy - my brother's and parents' cars tell them when it's particularly cold out (under 30F? I forget) expressly so they can check their tire pressure.


tommyrot - Dec 29, 2009 8:26:36 am PST #27856 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If someone were contemplating a trip that involved Montréal, Québec, northern VT, and Acadia National Park in Maine and was thinking of adding Nova Scotia to the mix, what would that involve logistically--would one have to drive around via Moncton, or are there ferries that crossover from ME or St John?

Is this person a traveling salesman?


Hil R. - Dec 29, 2009 8:27:20 am PST #27857 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

There are ferries from Maine to Nova Scotia.


Kathy A - Dec 29, 2009 8:27:53 am PST #27858 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Back in 1982, my family and I took a ferry from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, NS. The trip was terrific, but I wished we could have spent more time in NS--we only drove around the western half of the island for about 24 hours all told before we got back on the ferry and headed back to Maine.

I'm pretty sure that ferry is still in operation.


Hil R. - Dec 29, 2009 8:28:40 am PST #27859 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My mother adds that the "cruise ship" ferry called Prince of Fundy is awful. There's something called The Cat that's faster and she says it's better.


Lee - Dec 29, 2009 8:28:48 am PST #27860 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm pretty sure that ferry is still in operation

It is! [link]


Sue - Dec 29, 2009 8:30:05 am PST #27861 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Well, megan, that's actually a timely question. There's a ferry that goes from Portland, ME to Yarmouth NS, but it's been losing money for years and depending on gov't subsidies. The provincial gov't just cut them off, but they are waiting to hear if they will get some federal funding to keep them going. The same company also has a Saint John NB, to Digby, NS ferry.

[link]

The short answer is there may be a ferry. Also, think the Maine-NS ferry is seasonal, and only runs during tourist season.

ETA: Because I really do know my megan's from my msbelle's.


Tom Scola - Dec 29, 2009 8:30:25 am PST #27862 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

There's a ferry between Bar Harbour, near Acadia, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia:

[link]


megan walker - Dec 29, 2009 8:30:43 am PST #27863 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Awesome. Thanks, not-Sues!

ETA: And Sue!


tommyrot - Dec 29, 2009 8:38:33 am PST #27864 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. Possible evidence for another universe: Is the "Great Void" One-Billion Light Years Across the Imprint of Another Universe or a Statistical Error?

In 2004 astronomers found an enormous hole in the southern hemisphere of the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." This was a startling finding, since accepted models of the early universe say that the big bang created an initially uniform cosmic landscape, when viewed on large scales. While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this discovery dwarfed them all. This "nothing" is an enormous hole in the cosmos that defies standard cosmology and might just be the imprint of another universe bumping against our own while some astronomers suggested the spot could be a supervoid, a remnant of an early phase transition in the universe.

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Meanwhile, Laura Mersini-Houghton of the University of North Carolina theorizes is that it could be the imprint of another universe beyond our own, caused by quantum entanglement between universes before they were separated by cosmic inflation. Laura Mersini-Houghton said, "Standard cosmology cannot explain such a giant cosmic hole" and made the remarkable hypothesis that the WMAP cold spot is "… the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own."

I wonder if everyone in that universe wears a goatee...

(Hey, I had to make that joke. Or someone else would have.)