Chile quake = shorter days
Huh. That'll make the moon move away from Earth faster.
But in the long term, the trend is for days to get longer. A long long long long time ago, a day was about 8 hours, and the moon was huge (cuz it was much closer).
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Mar 02, 2010 5:19:07 am PST #12498 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.
msbelle - Mar 02, 2010 5:23:52 am PST #12499 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The End times are near(er).
tommyrot - Mar 02, 2010 5:26:13 am PST #12500 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.
Petition to make "Hella" the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Carl sez, "A petition to make Hella- the official SI prefix for 10^27, for measuring things bigger than Yotta- (the prefix for (US) billion trillion). For instance: 'the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy at 0.3 hellawatts.' It would also come in handy for eventually measuring Internet traffic and US national debt."
msbelle - Mar 02, 2010 5:36:42 am PST #12501 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Color for my new livingroom, I think, Deep Ocean. This pleases me.
The seller has not gotten back to us after we submitted our request for items post inspection. This does not please me.
Gudanov - Mar 02, 2010 5:41:42 am PST #12502 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Mar 02, 2010 5:45:38 am PST #12503 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.
That's what's the matter with Kansas.
Trudy Booth - Mar 02, 2010 6:06:39 am PST #12504 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Google? It's no ToPicachu.
Dana - Mar 02, 2010 6:10:16 am PST #12505 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
IT upgraded Firefox this morning, and now my Back button and Refresh button no longer work.
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2010 6:13:23 am PST #12506 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tech support guy over the cubicle wall is roaring loud this morning. He's on a mission to get people to not convert to Macs, but to go to Linux instead. Despite the fact that neither OS works with the system he supports. He just figures if you're going to go off-ranch, you should go open source instead. Because all Linux software is free.
Which is kinda not true, but there you go. I do wish he didn't project so.
msbelle - Mar 02, 2010 6:13:34 am PST #12507 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
we are still only allowed IE6 and sites are starting to not work. ridic.