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Ankhani Wrote:It would also promptly and violently collapse into a black hole. "This equation comes up a lot in What If calculations. I like it both because it says something fundamental about our ability to explore the universe, and because you can use it to get really good at Kerbal Space Program."
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Article text: "In other words, every 1977 Plymouth Voyager van has traveled farther than Voyager 1." Immediately-following image ALT text: "And more people have had sex in Plymouth Voyagers than Voyager spacecraft, unless NASA JPL is a wilder place than I thought."
(With a close second to "Normally I don't give up like this, but if I had a way to estimate exactly how fast and for how long the labs in different countries have been spinning their uranium enrichment centrifuges, I would probably not be blogging about it here.")
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"Hi, International Atomic Energy Agency? I was doing some research for my blog, and I think I can tell you how far along North Korea's nuclear program is.
"Also, in case you're interested, I learned a bunch of neat stuff about dinosaurs!"
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" Your radar gun would also vaporize the car. This is a problem, in one sense, but it's also a solution."
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"I thought our plan had unlimited snowflake levitation."
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Firvulag Wrote:"The publisher had some issues with my proposal to print an antimatter edition." "If I take into account the error bars, all I can say is that the number of books I'm announcing today is somewhere between 0.6 and 1.8."
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"How's farming?" "Not great, my fields are buried under three feet of Diet Coke." "That sucks." "Could be worse. The guy to the west of me got Tab."
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"The word 'good' implies that you have some kind of goal you're working toward, which—given how strange the thing you're doing is—I'm not sure about."- or -"SUN (do not eat)"
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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"'Some interesting physical effects would destroy it' summarizes the answers to a large percentage of the questions submitted to this blog."
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"This brings us around to a key question:
Who the hell has tungsten countertops?"
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ALT text: " Felix Baumgartner jumped from one of the lowest branches."
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" That's about 4000 millibars, if you measure your plumbing with an old barometer."
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[W]ould be scoured clean... ...by moonlight.
My second choice being "Good night, Nightvale, good night."
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"This is due to several effects, including centrifugal force, the flattened shape of the Earth, and the fact that if you go far enough toward the pole in North America people start offering you poutine."
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"You wouldn't die instantly—you might survive for a few milliseconds"
"In the first few seconds, the expansion would shatter the crust into spinning fragments and kill just about everyone on the planet, but that's relatively peaceful compared to what would happen next."
Yeah, this is a typical "What If?"
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I think it's time someone wrote in and asked what would happen if everyone in the world just sat quietly in a room for an hour, all at the same time. Just to see how that would destroy civilization, the planet, and all nearby solar systems...
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Everybody in "a" room? Well, the room would be the size of Rhode Island...
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" Wait. Are you the cop with the radar gun from earlier? Maybe I'll just pay the ticket."
"That's a pretty simple way to expel material at 6 km/s. I wonder if anyone's ever tried to come up with a spacecraft propulsion system using it ..."
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Alt Text: "To the Dynamical Modeling System, Batman!"
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I'd love to hear Keira's reaction to that. Especially the last pic and its mouseover text.
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ALT text: "Starting to worry this might not get approval from the zoning board."
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"Assume a spherical pyramid in a vacuum ..."
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...and now I know of The Berg, thanks to that question. I feel immeasurably enriched...
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