2/3 bottle champagne, 2/3 bottle wine, about eight pints.

It's Mothers' day, goddamnit.

A better response by me would have been that you have bit of brian stuck in your head.

Note: That's such a great mispelling that it doesnt really count

What kind of joke did the comedian tell within the domicile?

An inside joke.

If I had a nickel for every time someone misspelled my name on a document, I'd have probably have enough nickels to really slow down the line at the grocery store cashier station.

I blame the Japs. The Irish are too stupid.

Presbyterian Irish are ok

There is one less Stephen Hawking in the world. He died quietly.

Yeah, I just saw that. He fell quietly into a black hole and was not afraid.


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In 1974, Hawking shocked the physics world by showing that black holes should in fact thermally create and emit sub-atomic particles, known today as Hawking radiation, until they exhaust their energy and evaporate completely. According to this theory, black holes are not completely black, and neither do they last forever.







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Hawking showed how the strong gravitational field around a black hole can affect the production of matching pairs of particles and anti-particles, as is happening all the time in apparently empty space according to quantum theory. If the particles are created just outside the event horizon of a black hole, then it is possible that the positive member of the pair (say, an electron) may escape - observed as thermal radiation emitting from the black hole - while the negative particle (say, a positron, with its negative energy and negative mass) may fall back into the black hole, and in this way the black hole would gradually lose mass. This was perhaps one of the first ever examples of a theory which synthesized, at least to some extent, quantum mechanics and general relativity.

A corollary of this, though, is the so-called “Information Paradox” or “Hawking Paradox”, whereby physical information (which roughly means the distinct identity and properties of particles going into a black hole) appears to be completely lost to the universe, in contravention of the accepted laws of physics (sometimes referred to as the "law of conservation of information"). Hawking vigorously defended this paradox against the arguments of Leonard Susskind and others for almost thirty years, until he famously retracted his claim in 2004, effectively conceding defeat to Susskind in what had become known as the "black hole war". Hawking's latest line of reasoning is that the information is in fact conserved, although perhaps not in our observable universe but in other parallel universes in the multiverse as a whole.

Unfortunately, Susskind's proposed solution is even more difficult, and almost impossible to envisage or explain in an understandable way. He suggests that, as an object falls into a black hole, a copy of the information that makes it up is sort of scrambled and smeared in two dimensions around the edge of the black hole. Furthermore, Susskind believes that a similar process occurs in the universe as a whole, which raises the rather alarming idea that what we think of as three-dimensional reality is in fact something like a holographic representation of a "real" reality, which is actually contained in two dimensions around the edge of the universe.

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True. Have one on me.

There is probably a "do not go quietly into the night" joke available here.

They should have chanted: Rain Beer, Rain Beer, Rain Beer..................

Blindboy on otters, termites, imperialism, Carravagio, and Monet/impressionism accompanied by Jazz Piano.
https://www.acast.com/blindboy/cossacksfrock

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is worth it for episode 10 by itself. High art.

Possibly the best video ever made:

I beg to disagree.

First thing I thought of:

I'm planning to proclaim that I am an expert at freedom. All challengers who want to dare me to a contest of freedom I grant are free to do so.

I find it very similar to this:

I Love New York........

Cognitive musings:

If you never notice getting lucky all you'll ever get is bad luck.

Those who take everything for granted do nothing but complain.


PairTheBoard

The most difficult part of any decent employment is getting out of the home! It's all fun and games after this happens. Tell me it's not like that actually deep down!

The spark.

That potential and eternal* chain reaction that is older than life itself.

Where can I learn about the spark?

Thanks.

*as far as my life is concerned unless someone invents "Fire9."

So, this is how people kill themselves in the UK?

Man Dies After Trapping Head In Seat Of UK Movie Theater, Vue Launches Investigation:

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It's Friday - why aren't you drunk?