Yeah, after thinking about it for a while I did exactly that. Came back to post about it, and found your post.

One map showed the 100th meridian as the divide between who gets 20"/year and who doesn't.

Interesting that they both show a sharp verticle divide right down the center of the country. When I first saw it on the light pollution maps it was so sharp that I wondered whether it was a time-of-photo artifact.

1) Buy movie rights.
2) Make movie.
3) Air in paid informercial time slot.
4) (TBD)
5) Profit!

Makes you wonder it the whole thing was just a scam to get at her estate all along.

In other news, the production companies are merging under the name "Streisand Corp, LLC".

HR wants 10 years experience in something that was invented 5 years ago.

If you have bigger-picture skills, you might be tempted to think for yourself.

I know better. After a bit of strong drink I get +2 STR, +6 INT, +9 WIS, +2 DEX, +5 CON, and +8 CHA - and the effects last *exactly* until I sober up.

What actually matters isn't the fidelity of the sound, but the self-satisfaction you feel when you listen to it.

I've always been inclined to dismiss the existence of infinities outside of mathematics, but it's starting to look like the universe might be infinite in extent, and probably is infinite in the forward direction of time, so I'm starting to entertain the possibilities.

Though the idea of a universe infinite in extent arising from a point or a very small space is kind of hard to wrap your head around.

Actually, if you assume that expansion plays backwards with no change in rate you pass through a point and then into negative size. Probably we should not assume that expansion can be extrapolated backwards past some point, which could as easily be a non-singularity as a singularity.

1) Some creationists claim that the big bang proves scripture is true.

2) Some creationists claim that the bag bang cannot be true, because it contradicts scripture.

3) You're the first person I've ever heard to claim that the big crunch matches scripture, and frankly I don't see where you pulled that from.

Conclusion: Scripture means whatever you want it to mean.

Also, do you know of any scientist other than Hoyle who tried to dismiss the big bang as religion? Hoyle, who was still pushing his steady state theory a generation after everyone else recognized that the evidence pointed to a big bang, and coined the term 'big bang' to denigrate the competition to his own precious theory?

Finally, I'm not sure how this qualifies as "going back to the old model", since there's still a big bang. It just doesn't start with a singularity in this proposed model. Scientists have asked about "before the big bang" for decades. In fact, they now seem to associating 'the big bang' with the beginning of the inflationary era, if I understand what I read correctly.

An AI to add a laugh track to the Simpsons so you'll know when there has been a joke.

And red-state conservatives don't smoke pot?

Actually, I think physicists have speculated that gravity is the weakest force because some of it leaks out of our brane. Stands to reason that some would leak in from other branes to. Mutual attraction means matter clumps up "in the same place" on nearby branes. Dark matter is dark because only its gravitation leaks in; other forces and interactions are constrained to its own universe.

The amount of dark matter - or rather, the amount of gravitational energy leaking in - might tell us how many branes we are "adjacent to" in the bigger scheme of things.

They need to update gunboat diplomacy to railgunboat diplomacy.

Sharks can easily swim around either.

I want new toys, not more of the same old crap you used to give me.

And a pony. With railguns on its head..