Hi there Hi there, thanks for the incredibly large low-rez picture of a gorge cut by a river.

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

On the comet, the mighty comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.
On the comet, the quiet comet,
the lander sleeps tonight.

woo-oo-OO-oo..

Truth.

"You know, when the complexity of a problem is growing exponential, even if you could use all the energy in the universe you will not able to solve it. That is the point."

I believe that I read that before the end of classical physics, things were getting very complicated. It took various theories--electo-magnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc--to make sense of the experiments that were being done at the end of that era.

Similarly, we're now trying to resolve relativity vs. quantum mechanics. I believe that the complexity that we have now is due to the fact that we have to reconcile two theories that don't match "reality", and today's experiments have complex results, and when the answer to life, the universe and everything is found, and a new unified theory supersedes modern physics, a lot of the theoretical complexity will go away.

I expect it to be less than two centuries for that to happen.

Interesting. Of course, the people who actually run the county will then "fire" the sheriff due to all the fedmoney drying up. Greed crosses all boundaries.

You want to test someone for STD's for a job?

Security by obscurity?

I thought of this too, but couldn't remember who wrote it. I remember reading one of the series he did on slow glass waybackwhen. It definitely caught my imagination then. Good stuff.

Too bad no-one's come up with a way to account for deviant numbers.

"A plan to try is to go to bed at least 8 1/2 hours before the time your alarm is set"

'Tis a good plan. Tends not to work for people with a shifted diurnal pattern.

Obama is now Nixon? The man's rep is growing to mythical proportions.

If you're not zapped by the primary blast of radiation, the next thing to defend against is inhaling radioactive dust. While skin can provide some defense against radiation, the lungs have no defenses at all. "Hunker down until the dust settles" is a good defense. If I remember my old training correctly, it should be relatively safe to come out after 7 days.

They explored unknown flight envelopes.

"We're Gonna Be In the Hudson"

"People want space flight because space flight is sciencey. They'll talk about colonizing Mars and saving ourselves from extinction, but that's really fancy talk. They want to live in Star Trek, end of story."

Hell yeah. Wouldn't need your "socialized medical research institute" in that case.