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Comment Even those that believe in Tau are sad (Score 1) 56

As someone who believes in Tau (see the Tau Manifesto here: https://tauday.com/tau-manifes... ), I still want to thank Larry Shaw. I've eaten many good American pies because of him.

Tau day has never quite gotten the commercial backing that Pi day has. I blame Hallmark https://www.hallmarkecards.com... . Damn Pagans!

Comment Tomato juice pro tip! (Score 4, Interesting) 264

For those that didn't RTFA, it seems tomato juice tastes much better on a plane. I fly a lot and can say almost every airline also carries spicy tomato juice for bloody marys too.

My wife just asked me the other day why I always get tomato juice on a plane but not at home. Thank goodness for slashdot in helping me become more self-aware.

Comment Re:Are you trying to tell me... (Score 1) 164

I believe if you're going to take down religions you have to do so in order.
After you defeat Scientology you get to fight Mormonism. Then Protestant Christianity, then Islam, then Catholicism, then Confucianism, then Buddhism, then Judaism, then Hinduism. And then you get to the good part! You have to fight Bahamut, Gilgamesh, Ra, _and_ Tiamat. And only after you've beaten those four do you get to fight Cthulhu.

Mostly academic. While getting past the "Dude" might not be too hard (but that is just my opinion), no one makes it past the flying spaghetti monster and his noodly armaments.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Who Is Behind The "This One Weird Trick" Scam Ads On The Internet?

dryriver writes: Everybody who uses the Intertubes has seen these ads a thousand times — its always "one weird trick", "one simple trick" or similar that promises everything from curing diabetes, tinnitus and herpes at home, to reducing your belly fat, overcoming erectile dysfunction, stopping your hair loss or overcoming insomnia and jet lag. There is even a "super secret video" circulating online that "may be taken down any minute" claiming that a brilliant Jewish Doctor found a very simple cure for cancer in Nazi Germany, and that the cure was then "covered up" after WWII ended. What is the miracle cancer cure in question? According to the video, taking Hydrogen Peroxide orally in increasing doses gets rid of all types of cancer within a few weeks, and they are selling a printed guide that tells you exactly how much HP you should take. Question: Who puts this deceptive crap online in the first place, why do thousands of websites agree to carry these ads, and why isn't there some kind of government or regulatory authority that orders these ads taken down, because they don't deliver what they promise?

Submission + - We are the first, the only and thus the last (sciencedaily.com)

wisebabo writes: In this Science Daily article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/r... "Where is everybody? The Implications of Cosmic Silence", the retired astrophysicist Daniel Whitmire explains that using the principle of mediocracy (a statistical notion that says, in the absence of more data, that your one data point is likely to be "average"), that not only are we the first intelligent life on earth but that we will likely be the ONLY (and thus the last) intelligent life on this planet. (Please look at the article for details of his argument)

Unfortunately that isn't the worst of it

What this means, is that coupled with the "Great Silence", it implies that the reason we haven't heard from anyone is that intelligent life, when it happens anywhere else in the universe, doesn't last and when it does it flames out quickly and takes the biosphere with it (preventing any other intelligent life from reappearing. Sorry dolphins!). While this is depressing in a very deep sense both cosmically (no Star Trek/Wars/Valerian universes filled with alien civilizations) and locally (we're going to wipe ourselves out, and soon) it is perhaps understandable given our current progress towards reproducing the conditions of the greatest extinction event in earth's history: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

So not only are we the first, only and last intelligent organisms on earth but intelligent life when it occurs in the universe will be short lived, will happen just once, and will thus will be utterly isolated (separated from any possible equals by the gulfs of cosmic space and time).

Just thought you'd enjoy some cheery thoughts for a relaxing Sunday

Submission + - New Horizons to visit an object not discovered until after it was launched (telegraph.co.uk)

mi writes: New Horizons, which captured incredible images of Pluto in July 2015, was powered down in April to conserve energy as it traveled through the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy debris which encircles the Sun and planets, also known as The Third Zone.

On September 11, the spacecraft will awaken for its 16 month journey to MU69, an ancient object which is thought to be one of the early building blocks of the Solar System.

The space rock had not even been discovered when the craft launched in 2006 and the flyby will be the most distant in the history of space exploration, a billion miles beyond Pluto, and four billion miles from Earth.

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