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How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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Xeno points: +5 - Asperger rating: 36 - Paranoid Schizophrenic rating: 44%
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"If the intelligence of these creatures were sufficiently superior to ours, they might choose to have little, if any, contact with us."
Brookings Institution report on extraterrestrial life. Quoted in New York Times, December 15, 1960.
Now then - dont take this personally Folks !Comment
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Except to say, "Will you children turn the noise down? You are pumping out your rubbish up and down the whole EM spectrum. We can hear you for a hundred lightyears all around. SHUT UP!Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post"If the intelligence of these creatures were sufficiently superior to ours, they might choose to have little, if any, contact with us."
Brookings Institution report on extraterrestrial life. Quoted in New York Times, December 15, 1960.
Now then - dont take this personally Folks !
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How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn Profile - The HAB blog - New Blog: Mad Cameron
Xeno points: +5 - Asperger rating: 36 - Paranoid Schizophrenic rating: 44%
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office" - AesopComment
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Brilliant!Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostExcept to say, "Will you children turn the noise down? You are pumping out your rubbish up and down the whole EM spectrum. We can hear you for a hundred lightyears all around. SHUT UP!
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Vacuum ?Originally posted by minestrone View PostSpace is a vacuum, so the dynamics of air don't matter.
Wot - no Dark Matter ?
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~1 atom of hydrogen per cubic centimetre...Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View PostVacuum ?
Wot - no Dark Matter ?
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That's loads...Originally posted by Churchill View Post~1 atom of hydrogen per cubic centimetre..."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Not to mention the odd bit of CMB - you know the old Cosmic Microwave BackGround Radiation - old as the hills that is.
Much older - about 14.5 Billion years or so -sorry if youre the non-Gaussianity type.
Time- is not what you think it is.Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 7 May 2009, 11:02.Comment
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Not necessarily.Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostI'd go for LIGHT.
It's about the fastest thing available
Morrison's are selling "High velocity torches". It was a straightforward torch with an on/off button and nothing else.
So it must be the light coming from it that is "High velocity". Better than your rubbish "Low velocity" light.If you read the best 3 books in any subject, you'll be in the top 5% of experts in the world.Comment
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