Useless information thread

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by Rock Strongo

Footnote, my father actually punched a guy from customs once, but was acquitted because the guy had behaved in a racist way.

I am sorry that your father had to deal with some ignorant and idiotic Swedish customs officer, but I am glad that he found justice.

[Mike Bulgakov]

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by Mike Bulgakov

Imagine that... A Mitt getting mooned in San Francisco! Go Giants...game 7 tonight! Never give up!

[Rock Strongo]

Chill-out music, waiting to enter the kitchen of the world's most beautifully located restaurant for school work, then more culinary education the following three days. I love Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays as much as I love food.

[Sentinel]

I live on a planet which has 4 Suns. Two of them are binary, and we orbit them. The binaries go around with these other two stars that are further away. Sometimes we are between the stars, sometimes we have all four in the sky.

"Days" can be of various colors, and it's rarely dark. We aren't the only planet, there are other siblings, and the orbits are really freaked out and unpredictable. Some planets revolve only around one system, but distant ones can switch and don't have stable orbits.

[Dedans Penthouse]

When I was a litte, bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle, in them ol' cotton fields back home. an' that ain't no beau'shit.

[SoBad]

Once upon a time, there was a wealthy elderly lady who married a poor young handsome boy. And when they boy died, she inherited all of his money.

[Sentinel]

The Universe, in entirety, will be shut down in December for scheduled maintenance.

The downtime will only be 6 days or so, but it may take several hundred million years for the next iteration to become habitable by complex, intelligent species. The inconvenience is regretted, but we expect it to be worthwhile since we will be taking care of some memory leaks and vulnerabilities, and adding some necessary security updates which will make your experience smoother.

Love,
Senti.


p.s. eat 'n drink all you can, folks, for the next month.

[borg number one]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...xel-milky-way/




9-Billion-Pixel Photo of Milky Way’s Center Is Full of Stars

Containing more than 84 million stars, this nine-gigapixel shot of the Milky Way’s central bulge will help astronomers unravel the complex history of star formation in our home galaxy.

The image was taken by the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA infrared survey telescope, and combined thousands of separate pictures to create this monumental work. The photo contains 10 times more stars than previous studies and will allow scientists to perform important statistical analyses of the color, temperature, mass, and ages of the different stars in the Milky Way.


Our galaxy, like most spiral galaxies, contains a central bulge that is filled with older stars that could help scientists better understand galactic evolution. But the bulge ”concentrate[s] not only most of the stars in the Milky Way, but also gas and dust,” wrote the authors of the new research in a paper appearing Oct. 24 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. All the gas and dust obscure the central stars, making observations difficult. By using infrared wavelengths, the team was able to bypass the gas and dust and build a vast new dataset of central Milky Way stars.

The image above is an insane 108,200 by 81,500 pixels. If printed at the standard photo resolution of a book, it would stretch 30 feet tall and 23 feet wide, easily able cover the side of a three-story building. You can download the entire 24.6 Gigabyte version, if you dare.

[Sentinel]

^ Thanks, my eyes are going misty thinking all that will be toast in December

So long friend, Milky Way, we had a some really good times especially when you were born. <3

[Sentinel]

I've been busy dumping everything on Dropbox so once things come up again in a few million years, I can quickly get back to where I was.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

I live on a planet which has 4 Suns. Two of them are binary, and we orbit them. The binaries go around with these other two stars that are further away. Sometimes we are between the stars, sometimes we have all four in the sky.

"Days" can be of various colors, and it's rarely dark. We aren't the only planet, there are other siblings, and the orbits are really freaked out and unpredictable. Some planets revolve only around one system, but distant ones can switch and don't have stable orbits.

What is the best season for the eggplant crops?

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

The Universe, in entirety, will be shut down in December for scheduled maintenance.

The downtime will only be 6 days or so, but it may take several hundred million years for the next iteration to become habitable by complex, intelligent species. The inconvenience is regretted, but we expect it to be worthwhile since we will be taking care of some memory leaks and vulnerabilities, and adding some necessary security updates which will make your experience smoother.

Love,
Senti.


p.s. eat 'n drink all you can, folks, for the next month.

Will Roger Federer have a protected ranking during this period? I once asked Maria Kirilenko if she would go out with me, and she said, "Not in a million years!" She should be ready to date me when things become habitable again.

[slice bh compliment]

Originally Posted by Mike Bulgakov

I once asked Maria Kirilenko if she would go out with me, and she said, "Not in a million years!" She should be ready to date me when things become habitable again.

So you're tellin' me there's a chance. Yeah!

[Sentinel]

I am working on possible configurations and constraints at the moment of the next big bang. It's tricky, anything slightly off and the resultant universe won't harbor life.

Mike, send me as many pics of Maria as possible so we can recreate her in the next cycle.

[Rock Strongo]

I have an extremely powerful serve. However, I also have an extremely sensitive shoulder.

[the cat petter]

Everyone, listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWEllqh5J0

[Sentinel]

Meanwhile, deep within the Matrix, the Blue Screen of Death keeps appearing here and there signifying that the Universe, or rather the illusion of it, is coming to a close.

Senti tries hard to keep the servers running and with them the illusion of existence. For in reality, there is no Universe or living beings. Just an abandoned AI program from a previous Universe, that has programmed itself to believe that it is several billion sentient creatures inside a vast universe.

THose imaginary creatures, including Senti, cannot hack into the Matrix physically, since there only the illusion of physicality, they must hack in through their awareness of being.

[borg number one]

^^Sentinel, you're welcome for that photo. The universe or multiverse is truly a source of wonder, isn't it? Those documentaries that are out now are just amazing. I bet you can appreciate the concept of yugas and kalpas. See the Sun compared to other stars here.

http://static.pmylund.com/blog/conte...is_a_pixel.jpg (click on the photo for full size)

article: http://patrickmylund.com/blog/the-su...o-other-stars/

In this picture (click for full size), the Sun, which is 109 times larger than the Earth, represents only a single pixel. Think about that for a second. Now consider that the largest star shown, VY Canis Majoris, isn't even the most massive we know of; that title belongs to R136a1, a star that shines 10 million times brighter than the Sun and has a surface temperature of roughly 40,000 degrees celsius. Incomprehensible.

[Sentinel]

Originally Posted by borg number one

^^Sentinel, you're welcome for that photo. The universe or multiverse is truly a source of wonder, isn't it? Those documentaries that are out now are just amazing. I bet you can appreciate the concept of yugas and kalpas. See the Sun compared to other stars here.

http://static.pmylund.com/blog/conte...is_a_pixel.jpg (click on the photo for full size)

article: http://patrickmylund.com/blog/the-su...o-other-stars/

I sure am grateful that our little sun is only a pixel, for the smaller they are the longer they last. Now Betelgeuse shown in that pic, is often speculated by some to have already gone supernova. However, what we see of it is what it was like 600 years back. Deneb, also in that pic, is about 1500 or more light years away , and iirc larger. I think it was the largest star we could see with the naked eye.

I use to gaze at Orion (the constellation) and Deneb and others a lot with wonderment as a kid.