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Not only that, but if life evolved there, you could build a slower-than-light probe that could reach other stars in your own lifetime...and have a huge number of potential life bearing targets to choose from. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Correct, it's quite a dense cluster (NASA estimate about 1/3 of a light year).
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Arrg, can't you post something useful for once, like what horse to bet on etc? 
Nice picture though 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: like what horse to bet on
If I could do that...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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So what you're saying is that we are stuck with the astronomy pictures, right?
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Well, no, I can give you my recommendations for horses but I'm not sure you'd want to follow them...
Best I stick with the pretty pictures.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I can't be the first one to think of this[^], surely?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, you can't.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Didn't the Vorlon wipe that place out?
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Took me a while to figure out how he did that.
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I'm sure he "created" energy, didn't he? 
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Well, that seems to be the simplest solution: he's broken the laws of physics as we understand them.
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I stopped understanding them when the lecturer started talking about the quantum mass of a hole... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep, I've known some pretty big 'holes' in my time and I'd stop listening if anyone tried to tell me about their quantum mass! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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That's just a quasi particle called a hole, like a phonon. It's not a real particle, just mathematically indistinguishable from one.
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Wireless charging tech, anybody? (I.e transformers with an air-core, rather than a ferromagnetic one)
I find it far more interesting that one of the commentators indicates that Brazil now has in place a system in jails whereby prisoners can reduce their sentence by riding exercise bikes connected to generators. A concept that touches on one of the ones explored in one of the episodes in the Black Mirror[^] tv series. (S1E2)
I recommend it to those that are happy to look at a darkly satirical view on society and what may be logical conclusions for many of out preoccupations and the way that being part of society is changing generally into a soulless experience.
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Have you been watching too many Adam Curtis documentaries and gotten a bit more nihilistic? (I suspect Charlie Brooke has watch too many of them )
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Nah, hadn't heard of Adam Curtis until you mentioned him just now. Though I do describe myself as a Nhilist and have done so since my early 20s. Perhaps I should consider whether or not I'd be better off watching his stuff.
Though now that I google and wiki him, I realize that I spend the overwhelming bulk of my free time thinking about just the kinds of things his works examine and explore. Sounds like some fun viewing.
Thanks for putting me on to him. (I think!)
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Well, I suspect you'd be a lot more knowledgeable about the stuff you have been thinking about, I sure did.
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Thanks again. 
That may just have been handy the other week when I was explaining the concept of Nihilism to a 7th Day Adventist.
Incredulous, his conclusion was "What do you mean we're all worthless? What do you mean no single one of us has any intrinsic worth? Well, we may as well all go kill ourselves then" - much hilarity ensued and the room was in stitches.
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I think that nihilism is just a progression of the hedonistic mindset that is all around in our civilization.
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enhzflep wrote: that Brazil now has in place a system in jails whereby prisoners can reduce their sentence by riding exercise bikes connected to generators.
I read somewhere a while back that this was introduced in the early 1900s maybe in the US. Critics called it inhumane treatment of the prisoners and then got rid of it. Now, jails have exercise bikes again and critics would say it was inhumane if the bikes weren't there. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just arrived by email:
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to phish, and if he gets caught he'll be eating that fish through a straw.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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