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PaltryProgrammer wrote: As for black holes they do a thing or two to space and time of which we do not yet know . Sounds kinda interesting to me even profound -
That's the understatement of the year. The truth is that we have no clue about that at all, just a lot of theories and no way to test them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: That's the understatement of the year
This is the third day of the year. Does not say a lot about the statement, right. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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This is the third day of the year. Does not say a lot about the statement, right.
False  
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I'm, (sort of), with you on this. We have reached the point where the journey on the quest for knowledge has become ultra-esoteric and, in the main, of no real value. And by "of no real value", I mean:
- unlikely to save the planet
- unlikely to be of benefit to the vast majority
- and unlikely to prevent war, famine and all the other human misery & suffering that we witness every day, (from our comfy sofas), on TV.
Yeah! Happy 2022. 
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5teveH wrote: We have reached the point where the journey on the quest for knowledge has become ultra-esoteric and, in the main, of no real value
Medical research comes to mind.
For one, we still know very little about the human brain. I wouldn't call that ultra-esoteric.
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I care (not daily , but I care)
I find it fascinating that people have the talent and patience to do research like that to make us better, maybe not in the short term, or with obvious applications, but we will be better.
Not all science needs to be engineering or have an end product at the end.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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You sent your message via a PC/tablet/phone across thousands of cables, switches, routers, servers, satellites, etc... it is now being read by thousands of people all across the planet.
Shouldn't you care about the folks who created this "magic"?
What about the giants whose shoulders they stood on? I can only imagine the luddites who whined about Newton, Wren, Einstein, Bohr, Tesla, Edison, etc...
Who knows... black holes could eventually lead to faster than light travel, unlimited power, etc...
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Who Cares? Simply put at least one person. OG if no one else.
It was like listening to my wife's 15x removed cousin at a family reunion years ago. He spent almost all of his free time setting up a model railroad in his basement anndddddddd that was all he wanted to talk about. Who Cares? Obviously he did. Did anyone else present around him? perhaps one or two.
So you probably have something you are passionate about. Who else besides you cares? Just the people who are also passionate about that same subject.
I believe 99% of the population of the earth wouldn't give a rats butt about anything discussed on CodeProject either. Most of them would be saying Who Cares? We do. If it matters.
It is all in the eye of the beholder. And personally I love listening to people talk about stuff they are passionate about, They really do know their stuff. I might not care about said stuff. But the passion comes thru and makes them more interesting to be around.
Now I might even start putting up that railroad model my wife got her dad who then gave it to my son who left it in my house when he moved out. Not that anyone cares.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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In my younger years I was curious and amazed by such things. I think my curiosity of the abstract and strange is satiated now.
As I near retirement age I find my curiosity shifting to the more down to earth matters. How can I grow better vegetables, build things with wood, help others get through their difficult lives? It comes down to how we want to fritter away the moments that make up a dull day. Different strokes for different folks. We can only care about so much.
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My first thought, after reading your post, is "who cares that you don't care?"
My second was, "If you don't care, why did you waste time posting about it?"
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With that many gravity, why are we looking for something like dark matter?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Let me correct you;
The amount of black holes we know of don't explain it;
also gravity might not be the only reason 
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I don't like dark matter. It's like the "magic dust" that Joel Spolsky talks about in terms of software 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I agree - it's too "pat", too ... simple? More "magic" than science? It's something you can't see, can't feel, can't intact with, but is somehow relevant to the universe and it's origins. Which smacks of religion rather theory to my mind.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Neither can anything else, which after 50+ years of searching is leading some astronomers to question the underlying thesis of dark matter.
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Bear in mind that all we are seeing is the burp after the slurp.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Please don't explain it further in details 
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Does that mean, if we position a telescope directly behind a black hole(in Earth's orbit obviously), does that mean we could see and possibly prove tachyons.
For those of you who don't know, tachyons are hypothetical faster than light particles. Most people don't think there are tachyons, but that there are tachyonic particles.
Back to the black holes, since a tachyon is faster than light, it would be the only particle fast enough to escape a black hole, thus proving the existence of tachyons if found...
Just saying...
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Possibly not - remember that the black hole would act as a gravitational lens, so it could act line a telescope lens and the light it picks up could "drown out" the tachyons unless they are very plentiful. And don't forget that black holes radiate energy anyway, according to Hawking.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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True, gotta agree with Hawking... RIP you creepy computer voice of a scientist. Believe it or not we miss you...
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oofalladeez343 wrote: and they say men don't know the pain of child birth... 
I will never make fun of one again. Nor complain.
Goddamit.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yay, victory at last! Even an old fart like me can beat those nasty aliens.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WrxAFhDWe5nVs3DFA
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