Posted on 06/07/2011 7:26:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Woo Hoo! We are living in a giant glass of Guiness!
Hear, hear.
I remember ‘debating’ a guy claimed to be a NASA scientist in 2005 on Diplomad (that site had since completely disappeared, and with good reason). He was completely SHOCKED that there were people out there
(1) don’t believe in human-caused global warming;
and (2) thinks NASA a complete waste of money, whatever they do could be achieved much better, faster, and cheaper with private enterprise.
Funny... my first thought was that we are the bath toy in God's bubble bath.
Are they ‘Tiny Bubbles’?
Reminds me of a sci-fi story I read where a ship of colonists set off for a distant star, and since they didn't have FTL drives they had to be put in hibernation for the several hundred year journey.
When they arrived at their destination, they found it had been colonized centuries earlier by people from their own planet who developed FTL space flight and leapfroged their ship.
The speed of light isn't nearly fast enough..................
Bubble: A region, often spherical, of less dense material inside material, perhaps different, of greater density. In this case, the denser “material” is just about as near to a perfect vacuum as you can get. We’re spending billions of dollars studying nothingness inside nothingness. Kind of stretches the mind, and the pocketbook. Can’t blame people for being cynical. And I’m a science booster.
I read “Icarus at the Edge of Time” recently.
Similar story........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_at_the_Edge_of_Time
Weiner said he had a magnetic bubble in his grey shorts.
That's freaking cosmic.
What’s in the bubbles?
Cool! Now I have yet another book to throw on the stack of "when I have spare time..."
It’s really a short story in a big coffee table size book. The text is interspersed with pictures from the Hubble Telescope. You can read it in less than an hour................
WHat's in the bubbles?....FUN!.................
No wonder it is so FAR OUT, MAN..........................
YOU can read it in an hour. It takes longer for me to sound out the bigger words...
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