Black Crunch jams Universal cycle [Cosmology]

Nature Magazine ^ | 23 Decemeber 2002 | PHILIP BALL

[Aracelis]

Isn't that were all the Dominatrixes hang out until their next sex slave arrives?

Only one is necessary...if she's very, very good. ;-)

[Aracelis]

There were a few I missed

Yes indeed. The one I particularly enjoyed was when he told you to shove it. LMAO! You of all people...Dr. Nice-Guy...what an maroon (him, not you)! :-D

[Aracelis]

To think I felt sorry for this kid. I guess I'll never learn.

Feel sorry for his instructors...just imagine what this kid is like in lecture!

[Aracelis]

No, but when I do; LOOK OUT!

I'm right with you...we'll dance the night away :-)

[Scully]

Isn't one scientist enough for you? BTW, Merry Christmas to you too, fossil face.

[Aracelis]

Still hanging-about? Hmmm...must be taking notes. Better hurry, Scully...you're not getting any younger.

[MHGinTN]

Sounds like RA is studying the physics of cantilevered hemispheres. Orbital mechanics?... Two body problem?

[Aracelis]

i havent seen you contribute a thing except personal remarks

Why should I bother to refute you on any other level...? You don't listen to anything but your own self-absorbed, hormonally-induced, aggrandized prattle. Up until now you've been quite entertaining, so let the show continue!

[Aracelis]

Two body problem?

Sigh! Although I'd love to counter this with an appropriate vaudevillian response, I should instead make a blanket disclaimer to spare my dear friend's reputation on FR. RA and I are engaged in legitimately under-funded research and that's all. I do enjoy the heck out of teasing him, though.

[Junior]

Those "rules," as you put it, are there to make communication more easily understood. The English language (and any language, for that matter) has rules for the same reason mathematics has rules -- to ensure information is communicated accurately from the sender to receiver.

The fact you do not "give a damn" about such rules bespeaks a lack of discipline in your writing, and hence your thinking. This is, sadly, the state of the publicly-educated mind nowadays. My 17-year-old daughter is also a student of the e.e. cummings school of writing, making email communications with her problematic.

[Junior]

so we know how to make perpetual motion machines? hot diggity, wish that was in the news!

An object rotating in space (the outer kind) is technically a perpetual-motion machine (an object in motion will remain in motion; an object at rest will remain at rest; until acted upon by an outside force). However, extracting energy from such an arrangement introduces one or more outside forces.

[Junior]

Wow, you've just taken all the fun out things {;^)>

[VadeRetro]

RA and I are engaged ...

Can I quote you on that? </creation_mode>

[longshadow]

Only one is necessary...if she's very, very good. ;-)

Which; one Dominatrix, or one slave?

;-)

[longshadow]

RA and I are engaged.......

Well, you better disengage before you get caught in that configuration!

[Old Professer]

i happen to be in college, and could not have gotten there without passing algebra, geometry, and trigonomitry. You passed Trigonometry?

Hell, I'm just waiting for him to finally spell existence correctly.

Now, back to the universe thingy: Everything except us is standing still, we are just moving backwards really, really fast.

[Old Professer]

The moon is slowing down, but it's getting higher. Explain that.

It is condensing?

[VadeRetro]

Now, back to the universe thingy: Everything except us is standing still, we are just moving backwards really, really fast.

Creative guess, wrong nevertheless. Everything is receding from our viewpoint because we are the malodorous, wormy rectum of the universe.

Yes, I have trouble with "existence." Sometimes I even use the wrong "your." Finding the latter too late makes me suicidal for a few minutes.

But there's something about misspelling a subject you're thumping your chest about having passed in High School. Did you look at the book? Did the teacher write it on the board the first day of class? What does it mean, anyway, to have passed a course in High School where notoriously you pass if you don't get arrested?

[Aracelis]

Both...hehe!

[Junior]

You know, I never even took trigonometry in high school (I was notoriously arithmephobic at the time). In college I only took the math courses required for a liberal arts degress (and none of those courses included trigonometry). I really didn't get into such things until I started playing "hard" science fiction wargames with their vector-based movement mechanics.

In other words, I don't believe trigonometry is a prerequisite for college.