Recent content by jet_porkins

Nice attempt at trying to score instant e-friends by making hyperbolic statements about a "stupid family member." Seriously, real class-act. I am surprised that your 24 year old sister can't work out an email account on her own, but I also know that there are genuine computer illiterates who...

Hahaha defense spending at its finest: domesticating a workforce of minion spiders.

Yeah, Cancer. What a load of bull-shevik.

This is the sad part: Apparently they're expecting to lose about $1 billion in lost farmland. Maybe they'll think twice before going for a "cold one" the next time such a bizarre heat wave occurs.

It's possible we'll get a South Korean Spiderman out of this.

Remus. Haha. North Korea's "foreboding" remarks are just sound bytes for attention. They're just plain annoying.

Suicides are always the hardest for me to take in. I remember him posting, and I loved his frog avatar. This, very much.

Robbo's right. The "flat universe" concept doesn't have to do with the prism of the universe, but the way light travels through space. "Flat" doesn't mean dimensional, it means that the rules of geometry we learned in grade school apply to astronomical distances in space as much as they do on...

I think astronomers have concluded that neutron stars only form for post-supernova stars that were at least about 8 solar masses large. Our sun, along with most other main sequence stars that are sun-sized (give or take a few magnitude points) will continue to expand for a couple billion years...

Funny that I read about this the same day I handed in my FINAL EXAM for my astronomy class, so I can't bring this up in class discussion...

Yes they do. This sax player: Oh. My. Glod (music starts at 1:00): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSf1wrOEQpE More of the artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpjGSr38d4

You can't lose.

I think this theroy has merit and warrants further investigation.

This is one of the most rad things I've heard in my life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_Hw8l01LI

Indeed I am. I'm normally a tenor man, and that was my first time playing alto in a jazz performance setting in years. I could be clutching at straws, but is your profile name of any reference to Lester Young?