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- IvenomI, on 04/13/2009, -13/+42814. Women
- OUPablo, on 04/13/2009, -26/+42914. Taking one article and putting it on 6 pages
- tonicboy, on 04/13/2009, -8/+349But what I want to know is, why does Chewbacca - a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk - live on the planet Endor? That does not make sense!
- KiSA, on 04/14/2009, -13/+328Mar 2007; 2996 diggs
http://digg.com/general_sciences/13_things_that_sc ...
Aug 2008; 2990 diggs
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Nov 2006; 2881 diggs
http://digg.com/general_sciences/13_things_that_do ... - fentanyl, on 04/12/2009, -4/+285All on one page:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600 ... - sockpuppets, on 04/14/2009, -3/+205#14
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5555/senseqq1.jpg - kookykyle, on 04/14/2009, -4/+10714.1.) not seeing the button on the top that says read full article and having one page
- zantos420, on 04/14/2009, -2/+9914.2.) not seeing the poster two posts above yours who links to full article on one page
- immatellyouwhat, on 04/14/2009, -0/+83It's a Digg tradition! :D
- JKount, on 04/14/2009, -0/+7715. Why people used 14 over and over.
- spiritflare1, on 04/14/2009, -5/+81#14: Shouldn't hemorrhoids be called asstroids? And shouldn't pubic crabs be called cockroachs?
- KiSA, on 04/14/2009, -1/+67so OJ's innocent!
- Animal, on 04/14/2009, -1/+62If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit!
- daqq, on 04/14/2009, -6/+6214. Why we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.
- ZombieSociety, on 04/14/2009, -2/+5714. TYPING LIKE this.
- Dalif, on 04/14/2009, -1/+45For some reason, it annoys me a great deal that KiSA didn't properly set up the years sequentially. Why isn't 2006 at the top? Or 2008 at the top? Am I the only one? Is this real?
- SarcasticGenius, on 04/14/2009, -0/+44I call "dibbs" on submitting it next year!
- Mersonix, on 04/14/2009, -2/+4414.3.) Why people are such asshats online
- Chicken2nite, on 04/14/2009, -3/+40Upon reading, I immediately thought of this passage:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering.
It is built on the fragmented ruins of an eventually ruined planet which is enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected forward in time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe.
This is, many would say, impossible.
In it, guests take their places at table and eat sumptuous meals while watching the whole of creation explode around them.
This, many would say, is equally impossible.
You can arrive for any sitting you like without prior reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were, when returning to your own time.
This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible.
At the Restaurant you can meet and dine with a fascinating cross-section of the entire population of space and time.
This, it can be explained patiently, is also impossible.
You can visit it as many times as you like and be sure of never meeting yourself, because of the embarrassment this usually causes.
This, even if the rest were true, which it isn't, is patently impossible, say the doubters.
All you have to do is deposit one penny in a savings account in your own era, and when you arrive at the End of Time the operation of compund interest means that the fabulous cost of your meal has been paid for.
This, many claim, is not merely impossible but clearly insane, which is why the advertising executives of the star system of Bastablon came up with this slogan: "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" - utopiaNow, on 04/14/2009, -1/+38Yes, you're right two antipodal points in the universe are still approximately 28 billion light years apart(Not sure why you assume that space must expand at the speed of light though). But the problem is not the fact they are 28 billion light years apart. The problem is the observed homogeneity and isotropy of the CMB. The problem is that these two separate points in the sky, which are farther apart than the "horizon distance", meaning how far light could've traveled in 14 billion years, are somehow very close to the same temperature (the observed fluctuations are very small, which leads to the fact that the CMB is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales). So these two separate points have somehow thermalyzed, even though they have no way of exchanging information in the form of photons, as photons couldn't have traversed this distance yet. Uh..I'm getting a bit carried away, sorry. Basically the problem is not the fact they are 28 billion light years apart, which as you said is perfectly logical. But somehow that these causally disconnected points in the sky are in very close agreement of their CMB temperature. Inflation is a good candidate for the solution as it also solves a few other problems like the Monopole problem and the Flatness aka fine-tuning problem including the Horizon problem.
- Xelseragoth, on 04/14/2009, -1/+35I thought the same thing, but then I also figured that doctors aren't complete morons and they must have thought of and accounted for that too, but hey, maybe you and I are just smarter than the medical community...
- anthropodeus, on 04/14/2009, -5/+36everything the bush administration did made sense. i think the problem is that you're starting from the assumption that they were working for america, not themselves.
- derek20cali, on 04/14/2009, -2/+33lol @ the diggers who think they have the answers.
- Corneileus, on 04/14/2009, -0/+28When I read the title, I read it in that voice. Bravo, sir.
- jejeje666, on 04/14/2009, -4/+30"That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old."
... Someone with more knowledge than me will probably be able to correct me, but... isn't that actually very logical? Assuming we could find the "center" of the universe, and that space expands from it, in all directions, at the speed of light.... wouldn't you find that, after 14 billion years, the universe is 28 billion light years across? - litothegreat, on 04/14/2009, -6/+3214. Scientology
- Medicamusic, on 04/14/2009, -1/+26We do know one thing though... they have boobs.
- darklights, on 04/14/2009, -7/+30Clearly more people each year think it is worth digging.
- cardshark69, on 04/14/2009, -1/+21Forget the first 13, this deserves all the man power scientists around the world can muster
- AAACopywriter, on 04/12/2009, -16/+35The so called "placebo effect"... ;)
- RGB0099CC, on 04/14/2009, -1/+20Oh, whoa! That's a total time saver! Here is George Orwell's "Animal Farm" broken down by chapter.
1. Chapter I
2. Chapter II
3. Chapter III
4. Chapter IV
5. Chapter V
6. Chapter VI
7. Chapter VII
8. Chapter VIII
9. Chapter IX
10. Chapter X
And there you have it. No need to read the book now.
P.S. I numbered each chapter myself because the stupid wordsmith used letters instead of numbers. WTF amirite? - danwallace, on 04/14/2009, -2/+21Well there we go everyone. Problem solved.
- Reveillark, on 04/14/2009, -0/+18Why are things transported in a car called a shipment, while things on a ship called cargo?
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? - arrenlex, on 04/14/2009, -3/+20No.
1. Women - danwallace, on 04/14/2009, -1/+17Your family phones to say they still don't love you?
- X9001, on 04/14/2009, -4/+20(description) They are not honest and expect you to read their mind twenty four seven
- anexanhume, on 04/14/2009, -3/+19If you had read it, you would have seen that putting a morphine blocker in the saline actually prevented the placebo effect from occurring. So, it's more than a simple "your mind makes it happen." There's a bio-chemical aspect.
- ChaosProfessor, on 04/14/2009, -9/+25chewbaca defense right
- diggydougie, on 04/14/2009, -0/+16Here's a mind blower. Nothing IN space can go faster than the speed of light. But space itself is not subject to this limit. Space can expand as fast as it wants to. Heard that from some physicist on a science podcast.
- Scottamus, on 04/14/2009, -3/+17LOL
- lonedust, on 04/14/2009, -0/+14I am a lazy bum, so thank you, fentanyl.
- doyouwash, on 04/14/2009, -2/+14That wasn't the point. Did you actually finish reading that part?
- staffa, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12Above posts answered the question. I just want to clear up one misconception about the difference between the Universe and the Visible Universe.
The Universe has no center and we have no idea how big it is, other than that it is bigger than the visible Universe.
The visible Universe is a sphere carved out of the Universe for which we are at the center of. This sphere exists for one simple reason, the speed of light and the age of the Universe. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, so the most distant things we can see are things that are 13.7 billion light years away. We can see these things in every direction at a distance of 13.7 billion light years, hence the 'Visible' Universe. 13.7 billion light years is close to 14, 14*2 is 28, which is why we say the visible Universe is 28 billion light years across.
Actually it is more complex than that, inflation, the explanation for the flatness of the CMB temperature would also result in the most distant things we can see being much further than the 13.7 billion light years. - Treshnell, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12The one thing I hate about this site's articles is those gray excerpts they take from the article and put in line with the article, usually right next to the text it's excerpting. That's great for emphasis in a print media, but not inline with the same text you're reading in the article.
- drgmdp, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12no ***** sherlock
- RGB0099CC, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12You mean we still don't know how they built the Death Star?
Then all those Bothans died in vain. :( - sek52, on 04/14/2009, -0/+12What about the Bloop?
Has it been resolved...or is it Cthulhu?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop - KarlH, on 04/14/2009, -1/+120. If you run an experiment and get results that nobody else in the world can reproduce, people still assume that "everything we know about physics may be wrong" is a more likely explanation than that there was some methological error that you overlooked.
- pbarney, on 04/14/2009, -0/+11It's so obvious: saline is a miracle drug. I'm going to drink some now to get rid of this hangover.
- JeffDUpp, on 04/14/2009, -0/+10or you could click the read full article links all over the page
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