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Just came across this article originally published about 2 years ago and thought some here might find it interesting. My apologies if previously posted - - I didn't wade through the last 2 years of this thread to check: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-we-ll-have-evidence-of-aliens-if-they-exist-by-2035?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'm not criticizing anyone, and I suspect there are opinions going both ways. I'd just like to know how most members feel about whether topics and posts critical of the Bills should be allowed here. I encourage everyone to participate in the poll.

It involves Ginger, Mary Ann, and unfortunately, a time machine. I'm not sharing any further details.

On the assumption that Al Qaeda hijackers never learned how to turn on an airliner's windshield wipers, Philadelphia successfully tested its new skyscraper defense system.

An even Larger Hadron Collider that inadvertently creates a black hole that consumes the earth, thereby ending all future technological advances by mankind.

Flying cars are so last month: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/tech/boeing-porsche-flying-electric-car/index.html

Hold the door say please say thank you Don't steal don't cheat and don't lie I know you got mountains to climb but Always stay humble and kind

"Dean told deputies the spent .40 caliber shell casings must've fallen out of his truck at some point and he didn't know how or when it may have fallen out of his vehicle" I hate when that happens.

After watching this scene in "A Fish Called Wanda," I seriously considered trying to learn how to speak with a Russian accent: But then I realized that it wouldn't help me answer the "Are you rich?" question.

Maybe we can have the stadium clock operator "forget" to set the clock back an hour next Sunday morning. Then he could "remember" to make the reset whenever the Redskins have the ball with the wind at their backs. That would give us a clear field position advantage, because the Redskins would have a full HOUR less time with the wind at their backs. Wouldn't that give us a MUCH greater wind advantage than just having the wind at our backs during the typical 2nd and 4th quarter time-outs and the 2-minute warnings for each half? Wait . . . . What?

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Of course, it would take no energy at all to speed up the ions in one direction while slowing them down in the other, so yeah, this thing oughta work right out of the box. How'd he get a job at NASA?

Depends - - - how old is the other guy?

Thought this article from Wired was pretty interesting. It's essentially about how astrophysicists are being employed by consumer-oriented tech companies because their expertise in Big Data and machine learning can be used to predict customer preferences. “We were already in Big Data before Big Data became a thing,” says Sudeep Das, an astrophysicist who now works at Netflix. Here's an introductory excerpt from. https://www.wired.com/story/the-style-maven-astrophysicists-of-silicon-valley/?utm_source=pocket-newtab "Chris Moody knows a thing or two about the universe. As an astrophysicist, he built galaxy simulations, using supercomputers to model the way the universe expands and how galaxies crash into one another. One night, not long after he’d finished his PhD at UC Santa Cruz, he met up with a few other astrophysicists for beers. But that night, no one was talking about galaxies. Instead, they were talking about fashion. A couple of Moody’s astrophysicist pals had recently left academia to work for Stitch Fix, the online personal styling company now valued at $2 billion. Moody gawked at them. “They were like, ‘You don’t think this is an interesting problem?’” he says. Indeed, he did not. But when his friends described the work they were doing—sprinkling in phrases like “Bayesian models” and “Poincaré space”—predicting what clothes someone might like started to sound eerily like the work he’d done during his PhD. Quantifying style, he discovered, “turns out to have really close analogues to how general relativity works.”

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So how do they calculate the rarity anyway? If this satellite has only been in place for a few years, and it already saw one example of this kind of event in one particular view direction, doesn't it make you question if the calculated rate of occurrence is way off the mark? Or do we have enough information about all star and black hole locations, trajectories and movement speeds to reliably make the kind of calculations that lead to the "rarity" prediction?

Somehow, this seemed like the appropriate thread for this little tidbit of space knowledge. From http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2018/08/23/farts-an-underappreciated-threat-to-astronauts/#.XY-w9FD_rUo "On Earth, farts are typically no big deal — smelly, harmless, and they quickly dissipate. But if you’re an astronaut, every fart is a ticking time bomb."

Want possible relief (I stress possible)? WebMD is a respected medical information web site, so this isn't a joke - - it's real: https://www.webmd.com/kidney-stones/news/20160928/kidney-stone-roller-coaster

This article was written by Matteo Ceriotti, lecturer in space systems engineering at the University of Glasgow https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9095116/move-earth-asteroids-wandering-apocalypse-sun/

How could anyone possibly game plan for what the Bills offense did? I dunno, maybe expect the Bills to sometimes run and sometimes pass? Or would that not be enough to guard against all the flea flickers and double reverses and fumblerooskis (yes, I know that's not legal any more) and tackle eligible pass plays that the Bills ran? If you see that the Bills are overemphasiizing the pass early on, maybe tell your defenders to play the defense that you planned all week to play against the pass?

I'm not really in the market for a boat, but this one caught my eye:

All those years that we stuffed the roster with guys named Williams we shoulda been stuffing Johnsons.

Couple questions about Wade: 1. Any of you English guys know whether 40 yard dash times (or some equivalent speed test) are available for rugby players like him? He looked extremely fast, but he was playing against Colts' scrubs, so it would be nice to know just how fast he really is. 2. Did the Bills have any input about which international development player got assigned to them? Or was it just blind luck that Wade got assigned to the Bills rather than some other NFL team?