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My Two Suns, Bachmann’s HPV Debacle, Bird News, Arctic Ice, What Is Life?, Black Hole Galaxy, Self-Delusion Nation, TWIWRD, City: Mongolia, Auto Algorithms, And Much More…
My 2 Suns…
The retarded HPV challenge
Smart birdies…
Birds of a feather
Gimme a north pole… neat.
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What is Life??? – (Thanks, Tim!)
Black holes in galaxy creation
Self-delusion is good for you?
Algorithms for your car
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49:35 Actually, like, viewing a black hole: that’s not something that we’ve done yet.
WHAT?! I struggle to understand what you could possibly mean by this platitude…
You can’t see black holes because “seeing” involves collecting photons with your eye.
Black holes don’t emit photons (aside from Hawking radiation), so, by definition, we can’t see them.
Of course, one might hope to observe the accretion disk surrounding a black hole.
This MUST be what you mean by “viewing a black hole”, since no other interpretation makes sense.
So, here is a list of most confirmed, and many candidate black holes observed by astronomers to date:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_holes
You’ll notice it is quite long!
One would have to be ignorant of every last object in this list to claim we haven’t “viewed” any black holes!
59:58 To getting rid of people: there’s not a whole lot of friendly options.
On the contrary, the most effective option is the most friendly: escape from poverty.
Birth rates decline most notably in populations where people, women in particular, enjoy economic and other social freedoms.