in reply to OT: But Important

Don't worry about it, 12.2 billion light-years away is quite sufficient to be safe:-)

You can substitute (3+1) for the question mark but then again can we be sure...

I particularly like the "powered by processes not yet fully understood" part in NASA's explanation. Typically hyper/dia-bolic human arrogance.

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Re^2: OT: But Important
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 20, 2009 at 14:35 UTC
    Gee, and I thought it was a subspace signal from Dr.Who, whose tardis is spinning out of control, and cleverly signaled our space satellites for help. :-)

    The History Channel had a show on these..... a direct hit from one of these beams, would kill all life on earth, except maybe in the deep oceans.

    gas bullets must have moved at least 99.9999 percent the speed of light.

    I guess it's similar to the odds that one could get hit by lightening.... very low but happens all the time.

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness
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Re^2: OT: But Important
by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 20, 2009 at 14:08 UTC
    Typically hyper/dia-bolic human arrogance.

    No, it's typical for scientists how always have to explain why the state should spend money for their projects, so the have to tell the public from time to time that there are still things that they don't understand, and they need more time and money to improve their understanding.

    Update: most scientists never tell you that they have fully understood a topic, unless it's one that's not related to nature.

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      I agree with you on the money asking scientist. I work in such a place myself;-)

      so the have to tell the public from time to time that there are still things that they don't understand

      There are things they "still" don't understand and there will always be.

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        There are things they "still" don't understand and there will always be.

        Sure, but it's not obvious that the problems to which the scientists don't have a solution are even understandable to non-scientists.

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