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Dr. Clayton Forrester's Science Roundup

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busterman62 said:
Oatmeal Stout called and said you are incorrect. It is the Breakfast of Champions!
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Kepler said:
If I had a Samuel Smith oatmeal stout for breakfast, I would crawl back into bed and sleep till noon.
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busterman62 said:
And this is a problem because??? :confused:
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Kepler said:
My wife and my boss, to start with.
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There was a time when beer was the preferred breakfast beverage.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
You mean like today?!? Amirite guys!?
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Can't drink all day unless you start in the morning. /Houghton

;)

Edit: You shouldn't have beer for breakfast. Just Irish up that coffee, and you're good to go. :D
 
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joecct said:
It's opposite Pluto's orbit, though I'm in favor of another planet instead of a black hole.
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I was referencing the big worry about when firing up the Large Hadron Collider, people feared it would create a black hole.
 
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24 minutes until New Horizons phones home.

EDIT: Phone call connected.
 
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It's alarmist to give the worst case scenario without giving the odds. For example, a sufficiently large asteroid could end all life on earth, and a sufficiently large asteroid will, eventually, hit us. What's the timescale for a 50% likelihood of that happening? If it's 5 years then ef it, I'm going to party because there's nothing to do. If it's 500 years then we should stop everything else and start working solely on FTL and terraforming tech, because nothing else matters. If it's 50,000 years then like Scarlet I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
 
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Kepler said:
It's alarmist to give the worst case scenario without giving the odds. For example, a sufficiently large asteroid could end all life on earth, and a sufficiently large asteroid will, eventually, hit us. What's the timescale for a 50% likelihood of that happening? If it's 5 years then ef it, I'm going to party because there's nothing to do. If it's 500 years then we should stop everything else and start working solely on FTL and terraforming tech, because nothing else matters. If it's 50,000 years then like Scarlet I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
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Whatever you do, don't get NASA involved. They'll spend 50% of the time in design phase, 40% of the time in building, 9% in testing, leaving us 1% of the remaining time to get our butts in gear and get out of here.
 
Kepler said:
It's alarmist to give the worst case scenario without giving the odds. For example, a sufficiently large asteroid could end all life on earth, and a sufficiently large asteroid will, eventually, hit us. What's the timescale for a 50% likelihood of that happening? If it's 5 years then ef it, I'm going to party because there's nothing to do. If it's 500 years then we should stop everything else and start working solely on FTL and terraforming tech, because nothing else matters. If it's 50,000 years then like Scarlet I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
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The article mentioned odds for the worst case scenario as 1 in 10 within the next 50 years.
 
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joecct said:
Whatever you do, don't get NASA involved. They'll spend 50% of the time in design phase, 40% of the time in building, 9% in testing, leaving us 1% of the remaining time to get our butts in gear and get out of here.
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They're still by far the most successful. But this is one of those times that Big Evil Corp has a place. Offer a CPAF with a $10T award fee to the first company who gets a self-sustaining colony of 10,000 people up and running on Mars for a full generation. Give Lockheed, Boeing and Grumman something useful to do for a change.

Let's East India Company this beatch.
 
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GrinCDXX said:
The article mentioned odds for the worst case scenario as 1 in 10 within the next 50 years.
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Yeah, that's the part that scared the crap out of me. While this seems low, in (responsible) industry, a cataclysmic event that could happen that frequently is cause for immediate concern. We try to engineer those down to something like 1/10,000,000 years. (If anyone is familiar with SIS or SIL, that's what I'm referring to.)
 
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Also, this was worth noting from Wiki:
Recent findings conclude that the Cascadia subduction zone is more complex and volatile than previously believed. In 2010 geologists predicted a 37 percent chance of an M8.2+ event within 50 years, and a 10 to 15 percent chance that the entire Cascadia subduction zone will rupture with an M9+ event within the same time frame
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So I've been watching a lot of the Pluto coverage over the last few days like everyone here, and throughout it all, all I can think of when I see the color pictures is, "man, Pluto is such a lonely color"
 
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