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Mendalla said:
For those who, like me, are into both cosmology and British humour, PBS has a treat tomorrow night:

Eric Idle's The Entire Universe | PBS Programs | PBS

Eric Idle of Monty Python and physicist/tv presenter Brian Cox present a musical about astrophysics. It was well received when it played in Britain last year. And, yes, it ends with the Python classic, The Universe Song.
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“PBS”, that’s a TV thing, right? I’ll have to look for the bit torrent.
 
Neo said:
“PBS”, that’s a TV thing, right? I’ll have to look for the bit torrent.
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Check the site after tonight's broadcast. They sometimes stream shows after broadcast. But given that it came out in the UK a year ago, yeah, try that.
 
I was just going to ask that. I don't have cable, nor a TV, either. I have a nice, large-ish monitor on my PC in my den. I don't mind watching things a bit late, if they're free...
 
I looks like it is (or will be) streaming on the PBS site but is geo-blocked in Canada so you'd need a proxy or vpn to view that way. Of course, the question then becomes who has the streaming rights in Canada. NF gets a lot of PBS stuff in Canada so maybe it will show up there?
 
Mendalla said:
I looks like it is (or will be) streaming on the PBS site but is geo-blocked in Canada so you'd need a proxy or vpn to view that way. Of course, the question then becomes who has the streaming rights in Canada. NF gets a lot of PBS stuff in Canada so maybe it will show up there?
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And in Canada they say we're not oppressed by US-powers ... self imposed? It is our nature ... wimpy and peaceful ... looking for an alternate end to get out ...
 
Mendalla said:
For those who, like me, are into both cosmology and British humour, PBS has a treat tomorrow night:

Eric Idle's The Entire Universe | PBS Programs | PBS

Eric Idle of Monty Python and physicist/tv presenter Brian Cox present a musical about astrophysics. It was well received when it played in Britain last year. And, yes, it ends with the Python classic, The Universe Song.
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Halfway through. Think Cosmos meets Broadway meets Monty Python and you have about got it. Brian Cox plays along with the silliness nicely but is a bit swamped by playing straight man to literally every one else in the cast. A bit weak on the science in the end but highly entertaining. And it shows a very delightful new side of Warwick Davis (Wicket, the main Ewok character in Return of the Jedi, and Willow in George Lucas's fantasy film of the same name): singer, dancer, and comedian. He almost steals the show, at least as far as I have watched.
 
Mendalla said:
Halfway through. Think Cosmos meets Broadway meets Monty Python and you have about got it. Brian Cox plays along with the silliness nicely but is a bit swamped by playing straight man to literally every one else in the cast. A bit weak on the science in the end but highly entertaining. And it shows a very delightful new side of Warwick Davis (Wicket, the main Ewok character in Return of the Jedi, and Willow in George Lucas's fantasy film of the same name): singer, dancer, and comedian. He almost steals the show, at least as far as I have watched.
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From there the hole thing collapsed ... like a bubble bursts? Brrrrr saints? Chilling ...
 
Mendalla said:
Hey, guess what? Dinos also had ticks to contend with. Not sure about Lyme disease, though.


Also, a nice second story about some cool neurological research.
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Dinosaurs had ticks? Not surprising considering they were created round the same time.
 
Tourette's Individuals suffer tics too ... and they also have uncontrolled anger due to extreme free will ... as due to politic 'n!
 
Poor Mercury. The closest planet to the Sun often gets lost in shuffle behind bigger, sexier planets like Jupiter, Venus, and Mars. Hell, even the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres have been getting more press than Mercury recently.

And, yet, by being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury offers some very unique research opportunities. Like this one.

https://gizmodo.com/test-of-einsteins-theory-shows-the-sun-is-losing-mass-1822211120
 
Mendalla said:
Poor Mercury. The closest planet to the Sun often gets lost in shuffle behind bigger, sexier planets like Jupiter, Venus, and Mars. Hell, even the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres have been getting more press than Mercury recently.

And, yet, by being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury offers some very unique research opportunities. Like this one.

https://gizmodo.com/test-of-einsteins-theory-shows-the-sun-is-losing-mass-1822211120
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Then there are imposed Black Spots and true BS's that appear as the solar caldron roils ... some say there are larger versions out there ... but they don't wish to go there ...

Some even say we are in one ... metaphorically or a virtual image?
 
Ever see the stray consequences of deep fried turkey? We pardon for that explosion ... inherent lack ... an abstract some yearn to fill ... inhibited by authority ... telling you about what discursion Eire things you can learn ... a grey area given the underground nature of Jesus in the now ... very subtle learning through the para able and myth ... para means outside ... you have to cross over ... bring some word from home! Tis akin to pilgrimage in a land where everyone cries: stop-it! Bung ... or those children at the dike ... di key to mystery? That porcupine moment when you feels prickles up the spine ... then you just know ...
 
Waterfall said:
Voynich Manuscript is starting to be decoded by AI and the language seems to be Hebrew:

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-ai-uncover-mystery-voynich-manuscript.html
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Beat me to it. Should be interesting to see what it actually is as this unfolds further.

Back in the 80s, I read The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson and he has his characters discover that The Voynich Manuscript is part of a copy of the Necronomicon (fictitious occult book originally created by H. P. Lovecraft). Much paranormal mayhem ensues, as usually happens when the Necronomicon is involved. I believe The Voynich Manuscript has been the Mcguffin in some other works of fiction as well.
 
Oddly, this pretty much is how a collider works. Though I suspect that colliding apples at near the speed of light would just produce some rather messy applesauce.

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The impact of the fruit of creations eye ... tis a blind quantum thingy ... as the origins were in a scattered state of thought ...

Thus green tomato stops ... siding on life's railroad ... some hebe 'n and coussins expected ...
 
lol we're soooo doomed oh for the balm of continued ignorance

How the body battles a spoonful of sugar

How sugar industry blamed fat for heart risks with Harvard University's help | CBC News

and now the latest is that animal fat is beneficial...
International study shows moderate consumption of fats and carbohydrates best for health

(got introduced to the notion of wanna know what works in how to live? ask your grandma -- the fact that she lived means she was doing some things right, no studies or science absolutely necessary...just human beings being observant and having skin in the game...thanks Nassim Taleb)
 
Inannawhimsey said:
lol we're soooo doomed oh for the balm of continued ignorance

How the body battles a spoonful of sugar

How sugar industry blamed fat for heart risks with Harvard University's help | CBC News

and now the latest is that animal fat is beneficial...
International study shows moderate consumption of fats and carbohydrates best for health

(got introduced to the notion of wanna know what works in how to live? ask your grandma -- the fact that she lived means she was doing some things right, no studies or science absolutely necessary...just human beings being observant and having skin in the game...thanks Nassim Taleb)
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Heis produced quite a tome ... makes me into a croissant ... different kind of food for the brain (brains being high cholesterol and composed in the majority ... water) is that outstanding or just well deeply whetted as ET? Tis outa here ...

Got ta see The Shape Of Water ... in the near future to see how they handled the fluid insubstantial stuff ... some say an essence and others have no respect at all ... they are mum on Marah part as Mariah ... ad*rifting force?
 
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