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Time Travel & Outer Space (Mon 11-15)
Coast To Coast AM | November 15, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 11/15/2010 11:01:41 AM PST by righttackle44

Professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, J. Richard Gott will talk about his work with the physics of time travel and helping people quantify how vast outer space really is, as well as the "Doomsday Argument" which shows how statistically there is a 95% chance of human extinction within 9,120 years.


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KEYWORDS: chat; coasttocoast; noory; tinfoilbrigade; worry
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To: Red Badger

Spandex. Obviously. Because we can’t find a belt for it. Same as Barney Frank.


21 posted on 11/15/2010 11:38:05 AM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: Cvengr
Take a deep breath...relax...in...out...in...out...there, feel better now?
22 posted on 11/15/2010 12:00:46 PM PST by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: GraceG

Why without Marx? It’s not like he really invented the brand of socialism called communism.


23 posted on 11/15/2010 12:30:20 PM PST by Durus (The distance between us has grown, and I struggle to quantify it. Windage adjustments are done.)
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To: Red Badger

The universe is not “everything there is” it’s everything there is in this universe.


24 posted on 11/15/2010 12:32:22 PM PST by bkepley
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To: Prokopton

“I get 93% chance of human extinction within 8,953 years.”

I think you forgot to carry the 1.


25 posted on 11/15/2010 12:57:07 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Red Badger
If the “Universe” is everything there is, and it’s “expanding”, what is it expanding in to?.................

Everything that is not.

26 posted on 11/15/2010 12:57:43 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: righttackle44
I dare you to find a Hyperspace Bypass.

Patience. It's under construction.


27 posted on 11/15/2010 1:00:41 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DManA
What is it? Majority rules?

Earth rules.

28 posted on 11/15/2010 1:01:55 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DManA

Up is relative to the fiduciary observer.


29 posted on 11/15/2010 1:06:52 PM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: righttackle44

The problem with time travel is that if you and the machine go ‘back’ 2000 years, the Earth wasn’t in this spot 2000 years ago.


30 posted on 11/15/2010 1:07:45 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

LOL. If you’ve got Vice President Cheney and Halliburton involved, you can probably get it done fairly quickly.


31 posted on 11/15/2010 1:11:24 PM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: numberonepal
Up is relative to the fiduciary observer.

What I find curious is that 'up' is actually 'down'.

The image on your retina, that gets sent to your brain, is 'upside down'. The brain 'flips' the image, so as not to confuse the owner.

Up and down is actually related to the pull of gravity (another thing we don't quite understand), and has nothing to do with any particular 'direction'.

Let's say there are 60 billion people on the planet. If they all point straight up, they are pointing in 60 billion different directions.

32 posted on 11/15/2010 1:13:57 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DannyTN
Imagine, there will never be a time when people didn’t have indoor toilets.

There will always be people who don't have indoor toilets. Many don't have them right now.

33 posted on 11/15/2010 1:15:59 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: righttackle44

Well, the bypass is almost done. We are waiting on the ‘hyper-space’ wormhole drilling rigs from BP. Seems there is a delay in getting the required Volgon permits, and there is a safety-record issue.

But, hey, what could go wrong? It’s not like the Earth would be missed.


34 posted on 11/15/2010 1:22:37 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: bkepley

If the universe is, as some have explained it, like a balloon, expanding, and the galaxies and all other objects are painted on the surface of the balloon, as the balloon grows larger, the objects grow farther apart.
If this is so, then we should be able to see the Milky Way galaxy by looking in the opposite “direction”............


35 posted on 11/15/2010 1:29:38 PM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: righttackle44

I better review that Charlie Chaplin video before I tune in tonight.


36 posted on 11/15/2010 1:45:15 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: UCANSEE2

Ain’t Relativity grand?


37 posted on 11/15/2010 1:58:54 PM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Red Badger
A better question. If the Big Bang Theory is true and the universe was the result, what when bang and where did it bang from? Was it from “nothing”?

Now if “nothing” preexisted the universe and it went BANG, it stands to reason that “nothing” is the greatest explosive material (or non-material) to have never existed.

How much “nothing” would we need if we wanted to make our own bang? Since we are dealing with “nothing” here, would more “nothing” be less and less “nothing” be more? How would you determine the yield/magnitude of a “nothing” bang.

We better hope and pray that terrorist never get their hands on any “nothing”.

38 posted on 11/16/2010 12:40:25 AM PST by NickFlooding (Canceling out liberal votes since 1972.)
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To: NickFlooding

How would you determine the yield/magnitude of a “nothing” bang.

By how many votes it gets............

39 posted on 11/16/2010 5:24:16 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: righttackle44
I don't know about you, but I intend to protest the extinction of the human race by eating more chocolate and popcorn.

Check with a local Boy Scout Troop. They sell chocolate covered popcorn that is absolutely fantastic!!!

40 posted on 11/16/2010 5:27:10 AM PST by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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