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By herbert (Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 03:55:18 PM EST) science, questions, maps, books (all tags)
  • Science question
  • Literary cartography
  • Short book reviews

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By BadDoggie (Sun May 18, 2008 at 09:54:26 AM EST) science, universe, astrophysics (all tags)
If the universe is 13.7 billion years old, how can it possibly be 56 billion light-years across? Since the speed of light is constant and cannot have changed, the maximum size of the the universe measured between its two most distant points should be no more than 27.4 billion light-years wide. I'll explain a little further inside.

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By sgt york (Tue Aug 28, 2007 at 05:54:39 PM EST) mouse, cannibalism, science, nocosomial infection (all tags)
I was just doing another challenge earlier today.

Small cohort of mice, just a few dozen.


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By priestess (Thu May 18, 2006 at 06:40:12 PM EST) carbon, environmentalism, mentalism, philosophy, economics, science, drugs (all tags)
So I was thinking about people planting tree's to make up for the carbon cost of 'em flying from one place to another. Also, I was thinking about the fact that I breathe in oxygen more than I breathe it out, and I breathe out Carbon Dioxide more than I breathe it in.

Stupid marijuana.


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