Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the GOP still tries to run Trump even after he's dead.
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I fully agree. In this vein, I also think that Romulans and Vulcans should prefer green-tinted lipstick rather than red. In a few episodes in DS9 they actually did this, but most of the time they just default to red and it really doesn't feel right.
Because the English decided they were going to save those letters for later.
Yeah, I grew up calling them Mosquito Hawks and was told the same thing. Urban legend with good cultural penetration, I guess.
Yeah, when "Leicester" is pronounced "Lester", you have no hope of figuring pronunciation out without help.
Let me see if I can try to explain this.
First off, light isn't just the fastest thing we know of, it is physically impossible to go faster than light according to the laws of physics as we understand it. This is because the speed of light is actually tied to the way spacetime works.
Imagine you are standing and you throw a ball. The ball travels at whatever speed you throw it, let's say 5 mph.
Now, let's put you on a train traveling at 20 mph and do the same thing. If you throw the same direction the train is traveling, your 5 mph adds to the train's 20 and the ball goes at 25 mph according to someone standing next to the track. Throw it the other way and they see it travel at 15 mph. To you, in either case, it appears to move at 5 mph.
Light doesn't do this. We've measured it, and in a vacuum light always appears to travel at the same speed (we call it c for short). If you hold a flashlight, your friend next to you can measure the speed of light and will find it to be c. If we put you back on that train and stand your friend next to the track, you will see the light moving at c, but so will your friend. Not c +/- 20 mph, but c. Even if we put you on a rocket traveling at some significant portion of light speed, say 0.5 c, both you and your friend would still observe the light from your flashlight to be traveling at c.
This is what Einstein figured out, and this is what we mean by Relativity. From this, we also know that objects moving faster experience an increase in mass (you have to get moving pretty close to c to really notice), and as you approach c that mass trends to infinity. That's why anything with mass cannot achieve the speed of light, it would be infinitely massive, and thus require infinite energy to accelerate to that speed. Thus, only things with no mass (such as light) can move that fast.
If you wear glasses, get your next pair with a blue light blocker, those can help. If you don't, you can get non-corrective blue light blocking glasses that do the same thing.
The other good thing is to regularly take breaks. Every 30-45 minutes, stop for just a couple of minutes and look around, focusing on objects at varying distances.
True, but it's completely inaccurate to say that "Exxon rebranded as Chevron," which is what I was responding to.
Exxon still exists, they just merged with Mobil and are now ExxonMobil. Chevron is an entirely different company.
His base thinks he is.
Were you paying attention the last several times he's tried to do more and gotten blocked at every turn by people who can't see past their own gains?
Is that an actual quote? I don't see it in the article, and I honestly can't distinguish between satire of Trump's speech and his actual words anymore.