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Updating a well known commercial
From xkcd.
Captain Kirk, Batman, and Alexander the Great
William Shatner and Adam West reflect on their toga days
from RogueClassicism
One additional thought: William Shatner is now 80 years old. Alexander the Great was 33 when he died.
The End of Time …
The Big Crunch: Physicists Make Time End
Physicists Recreate ‘End Of Time’ in Lab
(The technical details) Hyperbolic metamaterial interfaces: Hawking radiation from Rindler horizons and the “end of time”
It should be noted that this is a simulation of one possible way our universe might evolve, one that current observations suggest is incorrect. However, it is a solution of Einstein’s equations of General Relativity, and as such well worth studying.
When I was much younger something like this might have been called an “analog computer.” I have not seen that term much lately.
Dark Matter Explained in One Minute
With no math. From Cocktail Party Physics
See also my post Dark Matter: Still needed.
The Flavors of Scotch
Watching the news
The Onion imitates Life
“Shuttle’s Last Flight Leaves Russia With Space Monopoly”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, July 7
“USSR Wins Space Race as U.S. Shuts Down Shuttle Program”–headline, Onion, July 27
In the end, the U.S. is left to ponder an irony: It won the technological race to develop a space shuttle but lost the war. “You can argue that the Russians were on the right trajectory all along, by flying big, dumb boosters,” said Duke University space historian Alex Roland.
Trip to Canada
mia_mcdavid and I joined colgaffneyis expedition to Fort William in Thunder Bay, Ontario, for the
Celtic Festival there July 23-24. Continue reading
What the Norwegian shooter believes, in his own words
From
The Norway Massacre: Born of Ideology or Belief? via
From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?”
It is not required that you have a personal relationship with God or Jesus in order to fight for our Christian cultural heritage and the European way. In many ways, our modern societies and European secularism is a result of European Christendom and the enlightenment. It is therefore essential to understand the difference between a “Christian fundamentalist theocracy” (everything we do not want) and a secular European society based on our Christian cultural heritage (what we do want).
The European cultural heritage, our norms (moral codes and social structures included), our traditions and our modern political systems are based on Christianity – Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and the legacy of the European enlightenment (reason is the primary source and legitimacy for authority).
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 