Starship Asterisk*

Seems people are posting what they think rather than what they know. The question is basically supposing that the universe is a bubble. For that to be true, it would have to be expanding within something else--a bubble of gas expanding within a liquid for instance. So the question is, what is beyond...

I'm 41 years older than that and I'm only now feeling well-rounded enough to get something out of a university education. So I'd recommend life, work, a long relationship with a significant other, and several large but not fatal mistakes. That'll take the edges off. ;-) But seriously, working at a ...

I attended public high school in Westchester, NY but spent the last year of my education in Vermont. In NY I was not required to take a full four years of all the basic subjects. I only had to take one year of Math and I think two years of Science. This allowed me to work exclusively on what I thoug...

According to some science show I saw on some channel on cable--I'll watch anything in HD except Teletubbies--a shift like the one your describing would happen very quickly. And by very quickly I do not mean 1,000 years or 100 years, but almost instantaneously (a day, five hours perhaps). Nope. The ...

This is just a crazy post with a hint of seriousness. With all the recent massive earthquakes that have been happening, is this a sign of a pole shift? Poles don't shift. The magnetic poles reverse every few hundred thousand years, which has no known geological impact. The rotational pole precesses...

It is worrying that Yellow Stone hasn't blown its top in a long while. We don't really want it to blow though do we? Nuclear winter and all that jazz? I suppose thats why it is the biggest danger, and I agree with that. I was just thinking today (because I seen in the paper about an eruption) that ...

According to some science show I saw on some channel on cable--I'll watch anything in HD except Teletubbies--a shift like the one your describing would happen very quickly. And by very quickly I do not mean 1,000 years or 100 years, but almost instantaneously (a day, five hours perhaps). So no, eart...