Non-IT News Thread
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@coliver said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@coliver On the fullscale image you can barely see the orbits of the planets in the glow of the sun.
Right, it is incomprehensible how much bigger this orbit is then the orbits of our known planets are. Although this is still a hypothesis from what I've seen... cool none-the-less.
Cool is an understatement!!!!
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Very cool, as there is basically no sunlight out there!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very cool, as there is basically no sunlight out there!
I was just thinking it would be cool if someone had a graphic of what the sun would look like at furthest point of the orbit.
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It would, I'm sure, be a bit less bright than, say, Jupiter is for us.
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Gas in Michigan is down to $.479 per gallon!
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Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
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http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aA1DQnR_460s_v1.jpg
USA Today is huge.
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@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
I'm not really sure what you mean?
Assuming a standard value of $1, you're saying that gasoline today costs only $0.33?
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@Dashrender said:
@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
I'm not really sure what you mean?
Assuming a standard value of $1, you're saying that gasoline today costs only $0.33?
If the Cheapest price ever was X, current price (adjusted for standard currency) is .33X.
Take the cheapest price prior to now, and now we are one third of that.
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@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
Fuel here is still about $1.899gal. not sure that really qualifies as 'cheap' .. definitely not as cheap as the fuel up north the other day..
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@gjacobse said:
@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
Fuel here is still about $1.899gal. not sure that really qualifies as 'cheap' .. definitely not as cheap as the fuel up north the other day..
I just paid $2.06
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I paid a dollar 47 when I left St. Louis. And now I just paid a dollar 68 in Dwight
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New record setting prime number found that is 22.3 million digits long.
http://www.usnews.com/news/science/articles/2016-01-21/with-223m-digits-new-prime-number-sets-record
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@brianlittlejohn said:
New record setting prime number found that is 22.3 million digits long.
http://www.usnews.com/news/science/articles/2016-01-21/with-223m-digits-new-prime-number-sets-record
It shall be known as.... optimus prime.
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Kentucky Governor declares state of emergency due to snow accumulations.
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From the weather, I assume?
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@scottalanmiller yes,.. that better?
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Yeah.
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@gjacobse said:
Kentucky Governor declares state of emergency due to snow accumulations.
From: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article56019145.html
"Freezing rain began turning to sleet about 6 a.m. in the south, with moderate snow on the leading edge of the storm, the weather service reported on Twitter. Just before 8 a.m., the heavy snow began to pick up, pelting parts of the state at a rate of 1 to 2 inches an hour.Kentucky State Police posted on Twitter about 2:30 p.m. that multiple wrecks in Rockcastle County have closed all lanes of Interstate 75 for 12 miles between London and Mount Vernon. The estimated delay was two to four hours."
For anyone that has had to commute through a snow belt by one of the Great Lakes, that's known as "Tuesday". Worth maybe a yawn. Kinda crazy how different the reactions and preparedness are just 200 miles south.
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