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  1. Brendan Loy

    I have HAD it with these MOTHERF***ING SNAKES on this MOTHERF***ING PLANE!!!!!!!

    My favorite part of the linked article, and the reason I tweeted it, isn’t the discussion of giant asteroids (though, of course, I always enjoy PANIC!!!!!-ing about giant asteroids), but the bizarro stuff at the end, about protons breaking down and whatnot.

  2. Joe Loy

    “…but the bizarro stuff at the end, about protons breaking down and whatnot.”

    “Whatnot”, to be Sure. “After protons decay, there are no stable atoms, presenting a challenge for life.”

    A Challenge, indeed. Bit of an Understatement, that. :>

    “The curtain falls with the slow evaporation of black holes by a process called Hawking radiation…We imagine the last inhabitants of the universe huddled around the evaporative glow of gamma rays from the last black hole, telling timeless stories about time. It was fun while it lasted.”

    Indeed, again. / But as Prof. Hawking, Himself (via his trusty Voice-synthesizer), recounted in his recent Discovery Channel tour-de-force entitled “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking” — this is roughly Paraphrased from Memory but I think still Faithfully so —

    ‘Once when I was to deliver a lecture in Tokyo, I was asked not to discuss the ultimate fate of the Universe because this might cause problems for the Japanese stock market. / But today I would say to any nervous Investors: don’t sell Yet.’

    :}

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