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btaf45,

100 ly years is actually kind of far. It is farther than most of our named stars. I wouldn’t consider it ‘nearby’.

btaf45,

100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood. It is 3x farther than even Arcturus.

[US] Consider a brokerage account for your main bank

Most people take a simple view of cash: they have a checking account for spending and a savings account for savings, and if they get fancy, they’ll have a CD for longer term savings goals. Power users will change to an online bank with better returns, and that’s about as far as it goes. That certainly works, but we can do a...

btaf45,

[SIPC instead of FDIC insurance - coverage is about the same]

You left out one detail. Technically if you have $100,000 in Money Fund A it means you hold 100,000 shares that are priced at $1 each. SIPC will protect you from losing your 100,000 shares but cannot protect you if the value of each share falls below $1. This is unlikely to happen, but is legally possible. There were some scares about this happening in 2008.

If you want to be rock solid safe you could choose a money market fund that is backed 100% by US treasuries, but you would earn less interest.

btaf45,

Interesting. I had not heard about the 2015 thing.

btaf45,

[More recent work has seen pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) such as NANOGrav successfully identify a specific flavor of gravitational wave known as the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The SGWB is similar in concept to the cosmic microwave background—a consistent glow from the early universe that astronomers can see as a series of microwaves coming from all directions at once.]

First time I’ve heard of this concept.

btaf45,

If I understand this correctly:

In the main Cosmic Inflation universe, new space is created exponentially with time.

In roughly 1 out of every 30,000 pieces of “new space”, a big bang occurs from a random quantum fluctuation. The big bangs slow down the inflation expansion in a local area that becomes the equivalent of a ‘pocket universe’.

There was perhaps an infinite number of big bangs (and dead pocket universes) in the past, and there will be an infinite number of big bangs (and new pocket universes) in the future.

btaf45,

Yeah. Can’t wait for more!

btaf45,

Yes. The Cosmic Inflation universe grows exponentially bigger every tiny fraction of a second. And this has been going on for possibly billions or trillions of years or longer. The number of big bangs and pocket universes created by that is mind boggling.

btaf45,

Common mistake

btaf45,

Android has at least one major advantage over Apple. It lets you use alternate app stores and sideways loading.

btaf45,

Will they be similar to our universe or have less energy because inflation continued for longer?

Likely similar to ours. The energy from inflation came from energy that is inherent to the fabric of space - dark energy. So it was not diluted.

But what if we tried to go there anyway? What exists between us?

First there is distance. New space would be created faster than we could travel there. There would likely be other problems. For example, matter would not be stable enough to form atoms and probably wouldn’t exist at all. In the inflation universe, the particles are hypothetical “inflatons”, not the particles we have.

btaf45,

No. Our observable universe would be way to small to be connected to the inflationary region. Also, the inflationary universe probably doesn’t have any of our particles so it would not have any light photons. It would probably just look like a mysterious dark area to us.

btaf45,

She is mad at Convicted Rapist Treason Trump for not paying her legal bills.

btaf45,

As an attorney who is also a Christian,

The bible says “Do not spread false reports”.

So she failed at both of these things.

btaf45,

I couldn’t care less about her claiming to be a Christian - it’s meaningless really.

There are 2 aspects about this I care about. (1). I am getting more and more outraged that Christianity has become a gateway drug for neofascist extremism every time I hear one of these jerks making a big deal about being a “Christian”. (2) The hypocrisy of these “Christians” simply pisses me off. It’s obvious they ignore everything the bible says that they don’t like, so why the pompous arrogance about membership in something you don’t take at all seriously?

btaf45,

The tax software is not free. Not sure about the online form submissions.

btaf45,

Mailing in your tax return is free.

btaf45,

How come nobody is mentioning how President George Bush is the guy who fucked up Gaza?

www.brookings.edu/…/the-day-that-bush-took-gaza/

The Day That Bush Took Gaza

April 25, 2004

President Bush’s embrace of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for unilateral Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip is going to turn out to be more than a mere gesture. Sharon’s radical initiative would evacuate all Israeli settlements and military positions, unilaterally, within the next 18 months…de facto responsibility for what happens in Gaza once Israel withdraws will fall to the United States. That’s the hidden meaning in the president’s letter of assurance to Sharon saying that the United States will lead an international effort to build the capacity and will of Palestinian institutions to fight terrorism and prevent the areas from which Israel withdraws from posing a threat.

One wonders whether Bush really appreciates what he is getting himself and the United States into. Having trumpeted his support for an independent Palestinian state, he is now taking on responsibility for ensuring that the Gaza mini-state created by Israel’s withdrawal does not turn into a failed terrorist state.

btaf45,

Got my updated vaccine. Was #6 for me.

btaf45, (edited )

I was shafted by an Ebay seller who was nasty and awful. He acted like he was too stupid to understand why his item was not at all what I ordered. He had a 99.4% approval rating. I thought how the hell was that possible? I found out when I went to leave my negative rating and Ebay wouldn’t not allow me to post the negative rating.

btaf45, (edited )

This is 632 megameters (million meters) per hour. The speed of light is 1.080,000 megameters per hour. So this object is traveling 0.58% of light speed.

edit:

0.058% of light speed. thanx modva

btaf45, (edited )

So far what I’ve seen from AI is that it lies and lies and lies. It lies about history. It lies about science. It lies about politics. It lies about case law. It lies about programming libraries. Maybe this will all be fixed some day, or maybe it will just get worse. Until then the only thing I would trust it is about something in which their is no wrong answer.

btaf45, (edited )

[citing Rumble, a video-streaming service favored by conservatives.]

Conservatives love to be lied to. But nobody else does. So stop this shit. Nobody who is not a conservative wants to be lied to. We would rather retain our dignity. People who love to be lied to are the absolute dumbest of the dumb.

btaf45,

[Within the large group of rogue planets are 42 pairs of planets that are gravitationally bound together, something that’s never been observed before. ]

I wonder if that means all 84 planets are bound together.

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