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BigFrank

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The Largest Thing In The Universe?

Well, that's a well-known fact, but I hate to brag.

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

Someone will probably mention Claude.

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BigFrank Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Someone will probably mention Claude.

Looks like someone just did. :-)

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Someone will probably mention Claude.

What really upsets me, is that it took three posts. Step it up, guys.

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Dan Riffle

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

What really upsets me, is that it took three posts. Step it up, guys.

If it makes you feel any better, there was almost a Claude joke in spot 2. I thought about and decided not to derail the thread immediately lest people may have lit their torches and grabbed their pitchforks for the inevitable "Claude and Dan Ruin Everything" Festival, Jamboree, and Hate Fest.

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

If it makes you feel any better, there was almost a Claude joke in spot 2. I thought about and decided not to derail the thread immediately lest people may have lit their torches and grabbed their pitchforks for the inevitable "Claude and Dan Ruin Everything" Festival, Jamboree, and Hate Fest.

I was joking. All of it is the same to me. Smart insults are more interesting to me than benign compliments. And when someone says "You guys are derailing the thread", my response is "Think of something better, and post it."

Even a creative insult is better than nothing. In fact, insults that are intelligently thought out, are some of my favorite reading. Even complaints about my posts are sometime well written, and I enjoy them. Steve (can't remember his last name) has done a couple of those.

About the Universe. Yup. There are sections that are millions of light years across...that are composed of almost nothing. And in every computer model where there is an expansion, and gravity....gravity creates threads of galaxies.... and clusters of galaxies........and giant gaps, where there is nothing.

Of course, where we are looking may not be this, and may just be something blocking our view. No idea.

We just found a planet that may have liquid water. It's 1,400 light years away. The Moon is one light second away. Sometimes these ideas make my brain want to scream.

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Power of association. The words "largest" and "void" in the same sentence -- was a no brainer.

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

"no brainer" works as an association, as well.

See? That's the kind of stuff that makes me grin.

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I was joking. All of it is the same to me. Smart insults are more interesting to me than benign compliments. And when someone says "You guys are derailing the thread", my response is "Think of something better, and post it."

Even a creative insult is better than nothing. In fact, insults that are intelligently thought out, are some of my favorite reading. Even complaints about my posts are sometime well written, and I enjoy them. Steve (can't remember his last name) has done a couple of those.

About the Universe. Yup. There are sections that are millions of light years across...that are composed of almost nothing. And in every computer model where there is an expansion, and gravity....gravity creates threads of galaxies.... and clusters of galaxies........and giant gaps, where there is nothing.

Of course, where we are looking may not be this, and may just be something blocking our view. No idea.

We just found a planet that may have liquid water. It's 1,400 light years away. The Moon is one light second away. Sometimes these ideas make my brain want to scream.

See? That's the kind of stuff that makes me grin.

This is something else. The Uk Telegraph reports that Our Galaxy is being pulled towards it at 14 mph. So eventually we will be swallowed up. Giant black hole or the universes drain? We are going down the plug hole. Mysterious 'supervoid' in space is largest object ever discovered, scientists claim - Telegraph

The other giant hole recently discovered in Wooster Ohio is pulling in dounuts at a much faster rate. Scientists say not to be alarmed though as poses no danger to humans and will collapse in upon itself within the next 30 years when it's Quan-tum Singularity is full.

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HeySal 9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Someone will probably mention Claude.

Power of association. The words "largest" and "void" in the same sentence -- was a no brainer.
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- Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
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  Power of association. The words "largest" and "void" in the same sentence -- was a no brainer.
  
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bizgrower

9 years ago

Don't ask me how, but I knew it would take three posts to get to Claude.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

How is a void a structure?

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by bizgrower

How is a void a structure?

Bloody hoteliers asking their dumb assed perfectly sensible and intelligent questions again.

"Structure is a fundamental, tangible or intangible notion referring to the recognition, observation, nature, and permanence of patterns and relationships of entities."

Wikipedia

It does not have to be like a hotel basically.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

It does not have to be like a hotel basically.

I see, like the local Super 8. Like a hotel, but avoid it.

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by bizgrower

I see, like the local Super 8. Like a hotel, but avoid it.

Is that as bad as the Motel 6 I stayed at in Galveston? When I went to the restroom at 1 am and turned the light on, all the cockroaches and bugs congregated on the floor in front of the throne scattered.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Is that as bad as the Motel 6 I stayed at in Galveston? When I went to the restroom at 1 am and turned the light on, all the cockroaches and bugs congregated on the floor in front of the throne scattered.

Not so many bugs in Colorado at this altitude, although I gained a new customer this weekend because she says she had bed bugs at Super 8 last year. Bed bugs, though, are simply hitch hikers. Any level of hotel can get them easily.

The main complaints are that the rooms and bathrooms are very dirty, pet smelling, and tobacco smelling. I gained a handful of new customers - up here weekly to do construction - because they were checking into rooms at Super 8 that did not look like the bed sheets were changed, etc, etc.

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HeySal

9 years ago

Originally Posted by bizgrower

How is a void a structure?

Yeah - that's what got me. It is the largest absence of, so who wrote that article?

Astronomy fascinated me enough to take a year of it in College. Of course back in those days we lacked the technology to really get in deep and friendly with it that we have now.

Claude - the one that really kills my brain is the fact that they now have about conclusive evidence that our arm of the Milky Way actually collided with the Sagittarius Galaxy at one time, so we might actually be a Sagittarian planet or solar system instead of innately Milky Way -- in which case we might be totally distinct in construction from anything else in this galaxy. That to me is mind bending.

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Claude Whitacre

9 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

This is something else. The Uk Telegraph reports that Our Galaxy is being pulled towards it at 14 mph.

So.........someone has measured that our galaxy is moving toward a distant void at...14 miles an hour?

So, in 50 billion quadrillion years....we'll be 1% closer? I'll be an old man by then.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

So.........someone has measured that our galaxy is moving toward a distant void at...14 miles an hour?

So, in 50 billion quadrillion years....we'll be 1% closer? I'll be an old man by then.

By then?

Damn, I'm not far behind. The older I get, the older old is.

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lanfear63

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

So.........someone has measured that our galaxy is moving toward a distant void at...14 miles an hour?

So, in 50 billion quadrillion years....we'll be 1% closer? I'll be an old man by then.

What do you mean "By Then" ( Dam, already done)

Being attracted to and pulled in, despite the the slow speed I find interesting. If so, it means that what is considered by you and others to be just an empty space could be something more.

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bizgrower

9 years ago

How can one be dumb assed and perfectly sensible and intelligent at the same time?

Wait...that leads to some kind of warped continuum. Never mind.

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lanfear63 9 years ago

Originally Posted by bizgrower

How can one be dumb assed and perfectly sensible and intelligent at the same time?

You see, there you go again.
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Zodiax

9 years ago

Claude is larger than a planet.

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Claude Whitacre 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Zodiax

Claude is larger than a planet.

No, but my ego is close.

Someone said to me, "You should have your own Bobble Head...but that would be redundant"

I ate him.
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- Dan Riffle 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  No, but my ego is close.
  
  Someone said to me, "You should have your own Bobble Head...but that would be redundant"
  
  I ate him.
  
  And then he gave you the agreed upon $5.
  
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  Claude Whitacre 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  And then he gave you the agreed upon $5.
  
  Hey, I was young..and needed the money.
  
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  bizgrower 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Hey, I was young..and needed the money.
  
  You were young?
  
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  tagiscom 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Hey, I was young..and needed the money.
  
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- Zodiax 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  No, but my ego is close.
  
  Someone said to me, "You should have your own Bobble Head...but that would be redundant"
  
  I ate him.
  
  What do you mean, you are one of the most modest and humble people I have met.
  
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  BigFrank Banned 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Zodiax
  
  What do you mean, you are one of the most modest and humble people I have met.
  
  You don't get out of your cave much, do you?
  
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  Kurt 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Zodiax
  
  What do you mean, you are one of the most modest and humble people I have met.
  
  The only reason Claude even considers being humble is because he thinks it's a type of pie.
  
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  tagiscom 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kurt
  
  The only reason Claude even considers being humble is because he thinks it's a type of pie.
  
  Yeah, he is humble until you start discussing Martian Fluffy Bunnies, then it gets ugly!
  
  But in a nice way!
  
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  Zodiax 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kurt
  
  The only reason Claude even considers being humble is because he thinks it's a type of pie.
  
  Double-stuffed pie lol.
  
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  lanfear63 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Zodiax
  
  What do you mean, you are one of the most modest and humble people I have met.
  
  What the Dickens! We are talking about Uriah Heep's personal trainer here!
  
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  Kurt 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  What the Dickens! We are talking about Uriah Heep's personal trainer here!
  
  Wrong band. It's not Uriah Heap, it's Humble Pie and sadly Claude gives a whole new meaning to "30 Days in the Hole".
  
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bizgrower

9 years ago

Oh don'tcha know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep

Get Steve Marriott (lead of Humble Pie) (I did not know - or I forgot - Peter Frampton was in that band) in the Rock and Roll hall of fame:
http://www.humble-pie.net/

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