Unusual neutron star spinning every 76 seconds discovered in stellar graveyard

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-28T10:00:06+00:00

I bought my wife some artwork for Xmas a few years back at the Crozet Artisan Depot, across the street from Crozet Pizza. All local artists.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-27T19:03:40+00:00

There's nothing wrong with that date, that's for sure.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-27T18:56:42+00:00

Check to see what the Chromebook's expiration date is. Each Chromebook comes with a predetermined date that determines how long it will receive automatic security updates. After that, it becomes increasingly vulnerable to any exploit that can impact the Chrome browser.

Some retailers mark down the prices of Chromebooks that are approaching their expiration date, and you can get burned with a "Yay, great price!" only to receive a message 6 months later saying the updates have stopped.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-26T09:39:45+00:00

My wife would freak the hell out when she'd hear that our Sun is going to enter the red giant phase and grow large enough to (probably) consume the Earth. That it's going to happen in a few billion years didn't make it any less anxiety-inducing for her.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-23T13:42:06+00:00

Even though we just had a blistering hot weekend, I may have to make this recipe soon. I already have everything but the corn. This looks great!

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-22T18:09:37+00:00

No scientists think Mars had life

Here's a NASA scientist who's been saying for years that he believes Mars had life. And he's been expounding on that for years. So that, I suppose, makes you full of shit.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/mckay.html

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-22T16:39:07+00:00

From what I've read, the real limiting factor of using antimatter is its availability. According to this link I found (a few years old, but still):

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2015/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-antimatter

"If all the antimatter ever made by humans were annihilated at once, the energy produced wouldn’t even be enough to boil a cup of tea."

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-22T16:01:21+00:00

The planet, we think, was too small to sustain life because of the current lack of a magnetic field. That's a big difference.

And that's why we keep going back to look for evidence that life used to exist.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-22T13:09:54+00:00

A lot of scientists think there's a good chance it was a living planet before Earth was. It's smaller so it would have cooled more quickly, allowing life (if it was ever there) to emerge sooner.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-22T11:05:12+00:00

Most small, local breweries already do that with beer. You buy what's called a growler, and then bring it back for refills. The bonus is that you're directly supporting a small business instead of a grocery store chain.

Water refill stations have also long been available at many major grocery stores. Even Walmart sells the bottles and the refills.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-21T19:52:19+00:00

Possibly, but we'd be able to take them down by coordinating a global counterattack after a ragtag pair of humans infiltrated their mothership to destroy their ability to defend themselves.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-21T10:55:57+00:00

At almost 20 years old, the better bet would be to replace the unit.

And as others have suggested, I'd get more estimates. My wife and I replaced our downstairs HVAC unit in 2017 (hybrid system, heat pump and propane, with propane coming into play when the temp drops really low), and though I can't find the original bill at the moment, the sum of all the payments made was just under $8k.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-19T16:00:59+00:00

In a universe where quantum mechanics is king (along with general relativity), and QM seems completely counter-intuitive at the macro level, I'd say the universe doesn't really care about making sense.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-18T09:54:12+00:00

For people like me, who've been driving for around 40 years, a lot of what I consider to be bad driving is perception. Can I accurately compare what I see now with what I remember from the early 80s, when I first started driving? Probably not.

The only real objective measurement I can apply is speed. Since my dad first taught me to drive, I've usually been a speed limit + 5 driver, which used to make me one of the faster drivers on the road (and even got pulled over and given a warning for +5 on a few occasions). These days, when driving at +5, most of the traffic blows right by me, especially on I 64.

My wife and I have been teaching our teenage daughter to drive, and I find myself regularly pointing out to her the really bad driving I see when she's a passenger, as a warning for the things she needs to look out for in order to be a defensive driver. Most drivers seem incapable of even keeping their car in their own lane, constantly crossing the lines on both straight roads and curvy.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-16T20:45:27+00:00

There's a cuckoo's nest joke in there somewhere.

The_Weekend_Baker · 2022-05-15T10:53:20+00:00

To me, the most important part of being frugal is learning to distinguish between a want and a need. Since the post-WWII boom in prosperity that began in the US and gradually spread across the globe, 70+ years of increasingly aggressive marketing has done a phenomenal job of blurring that line. It's convinced generations that products/services which were formerly luxuries were, in fact, necessities, and people have been harming themselves financially ever since, based on that lie.

It doesn't mean you should never buy something based on want. Understanding that fundamental difference not only benefits you, though, it also benefits the environment.

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