Alas, bombing will not occur. The turn-out percentage for this poll was terrible. I should almost just bomb this shit to combat voter-apathy. But hey, whatever. At least P-dot wants to rhyme, and I've got the time. So I guess not is all for loss.

As for that article being printed in the journal last week... it was a different article. I read that article too, but that one was BEFORE Hawking made the announcement; it was more in anticipation of his upcoming talk. Hawking just made the announcement today at the 17th International Conference On General Relativity and Gravitation. In fact, Hawking made the announcement specifically at 1:30 this afternoon as evidenced by the official GR17 Programme Schedule listed HERE.

As for quantum physics philosophy, I had an interesting discussion on hypothetical photogravitonic extradimensional models here. The discussion is based off of Dustin's essay entitled Supersymmetry and Other Home-spun Wisdom.

An IP in every pot... and person... and electronic device... and dog... and...

Speaking of pot, 10 million!

Speaking of crazy Canadians, Regina doctor, convicted of sexual assault, is deported. What's so strange about that? Well, he tried to get away with it by implanting a tube of blood in his arm and using that to provide fake blood for the DNA test.

Speaking of implanting tubes in your body (?), hasn't it been two days, Tay?

No go-karting today unfortunately.... rained out

Discussion of camping at chilis tonight - now would be a good time to decide if you can come or not.

Hmm wierd, that same article was in the journal last week, odd that it be released today again

Halking served... himself?

hawking gets served:

from the guardian

Scientist overturns black hole theory

Press Association
Wednesday July 21, 2004

Scientific theory about black holes was turned inside out today, after Professor Stephen Hawking backtracked on a 30-year-old theory.
Professor Hawking, one of the world's leading scientists, has solved the riddle of how black holes not only suck matter in like a giant vacuum in space, but also release it.
For years scientists were baffled by the holes, which they believed were bottomless pits in space into which matter and energy would fall, vanishing forever.
But at the 17th international conference on general relativity and gravitation in Dublin, Professor Hawking revealed new calculations that proved the surface of a black hole had fluctuations allowing information to leak out.
In a 1974 study, the Cambridge professor found that black holes were not completely black, as they emitted energy, which became known as Hawking radiation.

This leaking of energy would shrink the black hole before it disappeared in a final explosion.
Scientists were puzzled for 30 years as to how a black hole can let energy escape - an information paradox. The basic problem was that black holes would suck in matter from space, but also quantum mechanical information.
According to the fundamental laws of physics, this information must be preserved as the universe evolves.
Professor Hawking, who suffers from motor neurone disease, today revealed new calculations that showed the surface of a black hole had quantum fluctuations in it.
These fluctuations allow information in the black hole to leak out. A consistent picture is formed and the paradox unravelled.
Sadly for Professor Hawking his revelation has meant he lost a bet made with John Preskill, of the California Institute of Technology.
They had argued that information swallowed by a black hole was hidden forever and could never be revealed. The forfeit is an encyclopaedia of Professor Preskill's choice.

Yes. Roar! Consensus bad! Read this guy.

Oh, and I'm sure many of you have seen it (it's been on CNN, of all places), but here is This Land, starring W and F.

Michael Crichton on bad science, politics in science, nuclear winter, global warming, Bjorn
Lomborg, ... an interesting read:

Aliens Cause Global Warming

I think I would have preferred the bomb...

soothing balm? you talk of "calm"?
My words are burnin like fresh napalm,
I love the smell of that shit in the morning,
and that sulphurous-smell of hell is a warning
signs in the sky, and lightnin's a-roaring
that there's no use in defending appocalypse pending,
so we wage war to end war, but this shit's neverending,
if a man hears there's fire in the hole then he ducks,
So is the apocalypse now? You kiddin??? This shit's redux!
Get your head in the game, this ain't appocalypse future!
It's appocalypse NOW, not time to give you a suture!
You think you're tough shit like Calrissian... Lando...
or whatever the fuck his name is, you gotta be more like Brando
with classic one-liners and french maid one-timers
keep your eyes on the guns and your ears on the rhymers.
POW POW POW, and you're a fuckin pee-oh-double-you
Charlie's got the harley's and he'll ride all over you
you hear a rumble in the jungle but it ain't Ali
it's the bombers in cambodia and you're next if you dalley
so it's the ride of the valkyries, and we all die walkure
through the vally of the shadow of death we done walk thurr
take a look at yer limbs and realize nuttin's left thurr
but a short fat stump and a bloody mess for a chump
you think this is strife? you just can't step-up in this life,
your cammo's still chaffin and some thing's still chase you
you don't know shit-for-ammo and you're head first in strafe you
shouldn't have got up in the morning. Morning Glory!!!
Blood, guts and jungle flowers, and you pray for super powers
but all you get is gory, and that's the story of your life ain't it;
just a body-bag for your wife when you're MIA and you're S.O.L.
but nobody'll miss you,
so fuck it.
oh well.