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Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:54 am

Can't remember last time I bought a DVD or Blu-Ray either. Stream everything now, from music to movies. Can't even remember the last one I watched either, hate the FBI screen and fast forwarding through the trailers.

Had to up my Netlflix account to 3 users last week, since my 2 kids who live out of town share my account.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:58 am

I have no idea the last time I bought a cd. I still get dvd's from the library and my wife has a collection of Christmas dvd's that we watch every year. We stream everything else, especially since cutting the cord

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:16 pm

I think my wife and I picked up some random cd's at a rummage sale about 2 years ago...before that I hadn't bought a cd since probably about 2007. I have bought 2 dvd's in the last couple years only because I could not find a digital copy to stream of some rare documentaries. Other than that I haven't bought a dvd since probably about 2007 as well.

TucsonClip · Post by **TucsonClip** » Thu Aug 17, 2017 1:32 pm

I honestly havent purchased a CD in 15+ years.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:44 pm

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:31 pm

I have a few bluerays, but never saw the point really. I've got Lawrence of Arabia, The Big Lebowski, and Attenborough's Life on Earth. What more do you need?

But I still get CDs all the time, and even LPs. I like OWNING the source material. I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay over and over for poor quality rentals. Having the source material means you can pause it while you do something else, then come back to it later for a serious listen. Or repeat it. Or use it for a coffee cup coaster if you hate it. Whatever.

I have over 1600 CDs and LPs in my collection (and yes they are neatly cataloged). Obviously I don't listen to the all all the time, but they have all been listened to. I used to tape my favorite LP's, but now I digitize them. I have over 20gigs on the USB message stick in the car and I am in the process of digitizing the old cassette tapes.

My most recent purchase:

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:44 pm

Dunno. You can pause all music I've listened to on spotify for years now....$10 a month for millions of songs.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:37 am

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:43 am

What a way to go.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:13 am

Physics, I guess?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:04 pm

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:23 am

We. Are. DOOMED.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:44 pm

ghostwhitehorse wrote:

We. Are. DOOMED.

Boston Dynamics = Cyberdyne Systems

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:56 pm

They still have work to do.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Sat Dec 02, 2017 2:02 pm

Still some juice in the old probe yet!!! https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/detai ... cle_id=108" target="_blank

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use.

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. The spacecraft, which has been flying for 40 years, relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980.

Woooo!!!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:26 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:36 am

Ideal for California, where Moonbeam just jacked up the price of gas, and even more for diesel.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:58 pm

2018 Will Be The Year Humanity Directly 'Sees' Our First Black Hole

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswith ... ffbc9d3a16

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:08 pm

Whoa, kinky!

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:09 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:2018 Will Be The Year Humanity Directly 'Sees' Our First Black Hole

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswith ... ffbc9d3a16

Hey, in my day, this was good enough:

EOCT · Post by **EOCT** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:21 pm

Think you could hide in a crowd??

There are four GoAzcatters in this picture---Gumby, Longhorned, Chicat, and Merk. See if you can find them.

Put your cursor somewhere in the crowd. Left click. Again. Couple of clicks more. Aw, keep on going as deep as you can:

http://www.gigapixel.com/mobile/?id=79995" target="_blank

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:17 pm

EOCT wrote:Think you could hide in a crowd??

There are four GoAzcatters in this picture---Gumby, Longhorned, Chicat, and Merk. See if you can find them.

Put your cursor somewhere in the crowd. Left click. Again. Couple of clicks more. Aw, keep on going as deep as you can:

http://www.gigapixel.com/mobile/?id=79995" target="_blank

You caught us in our digs on Homer Street.

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:07 am

This seems pretty promising
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/ ... -mice.html" target="_blank

EOCT · Post by **EOCT** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 4:33 pm

PieceOfMeat wrote:This seems pretty promising
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/ ... -mice.html" target="_blank

Fascinating and hopeful! Especially interesting is the statement "Our approach uses a one-time application of very small amounts of two agents to stimulate the immune cells only within the tumor itself." (Italics added.)

Thanks POM----uda man!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:48 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:36 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:55 pm

Watching both of the boosters land at the same time was bad ass.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:17 pm

azgreg wrote:Watching both of the boosters land at the same time was bad ass.

Missed it - damn work!

Heard they lost comms with the other booster? Any updates?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:22 pm

Musk's roadster currently on it's escape trajectory from Earth with the dummy chilling in the driver's seat with David Bowie playing.

https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M" target="_blank

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:23 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:
azgreg wrote:Watching both of the boosters land at the same time was bad ass.
Missed it - damn work!

Heard they lost comms with the other booster? Any updates?

Not a peep from them about the central core. Means it probably crashed into the ocean unfortunately. But the rest of it was a success.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:36 pm

Just watched the launch. Freaking awesome

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:46 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
UAEebs86 wrote:
azgreg wrote:Watching both of the boosters land at the same time was bad ass.
Missed it - damn work!

Heard they lost comms with the other booster? Any updates?
Not a peep from them about the central core. Means it probably crashed into the ocean unfortunately. But the rest of it was a success.

It's looking like the center core was lost.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:48 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:56 pm

Oops. Still for a first run, it definitely qualifies as a success.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:53 pm

https://gfycat.com/InfinitePointlessDeviltasmanian" target="_blank

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:24 am

Had no idea we could have seen it in CA and AZ

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:18 am

ASUHATER! wrote:Musk's roadster currently on it's escape trajectory from Earth with the dummy chilling in the driver's seat with David Bowie playing.

https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M" target="_blank

It's pretty cool to hop into live stream of it and see that the earth looks smaller today than it did yesterday

I wonder how long it'll transmit

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:24 am

EOCT wrote:
PieceOfMeat wrote:This seems pretty promising
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/ ... -mice.html" target="_blank
Fascinating and hopeful! Especially interesting is the statement "Our approach uses a one-time application of very small amounts of two agents to stimulate the immune cells only within the tumor itself." (Italics added.)

Thanks POM----uda man!

I also found it promising that the positive effects spread throughout the body. I've tried to read everything about this technique since stumbling across the news about it. It's probably the most promising thing I've seen in a long time.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:07 pm

Cool!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 3:05 pm

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 3:18 pm

we are soooooooo fucked.

NINJA'D!

TucsonClip · Post by **TucsonClip** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:57 pm

ghostwhitehorse wrote:

we are soooooooo fucked.

NINJA'D!

I THOUGHT BLACK MIRROR WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THE FUTURE.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:45 am

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:23 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:43 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:54 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:15 pm

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:13 am

Why do I picture God somewhere in front of a cosmic monitor right now laughing like Beavis and/or Butthead?

"Uh-huh-huh-huh...tell us something we DON'T know! Yeah! Yeah! Your anus smells like farts!"

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:00 pm

Post by **UAdevil** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 11:54 am

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557180/" target="_blank

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

A look at the available evidence

Adam Frank
Apr 13, 2018 Science

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It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me.

Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work as an astrophysicist, I’d begun researching global warming from an “astrobiological perspective.” That meant asking whether any industrial civilization that rises on any planet will, through their own activity, trigger their own version of a climate shift. I was visiting GISS that day hoping to gain some climate science insights and, perhaps, collaborators. That’s how I ended up in Gavin’s office.

Just as I was revving up my pitch, Gavin stopped me in my tracks.

“Wait a second,” he said. “How do you know we’re the only time there’s been a civilization on our own planet?”

It took me a few seconds to pick my jaw off the floor. I had certainly come into Gavin’s office prepared for eye rolls at the mention of “exo-civilizations.” But the civilizations he was asking about would have existed many millions of years ago. Sitting there, seeing Earth’s vast evolutionary past telescope before my mind’s eye, I felt a kind of temporal vertigo. “Yeah,” I stammered, “Could we tell if there’d been an industrial civilization that deep in time?”

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