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Wow. In xkcd 681 comic, there is an impressive illustration of the common term "gravity well". Here is a small part of that large image:
I can't resist. I must talk about this awesome illustration. My goal for this post is to help someone understand that comic (although the comic itself does a…
This has been all over my inbox since the press release came out yesterday; it's been on slashdot (thanks Brian), it's been at space.com, and there's a mediocre writeup on Universe Today. What's the big news? Black Holes don't destroy information after all!
What is this whole information thing,…
Dang, Jim Kakalios outranks us all. After I mentioned my oblique appearance in a comic book, he responded with a promise to verify his appearances, and he has come through.
He's the Secretary of State in the DC universe:
Even more impressive, he's a god-like physicist who can manipulate universal…
You know you're looking at a right-leaning site when the consistently awful comic strip, Day By Day, is doing well. But the Best Comic Strip category in the 2008 Weblog Awards does have two great entries: Jesus and Mo, and xkcd. If there is any justice in the universe, one of those two must win!
Deja vu...
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/
Maybe it's just me but its better to start at the bottom and work up.
Also, what's that box object thingy on the left hand side about same distance as Magellanic clouds? Y'know, the one ceiling cat is sitting on.
@eddie:
What you see when you die.