Funny, because enjoy both of these people quite a lot. This seems like the kind of show I should have seen, but it was in a blind spot for me.
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Oh this is good to know, I was going to give it a try, but it sounds like it would annoy me at the moment. Maybe Veronica Mars will crack my crusty outer shell, otherwise i’ll have to find a violent period drama about Roman soldiers or something.
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I also highly recommend Jett from Cinemax if you like hard-boiled heists; Im halfway through the first season which came out in June.
It’s very Elmore Leonard.
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I just watched this sequence from “Stormy Weather” (1943):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
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If your problem with The Next Generation was “not enough Wesley,” then this is the show for you
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For me it was the we can’t go through the dark matter because we can’t see through it.
DARK MATTER IS FUCKING TRANSPARENT.
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That doesn’t make sense to me, if dark matter behaves the way it sounds like it should.
The way I understand dark matter is that it interacts with the gravitational force, but not with the strong or weak nuclear forces or the electromagnetic force.
Therefore, the “dark matter density” should be higher within gravity wells, and lower in the vacuum of space. And, if you measured the dark matter density across the whole solar system, that should give a number that’s either much too low (because of all of the empty space), or much too high (because the vast majority of the dark matter would be contained within the Sun itself) to be useful for the purposes of calculating the mass of the dark matter contained by the Earth.
That said, I am now going to Explain XKCD to see if they agree.
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The prototype of the Large Scuridea Collider where they search for the elusive Peanut Particle
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I just finished watching DS9: Past Tense (the one where Sisko, Bashir, and Dax accidentally get teleported back to 2024).
It’s even more plausible than last time.
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This is a lot of little special features edited together, for your daily Star Wars dose.
It even includes the entire animated portion from the Holiday Special, which is clearly not off 40-year-old VHS. So I suppose George approves of that bit of the special.
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Well, this went from a probable nope to a firm “nuke from orbit” nope…
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THis movie looks like it’s going to be a…
train wreck.
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Is that even true?
Dark matter particles are attracted to gravity wells
∴ dark matter particles accelerate toward gravity wells
∴ dark matter particles are traveling at their maximum velocity in the middle of gravity wells
∴ dark matter particles spend less time in the middle of gravity wells than in other places
… maybe 
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I suppose it would depend on how “dark” the dark matter is.
If it doesn’t interact at all with other particles, aside from gravity, then, sure, the gravitational potential energy would convert to an exactly equivalent amount of kinetic energy, and then back to exactly the same amount of gravitational energy as when it started.
If there’s any entropy in the process at all, though, it would eventually end up in a stable orbit around (or within) a gravitational body.
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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
No. Please. No.
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It’s just not the same without MC Hammer…
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Who knew there was a Garfunkel and Oates TV show? Highly recommended, it’s like The Flight of the Conchords if the lead duo could act.
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It made me fondly remember that train wreck.
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