While traveling in Russia during the days of the USSR, a traveler checks into a shared hotel room (who can afford a private one these days?), and is annoyed to find that the other guests in the room are staying up drinking vodka and getting louder in their criticism of the government as the night goes on.
He goes down to the front desk, orders some tea from room service, and returns to the room. Once there, he gets down on his hands and knees, crawls under the table, and says into the electric outlet, “Sergeant Smorodin, would you mind sending up some tea?” The others laugh at this, but a few minutes later fall silent and quickly go to bed when the tea shows up. Satisfied, the traveler goes to sleep.
In the morning, he awakes to find police hustling the other guests out of the room. As the last one closes the door, he says “You’re lucky, comrade – the sergeant liked your joke.”
Religion and science: Answering creationists’ questions.
Religion and science: Answering creationists’ questions.
Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait answers all 22 questions in that sad Buzzfeed posted yesterday.
Religion and science: Answering creationists’ questions.
Religion and science: Answering creationists’ questions.
Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait answers all 22 questions in that sad Buzzfeed posted yesterday.
Realistic space collision hazards are one of two things:
(a) Boring. At worst, you might walk through someone’s ball of orange juice that they left floating in mid-air. Or…
(b) Incredibly lethal and so fast you don’t have a chance to realise what just happened before you die. Any two random objects in space are likely to have relative velocities so high that if they collide one of them will simply punch a hole right through the other one. And you won’t see it coming, let alone have time to react.To alleviate this problem, use some artistic licence and populate your spacelanes with masses of rocks slowly drifting drifting in random directions. It makes no sense, but hey, neither do warp drives, psionic powers, or artificial gravity.
Awesome webcomic.
