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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    09/26/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    Magrathea!
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    Image of rek rek
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    Is it really "real-time" when you're watching the light of something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago?
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    Image of techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    It's probably the Caeliar and they're building a Dyson sphere XD
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Death Star...
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    09/24/09

    @twophrasebark: Aw... I was gonna pipe in with "That's no moon..."
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/24/09

    @twophrasebark: Is that from "Space Lump II: the Lumpening?"
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    Okay, I'm going to dork out for a second in the midst of all this hilarity, if no one minds.

    So if the artist's conception looks anything like what the observation looks like, it seems to be an accretion disk that hasn't completely solidified, or one that failed to and now there's just an uneven distribution of mass in the disk. That being said, it's likely we just caught it at a really interesting point of its development - nature abhors instabilities like that, so either the body will disperse into a stellar ring of material, or it'll congeal over time into a solid planetary body. In any event, that's really freaking fascinating, and I'm with Dr. Muzerolle.

    Although okay, I'll concede the point that Annalee's theory is a bit more interesting. And likely involves less irritating math. :D
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    So what is this lump anyway? I imagine the speculation going like this:

    Kid: It might be a tumor...

    Arnie: It's not a tumor.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    Hopefully, hostilities with the Idirans won't hold up construction.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    09/24/09

    @Grey_Area: I'm concerned about the potential danger to contractors on the newly constructed Death Star.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/24/09

    @Grey_Area: I think we bitch-slapped them into submission a few hundred years ago.

    -looks it up-

    Yep, 600, give or take.
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    Image of MissingPieces MissingPieces
    09/24/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Just cover up the thermal exhaust port this time! Damn contractors!
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/24/09

    @Grey_Area: Inquiring Minds want to know.
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    Image of Brian Fowler Brian Fowler
    09/24/09

    @Mathmos: It's a reference to Culture novels, by a Scottsman named Banks. Look around the site, almost everyone here loves him.

    I say almost because I have read two Culture novels and stuggled with a third until I got halfway. He has cool odeas like the Orbitals, but the actual plots are a mess.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/24/09

    @MissingPieces: Well, they installed a shield generator on the forest moon, so I'm sure we don't have to worry about the exhaust port issue.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/24/09

    @Brian Fowler: This is interesting, because some of the endless descriptions of the Orbitals - even with a love of hard sci-fi - really bored me to tears and I liked the plotting and society-building a lot more.
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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    09/24/09

    @Brian Fowler:

    Second that. Banks is not for me. The plot in Consider Phlebas is an unholy mess.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/24/09

    @Starlionblue: He was quite young when he wrote that one. I still adore the extraordinary leaps of imagination he took back then, really fun stuff.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    09/25/09

    @MissingPieces: Yeah, can't they just put a piece of plywood over it or something?
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    09/25/09

    @Grey_Area: Excession still holds a very special place in my heart - especially for the "Yahoo!" moment with Sleeper Service's war machine.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/24/09

    In reply to Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Mysterious "Space Lump"
    -faints-
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    I have smoked pot sincve sept.1968 and i am pissed off that you can go and drink yourself to death but you can not have legal pot.
    FUCK YOU USA !!!!
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    08/06/09

    @gorehound: Poor spelling, grammar, and manners. You aren't exactly helping the legalization movement.
    It's also only tangentially related to the article. Tell you what, go google "Marijuana" and find another article that contains the word and go swear there.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    But it hurts sooooo good.
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    Image of Bender is my hero! Bender is my hero!
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    Having conducted years and years of "personal research" on this matter, I can attest that this is probably true. THC has vast potential and provides many, many benefits to users, medical and otherwise, but I've definitely notices some intensified physical responses, including some types of pain, when using THC. What completely mystifies me though is that THC alleviates some forms of pain too.
    Personally I've noticed things like toothaches and bruises/impact injuries seem to hurt more or at least be more sensitive when under the influence. Other forms of pain, like some headaches, joint pain, and strained muscles seem to hurt less when under the influence.
    Obviously my research has been somewhat less than scientific. I'm a big proponent of decriminalization/legalization, particularly for medical uses; nothing else on the Earth will make a chemo patient hungry like marijuana will. If you've ever seen a chemo patient waste away from malnourishment, you should be able to appreciate this simple treatment.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    Does this mean I can still get high?
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    08/06/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: It's painfully obvious.
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    Image of Sabbatai Sabbatai
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    I am concerned that this study would even induce thoughts of using it's resulting applications in the manners described. On a side note, Marijuana has no medical benefits. Yet we synthesize it into Marinol and all the future products this study will undoubtedly lead to for its medical benefits and patenting.
    Imagine that.
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    Image of Agent355 Agent355
    08/06/09

    @Sabbatai: No medical benefits? There are university studies showing that beacause of its anti-inflammatory properties marijuana can help ease arthritis pain. And when you look at the side effects of prescription drugs currently available for arthritis pain (ulcer, impaired liver function, and more) THC starts to look even better.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    08/06/09

    @Sabbatai: "Marijuana has no medical benefits"
    Responding to your obvious typo might promote and validate your comment... while I don't want to do that, I sure like the idea of the huge thread that will follow your wacky rambling. I am torn.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    Using drugs or chemicals to inflict pain wouldn't be classified as any more "humane" than waterboarding, which also technically avoids inflicting any actual injury on the subject. Drug assisted interrogation is often labeled illegal or at least tightly regulated in many situations, even when all it involves is sodium pentathol to make people the equivalent of drunk and loose-lipped.
    Also, its generally accepted amongst any organization or individual who practices "professional" interrogation techniques that pain is a very poor interrogation tool, since often all it does is make people tell you what they think you want to hear- psychological techniques aren't just more legal, they're more effective.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/06/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Chemical That Eases Pain, But Also Causes It
    The link doesn’t take me directly to the paper. Why are you not enabling my laziness?
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