Shut up, Merry Christmas, and Other Random Thoughts

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 02:30:05

WilliamC wrote:Underwood and Faith Hill are hot but never CROW!

Don't be so hasty

by **Slowhand** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 05:59:33

One of my childhood friend's moms is named Cheryl Cole. Haven't seen her in a while, but I don't remember her looking like the same one WillyC posted.

by **Bucky** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 09:16:21

Holy poop when I first saw that picture I thought it was like a giant theme park "Crow" ride and I thought that is the most awesomest thing in the world then I realized it was just a close shot but it's still pretty awesome i want one

by **Rev_Beezer** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:00:23

I keep thinking you mean Paula Cole, the "Dawson's Creek" theme singer, and she also did "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone," one of the worst songs ever (I will watch the children, while you go have a BEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR........)

by **Woody** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:13:19

When I get e-mails from Sr. Execs that say "Sent from my iPad", I have to admit, I get a little angry. I can't even get work email hooked up on my iPhone (seriously, they'd rather pay for a blackberry than hook email up to my existing phone, security, unsupported blah blah), or a new brick HP laptop. And the bourgeoisie is running around sending reply alls from their baubles. The revolution is coming.

by **WheelsFellOff** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:19:06

Woody wrote:The revolution is coming.

Will it be webcasted?

by **Woody** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:19:36

On 1's UStream

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:47:27

I can't find the posted without comment thread, so I'll just link this little bit of hometown news here.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:49:03

must be a charmer

by **drsmooth** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:12:38

TenuredVulture wrote:I can't find the posted without comment thread, so I'll just link this little bit of hometown news here.

technically, wouldn't her situation be trigamy?

anyways, talk about being a staunch supporter of the institution of marriage

by 1 » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:29:35

so nasa found new life in some poisonous lake in california that has an arsenic (not phosphorus) base. i'm scared.

by **Bakestar** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:33:23

1 wrote:so nasa found new life in some poisonous lake in california that has an arsenic (not phosphorus) base. i'm scared.

Are they hosting the World Cup in like 2030 or something?

by **CalvinBall** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:18:42

is california in space now?

by **td11** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:26:23

1 wrote:so nasa found new life in some poisonous lake in california that has an arsenic (not phosphorus) base. i'm scared.

Scientists from NASA are scheduled to hold a news conference this afternoon for the purpose of announcing their discovery of a unique new life form discovered in California's Mono Lake. Prior to this discovery, all forms of living organisms on Earth required a composition of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorous, or sulfur. This new bacterium consists entirely of arsenic, altering our preconceived notions of what is required to sustain life.

wow. all arsenic? i can't even wrap my head around that.

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:28:14

CalvinBall wrote:is california in space now?

It was very close to the site in the desert where the moon landings were staged, so they already had an ongoing operation.

by **td11** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:29:08

there's just no way. it has to be carbon based. you can't just be "made of" arsenic.

THEY TAUGHT ME THINGS IN SCHOOL DAMN IT

by **BigEd76** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:35:03

Rev_Beezer wrote:I keep thinking you mean Paula Cole, the "Dawson's Creek" theme singer, and she also did "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone," one of the worst songs ever (I will watch the children, while you go have a BEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR........)

she doesn't shave her pits

by **td11** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:35:44

gizmodo:

Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.

But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.

so it's DNA uses As to build it's DNA strands instead of phosphorous (which is plausible since P and As are in the same group, therefore have very similar chemical properties). that makes more sense. it's probably still made of C, N, H, O, and S.

still, that's crazy.

by **td11** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:40:09

and yet another website says that it's probably "arsenic powered," meaning it uses some As-based molecule as it's primary energy molecule (ATP for the rest of us, which has phosphorous).

sigh, i'll just wait for 2pm.

by **Woody** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:40:45

SPEAK ENGLISH INDIAN

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