Clearing the Browser Tabs – Da Radio Guy Saturday Edition
One of the neat thing about being a blogger is that you have plenty of opportunities to praise the successes of your other blogger friends. My friend Pete, the blogger better known as Da Tech Guy and not quite as well-known as Silent Bob to Stacy McCain’s Jay, has earned himself his very own radio show. His show is called “Da Tech Guy on DaRadio” and will air every Saturday at 5 PM on WCRN-AM in Worcester, MA. If you’re not in the listening area, which is pretty large since the station is a 50,000 watt blowtorch, you can hit the link to the station and listen on the net. Pete kicks off the show this week with special guest Stacy McCain (who isn’t hated. Honest!). They will, I’m sure, talk a bit about their Election Day road trip, which should make for some very entertaining radio. Tune in, if you can!
And now, links!
- There really are Real Life Super Heroes and one of them is keeping the streets safe in Seattle. Hey, if he’s getting the job done, I say we could use a few more just like him.
- Speaking of super heroes, the first Green Lantern movie trailer is out. Like Moe Lane, I love the GL concept even if he’s not my favorite comic book hero. On the downside, I do not love Ryan Reynolds in the role of Hal Jordan. I can’t take him seriously.
- It’s taken a while, but finally the IPCC is coming clean about its intentions. You won’t be surprised to learn that the climate is a secondary concern.
- How well did GM’s stock sale go? Well, we the people only lost $9 billion in the deal.
- The biggest electoral beatdown since before the Great Depression just got a little bit bigger.
- I understand the President also sent a congratulatory e-mail to the Washington Redskins for putting 11 people on the field against the Eagles last Monday night.
- A Space Battleship Yamato movie? We need to get that over here soon. Just subtitle it, like was done with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. We can handle that (via Brett at Precis Intermedia Games).
- The first planet located in another galaxy? Wow.
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Call it 'first planet formerly located in another galaxy'; or even 'first planet formed in another galaxy,' if you want to be accurate. It's not in another galaxy any more, because its parent galaxy was eaten by ours. Like the Magellenic Clouds will eventually be absorbed.
If the planet's parent star were still in another galaxy, it would be much too far away for us to find the planet. This is not to suggest that the discovery is insignificant, though–here, let's look at a couple of different hypotheses:
A) Planets might not form around every star, but they form around many stars, and that means there are billions of trillions of planets in the universe.
B) Planets can only form in the Milky Way galaxy, because of the unique conditions found here, so there are probably no more than about a trillion planets in the whole universe.
Now, up until last week, either of those hypotheses was plausible, because every planet we'd found was in our local neighborhood, and therefore was formed somewhere in the Milky Way, even if its star later got dragged around and mixed with stars from other parts of the galaxy. This new planet is also in our neighborhood, now, but its star was born in an early galaxy that doesn't exist any more; now that it's been discovered, Hypothesis B has been shattered.
Why you do not have your own science blog is entirely beyond me.
I can't look at Ryan Reynolds without thinking "Van Wilder." "Yamato" looks f-ing awesome, tho.