I love the phrase...
"improved the system too much"
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"The bomb is being decommissioned in a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility in Amarillo, Texas – but very, very carefully, because most of the original designers are dead and plans for the device could be incomplete."
Sounds like most people will be singing "Is the way OUT of Amarillo?"
In string theory, gravity is not confined to a single universe but is allowed to range through the 'bulk' between universes. The past and the future are special cases of multiple universes, and there is a range of universes encompassing every possibility that has come out of quantum results in the past. As time goes on, you would expect the gravitational effect of 'dark matter' (gravity from other universes) to increase as the number of resulting universes increases. This should be falsifiable.
Dark Matter always seemed like a modern phlogiston to me. There's no denying that the effect is real, but whether the interpretation of the cause is correct...
It struck me whilst reading about M-theory that whilst most strings that form elementary particles are stuck to their "home brane" (think 'Flatland'), gravity is free to wander between branes. What we refer to as dark matter might be the interference effects of gravity caused by the masses on parallel branes. So a new quantum theory of gravity (which we don't have yet anyway) instead of exotic new "stuff"...
/^v.+b$/i
Tinyfish "relaunched" our MySpace page to go with our new album. Myspace is, alas, still counterintuitive to use, still crashes (regardless of which browser you use) and still doesn't let you be as flexible as you need.
The sad munging of any link you create so that it goes through their advert filter, the useless headings, the temperamental music loader/player...
I wouldn't care if it vanished tomorrow.
"[ICO] do not currently have the funding required to launch additional MEO satellites. If we were required to launch additional MEO satellites in order to maintain the UK authorization but were unable to secure the additional funding required for the completion of construction and launch of those satellites, it could lead to the loss of our UK MEO authorization, which could have a material adverse effect on our prospects, financial condition and results of operations."
i.e. we haven't got the money to do what we said we were going to do, and if you force us to do it we might lose our licence and then we won't be able to do it anyway.
So under what circumstances were you planning to do it?