OT: The News Thread

[MindzEye]

yes

Then why not just run an oppression olympics separate from the real olympics? I'd pay good money to see some of these people learn what actual oppression is.

 

[Habsy]

This is good news. Hopefully they can repeat is as needed instead of one-offs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html

 

[worm]

This is good news. Hopefully they can repeat is as needed instead of one-offs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html

That is crazy. Accidental cure.

 

[Altair]

This is good news. Hopefully they can repeat is as needed instead of one-offs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html

Sweet, can have unprotected sex again at some point in the future with random women.

*looks up Gonorrhea*

Nope

 

[Habsy]

That’s what penicillin is for

 

[zeke]

looks like R.Kelly's name-clearing interview went well:

 

[zeke]

https://www.newsweek.com/time-rever...tm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter

nice.

 

[Deckie007]

Wonder how many Gigawatts it needs to run it back to saaaay 1985?

 

[Altair]

Wonder how many Gigawatts it needs to run it back to saaaay 1985?

How about 1964 to ensure someone wasn't diagnosed with shin splints?

 

[worm]

The father of a Sandy Hook victim killed himself Monday, just days after two Stoneman Douglas students also took their lives.

 

[leaffan2005]

#murica

 

[TimHorton]

Yeah but the king hasn’t come back has he?

 

[zeke]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

 

[MindzEye]

Yeah but the king hasn’t come back has he?

He wouldn't dare

 

[zeke]

So they actually took a picture of a black hole.

 

[MindzEye]

50 million light years away.

The human mind struggles with the concept of distance like that. To use the only standard measurement that science for the masses programs seems to understand how to use, 1 light year is equal to the length of 103,463,806,568,031 football fields.

 

[Altair]

50 million light years away.

The human mind struggles with the concept of distance like that. To use the only standard measurement that science for the masses programs seems to understand how to use, 1 light year is equal to the length of 103,463,806,568,031 football fields.

Too abstract.

As heard on the news, it's like trying to capture the photo of a dimple on a golf ball in Vancouver from a location in Toronto.

 

[leafman101]

Crazy. Christopher Nolan was pretty close.

 

[LeafGm]

Not sure what's more mind-bending. How far away that black hole is, or the fact that it's so big that it'd encompass our entire solar system.

 

[MindzEye]

Too abstract.

As heard on the news, it's like trying to capture the photo of a dimple on a golf ball in Vancouver from a location in Toronto.

stupid flat earthers.