Recent content by BillTre

Since you guys are so interested in determining things that are highly uncertain, here's another: Is it more likely for Voyager 1 to be found by another civilization or to crash into a star or planet and be lost for ever?

Missed that one.

Its palindrome day: 42424, AKA 4/24/24

This is an interesting article about the likelihood of endosymbioses (combining two different kinds of cells together to make a new evolutionary line) occurring. These can be major events in evolution (like making eukaryotes or plants), but maybe not always. Here is a link to a thread I made...

I recently found this on facebook. It makes sense to me and addresses some common complaints on what one might study:

Earth Day Celebration:

Methylmercury is a more toxic form. A drop will do ya. I and my friends played around with metallic mercury as kids and some say I'm OK.

So, its not a bug?

I've driven over it a few times.

Well, that was 1879. Scientific publishing was different then. A lot more was published. I once read an article, probably from the late 1800's, about some guy working in a lab that had some cockroaches in it which were pissing him off. The lab had gas lights on tubes coming out of the wall...

Nice shot. The colors are nice, but I think they could be more vibrant if the side of the flower toward the light (sun) were directly illuminated. Most of the flower is in its own shade.

Here is a NY Times obit for Dickie Betts.