Recent content by Tregg Smith

In the original thread post I was wondering about the time it would take for two galaxys to integrate in a collision. I found a video at space.com which I can't seem to pass on here but it showed about 400 million years for the process. It shows the stars etc being seriously spun out of place...

thanks for the quick reply. But I don't see my profile picture. Or is that only visible on my profile page?

My wife coined a new word-comatoast. She is trying to say the word comatose. It's easier for some people to use familier pronunciations than to try to use an uncommon (to them)word. I think of comatoast as being passed out drunk. Another of her's is 'blasted to Bolivia' rather than 'blown to...

In America

Seems like it's been at 47 for a long time. Also I'm not seeing the picture for my avatar. It's within the pixel and k byte limits.

How do you say nuclear? George Bush 2 says nuke you ler. He figures a prez can do as he likes. What about the argument that keeping a language uniform keeps a country united? Ridulous you say? Now America has Englilsh and Spanish for main languages and somebody wanting to introduce...

Arn if yer from the southern USA. Anything goes the way it seems. Brett Favre pronounces it Farb. Is it Pak is tan or is it Pak is tahn or is it Pahk is tan or is it Pahk is tahn?

I first noticed a few years ago what seemed to be a realization that we were pronouncing the second month wrong. CNN and others made attempts at correction. I looked at the word and it seemed simple enough. It looks like feb ru ary. Three sylables easy to say. I practiced a few times and...

Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never...

My supervisor at work is chronically upbeat. She works at inspiring her people. She says things like "you're just fantastic!" or "you're just the best!". So I started saying similar things back to her and she will say "No you're the best!". And we laugh. The other day she walked by some of...

Two thoughts on this. If the Milky Way is one hundred light years in diameter and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away that means Andromeda is 25 times the diameter of the Milky Way distant from us. That's not much. When will they merge? And I wonder how long it will take for the...

Think about it. How much drinkable good water would we save in America if we all peed outside. I haven't come up with a formula yet. I don't mean standing on the front porch at noon and letting it go but privacy enclosures could be built. There must be close to five gallons in a toilet tank...

Everything flows and nothing stays. Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. Everything flows; nothing remains. All is flux, nothing is stationary. All is flux, nothing stays still. All flows, nothing stays. From that view nothing exists except...

Philosopher Olaf Stapledon wrote Starmaker and the First and Last Men; supposed to be the best of the best in science fiction or future history according to some authorities. The books cover a time span of a gazillion supereons in the evolution of life in the universe. Planets are born and...

Monty Python: Nixon went into get a new ***hole but the ***hole rejected him.