http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html

Sorry, this one is a bit beyond me. I wonder if it might have anything to do with the fact that at light speed, time stops. So, one might say, though KD has disputed this and knows more, that from the point of view of the photon, if it had one, the photon is everywhere along its trajectory simultaneously.

I’m probably just blowing this out my ass; it likely has nothing to do with this. The idea that a photon has no position is strange to me since they are detected when they physically hit things. But then, anyone who thinks they understand quantum mechanics is wrong. It quite literally defies logic in nearly every possible way.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/03/why-photons-are-always-neither-here-nor-there.ars

I’ll have to google too now since I’m no longer sure of the accuracy of the 10^22. I think I heard it at a lecture by Neil de Grasse Tyson. I could be mistaken or could have mixed up numbers.

Interesting link.

WRT blood in the stool, yecch, I had heard that it would make the stool black. Red streaks would be more likely from hemorrhoids. Are you two suggesting that god has polyps and roids? And I thought I was the heretic.

10×13th would be between your two numbers but 10×22nd would match the number of planets==not probable unless your stat is only one of a batch of wildly variable estimates?

“number of grains of sand” was kinda interesting to read about here: http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=4803 estimating the number at
6.63 × 10×22

On the way, I noticed a website calculating the how many grains of sand it would take to fill the universe. Just checked, the number was with reference to Archimedes. Bright as he was, I don’t think he had a clue?

Fusion–damn you. Now I have to take some extra minutes to stare at my shit. Any different shade of red from polyps vs hemorrhoids?

Funny. I’ve never heard the number for either stars or grains of sand. I believe it’s 10^11 galaxies and 10^22 planets. How many stars and grains of sand are there?

It’s also about 10^80 atoms in the observable universe. Any more statistics should be very interesting. However, we’re really looking for the number of turds, microturds and megaturds now.

I dunno, but I’d learn to duck real fast and real low.

BTW, (at Bobbo) my wife says dark shit is OK. If your shit is black or had red streaks is when you should worry.

Now, yes, I am making light of this. First, I’m in a good mood, second, I have Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One) soothing my ears, but more important, I just can not grasp the concept of one proton per four cubic meters. Nor can I wrap my brain around how small and insignificant we are in the universe where there are as many stars as there grains of sand on earth.

If I think too hard about this I’m going to want some superior being to take care of the administration end.

Funny. And, thanks. So, what happens when the shit hits a whole stadium full of fans? Would that be an attempt at a laboratory reconstruction of the dark matter and energy in the rest of the universe? A whole lotta shit hitting a whole lotta fans?

Well, as you know, I am a big fan of yours. So when this “shit” hits me, it will be hitting the fan.