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Thursday Existential Crisis Open Comments

The universe shouldn’t technically exist, according to top scientists who have spent their careers trying to figure out how the beginning of everything didn’t immediately destroy itself.

The current model for the birth of the universe predicts that equal parts of matter and antimatter were produced by the Big Bang.

But, since matter and antimatter are identical except for their opposite electrical charges, they annihilate each other – a reaction that fuels the starship Enterprise on “Star Trek.” When the two collide, they combust in a violent eruption, meaning none of anything should be here today.
plus,
“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” Christian Smorra, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is. What is the source of the symmetry break?”
I have an idea. Keep looking and maybe someday you will find it.

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  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Astros win in the 11th inning.
    Dang, it is starting to get chilly, how’s the weather way down there in hell, Adolph?

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From the always excellent W. Joseph Campbell:

    You might think that a collection of leading myths about the Vietnam War surely would include the “Cronkite Moment.”

    Or would cite the hoary claim that Richard Nixon during his run for the presidency in 1968 touted a “secret plan” to end the war.

    Or would address the mistaken notion that American warplanes dropped the napalm that burned Kim Phuc, the girl at the center of the “Napalm Girl” photograph taken in 1972.

    Those are the three most prominent, persistent, and popular media myths about Vietnam.

    Yet none of them figured in the Washington Post’s rundown, published yesterday, discussing five “deeply entrenched myths” about the war.

    The Post’s compilation, which was pegged to the recent 18-hour PBS documentary series about Vietnam, included such “myths” as: “The refugees who came to the U.S. were Vietnam’s elite” and “American soldiers [in Vietnam] were mostly draftees.”

    To be sure, those are not unimportant aspects of the war. But “deeply entrenched myths”? Maybe.

  3. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    After last night’s “home run derby” the ‘Juice Box’ is gonna be ROCKIN tomorrow night!!!
    GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ‘STROS!!!!!

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Transcript from Rush’s statement about the lies sold as intelligence or opposition research.
    It is an interesting read.

  5. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat – stole your OC link for over yonder.

    Atheists and liberals will have a problem with this, since “science” is their god.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    5 Tedtam

    More great science news !!!

    A feminist professor at the University of California-Davis has vowed to “challenge the authority of Science” by “rewriting knowledge” through a feminist lens.

    Sara Giordano, who left the field of neuroscience to become a Women’s Studies professor at UC-Davis, opened up about her feelings towards the sciences in a recent essay for Catalyst, a journal of feminist theory.

    Science, she worries, has “earned its epistemic authority through its co-constitution with colonization and slavery,” and therefore “relies on a colonial and racialized form of power.”

    Not only is science rooted in racism, she alleges; it has been used to perpetuate racism and colonial practices.

    “At the root of the justification for social inequality then is Western science,” she says, claiming that science’s distinction between “humans and non-humans” has allowed “capitalism [to become] justified as a natural economic system.”

    Sara Giordano’s bio page for UC/Davis is here. An excerpt from the interview there:

    I began my Ph.D. program in neuroscience in 2001, one month before 9/11. The political and cultural response of the United States following the attacks horrified me, and I immediately became involved in community activism to fight against the U.S.-led wars against Muslim countries, and internal attacks against Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Iranians. These internal attacks included mandatory “special registrations” of immigrants.

    How did this get me to feminist science studies? Through this initial activism, I began meeting feminist, anti-racist, queer and disability activists who introduced me to feminist science studies. The insights from these activists about the role science plays in defining categories of difference such as sex, gender, race and disability made me interested in this field. I began pursuing collaborations with feminist scholars and activists while I completed my Ph.D. in neuroscience.

    Oh, in the photo Giordano appears to be a handsome young man woman.

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Go Stros. If Astros win the WS, will hiliary go to jail? Can a study purporting to be a serious piece, but which cites the fueling mechanism for the starship Enterprise, be taken seriously by anyone who is not a hiliary voter? The universe may contain more than one mystery I suspect. Have a great day.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Get ready for a spit-take moment from an interview with former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Brian Fallon on CNN. In attempting to set the context for the discussion of funding Fusion GPS and the “dossier” effort, host Poppy Harlow assumes that Fallon will confirm that Hillary herself knew nothing about the effort. Instead, Fallon says he has no idea whether that’s true, and that “she may have known” about the efforts to get Christopher Steele to use his foreign-intelligence contacts to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.

    Scroll down here for the video.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I feel much better when El Gordo is a total pessimist.

    I’m worried his conceding the Astros might win the World Series will jinx the whole deal.

  10. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    If you think that equating the odds of the Astros winning the WS and hiliary going to jail is an optimistic forecast, then good for you. Of course, anything can happen, and I’ll admit that the Stros did themselves real proud last night, real proud.

  11. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #7 EG
    Heh.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If only we had a way of identifying insane mass murderers before they acted:

    Police were warned that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter had threatened to kill his mother and students before the 2012 massacre, according to newly revealed FBI documents.

    One woman told investigators that she overheard Adam Lanza threaten his mother. She said that he “had an assault weapon and that she was scared of him.” She said she overheard Lanza say that he “planned to kill his mother and children at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut.”

    According to investigators’ interview notes, she said she called Newtown police and Sandy Hook and told them about the threats, but police said Lanza’s mother owned the firearms and there was nothing they could do; they were told to call state police.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    10 EG

    Even a faint glimmer of hope can be misconstrued as optimism from some quarters.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    An investigation into official flight records of financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express” are once again dragging former President Bill Clinton into the national spotlight.

    Flight logs obtained by Gawker in January 2015 put Mr. Clinton on the billionaire’s infamous jet more than a dozen times — sometimes with a woman whom federal prosecutors suspect of procuring underage sex victims for Mr. Epstein. Fox News reported Friday that records show Mr. Clinton declined Secret Service protection on at least five flights.

    The network’s investigation reveals Mr. Clinton flew on the Boeing 727 “Lolita Express” 26 times, more than doubling the previously reported 11 trips.
    “Bill Clinton … associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile. Why would a former president associate with a man like that?” said Conchita Sarnoff of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, Fox reported. Ms. Sarnoff also authored a book on Mr. Epstein titled “TrafficKing.”

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In what may be perhaps the most outrageously stupid campus dust-up of the year—a high standard, to be sure—campus activists at the Jesuit-run Georgetown University convinced the school to considering sanctioning a student group, called “Love Saxa,” for promoting “hatred and intolerance.” What exactly was it the student group was promoting—racism? Sexism? Religious bigotry? Etho-nationalism?

    None of these things. Rather, the group was outspoken in favor of the Catholic definition of marriage, i.e. that it is a permanent and exclusive union between a man and a woman.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    CEREAL RACISM: KELLOGG’S CORN POPS DENOUNCED AS RACIST

    Kellogg’s will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.

    The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday it will replace the cover drawing of cartoon characters shaped like corn kernels populating a shopping mall. The corn pop characters are shown shopping, playing in an arcade or frolicked in a fountain. One skateboards down an escalator.

    What struck Saladin Ahmed was that a single brown corn pop was working as a janitor operating a floor waxer.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Every time I think we’ve hit Peak Left, the left goes one better. Or to paraphrase Michelle Obama, when they go low, we do a series celebrating an ideology of mass murder.

    While at the New York Times, that’s been Communism. The old red lady has a series trying to reconcile Communism with modern lefty trends like environmentalism and feminism. And Islam.

    “What Killed the Promise of Muslim Communism?” asks the Times.

    Same thing that killed the promise of kale and New Coke in a blender. Or the Hitler-Stalin pact.

    Communism is an atheistic utopian movement that believes in killing and subjugating everyone. Islam is like that. Except without the atheism. You can see a certain conflict here. And by “you”, I mean anyone who isn’t a leftist. Because leftists can’t see obvious conflicts like this. Just beautiful genocidal dreams that might have been.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Off the brim! video.

    http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2017/10/25/259687066/baseball-tips-off-brim-of-chris-taylors-hat-to-save-a-world-series-run

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    16
    I saw that on the “news” this morning.
    My initial reaction was, “So, what’s wrong with being a janitor?”

  20. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another lovely sunny day graces the skies on the moors of the Brazos, and the early morning soft breeze is gaining some vigor as it whistles through the trees now losing more leaves by the day. Still no hint of color at all.

    Well, does anybody want to hazard a guess as to how many coronaries struck Astros fans while watching that extraordinary game last night? Dodgers fans also I suppose, as the suspense was truly staggering. Will there be oxygen tanks aplenty down on the field in Minute Maid? Hope the team can sleep well in their own beds tonight.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Roundup & Scientific Fraud

    Things started to unravel for IARC over a popular herbicide called glyphosate, which it considers a “probable human carcinogen.” Every major science and regulatory body disagrees, including the U.S. EPA and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Even the World Health Organization, which is the parent of IARC, believes that glyphosate doesn’t cause cancer. What is going on?

    We now have an answer. Thanks largely to the investigative work of David Zaruk on Science 2.0, The Times reports that Christopher Portier, a key IARC advisor who lobbied to have glyphosate listed as a carcinogen, accepted $160,000 from trial lawyers representing cancer patients who stood to profit handsomely by suing glyphosate manufacturers. Mr. Portier’s failure to disclose such an obvious conflict of interest has exploded into a textbook case of scientific fraud.

    https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/24/glyphosate-gate-iarcs-scientific-fraud-12014

    H/T: Adee

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    “Happy birthday, @KatyPerry! It’s time to bring out the big balloons!” the star wrote over an image of her gawking, mouth agape, at Perry’s breasts.
    Oh, and Mornin’ Gang

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #21 Well that “Splain’s it! I’m shocked!,….shocked! I tell ya’.

  24. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If the Astros win the World series it will be because they earned their epistemic authority through their co-constitution with colonization and slavery, and therefore relies on a colonial and racialized form of power.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Read this article by Thomas Sowell.

    HEADLINE: A Truly Great Phony

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    If the Astros win the World series it will be because they earned their epistemic authority through their co-constitution with colonization and slavery, and therefore relies on a colonial and racialized form of power.

    \
    That or they are just the best team.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Extraordinary video analysis of Las Vegas shooting.

    https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005473328/las-vegas-shooting-timeline-12-bursts.html

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Chip of Fools: Watch This TV Anchor Eat a Dangerously Spicy Chip and Then Barf .

    The #OneChipChallenge is a promotion by tortilla chip maker Paqui to promote their Carolina Reaper Madness chip, boasted as the World’s Hottest Chip. The challenge is to try to eat said chip and then film your anguished reaction for the rest of the internet to see and laugh at.

    The five-person team at Channel 2 Daybreak in Denver were aware of the risks. They played a recording of the disclaimer from inside the chip box, which included, “Subjects can expect short-term loss of speech, followed by extreme profanity, heavy breathing, enhanced sinus functions, and impaired vision from heat induced tears.” For Ms. Tysdal, the experience was as advertised. After one bite, and a quick hubristic selfie with the packaging, you can see the heat wash over her. In a rush to mitigate the effect of the intense spiciness now engulfing her mouth, she reaches for her nearest beverage — coffee? COFFEE?? — and swigs.

    Tysdal immediately ducks her head beneath the desk, and one of her co-anchors begins delivering the play-by-play on her puking: “Oh, Natalie’s losing her breath. Ooh! Natalie threw up!” The best part is when this yahoo starts to make a hackneyed “clean-up on aisle [X]” joke before stopping in mid-stream to say that Natalie seriously needs help.

  29. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #28 Super Dave

    Good grief, this could have ended up in a for real 911 call.

  30. phil Avatar
    phil

    It’s going to take a PI of this magnitude to solve the Vegas case.

  31. phil Avatar
    phil

    The “authorities” are either AWOL, knee deep in mayo or both.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shakshuka is an ancient recipe from North Africa…eggs, tomato sauce, spices, peppers, onions, etc. It has been passed down through Jewish and Muslim families alike in the Maghreb. Once most of the Jews in North Africa migrated to Israel in the late 1940s, shakshuka became and remains an extremely popular dish in Israel.

    I can testify it is addictive. Tori Avey is a Jewish cook and has a great website.

    Here is her recipe and there is good photo there too.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It is both a good and bad thing that I’m pretty good on crutches.

    It’s not a skill I ever aspired to.

  34. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Alex Jones should be proud. 😡

    “You are a lying piece of sh*t and I hope someone truly shoots you in the head,” a commenter wrote to Matejka on Facebook, one week after a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. “Your soul is disgusting and dark! You will pay for the consequences!” said another. A Facebook meme quickly spread with a photo of him after the shooting, captioned: “I’m a lying c***!”

    The 30-year-old victim – who narrowly escaped death in the worst mass shooting in modern US history – has faced a torrent of online abuse and harassment, forcing him to shut down his social media accounts and disappear from the internet. The bullying, taunting and graphic threats have also spread to his family and friends.

    (Snip)

    Conspiracy theorists – some of whom claim that the government staged the shooting on 1 October or that the tragedy was a hoax – have targeted survivors and victims’ loved ones, spamming every social media platform with misinformation and abuse. On Facebook and YouTube in particular, users have published viral posts and videos calling people like Braden “crisis actors”, alleging they were hired to pose as victims.

    Editing of potty words mine.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/las-vegas-shooting-conspiracy-theories-social-media

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #32 TP: The recipe looks good, I will try it this weekend. One of the commenters suggested adding Feta cheese which I will do also.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I keep thinking we’ve reached Peak Stupidity in America, but I’m proven wrong almost everyday.

    Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez incorrectly stated “the Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution” during a Tuesday night speech.

    “The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution,” Perez said during a lecture at Indiana University Law School. “It doesn’t have to be there.”

    The Electoral College, a mechanism for indirect election of the president created by the Founding Fathers as a compromise between smaller states and larger states, is clearly laid out in Article II of the Constitution: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.”

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    35 BC

    It’s a peasant breakfast dish. You can experiment and add/subtract all kinds of things to/from it. An Israeli friend of mine makes it and puts lots extra of chili and cayenne in it. Perfect for a guy from Texas.

  38. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Noticed in the current TV Guide that Star Trek Discovery failed to positively impress many viewers/Trekkers. Its finale episode is November 12 according to the Guide.

    We who were horrified by what was produced apparently had lots of company. What a piece of pretentious PC garbage was produced. Hope Roddenberry haunts those who made it.

  39. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #36 Texpat

    Let’s hope the Dems keep that idiot right where he is. What a gift that will likely keep on giving.

  40. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #24 hummus

    https://youtu.be/-8bqQ-C1PSE

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    House Republicans are still considering 401(k) changes in tax overhaul. “Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), chairman of the House’s tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said lawmakers were considering changes to 401(k) plans, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence—reiterated Wednesday—that the popular break for retirement savings should be untouched. The most talked-about idea: reducing the amounts that individuals and households can contribute to these plans without being taxed.

    -WSJ

  42. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’m convinced that the eGOP is actively pursuing minority status in Congress. It really is the only explanation.

  43. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Winner of today’s best headline contest.

    Bonus: it also shows the true hotbed of culture that is New York.

  44. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    40 Wagonburner

    On a couple of occasions recently I was having a discussion on the Federalist with some Antifa type when he asked me about my political views. I started quoting lines from that script. He had no clue of the reference and ended up blocking me. Good times.

  45. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Winner of today’s best headline contest.

    Yup, that would be a winner, but in New York, would it really be unusual?

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Last!

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The thing about New York City is there are over 8 million people of whom a certain portion will be bat sh*t crazy. In an intense, demographically dense, relatively small area, if only 1 percent are nuts, that means there are 80,000 insane, unemployable folks wandering the city with nothing to do but ride the buses and subways day and night.

    New Orleans is 350 square miles with 391,495 people.

    New York City is 305 square miles with 8,538,000 people.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The habitability of both is certainly in question.

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