Might be the guy's name. You never know. There was a fellow in Canada whose vanity plate was taken away from him because his name is a curse word, although I forget where exactly as well as the name...

Might be the guys name. You never know...

I lived in Toronto for a total of about 1 year, 2/3 of that time near the ravines. One time my friend took to the museum of natural history, where we could view stuffed animals, live insects, and small mammals neurotically pacing back and forth inside glass cages. Pretty awful considering just hiking in the ravines I saw foxes, coyotes, otters, a great horned owl, and many other forms of wildlife, all in their natural habitat.

Study after study has been done showing the benefits of green space on mental health. Just from experience, I can tell you my blood pressure goes down about 20 points when I go walking in a quiet, empty forest.

edit: Did you know that the number one risk factor for schizophrenia is urban living?

For those of us who are economically challenged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegtK54DC4c&list=OLAK5uy_nHy9AQa4vZ3De0zzhjXqt0P-lCRnSiukA

If you are under 25, the risk of dying from Covid is less than that of dying in a car crash within the next year, and that's only if you catch it.

For the good, I'd play him some Warpaint, which is the only modern, popular music which I think can hold a candle to the great European masters. For the bad, I'd play him some Nicki Minaj, or any one of the numerous other "hip hop" songs that the major label pop music factories churn out.

"I didn't understand it..." "It was hard to read..." Shouldn't a competent author strive for clarity, rather than obfuscation?

Most spiders have two main eyes similar to ours, each having a lens and a retina with multiple light sensing organs for detecting images. Unlike our eyes, however, it is the retina rather than the eye that moves in order to both focus and direct the view. Since the field of view tends to be quite narrow and spiders cannot move their heads, in addition to the two main eyes, spiders also have between four and six other simple eyes scattered around their heads. These eyes can detect motion so that the spider can orient itself towards the source of interest.

Here is a video showing a translucent spider where you can see the motion of its retina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvN_ex95IcE

I think it's the price tag he's objecting to, not the taxi stand!

It wouldn't be any use. No information can traverse the event horizon: your probe might be inside there, looking around. Hell, it might even make it through to the other side of the black hole! But you wouldn't know it because no light can escape and tell us what's going on.

Of course, the more difficult problem is that there are no black holes (that we know of) inside the solar system. At present, only two probes have made it beyond the bounds of our own solar system, and only by a short hop. The nearest black hole is a lot farther than that.