Spacetime

While devising his general theory of relativity, Einstein combined the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single useful concept he called spacetime.

Spacetime can be thought of as an elastic sheet that bends under the weight of objects placed upon it. The more massive the object, the more spacetime bends. If the massive object is also spinning, it causes spacetime to not only bend but to twist as well. Scientists call this effect "frame dragging."

Twisted spacetime will cause gas falling into a black hole to move in certain ways. The phenomenon can be roughly compared to the movement of a needle on a record player: as the needle moves along an etched groove on a record, it produces a sound, the exact nature of which is determined by physical deformations in the groove itself.

Similarly, the black hole has created stable deformations in the fabric of spacetime that affects matter moving around it. Gas swirling around the black hole acts like the record needle, but instead of producing specific sounds, it produces certain frequencies of X-ray light.

for the full story cut and paste this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2627&ncid=2627&e=13&u=/space/20060124/sc_space/blackholeputsdentinspacetime

The Pelicaque

It's 50% Pelican and 50% rhesus macaque, and 100% terror.
Be sure to have an offering of sardines and bananas when you encounter this beast while walking along the coastal areas of your town.

Spam of the Day

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SPERMAMAX is formulated to:
+ Improve overall sperm production
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+ Improve sperm integrity
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This premium combination of herbs, vitamins and minerals improves overall health and helps address many of the deficiencies known to decrease fertility health."

This came in our inbox today....and we gotta wonder...who writes these? And where is "sperm motility" a must-have quality? Don't these things originate in, like, Lebanon? When we start getting spam about a product that makes sperm really, really lazy, that's when we'll sign up. The ad will be like:

SPERMADOZE

SPERMADOZE is scientifically created to:
+ Make sperm more palatable. Flavors range from pina colada to banana laffy taffy to popcorn shrimp. Coming soon: barbeque!
+ Make sperm surprising colors upon exposure to air! Your choice of hot pink, electric chartreuse and aqua blue. Coming soon: glow in the dark!
+ Make sperm drunk and lethargic and thus unable to make it to your girlfriend's egg and screw up her career...be a dear and run to the fridge and get sperm a beer, will you, baby? The game's on.

Oh, wait. We forgot to write this in broken English. I guess we'll have to outsource it to Prague for translation before we debut SPERMADOZE to the world.

Naa what I'm sayin?

It's said that hip-hop is a great uniting force.

True.....

What unites some hip hop artists, regardless of their level of fame, their age, race or sex, is an amazing ability to say so much in interviews...while saying absolutely nothing in interviews.

"Yeah, you know, man, it's like, we're on the come-up, doin' what we do, and not to take away from what tip anyone else is on, but, you know what I'm saying, it's like, we're on the rise. And our sound is like what you hear out there, you know, but at the same time, yo, different from what you hear out there, it's our own thing, you know what I'm saying, and we've been out here hustlin', gettin' ourselves heard, becoming, you know, known, and you know, we're just on the level. Naa'I mean?"

What. The Fuck. Are you talking about? Would it kill you to say something substantial? Tell a story? Talk about something specific? A really cool fan you met? A homie who inspired you? A time when a studio rejected you, only to regret it later? Na' meen? Na'what I'm sayin?

But the best, the very best, is when, after saying that big, long explanation about nothing, the dude will be like, "Yo, so you're gonna let us read the story before it comes out, right?"

Hahahaha. Why? So you can add a few more "ya know what I'm sayin's" in there? It's as though people have been coached by the same media advisors that tell sports stars how to be interviewed. "You know, they're a great team. We just made it into the endzone more than they did, and they weren't able to score as much as us."

This is how is goes down at the Peanut on any given Sunday...

Whoa...