Members BigK Posted March 3, 2018 Members Posted March 3, 2018 11 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: Love Dame Edna. And Queen E was a good sport. I've been noticing a lot of effort lately to make the Royal Family more personable. In a recent PBS special The Queen, Prince Charles and sons are shown watching old home movies many taken by Queen E herself. AdamSmith 1
AdamSmith Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 11 minutes ago, BigK said: Love Dame Edna. And Queen E was a good sport. I've been noticing a lot of effort lately to make the Royal Family more personable. In a recent PBS special The Queen, Prince Charles and sons are shown watching old home movies many taken by Queen E herself. I read somewhere that it was Queen Elizabeth's mother who was the stiff stick, and did not like any humor or any of that. But that once the old dame finally passed at 102, Queen Elizabeth II at last felt free to be her, by nature, funny witty wry self in public.
Members MsAnn Posted March 3, 2018 Members Posted March 3, 2018 $6.98 available on Amazon AdamSmith 1
Guest Larstrup Posted March 4, 2018 Posted March 4, 2018 17 hours ago, AdamSmith said: Why we loved him! Robot: It is Dr. Smith who is a bubble-head booby!
Guest Larstrup Posted March 4, 2018 Posted March 4, 2018 20 hours ago, AdamSmith said: I have mentioned elsewhere that I used to play with Billy when I was eight or nine years old right at the time he was filming lost in space. His parents had a boat three slips down from ours in Long Beach. He and I used to take their motorized dinghy and terrorize the waterways in between the many docks of the marina like only kids could do. Another time we all once did a tandem boat trip to Catalina Island for an overnight stay. They were the most down to earth people you would ever want to meet and I honestly don’t recall a time that we ever talked about lost in space. We were just kids playing together doing what kids do. I never saw him or heard from him again after that summer.
AdamSmith Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 4 hours ago, Larstrup said: They were the most down to earth people you would ever want to meet and I honestly don’t recall a time that we ever talked about lost in space. He always seemed like that in videos of the Lost in Space fan con panels and cast reunions and so on. (I never got to any of those in person, only a few of the Dark Shadows events.) Thank you!
AdamSmith Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 6 hours ago, AdamSmith said: P.S. This obviously is for Dr Smith.
AdamSmith Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 19 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: P.S. This obviously is for Dr Smith.
Members MsAnn Posted March 5, 2018 Members Posted March 5, 2018 17 hours ago, AdamSmith said: https://www.livescience.com/61914-stephen-hawking-neil-degrasse-tyson-beginning-of-time.html Stephen Hawking Says He Knows What Happened Before the Big Bang At the time of the Big Bang, all the matter in the universe was smooshed into an incredibly hot, infinitely dense speck of matter. But what happened before that? It turns out, famed physicist Stephen Hawking has an answer, which he gave in an interview with his almost-as-famous fellow scientist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Hawking discusses these ideas and others on the series finale of Tyson's "StarTalk" TV show, which airs this Sunday (March 4) at 11 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel. Hawking's answer to the question "What was there before there was anything?" relies on a theory known as the "no-boundary proposal." "The boundary condition of the universe ... is that it has no boundary," Hawking told Tyson, according to Popular Science. [The Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events] To understand the theory better, grab your universal remote (that is, your remote that controls the universe), and hit Rewind. As scientists know now, the universe is constantly expanding. As you move backward in time, then, the universe contracts. Rewind far enough (about 13.8 billion years), and the entire universe shrinks to the size of a single atom, Hawking said. This subatomic ball of everything is known as the singularity (not to be confused with the technological singularity during which artificial intelligence will overtake humans). Inside this extremely small, massively dense speck of heat and energy, the laws of physics and time as we know them cease to function. Put another way, time as we understand it literally did not exist before the universe started to expand. Rather, the arrow of time shrinks infinitely as the universe becomes smaller and smaller, never reaching a clear starting point. According to TechTimes, Hawking says during the show that before the Big Bang, time was bent — "It was always reaching closer to nothing but didn't become nothing," according to the article. Essentially, "there was never a Big Bang that produced something from nothing. It just seemed that way from mankind's point of perspective." In in a lecture on the no-boundary proposal, Hawking wrote: "Events before the Big Bang are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them. Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang." This isn't the first time Hawking has discussed this theory. He previously delivered lectures on the topic and starred in a free documentary about it, available on YouTube. Tune into StarTalk on Sunday to hear Tyson and Hawking delve deeper on the subject, as well whether Isaac Newton would be more excited to learn about black holes or Tinder. Originally published on Live Science. AdamSmith 1
AdamSmith Posted March 6, 2018 Posted March 6, 2018 55 minutes ago, MsAnn said: More deep thanks than possible to say by emoticon. Incredible. MsAnn 1
AdamSmith Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 7 hours ago, Larstrup said: Not sure why they’re trying this again. WTF??? This looks even more epically awful than the last movie treatment. Which is really to say something.
