Reply With QuoteYep. Should have gotten a Nobel.Originally Posted by PPatty
This person wasn't a celebrity outside of her field, but she should have been:
Woman astronomer who pioneered dark matter research dies
Yep. Should have gotten a Nobel.
"Silver bullet solutions are rare, silver bullet sales commonplace"
Her observations are quality research. But dark matter itself may not be the reason behind her observations, and tying her to it is a disservice. Verlinde's entropic gravity theory doesn't rely on dark matter, for example:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-verlind...y-gravity.html
Ah, yes. Sorry - I got that point, sorry if my reply came off the wrong way.
I feel this way, though: You don't up and die from a heart failure at the age of 53 without either:
1) Being morbidly obese.
2) Having a pre-existing heart condition, possibly a hereditary one.
3) Having done stuff to your body which could damage the heart, most likely hard drugs.
I'm leaning towards option 3. Those things can take years to show up.
"Silver bullet solutions are rare, silver bullet sales commonplace"
He's had addiction issues, he nearly died in 2011 from pneumonia, he "fell down" in his house two years ago and had to be hospitalized, he fell out of a car doing 70 mph back in 2013. Number three it is.
Is 2016 trying to go out with a bang? Carrie Fisher and Richard Adams both confirmed passed away today
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I'll have to read Watership Down again, it's been more years than I care to say, and I remember I loved it when I did read it.
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She tied herself to it:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/resource...nd-dark-matter
Theories that reject the idea of "dark matter" are on the fringe of physics (so was "dark matter" at one time, but nonetheless, it's now widely considered the most plausible explanation that fits the data); using Rubin as fodder for outlandish science is arguably the real disservice to her.
Last edited by PPatty; December 28th, 2016 at 07:23 AM.
Or like daughter, like mother. But outliving your kids sucks, so why not? Might as well go out as a family.
I suspect every American above the age of 4 has drank from one of the cups based on this guy's invention:
http://people.com/food/inventor-of-i...up-dies-at-84/
Geez...is 2016 going for a one-two punch here; Debbie Reynolds hospitalised due to a possible stroke.
See post two spots above yours.
Just heard Debbie Reynolds died.
Legendary Actress Debbie Reynolds Dies At 84
https://news.google.com/news/amp?cau...e-50b6b490a877
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Today we sail
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For there's much we just don't know
So farewell with a kiss
Then it's fast for the mist
Till we're sleeping in the cold below
Damn!
The shock of losing her daughter surely factored into this. So sad
A GoFundMe campaign to keep Betty White safe until 2017 is already more than halfway to its $10K goal in less than a day:
https://www.gofundme.com/help-protec...hite-from-2016
Holy crap, I had no idea what those lines were for until now.its initially simple design, eye-grabbing color, and functional interior fill lines (rings at the bottom of the cup denote 1.5 ounces, 5 ounces and 12 ounces, for liquor, wine and beer, respectively
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Same here, I honestly had no clue they were designed with boozing in mind.
Always figured their link to booze was because they were low cost meaning college students had more money to spend on something to put in them.
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