De Sitter spacetime (roughly "empty spacetime" with a cosmological constant) does admit static coordinates (but it doesn't cover the whole manifold),...
Nobody else may have mentioned the effect of cosmic rays on computers and digital cameras, but that sure seems like an issue. Modern machines have a...
Oh, another good old show about this is an episode of Dick Van Dyke, "One Angry Man". I looked it up, but couldn't easily find a clip anywhere. There...
Oh, you're still young in my book (the "old" point keeps advcancing in my mind for some strange reason, of course), I'm guessing you're still in your...
Eleutherophobia: (n) The irrational fear of freedom.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis
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