Sorry, not much I can do today with all these alligators. So no stories about how Florida and Georgia elections and a whole bunch others are getting tighter and/or too close to call. Gee, Rich Scott, if only you had actually fixed the damn system when you were governor for 8 years, this might not be happening. And it is frankly hilarious to see the people who screamed about "voter fraud interfering with the votes of real citizens" no screaming about how we shouldn't count all votes because mumble mumble something FREEDOM.
"Because in the paper, a team of astronomers show that they have observed a blob of dust sitting just outside the point of no return of a supermassive black hole, where the gravity is so intense that this material is moving at thirty percent the speed of light. And this wasn’t inferred, deduced, or shown indirectly. No: They measured this motion by literally seeing the blobs move in their observations." (Grokked from Tania)
"For the first time, astronomers have observed the final stages of galactic mergers, peering through thick walls of gas and dust to see pairs of supermassive black holes drawing closer together and the black holes' rapid growth." When galaxies collide.
"As researchers the world over search for alternative energy sources, there has been a sharp rise in interest in cyanobacteria… These organisms, widely found in the oceans and on land, are being investigated for their abilities to turn sunlight into electrical current."
"When the South Atlantic Ocean was young, sea monsters ruled it." Mosasaurs. Why did it have to be mosasaurs?
Companies would never throttle internet access to services because they couldn't compete. Remember that line? "Sprint Corp. has been slowing traffic to Microsoft Corp.’s internet-based video chat service Skype, according to new findings from an ongoing study by Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts." That didn't take long. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
"UBS Group, Switzerland's largest bank, said it expects to be sued by the U.S. Department of Justice as early as Thursday on civil charges related to the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, according to a company statement."
"(USS Cole terrorist attack victims and family's) path for this and similar suits has been long and difficult, and now, to the consternation of the victims and veterans groups, the Trump administration is siding with Sudan, long designated a state sponsor of terrorism."
For all those who lamented about how Kavanaugh's life was ruined by charges of sexual harassment and rape and those who peddled the "mothers should be worried this might happen to their boys". "Christine Blasey Ford is still being harassed after leveling sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, her lawyers say… She's had to move four times, she wrote last month. She has had to pay for a private security detail. She hasn't been able to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University. A spokeswoman for the school did not respond to a question about whether there was a timeline for Ford to return." So why didn't she come out earlier? (Grokked from Chuck Wendig)
"Long lines at polling locations in Georgia reveal a voting system that is not performing properly and may disenfranchise voters who cannot wait for hours to cast a ballot. Initial reporting on Election Day shows that precincts with particularly long lines are in African American neighborhoods." Like they were in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. It's almost like the Secretaries of States don't really want to solve the problem.
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