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"On behalf of the producers of The Big Bang Theory I want to take this opportunity to thank our intrepid office staffers: Jen D'Angelo, Anthony Robinson, Jess Ambrosetti, Gary Torvinen, Tara Hernandez, Charlie Back, Robin Green for their tireless efforts and ridiculous devotion to the building of the Lego Death Star seen in tonight's episode. You are all now part of television history, although that will not be reflected in your paycheck."

That thing is FREAKING AWESOME! It's far superior to this one

Chuck Lorre Productions #363

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Was there an original thought to be thunk? Or was he forever doomed to be an emulator, or worse, a regurgitator? And if he was, so what? Doesn't every college sophomore majoring in English because they have no freaking clue what to do with their life know that disdaining the derivative is the height of unoriginality? more importantly, what was the likelihood that he could keep writing without landing on even one declarative sentence? And why did he use the idiot word "thunk"? Is he actually an idiot? Or is he wildly clever? Will we find out one day? Who knows? Who cares? Should he continue trying to write a vanity card when he has a raging flu and is so heavily intoxicated from potpourri of over-the-counter cold medications that he keeps referring to himself in third person?

Probably not.

-Chuck Lorre

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She was the kind of woman who said, "I hope this special day is infused with beauty and light and that all your hopes and dreams crystalize into a loving reality emanating from an equally loving universe." He would have been more comfortable if she just said, "Happy birthday."

He was the kind of man who said, "Whenever I see one of those tired, middle-aged balding schmucks pushing a baby carriage down Montana Avenue behind his thirty-year old, yoga-fied, Pilate-sized, armoire shopping, second wife, I can't help but feel a wave of pity for the poor, toad-like bastard." She would have been more comfortable if he just said, "I don't really want more kids."

She was the kind of woman who said, "What difference does it make if I've slept with rock stars, movie stars and sports legends? You measure up quite nicely to all those guys." He would have been more comfortable if she just said, "Stand sill while I stab you in the heart with my intrauterine device."

He was the kind of man who said, "I'm a worn-out, emotional wreck who's incapable of anything resembling warmth, love and intimacy, but I have a lot of money and you'll never want for anything." She would have been more comfortable if he just said... NO, actually she was entirely comfortable with the way he put it.

-Chuck Lorre

 

Note, 'crystalize' while this isn't entirely wrong I, and most spellcheck dictionaries, prefer crystallize but hey he's the one getting paid the big bucks.

-Ryan Mercer

 


9,271.66665 jigawatts Marty (1.21 gigawatts Marty)

So you know for years now that company in Texas has been making DeLorean DMC-12's with OEM parts from the original DMC-12's on a per-order basis... in 2013 they'll be doing the same but as an electric model. 1.21 jigawatt MARTY!

See the article about the electric DeLorean HERE

So I did some math... if someone makes a Mr. Fusion... and you use one can of beer... the potential energy...

DeLorean_DMC-12_Time_Machine_-_Mr._Fusion.JPG

E=MC^2 so… we assume 371.38g of beer (I took the weight of 12 fluid ounces of water and did some guestimation since beer isn't pure water)

3.3378e+16 joules

2.4618e+16 foot-pounds

7.9775e+3 kilotons of TNT

7.9775 megatons of TNT

3.16362398 x 10^13 BTU

So

9.27166665 × 10^9 kwh or 7.97753345 × 10^12 kilocalories

 

Which is 9,271,666,650 kwh where the U.S. used an estimated 3.741 trillion kWh in 2009. So .002% of the U.S. energy consumption for 2009. Now... that's 1.243350979e+10 horsepower hours.

It’s also 9,271.66665 jigawatts Marty

UPDATE July 29th, 2016

So I was thinking about what such a device as the Mr. Fusion would mean as far as power for space travel... 

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carries 395,700kg of fuel (119,100 Kilograms of Rocket Propellant 1 and 276,600kg of Liquid Oxygen). Let us assume that a Mr. Fusion operated at 13% efficiency (roughly what commercial solar panels operate at currently), this would give us the equivalent energy of 1.1050e+6 megatons of TNT which is 1,284,255.55 jigawatts Marty!

So mass equivalent to the weight of fuel in a a Falcon 9 would provide 1,284,255.55 terawatt hours of energy for our spacecraft at 13% efficiency. The ENTIRE PLANET used an estimated continuous average of 12.3 terawatts in 2013 (as in 12.3 terawatts being drawn every second of every day during the year) meaning a bit shy of 12 years worth of electricity for the planet, remember that's with 13% efficiency on that Mr. Fusion.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration#/media/File:Roundtriptimes.png

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration#/media/File:Roundtriptimes.png

In the above chart, not my math, a 1g constant acceleration would get a ship to Proxima Centauri in less than 10 years ROUNDTRIP (for whoever, or whatever was on the ship, relativity and all). Now that you have essentially unlimited electrical power you'd just need to develop some sort of electric propulsion system and sail the stars, maybe some sort of magnetic field propulsion.

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Russia eyes caves on moon for setting up a lunar base

Wait... you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of 1901's First Man in the Moon story and 1964's First Man In The Moon film.

For the time being, it appears NASA has set aside any ambitions to return to the Moon with human missions. But Russia may consider sending cosmonauts to the lunar surface to set up a colony using natural caves and possible volcanic tunnels as protection from the harsh lunar environment.

Read more HERE

 

Record-breaking photo reveals a planet-sized object as cool as the Earth


Now the important question, do we start listening to it or do we start broadcasting?

The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion -- whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona -- will be presented by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin Luhman during the Signposts of Planets conference at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on 20 October 2011. A paper describing the discovery will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Read more HERE

 

Youngest planet seen as it's forming

That's neat, that's all I really have to say about it.

The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by astronomers who combined the power of the 10-meter Keck telescopes with a bit of optical sleight of hand.

Read more HERE

 

Spitzer detects comet storm in nearby solar system

This is cool as it could add considerable amounts of water to planets in the system, similar to the article just below this.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the "Late Heavy Bombardment," which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to Earth.

Read more HERE

 

Nearby planet-forming disk holds water for thousands of oceans

If you look back to some of my earlier installments of this week in space you'll find that a generally accepted theory for how planets get their water is from comets and similar bodies in space, now here we have evidence of a water disk that might be how the comets are created to start the process.

For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets.

Read more HERE