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Cornelius Henning wrote: And they reckon the rate of expansion is accelerating. This is so wrong!
Wrong or not, like it or not, it is an observation.
Cornelius Henning wrote: The laws of gravity dictate that the rate of expansion should decrease over time, not increase.
That is assuming no outside force - something we cannot know for sure. Still, it is nice to have an observation that is not as one expects.
Gravity also has a limited scope, and it might not influence the expanding vacuum very much depending on where most of that mass is.
Cornelius Henning wrote: And you think your problems with Windows 10 are important? Get your priorities right, Bubba.
I don't have any problems with Win10 - I'm running Win7 and Ubuntu 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Cornelius Henning wrote: And you think your problems with Windows 10 are important? Get your priorities right, Bubba.
I don't have any problems with Win10 - I'm running Win7 and Ubuntu
But at least there's no doubt about your name, huh Bubba? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I should have Googled that name before posting.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Cornelius Henning wrote: What is powering this increase in expansion rate?
Oreo's it make everything else expand.
But they're so good!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Speaking of Oreos, I just saw this idea[^] on Facebook today. It's genious! Can't wait to try it out! 
Fancy an Oreo? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Boycott those Oreos. The CEO of Nabisco is moving the Oreos plant south of the border, axing all the jobs in Chicago due to her own greed.
Quote: Executives at Mondelēz, the parent company of Nabisco, are planning to fire 600 people in Chicago who make Oreos and other beloved snack food products as Mondelēz moves production to a factory out of the country.
There’s no reason this has to happen. Even though Mondelēz CEO Irene Rosenfeld made more than $21 million in 2014, she still demanded the people who work at its factory in Chicago take a 60 percent pay and benefit cut. But when they didn’t agree, she decided to cut their jobs.
Quote: To add insult to injury, CEO Irene Rosenfeld received a $6 million raise in 2014 but is asking the men and women who make her company run to take life-altering pay and benefits cuts! In fact, she’s been paid over $170 million in compensation over the last eight years. And still, the dedicated employees at the Chicago plant are being told that it’s up to them to save the company money or lose their jobs
Somehow, I think she could save the company a lot more money than the employees would. I hate sociopaths like her.
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Hear! Hear!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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bummer, Dude.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It seems your collection of drugs is decreasing and your level of intoxication is increasing... 
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Did you miss the "joke" icon?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You still have to think of it to joke about it...
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Yes, and as a jester I jest made a little jest.
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Only jest...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Jest about!
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Jest leave it at that, please!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You're joking!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Of course not, I'm ALWAYS serious, surely you know that?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm serious too, and don't call me surely.
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OK, I'll jest get my coat and I'm outta here!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: The laws of gravity dictate that the rate of expansion should decrease over time, not increase.
What is powering this increase in expansion rate?
That really depends on your personal interpretation of those laws. Since science has not, as of yet, concretely figured out what gravity is, we kinda have to decide what it is on our own.
I like to rationalize the whole thing with these theories based in observation
1. The universe is absolutely crammed full of, for a lack of a better term, energy.
a. Most (~95%) of this "energy" is inert (lowest possible level of entropy: think two quarks in polar balance)
b. Inert "energy" interacts via the normal forces (strong, weak, etc...)
c. Inert "energy" still takes up space
d. Normal energy and inert energy cannot occupy the same space
e. Inert "energy" is free to move about
This theory attempts to explain the observations of dark matter and virtual particles
2. Gravity is the result of normal matter displacing inert energy
a. The displaced inert energy pushes back and creates an effect similar to pressure
b. The "pressure" is an interaction of forces (which one I haven't figured out yet) which is why the effect decreases with the distance squared
c. The larger the mass of normal energy, the greater the amount of inert energy that is displaced which is why larger bodies have more gravity
This theory attempts to explain what causes gravity. Gravity isn't the planet pulling us down, it's the combined weight of the local universe pushing us down.
Taking this one step further, everything in this part of the universe is under "pressure." Observation tells us that pressure naturally tries to equalize itself by expanding outward. It is the universal equalization of pressure that is causing the universe to expand and that expansion to accelerate even though such expansion is contrary to the very idea of established gravitational explanations.
This is all just an idea. I just happens to align with observations as well.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Thank goodness for the multiverse, my universe behaves just fine.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, and they "proved" this grand theory with a total of about 9,000 observed photons.
That's why we know absolutely everything there is to know about Mars, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, etc: because we get billions upon billions of observable photons from them, every minute. There's no need to research the planets at all, any more.
It takes a special kind of genius to do astronomy get research grants.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Actually, the "laws of gravity" (i.e., General Relativity) say nothing about whether the universe should be expanding or contracting. Depending on the amount of mass/energy in the universe, it could be expanding and accelerating, contracting or expanding but not accelerating. Since the exact distribution of matter/energy is not known, any of those solutions is still possible. Measurements of distant supernovae in the past 15 years or so seem to indicate expanding and accelerating.
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The energy emitted from stars is powering this expansion of space. Dark matter, may also be emitting dark energy and adding to this expansion. We don't understand gravity. The assumption is that it attracts on the universal scale, but this may be a misconception.
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Good point, I didn't know it was accelerating!
That pretty much rules out space travel then. 
As for why? God knows.... 
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