(Its a big one! - Mr. Silver)
8:23 AM Mr. Silver
"Santa" got us a queen electric blanket with a temperature control for each half of the bed.
Mrs. Silver was funny...it was about 11:45pm Christmas Eve and we're wrapping our last couple of presents.
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
"There's still a present in your closet...I didn't look at what it was. ... ... can we use it tonight?"
"You didn't look, eh?"
8:35 AM Mr. Gray
How does she not look, yet know she wants to use it so badly? Hmmm… Suspicious logic there from the Mrs.
8:48 AM Mr. Silver
Hehehe
8:49 AM Mr. Gray
"Why, it’s a box of adult toys! How did you know what was in there and want to use them?!”
9:05 AM Mr. Silver
I kid about that on occasion.
9:10 AM Mr. Silver
"For your (birthday/Christmas/etc) I spotted this thing that revs like a motorcycle and twists like this!"
(Mrs. Silver) "You'd never see me again."
"Touché."
9:10 AM Mr. Gray
LMAO
Mr. Silver
11:31 AM CJ There are some leftover sandwich fixings from yesterday. Help yourself while
they last.
12:42 PM Mr. Amethyst In the basement?
12:47 PM CJ Yes.
12:47 PM Mr. Amethyst Ok, thank you.
Mr. Silver
You know, "Free yesterday's lunchmeat and mayonnaise kept in the basement" sounds all kinds of yummy to me...and to bacteria.
1:00 PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL I like e. Coli!
1:00 PM Mr. Silver
You're in luck!
"Free sandwiches and toilet access for all!"
1:10 PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
Yum!
1:10 PM Mr. Blue
"Free sandwich fixings for all! It's in the dumpster in the alley, help yourself!"
1:11 PM Mr. Gray
I'll wait until next week when they are good and fresh....and I have sick time again.
1:11 PM Mr. Brown
I remember eating all-day old mayonnaise. It didn't hurt me.
1:13 PM Mr. Blue
I just had 2 month old mayonnaise on Saturday. The "best by" date was 11/01/11.
I just scraped the fur off the top.
1:16 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, it always gets that crust on it. Just take that off and its all good underneath.
8:06 AM Mr. Silver
Got Silver Jr. "Tornado Outbreak". He happily destroyed villages, towns and cities for probably far too long yesterday.
8:07 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
I’ve never heard of that game.
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
I'm having a little trouble with the plot...
Apparently some sort of Wind hero is teaming up with the Cloud heroes to take out the evil Fire villains who are “up to no good”.
Saving the world involves destruction on a titanic scale.
8:16 AM Mr. Silver
We also got Sports Resort. We played them both off and on all day.
I even got my mom doing archery and bowling.
8:28 AM Mr. Gray
I like Sports Resort
8:51 AM Mr. Brown
I like the archery and sword fighting.
8:58 AM Mr. Silver
I have to “cheat” at swordfighting.
Silver Jr. is enthusiastic, but I've had him in the water in 3 swings and he was getting discouraged.
Mrs. Silver is Frisbee Girl; I'm atrocious at it.
Silver Jr. is Wakeboard King.
9:01 AM Mr. Brown
Frisbee is hard.
9:02 AM Mr. Silver
"Woo yeah! Wakeboard! 600 points on my first try! Woo! Your turn, Junior!"
"YAY! 950! You go Dad!"
"Uh...425...your turn."
"WOO! 1100! Your turn!"
"Let's swordfight!"
9:04 AM Mr. Silver
Frisbee scores were even more embarrassing…like I got 30 to his 120 and her 280.
12:24 PM Mr. Silver
So this lady I met tells me: "I clean at the post office. This year I decided for fun to dress as Santa and I handed out coal to all the older folks...the kids get enough, you know? But even though I told them no, people kept assuming I was collecting for Salvation Army and by the end of the day I had 50 bucks in contributions! So I took it to the S.A. and they told me they'd stopped collecting the day before."
12:25 PM Mr. Blue
So you're saying I should go into business dressing as Santa and just collect donations for myself?
12:27 PM Mr. Silver
Yeah!
Perhaps a series of costumes: Cupid, Leprechaun, Uncle Sam, Pilgrim, Santa
Just ring a bell and stand next to a bucket.
Maybe with a little sign saying something like "Contribute to my food, clothing, and shelter."
If the police ask you, you can say you are a street performer.
"I ring a bell and caper about for tips, officer. What? So if it was a guitar you wouldn't have hassled me?"
12:31 PM Mr. Blue
Great idea!
12:33 PM Mr. Silver
Just get a business license and keep it handy.
12:33 PM Mr. Blue
Kind of like George’s charity from “Seinfeld”.
"The Human Fund: Money for people"
12:33 PM Mr. Silver
Heh
"No Shame Street Entertainments, LLC"
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
I could claim to "donate proceeds" and just donate 1 penny for every dollar.
12:42 PM Mr. Gray
LOL Nice idea!
12:44 PM Mr. Silver
(judge) "The fact remains that Mr. Blue is a clearly and legally licensed "Publick Foole" with an up-to-date tax record. Case dismissed."
12:45 PM Mr. Blue
I’ll call it the "Make My Wish Foundation!"
It’s certainly no less immoral than those gold coins they sell on infomercials commemorating the Seal 6 team or 9/11
"Liberian legal tender! Avoid future regret!"
12:51 PM Mr. Gray
I bet none of the people that buy those even know where Liberia is.
12:55 PM Mr. Silver
"Some collectors have paid over 10,000 (Liberian) Dollars for this coin. But if you act now you can get yours for only $150! (A clear profit of more than 4000 Liberian Dollars)"
"Don't wait! A coin like this can only appreciate or depreciate in value!"
12:57 PM Mr. Gray
Shocker....
Dec 1, 2010 – The Liberian dollar and the U.S. dollar are the 2 legal currencies and are officially interchangeable (that is, the official exchange rate is LD$1 = US$1
12:58 PM Mr. Silver
Heh...considering $1 US is actually worth $72.25L, that's very 'generous'.
12:59 PM Mr. Gray
Wow....the site I found was very wrong then LOL
1:04 PM Mr. Silver
Oh I'm sure 1 to 1 is Liberia's desired exchange rate.
1:05 PM Mr. Gray
Hehe
1:37 PM Mr. Brown
did you know they account poltengiest to involentary phycokenisis
1:40 PM Mr. Brown
phsycokenisis
errrrg
1:59 PM Mr. Silver
In human, I believe Mr. Brown's question was:
"Did you know that some parapsychological researchers theorize that poltergeist activity may actually be involuntary psychokinesis? Errrrg."
And, yes, I did.
2:01 PM Mr. Brown
Thank you for helping with the translation, my brain does not relay information well.
2:02 PM Mr. Blue
What does it do well?
2:02 PM Mr. Brown
I understand things beyond what people think I can, but I can’t relay the info correctly.
2:02 PM Mr. Silver
His brain has provided some wonderful topics.
Sadly, I have to edit them a lot later.
2:05 PM Mr. Brown
So if we could crush the Moon down to the size of a golf ball while retaining its true mass, that would make a black hole, right?
2:06 PM Mr. Gray
No...It would just make a really dense rock.
Now if you crushed a star down to sub-atomic levels.....
2:08 PM Mr. Brown
Well I guess since the Moon is only made of rock.
2:09 PM Mr. Gray
...and black holes are made of collapsed stars...
2:09 PM Mr. Blue
Like Gary Busey?
2:09 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
Every movie he gets near now disappears from sight!
2:10 PM Mr. Silver
I like it...we'll sit by the road in a lawn chair in LA selling "Maps To The Black Holes’ Homes" to tourists.
2:10 PM Mr. Gray
I bet that would work.
2:11 PM Mr. Gray
The old stars might even come outside for some attention...and then the fans will never escape their intense pull...."Please don’t go!! I was a star once!!"
2:25 PM Mr. Brown
So if you crushed the Sun down to the size of a golf ball, we would all die as we were sucked into the resulting black hole.
2:29 PM Mr. Silver
No.
I saw that asked fairly recently. If you could implode our Sun into a singularity, it'd still have the same mass, so the same gravitational pull. It may seem counter-intuitive, but the Sun is also not big enough to make a black hole out of.
2:32 PM Mr. Brown
But if we started shooting things into it and made it bigger that would kill us. Add to its mass.
2:32 PM Mr. Blue
Like what?
Besides shooting other stars into it, I’m not sure anything we "shoot into it" would make any difference.
2:32 PM Mr. Brown
Like if Mercury and Mars floated into the Sun.
2:33 PM Mr. Blue
Probably not enough.
2:34 PM Mr. Brown
What about the size of Jupiter?
2:36 PM Mr. Silver
It would be about the same as you eating 2 peas and a marshmallow, Mr. Brown.
2:37 PM Mr. Brown
So we could get rid of junk on earth by jettisoning it into the Sun, with no ill effect?
2:39 PM Mr. Silver
Up to and including the entire Earth, yes.
2:39 PM Mr. Silver
"You living on this?"
"Nah...Pitch it."
2:41 PM Mr. Brown
I remember reading that story of the comet that went so close to the Sun it should have been destroyed, but it made it past.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
A week or so back, yes.
2:46 PM Mr. Brown
I’ll bet a planet could do the same.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
I'm sure it could. Any planet is much bigger.
2:46 PM Mr. Brown
It could go right through the middle though, and come out the other side.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
No it couldn’t.
2:47 PM Mr. Brown
Like the planet would not get stopped by the core of the Sun. There’s not enough matter there.
2:48 PM Mr. Blue
?!?!?!
2:48 PM Mr. Brown
In solid form to stop it. If instead of having a planet cruise by close, have it try to go through the middle of the Sun to see if comes out the other side.
2:48 PM Mr. Blue
It wouldn't.
2:52 PM Mr. Brown
What is the reason why it could not make it?
2:52 PM Mr. Blue
Because it's the god-damned Sun.
2:52 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
2:55 PM Mr. Blue
The Sun isn't just a big fire ball. It's dense! It’s not like passing your finger over the flame of a match head.
2:55 PM Mr. Silver
A few things shown here should explain fairly well to you how the experiment would go.
3:03 PM Mr. Silver
Can I point out that the entire solar system consists of the trace specks of everything that survived in this region of space from the previous star that didn't manage to eat it all, and it was much bigger than the star we have now? And that a lot of atomic elements were created in the compression of less than one second just before it exploded? And even with the Sun being made of the remaining fumes of its mom’s hydrogen fuel, it’s still so huge that the dust specks orbiting it are insignificant and the Sun can still eat all of it and not notice?
Just saying...
3:03 PM Mr. Blue
A planet isn't passing through a star and coming out on the other side.
3:04 PM Mr. Brown
I’m trying to figure out what could go through the Sun’s center and out the other side.
3:05 PM Mr. Blue
How are you figuring this out?
3:05 PM Mr. Brown
I’m comparing density first.
3:05 PM Mr. Blue
What does that have to do with anything?
3:06 PM Mr. Brown
What does Mj mean? In size?
3:07 PM Mr. Blue
Mj means "No planet is going to pass through a sun and come out on the other side, Mr. Brown."
3:07 PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
3:07 PM Mr. Silver
I like the inclusion of “Mr. Brown” in the definition...very clarifying.
3:08 PM Mr. Blue
It was a questionable inclusion at first, but the astronomers knew it'd pay off eventually.
3:08 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
The controversially named "Mr-Brownian Dynamic Solar Penetration Principle".
No one could figure out the name in 1926, but it's all so clear now.
3:09 PM Mr. Gray
How about we build a rocket and launch Mr. Brown at the Sun and see if he goes through to the other side?
3:10 PM Mr. Silver
Pick something like a small neutron star for this experiment and you're gold. (and we're F'd...but it's a thought experiment)
3:11 PM Mr. Brown
3:11 PM Mr. Brown
This planet is cool.
3:16 PM Mr. Silver
"As can be deduced from the artist’s conception, the artist really likes blue."
3:17 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
3:17 PM Mr. Silver
“In fact, the b in ‘Delphini b’ stands for blue."
3:20 PM Mr. Brown
That would kill the Sun.
3:20 PM Mr. Silver
See, you're getting it.
3:21 PM Mr. Brown
Now if you could shrink it down, but keep the density of it at its larger state, that would put a hole in the Sun, fired at the proper speed. If you launched it at the wrong speed, it would knock the Sun out of the system.
3:35 PM Mr. Gray
Which, I might add, will definitely throw the Earth off its axis when the Sun suddenly vanishes…on the off chance some godlike being shows up and lets you "play" with the solar system.
3:32 PM Mr. Brown
Wow! VY Canis Majoris makes Betelgeuse look small!
Sirius could kill the Sun.
3:34 PM Mr. Silver
Before or after you condense the Moon to the size of a bullet and shoot it through?
3:36 PM Mr. Brown
Do you think that Betelgeuse will go super nova soon?
Then we will have what looks like two suns.
3:39 PM Mr. Silver
If Betelgeuse went supernova, it was at least 650 years ago.
3:40 PM Mr. Blue
Would it really be that bright?
3:40 PM Mr. Silver
Like read-at-night bright? Possibly.
3:41 PM Mr. Brown
Yes. We would see a sun next to our sun in the sky, even at night.
We would see it like a sun, and it would be like day for a few months.
3:41 PM Mr. Silver
We'd see a sun...next to the Sun...at night...
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
I've never seen the Sun at night at the best of times.
3:42 PM Mr. Brown
I wrote that wrong.
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
We know.
3:42 PM Mr. Brown
We would have two during the day, one at night. But night would be like day.
Our sun would set while the other would still be visible.
3:43 PM Mr. Silver
(gouges out eyes)
You're describing Betelgeuse suddenly orbiting the Earth like the Moon.
3:44 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
I was wondering when you'd catch that. I was trying to ignore it.
3:44 PM Mr. Brown
We will be getting hit with particles from it.
I know that, because they will have reached us then.
3:47 PM Mr. Silver
(seethe)
Light will have because it travels at the speed of light.
If we got bathed by ejecta from a boom that big we'd be screwed.
3:48 PM Mr. Silver
Incidentally, that's one of those "Earth could be vaporized any time" scenarios.
"It only took 10 billion years, but that perfectly aimed bit of supernova just rolled in to say goodbye!"
3:50 PM Mr. Brown
Well particles are going through us right now. A lot of them are harmless.
3:51 PM Mr. Silver
Yes, they are.
3:51 PM Mr. Gray
Not me..I'm as dense as a crushed moon.
3:51 PM Mr. Silver
"If we compressed the moon down to the size of Mr. Gray...we'd have Mr. Gray."
3:51 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
3:51 PM Mr. Silver
"And he still couldn't be shot through the Sun."
(Insert lame Chuck Norris joke here.)
3:52 PM Mr. Blue
LOL
