The Flying Penguin wrote on Jun 23, 2023, 10:21:
Yeah that was confusing the way it was phrased. The center of our galaxy is 26K+ light-years away, so you are correct, it would take 26K years for the light to reach us. So I assume when they say the event happened 200 years ago, that it's been 200 years since the event would have been visible here, just no one saw it then. They just detected the after effects.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 16:26:
Okay, I skimmed the articled and might have missed it, but Sagittarius A* is roughly 26,000 light years from the Earth, so I don't understand how we could have already seen something that happened 200 years ago. I'm guessing they really mean, it happened 25,800 years ago and our telescopes are only now good enough to see things which we might have seen 200 years ago if we had the equipment then....

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 19:55:
Do you pity the fool who used to like "The Man Show"?

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 19:49:

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 19:24:
Oh shit - I forgot about the Man Show. That said a lot about American culture right there. (I thought it was hysterical personally)

Never watched it, the few short clips I saw told me that was a good decision.

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 19:24:
Oh shit - I forgot about the Man Show. That said a lot about American culture right there. (I thought it was hysterical personally)

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 18:59:
Am I supposed to feel stupid because I don't know the capital of Australia? Because I don't whatsoever. I guess I am the arrogant American mentioned in the article...

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 18:59:
Am I supposed to feel stupid because I don't know the capital of Australia? Because I don't whatsoever. I guess I am the arrogant American mentioned in the article...

Seriously though - this was a VERY odd outlook on American culture. You don't really need to try that hard. Jay Leno used to host a segment on his show where he had a man on the street ask average Americans questions like how many branches in the US government or was women's suffrage a bad thing? As far as the latter question, half of the respondents said yes without knowing what suffrage is...

fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 19:03:

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 18:59:
Am I supposed to feel stupid because I don't know the capital of Australia?

It's the 'A', you got it right.

Prez wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 18:59:
Am I supposed to feel stupid because I don't know the capital of Australia?

mellis wrote on Jun 22, 2023, 17:57:

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat.

Probably want to read this article first before gobbling that stuff down...

Exscript:

Some of the companies call their products cultured meat, or cultivated meat, or cell-cultured meat. All of them stress the M-word. “This is meat,” Upside Foods Inc. Chief Executive Officer Uma Valeti said at an industry conference a little more than a year ago. “Calling it anything else, I think, is going to be misleading.” On a cellular level, alternative protein advocates say, it’s no different. And that’s 99.9% true.

The big honking asterisk is that normal meat cells don’t just keep dividing forever. To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies, including the Big Three, are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally. Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous.

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation's first 'lab-grown' meat.

Some of the companies call their products cultured meat, or cultivated meat, or cell-cultured meat. All of them stress the M-word. “This is meat,” Upside Foods Inc. Chief Executive Officer Uma Valeti said at an industry conference a little more than a year ago. “Calling it anything else, I think, is going to be misleading.” On a cellular level, alternative protein advocates say, it’s no different. And that’s 99.9% true.

The big honking asterisk is that normal meat cells don’t just keep dividing forever. To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies, including the Big Three, are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally. Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous.