The Birth of the Freaking Awesome News Thread Begins

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  • edited November 2007
    Your Ron Paul meta humor is getting a little boring. Try spicing it up by making your OWN advertisements!
  • edited November 2007
    It's not meta humor, I really subscribe to his ideas.
  • edited November 2007
    David Cameron! YEAH!

    EDIT: He wants to pull out of Iraq immediately? That's kinda dumb...
  • edited November 2007
    Go back to America you Bush-hugger.
  • edited January 2008
    I don't necessarily consider this news completely awesome, but I didn't think it merited a new thread, either, so here it is.

    Perhaps an end to the format war?

    It seems like Blu-Ray might have won and we might see an end to this silly conflict. I don't think it's definite, but I think it's probably. I, for one, will be happy to see the format war finished with. It's silly. Though I don't know much about either format...I think Blu-Ray's a little more expensive than HD-DVD.
  • edited January 2008
    It's definitely because Sony started selling those PS3/Spiderman 3 bundles. And, PS3 even uses the Spiderman font. God, they are marketing geniuses.
  • edited January 2008
    Marketing assholes if you ask me. They crippled the PS3 trying to push blue ray (that and the cell processor is hardly ideal for gaming). If I can't totally avoid blue ray (I'd run without any optical storage if I could), I'll at least avoid HDMI. I support DisplayPort!
  • edited January 2008
    I don't watch a lot of movies, but that's still freaking awesome news!!!! :)
  • edited January 2008
    XoLore wrote: »
    Marketing assholes if you ask me. They crippled the PS3 trying to push blue ray (that and the cell processor is hardly ideal for gaming). If I can't totally avoid blue ray (I'd run without any optical storage if I could), I'll at least avoid HDMI. I support DisplayPort!

    I don't really understand what they're talking about on that website, so I'll just have to trust you. Yay DisplayPort!
  • edited January 2008
    That reminds me of the phobia of the giant mole rat someone brought up a looong time ago, maybe in the inksandwich days. I'm sure this news was not very awesome for those people at all!
  • edited January 2008
    What was that phobia called again? I remember that DBD was a big supporter/sufferer of it.
  • edited January 2008
    Zemmiphobia. That was an awesome AIM convo.
  • edited January 2008
    Good gracious I think I have some vague memory of that now that you bring it up. I sometimes wonder how we ever got into discussing things like that. But then I remember the inksandwich days. It was quite a feat to stay on topic for a whole page then.
  • edited January 2008
    The Vomit Cafe was great at that.
  • edited March 2008
    Alpha Centauri likely to have an Earth-like planet
    Planet formation around one star in a binary can be tricky; the disk from which the planets form can be disrupted by the presence of another star. However, a team of astronomers including Javiera Guedes and Greg Laughlin used computer simulations to see how planets could form in the Alpha Cen system specifically. They did what’s called a Monte Carlo test, running the simulation over and over again with slightly different input parameters every time (like, disk density, composition, and so on).

    Remarkably, what they found is that they got a terrestrial (rocky) planet about the size of Earth orbiting Alpha Cen B every single time, and in many cases was at the right distance from the star to have liquid water.
  • edited March 2008
    I forgot about this thread! Hooray!
  • edited March 2008

    Yes, but too bad about the xenofungus and the mindworms.

    Also: Nice source of info.... a website called "Bad Astronomy"
  • edited March 2008
    Dude, Bad Astronomy is an awesome site. I'm a huge Phil Plait fan, and you all should be too. Just 'cause.
  • edited March 2008
    So there might be a space port there after all?

    "Be like the twenty-second elephant with heated value in space - bark!"
  • edited March 2008
    I'm just glad that all those spaceships I sent off in Civilization might actually get somewhere.
  • edited March 2008
    They're all dead, Dave.
  • edited March 2008
    What, Captain Hollister?
  • edited March 2008
    Everybody's Dead, Dave.
  • edited April 2008
    Mr. T Brought Boy Out of Coma
    Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child's family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help.

    The poorly kid fell unconscious in Detroit, Michigan in the mid-1980s - and the only physical movement he made was in response to hearing Mr. T's name.

    And when the mohawked star was in town, he stopped by the hospital to visit the ill boy - with miraculous results.

    He tells Britain's Empire magazine, "His family put toys around him and one of them was a Mr. T doll. And whenever my name came up, the boy moved his arm."

    "Somebody told the doctors I was in town, so they called me down there. I closed the curtains and prayed. Then, as I was walking down the hall, the kid suddenly came out of the coma and hollered out."

    "That was my supernatural moment."
    I never knew the word "poorly" could be used in that way, but dictionary.com says it works, so I'm not complaining.
  • edited April 2008
    wat
  • edited April 2008
    Awwwwww:)

    Mr. T, is there anything you CAN'T do?
  • edited April 2008
    This could be the most awesome news since written language was invented.

    Thank you, Mr. T.
  • edited April 2008
    Zlamzambo wrote: »
    Awwwwww:)

    Mr. T, is there anything you CAN'T do?
    Create a rock so big even he can't throw it hella far?
  • edited April 2008
    That's true. But then he'd throw it hella far anyway.