Menacing pedestrians I don't get, but the laughing maniacally while joyriding a stollen forklift I totally get.

Definately read the book, also the audible audiobook narrated by R.C.Bray is totally worth a listen too.

Something to note is that there is a ton of stuff that the screenwriter missed that created plot holes & scientific absurdities in the screenplay, that if I had not read the book 1st would have made the movie unwatchable.

Marks story in the book is also way more thrilling as the author throws a ton more things at him which need the shit scienced out of them.

BTW IMO there is only one humorous point in the written word that does not come through in the audiobook or movie. When Mark is told that he should watch his language as the world is trading his words he types I think:

>![12:15] WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> ( . Y . )!<

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The short answer is no, the neutron degeneracy pressure for a neutron star of mass greater than around 2.16 time the mass of our sun (Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit) is insufficient to stop it collapsing.

This is well below the mass density where an even horizon would form, thus a neutron star cannot simultaneously be a black hole.

If though there were a state of matter at higher density than neutron matter (perhaps a quark plasma or quark stranglet) that could stabilize the collapse before the critical radius is reached then there may be something denser than a neutron star. But this would not be a black hole.

But according to our current understanding of science, once the collapsing sphere is denser than the the Schwarzschild radius an even horizon forms & within that radius no known state of matter is sufficient to withstand it ultimately forming a singularity.

It would be very difficult with a non-rotating black hole to prove otherwise anyway as the event horizon forms an information boundary to external observers & also for infalling instrumentation.

Great, you should put up a picture of it, to replace that plate of cremated half rashers.

Same today, I'm still waiting though.

The other, other, other white meat

You can tinkle on the ivories, while you tinkle on the porcelain. But really your aim should be better.

So first contrast, most meteorites are dark & snow/ice is white. Second climate, it's cold & dry there so weathering takes a long time. Third disturbance, there are very few things including humans to disturb a meteorites position.

But most importantly is that ice there flows over time down hill & near natural obstructions it pushes up into pressure ridges that ablate over time in the wind. This has the effect of concentrating any meteorites that fell into an area near the obstruction.

So researchers will search areas of sloping topography near an obstruction (rock outcrop) to get the best chance of recovering meteorites that fell anything up to perhaps a couple of hundred thousand years ago.

Well, look at it this way. It cannot be that bad an idea if no time travellers from the future suddenly arrive to stop us.

All I can say is they must be supremely confident in the quality of their food & customers.

Yup, except the "real target" was quite probably a perfectly legal pico-baloon hobby project from the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade that had already circumnavigated the planet a number of times.

So sure, let's have the military do exercises & shoot up private property.

Yea, that and the fact the photographer is standing in the open while everyone else is supposedly taking cover.

Now to mention the terrible trigger control they exhibit. I would not be at all surprised if this was a PR still from a movie.

No worries, climate change will soon put a stop to that, the northern branch of the Atlantic conveyer has already dropped 50% in volume from its earliest measure.

That is an option, but you'd be doing it without any assistance & the FAA or local admin fine plus potential prison time would likely outweigh a diversion.

Which is another thing, why no diversion, is this airline so broke they can't land at an alternate & stump up for transport.

Oh you politicians,

You were so preoccupied with whether they could say a thing, they didn't stop to think if they should.

"God Loves Boys"

Potentially true, but for certain Father McCarrick did.

So, outside of some small scale salt mining in the himalayan range it turns out that Himalayan salt is mostly not mined from the Himalayan mountain range but from the Pothohar Plateau in Pakistan where the climate appears to be continental and arid, changing from tropic to subtropic.

With only a short polar cold period in winter.

That is my understanding, the use of lede for this meaning was for instructions to the printer in such a way that inclusion is a typographic mistake.

Red skies in mornin, cow shed on fire!

I'm glad to hear it.

Why would I trust this app?

Mostly shortened URLs come to me by email, where my mail server does this function automatically, plus defuses tracking from them.

So targetted advertising then?

That is so interesting, it make a change from how they usually use the canals for this.

Yup, this is why Live Steam is so damn dangerous. If a high pressure steam line develops a crack the escaping steam can sound like a banshee on heat but is also completely invisible. The jet is just hanging out there waiting to slice off your limbs or scald you do death.

Precisely, it looks exactly like the corner of the old style Polaroid film box type 108