Are Scientists Having a Steffi?

[vegster]

Scientists are now theoretically predicting the cosmos will be replaced by another cosmos in billions of years.

Apparently it's a simple calculation......
BBC News - Cosmos may be

Is it time they got proper jobs, like sorting out famine, drought and disease and stuff like that?
Who employs these nutters?

The common thread here is that the Universe is expanding along with most people's waistlines albeit, at slightly different rates.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

You are probably right, but I sometimes wonder whether we need to know about things that might happen so far into the future when there is so much misery in the present. Scientists skills could be better used and money spent more wisely.

I doubt that cosmologists would have much to add to any of our current issues. We need more doers not theorists.

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

http://wtfnasa.com/#

 

[skipper734]

Watch The Big Bank Theory on Channel 4/E4. Explains it all, and makes aye laugh.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Sidtheseagull=the Karl Pilkington of NSC

Don't anyone let on to him what philosophers get up to.

 

[Grombleton]

I think the idea of a cyclic universe is strangely comforting.

I do too. The thought that it is a finite idea and one day would just cease to exist is a bit depressing, at least it continues the whole circle of life (wimoweh a wimoweh a wimoweh etc)

 

[Drumstick]

Besides many of our greatest new technology has come from space type programmes and research by 'mistake'.

 

[SeagullSongs]

http://wtfnasa.com/#

This. Anyone who questions NASA's purpose doesn't understand what they're questioning.

NASA solves problems that people might not think are real problems, but the solutions are applied to society and improve our lives drastically. Imagine how advanced we would be if NASA got half the funding of the US Defence department?

 

[Nibble]

I'm glad someone is working on the universes rapidly decreasing helium supplies. Without that we are gonna be in a bad way. Get on on it spods and boffins!

 

[Marxo]

I thought that he old theory stated that the universe started with a big bang causing it to expand for a very long time until it eventually started to shrink back causing another big bang (I know some also hypostatised that it could expand indefinitely). This new theory has a different explanation but with more or less the same outcome. It's not really made any difference has it?

 

[Frutos]

Watch The Big Bank Theory on Channel 4/E4. Explains it all, and makes aye laugh.

Bang?

 

[skipper734]

Bang?

Absolutely Frutos! I don't even have the excuse of using a phone, and k is four keys away from g.

 

[skipper734]

Einstein and that E=mc2 - what was all that about, he should have got a proper job.

He did have a proper job. He was a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office.