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Better. All the returning players will get better. I’m also assuming that while JHS may not be better at shooting than Stewart, he may be better in all other aspects fo the game. I’ll predict that the ball will be in JHS’s hands more than twice as much as it was in Parker’s. And because Parker was more of a stagnant catch and shoot guy, this means more movement, more creation, more passing.

It only matters who Woody think ‘should’ start. And based on history, I have a hard time not seeing him start Kopp or Galloway to begin the season.

Definitely not November starters, but I hope these are the January starters.

HUUUUUUGE. This offseason just got that much longer. Oh, the anticipation will make it crawl.

I always have dreams that i'm still in school and skipping a class so much that I forgot I was taking it - until the day before the final exam.

I think those Broncos look cool. They are everywhere around here - they're the new Telluride. I have heard that the cabin noise with the ragtops is super loud though.

Asteroids, Brah: Jupiter has been called the vacuum cleaner of the solar system because its gravity sucks in asteroids and comets, protecting us from those objects. But it's not all good: Jupiter's gravity can also nudge an object onto an orbital collision course with Earth. The good news is that the earlier we detect them, the easier it is to devise a plan to nudge them off course. And we don't want to use the 'Armagedon' method of blowing up an Asteroid because it will create a shower of smaller rocks, that will do just as much damage. The trick is nudging. By the numbers (size to damage ratio)...... - most meteors are smaller than a car and burn up in the atmosphere as harmless meteors. - Any larger than that, and things start getting risky. Some detonate into airbursts high above the ground. These explosions create shockwaves strong enough to break windows. They can also emit enough light energy to cause a sunburn. - A house-sized meteorite can explode in Earth's atmosphere with a force greater than the nuclear weapon the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Such a space rock could flatten most buildings within 1.5 miles of ground zero. - An asteroid the size of a 20-story building is bad news. With the right composition, speed, and angle of attack, a rock this size might leave a wake of destruction the size of central Paris. - One roughly the size of a football field could obliterate New York, causing a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that might be felt than 1,000 miles away. - An asteroid more than half a mile wide would start to have global implications. It could destroy an area the size of the US state of Virginia. Dust tossed up from the impact would block the sun and lead to rapid changes in climates across Earth. - A Mount-Everest-size space rock would vaporize everything around its impact site for miles. The resulting crater would stretch more than 100 miles wide. The aftermath that follows would kill most life on Earth. This is similar in size to the space rock that killed the dinosaurs. - A London-sized asteroid would be more than just a major extinction-level event. Its impact would slow down Earth's rotation enough to make its day last almost half a second longer. - The largest known asteroid, Ceres, is about the size of Texas.

They sound like a pain in the ass.

I was just going to ask you about Toppling Goliath. Haha. The Double Dry Hopped version of King Sue (when I can find it) is one of my absolute favorites.

I like cream ales as well, but I don't understand the mystique surrounding Spotted Cow. First of all screw Wisconsin. Second of all, Sunlight by Sun King is way easier to get and is way better, IMO.

They really should get Upland to create a Crimson and Cream Ale.

High noon? Sun dials?

I can’t imagine alcohol will be that big of an issue for basketball games. Students show up drunk at football games because they are tailgating before. Most students have class before basketball games. I can’t imagine that the beers will be under $10 which will be another major deterrent for students. There will be very few willing to fork out the cash to get wasted at the games. Also, the basketball games are short. They’re not like long baseball games. Unless your dedicated, most spectators aren’t going to throw back more than 3 tall boys….especially if they have to drive home.

Today’s trippy thought….. Where does the universe end? Or is it spherical? Or is it infinite? And if it’s infinite that means that there’s an infinite amount of mays organisms can multiply……or even duplicate. Have we been duplicated? Is there a parallel universe where IU didn’t hire MIke Davis and sent us on a different path? Hmmmmm

This was the type of info I was looking for. I prefer not to go through the hassle of buying it out and then reselling because I’d like to get into another lease. But lease deals are dreadful right now.

Third times a charm

Has anybody turned in a lease lately? I still have another year, but because of the inflation, my contracted buyout looks like it's going to be almost $8k under its value. I'm obviously thinking about buying out the lease and then turning around and selling it, pay the taxes and take the profit. That said, I'm wondering how much dealerships are willing to deal because for once I'm in a stronger position. I'm going to guess they'll want my car back, but i'm sure as hell not going to turn it in without a significant credit on a new lease.

Perhaps God's construct of time was different. Regarding religion, I think we should just be careful to not fill religion into the gaps of things we can't explain because of what the bible literally says. I'm not saying that your God or other's Gods aren't real or wrong, but filling in those unexplained gaps with something that in itself can't be fully explained, can hypothetically stifle further discovery. After all, the bible does use the term 'four corners of the earth'. Of course this is now taken taken figuratively, but it not too long ago it was taken literally. And those who took it literally were sure not fans of Newton. I'm just saying that there are a TON of things out there that neither the bible or science can explain. I mentioned above that it's 'believed' nobody could travel at the speed of light. But perhaps that is wrong. Perhaps our brain can't comprehend this possibility because our knowledge of physics, at this point in time, is limited. Maybe we aren't seeing a bigger picture that exists. To make this even more trippy, perhaps things we can't explain are themselves a paradox. A paradox like standing on the North Pole and not being able to definitively point to the South, because every direction is South. And East. And West.

I was listening to a theoretical physicist who thought that only time travel into the future is possible, but not the past. Which makes sense that time dilation could be accelerated (the faster one is moved the more time passes), but this can't be reversed. Which asks the question, if you time traveled into the future could you make it back to your present?

And if this interests anybody, a couple of references... A good book that somewhat wrestles with the subject of time dilation and space travel is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. He's the author that wrote the Martian and Project Hail Mary is also slated to be a movie starring Ryan Gossling. Quick summary, the main character needs to make an interstellar trips to save Earth, but he needs to hurry up because of that pesky time dilation thing. Time is moving much faster on Earth because he's traveling at half the speed of light. Spectacular book if you like Sci-Fi. https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135202 Joe/Neil podcast:

HAHA. The 'intelligent' life in Independence Day lacked so much intelligence when you think about it. They must've been a bunch of screw ups. If any alien civilization wanted our resources and had the technology to get here, there would be a 'fight'. We'd be like an ant 'fighting back' against my shoe as I stepped on it.

....another topic for the slow, slow off-season: With the UFO hearings starting today I thought why not start a science thread to discuss the unexplained, the theoretical, the mysterious aspects, etc. of science. Some things on my mind...... 1. Regarding the UFO hearings, there's a great Joe Rogan interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson from a few months ago. Tyson is pretty adamant that the UFO are not aliens - he puts an emphasis on 'unexplained'. As in we don't know. And because we don't know, doesn't automatically mean that the UFO's are alien. There have been many other instances where certain UFO's, initially thought to be aliens, have been explained as weather balloons, illusions, etc. He also ponders that IF aliens had the technology to travel to this planet then they most likely wouldn't be 'seen' unless they wanted to be seen. 2. Time dilation/time travel. As a consequence to Einstein's theory of relativity, time is relative and it passes at different rates. So, the faster a person moves, the slower their time moves - relative to a person standing still (or moving at a slower speed). For example. If your walking down the aisle on an airplane to use the bathroom, you think you are walking at a speed of 2 mph, but to a person standing on the ground you are walking 402 mph (assuming the plane is moving at a speed of 400 mph). Anyway, based on that observation it is assumed that if you travel at close to the speed of light your concept of time would almost stand still relative to a person standing on Earth. Hypothetically, If one was traveling on a ship for 5 years at 99 percent the speed of light (2.5 years out and 2.5 years back), that corresponds to roughly 36 years on Earth. When the spaceship returned to Earth, the people onboard would come back 31 years in their future. An interesting fact I learned is that there is a human who has time traveled. A Russian cosmonaut spent 803 days in space, and because he rotated faster than the Earth in orbit he came back to Earth .02 seconds into the future. A question I have - If humans were to travel at a speed so fast that they could go interstellar and back, how do they avoid objects floating in space (giant rocks, meteors, etc.)? Wrapping it up - While I believe that there has to be intelligent life out there somewhere. Can they reach us? It's believed that it's impossible for an object to travel at the speed of light. And if an object (or being) could for observational purposes, taking time dilation into the equation, and assuming they'd be traveling for multiple light years, who would they report their findings back to, unless their species lived for hundreds of years???? If anybody is still reading at this point. Please share in cool facts, theories, etc.

I just gotta say all this is like comparing Honda Civics to Ferraris. Everything too. The players. The game plans. The Coaches. You don’t race against Hondas against Ferraris. You don’t take Ferraris to Honda mechanics. Have you seen how players in the NBA pass the ball? How fast it moves around the perimeter? How fast they can create mismatches and how fast the defense has to adjust? The NBA is like speed chess. And while I won’t say the college is like checkers….it’s more like a very, very slow game of chess. I enjoy college more, but it’s probably because I’m more invested as a fan to IU. But the NBA is ’technically’ better in almost every aspect. I’m not sure if that made sense. I’m a few drinks in. Because Saturday.

I'm listening now. Kenya said that he couldn't take much credit for recruiting Reneau the 2nd time he became available. Kenya credited JHS for telling the staff to get on him and and using his relationship to get him here. Gotta love JHS!