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Might check out a CZ-75 in that case. No decocker, but can be carried cocked and locked like a 1911.

There's a couple things in Walt's case that make his house plausible. One, he's in New Mexico, an area with fairly cheap real estate (the median home value in Albuquerque is only ~$175k). Two, he lost his job as a research or industrial chemist before the show. That job probably paid him well north ...

I've not shot it before, but from what I hear the gold stuff (boxer primed, brass case) is nice ammo. Wolf Gold is repackaged Prvi Partizan, if you've ever shot that. Their cheaper steel-cased ammo runs dirtier than brass-cased, and the bimetal jacketed ammo is really steel-jacketed bullets with a t...

I'm not familiar with American bankruptcy law. What's the difference between the two types of administration? Is it like 'receivership' vs 'liquidation'? Pretty much. Chapter 7 is straight liquidation, while Chapter 11 governs reorganization of the bankrupt business (but is not technically receiver...

Huh; so the lever-based mag eject on my AK would be fine? These people do not think things through. This one actually has a specific purpose. In CA, a magazine is considered non-detachable if you need a tool of any kind to detach it. What people have done with ARs and other such rifles is just inst...

Aren't all of those closer to Tucson than Phoenix? Except Mt. Wilson, which is in Los Angeles. I think Eternal_Freedom meant Mt. Graham, which is where LBT and some other stuff is. I'm guessing the field trip is connected to the UA astronomy department, which would explain the Tucson focus and why t...

Question that nobody seems to have noticed: why are you putting your planet 0.4 AU away from the surface of an F giant? That would make the surface closer to a lava sea than a water ocean. Also, what units are the star's mass and luminosity in? I suspect solar units (and you may have meant that for ...

No, it does not. Neutron stars are larger than their Schwarzschild radii and so emit normal blackbody emission, although most of their emitted power is driven by their magnetic fields (their magnetic dipole radiation alone outweighs their BB emission by many orders of magnitude). EDIT: Hawking radia...

This should make Thanas happy. Now to see who they hire to replace him in the offseason.

Isn't it up for debate whether the gravitational effects of antimatter are truly identical to matter? CPT predicts that antimatter will attract other antimatter in the same way matter attracts matter, but whether that carries over to matter/antimatter gravitational interaction is unclear. As far as...

I don't like that explanation much, it sounds like a reach to me. The most likely explanation for the no observed antimatter concentrations is that we just can't see them, either because they are dark/cold/emit anti-photons/other freaky shit or they are outside our light cone. That explanation is o...

The Orange Bible? Possible, but K&W go over some of it in fairly excruciating detail, and cover the rest well.

Xeriar, I'll get back to you sometime next week; I've got a bunch of stuff all landing at once on me right now.

No, I don't, but they should be out there... somewhere. This shouldn't be particularly difficult to calculate, though. There are published density and temperature profiles for stars of all kinds floating around out there, and from that it's simple numerical integration to figure out the neutrino pro...

Actually, you very much can; most of the planets found by direct imaging have come from ground-based surveys. Adaptive optics (AO) is killer; the small well-corrected fields AO gives you are not a problem when all your spearations are arcseconds or less*. There are several techniques that are used i...

The james webb telescope won't be great for taking pictures of planet as it will be an infra-red telescope. Hopefully, NASA will have funding for it, then later funding for a replacement for the hubble in normal light wavelength. On the contrary, JWST is better for observing planets. Earth's therma...

LaTeX is a complete typesetting engine. Virtually every single paper you see in physics and astronomy at least is written entirely using it. On the whole, I find it makes writing papers easier. However, like I said, if you don't have the effort and time to spare right now, you don't need to use or l...

What do you use to manage your citations/references? I'm trying to use Mendeley, but a lot of the articles aren't in my Mendeley library, so i'm finding it easier to just regoogle them and add them via Word's built in citation manager - but then it ends up a mess of the two. (And confusing for tryi...

In addition to phongn's suggestion, HP's ZR series are also good IPS monitors. Really, it depends on what you want to do with the monitor. Do you need actual color fidelity (e.g., graphics work)? Then you have no choice but an IPS panel, since TNs (the ASUS and the Viewsonic already suggested have t...

I'm pretty sure the reactor spaces all flooded with seawater, which would have prevented even a hint of a meltdown.

Nah, it bounced off his fingertips. I'm just glad it was incomplete. I do agree that Rogers might have had a better chance, though.

EDIT: I mean, if Goldson hadn't come in.

Unless we get a Hail Mary off and convert, this thing's going to OT.

EDIT: And OT.

Plus we lost the coin toss.

All right, just need a field goal. Come on, offense. Don't let this go to OT.

EDIT: Christ, either the offenses are just sucking right now, or the defenses are being totally awesome.

Oh Christ, please tell me that didn't actually hit his knee...

EDIT: Fuck, it did hit his knee. Short field for the Giants. C'mon D.

Damn. Not only did we not get the INT, Brown is injured.

Shit. Wide left.