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05-08-08, 01:34 PM
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We are here because, more than ten billion years ago, the universe borrowed energy from the vacuum to create vast amounts of matter and antimatter in nearly equal numbers. Most of it annihilated and filled the universe with photons. Less than one part per billion survived to form protons and neutrons, and then the hydrogen and helium that makes up most everything there is. Some of this hydrogen and helium collapsed to make the first generation of massive stars, which produced the first batch of heavy elements in their central nuclear fires. These stars exploded and enriched the interstellar clouds that would form the next generation of stars. Finally, about five billion years ago, one particular cloud in one partcular galaxy collapsed to form our Sun and its planetary system. Life arose on the third planet, based on the hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other elements found in the protostellar cloud. The development of life transformed Earth's atmosphere and allowed small furry mammals to take center stage. Primative men and women evolved and moved out of Africa to conquer the world with their new knowledge of tools, language, and agriculture. After raising food on the land, your ancestors, your parents, and then you consumed this food and breathed the air. Your own body is a collection of the atoms that were created billions of years earlier in the interior of stars, the fraction of a fraction of a percent of normal matter that escaped annihilation in the first microsecond of the universe. Your life and everything in the world around you is intimately tied to countless aspects of modern astrophysics.
05-08-08, 01:35 PM
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: West Dorset, UK
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Bikes: 1983 Dawes Galaxy, 2006 Raleigh Airlite, 1982 Sun Solo (fixed)
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We are here because, more than ten billion years ago, the universe borrowed energy from the vacuum to create vast amounts of matter and antimatter in nearly equal numbers. Most of it annihilated and filled the universe with photons. Less than one part per billion survived to form protons and neutrons, and then the hydrogen and helium that makes up most everything there is. Some of this hydrogen and helium collapsed to make the first generation of massive stars, which produced the first batch of heavy elements in their central nuclear fires. These stars exploded and enriched the interstellar clouds that would form the next generation of stars. Finally, about five billion years ago, one particular cloud in one partcular galaxy collapsed to form our Sun and its planetary system. Life arose on the third planet, based on the hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other elements found in the protostellar cloud. The development of life transformed Earth's atmosphere and allowed small furry mammals to take center stage. Primative men and women evolved and moved out of Africa to conquer the world with their new knowledge of tools, language, and agriculture. After raising food on the land, your ancestors, your parents, and then you consumed this food and breathed the air. Your own body is a collection of the atoms that were created billions of years earlier in the interior of stars, the fraction of a fraction of a percent of normal matter that escaped annihilation in the first microsecond of the universe. Your life and everything in the world around you is intimately tied to countless aspects of modern astrophysics.
Sums it up pretty well i'd say.
I'm on BF because I found it when I wanted to know more about my vintage bike a year ago
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A group for all Dawes Galaxy owners to give and recieve information about them
https://flickr.com/groups/dawes_galaxy/
i jam my thumbs up and back into the tubes. this way i can point my fingers straight out in front to split the wind and attain an even more aero profile, and the usual fixed gear - zen - connectedness feeling through the drivetrain is multiplied ten fold because my thumbs become one with the tubing.
https://flickr.com/groups/dawes_galaxy/
05-08-08, 01:35 PM
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Super Course fan
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wow.....
Only on the road forum because the great and top secret community of Retro-grouch Freds have decided to maintain an overwatch over the entire Roadie subculture.
We really don't expect His mightiness the honorable and most exalted General Chipcom to be here all the time, but he tries.
Only on the road forum because the great and top secret community of Retro-grouch Freds have decided to maintain an overwatch over the entire Roadie subculture.
We really don't expect His mightiness the honorable and most exalted General Chipcom to be here all the time, but he tries.
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I have a white PX-10, a Green Dawes Galaxy and an Orange Falcon, now I'm done.
I have a white PX-10, a Green Dawes Galaxy and an Orange Falcon, now I'm done.
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05-08-08, 01:36 PM
#5
Living the n+1
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Off the back
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Bikes: 2019 RM Blizzard, 2013 SuperX, 2007 Litespeed Vortex, 1970 Falcon Olympic, 2008 RM Metropolis IGH, 2004 Specialized Enduro, 2006 Langster
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I'm here because it's better than what I have to do at the office.
05-08-08, 01:37 PM
#6
Infamous Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ohio
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Bikes: Surly Big Dummy, Fuji World, 80ish Bianchi
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I'm here because BF makes me more regular than yucky fiber.
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
05-08-08, 01:37 PM
#7
Double Prick
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canadian version of Texas
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Bikes: Cervelo Carbon Soloist, Cervelo Aluminum Soloist, Cannondale cyclecross
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Or...... we appeared out of thin air because some imaginary being was bored.
05-08-08, 01:38 PM
#8
Senior Member
Nice, botto, nice.
I'm here passing time since I already rode today (and smashed my PB on the 23km section of training ride, might I add?) and yet have not had my fill of cycling yet.
I'm here passing time since I already rode today (and smashed my PB on the 23km section of training ride, might I add?) and yet have not had my fill of cycling yet.
05-08-08, 01:40 PM
#10
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Location: San Francisco
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Bikes: Steelman eurocross, Surly CrossCheck, IRO Rob Roy...
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I was kicked out of the Disney forum. Tell them they can't bring strollers into the park and they ban you for life.
05-08-08, 01:41 PM
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OCP
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...in the hopes that some of the awesomeness of either 'recursive' or Speedy Mc Awesome will somehow rub off on me.
05-08-08, 01:56 PM
#14
AiM SmAlL mIsS sMaLl
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Location: Belpre, Ohio
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well, wanted to learn more about road bikes and to get advice on what to do and not to do when I recently pulled the trigger on my new bike and all the "roadie" accessories.
05-08-08, 02:18 PM
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mamafitz
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Near Hershey...TMI...not in Central PA ;)
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I'm here to find the origin of life. And now Botto has cleared that up.
So I've got that going for me. . . which is nice.
Beth
So I've got that going for me. . . which is nice.
Beth
05-08-08, 02:51 PM
#20
Senior Member
it's rainy and chilly outside....
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Kona Jake the Snake
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05-08-08, 02:59 PM
#21
Senior Member?
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Denver
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I'm waiting for my x-ray diffraction machine to finish scanning
05-08-08, 03:07 PM
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Every day is a good day!
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Location: Brooklyn, NY
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I am here because I am...
05-08-08, 03:12 PM
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To let all of you bask in my awesomeness. Also because it's slow at work today. I sometimes come here when there's nothing good on TV. But mostly it's about letting you bask in my awesomeness.
05-08-08, 03:19 PM
#24
Announcer
I'm here to study and learn patience and draw on the experiences of ma..... (ding) .... Oh, gotta go! My bagel is toasted.
05-08-08, 03:30 PM
#25
100% Fred
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kill time during my day, see if any good stories are posted, look at lots of bike porn