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Excerpts from:  Why does the Death Star have a trash compactor? The Question: During one of the most iconic scenes of A New Hope, the protagonists end up in a trash compactor. Why does the Death Star have one? Why not just blow uncompacted trash into space? And why a mechanical one, when they could also use a directed energy beam to vaporise trash? Excerpts Although thoroughly Evil™, the Galactic Empire was remarkably progressive when it came to urban recycling and waste reclamation programs—including on their space stations. Blast a whole planet? No problem. Blast a few tons of trash? That could be a problem. "While the Death Star has plenty of energy, the designers wouldn't want to waste it frying a piece of garbage." You saw how Palpatine met his end, right? And the answer, in summary, is gravity... Simply shoving something out an airlock will result in in falling back towards the death star somewhere else. If you spew vaporized trash out a nozzle, ...

Expectations are a future perspective. In other words, they lead you out of the present moment. If peace and happiness are in the present moment, where does that leave you and your expectations? Expectations are assumptions. You act, then assume the external world will unfold the way you think it should.

Excerpts from an entertaining and popular StackOverflow question: Why does HTML think Chuck Norris is a color? ...and Steven Segal is green Chuck Norris doesn't conform to web standards. Web standards conform to him. #BADA55  Chucknorris leaves blood-red backgrounds where ever he goes, including websites. The answer: It's a holdover from the Netscape days: Missing digits are treated as 0[...]. An incorrect digit is simply interpreted as 0. For example the values #F0F0F0, F0F0F0, F0F0F, #FxFxFx and FxFxFx are all the same.

This is something I need to be reminded of every day.

Excerpts from: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/29755/how-can-an-uneducated-but-rational-person-differentiate-between-science-and-reli/34764#34764 To understand the difference between religion, ideology, philosophy and science, it is important to first distinguish between two fundamentally different approaches towards the interpretation and analysis of information : faith & reason. Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing; or the observance of an obligation from loyalty; or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement; or a belief not based on proof; or it may refer to a particular system of religious belief, such as in which faith is confidence based on some degree of warrant. Faith is typically a subconscious process, that works through emotion. It is typically driven by processes at the instinctive or intuitive level that one is not consciously aware of. Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and...

I'm going to try to get some regular posts here, but I will never write anything that hasn't already been written, and I will more than likely not do a better job than the author. So rather than attempting it, I'll simply point to it. For your inquisitive mind: Suppose we have two twins travelling away from each other, each twin moving at some speed  v v : Twin  A  observes twin  B ’s time to be dilated so his clock runs faster than twin  B ’s clock. But twin  B   observes twin  A ’s time to be dilated so his clock runs faster than twin  A ’s clock. Each twin thinks their clock is running faster. How can this be? Isn’t this a paradox? Read the answers for yourself:  https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/383248/how-can-time-dilation-be-symmetric