happy solstice everyone!

oceancaldera207

earthsky.org/tonight/southernmost-sun-brings-december-21-solstice#.UrXEco5lDJs

Back for a while, hope everyone is well!

federica

Shortest day, hip-hip, hooray! here's to now meandering towards a lighter brighter period!

lamaramadingdong

If you're going to have a bad day, it's the best day of the year to do it.

jae

Have fun

oceancaldera207

Is it just me or has the traffic here slowed down a lot?

Steve_B

It's a gravitational space-time warp. The traffic is really just as fast. It also doesn't exist.

oceancaldera207

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
If we were further apart or if one of us were closer to a more massive object the percieved slowing of traffic here might actually be variance in spacetime!

Time is different on the International space station than it is for us..but not by much.

Jeffrey

The New Buddhist flux capacitor (back to the future movie) needs more jigawatts of power so that we can blast off into 2014 :P

oceancaldera207

I don't know about a flux capacitor, but this nuclear explosive propulsion system (which was the product of a 1950s Los Alamos project) would probably be able to move the forum servers fast enough to cause some more pronounced time dilation effects.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

Real deal

Steve_B

That could make a shortest day out of any day.