Friday, January 29, 2010

Quote of the Day

"Contrary to common opinion, the maintenance of all the complicated structures we see around us -- galaxies, stars, hurricanes and kangaroos -- have the net effect of increasing the disorder and entropy of the universe. But to be fair, their contributions are negligible compared to the entropy of super-massive black holes," added Dr Lineweaver. (Here's the full article for clarification...)

This guy adding "kangaroos" to the list of complicated structures tickled my funny bone.

Galaxy - - - - - - - - - - - - - Black Hole - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kangaroo

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