Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe | Charles

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

C9 Rocks!

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Any chance we get a little bit more of Brian? Would be nice to also chat a little bit more about astrophysics Smiley

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

This is the first time I had heard of the explanation for why we speculate there is dark matter.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Great video. Astrophysics is such a fascinating topic. Smiley

I felt it would be relevant to post this:

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to Sven Groot

#Apr 6th @ 6:59 PM

Awesome, Sven Smiley

Thank you for being such a great member of the community. And to all Niners: much love. Much love.

Keep on posting,
C

intelman

Ahh, computer hobbyists. That was one of the major factors in me not chosing to study computer science and engineering. I did not want to turn a hobby into a career. Who knows if my chemical engineering degree will end up being applied to computers...

exoteric
I : Next<I>

Happy birthday C9. Ain't nothing like it out there. Smiley

akopacsi

Happy Birthday C9! Smiley

( a bit of correction... the astrophoto site's url is not apod.com, but apod.nasa.gov )

Anyway, I really like the interview and I like that Brian talked about the isolation problem of Microsoft. I don't think it's only about geography. Frankly, I always thought that MS lives in a paralellel universe... just take a look at its technical terminology, PR, the way it handles the web etc. On the other hand I accept that it must be hard to operate such a large organization and keep it consistent and appealing to tens of millions of different customers. I think C9 is a great way to show the human side of the company. Good job, guys! Congratulations! Smiley

By the way, a birthday is always a good ground to start speculating about the future. What do you think the IT world will look like in 5 years?

(I'm sure only about these: Google will have indexed the books on my bookself and Windows 7 RC1 will be promised for the xmas season... just kidding... Smiley

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

So Newton thought gravity was pulling things down to earth. Einstein said reverse. That spacetime was pushing things into the earth which was gravity. So if spacetime surrounds a planet and "pushes" on it as hard as a planet pushes back - then what gives spacetime its muscle and push?