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trying to ignore my toothache. I had horrible pains all weekend and took a very strong painkiller. Today the dentist found a cavity and fixed it but the nerve is still rather grumpy and hurts like crazy. Tomorrow I'll get an implant on the other side of the jaw and hope that by then the nerve will have calmed down. Toothache sucks! :(
(sorry about thr typos - I forgot my reading glasses at home)
 
just reading @rhubarbodendron's post above to see what he was doing .. that forgetting the reading glasses seems like a candidate for the frustration thread..
 
If a planet 1000 light-years away were reduced to gravel (I mean entirely, not just the crust) and the pieces of gravel were ejected in every direction equally. When potentially reaching the Earth the distance between two neighboring pieces of gravel would be on average of 15 million kilometers and the chance of ONE hitting the Earth would be less than one in a million. So much for panspermia...
 
enjoying a day off :)
dentist went well - thanks for all the finger crossing. The implant is in place and it looks like it'll heal without the slightest problems. The bad tooth had to be reopened yesterday and got a root canal filling but now the nerve has finally settled down. 4 days of maddening pain in every single tooth on the left side, both upper and lower jaw (even my implants hurt!) are finally over. We never appreciate properly what a wonderful feeling it is to not be in pain.
If a planet 1000 light-years away were reduced to gravel (I mean entirely, not just the crust) and the pieces of gravel were ejected in every direction equally. When potentially reaching the Earth the distance between two neighboring pieces of gravel would be on average of 15 million kilometers and the chance of ONE hitting the Earth would be less than one in a million. So much for panspermia...
yes, but back then the universe hadn't expanded that much, so the distance between the bits would have been smaller.
I'm not fond of the panspermia theory myself. I rather think that similar mechanisms work in similar places. Wherever there is an atmosphere there must sooner or later be something that flies and wherever there's an ocean there'll be something that swims. It might only be organic molecules but we've all started small :)
 
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