{"id":244,"date":"2005-12-20T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-01-02T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T04:38:34","slug":"mergers-and-20-dumb-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Mergers and 20 dumb things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, I can go off topic sometimes, right?<\/p>\n<p>Gautam&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gautamblogs.com\/2005\/12\/20-dumbest-business-practices.html\">Tom Peter&#8217;s  20 dumbest business practices<\/a> reminded me of something else I read recently:<\/p>\n<p>TP:  Mergers of Decrepit Monsters!<\/p>\n<p>GG:  Merging for the heck of it!<\/p>\n<p>SA:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=more-often-than-not-massi\">More Often Than Not, Massive Galaxies Form by Mergers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New data seem to show that galaxies collide all the time. In fact, the oldest and largest galaxies in the universe most likely formed from such intergalactic combinations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our study found these common massive galaxies do form by mergers,&#8221; Van Dokkum explains. &#8220;It is just that the mergers happen quickly and the features that reveal the mergers are very faint and therefore difficult to detect.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Quickly&#8221; on a galactic scale means just a few hundred million years&#8211;a small fraction of the 13.7 billion years the universe has been in existence&#8211;and, because such collisions rarely involve head-to-head star crashes, they leave few traces behind except in the shape of the resulting galaxy and a general slowing in its formation of new stars.<footnote>Biello, David, December 6, 2005.  &#8221; More Often Than Not, Massive Galaxies Form by Mergers,&#8221; Scientific American.  Retrieved from www.sciam.com on December 19, 2005.<\/footnote><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some strange parallel universe stuff going on here (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>Yeah &#8211; this is what I read when not reading HR stuff.  Sad, huh?  So GG and Tom Peters make me think of massive galaxies? hmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, I can go off topic sometimes, right? Gautam&#8217;s post on Tom Peter&#8217;s 20 dumbest business practices reminded me of something else I read recently: TP: Mergers of Decrepit Monsters! GG: Merging for the heck of it! SA: More Often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}