StrandedonEarth Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Earth is just a breadcrumb that found itself in conditions too warm and too wet for too long, so life started growing all over it like a mould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 2 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: Earth is just a breadcrumb that found itself in conditions too warm and too wet for too long, so life started growing all over it like a mould That would imply panspermia. The back seat of my wife's car would support that hypothesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Every planet is going to be beautiful to the beings that evolve on it. Your senses find differences in things so you can tell them apart, know which are dangerous and which are helpful, and the like. So whatever your environment has, your senses are going to evolve to perceive variations and differences in it. For example, it's believed that primates have color vision so we can tell ripe fruit from unripe, and the like, so we have that to thank for the fact that we can see rainbows. When every race looks at its native planet, therefore, they're going to see a variety of colors and smells and tastes and stuff. and it's going to seem like a rich environment stuffed full of interesting things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 If you are not allowed to criticise something, you are not allowed to praise it neither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoidSquid Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stormpilot Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Why is the alphabet in the order it is in now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Light goes SO FAST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said: Why is the alphabet in the order it is in now? qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm? Archaic thinking: "Alphabet from A to Z". Modern thinking: "Alphabet from Q to M" (well, afaik, in French from A to M). Quote Alternative Math | Short Film They boy and his parents are right. The "+" operator is not clearly defined, as well as the literal types. Maybe it's a concatenation of string literals, or the additive operator is redefined to perform the concatenation of string representation of integer values? That's the problem of the teachers, they follow archaic thinking which lacks the modern technological realities. The teacher should first ask the boy if he is meaning the string concatenation or considers the additive operator being redefined. Also how does he define the literal delimiters. 10 hours ago, VoidSquid said: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." That's how they invented the future-in-the-past tense. Perfect continuous tense: "I'm feeling perfect, and this keeps continuing." Past perfect tense: "It was perfect, but it's a pity, it's gone." Present indefinite tense: "I have no idea, what the (thing) happens here." Edited March 9, 2021 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 You can't wear a ring with mach diamonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 18 minutes ago, cubinator said: You can't wear a ring with mach diamonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 19 hours ago, VoidSquid said: One of my favourites I’d be laughing if it wasn’t so close to the truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said: One of my favourites I’d be laughing if it wasn’t so close to the truth. Satire is obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 3 hours ago, TheSaint said: Satire is obsolete. Donatien Alphonse, on the other hand, has never been so in vogue - he found an important role on Software Development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souptime Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 One day we could just discover a new law oh physics, but we would most likely not know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 I want a Freddy Mercury Thermometer. The temperature determines the tempo and pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Do you need exactly the mercury one? Wouldn't they call it toxic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: Do you need exactly the mercury one? Wouldn't they call it toxic? Freddy Colored Alcohol Thermometer doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 4 hours ago, Gargamel said: I want a Freddy Mercury Thermometer. The temperature determines the tempo and pitch. How hot does it have to get for Bohemian Rhapsody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMMY_the_DOG Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 3/9/2021 at 12:14 AM, cubinator said: Light goes SO FAST. what makes light so special that it can go the speed of light? And also pink might be blue to you, but you've been taught that that's called blue all of your life so you wouldn't think "Huh, why's the sky pink?" (or with any other 2 colors) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 25 minutes ago, JIMMY_the_DOG said: what makes light so special that it can go the speed of light? It doesn't have rest mass, so it can't go any other speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMMY_the_DOG Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 9 minutes ago, cubinator said: It doesn't have rest mass, so it can't go any other speed. So then that means it is possible to go the speed of light, you just have to not have mass, which is a stunt that isnt in the rulebook... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 7 minutes ago, JIMMY_the_DOG said: So then that means it is possible to go the speed of light, you just have to not have mass, which is a stunt that isnt in the rulebook... Yeah. That's actually the idea behind certain warp drives. If you find some kind of material that has negative mass, you can gather up enough of it to exactly cancel out the mass of your spaceship, then you can go however fast you want. Unfortunately we've never found anything with negative mass. Things with very low mass, like electrons and neutrinos, go almost the speed of light. And light actually gets slowed down when it has to pass through electric fields like those in materials - so light goes at about 75% c in water, but neutrinos still like to go at 99.99% c, and they actually beat the light wave in a race through water. They especially beat light out of exploding stars, so when we see extra neutrinos coming from somewhere in the sky we know to point our telescopes over there within a couple hours to watch a star explode visually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 9 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: How hot does it have to get for Bohemian Rhapsody? Have you not heard that song?! That’s the temperature you feel when your spouse decides to flush the toilet while you’re in the shower “OH MOMMA MIA, Let me go!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 16 minutes ago, Gargamel said: Have you not heard that song?! That’s the temperature you feel when your spouse decides to flush the toilet while you’re in the shower “OH MOMMA MIA, Let me go!” But this part: Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me,For meee Is more like boiling water in the lap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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