probe137 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Again, I didn't think of this in the shower but it would classify as a shower thought: If the observable universe is 93 billion light years and the universe is 13.8 billion years old, then with a light year being a measurement of space that light would take 1 year to travel, how is the observable universe larger than 13.8 billion light years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 1 hour ago, probe137 said: Again, I didn't think of this in the shower but it would classify as a shower thought: If the observable universe is 93 billion light years and the universe is 13.8 billion years old, then with a light year being a measurement of space that light would take 1 year to travel, how is the observable universe larger than 13.8 billion light years? Space is being created faster than light can traverse it. The edge of the observable universe is the distance at which everything looks like it's moving away from us faster than light. That boundary is 41 billion lightyears away, but the age of the image we see there is 13.7 billion years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) I always had a strong feeling that the theory of the universe with additional space appearing for free from nowhere is the same as all similar ones which included a matter appearing from nowhere, a perpetual motion engine, the expanding Earth, the crystal sky with eternal stars, and many others. I.e. another funny fictional world, enough good to give estimations of appropriate accuracy nowadays, and to make a good academician career (like you would better believe in phlogiston in XVIII), but to be rejected decades later and become another one "ancient false science", once they get new experimental results to judge about the interstellar distances from interstellar distances, i.e. to use for astronomy a light-years-sized telescope instead of a thousands-kilometers-sized microscope. Then on another forum they will be laughing at the old strange theories violating some "space-time conservation law" known to every their pupil. Upd. The Universe is a greedy (one). She never gives anything for free. *** That's why it's not wrong to use talisman words like "the best explanation known to date is that ..." and "according to the currently prevailing theories, ..." Edited October 25, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misguided Kerbal Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Merp is what you say when you don't know what to say. But if you're saying Merp, then don't you know that you're going to say Merp? So you say Merp when you know what you want to say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) Unlike humans, the Kerbals don't have thick lips. Spoiler So, it should be hard for them to pronounce "p", "b", etc. But they love "b". Jeb, Bill, Bob, Kerbin, Kerbals. Doesn't it mean that actually they are: Jev, Vill, Vov, Kervin, Kervals? *** And look: Spoiler Val's lips look like she has problems even with "v". Maybe, that's why her name differs. It doesn't. Actually she's Bal *), but introduced her self as "Val". Upd.*) Maybe even Belle. Edited October 28, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 What if Spoiler Matrix once calls Spoiler Tardis ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirkidirk Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Just now, kerbiloid said: What if Reveal hidden contents Matrix once calls Reveal hidden contents Tardis ? YOU DIE dummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: What if Reveal hidden contents Matrix once calls Reveal hidden contents Tardis ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phil Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 50 minutes ago, TheSaint said: Yoooooooo. I remember that show. Crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Imagine someone named Jost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) That's him. Spoiler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobst_of_Moravia Edited November 5, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) Why are the instagram profiles about slimming full consisting of food photos? Especially, confectionery. "Healthy food for slimming: the more you eat, the slimmer you get" ? *** The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist... Edited November 16, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 If "all right" == "OK" or "very well", then what does it mean: "All rights reserved"? "All right." "Keep your all-rights for another place! Here all-rights are reserved." *** Can okays and verywells be reserved, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) Whatever will fly to the stars, rule the world, and process future human hiveminds... Whatever operating system will be used in nanites when they transform the lithospheres of the Earth, Mars, Venus, and exoplanets in Magellan Clouds into the future human hivemind fractal nano-structured habitats.... Whatever human-derived thing will occupy the visible part of Universe... ...it will anyway use Spoiler SQLite The actual shining top, the Summa Technologiae, the Philosopher's Stone, the Horadric Cube, and what the humanity was purposed to create since it was jumping in branches for banana. Just because nobody will rewrite septillions of databases when 5G devices get sproden around all over the world, and the first generation of nanites has seen the sunlight. And these ones will undoubtly, inevitably be powered with this 300k thing. Upd. And now I'm thinking. Doesn't the Universe already use it for settings? Edited December 9, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popestar Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Why do we drive on parkways...but park in driveways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Why do the people like apples in a duck but dislike a worm in apple? Place matters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Why do the people like apples in a duck but dislike a worm in apple? Place matters? Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a texture thing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, TheSaint said: Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a texture thing.... Probably. Especially when the texture is still animated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 At a glance, modern Rick Astley looks like a cross between Elon Musk and Seth MacFarlane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Arrays, such as (std::vector, QVector, QList, ArrayList, TList, and others) are usually 0-based and have their elements enumerated from zero. Then why the method refering to very first element of these collections is named ".first". I.e. A[0] is also A.first(). But "first" is 1th, not 0th. How then call the 1th element, especially since it's usually the 2nd one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: Then why the method refering to very first element of these collections is named ".first". As a former compiler-writer, this doesn't sound strange to me at all. (i.e. "not a shower thought") In the beginning, some of the earliest high-level "symbolic" languages, like FORTRAN and COBOL, indexed such collections with the typical ordinal numbers, 1, 2, 3, etc. Just like math; just like English. Address arithmetic (machine language) prefers pointer (address of the collection) + offset (index to the element) for simplicity and performance. Thus, I would object, "machine language /= natural language". So, some (specialty) languages began to reflect the machine world, not the math world. Fine with me, too. Meanwhile, naming in computer languages does attempt to convey the intended purpose/operation to the human programmer (and is irrelevant to the machine), so the choice of 'first' originates easily from natural language. Edited December 22, 2020 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 On 12/1/2020 at 5:02 AM, kerbiloid said: If "all right" == "OK" or "very well", then what does it mean: "All rights reserved"? And what about the lefts? Are they also reserved? Or are they flamboyant? English is a crazy language. 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: I.e. A[0] is also A.first(). Kind of like how we're in the 21st century because the 1st century's hundreds digit was 0. Except the last year of it which was year 100. Because there was no year 0, so the first 100 years were years 1 to 100. So the 21st century is 2000-2100, it's actually 2001-2101... Oy. ...now I see why arrays start at 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Superfluous J said: And what about the lefts? Are they also reserved? The lefts are copied. Like the rights. They say so, copyleft, copyright. Probably, it's for/from big vessel teams . So, the starboard and the port ones can conversate: "You copy, Left?" "I copy, Right." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Sarindipity. The happy occurrence of accidental chemical warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 4 hours ago, Gargamel said: Sarindipity. The happy occurrence of accidental chemical warfare. Like when the terrorists accidentally spill the bottle in the home lab... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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