Recent content by CaptainQuasar

I've always wondered if mining chemicals out of the gas giants will ever be feasible; there seem to be lots of engineering problems surrounding that. But if so, and if it could be done with some sort of autonomous robots, it seems like they could be used to fling blocks of water ice and...

Most of my discussion here has been with Pythagorean, re-hashing this old argument we had from earlier this year, but I thought I'd mention as a side note: in all the thinking I've done about this sort of thing, I have come to wonder how essential the concept of numbers themselves are to the...

Is flatulence an emotion? If so, I'm telepathic.[SIZE="6"]⚛

...and you only say that because you assume that mathematics has nothing to do with reality! Sheesh, and you want to label me as biased! When physicists tried to apply the mathematics they used in classical physics at the quantum level, that was an erroneous application of mathematics. But...

Oh, okay, when you say that "physics does not consider the order of events" you're just saying that physics doesn't care whether the arrow of time points towards the future or the past. The events are still ordered, it just doesn't matter whether they go from Α to Ω or from Ω to Α. I...

One other thing I ought to say is, it looks like this Plastic Logic thing is going to shake the market up and be a major competitor to the Kindle if not blow them out of the water. So by the end of next year the Kindle and the Plastic Logic reader may be down at very reasonable prices.[SIZE="6"]⚛

No, sorry, the iPod nano is for playing music. I was just giving an example of how much RAM I think you ought to be getting in a $115 device. I mean, it's your money, of course, do with it what you will. I just find eBook readers to be too undeveloped a market for my tastes at the moment...

During most of my life I just assumed that I had an addictive personality so I avoided booze, tobacco, and pot. I drank coffee, but I would notice that I could drink several cups of coffee every morning for months, stop cold turkey, and feel no ill effects. In my late twenties I tried various...

Oh, I see what you're saying Proton. Yes, if the university staff were to defer to the outcome of her position at the school, whereas her supervisors at the school were deferring to the university staff's decision, that would be circular reasoning.[SIZE="6"]⚛

I think he just said the following, but backwards: Myspace Drunken Piracy discovered ∴ no more position at the school No more position at the school ∴ could not complete university program. Did not complete university program ∴ did not receive degree. No doubling back, so no circular reasoning...

If you buy a used luxury car it's really not that bad. I also have a friend who works as a Beamer mechanic and he helped me to find a sweet ten-year-old BMW 530 a few years ago for 7K, pristine leather seats, 6-disc CD changer trunk mounted, pretty snazzy. I haven't found the maintenance to be...

Awww, you only need to do that sort of thing if you're afraid of being wrong. Being the super-manly, fearless and testosterone-sweating yet sensitive man that I am, I have no such fear. [SIZE="6"]⚛

Okay, now looking at the original article and the judge's decision, it looks like the photo didn't really have all that much to do with it, failing to get her degree had more to do with her performance in the program.[SIZE="6"]⚛

Wow. Yeah, that's pretty outlandish. So they believe that due to the description "Drunken Pirate" she was really drunk; do they also believe that she was really a pirate at the point that photo was taken? Sheesh. If she was promoting underage piracy that's a much more serious thing than...

That may well be the issue. If you would be so kind as to furnish an example where time is presented in the context of physics, where any order to events may be assumed, I will do my best to follow along. Or possibly I am misunderstanding you in some more general way; I'm not sure I entirely...