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We are always fighting the last war.

His books and illustrations made a great contribution to my imagination as a child of the 1970s.

TL;DR Summary: An amusing trifle for a certain sub-sub-crowd Forgive me if this post is a bit too outside of the scope, but I stumbled across this particular xkcd strip and I thought it would be well appreciated by the denizens of PF's Earth Sciences sub-forum. https://xkcd.com/3088/

When I was a kid (1970s) there was a joke: Q: How can you tell a happy biker? A: By the number of flies in his teeth.

Many years later, when I watched Kursawa's _Hidden Fortress_, a whole lot of things began to make a bit more sense. Also, the trench run is nearly shot for shot from the climactic sequence of _633 Squadron_.

Now if a Jedi could deflect an inside slider or a knuckle-ball, I would be genuinely impressed.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23126 Well done, sir! Great catch! And I apologize for making a dog's breakfast out of the quote/formatting. My attempts to clean it up just seemed to make it worse. This is not an attempt at some recursive humor.... just a bit of late night textual bumbling.

April First has arrived again, as it seems to with an astonishing annual consistency. This is an occasion for many japes jests and other tomfoolery (at least if your name happens to be Tom), although us professional fools tend to treat it as a holiday, leaving the antics to inspired amateurs...

I think we are all well beyond such trifling excuses as 'coincidence'.

Happy Pi Day everyone! https://www.piday.org/pi-facts/

Dennis Overbye, New York Times columnist and its “cosmic affairs correspondent” is retiring after 25 years. He contributed regular columns for The New York Times and maintained an unusually and impressively factual density to otherwise highly readable science journalism. Occasionally his...

Objection, your honor! The witness is delivering an irrational response!

Happy Pi Day everyone :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=pi+day&sc=ZBfGciaK2GX310

I remember way back in second grade (circa 1973) posters on the classroom wall, with various illustrations and conversions, proudly proclaiming: "America's Going Metric!"

I think it is worth observing that there appear to be a _very large_ number of variables at work in this demonstration. Consequently you would have to travel down many rabbit holes to begin, even assuming a somewhat loosey-goosey level of precision. One or even several equations will unlikely...