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HHornbein replied to the thread Today I Learned.TIL rats were taught to play Doom II. They aren't that good at it though.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?.This lady has the prettiest voice in the world.
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HHornbein replied to the thread High School Estimates — True Size of the Universe?.The metaphor I like is of rising dough of raisin bread. But maybe today people don't know what that means.
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HHornbein reacted to haruspex's post in the thread Distance between a Clock's hands when the distance is increasing most rapidly with
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Several things. Velocity is a vector. What does it mean to say a velocity is at its maximum? Ok, we can say that its magnitude is at... -
HHornbein replied to the thread Distance between a Clock's hands when the distance is increasing most rapidly.What's wrong with relative velocity?
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HHornbein reacted to haruspex's post in the thread Distance between a Clock's hands when the distance is increasing most rapidly with Like.
I don’t even know what that means. Treat the minute hand as fixed (i.e. work in the frame of the minute hand). The tip of the hour hand...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Distance between a Clock's hands when the distance is increasing most rapidly.Note: don't try this with polar bears. On second thought, it makes no difference whether you run or not.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Music What Happened to Talent?.Music video creators have only a finite amount of effort to expend. Most of it goes into visual. In the old days radio and albums were...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Music What Happened to Talent?.I checked up on this and with the selection of five popular power singers I got I preferred the nonAutotuned singing. I have seen a vid...
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HHornbein replied to the thread High School Estimates — True Size of the Universe?.An infinite universe if isotropic has both an infinite amount of space and an infinite amount of matter. Calculating a density would...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Music Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?.There are many covers of this. It had a Hollywood movie and even a short-lived brand of beer named after it.
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HHornbein reacted to DennisN's post in the thread Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
Of course the original is better, but this is too funny not to share here... :biggrin: 8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
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HHornbein reacted to Algr's post in the thread How do you measure time on a tide locked planet? with Like.
Animals and plants react to day and year cycles out of necessity. It gets warm or cold. It gets light or dark. Without those things...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Tidally-locked planets flipping around their axes.Here is the paper that suggested this. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14546 What they have in mind is a system with multiple planets. The...