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I think every strong claim needs data...
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I think every claim needs data...mfb said:
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What is the difference between a philosopher and a mathematician?
To work, the mathematician needed paper, a pencil and a wastepaper basket.
The philosopher does not need the basket ...
To work, the mathematician needed paper, a pencil and a wastepaper basket.
The philosopher does not need the basket ...
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Mathematics was much easier when the numbers had not yet aligned with the letters.
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That is chemistry.
C2H6O etc.
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It has been posted before in this thread.jim mcnamara said:
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Yeah, it's post #661. But I think it's good enough for a repeat.Wrichik Basu said:It has been posted before in this thread.
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I sang the lyrics as I read themjim mcnamara said:
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He'd like to wear a rainbow every day?nuuskur said:I sang the lyrics as I read them
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You searched through all the pages to find that out?collinsmark said:Yeah, it's post #661. But I think it's good enough for a repeat.
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I've seen a couple of PF threads where that could have been helpful. 
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I must say that learning the fluid dynamics of flight didn't actually convince me it wasn't magic...
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Based on the sktech, for some reason, there is significantly more important magic at work on the right wing, but not on the left wing.
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I think it says wing tip magic is more important than wing flap magic.
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not so much the right rather than the left wing, but the leading edge of the wing compared to the trailing edgenuuskur said:
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My knowledge of general relativity is so immense* that it has collapsed into a black hole inside my brain. The knowledge density may be infinite at the singularity, but since the knowledge can't get out of the hole, I can't access it with the rest of my brain.
* It's not.
* It's not.
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Ibix said:
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clark, "Technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.
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The corollary: science that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.Klystron said:
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I'd give my right arm for a parboiled chicken right now.
Try to avoid overcooking your hand.
Try to avoid overcooking your hand.