Great one-liners from PF members

[sysprog1]

"Why can we not put just hydronium ions in pure water?"
Because you can't pick up a bucket of just one type of ion.

 

[jack action]

The future ain't what it used to be.

 

[gmax137]

The future ain't what it used to be.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/06/future-not-used/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/06/future-not-used/

Yogi Berra

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Fun fact: Yogi Bear was likely named after Yogi Berra, who was nicknamed Yogi by a friend because he allegedly resembled a yogi in India.

 

[gmax137]

And no premature gesticulation, i.e. hand-waving right at the start.

 

[berkeman]

Personally I hate living in times where the poetry of history feels like a limerick instead of a haiku.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

Personally I’m too uncultured to understand the joke.

 

[Flyboy]

Personally I’m too uncultured to understand the joke.

It's a snippet from this:

History may not repeat, but boy does it rhyme.

Personally I hate living in times where the poetry of history feels like a limerick instead of a haiku.

 

[jack action]

Is it possible to break this pipe up into three straight pieces and model each piece as a beam experiencing transverse vibration?

Of course that analysis is possible. But it won't give you the correct answers.

 

[russ_watters]

Context-free for a reason, but I actually love this one:

"What is 80% of infinity?"

It's both hilarious and I feel like maybe there's kind of an actual issue there. See also: "infinite space is expanding..."

 

[pines-demon]

Context-free for a reason, but I actually love this one:

"What is 80% of infinity?"

It's both hilarious and I feel like maybe there's kind of an actual issue there. See also: "infinite space is expanding..."

My answer to that would always be Graham's number.

 

[weirdoguy]

My answer to that would always be Graham's number.

And mine would be "interest imposed on my loan"...

 

[Ibix]

"What is 80% of infinity?"

It's both hilarious and I feel like maybe there's kind of an actual issue there. See also: "infinite space is expanding..."

To be fair, I had made a mistake in the maths and he was correct to point it out.

I still need to revisit that whole thing, even though Dale got the same as my revised answer, because I feel like the definitions are screwy somewhere.

 

[pines-demon]

To be fair, I had made a mistake in the maths and he was correct to point it out.

I still need to revisit that whole thing, even though Dale got the same as my revised answer, because I feel like the definitions are screwy somewhere.

Oh I see, you got 80% of $\infty$ wrong by how much?

 

[Ibix]

Oh I see, you got 80% of $\infty$ wrong by how much?

73%

No, the context was one of the currently popular one-way speed of light threads. My hasty mental algebra came up with the idea that 0.8c was always 0.8c whatever you did to the speed of light, which prompted him to ask what was 0.8c if you'd arranged a coordinate system in which the speed of light is infinite. But I'd slipped up on the maths, and other velocities don't scale that way.

I still want to re-redo the maths. Maybe this weekend I'll have time...

 

[DaveE]

The purpose is to make a storage rack for stacking atv/utv vehicles on, using a forklift, 3 high...

It will be a static load, except when loading or unloading the platform.

Um, yeah. Have you ever driven a forklift?

 

[jrmichler]

If you design it to withstand an earthquake, it might survive a tired forklift driver.

In a reply to the above posts.

 

[gmax137]

It does not take much to rise above the level of the average slobs in the workplace.

 

[russ_watters]

You learn quickly, which is good because you have a huge and fascinating subject out in front of you, and the Sun is about to rise.

Said in reply to a 12 year old looking into Japanese metallurgy. I hope it's original @Baluncore but even if not, it's a great turn of phrase.

 

[Baluncore]

You like it? It's yours.
It was written off the cuff. I have not seen or searched for it before.

To someone who is clearly well ahead of the game, it was the best encouragement I could provide at such an early stage.

 

[berkeman]

It was written off the cuff. I have not seen or searched for it before.

I liked your reference to multiple levels, including the land of the rising sun.

Reminds me of wonderful pictures of creeks that show the bottom of the creek and the surface and the canopy reflected in the surface of the water. Nice juxtaposition.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-g...e-reflections-in-background-in-162826496.html

 

[jack action]

You[r] post sort of reads like a chatbot prompt, but PF tend to give better answers when prompted with direct and specific questions.