Great one-liners from PF members

[jack action]

Option E: You won't affect the original files by doing rm -rf /run/timeshift/backup. [...]

If you don't have a reliable backup or clean underwear on hand I recommend instead a variant on Option B: [...]

 

[Tom.G]

...most motion is proper motion, parallax is not hugely smaller.

by @Vanadium 50 in https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6466546

 

[Vanadium 50]

Badly constructed buildings become projectiles in a storm. - @hutchphd

 

[Vanadium 50]

HutchPhD should get the likes. He said it. Besides, I already have my 8000.

 

[pinball1970]

Robert Friz said

In my opinion, it is advantageous for physics and physicists to speculate on what some would call unsupportable or too-far-out concepts or theories.Vandium 50 replied
It is not. What you are writing is not even physics. It is a meaningless jumble of words in search of a rational thought.
It has been called "word salad" but that is insulting to salad.

(This is two lines but both are worthy of note)

 

[pinball1970]

A new poster was asking about psychotronic devices that could put sounds, words and and even thoughts in peoples minds.

@Baluncore replied.

All indications are explained by psychosis in the patient.
Some victims are helped by lining their hat with tin foil.

 

[pinball1970]

Back drop.

A poster was trying to give a mathematical proof but was struggling quite a bit. Mentors had given him pointers including Vanadium who suggested quite a few times he need to construct a plan.

The poster replied with yet more mathematical statements getting no nearer a solution.Vanadium 50 replied

That's not a plan. A plan explains how the process will work. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. Your plan is similar to (but not as good as) a plan to drive from Rome to Paris: "Drive out of Rome. Drive on various streets until I bump into Paris."

The driving plan is better because it at least states that it's random luck that this plan is counting on.

 

[fresh_42]

That's not a plan. A plan explains how the process will work. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. Your plan is similar to (but not as good as) a plan to drive from Rome to Paris: "Drive out of Rome. Drive on various streets until I bump into Paris."

We will never know whether this was a subtlety by @Vanadium 50 or pure luck, that he had chosen the direction Rome $\longrightarrow$ Paris and not the other way around. If it was Paris $\longrightarrow$ Rome, then the plan would had been a perfect one, because all roads lead to Rome.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Got it in one.

 

[pinball1970]

MikeeMiracle said:
Thoughts?

Backdrop. The thoughts Mikee M was interested in was a pop sci video (which to be fair he acknowledged as pop sci) on possibility of multiple big bangs. Unfortunately he just posted the yt video 13 minutes long and said 'thoughts.'

@Vanadium 50 replied:

(First one liner)

1. 'Do you want to summarize the video? I mean, if it's not worth your time to summarize it, why is it worth our time to watch it?'

(Second)

2. 'It is possible that a random Youtube video is an excellent presentation of science to non-experts. It is also possible one will find a nugget of gold in a sewage treatment facility.'

Before you ask, I am not following him. I am just starting to see patterns.

 

[fresh_42]

Only social scientists have real social life. Physicists manage with half-life. Botanists are barely vegetating. Chemists are bonding among themselves.

Perfect answer to a not so perfect question!

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Proficiency spoils when it is no longer maintained nor pushed to further development.

 

[berkeman]

Using my mentor supermediocrepowers for good, I read the post you deleted, and honestly it looked fine to me.

 

[Tom.G]

by @Benjies in the 'Introduction' thread.
https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6511448

How did you find PF? Google, as I literally looked up "forum to nerd out about science"

(Gee, one would think we're getting infamous)

 

[PeroK]

by @Benjies in the 'Introduction' thread.
https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6511448

To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".

 

[Ibix]

To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".

Verbing weirds language, according to Calvin and Hobbes.

 

[fresh_42]

To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".

Or as I expert it: One can noun.

One being regular verb: to noun, nouned, nouned, and one irregular: to expert, export, expart.

 

[kuruman]

Or as I expert it: One can noun.

One being regular verb: to noun, nouned, nouned, and one irregular: to expert, export, expart.

Can is also regular: can, canned, canned.

 

[Benjies]

I was actually referring to the noun, a candy.

Re-reading my original post and seeing this does absolutely nothing to rectify the grammar of my post, I hold to this out of spite.

 

[fresh_42]

All Gods believe in mathematics.

 

[Hornbein]

To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".

In Indonesian suffixes and prefixes can be used to systematically turn any word into an active verb, a passive verb, a noun, an abstract noun, an agent that executes an action, something that has been acted upon, or even several of these at the same time. I lived in Penestanan, which I was told means "the place of practitioners of black magic."

 

[Haborix]

Nothing at all is gained by trying to avoid i.

Although said in the context of someone trying to do quantum mechanics without complex numbers, I also think it might make a great entry in a self-help book (something something lower case i something something taming ego something something)

 

[Vanadium 50]

You were asking about the unpublished work of “amateur physicists”, and their work develops the science of physics about as much as palmistry develops the science of anatomy.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Hey, don't "like" my post. I have my 8000. Go "like" the original by @Nugatory!

 

[strangerep]

Hey, don't "like" my oost.

"Oost"??

From the urban dictionary:

oost
to dry hump someone of the same sex once with great vigor while they are bending over while shouting "OOST!", perhaps while they are picking up something. ideally an oost should knock someone over. oosts can be performed from a standstill or with a run up.

I have my 8000. Go "like" the original by @Nugatory!

Then you'll have to post a link to the original. (I don't read each and every post on PF.)

In fact, maybe posting a link to the original should be a mandatory requirement for new posts in this thread?

 

[Vanadium 50]

Post.
Now fixed.

There is a link to the original post, in the quote. Click the little arrow.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That quote is two lines. I'm afraid I will have to disqualify your entry.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Change your screen resolution.

 

[sysprog]

That quote is two lines. I'm afraid I will have to disqualify your entry.

Hey, when I started the thread, I said "Sometimes I see a line (or maybe a brief multiline) post . . ." $-$ and in all reasonable deference, I ask how should anyone presume to DQ an entry of GM @Vanadium 50? In my opinion, his quote of @Nugatory's masterful remark was also quite masterful.

 

[sysprog]

In fact, maybe posting a link to the original should be a mandatory requirement for new posts in this thread?

Isn't "In fact, maybe" rather fence-straddling? $-$ and might not such a mandatory requirement be rather stultifying? $-$ I think that whether to include a back-pointer link should continue to be left up to the person who posts the quote . . .