Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[drizzle]

So then you definitely are a Muslim man. Medicol was right!

LOL

 

[drizzle]

I'm only afraid American patriots on PF will not like you then.

:)

 

[Enigman]

DUST! EVERYWHERE! (yay, bunnies...)

 

[collinsmark]

DUST! EVERYWHERE! (yay, bunnies...)

?!? oo) ?!?

 

[DennisN]

From: http://xkcd.com/253/

 

[Borek]

I know it doesn't matter much to all of you, as it is is quite local, Polish thing, but today is The Grand Finale of the 2015 edition of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Orchestra_of_Christmas_Charity. In a last few years it attracted a lot of criticism and hate from the right side, which made me create a facebook event "I will pay twice as much to counteract haters" - https://www.facebook.com/events/775949472479753

It collected 6.5k supporters in a week. Not a bad result :)

 

[RonL]

?!? oo) ?!?

Thanks to PF I now know how to find hidden messages :D It's a funny bunny thing

 

[Jonathan Scott]

But why does it call itself "Orchestra" when it doesn't seem to involve an orchestra?

 

[Borek]

But why does it call itself "Orchestra" when it doesn't seem to involve an orchestra?

I don't think there is a serious reason behind.

Basic idea of The Finale is that many bands play in many places in Poland. Every kind of band - occasionally including symphonic orchestras. So you can think about it as if it was an orchestra of individual bands (could be it doesn't make much sense in English).

What is perhaps more important is that the name was established many years ago, it wasn't as large then. I think first edition ended with a single concert in Warsaw. And the name was invented by Jerzy Owsiak - he is slightly nutty sometimes ;)

 

[dlgoff]

I know it doesn't matter much to all of you, as it is is quite local, Polish thing, but today is The Grand Finale of the 2015 edition of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Orchestra_of_Christmas_Charity.

What a fun country you live in.

In a last few years it attracted a lot of criticism and hate from the right side, which made me create a facebook event "I will pay twice as much to counteract haters" - https://www.facebook.com/events/775949472479753

Nice profile pic. This like from Mark Widmer say's a lot too.

From that angle, your blue hair does not show.

 

[WWGD]

The word "avuncular" , meaning uncle-like has always seemed artificial to me; I have never heard someone say
something like : Do you know Tom from accounting? Doesn't he come off as being an uncle ?

 

[Borg]

The word "avuncular" , meaning uncle-like has always seemed artificial to me; I have never heard someone say something like : Do you know Tom from accounting? Doesn't he come off as being an uncle ?

Uncle Tom?

 

[zoobyshoe]

The word "avuncular" , meaning uncle-like has always seemed artificial to me; I have never heard someone say
something like : Do you know Tom from accounting? Doesn't he come off as being an uncle ?

It sounds medical to me: "Fmri revealed a distal avuncular perimortem contusion."

 

[Borg]

Meanwhile in Detroit - Granny Rambo. :w

The grandmother of four, Paris Ainsworth, was actually shot four times, but she was still able to pull out her gun and return fire.

 

[edward]

From: http://xkcd.com/253/

Those remind me of a really old song.

 

[lisab]

The word "avuncular" , meaning uncle-like has always seemed artificial to me; I have never heard someone say
something like : Do you know Tom from accounting? Doesn't he come off as being an uncle ?

I'm sure I've heard it somewhere along the way but it's not a common word. I think I've heard it in reference to Larry King.

As words go, I don't like it. It sounds too much like carbuncle (another word we don't hear much since the discovery of antibiotics, thankfully!).

 

[Medicol]

Unfair!
I'll quit!

 

[Astronuc]

Time to think about raising goats - for fun and profit.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30583512

 

[zoki85]

T - 200

 

[Medicol]

T - 200

What ?

 

[Mr.maniac]

Hey, this might be a completely obvious question but can someone explain me
why the first 3-digits of pi is taken as 3.141?
as when I divided 22 by 7 the answer came as 3.142,
but when I asked my teacher she said that it was 3.141
Left me puzzled
Thanks in advance.

Edit: when I posted this reply and noticed the time written as "a moment ago" remembered me of that according to a ancient English book a moment is counted as a minute and a half.

_____________________________________
wonder if this is legal

 

[Borek]

Actually 22/7 is 3.(142857)

Not that your questions makes any sense, especially in this thread and in this subforum.
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and no, it is not legal

 

[Mr.maniac]

but I googled value of pi :
3.14159265359

 

[collinsmark]

The actual value has a few more digits than that.



One way to generate \pi is to throw hot dogs at parallel lines (Buffon's needle problem). However of course, this method can never produce the exact value of \pi due to the finite probability of tasty snacks.

 

[nuuskur]

I fail to see the significance of this.. waste of paper. I understand it has a symbolic meaning, but.. the purpose of finding all those digits of pi?

 

[OmCheeto]

Actually 22/7 is 3.(142857)

Not that your questions makes any sense, especially in this thread and in this subforum.
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and no, it is not legal

Perhaps, it's a sign, that numerologists should have been questioning 22/7, rather than pi.
I can find no significant events that occurred on May 7th, 1428.
But I did find a calendar of events for that day:

http://kvlibrarians.grou.ps/calendar/1428-5-7
Schedule of May 7, 1428

Welcome to the event calendar
nothing has been scheduled yet.
Why not announce what’s on the agenda by adding a new event?
​

Kendriya Vidyalaya is in India.
My friend from India said that all conflict is based on power.
Power is what the LHC needs to make anti-neutrinos.
Anti-neutrinos might travel back in time.
And since there is nothing on the calendar yet, this is a sign that we should create a time machine, and schedule two conflicting events.
As there can be no power, without conflict. (see "Om's Theory of Conflict and Power", below)
And without power, we wouldn't be able to post our random thoughts.

And look! More evidence:
Hindus live in India. Hindus have a calendar.

Ugadi, March 18, 1999, is special, even as India marches into the 52nd century of the grand old era of Kaliyuga. However, it also happens to be the anniversary of Aryabhatta`s discovery of 'pi` and the length of a solar year. ​

There's pi again, and the sun makes anti-neutrinos.

And Aryabhata's approximation of π yields: ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416

That's the same approximation I use, in all of my work. Spooky.

And Obama's going to India in two weeks. And what's the headline?

Obama's India visit could yield progress on climate change and solar power​

I'm interested in solar power.

It's all obvious.

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Om's Theory of Conflict and Power
Without energy, there can be no power.
Conflict can verbally be expressed as "a difference".
One cannot have kinetic energy unless there is a difference/conflict in velocities.
One cannot have potential energy unless there is a difference/conflict in position.
The list goes on.

Bosons, named after Satyendra Nath Bose, from India btw, when having the same quantum states, can't really be in conflict, which strikes me as being, a sign...

Ommmmmm...

ps. Pauli's work on the exclusion principle was obviously based on my work.

 

[RonL]

Perhaps, it's a sign, that numerologists should have been questioning 22/7, rather than pi.
I can find no significant events that occurred on May 7th, 1428.
But I did find a calendar of events for that day:

http://kvlibrarians.grou.ps/calendar/1428-5-7
Schedule of May 7, 1428

Welcome to the event calendar
nothing has been scheduled yet.
Why not announce what’s on the agenda by adding a new event?
​

Kendriya Vidyalaya is in India.
My friend from India said that all conflict is based on power.
Power is what the LHC needs to make anti-neutrinos.
Anti-neutrinos might travel back in time.
And since there is nothing on the calendar yet, this is a sign that we should create a time machine, and schedule two conflicting events.
As there can be no power, without conflict. (see "Om's Theory of Conflict and Power", below)
And without power, we wouldn't be able to post our random thoughts.

And look! More evidence:
Hindus live in India. Hindus have a calendar.

Ugadi, March 18, 1999, is special, even as India marches into the 52nd century of the grand old era of Kaliyuga. However, it also happens to be the anniversary of Aryabhatta`s discovery of 'pi` and the length of a solar year. ​

There's pi again, and the sun makes anti-neutrinos.

And Aryabhata's approximation of π yields: ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416

That's the same approximation I use, in all of my work. Spooky.

And Obama's going to India in two weeks. And what's the headline?

Obama's India visit could yield progress on climate change and solar power​

I'm interested in solar power.

It's all obvious.

------------------------------
Om's Theory of Conflict and Power
Without energy, there can be no power.
Conflict can verbally be expressed as "a difference".
One cannot have kinetic energy unless there is a difference/conflict in velocities.
One cannot have potential energy unless there is a difference/conflict in position.
The list goes on.

Bosons, named after Satyendra Nath Bose, from India btw, when having the same quantum states, can't really be in conflict, which strikes me as being, a sign...

Ommmmmm...

ps. Pauli's work on the exclusion principle was obviously based on my work.

:D

 

[OmCheeto]

One way to generate \pi is to throw hot dogs at parallel lines (Buffon's needle problem). However of course, this method can never produce the exact value of \pi due to the finite probability of tasty snacks.

I've heard you can measure the speed of light by putting "tasty snacks" in a microwave oven.

I find it truly amazing that the fundamentals of the universe may be based on tasty snacks.

 

[Borg]

I've heard you can measure the speed of light by putting "tasty snacks" in a microwave oven.

I find it truly amazing that the fundamentals of the universe may be based on tasty snacks.

Marshmallows anyone?

 

[collinsmark]

I fail to see the significance of this..

Ha! :D

 

[OmCheeto]

Marshmallows anyone?

Exactly!

And, I should say, that I should win the Nobel Prize for positing the following epiphany/revelation:

Einstein's statement that "God doesn't play dice", was merely an elliptical statement.

It should have been fully expressed as; "God wasn't a gambler, he was a stoner, with the munchies, when he created the universe".

 

[WWGD]

I finally found in my backpack the sandwich I had bought ... 2 weeks ago. I finally know what was stinking up my
apartment.

 

[Medicol]

These days, PF has nothing to crack me up at all. :(

 

[OmCheeto]

These days, PF has nothing to crack me up at all. :(

See the "Science Jokes" thread.

But if you're too lazy to do that, let me know what you think of this. I made it up last night.

Q: Why is the Dawn orbiter doomed to never orbit Ceres?
A: Because, to have an orbit, you need an altitude, and after 6 hours of research, I couldn't find one.

OMG! I crack myself up.

 

[nuuskur]

Took me a bit of time to...look up any relevant data and formulate an explanation as to why it is funny.

 

[Larry Gopnik]

Have an exam at Uni tomorrow morning - Classical Mechanics. I seem to be the only person in the Physics world who finds Classical Mechanics difficult. I can do Particle Physics, QM and Cosmology, I love them... but not Classical Mechanics... I'm just hoping to pass. I'm on 94% in maths so I need to get a really awful mark to walk out of January annoyed at a bad average.

In other news, the reeds in my accordion need replacing.

 

[TheDemx27]

What ?

I find it humerous how you don't have any idea what he said, and yet you still liked it.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Alert! OmCheeto seems to know things inside out

 

[OmCheeto]

Alert! OmCheeto seems to know things inside out

I've been a fan of some young lady named K. Klein, for quite some time.

Haven't a clue how to interpret her artwork, but it's very pretty.

It's like cosmic poetry, for the eyes.

 

[collinsmark]

Haven't a clue how to interpret her artwork, but it's very pretty.

It's like cosmic poetry, for the eyes.

To me it looks like a projection (i.e. slice) of a Calabi-Yau manifold (a 6-dimensional "shape"). Calabi-Yau manifolds are thought to be the type of shape ("shape" may not be the best word here, but I can't think of a better word) of the "curled up," compact dimensions in most string theory versions.

[Edit: Which is also cosmic poetry for the eyes too. So yes.]

 

[OmCheeto]

To me it looks like a projection (i.e. slice) of a Calabi-Yau manifold (a 6-dimensional "shape"). Calabi-Yau manifolds are thought to be the type of shape ("shape" may not be the best word here, but I can't think of a better word) of the "curled up," compact dimensions in most string theory versions.

Indeed it does.

hmmm...

I wonder what Ben would have to add to this conversation.

Born: November 20, 1924

 

[lisab]

Looooooooooooooooooong week. So much going on, so many moving parts. But, hopefully, good things are happening.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Today on one episode of American Pickers they found a guy who had, literally, 50 old VW Buses on his property.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I'll show you my magics!

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Whatever in the end, people could have learn a great deal of things. Plus, their imagination would take them farther and further. :D

 

[nuuskur]

stop feeding me plants, I'm not a squirrel! I need meat :<

 

[Silicon Waffle]

stop feeding me plants, I'm not a squirrel! I need meat :<

Agreed! Being a vegetarian is to be an ecosystem destroyer.

 

[Medicol]

I find it humerous how you don't have any idea what he said, and yet you still liked it.

Only we understand each other. He could detect what was inside my belly and how long my rectum is.

 

[zoki85]

Almost broke my toes. Hope they are not broken. Hurts like hell...
[mod edit: cursing]

 

[Medicol]

Almost broke my toes. Hope they are not broken. Hurts like hell...
[mod edit: cursing]

 

[zoki85]

Probably, it isn't broken. But I can't put my shoe on and it is hard swollen though (toe on my right foot I mean).