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Your title makes me shiver.ProfuselyQuarky said:Just started a thread for anyone who cares: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/hail-the-perseids.880813/
Your title makes me shiver.ProfuselyQuarky said:Just started a thread for anyone who cares: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/hail-the-perseids.880813/
Me, too, it was made in the spur of the moment. If you've got anything better, I'll change it in a flash.fresh_42 said:Your title makes me shiver.
I look forward to it every year. I live on a small lake and it's very pleasant to put on swim trunks and sit in an inner tube on the lake, away from yard lights.ProfuselyQuarky said:Anyone else enthusiastic about the awesomeness of this? Staying up past midnight to see a shower of meteors. What could be better?!![]()
What is it with Saint Arbucks (St Arbucks) coffee that they have less caffeine? Is it the type of roast or something?fresh_42 said:Just checked the caffeine level of some sorts of tea versus coffee. I wanted to find out, which of my teas has the lowest level.
I am surprised that a white tea (on average) has more than an Assam. Even green tea has. Only the Darjeeling has slightly less than Assam.
I know that caffeine and tannin aren't the same. However, I always expected the tannins to be somewhat of an indicator. Plain wrong!
It turned out that the lowest level of my teas could be found in Mate, except this isn't actually a tea.
A funny fact also showed up on my search: Starbucks' coffees aren't worth being called as such. You will have to basically drink the double amount to get the level of a real coffee.
I only had a list where it's been an entry, together with a remark "(USA)".WWGD said:What is it with Saint Arbucks (St Arbucks) coffee that they have less caffeine? Is it the type of roast or something?
By "about 1994" I now realize I meant 1993! That was an amazing year for Perseids.Jonathan Scott said:I saw some really great Perseids in about 1994, ...
He didn't "lose" them. He obscured them with smoke and mirrors, misdirection, and sleight of hand.WWGD said:He talked about how he lost 94 pounds...
Might as well hang a big sign around your neck, "Please come back through time from the future and kill me before I create skynet!"DiracPool said:I'm going to grad school in Massachusetts in a few weeks to do research in machine learning and artificial intelligence with the directed goal of creating autonomous robots.
zoobyshoe said:Might as well hang a big sign around your neck, "Please come back through time from the future and kill me before I create skynet!"
How would the future anti-skynet soldiers see the sign? I don't think this would be a useful approach, at least not without some tweaking.zoobyshoe said:Might as well hang a big sign around your neck, "Please come back through time from the future and kill me before I create skynet!"
History will record he went around wearing the sign, see. When the evil robot future gets tough, humans will know right where to go back to to stop it. Target: Diracpool!Ibix said:How would the future anti-skynet soldiers see the sign? I don't think this would be a useful approach, at least not without some tweaking.
So far, only PF records that. I'm sure Greg has a decent backup service, but I'll be a bit surprised if he shelled out for the "will survive the coming apocalypse or your money back" plan. Unless he's seeing PF as some kind of Canticle for Leibowitz resource...?zoobyshoe said:History will record he went around wearing the sign, see. When the evil robot future gets tough, humans will know right where to go back to to stop it. Target: Diracpool!
He has to actually go around wearing the sign before it gets recorded for history.Ibix said:So far, only PF records that.
I don't think so. Tapping a stranger on the shoulder to get their attention is normal. Leaving your hand there for an extended period of time is creepy. If someone did that to my wife in front of me, I would give them some 'attention' of my own.Sophia said:Am I totally weird?
Nope, not at all. The person doing the touching was obviously more comfortable with the hands on approach, but that's only half of the people involved. He shouldn't expect random strangers to appreciate that type of conduct.Sophia said:Am I totally weird?
Kind of like a Freudian slip.ProfuselyQuarky said:(I don't like violent notions, but had to laugh at it)
1oldman2 said:Kind of like a Freudian slip.![]()
It curious how the way some people talk/behave give different people different impressions. Of course, it's cultural and depends on the way a person's been brought up, but even within the same school, the variety of language is extraordinary.Pepper Mint said:It's "weird" to me that strangers in your culture can tap or pat people's shoulders freely. In mine, those who do so to me at night should be gang i.e "Hey yo show me your wallet".
You should have asked him if she has told him not to touch her that way also.Sophia said:After I repeated, he got angry and told me he wasn't going to bite me and that he had a daughter older than me.
I have found that the people who get the most upset in these situations are usually the most guiltly. Pat yourself on the back for putting him in his place. You earned it.Sophia said:Than he left obviously annoyed and angry.
There are indeed big differences in personal space in various cultures. And then individual differences.Pepper Mint said:It's "weird" to me that strangers in your culture can tap or pat people's shoulders freely. In mine, those who do so to me at night should be gang i.e "Hey yo show me your wallet".
After all I've read (and seen) about obesity in the states, this sounds reasonable to me.WWGD said:I fell for it again. This place selling Indian food at 50% for lunch. I have a tasty, albeit smallish-sized meal.
I then look at other dinner's (eating at regular price) plates/servings, all of which are...twice as large as the ones in my plate, AKA,
pay only 50%...and get only 50% of the full portion..
Ah - the good old "buy one for the price of two and get one free!" trick.WWGD said:pay only 50%...and get only 50% of the full portion..
I have just one large meal a day, trying to save $ , and they are cheating people in the process.fresh_42 said:After all I've read (and seen) about obesity in the states, this sounds reasonable to me.
May have been a good thing to tell Dubya re the Merkel massage.1oldman2 said:Nope, not at all. The person doing the touching was obviously more comfortable with the hands on approach, but that's only half of the people involved. He shouldn't expect random strangers to appreciate that type of conduct.
Touche'WWGD said:May have been a good thing to tell Dubya re the Merkel massage.
You're right. It happens pretty often. If anyone's ever studied it, it would have been under the aegis of psychology. However, I haven't personally seen anyone offer a term or explanation for it, that I can recall.shadowshed said:Have you ever felt that we sometimes act in opposite way to the other person we're with?
For my example, I experience things like becoming braver around afraid people and step up to protect them, and get unreasonably childish when I'm around close friend who's more mature. Is there already scientific explanation behind this?
shadowshed said:Have you ever felt that we sometimes act in opposite way to the other person we're with?
For my example, I experience things like becoming braver around afraid people and step up to protect them, and get unreasonably childish when I'm around close friend who's more mature. Is there already scientific explanation behind this?
And then, this might be out of context, but I find myself being aware of my eating manner from time to time-- I also noticed that I'm more relaxed and unaware when there's someone next to me who eat more 'elegantly'. This is especially bothering me since I want to eat peacefully, but somehow I became aware of how I eat. Is this normal?
zoobyshoe said:You're right. It happens pretty often. If anyone's ever studied it, it would have been under the aegis of psychology. However, I haven't personally seen anyone offer a term or explanation for it, that I can recall.
collinsmark said:I can't say for sure if this is what you mean, but it might be related to humans' innate social dominance hierarchy -- the attempt of humans, like many other social animals, to form a "pecking order," so to speak.
If I remember correctly it has been Nobel himself who recognized that it helps him with his heart problems. But I'm not absolutely sure. What is certain is, that it has been at a time when people swallowed a lot of dubious substances as modern pharmacology was yet to start.zoobyshoe said:How did anyone ever discover that nitroglycerine is a good thing to ingest if you have a bad heart?
Then what do you mean by a "bad" heart ?zoobyshoe said:How did anyone ever discover that nitroglycerine is a good thing to ingest if you have a bad heart?
See the "History" section of the Wikipedia entry on nitroglycerin.zoobyshoe said:How did anyone ever discover that nitroglycerine is a good thing to ingest if you have a bad heart?
Thanks.Jonathan Scott said:See the "History" section of the Wikipedia entry on nitroglycerin.
zoobyshoe said:One linkleadled to another and I got to the original paper:
Pepper Mint said:This type of nitrate does have its good effect on widening our blood vessels. So the blood flow in them becomes smoother, uhm yeah. And I think it will probably have a bad effect on those with brain injuries instead though.