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2011-10-18 14:57:57

#1201

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/10/speedy-neutrino.php

so it looks like causality is safe... probably.

edit: reading more into it, put this into "made an obvious mistake that was so bloody obvious that everyone assumed they'd done it right anyway and hence didn't bother to check it"

i mean not taking into account the full aspects of gr is a bit... obvious.

Last edited by Spark (2011-10-18 23:54:37)

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-10-19 00:17:20

#1202

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6885|132 and Bush

Spark wrote:
"made an obvious mistake that was so bloody obvious that everyone assumed they'd done it right anyway and hence didn't bother to check it"

What's the first question you ask when troubleshooting a computer?
Is it plugged in? ..lol

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2011-11-04 08:12:31

#1203

FloppY_: +1,010|6570|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

2011-11-04 08:32:17

#1204

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5642|London, England

FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11

That flashlight was on House this week

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-11-04 08:33:25

#1205

FloppY_: +1,010|6570|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

Jay wrote:
FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11
That flashlight was on House this week

Really?

I guess I can see it myself in a year or two when the episode airs here -.-

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

2011-11-04 08:51:52

#1206

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6695|'Murka

FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11

Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2011-11-04 09:02:50

#1207

FloppY_: +1,010|6570|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

FEOS wrote:
FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11
Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=14

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

2011-11-04 10:27:54

#1208

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6695|'Murka

FloppY_ wrote:
FEOS wrote:
FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11
Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=14

I'm aware of that. It's been around for years, in European dance clubs.

What I was referring to is something else entirely: it's called i-dosing.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2011-11-06 03:20:22

#1209

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,816|6390|eXtreme to the maX

FEOS wrote:
FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11
Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=132785

Fuck Israel

2011-11-06 05:42:15

#1210

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6695|'Murka

Dilbert_X wrote:
FEOS wrote:
FloppY_ wrote:
As per request

1 feet in diameter x 20 feet long tubes powered only by gravity carry the same destructive force as a nuclear warhead
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=16

Bonus: The Puke Flashlight
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation … s?image=11
Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=132785

That would be the equivalent of the weapon Floppy posted.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2011-11-06 06:29:51

#1211

FloppY_: +1,010|6570|Denmark aka Automotive Hell

FEOS wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
FEOS wrote:

Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=132785
That would be the equivalent of the weapon Floppy posted.

qft

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

2011-11-17 18:09:39

#1212

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/ne … ms_fa.html

not dead yet!

It is a remarkable confirmation of a stunning result; but most physicists remain skeptical. That seems the most probable outcome of a release of new data expected on 17 November from researchers with the Italian OPERA collaboration, who say they have confirmed their controversial finding that flighty subatomic neutrinos can travel faster than light.

“It’s slightly better than the previous result,” says OPERA’s physics coordinator Dario Autiero of the Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon in France (pictured). He adds that most of the members of the collaboration who declined to sign the original paper because they wanted more time to check the result have now come on board. One of these is Caren Hagner of the University of Hamburg in Germany. She says not only has the experiment's precision been improved, the statistical analysis is more robust and has been replicated by different groups within OPERA not just the original team. “We gained much more confidence,” Hagner says.

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-11-17 18:55:21

#1213

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,981|6916|949

FEOS wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
FEOS wrote:

Puke flashlight reminds me of a story on the news last night about kids "listening" to drugs. Apparently, there are tones one can listen to (different in each ear) that induce drug-like effects. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but I suppose anything's possible.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=132785
That would be the equivalent of the weapon Floppy posted.

no you want this thread-
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=76107

2011-11-18 13:32:22

#1214

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,056|7056|PNW

World's Lightest Solid Takes Inspiration From Eiffel Tower

2011-12-04 08:42:27

#1215

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5642|London, England

Digging around on my desktop today and I found a whole bunch of crap I forgot about, ha! This was part of the formula sheet I wrote up for thermo. Can't believe I put in so much effort

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/51395/thermo.png

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-04 16:43:19

#1216

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

Surely that would have taken you like four times as long by typing it up?

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-12-04 16:46:07

#1217

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5642|London, England

Spark wrote:
Surely that would have taken you like four times as long by typing it up?

Yeah, but it was easier to organize that way, and Open Office has a decent MATH function writer.

dot m sub 3 = (dot m sub 2 + dot m sub 4)

takes two seconds to type up

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-04 16:49:33

#1218

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

yeah i do like the equation editor in OO

just thinking about all those shapes though

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-12-04 16:53:35

#1219

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5642|London, England

Spark wrote:
yeah i do like the equation editor in OO

just thinking about all those shapes though

Ha, I kind of always overdo it with that stuff. I went furniture shopping today with my fiancee, and whipped up a diagram of our bedroom in autocad before we left for the store.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-04 16:55:25

#1220

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

i'm a back-of-the-envelope man. have a whiteboard in my room too.

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-12-04 16:57:49

#1221

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5642|London, England

Spark wrote:
i'm a back-of-the-envelope man. have a whiteboard in my room too.

I'm anal about precision.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-04 17:00:21

#1222

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

meh. 3pi ~= 10 is an approximation i've used in exams often enough.

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-12-06 02:39:17

#1223

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6959|Canberra, AUS

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-te … =pulsenews

Here's an interesting one. Bio-engineerined ultra-nasty version of the ol' H5N1 bird flu virus. If they publish, it lets people look-see and could help people design more effective antivirals and whatnot. The potential risks are obvious.

Not sure where I stand yet. Splinters digging into my backside as we speak.

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2011-12-06 14:14:43

#1224

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,056|7056|PNW

Jay wrote:
Spark wrote:
yeah i do like the equation editor in OO

just thinking about all those shapes though
Ha, I kind of always overdo it with that stuff. I went furniture shopping today with my fiancee, and whipped up a diagram of our bedroom in autocad before we left for the store.

I remember using flowchart programs during my electronics course for that stuff in the 90's. The hardest part was finding a free tool that could do most of the work.

2011-12-10 15:20:52

#1225

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7127|Alberta, Canada

So I guess they found new elements for atomic number 114 and 116, and they are currently looking for names for them. Cool.

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