Something funny (also IVRs and physics pendantry)
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Why would anyone put butter on a leopard?
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I'm more concerned about the syrup.
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I'm more concerned about what they did to that poor innocent keyboard.
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My keyboard has had so many crumbs dropped into it over the years that it's probably almost edible.
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... Edible? Somehow I doubt it.
But it does make me wonder. If there is a market for edible garments is there a market for edible computers?
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My keyboard has had so many crumbs dropped into it over the years that it's probably almost edible.
That's how you know it's time to buy a new keyboard!
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Reminded me of Frame 2:
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Already seen here:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/404
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If there is a market for edible garments
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/cleanplatecharlie/Lady-Gagas-Meat-Dress.jpg
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not what i meant, but given what i know about the model (it is lady gaga right?) i'm not surprised...
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To reduce the guilt of eating poached meat?
I have a suspicion that most people who poach aren't guilty about it.
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I have a suspicion that most people who poach aren't guilty about it.
I suspect so as well. I was thinking more about people who purchase from the poachers.
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I have a suspicion that most people who poach aren't guilty about it.
Poaching chicken is easy. It involves covering chicken pieces with water and letting them simmer on the stovetop until the chicken is cooked through. The low temperature and moist-heat cooking method cooks the chicken gently and prevents it from overcooking too quickly.
woosh?
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>Poaching chicken is easy. It involves covering chicken pieces with water and letting them simmer on the stovetop until the chicken is cooked through. The low temperature and moist-heat cooking method cooks the chicken gently and prevents it from overcooking too quickly.
woosh?
Yes. Yes you did.
I SUMMON THE GREAT ANTI-DISCOURSE GOD OF CONTEXT!!!
@abarker said:
@riking said:
@Zecc said:
http://i.imgur.com/lH3eHbq.jpg
Why would anyone put butter on a leopard?
To reduce the guilt of eating poached meat?
I have a suspicion that most people who poach aren't guilty about it.For further exposition, please press 1.
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well someone wooshed and i don't think it was me as i was following that joke through all the left turns, and decided to make a right turn to buck the trend.
;-)
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I think your "right turn" was more of a "u-turn, drive 50 miles, hop on the freeway, and drive to the next state."
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well in jokes, as in special relativity, everything is relative. ;-)
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Eh, it was almost exactly where I kept expecting it to go, though poached eggs seem more obvious.
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though poached eggs seem more obvious.
i thought of going there too, but i decided to go with poached meat as less obvious and slightly more on topic.
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Eh, it was almost exactly where I kept expecting it to go, though poached eggs seem more obvious.
Yeah?! I'd like to see you poach leopard eggs.
INB4 "Challenge Accepted meme"
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.... it's doable, but not very pleasant for anyone involved.
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I think he meant the automated telephone callcenter kind of .
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in special relativity, everything is relative
Isn't the whole point of SR that one thing in particular, the speed of light, isn't relative?
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I pressed <kbd>1</kbd> and nothing happened!
We're sorry. All circuits are busy. Please hang up and try your request again.
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woosh?
Why would you feel guilty about that? Out of some kind of Puritanical feeling that you didn't work too hard at the cooking?
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Isn't the whole point of SR that one thing in particular, the speed of light, isn't relative?
The speed of light is relative to the medium in which it's traveling....
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I think you mean IVR
After a while you learn which of those are brain-dead and won't take voice response until you hear the entire spiel, and the sane ones that let you say something as soon as you know what you want to say. Whenever I am stuck talking to one of the former type I feel like that stand-up comic who did the routine about her dad waiting in front of the microwave, looking at his watch and saying "Come on, come on! I haven't got all minute!"
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The speed of light is relative to the medium in which it's traveling....
The speed of light doesn't change, that is, when a photon is moving it is always at c regardless of medium. It may appear slower but that's because the photon is absorbed by the material and re-emitted some time later.
It's like a truck moving 70 mph but makes a stop at every single exit. It's still going 70 mph when it's in transit.
post earned Knight Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath badge. -boomzilla
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It's like a truck moving 70 mph but makes a stop at every single exit. It's still going 70 mph when it's in transit.
No, because a truck won't have instantaneous acceleration.
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No, because a truck won't have instantaneous acceleration.
Quit pedanting my pedantry!
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I think you both deserve flags for taking my pendantry and running with it
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I think you both deserve flags for taking my pendantry and running with it
All it takes is you and two other people.
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The speed of light doesn't change, that is, when a photon is moving it is always at c regardless of medium. It may appear slower but that's because the photon is absorbed by the material and re-emitted some time later.
It's like a truck moving 70 mph but makes a stop at every single exit. It's still going 70 mph when it's in transit.
Have a pendant light
http://st.houzz.com/simgs/ba91ac910d405ef6_4-6090/traditional-pendant-lighting.jpg
and a
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The speed of light doesn't change, that is, when a photon is moving it is always at c regardless of medium. It may appear slower but that's because the photon is absorbed by the material and re-emitted some time later.
what about cherenkov radiation then?
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it'c caused by super energetic particles entering and traveling through a medium for some distance (from microns to meters depending on various factors) at greater than "local" light speed (at or very close to
c
) before interacting with a particle and slowing down to <= "local" lightspeedunder your description of light speed how do you explain it?
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The light appears to go slower than c because it is constantly absorbed and re-emitted by various atoms/molecules along the way, which takes time.
The high-speed particles are not going faster than c, they're either taking less time to be absorbed and re-emitted or not being absorbed at all, allowing them to cover more distance in the same time as the photons. Fewer traffic stops.
I am not a nuclear physicist but I've probably stayed at a Holiday Inn Express at least once in my lifetime.
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The high-speed particles are not going faster than c
nope. they aren't never claimed that. but they are going faster than light propagates through the material
they're either taking less time to be absorbed and re-emitted or not being absorbed at all, allowing them to cover more distance in the same time as the photons. Fewer traffic stops.
hmm... that accounts for they excessive speed, but what about the energy they radiate?
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After a while you learn which of those are brain-dead and won't take voice response until you hear the entire spiel, and the sane ones that let you say something as soon as you know what you want to say. Whenever I am stuck talking to one of the former type I feel like that stand-up comic who did the routine about her dad waiting in front of the microwave, looking at his watch and saying "Come on, come on! I haven't got all minute!"
We had an IVR here that prompted for the telephone number associated with your account, or you could press 0 if you wanted to enter an account number instead.
This wasn't thought out very well considering all UK telephone numbers start with 0 - you pressed 0 then it took the rest of your telephone number as your account number (which it wasn't) and then failed to work.
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hmm... that accounts for they excessive speed, but what about the energy they radiate?
From what I can infer from the wiki article, it states the medium must be dielectric, meaning electrons traveling at high speed would electromagnetically interact with the medium to radiate photons, and likely losing some kinetic energy in the process (conservation of energy). Since the electrons' average velocity is greater than the photons they are releasing, the released radiation bunches up into a shock wave, similar to shock waves formed in air by supersonic items.
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but what about the energy they radiate?
You've left out two important details so far:
- The particles involved are charged. You don't get Cherenkov radiation from neutral-charge particles.
- The particles need to be moving through a dielectric medium.
Cherenkov radiation is really only noticed when you have charged particles moving through a dielectric faster than the native phase velocity of light. since the particles are charged, they emit an EM field. The EM field of the Cherenkov particle disrupts the native EM field of the dielectric substance through which they are passing. Since the particle is travelling at a very high speed, it generates a shock wave of energy. Since the particle is moving faster than the phase velocity of light in the medium, the light cannot propagate ahead of the particle, much like a sonic boom cannot overtake a super-sonic jet.
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i bow before the hamster. ;-)