The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon … the “one way glass”, of course, does not have two different sides. How it works is that it only lets part of the light through, which is enough to see into the brightly lit room from the dark room, but not enough to see into the dark room from the brightly lit one. So if you turn on the lights, you can be seen.
I thought it was a bit of both. Not only the difference in lighting, but one side partially silvered or something.
No, you can't break the military watchtower law that easily. Under most conditions, light passing exactly opposite (including frequency and polarization) is affected the same way and thus remains exactly opposite.
The only optical element that I know violates that is a Faraday rotator, because the Faraday effect rotates the polarization of the light clockwise if the magnetic field is aligned parallel, while the opposite beam sees anti-parallel magnetic field and rotates counter-clockwise, arriving rotated 90°, so it can be filtered out with a polarization filter. This is used to prevent back-propagation of a laser pulse in powerful lasers, but you can't make a window off it.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Faraday rotator
TIL. At least I don't remember learning about that in any Physics class, although "I don't remember" may be the key part of that statement.
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@HardwareGeek I don't think they'd get mentioned in a regular physics class. It'd be advanced electromagnetism course material. I happened to actually see a large experimental laser many years ago and had the special optical elements explained to me.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, you can't break the military watchtower law that easily.
They may be able to see the watchtower, but do they see if some one is actually there inside the watchtower and watching them?
That provides an option for distraction: build a few watchtowers, actually unmanned. And spy from different places...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That provides an option for distraction: build a few watchtowers, actually unmanned. And spy from different places...
Jehova's Witnesses hate this trick.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In other biblical firsts, "the serpent did beguile me, and I did eat" is the first recorded instance of someone throwing someone else under the bus. Made all the more impressive an achievement by the fact that buses hadn't been invented yet.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Murder-a-Mystic is different. The whodunit wasn't all that mysterious
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In other biblical firsts, "the serpent did beguile me, and I did eat" is the first recorded instance of someone throwing someone else under the bus. Made all the more impressive an achievement by the fact that buses hadn't been invented yet.
That was the second recorded instance of throwing someone else under the bus. Adam beat her by a few moments.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Murder-a-Mystic is different. The whodunit wasn't all that mysterious
Is there actually a record of the name of the soldier who nailed Him there?
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@PleegWat
he was just following orders
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Murder-a-Mystic is different. The whodunit wasn't all that mysterious
Is there actually a record of the name of the soldier who nailed Him there?
I hear He didn't die from the nails, only with nails. The guy from Milli Vanilli did it.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat
he was just following ordersIn the tradition of applying modern morals to historic situations, torturing and killing civilians are war crimes. When you are ordered to commit a war crime, "I was following orders" is not a valid defense, thus the soldiers are just as guilty as Pilatus was.
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@PleegWat It was not a war though. Of course there is the questionable legitimacy of the Roman administration, but otherwise it was a regular trial for a crime that was made up, but the executioner had no way of knowing that—the other convictions were according to the law at the time.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon … the “one way glass”, of course, does not have two different sides. How it works is that it only lets part of the light through, which is enough to see into the brightly lit room from the dark room, but not enough to see into the dark room from the brightly lit one. So if you turn on the lights, you can be seen.
I thought it was a bit of both. Not only the difference in lighting, but one side partially silvered or something.
No, you can't break the military watchtower law that easily. Under most conditions, light passing exactly opposite (including frequency and polarization) is affected the same way and thus remains exactly opposite.
The only optical element that I know violates that is a Faraday rotator, because the Faraday effect rotates the polarization of the light clockwise if the magnetic field is aligned parallel, while the opposite beam sees anti-parallel magnetic field and rotates counter-clockwise, arriving rotated 90°, so it can be filtered out with a polarization filter. This is used to prevent back-propagation of a laser pulse in powerful lasers, but you can't make a window off it.
A true one way glass would reduction of entropy, that is against the thermodynamic laws (I guess, someone explain me if it doesn't work like that)
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@Gern_Blaanston I only know about the middle one.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The termitology for the reverse polarity sounds wrong to me. For a) I thought the center pin is the deciding factor (i.e. if it has male center pin, it should be called male) and I'm not sure why the outer shell is called what it is, I thought outer thread, which also means outer contact, should be called male, not female.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The termitology for the reverse polarity sounds wrong to me. For a) I thought the center pin is the deciding factor (i.e. if it has male center pin, it should be called male) and I'm not sure why the outer shell is called what it is, I thought outer thread, which also means outer contact, should be called male, not female.
Absolutely. They just decided to call the device-mounted bit the female and the one on the cable the male, which also has a certain logic to it but it's not how others name their mating systems. It's despair all the way down. At least you can screw all of them.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it's not how others name their mating systems. It's despair all the way down. At least you can screw all of them.
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it's not how others name their mating systems. It's despair all the way down. At least you can screw all of them.
ITYM
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it's not how others name their mating systems. It's despair all the way down. At least you can screw all of them.
Fucking connections!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ixvedeusi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it's not how others name their mating systems. It's despair all the way down. At least you can screw all of them.
Fucking connections!
Fun fuct: "viungo vya uzazi", Swahili for "genitals", literally means "connectors of parenthood". Aptly, "viungo" can also mean "spices".
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@Gern_Blaanston
at least until 11:35
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
At least you can screw all of them.
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@dcon Preventive self , yes?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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Install a new king quikly anywhere in the planet is impressive for a military
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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Install a new king quikly anywhere in the planet is impressive for a military
Eh, maybe. Military is one of the two most common methods for a new king to be instated.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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Install a new king quikly anywhere in the planet is impressive for a military
Eh, maybe. Military is one of the two most common methods for a new king to be instated.
yeah, but most military wouldn't be able to put a king anywhere they want that easily
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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Install a new king quikly anywhere in the planet is impressive for a military
Eh, maybe. Military is one of the two most common methods for a new king to be instated.
yeah, but most military wouldn't be able to put a king anywhere they want that easily
'murica! :🔫
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Geeze I know some people complain about being flat but that's a bit extreme.
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