Random thought of the day
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
How many of those "shortest chains" were further shortened by passing through the MCU at some point?
Does anyone know Kevin Bacon's Erdős number?
You can't handle the Erdős number!
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
How many of those "shortest chains" were further shortened by passing through the MCU at some point?
Does anyone know Kevin Bacon's Erdős number?
He'd have to have a published academic paper.
If you allow "published an academic paper with or appeared in a film with" you can get from Bacon to Erdős in six steps via Stephen Hawking's Bacon number of 2 and Erdős number of ≤4.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
Does anyone know Kevin Bacon's Erdős number?
He'd have to have a published academic paper.
If you allow "published an academic paper with or appeared in a film with" you can get from Bacon to Erdős in six steps via Stephen Hawking's Bacon number of 2 and Erdős number of ≤4.
Bacon has no Erdös number, but the question of Erdös's Bacon number has been addressed long ago. He appeared as himself in a 1993 documentary called "N is a Number" in which Alec Guinness also appeared.
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@da-Doctah Don't keep us waiting, what was it?!
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If it’s hip to be square, why do we take round trips?
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@izzion
Also round trips are hardly ever round
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We have too much atmosphere - that's a fact. The Earth is too small to form a stable weather system given how much troposphere we gave to deal with. So, I propose a series of adiabatic tower-jets, to exhaust the excess while shifting us to a slightly cooler orbit.
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@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion
Also round trips are hardly ever roundI keep coming out of stores to find someone has left a circular on my car windshield. So why is it a circular if it's almost always rectangular?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion
Also round trips are hardly ever roundI keep coming out of stores to find someone has left a circular on my car windshield. So why is it a circular if it's almost always rectangular?
You're supposed to leave it on someone else's windshield. And if it returns to you, in time, you get to make a wish.
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It occurs to me that while I've certainly seen Popeye and Olive Oyl subjected to Rule 34, I've never seen anyone attempt to turn Rule 63 on them. (Honestly, I'd love to see a matronly version of Bluto.)
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
matronly version of Bluto.
Random Nope! of the day thread is .
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
(Honestly, I'd love to see a matronly version of Bluto.)
Easy peasy, just airbrush the abdomen and shoulders down a fair bunch.
There you go.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
matronly version of Bluto.
Random Nope! of the day thread is .
https://openbase.com/python/Bluto
"Now that RandomStorm has been consumed and no longer exists"
Not sure if this qualifies.
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Random thought of the day: Increasing altitude will have you lose weight, but gain mass
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@Zecc You might have heard that m = E/c². Potential energy counts.
To the extent I’m not talking out of my arse, at least. Since gravity is part of relativity maybe there’s some weirdo complications there…
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@kazitor Fair enough. In retrospect I was only thinking about invariant mass.
It's been a hot minute since I've dealt with physics.
Other than, you know, physically.
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@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
Since gravity is part of relativity maybe there’s some weirdo complications there…
Err, yes. You could say that.
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A hardware FEA setup consisting of a 3D grid of pairs of driven/sensing piezoelectric devices.
Head word, I was wondering how high piezo fidelity could be taken with increasing drive frequency.
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@Gribnit But doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit But doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?
One can only hope. But it's the best plan we've got.
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If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
Earth is the third planet from the sun
Yet another useful idiot for Big Heliocentrism.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
And if it does, can we promote some countries to first-world?
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@dcon Can you promote mine? You’ll get curry and scams for free if you do that.
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@stillwater said in Random thought of the day:
@dcon Can you promote mine? You’ll get hot curry and scams for free if you do that.
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@stillwater said in Random thought of the day:
@dcon Can you promote mine? You’ll get curry and scams for free if you do that.
We already do. India will be promoted, though, ideally. Promoted to glory.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
First world: NTSC.
Second world: PAL.
Third world: SECAM.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
First world: NTSC.
Second world: PAL.
Third world: SECAM.I learned that
NTSC
stands fornever the same colour
.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
First world: NTSC.
Second world: PAL.
Third world: SECAM.I learned that
NTSC
stands fornever the same colour
.As opposed to PAL, which is. Or, it isn't, but alternating lines are off in alternate direction and your eyes cancel out the effect.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
If Earth is the third planet from the sun, does that make all countries third-world countries?
First world: NTSC.
Second world: PAL.
Third world: SECAM.I learned that
NTSC
stands fornever the same colour
.Listen buddy, some folks like their news heads orange and some like 'em green.
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To qualify as an international woman and celebrate International Women's Day, is it necessary that a woman travel internationally on that day, or is it sufficient that she has done so in the past? If so, must she do so regularly? How long can she remain in one country before she loses her international status?
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@HardwareGeek finally using that Joke Of The Day calendar you received as a graduation present, huh?
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
To qualify as an international woman and celebrate International Women's Day, is it necessary that a woman travel internationally on that day, or is it sufficient that she has done so in the past? If so, must she do so regularly? How long can she remain in one country before she loses her international status?
I'd suggest putting in parentheses to clear up your confusion, but I guess normies don't want that kind of stuff in their text. Also, I assume it's unambiguous when expressed in logjam , but nobody wants that.
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Every year you live takes a year off your life.
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On July 11, 2006, a new record was set for the longest period of time the US has gone with the same number of states: 17,126 days.
The previous record was the 17,125 days between the admission of Arizona as the 48th state on February 14, 1912 and Alaska on January 3, 1959.
(I was born when there were 49 states.)
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Surprisingly cool for a simple script.
cat /dev/urandom |
hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' |
awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,",");
for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001)
printf("%08X\n", 100sin(1382exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' |
xxd -r -p |
aplay -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 24000
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Has it occurred to anybody else that when people post meme graphics on successive posts to a forum, we're not far removed from Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra?
Example (for full effect, picture without captions):
Florida Man something something
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Would riding a polar bear into battle be as a great as it sounds?
Apparently.
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I bet a medium-range forward-looking turbulence detection capability could be arranged by means of detecting scintillant harmonics indicating deflection between nominally parallel laser beams of appropriate frequency relation.
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@Gribnit said in Random thought of the day:
I bet a medium-range forward-looking turbulence detection capability could be arranged by means of detecting scintillant harmonics indicating deflection between nominally parallel laser beams of appropriate frequency relation.
"Woh, no more for you!" - Jeff Spicoli
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@Gribnit That's far simpler. Actually any stewardess knows:
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
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The only food where it's more or less necessary to use a silver spoon when eating is peanut butter that's been in a jar in the refrigerator for a while. It's very tough and only a silver spoon won't bend.
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I've heard of people being born with a silver spoon in their mouth. For some reason, I didn't think they'd eat peanut butter.
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@Zerosquare well, not at birth, no.
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Does Swampie have Gribnit blocked?
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@DogsB said in Random thought of the day:
Does Swampie have Gribnit blocked?
There is no possible way for you to get a clear answer to this question.