Posts by GrimJack

Aryabhata- the great Indian mathematician is also my historical hero.

Reminded me of Srinivasa Ramanujan - it has been years since I thought of him. He died too young.

I remember sitting in a coffee shop in Tucson AZ talking with someone spoke with the same sincerity and absolute certainty about his theories so I posited 'falsifiability' and he said that his idea was TRUE and therefore could not be proven wrong (something about earthquakes, volcanoes and China) - I could only look him dead in the eye and say "you are a crank". He sputtered and walked away.

Immulett - you are a crank. There is not even a consistent thread to your exposition that can be stated in such a way as to be tested.

If there is an idea or a theory in there, slow down and explain it. What do Gamma rays have to do with Dark Matter? How do you surpass cancer (did you mean suppress)? What is a 'only third dimension' body? Are you familiar with 'string theory'? Do you understand the 11 dimensionality strings and how 8 are tightly constrained and 3 unbound? Can you contain the context? The context is never the same.

What is that link to? My computer (Windows 7) doesn't know what it is.

Sorry, I posted the direct link to image here is wiki-location
. Actually Earth will be enveloped when Sol goes red giant since Earth's orbit will be approximately the surface of the sun.

Mine has to be 2001 Space Odyssey - monkey-boy smashing skull, free-fall stewardess, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.", "my god it is full of stars" sigh. I must have seen it 200 times at least 50 high on acid and most of the others high on pot - I do not really remember much of the 1970s

I am not sure if this is the right location but I just noticed my favorite web-comic site is looking for someone interested in writing Android aps.

Check it out

I was just on the bus, minding my own business when I heard a magical phrase "he knew 2 dozen languages and numerous dialects"; I just had to speak up because there is only one person in history who could fit that phrase:
My hero, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. He was an explorer, diplomat, linguist, author, translator - he was 6'4" tall, with broad shoulders, narrow hips, and had this wonderful scar on his cheek. The British army still use the manual he wrote on how to fight with a bayonet, his "Book of Swords" is a master work, he was the original translator of the "One Thousand Nights and One Night" in 10 volumes with 7 volumes of notes anthropological and explanatory. He had himself circumcised in order to get into the Medina area and into Mecca. He could enter a completely unknown country and within a year, be indistinguishable from a native in dress, language and behavior.

Yes, I have many of his books and a copy of the 17 volume "Burton Society" 1001 Arabian Nights set, and a copy of his book of poetry. Did you know he came to the US, studies the Sioux language and tried to convince Brigham Young that he had converted to Mormonism (Brigham Young had many of Burton's books so he didn't fall for it).

Who is your hero and why?

Man - this illusion took me a couple minutes to even realize what I wasn't seeing.

The marshmallow test was the brain child (heh,heh double pun intended) of the father of 4 young girls around the age of 4 years old. He realized that his 4 y.o. could be convinced to put gratification now for something later. He developed a test where young children were told that they could have the marshmallow on the table now or, if they waited until the researcher returned, they could have two marshmallows. The researcher never actually returned, the test was about how long gratification could be delayed. The results varied from mere seconds to over 10 minutes. The children were local so later when his daughter was 17, he asked how some of her friends were doing. Some were off to college and some were 'dropping out'.

Interested, the researcher found as many of the subjects as he could find and it seems that those children who able to resist temptation the longest were doing better. In fact there seemed to be a significant correlation between the length of time the child could resist and their SAT scores. They have been following the 'children' for 40 years now and the correlation still seems to hold between success and resisting temptation

The difference was in hundreds of points on their SATs!! And thousands of dollars of income.

The interpretation of the results are pretty varied

The videos of the tests are incredibly cute - 4 year old kids trying to resist temptation. Take a …

Here is a RL Fallout Vault from 8th to 7th centuries BCE in Turkey; later taken over by early Xtians around 500 - 1,000 CE. One of the cities could hold up to 35,000 people plus food storage, live animal storage, and wine making equipment. This city is Derinkuyu and it connects through underground passages to around 200 other cities.

The entries could be sealed from the inside by rolling huge stones across the openings

google the brand and look for how to lift the keyboard and clean it from there

That makes me wonder what is the Circumference and diameter of a perfect circle. Two numbers you can divide to get the infinit length of pi accurately.

There is not a perfect circumference and diameter - all circles and their associated diameters will give you pi (see proof here).

Pythagoras was a crackpot religious fanatic who stumbled onto mathematics as a way to prove the validity of his philosophy/religion. He discovered the mathematics of music by calculating the relationship of the length of stringed instruments and how they related to tones an octave apart. His math was such an integral part of his religion that an acolyte had to practice his teachings for years before they got to learn math. He believed in metempsychosis and so did not eat meat and his disdain for beans lead to his death. After his death, his followers hid pi because it was irrational.

but I digress

Two words... "Lawn Darts" :twisted:

Good times, good times: Removable parts? Suffocation risk? Lead paint? Pussy hazards compared to the granddaddy of them all. Lawn Darts, or "Jarts," as they were marketed, would never fly in our current ultra-paranoid, safety-helmeted, Dr. Phil toy culture. Lawn darts were massive weighted spears. You threw them. They stuck where they landed. If they happened to land in your skull, well, then you should have moved. During their brief (and generally awesome) reign in 1980s suburbia, Jarts racked up 6,700 injuries and four deaths.

Thanks! They were so kool!

"I was mainly referring to things like animal abuse and hunting of animals" That was a quote by the author of this poll on the very first page of this forum. Perhaps before you bash somebody, you should read the whole forum. The author of this poll was indeed referring to ANIMAL ABUSE as well hunting. Since I am not a hunter, I merely addressed the issue with which I could be familiar with. I think you should go back and read the forum before you embarass yourself further.

Interesting suggestion about embarrassment - this exchange started with this:

However, the hunting of animals falls under the survival of the fittest. Animals are in our food chain. If we are not going to hunt animals you will run into too many environmental problems. If deer are not hunted, they overpopulate. Fish are the same way. The question is not whether we should hunt animals but where do we draw the line between hunting for food and hunting for sport. Hunting for sport is what leads to animal extinction. Hunting for food merely keeps the ecosystem in balance.

which I consider to be one of the least thoughtful posts I have seen on this site. There are so many silly statements in that quote it is not even worth pointing to any particular piece. Now, if you want to defend any of that, please feel free. I am interested in how you relate hunting and fishing to survival of the fittest. …

Asians tend to have dry, gold-colored ear-wax as opposed to the reddish, sticky stuff Europeans have.

(heh,heh) This is what will kill us all off.

the president doesn't have to be smart, he just has to look good on television and be able to follow the instructions of his teleprompter.
Ergo Obama, the TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United States).

Are you still on about that? One would think that you would have some concept of the stupidity of that teleprompter whinge is. Name one politician/public speaker (other than Palin who writes on her hand) that does not use a teleprompter.

I got this here:

Not at all wrong. Anyone surviving under socialist health"care" can tell you that.

It's only socialist nutters like you who believe it works.

See, all you do is blather and insult; you have no concept of rational discourse.

Why do you even bother posting this bilge? I know that you have, in the past, complained about being insulted for you views but all I know of your views are that anyone who does not believe what you believe is a socialist. You keep tossing that word around until it has no meaning so why don't you post something of substance so we know what you mean when you use the word and what your beliefs are.

Can you define yourself w/o making negative reference to others? What do you believe?

I wear t-shirts called 'crack-spackle' - they are 3 inches longer than normal t-shirts so there is no 'plumber's crack'.

More likely, if you actually willingly listened to Ummagumma, you probably don't remember the whole year or decade.

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving with a Pict
Careful With That Axe Eugene

EEGs and MEGs and MRIs take pictures of out brains (images in jagged lines overlaid onto regions of the brain) to diagnose problems in the hardware. But when used in conjunction with specific pictures across different individuals, it appears that the pictures cause similar enough responses that a computer can determine what picture the person is viewing 8 out of 10 times.

Keep in mind (do you like that pun?) that the 3 devices are electromagnetic in nature whereas the brain is electrochemical in nature so this brings up a number of questions:
can an electromagnetic field affect a neuron?
does an activated neuron generate an electromagnetic fieldif so, is that field strong enough to affect neighboring neuronsdoes the field have enough energy to carry information
Keep in mind that the neuron carries an electrical signal from the dendrites (inputs) to the axon with branches (output). Neurotransmitters (chemicals) carry the signal from neuron to neuron (axon to dendrites) and each neuron has a minimum activation potential which dampens weak signals. With the average brain composed of 100 billion neurons with each having an average of 7,000 synaptic connections - about 400 trillion connections.

The neurons are shielded (by a myelin sheath but it is not a continuous sheath but a series of small sheaths) and the dendrites are not insulated.

I could go on but is anyone interested?

Some links:
http://cogprints.org/3190/1/solitons.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/06/medicalresearch

A drop of water at 2000 frames per second dances to infinity (er, at least for average amounts of infinity they get smaller and smaller)

Can she fly a small plane? Does she pay her taxes?

I am thankful now that I don't have a window cube!!

I found this at whois:

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I was referred to grs.hichina.com; I'm looking it up there.

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Are you implying money today is worth something?

"I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em."
-- Gallagher

Yes, money is worth something. You can walk into any store in the US in the morning and the same store in the evening and (generally) the items for sale will be the same price. When money is not worth anything, eg. in highly inflationary economies, working people have to be paid 2 times per day because what the money buys in the morning will have changed by more than 100% by the evening. The German hyperinflation was so extreme that from Feb 1920 to May 1921 the inflation rate was 39.2% but fron July 1923 to Nov 20 1923 the inflation rate was 560,000,000,000% - what cost 1 dollar in July 1923 cost $560,000,000,000.00 on Nov '23. Yes that is $560Billion.

Serously....in our country, rabies was believed to be in nature with the dogs, if u get bitten by a dog... it means you got rabies. they dont believe that rabies is a virus which they got from other infected animal. they believe that rabies exist in every dogs even in new born puppy unexposed to any animal... puppies are believed to contain more rabies than adult dogs.

So your country believes wrongly. Rabies is an old, old virus called Lyssavirus. It is one of 6 members of that family. The word 'rabies' itself is a Sanskrit word (meaning something like 'to do violence') noted around 3000 BCE. Since Sanskrit is considered the first written language, it is possible that rabies is as old as mankind (perhaps as old as mammals). It is worldwide and was believed to have come the the New World across the Bering Strait 50,000 years ago with mankind's migrations so Rabies is closely related to human activity.

The French word rabies is le rage (leh rahg); obvious where the name comes from.

I believe that the word you meant is 'eve' as in the night before rather than eave as in the edge of the roof.

I got a job - cuts back on my gaming and posting.

Here is fun experiment to try:
the next time you see someone look at their watch for the time - ask them what time it is and they will look at their watch even though they just did.

Actually, I did not see that - it just popped up on my NEW list so I posted - that is what ADD does for you

Has anybody seen that 2012 movie?

I imagine that the trailer was the best part of the movie. The physics sucked - no downdraft; when the whole world is falling apart, where are you going to land a plane?

sigh

We are not giving up anything -- you can't give up something you never had in the first place. I'd choose sex anytime over immortality via cloning -- see Multiplicity

That was a metaphorical 'we' - animals and/or multi-cellular creatures that reproduce by binary fission are essentially immortal (barring predation). Once life-forms started having sex and/or reproducing using the binary sexual differentiation, then death was inevitable (including predation). That was a binary choice, an either/or 'choice' procreate by fission = immortality; procreate via sex and death in inevitable.
Parthenogenesis will make men obsolete (the 'y' chromosome is just a broken 'X' anyway, heh,heh) - and may restore immortality.

I sorta disagree. My Definition - A clone is an organic product produced in a non natural way and without a god (like a machine but organic).

"Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also refers to the production of multiple copies of a product such as digital media or software." Twins are genetically-identical individuals and therefore fit the definition of clones.

Your belief or your feelings about what you want the 'clone' to mean is valueless - we communicate by using words as they are commonly defined. There is no communication if you use your own randomly created definition of words.

Wow, just what we need! Religious fanatics citing Jeebus on devices designed to kill others. There does not appear to be much 'Christianity' in that - Plus there is the whole 'separation of church and state' thing along with 'Crusader' taint. Looks to me like this company needs to understand what is going on in the world and the military needs to put a stop to that bull-pucky.

Most common computer problem is the interface between the chair and the keyboard

you studied quantum mechanic, Grim?

Nope, I have ADD, an insatiable curiosity and access to the interWebs.

Quite often, I am learning as I post here - sometimes, I even have to change my post because i discovered I was wrong. Rather than delete where I started, I will actually keep it and then show where I went and why I changed my mind.

If someone sees an error in my posting, show me the error of my ways - with links.

>>the one I like is that the anti-particles behave like regular particles traveling backwards in time.
How would they know the particles time travel?

This is one of my favorite stories:
Whenever any of Feynman's co-workers had a question for him, he would chase them out of his office. Hours or days later, he would come back with an answer. During this time, whenever anyone approached his office he would hide something in his desk. As you can imagine, this intrigued his colleagues so one day they asked him a really complex question, waited 2 hours and burst into his office. They caught him with some scratch paper with squiggles on it. He admitted with a lot of embarrassment that sometimes he could not keep all particle activity in his head and was forced to draw some diagrams.

This genius's embarrassment were the Feynman Diagrams that no particle physicist can work without today. There is always a timeline associated with the diagram (usually the x-axis and up); when anti-particles appear, they can be read as either an anti-particle going forward or a regular particle going backwards. I have included the simplest FD I know of, and the simplest diagram of Feynman's behavior.

Read the below quote from an above post and you will see that god farted twice creating two gas particles then the gas particles collided making the universe.

Ya know, your 'god farted' wasn't funny the first time and it get less funny as you continue to beat that poor horse. Let it go.

If you vote yes then animals should have the same rights as humans. If you vote no then things should stay as they are. And the third answer is for those who don't want to scratch their head to get an answer.

What you are saying is that animals can own property, demand a trial by their peers, grow their hair long, marry your sister, sue you for cannibalism, demand a translator when applying for public assistance.

Animal rights = human rights is retarded and make no sense.

BART: Creationism says that cavemen never existed.

HOMER: Good riddance! Their drawings suck and they look like hippies!

asking personal question from AD publicly don't get upset.
anyway acient dragon , you are a white men aren't you?, so you say
GOD to these type of ugly Reptilians? do you going to worship for
them to become a slave? http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/reps.htm

Your read that and didn't go blind? Why do the rat-*ssed crazy ones need such gawd-awful graphics?

Maybe we could start a what is the worst page you ever stumbled across thread. I am not sure which way to go with this: the worst ideas or the worst graphics - any suggestions?

You know what it means to 'shoot your cuffs'

At the risk of sounding fanatical, how do you know? I'm not saying that I agree that the universe is only 6k years old, but from a religious standpoint, God being all-powerful could have made Earth, the universe, physics, science, everything give humanity (and any other intelligent life elsewhere in the universe) the exact answers we've found. Not saying I believe that either, but it's an interesting view of religion explaining science rather than science attempting to disprove religion. Ultimately, I think that both science & religion are two fields of thought that humanity will never completely understand.

In order for the religious community to accept that god made the universe 6,000 years ago, they have to waffle around the fact that god would have to be a liar. He would have had to lie by creating an artificial age to the universe and the earth. And once you go down that road, then you might as well say that he created the universe 10 seconds ago including our memories etc. There is not way to prove or disprove either proposition - a 6000 yr old universe or a 6 second old universe so Occam's Razor says the universe is what we discover it to be.

Sometimes, I think the free market is going to kill us all. Can you believe it - the lunch-ladies turned this crap away.

The calendar is an arbitrary imposition of order onto civilizations blundering around the sun.

In general, rather than AD and BC - the years are numbered Common Era/Before Common Era (it is currently 2009 CE soon to be 2010). There are many cultures that do not accept the birth of Christ as a valid starting point but realize the we need a common calendar hence Common Era.

(Jews, Hindus, historian etc come to mind).

Those points are all correct and the reason - magnetic fields are rounded. So many of my first posts in this topic are inaccurate due to the lack of knowledge but after this discussion I see how pi exists just like every body else on earth says it exists. So could we talk about pi now because I'm hungry.

Thank Lud - just mark this thread closed and be done with it. If you want to espouse your religious views on Evolution, start a new thread.

Yes that is correct. For example if we found a fossil the shape of a cube and none like it then people would start to think of an explanation or an alternative theory.

a fossil in the shape of a cube?? Er, wtf, um how can you base your argument on something that has not happened?

It is only when it's called darwins law that it is fact. However since it's called darwins theory that gives room for alteration of the theory.

Darwin's Theory (as you call it) has been altered quite a bit since the book was written. This is how science works. You think of something; work up a hypothesis; decide how to test it and when it passes your tests you make it a theory. As a theory, you continue to test - when something does not fit the theory as stated you modify the theory to take the new data into account. This is how science works. When Einstein worked out the details of relativity, he did not disprove Newton - he incorporated Newton's theories into his own. Newton's theories still stand. Same with the theory of Evolution it is tested and modified as new data come in. With the work of Gregor Mendel, much of Darwin's work was modified/amplified to include genetics. If you deny evolution, you deny genetics, germ theory, antibiotics, and much of discoveries of modern medicine.

Well that string was a direct quote from a movie supporting darwins theory and is as …

I never said that my theories where 100% accurate or that they are even true. Check the work theory in the dictionary or from the movie "Darwins theory - The beagle voyage". You will find in that non-fiction film a scientific case that challenged Darwins theory. In that case the scientists had to define the word "theory". That definition was "An alternative view to a subject just like how gravity is a theory...". And using that definition I am providing theories not facts! The definition of the word "fact" is very different to the word "theory" as theories are not always true and are just another way of looking at the subject.
So with that being said my statements are theories and I strongly support/believe them...

OMG! You are quoting some creationist movie about Darwin's life to support your lack of thought? How did you bring theory of gravity into your lack of thought? Every damn time someone digs up a fossil, the theory of evolution is put to the test and it passes every time.

It seems like just another 'white guy saves the natives' kind of story.

I never understood the 'war on xmas' stuff - how is "Happy Holidays" an evil thing? Christmas is Dec. 25th - that is the day to wish someone a Merry Christmas. Do you wish someone 'happy Thanksgiving for weeks before the day? The winter solstice is such a good time for a holiday that almost all religions have a 'special' day during that time of the year. Rather than try to remember all those different holidays, it seems to me that Happy Holidays works pretty well.