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Evidence of strange quark matter striking Earth?
sifi writes "A group of researchers have identified two seismic events that they think provide the first evidence of a previously undetected form of matter passing through the Earth. The BBC has the full story [bbc.co.uk].
The so-called strange quark matter is so dense that a piece the size of a human cell would weigh a tonne.
I kind of like the idea that the whole Earth can be used as a sort of 'particle detector' - I just hope that I'm not in the way when another one passes through!"
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE.
Keeping
Is this 'Repost a story' day or something?
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE. This was posted a week ago? Ugh. Please be a little more careful with the news postings.
Hmm, oh yeah, I know why it seems familiar!
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(posted Friday November 22, @04:58PM)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/19520
Maybe Slashdot 'editors' should be required to use the Slashdot search before submitting articles?
It's better to burn out than to fade away
What is this one? "Tripe"?
> The so-called strange quark matter is so dense that a piece the size of a human cell would weigh a tonne.
What kind of human cell would that be, exactly? A large one or a small one? (Well I guess even large human cells are pretty small, right?)
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Why tell a story once if you can tell it twice and still get lame response?
After posting a dup of the Spam King article, Hermos decided to try a triple! It's time to let the readers moderate stories, clearly it's become to much work for the editors.
Occam's Razor requires that all simpler possible explanations be eliminated first.
There are only two events. Is it a coincidence that they were both (based on the article) grazing incidences?
Unfortunately, scientists may not be able to find any more events that suggest the passage of strange quark matter through the Earth. In 1993 the US Geological Survey stopped collecting data from "unassociated events."
Is that a coincidence, or was a new weapon being tested?
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE. ... and now this comment is posted three times.
Gabriel Ricard
Two dupes within a half hour of each other. Your last excuse was you hadn't had your coffee. I suggest you move to something a bit stronger ;-)
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
Which, as we all already know, is a failure in The Matrix.
Or is it that it's just ANOTHER dupe story?
lol
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Time is fleeting;
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Drinking those moments when
The Blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling...
Let's do the time-warp again.
Occam's Razor requires that all simpler possible explanations be eliminated first.
Nope, quite the reverse. The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.
Take a look here or here or do a search on Google.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
what els canyou say.
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this post the first time someone posted it. Maybe someonw will go for THREE.
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
I think the word you were looking for was trite . : )
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
Some get Hemos some coffee, please!
A group of researchers have identified three postings that they think provide the first evidence of a previously undetected form of morning fog passing through slashdot. Slashdot has the full story. The so-called strange quark fog can only be detected indirectly, when it causes duplicate duplicate postings on popular web sites. I kind of like the idea that slashdot can be used as a sort of 'particle detector' - I just hope that I'm not in the way when another one passes through!
-- MarkusQ
This whole thread is redundant! Come on!
Ernst Mach advocated a version of Occam's razor which he called the Principle of Economy, stating that "Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses." Taken to its logical conclusion this philosophy becomes positivism; the belief that there is no difference between something that exists but is not observable and something that doesn't exist at all. Mach influenced Einstein when he argued that space and time are not absolute but he also applied positivism to molecules. Mach and his followers claimed that molecules were metaphysical because they were too small to detect directly. This was despite the success the molecular theory had in explaining chemical reactions and thermodynamics. It is ironic that while applying the principle of economy to throw out the concept of the ether and an absolute rest frame, Einstein published almost simultaneously a paper on Brownian motion which confirmed the reality of molecules and thus dealt a blow against the use of positivism.
The moral of this story is that Occam's razor should not be wielded blindly. As Einstein put it in his Autobiographical notes
"This is an interesting example of the fact that even scholars of audacious spirit and fine instinct can be obstructed in the interpretation of facts by philosophical prejudices."
More clearly what he said was:
He's offering that his explanation is simpler and has not been eliminated as possible, so therefor by Occams must be correct.
Earn your title Mathness.
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
Usual cliches:
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Information wants to be in triplicate.
There is strength in crowds.
Third time lucky?
Slashdot: Putting the repeat in "lather, rinse, repeat".
If you do not know what I am taling about:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/
Sometimes I wonder if the slashdot editors even read slashdot.
This is a threepeat!
Did the Spam King take over Slashdot? A repeat and a threepeat in one day! Maybe it's time that the Slashdot editors started reading Slashdot.
Did the Spam King take over Slashdot? A repeat and a threepeat in one day! Maybe it's time that the Slashdot editors started reading Slashdot.
Did the Spam King take over Slashdot? A repeat and a threepeat in one day! Maybe it's time that the Slashdot editors started reading Slashdot.
Anyone who actually reads /. immediately recognizes these duplicate postings.
/. be expected to READ it as well?
:(
Wouldn't the editors of
Why weren't there so many duplicates three years ago? What's changed?
Okay, griping done -- now, what is a constructive way of dealing with this?
How about a policy: Post more than three duplicates (previous story 1 year old) and you lose your story-posting priveleges? And CowboyNeal will beat you silly with a nerfbat.
It's getting downright silly.
How about the ability for moderators to mark a story redundant? Give the story itself a Karma of, say, 1000, so it would take a lot of such moderations. Keep the Karma hidden, to help prevent abuse.
- Peter
INsigNIFICANT