That's really excellently put.
I've always assumed that the whole "God" thing was human nature to find order in chaos and to find correlation in obscure stimulii taken to an extreme... Sort of: "things in the world grow from simple to complex, and things in the world grow from less sentient to more sentient... therefore there must be something infinitely complex and infinitely sentient... therefore there must be a God" It ignores the fact that not all patterns continue into infinity.
I notice the unhappiest tweets are in "the middle of the night" and the happiest are around the time most people wake up (or about when they've finished eating dinner).
So... people who can't sleep for some reason make unhappy tweets? I wonder why? And people who have just awakened from a refreshing night's sleep are happy?
Hate to sound like one of those "this is so obvious" people, but this is so obvious.
Years ago, I worked in the hotel industry as a night auditor (it's a glorified desk clerk who does some audit of the daily accounts).
3am one Saturday morning I let in a lone man who pretended he wanted a room but as soon as he was sure I was alone proceeded to rob me. I was paralysed with fear as he took the money, then told me to go with him. I thought I was going to die. It turns out all he wanted me to do was open the (locked) front doors so he could flee.
I spent months hardly sleeping any night and with massive migraines from the unending muscle tension in my neck and shoulders.
I WISH someone had found something funny to say to me about it in the first few days afterwards.
You're my hero Mr. Steve.
I work in a huge data centre in Canada and it always amazes me to no end when they a/c the data centre to conteract the building heat they're blowing in to keep out the winter cold. It's a hole mess of inefficient. However, it must be pretty difficult to retrofit an ancient and huge data centre.
Because they're not referring to a single thing. The 200 Kg is for the whole thing, which is composed of "walls that measure about a square meter (nearly 9 square feet) in area, about 1 centimeter (a third of an inch) in thickness, and 18 kilograms (40 pounds) in mass."
However, since 6*18 is still quite a bit short of 200kgs, it's still a bad estimate.
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Like the many Nazi war criminals that are still being hunted down... there is precidence to going back and hanging Cheney and all his coterie.
I was going to post a "cue the alien conspiracies 3...2...1..." thread, but you beat me to it (with a great deal more grace.
"You could hear a man sneeze underwater"
Am I the only one who found the image of this funny?
I'm all for creationism being taught in school... just as soon as evolution is taught in church.
That's really excellently put. I've always assumed that the whole "God" thing was human nature to find order in chaos and to find correlation in obscure stimulii taken to an extreme... Sort of: "things in the world grow from simple to complex, and things in the world grow from less sentient to more sentient... therefore there must be something infinitely complex and infinitely sentient... therefore there must be a God" It ignores the fact that not all patterns continue into infinity.
I notice the unhappiest tweets are in "the middle of the night" and the happiest are around the time most people wake up (or about when they've finished eating dinner).
So... people who can't sleep for some reason make unhappy tweets? I wonder why? And people who have just awakened from a refreshing night's sleep are happy?
Hate to sound like one of those "this is so obvious" people, but this is so obvious.
In this place... quite a few. Even those who don't might use their google/wiki-fu to look up Prometheus.
Years ago, I worked in the hotel industry as a night auditor (it's a glorified desk clerk who does some audit of the daily accounts). 3am one Saturday morning I let in a lone man who pretended he wanted a room but as soon as he was sure I was alone proceeded to rob me. I was paralysed with fear as he took the money, then told me to go with him. I thought I was going to die. It turns out all he wanted me to do was open the (locked) front doors so he could flee. I spent months hardly sleeping any night and with massive migraines from the unending muscle tension in my neck and shoulders. I WISH someone had found something funny to say to me about it in the first few days afterwards.
Oh take an Aspirin and here's a Kleenex to wipe away your tears.
(Actually, I'm totally on your side in this... "editing"/"edited" is perfect, but we know how people like to use brand names for generic cases.)
You're my hero Mr. Steve. I work in a huge data centre in Canada and it always amazes me to no end when they a/c the data centre to conteract the building heat they're blowing in to keep out the winter cold. It's a hole mess of inefficient. However, it must be pretty difficult to retrofit an ancient and huge data centre.
Or it's not solid titanium.
Because they're not referring to a single thing. The 200 Kg is for the whole thing, which is composed of "walls that measure about a square meter (nearly 9 square feet) in area, about 1 centimeter (a third of an inch) in thickness, and 18 kilograms (40 pounds) in mass."
However, since 6*18 is still quite a bit short of 200kgs, it's still a bad estimate.
I believe the definition you're looking for is "Hill Sphere". The area around a gravitional object where its gravity dominates.