The most dangerous thing in schools now-a-days is all that learning. I mean, if people can think critically then they can question your authority, correct? As an added bonus, if they are too dumb to even know what a pencil is then the world would be that much safer. I vote we cut to the chase and ban learning all together.
Addendum: model rockets could be fun for kids that age too.
Honestly, anything that you can do together is your best bet for getting them interested and keeping them interested. Something you can design, build and implement would be fun. Also: dangerous stuff is fun! There is a book that came out a while ago called "Backyard Ballistics" that could have some really fun projects in it, and you can teach them important safety lessons.
I really liked Lego as a kid. I rather enjoyed trying to come up with something then trying to build it. I also really liked those electronics labs, especially if they made noise (no wonder I play with an analog modular synthesizer now). But really, if you live close by the best thing you can do is spend time with them, share your hobbies and interest with them, buy a telescope and teach them how to use it, show them Jupiter, the Orion nebula, the Andromeda galaxy. If they idolize you, as nieces and nephews often do, chances are they will take an interest in anything you show an interest in. Also, Thinkgeek (the evil store that wants all of my money) has some awesome stuff.
Agreed! My first though after reading TFA was if the home star of the planet doesn't have the heavy elements you would expect to find in the star or a planet system then could the planet have been picked up at some point? Could the tidal forces of a galactic merger pull a planet free from it's parent star? If so, could the gravity of another star capture the free planet?
Actually, It could make a rather interesting thesis: pay someone to write a paper on ethics for you, use the paper as part of your thesis showing how easy it is to have someone else do the work for you and use the paper written for you, your correspondence, et cetera to question the morality of having someone else do the work for you. I am sure i could explain it better but i would rather pay someone else to explain it better in my words.
"thanx so much for uhelp ican going to graduate to now".
He helped Lolcats graduate. Now they can "haz cheezburger and duhploma."
Honestly, I would love to be able to afford to go back to school. I would absolutely bust my ass the entire way through, and do so proudly and without complaint. This is either sickening and disappointing or i am just old and cantankerous.
All I could think when reading that is that she watched it in a porn movie theater and someone had been in the seat before her and messily took care of their daily business and didn't clean up after themselves... eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww. I think I gave myself the willies, no pun intended.
I would say the biggest thing we should take from the ISS is that it got several countries to work together toward a common goal. Certainly there were disagreements along the way, and that is to be expected. The main countries involved had plans for their individual space stations though none could afford them. Let's be honest, it is likely that will be the only way we get to Mars and beyond, several countries working together to get there.
Distribution of food is partially handled by networked systems. I work as a buyer in a grocery store, we send our orders over the internet to Connecticut, they are checked there and sent to Georgia. Our point of sale systems are Windows terminals with a Linux back-end to manage the database. Credit card, debit card and EBT transactions are handled over the internet. But possible and plausible are not synonyms.
With the distances between stars in a galaxy, it is unlikely that the stars in those galaxies will actually collide. Though a galactic merger will cause rapid star formation.
I think it really happened, though not as it was reported. I think it shows quite well how people, and the press, manipulate facts to suit their ideology or make themselves appear to be the victim or to make for a good story to sell advertising. To think that the government would bar someone from the country for life for something as benign as name calling is absurd, certainly Obama has been called worse by someone much more capable of action or rallying a crowd than a seventeen year old.
How fast do celestial bodies have to be traveling for the Earth to be the center of the universe?
According to observable data the speed of light is about 299792458m/s, so a light year, in meters would be:
299792458 m/s * 60 sec * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days, roughly, so 9454254955488000 m/ly.
The distance to Alpha Centauri, the next closets star to us after, of course, Sol is a bit over four light years. Converted to meters, that would be:
9454254955488000 m/ly * 4 ly, or 3.78*10^16 meters.
Using that number as the radius of the circular orbit (yes, I know orbits are generally elliptical) Alpha Centauri would need for an Earth-centric model gives us a distance traveled in a day to be:
pi * 3.78*10^16 meters^2, or about 4.49*10^33 meters in one day.
To convert that from meters per day to meters per second we would divide by 24*60*60, as there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute:
4.49*10^33 m/day / 86400 = 5.19*10^28m/s.
Now take into account that I did a lot of rounding and I have been out of school for a really long time, I could have made huge mistakes. But I do know that 5.19*10^28m/s is faster than the speed of light, which is believed to be the cosmological maximum speed limit. Please do correct me if my calculations are wrong or I am in error somewhere.
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The most dangerous thing in schools now-a-days is all that learning. I mean, if people can think critically then they can question your authority, correct? As an added bonus, if they are too dumb to even know what a pencil is then the world would be that much safer. I vote we cut to the chase and ban learning all together.
Addendum: model rockets could be fun for kids that age too.
Honestly, anything that you can do together is your best bet for getting them interested and keeping them interested. Something you can design, build and implement would be fun. Also: dangerous stuff is fun! There is a book that came out a while ago called "Backyard Ballistics" that could have some really fun projects in it, and you can teach them important safety lessons.
I really liked Lego as a kid. I rather enjoyed trying to come up with something then trying to build it. I also really liked those electronics labs, especially if they made noise (no wonder I play with an analog modular synthesizer now). But really, if you live close by the best thing you can do is spend time with them, share your hobbies and interest with them, buy a telescope and teach them how to use it, show them Jupiter, the Orion nebula, the Andromeda galaxy. If they idolize you, as nieces and nephews often do, chances are they will take an interest in anything you show an interest in. Also, Thinkgeek (the evil store that wants all of my money) has some awesome stuff.
And having a war with Nerf guns is always fun.
Rubik's Tesseract.
Agreed! My first though after reading TFA was if the home star of the planet doesn't have the heavy elements you would expect to find in the star or a planet system then could the planet have been picked up at some point? Could the tidal forces of a galactic merger pull a planet free from it's parent star? If so, could the gravity of another star capture the free planet?
Just what do you think you're doing Dave?
...Stays inside a spacetime invisibility cloak .
Actually, It could make a rather interesting thesis: pay someone to write a paper on ethics for you, use the paper as part of your thesis showing how easy it is to have someone else do the work for you and use the paper written for you, your correspondence, et cetera to question the morality of having someone else do the work for you. I am sure i could explain it better but i would rather pay someone else to explain it better in my words.
"thanx so much for uhelp ican going to graduate to now".
He helped Lolcats graduate. Now they can "haz cheezburger and duhploma."
Honestly, I would love to be able to afford to go back to school. I would absolutely bust my ass the entire way through, and do so proudly and without complaint. This is either sickening and disappointing or i am just old and cantankerous.
Overpriced Apple Product? How is this news?
(I keed I keed)
As an Apple user, I approve of the hilarity of this post.
All I could think when reading that is that she watched it in a porn movie theater and someone had been in the seat before her and messily took care of their daily business and didn't clean up after themselves... eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww. I think I gave myself the willies, no pun intended.
You, as the colloquialism goes, are preaching to the choir, good sir.
I would say the biggest thing we should take from the ISS is that it got several countries to work together toward a common goal. Certainly there were disagreements along the way, and that is to be expected. The main countries involved had plans for their individual space stations though none could afford them. Let's be honest, it is likely that will be the only way we get to Mars and beyond, several countries working together to get there.
Distribution of food is partially handled by networked systems. I work as a buyer in a grocery store, we send our orders over the internet to Connecticut, they are checked there and sent to Georgia. Our point of sale systems are Windows terminals with a Linux back-end to manage the database. Credit card, debit card and EBT transactions are handled over the internet. But possible and plausible are not synonyms.
All I got from that video was "I hope this video goes viral so I can use it to advertise my movies."
1) Sixty extra days.
2) ?????
3) Profit
He is about 61.8% water, that is fairly diluted. Maybe that is what he meant?
There is also GalCrash.
With the distances between stars in a galaxy, it is unlikely that the stars in those galaxies will actually collide. Though a galactic merger will cause rapid star formation.
Quick! There is still time to make social media a powerful force for change as what TFA says is inapplicable for another two days.
Now now, plenty of valuable wasted time was lost. Plus now I have no idea what everyone is having for dinner.
Don't be such a homophobe. (I am joking, no need to mod me down)
I think it really happened, though not as it was reported. I think it shows quite well how people, and the press, manipulate facts to suit their ideology or make themselves appear to be the victim or to make for a good story to sell advertising. To think that the government would bar someone from the country for life for something as benign as name calling is absurd, certainly Obama has been called worse by someone much more capable of action or rallying a crowd than a seventeen year old.
You are a prick. Sincerely, a guy that lives in America.
How fast do celestial bodies have to be traveling for the Earth to be the center of the universe? According to observable data the speed of light is about 299792458m/s, so a light year, in meters would be: 299792458 m/s * 60 sec * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days, roughly, so 9454254955488000 m/ly. The distance to Alpha Centauri, the next closets star to us after, of course, Sol is a bit over four light years. Converted to meters, that would be: 9454254955488000 m/ly * 4 ly, or 3.78*10^16 meters. Using that number as the radius of the circular orbit (yes, I know orbits are generally elliptical) Alpha Centauri would need for an Earth-centric model gives us a distance traveled in a day to be: pi * 3.78*10^16 meters^2, or about 4.49*10^33 meters in one day. To convert that from meters per day to meters per second we would divide by 24*60*60, as there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute: 4.49*10^33 m/day / 86400 = 5.19*10^28m/s. Now take into account that I did a lot of rounding and I have been out of school for a really long time, I could have made huge mistakes. But I do know that 5.19*10^28m/s is faster than the speed of light, which is believed to be the cosmological maximum speed limit. Please do correct me if my calculations are wrong or I am in error somewhere.