Given the amount and quality of information travelling between Cathay and Europe in the 15th century, I wouldn't want to bet my life on reported salinity levels. You might has well have counted on getting provisions from Prester John, or watering in the land of headless men.
-aiabx
Ob. Bugs Bunny: "The earth, she's a round like a orange." "She's flat like a pancake." "No, she's round like my head." *WHAM* "She's flat like your head."
I wonder that the flat earth people never picked up on the post-hit-with-a-mallet-head shape; it solves the problem of round eclipses, and still gives you a flat edge to fall off of.
-aiabx
Calling Dr Occam: Do you think Paris is a closet Dr Who fan who never managed to mention it while exposing every other detail of her personal life, or do you think maybe one of the SNL writers is a Dr Who fan?
He was the man who made the decision to take IBM down the Linux path, even though he was not primarily a technical guy. The secret is to find competent subordinates and listen to what they say.
-aiabx
Well, Giordano Bruno was burned by the Catholic Church in 1600 as a heretic for proclaiming that the stars were orbited by other populated worlds. Granted, they've eased up a bit in the past 400 years.
-aiabx
I guess the reason is that we have a fine historical example of what happens when people are bombarded with lies; a large number of people will believe the lies, and can be led to commit acts of unbelievable evil. The solution, in an ideal world, would be an enlightened populace who wouldn't fall for the lies, but the practical solution seems to be to suppress the liars.
Of course I'm talking about Weimar Germany and the Nazis. What other destructive liemongers were you thinking of?
-aiabx
Let it die and burn the money if the best thing you can do with it is keep the worst of the Treks (Yes! Even worse than Voyager!) on the air. By failing to create a new Enterprise series, you are making the world a more beautiful place.
-aiabx
Though there isn't a "dark side of the moon", there are craters near the poles which are in permanent darkness, which would make ideal locations for observatories.
-aiabx
In fact, the discoverers of asteroids can name them after whoever they like, living or dead. The catch is that is subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union, so it needs to be in relatively decent taste.
-aiabx
Possibly my favourite moment from the entire series. I find myself reciting it in a many situations where something bad is inevitable. It helps to prevent panic.
-aiabx
But damn, is that thing cool, or what? If it stays clear here in southern Ontario, I'm hauling the scope out tonight to have a look at Titan. It's different now.
-aiabx
You know, a hundred years ago, no one had a clue that the earth was in danger of a catastrophic collision with an asteroid or a comet. All that knowledge came as an unintended, unimagined side effect of pure, impractical scientific research. If that knowledge helps us to avoid a collision and extinction, then we've gained a practical benefit greater than buying a space telescope for every man, woman and child on earth. So you're having a good laugh sneering at the practical benefit of finding large stars. How do you know that the knowledge we are gaining about life and death cycles of stars won't be crtitically important in another hundred years? Or that we might accidently discover something even more important than the possibility of asteroid collision? The answer is you don't, and if we have to justify pure science in terms of Tang and Teflon delivered, you won't.
-aiabx
This past year, supernovae SN2004ET and SN2004DJ wer both visible with an 8" telescope. Seeing a supernova is interesting, because you can be certain you are seeing with your own eyes something that no longer exists.
-aiabx
Like all real science, it's too weird to adequately theorize. But I'll toss in my ignorance and say tidal stresses along the equator causes the cracking and extrusion of material.
-aiabx
Thanks for the "Argument from Personal Incredulity" link. It has a bit more formal credibility than my "If you don't know how lightning works, it must be Zeus making it" argument.
-aiabx
That's a pretty lukewarm moral then. Without any clues to guide us in the plot (the conflict between nature and technology in Mononoke, for instance), we have no way of knowing whether Miyazaki is telling us to preserve the forest, rural communities, families under stress, or late night bus service. For a story to present a moral, there needs to be a choice made, with visible consequences. Otherwise, you end up like film students - reading all kinds of crap into a story that the creator never intended.
Do you like that little dangling worm there?
-aiabx
What was the moral in Totoro? Travel by catbus when you visit your seriously ill mother? Don't plant seeds without doing a dance? If there is a moral there, it's so subtly hidden that I can't spot it; it just seemed like a charming children's adventure to me.
-aiabx
This could help in other dangerous situations
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I'm looking for a video game that randomly says "Thank you for ordering the Anniversary Special Bouquet. It will be ready for pickup shortly".
-aiabx
What you mean to say is: Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you, this will be much less breeding. For me, much, much more. That's my ObSimpsons for the day.
-aiabx
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Given the amount and quality of information travelling between Cathay and Europe in the 15th century, I wouldn't want to bet my life on reported salinity levels. You might has well have counted on getting provisions from Prester John, or watering in the land of headless men.
-aiabx
Ob. Bugs Bunny:
"The earth, she's a round like a orange."
"She's flat like a pancake."
"No, she's round like my head."
*WHAM*
"She's flat like your head."
I wonder that the flat earth people never picked up on the post-hit-with-a-mallet-head shape; it solves the problem of round eclipses, and still gives you a flat edge to fall off of.
-aiabx
Calling Dr Occam:
Do you think Paris is a closet Dr Who fan who never managed to mention it while exposing every other detail of her personal life, or do you think maybe one of the SNL writers is a Dr Who fan?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
-aiabx
I don't know, it isn't like your obituary will make things any worse for you.
-aiabx
You are thinking of a degree from here: http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/career/hamburger_uni versity.html
-aiabx
He was the man who made the decision to take IBM down the Linux path, even though he was not primarily a technical guy. The secret is to find competent subordinates and listen to what they say.
-aiabx
Well, Giordano Bruno was burned by the Catholic Church in 1600 as a heretic for proclaiming that the stars were orbited by other populated worlds. Granted, they've eased up a bit in the past 400 years.
-aiabx
My brain also read it as landmines. I thought someone was making some kind of strange right-to-bear-arms point.
What I find interesting was that I didn't boggle at the notion that students were as likely to have a land mine as a typewriter.
-aiabx
I guess the reason is that we have a fine historical example of what happens when people are bombarded with lies; a large number of people will believe the lies, and can be led to commit acts of unbelievable evil. The solution, in an ideal world, would be an enlightened populace who wouldn't fall for the lies, but the practical solution seems to be to suppress the liars.
Of course I'm talking about Weimar Germany and the Nazis. What other destructive liemongers were you thinking of?
-aiabx
I wonder if we can get her a job at Oracle, or Sun, or even Microsoft?
-aiabx
Let it die and burn the money if the best thing you can do with it is keep the worst of the Treks (Yes! Even worse than Voyager!) on the air. By failing to create a new Enterprise series, you are making the world a more beautiful place.
-aiabx
Though there isn't a "dark side of the moon", there are craters near the poles which are in permanent darkness, which would make ideal locations for observatories.
-aiabx
In fact, the discoverers of asteroids can name them after whoever they like, living or dead. The catch is that is subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union, so it needs to be in relatively decent taste.
-aiabx
No, wait, what's this button?
Possibly my favourite moment from the entire series. I find myself reciting it in a many situations where something bad is inevitable. It helps to prevent panic.
-aiabx
You forgot "Al Gore invented Cassini".
But damn, is that thing cool, or what? If it stays clear here in southern Ontario, I'm hauling the scope out tonight to have a look at Titan. It's different now.
-aiabx
You know, a hundred years ago, no one had a clue that the earth was in danger of a catastrophic collision with an asteroid or a comet. All that knowledge came as an unintended, unimagined side effect of pure, impractical scientific research. If that knowledge helps us to avoid a collision and extinction, then we've gained a practical benefit greater than buying a space telescope for every man, woman and child on earth. So you're having a good laugh sneering at the practical benefit of finding large stars. How do you know that the knowledge we are gaining about life and death cycles of stars won't be crtitically important in another hundred years? Or that we might accidently discover something even more important than the possibility of asteroid collision? The answer is you don't, and if we have to justify pure science in terms of Tang and Teflon delivered, you won't.
-aiabx
This past year, supernovae SN2004ET and SN2004DJ wer both visible with an 8" telescope. Seeing a supernova is interesting, because you can be certain you are seeing with your own eyes something that no longer exists.
-aiabx
Like all real science, it's too weird to adequately theorize. But I'll toss in my ignorance and say tidal stresses along the equator causes the cracking and extrusion of material.
-aiabx
The Hubble Space Telescope. It didn't change the way we use pornography or watch football, it changed the way we view the universe.
I would accept arguments that the WMAP probe taught us more about cosmology, but I wouldn't expect CNN to know that.
-aiabx
Thanks for the "Argument from Personal Incredulity" link. It has a bit more formal credibility than my "If you don't know how lightning works, it must be Zeus making it" argument.
-aiabx
That's a pretty lukewarm moral then. Without any clues to guide us in the plot (the conflict between nature and technology in Mononoke, for instance), we have no way of knowing whether Miyazaki is telling us to preserve the forest, rural communities, families under stress, or late night bus service. For a story to present a moral, there needs to be a choice made, with visible consequences. Otherwise, you end up like film students - reading all kinds of crap into a story that the creator never intended.
Do you like that little dangling worm there?
-aiabx
What was the moral in Totoro? Travel by catbus when you visit your seriously ill mother? Don't plant seeds without doing a dance? If there is a moral there, it's so subtly hidden that I can't spot it; it just seemed like a charming children's adventure to me.
-aiabx
I'm looking for a video game that randomly says "Thank you for ordering the Anniversary Special Bouquet. It will be ready for pickup shortly".
-aiabx
Exactly! Look how much money Glitter made on bad word of mouth!
-aiabx
What you mean to say is:
Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you, this will be much less breeding. For me, much, much more.
That's my ObSimpsons for the day.
-aiabx