So some force made it start travelling this fast. This must have been a very strong force, and it's implied that the reason is that it was flung out by the gravity of the black hole. I'm wondering why the star was capable of staying together. I mean, It must have come pretty close to the center of the galaxy, and probably would have been destroyed by tidal forces, then 'eaten' by the super-massive BH. I can't exactly do the math to back that up though
Clearly it means that it will rise by a factor of 11,000. I can only assume that would be 11,000 times our temp from absolute zero. That puts us somewhere around 3 million Kelvin, which is still not quite as hot as the sun, which tends to be around 15 million Kelvin. Time to start making fire suits, though. Maybe stock up on ice.
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You want the funny?
Alexander Seropian (founder of Bungie) has recently created a new company called Wideload Games. It's geared towards making quality humor games, like their most recent announcement: a game based on the Halo engine about a zombie, and his passion... for brains.
Did you see the foot? The foot means "humor". It's a joke. Laugh.
Murphy's law was never a law. It was never meant to be taken as seriously as you just took it. It's like walking up to a clown, and saying, "hey, you know those shoes are totally impractical. I mean like nine times out of ten you'll be tripping over yourself trying to climb stairs..."
You're so full of crap. There are two kinds of physicists. Experimental and Theoretical(there's a reasonably large intersection, but bear with me). Einstein was of the theoretical persuasion. But do NOT think that he didn't have respect for those experimental physicists who had the difficult job of verifying the theory. For example, Einstein wouldn't be nearly as famous had the Michelson Moreley experiment not been run that showed his special theory to be plausible.
Also, consider his cosmological constant. This was a parameter that he came up with in his later years to describe the structure of the universe. Along came Edwin Hubble, who, using a big honking expensive telescope, showed that Einstein's constant wasn't necessary (As a sidenote, it's getting some play again in a modified form in modern astrophysics). Einstein completely abandoned his constant, calling it his greatest mistake.
Why? Because no theoretical physicist is above the data that we collect. He'd be happy about this.
It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. I suggest you sober up. Look, coins don't know what their last flip was. There's no mystical force of nature causing equilibrium. The only thing at play is random probability. And the 50-heads-in-a-row vs. 25-25 argument is just silly. The reason it is more likely to get 25 heads than 50 is combinatorics; it's irrelevant to what the next flip will be.
I hope for your sake you don't ever gamble on coin flips.
Heh. As soon as this story broke, some guy I knew broadcasted that he was sharing it on the DC++ hub at my school. So I downloaded it (surprisingly quickly) and read:
The above poster is correct, Wolfram did a great thing for Weisstein, and the rest of us. Mathworld is a great site. If you get the chance, you should read the author's note in it about the legal problems he had with his book and publisher.
But it's relevant primarily(exclusively?) to those who watch anime. It should be listed as anime, and therefore blocked from my main page (I'm not looking for any flames about the merits of anime. But get it off my main page).
And that was BEFORE recorded music. It was a completely different world. It was before any kind of mass communication too. So in order to hear music being played you HAD to attend concerts.
And besides, Mozart died poor and was buried in an unmarked, pauper's grave.
In some ways it was good that it went out on top; Look at the Simpsons now; yech.
Yeah, but the Simpsons has been on for 14 seasons. And up to around 9 or 10 they were awesome. I mean, I think that the best Simpsons came around 3-4 and 8-9, so it's not like they had a really short shelf life.
The family guy, on the other hand, was cut short when there really was no sign of it slowing down. They had only gone for a couple seasons before they were taken off the air. They might have "gone out on top", but that doesn't mean that they didn't have anywhere to go from there. And I, for one, am interested to see what else might come of this.
Take a poll of mailmen! I mean, if the USPS is losing money on the switch to email, maybe they can get a little back from the fact that they know our streets and addresses as well as anybody - at least in a local sense. Highways might be a little outside of their routes.
I agree with you completely. Major labels are on a hunt for the next big thing, not simply bands that will produce records consistently and make a modest living off of it. RIAA companies don't view musicians as people who can consistently tour, make records, and live off their earnings that come from a fanbase that is loyal and dependable - to them you're marketable for a limited time only or you're trash (with some exceptions of course)./late post
HELL YEAH!
"Fleshy Headed Mutant, are you friendly??"
"No way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilazation!"
That's a classic. And it is really underapreciated -- well, maybe not in the great white north, but in the states, it's a tough find in most video rental places.
Oh, god. That movie was awful. I was completely uninterested; there was a slow, boring plot (can I even call it that). Maybe I just expected a good action movie and got this piece of crap that tried to be to artsy and symbolic, and sucked instead. I'm sure you have your reasons for liking it, but IMO, that was a bad movie.
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So some force made it start travelling this fast. This must have been a very strong force, and it's implied that the reason is that it was flung out by the gravity of the black hole. I'm wondering why the star was capable of staying together. I mean, It must have come pretty close to the center of the galaxy, and probably would have been destroyed by tidal forces, then 'eaten' by the super-massive BH. I can't exactly do the math to back that up though
Clearly it means that it will rise by a factor of 11,000. I can only assume that would be 11,000 times our temp from absolute zero. That puts us somewhere around 3 million Kelvin, which is still not quite as hot as the sun, which tends to be around 15 million Kelvin. Time to start making fire suits, though. Maybe stock up on ice.
You want the funny?
Alexander Seropian (founder of Bungie) has recently created a new company called Wideload Games. It's geared towards making quality humor games, like their most recent announcement: a game based on the Halo engine about a zombie, and his passion... for brains.
Did you see the foot? The foot means "humor". It's a joke. Laugh.
Murphy's law was never a law. It was never meant to be taken as seriously as you just took it. It's like walking up to a clown, and saying, "hey, you know those shoes are totally impractical. I mean like nine times out of ten you'll be tripping over yourself trying to climb stairs..."
What part of that took balls?
You're so full of crap. There are two kinds of physicists. Experimental and Theoretical(there's a reasonably large intersection, but bear with me). Einstein was of the theoretical persuasion. But do NOT think that he didn't have respect for those experimental physicists who had the difficult job of verifying the theory. For example, Einstein wouldn't be nearly as famous had the Michelson Moreley experiment not been run that showed his special theory to be plausible.
Also, consider his cosmological constant. This was a parameter that he came up with in his later years to describe the structure of the universe. Along came Edwin Hubble, who, using a big honking expensive telescope, showed that Einstein's constant wasn't necessary (As a sidenote, it's getting some play again in a modified form in modern astrophysics). Einstein completely abandoned his constant, calling it his greatest mistake.
Why? Because no theoretical physicist is above the data that we collect. He'd be happy about this.
NO NO NO NO.
It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. I suggest you sober up. Look, coins don't know what their last flip was. There's no mystical force of nature causing equilibrium. The only thing at play is random probability. And the 50-heads-in-a-row vs. 25-25 argument is just silly. The reason it is more likely to get 25 heads than 50 is combinatorics; it's irrelevant to what the next flip will be.
I hope for your sake you don't ever gamble on coin flips.
I should have seen that coming a mile away
The above poster is correct, Wolfram did a great thing for Weisstein, and the rest of us. Mathworld is a great site. If you get the chance, you should read the author's note in it about the legal problems he had with his book and publisher.
why would you bother to reply to an article that you apparently don't give a shit about? does that make sense to you?
I think that's their advantage. Less distraction.
But it's relevant primarily(exclusively?) to those who watch anime. It should be listed as anime, and therefore blocked from my main page (I'm not looking for any flames about the merits of anime. But get it off my main page).
According to some of his old posts, he's Iraeli, Indian, and has no fingers. And he cuts and pastes a lot, too.
No, it isn't false.
Examples.
Handel was supported by the Duke of Hannover and King of England for a great many years.
Bach worked for the Duke of Weimar, and Frederick Augustus II.
Mozart, as you said, was paid (read: funded) by the Emperor of the HRE. And a good deal of his works were comissioned.
And that was BEFORE recorded music. It was a completely different world. It was before any kind of mass communication too. So in order to hear music being played you HAD to attend concerts.
And besides, Mozart died poor and was buried in an unmarked, pauper's grave.
Haha! Oh, you anonymous cowards, what will you think of next?
In some ways it was good that it went out on top; Look at the Simpsons now; yech.
Yeah, but the Simpsons has been on for 14 seasons. And up to around 9 or 10 they were awesome. I mean, I think that the best Simpsons came around 3-4 and 8-9, so it's not like they had a really short shelf life.
The family guy, on the other hand, was cut short when there really was no sign of it slowing down. They had only gone for a couple seasons before they were taken off the air. They might have "gone out on top", but that doesn't mean that they didn't have anywhere to go from there. And I, for one, am interested to see what else might come of this.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Take a poll of mailmen! I mean, if the USPS is losing money on the switch to email, maybe they can get a little back from the fact that they know our streets and addresses as well as anybody - at least in a local sense. Highways might be a little outside of their routes.
I'm sure the server saw the slashdot article and committed suicide.
I agree with you completely. Major labels are on a hunt for the next big thing, not simply bands that will produce records consistently and make a modest living off of it. RIAA companies don't view musicians as people who can consistently tour, make records, and live off their earnings that come from a fanbase that is loyal and dependable - to them you're marketable for a limited time only or you're trash (with some exceptions of course). /late post
U.S. gdp is 10.2 trillion...
HELL YEAH! "Fleshy Headed Mutant, are you friendly??" "No way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilazation!" That's a classic. And it is really underapreciated -- well, maybe not in the great white north, but in the states, it's a tough find in most video rental places.
Oh, god. That movie was awful. I was completely uninterested; there was a slow, boring plot (can I even call it that). Maybe I just expected a good action movie and got this piece of crap that tried to be to artsy and symbolic, and sucked instead. I'm sure you have your reasons for liking it, but IMO, that was a bad movie.
My all time favorite is definitely, "Kentucky Fried Panda? But it's Finger Ling-Ling Good!"