Take Baltar as an example. By keeping his involvement with the destruction of the colonies a secret, he's basically accepting responsibility for his actions. Yet his character never accepts responsibility for his actions! A real individual like that would have carefully controlled the release of that information, being careful to spin it as something out of his control.
Ttrapped in space with the remains of humanity, each of which has suffered a devastating loss, has easy access to guns, and is looking for someone to blame. Saying "I did it" and hoping no one offs you before you get to "...but".
If you doubt that, consider the following observations: the over 1M Kelvin hot solar corona (where is that energy coming from?)
Magnetoacoustic waves due to convection cells cresting at the photosphere
the dark centers of solar spots (should the inside of the sun not be hotter instead of cooler?)
In general yes, but the chromosphere is slightly (well, 1000-2000K hotter) than the underlying photosphere, due to the vagaries of radiative transfer and (wait for it) magnetoacoustic waves
the angular clustering of high-redshift quasars with "foreground" galaxies (less than one-in-a-million chance of emerging from the isotropic distribution dictated by Big Bang cosmology).
Yeah, I've heard Geoffrey Burbidge talk about five times now, and he and Arp are off their nut. In light of their theory of ejection from the central black holes, which is frankly bizarre even compared to the rest of the field of cosmology (I'm looking at you, Jayant Narlikar), I will stick with my original operating hyposthesis, that it is a combination of lensing (which occurs near massive objects like galaxies) and selection effects (more pictures are taken of galaxies than empty voids, and are scrutinized far more deeply.)
Whereof one does not know, thereof one should not speak.
I guess we should give terrorists a nice cell and good food and hope they feel guilty enough about trying to blow up people that they tell us their secrets, e.g., what is planned for the future?
Yes, we should. And do you know why? BECAUSE IT FUCKING WORKS. That is, unless you think that you, as a/. commenter, have more experience in the field than an actual interrogator. Although, given that you are a/. commenter, if you did believe that I shouldn't be a bit surprised.
To quote Carl Sagan, "They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
And you can help the advancement of science by not drowning out the reasoned discussion of *actual scientists* by not blathering on about nonsense. Science is all about the signal-to-noise, you know.
If you think the games are racist, wait until you hear the rambling smack talk from the troglodytes on XBL (or, I would presume, any other online service).
On the plus side it does make me feel young, as it reminds me of junior high in East Texas. Only stupider.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, you're pointing him to The Black Death straight out of the gate? Why not give him underwear made of wolverine chow? Wheeler would have died ten years ago if not for the life-giving tears of those who opened that book unprepared. That is to say, everyone.
Seriously, dial it back a bit. First, hit the Feynman lectures (stop when you get to 'partons'.) Then, for someone coming from a mathematical bent, I'd suggest starting with Sokolnikoff's book "Tensor Analysis: Theory and Applications to Geometry and Mechanics of Continua", which covers a lot of ground besides GR. Due to the absence of a just and loving god it is out of print, but surely one of the profs in a math department with a PhD program has a copy (or at minimum the library.) And there's always copies on Alibris.
And, seconding suggestions from other posters, Kittel and Kroemer's "Thermal Physics" is a good starting point on thermo, As for quantum, in the absence of all knowledge in the field I'd start with Tipler's "Modern Physics", with the goal of ramping up to Cohen-Tannoudji, Diu, and Laloe's "Quantum Mechanics".
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Ttrapped in space with the remains of humanity, each of which has suffered a devastating loss, has easy access to guns, and is looking for someone to blame. Saying "I did it" and hoping no one offs you before you get to "...but".
BRILLIANT PLAN, GENIUS.
Shouldn't you be quoting Tuvok?
He acknowledged that nonbelievers are American citizens, and reaffirmed the separation of church/state and science.
That may be true. It is also true, however, that a very large fraction of the idiots I have met in *my* life have low IQs and little education.
Moral: Maybe you should stop hanging around in law firms?
Yes, but from hell's heart he stab at thee.
I should stop drinking at work.
Now they can get ready to slide Stevie boy in the company freezer next to Walt.
Fuck that shit.
Magnetoacoustic waves due to convection cells cresting at the photosphere the dark centers of solar spots (should the inside of the sun not be hotter instead of cooler?)
In general yes, but the chromosphere is slightly (well, 1000-2000K hotter) than the underlying photosphere, due to the vagaries of radiative transfer and (wait for it) magnetoacoustic waves
Yeah, I've heard Geoffrey Burbidge talk about five times now, and he and Arp are off their nut. In light of their theory of ejection from the central black holes, which is frankly bizarre even compared to the rest of the field of cosmology (I'm looking at you, Jayant Narlikar), I will stick with my original operating hyposthesis, that it is a combination of lensing (which occurs near massive objects like galaxies) and selection effects (more pictures are taken of galaxies than empty voids, and are scrutinized far more deeply.) Whereof one does not know, thereof one should not speak.
That explains why the first season sucked.
So, that would be a "squirt gun"?
I see you are unfamiliar with ancient Rome. Or shogunate Japan. Pity the CEOs of the banks we bailed out don't have that sense of honor.
Yes, we should. And do you know why? BECAUSE IT FUCKING WORKS. That is, unless you think that you, as a /. commenter, have more experience in the field than an actual interrogator. Although, given that you are a /. commenter, if you did believe that I shouldn't be a bit surprised.
Well, notice that our stars are in HD. We're early adopters!
To quote Carl Sagan, "They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
And you can help the advancement of science by not drowning out the reasoned discussion of *actual scientists* by not blathering on about nonsense. Science is all about the signal-to-noise, you know.
1. Build a detector that causes cancer in under thirty minutes.
2. ???
3. Profit!!
You bought the rumor, you simple-minded dilletante!
The racism in the Bible is hardly coded.
If you think the games are racist, wait until you hear the rambling smack talk from the troglodytes on XBL (or, I would presume, any other online service).
On the plus side it does make me feel young, as it reminds me of junior high in East Texas. Only stupider.
When I consider SCO, the single digit that comes to mind is not the number *one*...
The dance after my PhD odyssey would have been a drunken stumble to the tune of "The Road Goes On Forever". And I would have had to use a walker.
Fixed.
You just made lead shoot out of my nose.
My recollection of grad school is that it involves few bangs or bucks.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, you're pointing him to The Black Death straight out of the gate? Why not give him underwear made of wolverine chow? Wheeler would have died ten years ago if not for the life-giving tears of those who opened that book unprepared. That is to say, everyone.
Seriously, dial it back a bit. First, hit the Feynman lectures (stop when you get to 'partons'.) Then, for someone coming from a mathematical bent, I'd suggest starting with Sokolnikoff's book "Tensor Analysis: Theory and Applications to Geometry and Mechanics of Continua", which covers a lot of ground besides GR. Due to the absence of a just and loving god it is out of print, but surely one of the profs in a math department with a PhD program has a copy (or at minimum the library.) And there's always copies on Alibris.
And, seconding suggestions from other posters, Kittel and Kroemer's "Thermal Physics" is a good starting point on thermo, As for quantum, in the absence of all knowledge in the field I'd start with Tipler's "Modern Physics", with the goal of ramping up to Cohen-Tannoudji, Diu, and Laloe's "Quantum Mechanics".