Space probes try to perform trajectory changes when deep in a gravitational field because coupling with a large mass actually helps you get more velocity change from a given impulse.
How do you work that out? Impulse = integral (F.dt) = change of momentum, momentum = mass * velocity. Seems the same impulse gives the same velocity change, if the mass remains constant.
Are you sure Ibn Fadlan did not describe a Rus human sacrifice in in 922? Or French archbishop Hincmar of Reims describing in 858 Swedish kings sacrificing human slaves at Yule
One, hearsay.
Two, even if those cases were true, it doen't mean it was the general case.
Three, with stone axes?
Four, those dates are more than 1000 years ago.
Until the 19th century, Europeans routinely sanitized their water by adding wine to it.
No may have mixed water with wine, but it wouldn't sanitise it - wine is nowhere near strong enough to do that, even before diluting it.
The bible contains extensive recipes on how to prepare which mixtures of wine and water for which occasions
... and references to talking trees and seven headed serpents. Not the best scientific source to quote, IMHO.
Until then, it tasted like vinegar and nobody would drink it straight.
Which is totally irrelevant, though it does prove my point that wine isn't sufficiently strong to sanitize itself, let alone contaminated water.
As recently as a thousand years ago, Northern Europeans were still a bunch of cannibals running around with stone axes
Wrong.
Westerners are alcohol-tolerant because they did not know how to boil water to sterilize it until about 150 years ago, so they added alcohol to their water all the time.
This is nonesense too. They didn't add alcohol to water, though those who could afford to preferred to drink beer, which last time I looked already contains it. In fact, the bishop of Metz figured this out in the 7th century.
I concede that it's around 150 years ago that Snow (& others) figured out that boiling - part of the brewing process - was responsible for the fact that ale quaffers were less likely to suffer less from cholera. But to imply that the yeomen of olde England liked to swig pond water with a large vodka added is so wrong it's laughable.
No it says, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Incorrect. That's what a modern English translation of a Latin translation of a Greek translation of an Aramiac document writen down by somebody who heard it from someone who heard it from someone says.
Slashdot would be a wonderful place if we could lose all the religion bashing.
The world would be a much better place if all religious people were as tolerant as you appear to be.
P.S. Re: Mary magdalene - there are a lot of people who think that the story about her being a tart was put about by the male disciples (*cough* Paul *cough*) in order to discredit her.
as humans did not keep cows those people had no advantage over other people without the mutation, so the mutation was lost as it had no benefit.
It would only be lost if it had disadvantageous effects. If it's neutral it will stay there, at more or less the same frequency, until the time comes that it has an effect, one way or the other.
Mike Saviour: I'd much rather have programs that get the job done than look pretty. Function over form.
TheRaven64: And this is why I hope you never design an application I need to use. [...] Choosing form over function means choosing a pretty theme for a bad user interface.
While I agree with you, oddly I also agree with him. Maybe that's because my comprehension skills are sufficient to discern that you are, in fact, saying the same thing.
s/florist/music teacher/ and s/flower arrangement/violin/
Better?
Computers are.
On the say so of one Mr AC? Don't make me laugh. Computers might be a useful learning tool for some things - they certainly are programming. But there's a lot of people who think their usefulness as a general educational tool is overstated.
That aside, the main point that you spectacularly missed is that learning isn't really a priority when you're worried about the next meal, or whether your village is going to be the next to get visted by one of the local miltias, is it?
Keep trying to deter people who are only trying to do what they are best at to help other people.
But this is exactly the problem! Donors want to donate what they're interested in (this is understandable, but still wrong), rather than what the recipients need. I guess if I was a florist and started a scheme to send flower arrangements to African famine victims, that would be great. I'd be doing something, and I'd be doing what I'm best at. Right?
If there's no State, there's no taxes. The poor just got a lot richer.
So what youre saying is, a poor person living under conditions of anarchy (Somalia is an oft-quoted example) makes more money/has a higher standard of living than a US worker on minimum wage does pre-tax?
Slashdot Mirror
Golden showers don't cleanse.
Two, even if those cases were true, it doen't mean it was the general case.
Three, with stone axes?
Four, those dates are more than 1000 years ago.
No may have mixed water with wine, but it wouldn't sanitise it - wine is nowhere near strong enough to do that, even before diluting it.
... and references to talking trees and seven headed serpents. Not the best scientific source to quote, IMHO.
Which is totally irrelevant, though it does prove my point that wine isn't sufficiently strong to sanitize itself, let alone contaminated water.
It's only prejudiced because of what you substituted in. Replace "Black people" with "utter loonies" and it'd be fair comment.
Are you a chemist? Would you value a chemist who still believed in phlogistion theory because an old book says it's true?
P.S. Re: Mary magdalene - there are a lot of people who think that the story about her being a tart was put about by the male disciples (*cough* Paul *cough*) in order to discredit her.
Mike Saviour: I'd much rather have programs that get the job done than look pretty. Function over form.
TheRaven64: And this is why I hope you never design an application I need to use. [...] Choosing form over function means choosing a pretty theme for a bad user interface.
While I agree with you, oddly I also agree with him. Maybe that's because my comprehension skills are sufficient to discern that you are, in fact, saying the same thing.
Better?
On the say so of one Mr AC? Don't make me laugh. Computers might be a useful learning tool for some things - they certainly are programming. But there's a lot of people who think their usefulness as a general educational tool is overstated.
That aside, the main point that you spectacularly missed is that learning isn't really a priority when you're worried about the next meal, or whether your village is going to be the next to get visted by one of the local miltias, is it?
Back in the real world, doing the wrong thing is often worse than doing nothing. Reality doesn't give grades for effort.
I heard he only invaded Poland because he got tired of waiting for HL2 to come out.
This Beckstein guy sounds like he's as thick as a brick.
No, it's Breakfast of Champions.
I really hope you intended that to be funny.
3) He's a terrorist with fake reference.
Sorry. I don't buy that.
That'll teach me to use the preview!
Wealthy: having great wealth; rich; affluent:
Rich: having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy
Your earned/inherited distinction isn't supported by evidence.