thanks to the proper images not loading on gawker, i thought the pepsi throwback ad was the artwork for a moment, and didn't think they qualified as art the way the article was describing.
You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, far to many people don't realize this, and behave as if the current theory based on available data is absolute fact. Then they start mouthing off at people who disagree with them (people who know how science works) calling them brain dead mouth breathing morons who are incapable of reasoning for themselves. This leads to arguments on/. where everyone ends up walking away dumber for having participated.
what is weirder, is the fact that somewhere, back in my youth, i had a book with one of these hand turned record players in it. think it played 'Mary had a Little Lamb' or some such nonsense.
I'm with you, even the easiest of these requires a good amount of reading, watching tutorials, reading more, fooling with the program, and watching more and reading more. My main gripe with so many of these programs, is the function to lock yourself to an axis, design something only in that axis, then extrude it into 3d space, is so hard to locate that I give up before i find it. i cant count how many times i've tried this in programs, only to discover that some arbitrary thing has caused what i defined to move back and forth in another axis, creating some strange 'MC esher meets Dr. Seus' esqe abomination.
ok, i'm only going to do this once, but i have to ask:
In the grand scheme of your daily life, and continued existence on this planet, how has the knowledge that humans evolved from monkeys, and so on and so forth down to single celled whatnot, been an important factor in your continued success as a person? have you ever gotten a raise for believing this? have you ever gained any windfall from this being what you believe?
Right, I'm willing to bet, the answer to that is no. Now, sure, a person could argue a lot of philosophical things about believing in God, vs believing in Evolution, but when it all boils down, what you believe about the origins of mankind, the world, and the universe, has little bearing on what kind of life you are going to have. As long as you are taught to not act like a cockbite, and be somewhat civilized, your going to be fine, religion be damned.
Sure, some groups may not accept what you think, but others will, and that pretty much sums up human existence.
Sure, it may be ignorance, but I can be ignorant about a lot of things, and live a perfectly healthy and normal life. I'm ignorant of the precise internal workings of a hybrid electric automobile, as well as how the exact details of how the north-bridge in a computer works. I'm also ignorant of the exact details of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire, but not knowing these things does not prevent me from having a decent life, and refusing to learn them only precludes me from working in a few very specialized fields of work. This whole blood feud between religion and science is pretty pointless when it comes down to the day to day lives of most of us, and I'm starting to get tired of it.
I don't consider it an unfair question. Because it is on a test in the mathematical section of that test, I safely can assume that the tone of that line is essentially "finish this paragraph" Now days, this sort of question would lead into a 5 option 'multiple guess' answer list, and would not have a question mark. Now, if this line is in the test without being numbered, or delineated from the preceding or following questions in any way, then i agree that it is unfair, but if it is marked out as a problem in the test (by numeration of the questions, or some other obvious pattern or means). The test simply requires a little more critical thinking than we are trained to produce for a test these days.
"To circumscribe a circle about a given triangle."
locate the center-point of each leg of the triangle with a compass, and plot a line perpendicular to each, thus locating the center of the triangle at the intersection of these lines. Then, use the compass to plot the circle the center-point of the circle being the same as that of the triangle, and the radius of the circle being the distance from that pont to a Vertex of the triangle. beginning at any Vertex of the triangle, circumscribe the circle about the triangle, returning to the same vertex the circle began on.
more or less. its a word problem, with a word answer, perhaps a diagram would be expected to be drawn along with the answer.
that... that is easy.... locate the center-point of each leg of the triangle with a compass, and plot a line perpendicular to it, locating the center of the triangle, then use the compass to plot the circle, beginning at any point of the triangle. takes like, 10 seconds.
You don't understand. Both sides want you in servitude, The republicans just don't pretend they don't. The only difference is how they get you into servitude. One side will get you there by taxes, the other side will get you there by protecting you from yourself.
actually, the way i see, it, it won't happen until LONG after the second amendment is ground to dust. Just because a piece of paper says its gone, don't mean that the population is going to say 'sure, fine.'
to address all your 'points', I essentially have to post a paper demonstrating that I've found some new law of physics, which obviously, I cant. I'm just saying that some people still have that bizarre wanderlust to see what is over the next ridge, or past that next sea. Sure, its essentially useless to humanity at this stage, as the globe has basicly been explored for all practical purposes. Fine, its not "offensive" and yes there is plenty to "Hope" for right here on earth, Fine, thats all well and dandy, but I don't see a problem with some people trying to look beyond this marble into the vast unknown. and if its the money that gets spent on these 'junk science' projects that bothers you, then get bothered by the fact that americans spend more on cell phones in a year than they do on the entire space program. as for 'you cant program your way into orbit' sure you can, better simulations and models allow us to design better vehicles that are more efficient, or perhaps find better orbital insertion trajectories. 'you cant kevlar your way to the moon' You absolutely can. Better materials science can bring us lighter, stronger materials, or more effective radiation shields. Sure, humans are pathetic mal-adapted meatbags in space, but we're not meant to be on top of mount everest, or in a bathysphere in the bottom of the mariana trench either. The thing that attracts some of us to space is the fact that there is so damn much of it out there, so it seems a pity to not dream of seeing it. You may be dead set against the idea of *anyone* wanting to step of this planet to see what is out there in person, but that does not mean that no one can like the idea.
have a nice day.
Actually, I ran across the theory doing research on the Nephilim (don't ask). Ran into a website devoted to the theory, with in depth analysis of photos of Lapetus, and pages of 'explanation.' If its a book, I've never read it.
you said it yourself "unless some new physics happens" well there you go, i can hope that we don't know all there is to know about the universe, and that someone finds some new quirk of reality, which leads to some new technology that allows us to explore beyond our planet. hope. Is HOPE so offensive? I'm not saying it WILL happen, i'm saying I HOPE it does. As for the science they do in space, sure, a lot of things humanity has learned may have seemed useless at the time (heck, learning that the earth is round, and what its radius is was not useful to anyone until a long time after it was learned) but it MAY become useful to us someday.
actually, yes. That sort of information is important if we ever are going to send people interesting places. Sure, its far fetched, but pretend we figure out how to teraform a planet within the solar system. knowing how fast feces expands in volume in free fall becomes important if your moving several thousand people across interplanetary distances for colonization. It may seem pointless to YOU, but some of us hold hope that mankind's exploration of space did not stop at the moon.
you're worse than those people that thing Saturn's moon Iapetus is a huge spacecraft built by an ancient human civilization on mars to escape catastrophe and eventually settle on earth parking there spaceship at saturn for god knows what dumb reason.
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first thought after reading headline: "Well DUH."
article did the math for you. forty thousand years to be within 2 light years of another star system.
thanks to the proper images not loading on gawker, i thought the pepsi throwback ad was the artwork for a moment, and didn't think they qualified as art the way the article was describing.
here's a link to the article that gawker used. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663683/far-better-than-3-d-animated-gifs-that-savor-a-passing-moment
You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, far to many people don't realize this, and behave as if the current theory based on available data is absolute fact. Then they start mouthing off at people who disagree with them (people who know how science works) calling them brain dead mouth breathing morons who are incapable of reasoning for themselves. This leads to arguments on /. where everyone ends up walking away dumber for having participated.
what is weirder, is the fact that somewhere, back in my youth, i had a book with one of these hand turned record players in it. think it played 'Mary had a Little Lamb' or some such nonsense.
I'm with you, even the easiest of these requires a good amount of reading, watching tutorials, reading more, fooling with the program, and watching more and reading more. My main gripe with so many of these programs, is the function to lock yourself to an axis, design something only in that axis, then extrude it into 3d space, is so hard to locate that I give up before i find it. i cant count how many times i've tried this in programs, only to discover that some arbitrary thing has caused what i defined to move back and forth in another axis, creating some strange 'MC esher meets Dr. Seus' esqe abomination.
Because movies always depict reality correctly. /sarcasm.
ok, i'm only going to do this once, but i have to ask:
In the grand scheme of your daily life, and continued existence on this planet, how has the knowledge that humans evolved from monkeys, and so on and so forth down to single celled whatnot, been an important factor in your continued success as a person? have you ever gotten a raise for believing this? have you ever gained any windfall from this being what you believe?
Right, I'm willing to bet, the answer to that is no. Now, sure, a person could argue a lot of philosophical things about believing in God, vs believing in Evolution, but when it all boils down, what you believe about the origins of mankind, the world, and the universe, has little bearing on what kind of life you are going to have. As long as you are taught to not act like a cockbite, and be somewhat civilized, your going to be fine, religion be damned.
Sure, some groups may not accept what you think, but others will, and that pretty much sums up human existence.
Sure, it may be ignorance, but I can be ignorant about a lot of things, and live a perfectly healthy and normal life. I'm ignorant of the precise internal workings of a hybrid electric automobile, as well as how the exact details of how the north-bridge in a computer works. I'm also ignorant of the exact details of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire, but not knowing these things does not prevent me from having a decent life, and refusing to learn them only precludes me from working in a few very specialized fields of work. This whole blood feud between religion and science is pretty pointless when it comes down to the day to day lives of most of us, and I'm starting to get tired of it.
"fwoosh" i would suspect.
Thats not what he said. He was pointing out that, for the most part, every cent the government has, comes from its citizenry.
I don't consider it an unfair question. Because it is on a test in the mathematical section of that test, I safely can assume that the tone of that line is essentially "finish this paragraph" Now days, this sort of question would lead into a 5 option 'multiple guess' answer list, and would not have a question mark. Now, if this line is in the test without being numbered, or delineated from the preceding or following questions in any way, then i agree that it is unfair, but if it is marked out as a problem in the test (by numeration of the questions, or some other obvious pattern or means). The test simply requires a little more critical thinking than we are trained to produce for a test these days.
"To circumscribe a circle about a given triangle."
locate the center-point of each leg of the triangle with a compass, and plot a line perpendicular to each, thus locating the center of the triangle at the intersection of these lines. Then, use the compass to plot the circle the center-point of the circle being the same as that of the triangle, and the radius of the circle being the distance from that pont to a Vertex of the triangle. beginning at any Vertex of the triangle, circumscribe the circle about the triangle, returning to the same vertex the circle began on.
more or less. its a word problem, with a word answer, perhaps a diagram would be expected to be drawn along with the answer.
that... that is easy.... locate the center-point of each leg of the triangle with a compass, and plot a line perpendicular to it, locating the center of the triangle, then use the compass to plot the circle, beginning at any point of the triangle. takes like, 10 seconds.
if math, geography, greek and latin are optional courses now, what the devil do they learn in school? Oh, thats right, nothing.
You don't understand. Both sides want you in servitude, The republicans just don't pretend they don't. The only difference is how they get you into servitude. One side will get you there by taxes, the other side will get you there by protecting you from yourself.
actually, the way i see, it, it won't happen until LONG after the second amendment is ground to dust. Just because a piece of paper says its gone, don't mean that the population is going to say 'sure, fine.'
as an outsider currently stranded(living?) in Texas, I cant say that you are wrong.
literally spent 5 minutes trying to remember my username and password so i could post this exact thing.
legitimate answer as it turns out.
to address all your 'points', I essentially have to post a paper demonstrating that I've found some new law of physics, which obviously, I cant. I'm just saying that some people still have that bizarre wanderlust to see what is over the next ridge, or past that next sea. Sure, its essentially useless to humanity at this stage, as the globe has basicly been explored for all practical purposes. Fine, its not "offensive" and yes there is plenty to "Hope" for right here on earth, Fine, thats all well and dandy, but I don't see a problem with some people trying to look beyond this marble into the vast unknown. and if its the money that gets spent on these 'junk science' projects that bothers you, then get bothered by the fact that americans spend more on cell phones in a year than they do on the entire space program. as for 'you cant program your way into orbit' sure you can, better simulations and models allow us to design better vehicles that are more efficient, or perhaps find better orbital insertion trajectories. 'you cant kevlar your way to the moon' You absolutely can. Better materials science can bring us lighter, stronger materials, or more effective radiation shields. Sure, humans are pathetic mal-adapted meatbags in space, but we're not meant to be on top of mount everest, or in a bathysphere in the bottom of the mariana trench either. The thing that attracts some of us to space is the fact that there is so damn much of it out there, so it seems a pity to not dream of seeing it. You may be dead set against the idea of *anyone* wanting to step of this planet to see what is out there in person, but that does not mean that no one can like the idea. have a nice day.
Actually, I ran across the theory doing research on the Nephilim (don't ask). Ran into a website devoted to the theory, with in depth analysis of photos of Lapetus, and pages of 'explanation.' If its a book, I've never read it.
you said it yourself "unless some new physics happens" well there you go, i can hope that we don't know all there is to know about the universe, and that someone finds some new quirk of reality, which leads to some new technology that allows us to explore beyond our planet. hope. Is HOPE so offensive? I'm not saying it WILL happen, i'm saying I HOPE it does. As for the science they do in space, sure, a lot of things humanity has learned may have seemed useless at the time (heck, learning that the earth is round, and what its radius is was not useful to anyone until a long time after it was learned) but it MAY become useful to us someday.
actually, yes. That sort of information is important if we ever are going to send people interesting places. Sure, its far fetched, but pretend we figure out how to teraform a planet within the solar system. knowing how fast feces expands in volume in free fall becomes important if your moving several thousand people across interplanetary distances for colonization. It may seem pointless to YOU, but some of us hold hope that mankind's exploration of space did not stop at the moon.
you're worse than those people that thing Saturn's moon Iapetus is a huge spacecraft built by an ancient human civilization on mars to escape catastrophe and eventually settle on earth parking there spaceship at saturn for god knows what dumb reason.