A person is reasonable and intelligent but people are dumb stupid and panicky.
There were people in the tube carriage I was in when a bomb blew up in the train which was passing us in the opposite direction, near Edgware Road station. I regret to inform you that contrary to your description, those people reacted as well as you could possibly expect any person to react. Everyone was shit-scared, me included, frozen with fear for the first minute or two, waiting for a second bomb to possibly go off. But then after that, the behaviour of all the people around me was admirable. We stayed calm, comforted each other, talked, tried to get our minds off the awful truth (which no one voiced - it's amazing how many plausible alternative possibilities you can come up with to deny that it's a bomb, even after you saw the flash, heard the loud bang, and breathed the nasty black smoke).
Those people waited patiently to be evacuated, waited a whole 45 minutes in this unnerving train with that nasty toxic smell, with screams of agony coming from the nearby train and no coherent information coming from anywhere, with no guarantee that any of us would get out of there alive, as there could have been a second bomb, for all we knew.
So I think you should grow a bit of respect for people, dumbass.
Have to go with MS on this one, though I wouldn't normally. OneNote is solid, feature-packed, quick to use, and allows you to organise those notes so that you can find them again.
I'm not necessarily attacking the premise of the experiment (which I assume is performed with a variety of more sophisticated animations)... but I managed to make 2 dots disappear by staring at one, even when the animation was frozen (can be reproduced in FireFox by clicking on the gif and starting to drag it aside - this stops the animation). So much for it being motion-induced!!
We once convinced this guy that "peer" was this l33t h4x0r who monitored all of irc and randomly disconnected people he didn't like, and/or people who badmouthed him. That was fun.
It really depends how strong the gamma radiation is. Gamma radiation drops off exponentially through thick matter like the earth, but if there's enough to begin with, there will still be enough to ensure 10 second lethality on the other side...
Of course we're talking about stupid amounts of radiation here - but then again, anything to do with black holes and neutron stars and the like tends to involve absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid amounts of radiation. There's definitely a distance within which there are other stars (and perhaps bunches of dark, invisible neutron stars) if such an event occurred, it could roast both sides of the earth.
Both explanations wrt Dark Energy are correct. I decided to give a simpler more understandable explanation.
With respect to Dark Matter, similarly...: click "Some scientists think dark matter is in the form of massive objects, such as black holes, that hang out around galaxies unseen. Other scientists believe dark matter to be subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter."
No, "dark energy" denotes energy which is in a form which does not interact with most of the universe, or interacts very weakly. Just like "dark matter" (eg neutrinos) interacts very weakly, with zillions of them passing through the earth with little effect.
D2 is still going pretty strong for a game as ancient as it is.
Agreed.
Like World of Warcraft, the number of people playing Diablo II could have been counted in the hundreds of thousands. How many do you think are playing it now?
Judging from the server crawl whenever a patch is released, tens of thousands? That's not too bad I'd say.
Agreed - however a good tape system like Pimsleur can provide a good substitute until you actually have the basic level required to hold simple conversations in the language.
Your french friends were fake, then. There's nothing worth throwing your hands up for in that book. There will certainly be a few obscure words that you haven't heard before, but nothing like the plethora of difficulties that you seem to imply.
I think the elve's at helm's deep are hardly the worst part... The gigantic bloated part given to Arwen at the expense of many other important bits of plot is really the most bothersome aspect. Curse Peter Jackson and his lack of balls.
That's a pretty god damn gigantic assumption, I'm afraid. You'll have to substantiate it with some reasoning if you want your argument to be more than a puff of hot air.
It would be fitting, if the asteroid turns out to be heading straight towards us and this threat is used to convince all the phone cleaners, insurance salesmen and other 1st ship people to get on a spaceship to another solar system:-D
Re: source, yeah, of course it does, but that's what's worthy of note, not the fact that they're moving "at the speed of light" (which in and of itself means nothing).
Not only it doesn't "mess" with general relativity, but it is completely obvious from any study of cosmology. Every particle or aggregate of matter in the universe is moving at close to the speed of life relative to some other appropriately chosen bit of matter. This article is just a load of sensationalism interbred with some vague notions of science that the author gathered together after a chat with someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
Mate, I have a physics degree and I work in IT - I think I can say I have a dimension plenty filled by technical knowledge too. And no, it's not the same that's filled by creative imagination.
So we agree then:-) I never said that books should be the sole source of teaching. I certainly do think that we are far more likely to end up teaching everything through videogames as a reaction to "textbooks are boring", than the opposite. And I think that would be a shame...
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I wasn't going for nice and interesting.
Daniel
A person is reasonable and intelligent but people are dumb stupid and panicky.
There were people in the tube carriage I was in when a bomb blew up in the train which was passing us in the opposite direction, near Edgware Road station. I regret to inform you that contrary to your description, those people reacted as well as you could possibly expect any person to react. Everyone was shit-scared, me included, frozen with fear for the first minute or two, waiting for a second bomb to possibly go off. But then after that, the behaviour of all the people around me was admirable. We stayed calm, comforted each other, talked, tried to get our minds off the awful truth (which no one voiced - it's amazing how many plausible alternative possibilities you can come up with to deny that it's a bomb, even after you saw the flash, heard the loud bang, and breathed the nasty black smoke).
Those people waited patiently to be evacuated, waited a whole 45 minutes in this unnerving train with that nasty toxic smell, with screams of agony coming from the nearby train and no coherent information coming from anywhere, with no guarantee that any of us would get out of there alive, as there could have been a second bomb, for all we knew.
So I think you should grow a bit of respect for people, dumbass.
Daniel
Have to go with MS on this one, though I wouldn't normally. OneNote is solid, feature-packed, quick to use, and allows you to organise those notes so that you can find them again.
Daniel
I'm not necessarily attacking the premise of the experiment (which I assume is performed with a variety of more sophisticated animations)... but I managed to make 2 dots disappear by staring at one, even when the animation was frozen (can be reproduced in FireFox by clicking on the gif and starting to drag it aside - this stops the animation). So much for it being motion-induced!!
Daniel
And how exactly would you propose to track the movements of gas molecules?
Daniel
Robot's not up to scratch yet then...
Daniel
We once convinced this guy that "peer" was this l33t h4x0r who monitored all of irc and randomly disconnected people he didn't like, and/or people who badmouthed him. That was fun.
Daniel
Those people's music appreciation is hardly worth mentioning, let's face it.
Daniel
It really depends how strong the gamma radiation is. Gamma radiation drops off exponentially through thick matter like the earth, but if there's enough to begin with, there will still be enough to ensure 10 second lethality on the other side...
Of course we're talking about stupid amounts of radiation here - but then again, anything to do with black holes and neutron stars and the like tends to involve absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid amounts of radiation. There's definitely a distance within which there are other stars (and perhaps bunches of dark, invisible neutron stars) if such an event occurred, it could roast both sides of the earth.
Daniel
Both explanations wrt Dark Energy are correct. I decided to give a simpler more understandable explanation.
With respect to Dark Matter, similarly...:
click
"Some scientists think dark matter is in the form of massive objects, such as black holes, that hang out around galaxies unseen. Other scientists believe dark matter to be subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter."
Daniel
No, "dark energy" denotes energy which is in a form which does not interact with most of the universe, or interacts very weakly. Just like "dark matter" (eg neutrinos) interacts very weakly, with zillions of them passing through the earth with little effect.
Daniel
D2 is still going pretty strong for a game as ancient as it is.
Agreed.
Like World of Warcraft, the number of people playing Diablo II could have been counted in the hundreds of thousands. How many do you think are playing it now?
Judging from the server crawl whenever a patch is released, tens of thousands? That's not too bad I'd say.
Daniel
Agreed - however a good tape system like Pimsleur can provide a good substitute until you actually have the basic level required to hold simple conversations in the language.
Daniel
Your french friends were fake, then. There's nothing worth throwing your hands up for in that book. There will certainly be a few obscure words that you haven't heard before, but nothing like the plethora of difficulties that you seem to imply.
Daniel
See the definition of "sarcasm".
Daniel
I think the elve's at helm's deep are hardly the worst part... The gigantic bloated part given to Arwen at the expense of many other important bits of plot is really the most bothersome aspect. Curse Peter Jackson and his lack of balls.
Daniel
It's not the same trailer.
Daniel
That's a pretty god damn gigantic assumption, I'm afraid. You'll have to substantiate it with some reasoning if you want your argument to be more than a puff of hot air.
Daniel
I don't have any problems with it registering without touching however, that one seems pretty unique.
Perhaps because you don't have Raynaud's.
Daniel
Shucks! I was looking forward to using it. I guess not...
Daniel
It would be fitting, if the asteroid turns out to be heading straight towards us and this threat is used to convince all the phone cleaners, insurance salesmen and other 1st ship people to get on a spaceship to another solar system :-D
Daniel
Damn typos!!! :-P
Re: source, yeah, of course it does, but that's what's worthy of note, not the fact that they're moving "at the speed of light" (which in and of itself means nothing).
Daniel
Not only it doesn't "mess" with general relativity, but it is completely obvious from any study of cosmology. Every particle or aggregate of matter in the universe is moving at close to the speed of life relative to some other appropriately chosen bit of matter. This article is just a load of sensationalism interbred with some vague notions of science that the author gathered together after a chat with someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
Daniel
Mate, I have a physics degree and I work in IT - I think I can say I have a dimension plenty filled by technical knowledge too. And no, it's not the same that's filled by creative imagination.
Daniel
So we agree then :-) I never said that books should be the sole source of teaching. I certainly do think that we are far more likely to end up teaching everything through videogames as a reaction to "textbooks are boring", than the opposite. And I think that would be a shame...
Daniel