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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 12:29:12 [Permalink]
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My daughter has sent me a copy of the photo she took with her phone camera of PZ Myers and myself at his lecture a few weeks ago at Berkeley:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 03/04/2010 : 01:33:19 [Permalink]
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My new pal, Christopher Hitchens. And me. Photos by my daughter, who accompanied me to Hitch's talk.
This is one of the best photos I've seen of Hitchens,
though he was recovering from a recent spider bite.
Can't you tell we're tight?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 03/04/2010 : 09:11:37 [Permalink]
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Cool pictures!!! Nice sweatshirt mooner. I have em with these guys too. My favorite is this one. In fact, it's my all time favorite picture from any TAM event I have been to.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2010 : 12:51:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Cool pictures!!! Nice sweatshirt mooner. I have em with these guys too. My favorite is this one. In fact, it's my all time favorite picture from any TAM event I have been to.
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I envy you for that one, Kil! You're a much more successful fanboy than I. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 21:42:25 [Permalink]
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I'll miss Peter Graves. No, come to think of it, I can always watch his works, as they, at least, are essentially immortal.
That's pretty cold about Haim being with his career now. Funny, too. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 17:27:22 [Permalink]
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| Kil came over today. We met and talked for several hours. We solved it. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 18:52:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
We solved it. |
Awesome! Are you implementing the solution?
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At any moment now... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 19:07:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
We solved it. |
Awesome! Are you implementing the solution?
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At any moment now...
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Uh-oh, I've got the firehose ready.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2010 : 19:44:58 [Permalink]
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It appears that the Weekly World News has noted Kil's return road trip from Washington State to Southern California:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2010 : 21:35:32 [Permalink]
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| Ha!!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2010 : 18:15:59 [Permalink]
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Today, while reading Daniel L. Everett's Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, I ran across Everett's assertion that Einstein had once made an odd comment about rivers.
As most people realize, the distance between two points on a river differ greatly depending upon whether a straight-line ("as the crow flies") distance is measured, or whether the distance is measured by how far one must navigate (through all the bends) by boat.
But is there a fairly consistent ratio between the two measurements?
It seems that old rivers have a maximum ratio of navigated distance to straight-line distance of about pi:1. With newer rivers, the ratio is closer to 3:1. And it does seem that Einstein was involved in this speculation. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 18:29:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
It seems that old rivers have a maximum ratio of navigated distance to straight-line distance of about pi:1. With newer rivers, the ratio is closer to 3:1. |
There's not a lot of difference between 3.0 and 3.14, is there? I guess I'm surprised that new-vs-old doesn't differ more.Cool that. No one-trick-pony was old Al. |
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The water cooler, part 3
