8:05 AM Mr. Green 8:07 AM Mr. Green
Creationist homeschoolers support Republicans... who would have guessed?
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
Shows how low the parents' qualifications need to be to homeschool.
"I'm not letting the system raise MY kid to use their science, logic and reason to live their lives! No way!"
8:14 AM Mr. Green
LOL
10:16 AM Mr. Silver
I am rating the artist concept as a "Hehe...yeah, sure" on the "It will look like that" scale.
"Mr. Musk stated that the depiction shows Phase 4 of the recovery process. Phase 5 is when the booster topples over, pancakes on the tarmac and is explosively obliterated."
3:04 PM Mr. Silver
From Mrs. Silver:
I could make good wages being a vampire. (Grins)
You have to know
· Biology, Anatomy & Physiology.
· Venipuncture procedures.
· Capillary puncture procedures.
· Safety precautions.
· The art of Phlebotomy.
· Medical laboratory terminology.
3:06 PM Mr. Yellow
LOL
3:09 PM Mr. Silver
BTW, it's remarkable and amusing to me how much you misspell Mrs. Yellow’s name.
3:09 PM Mr. Silver
I think I want to write that into a story.
3:09 PM Mr. Yellow
I can not type and I have massive spelling issues. I have a form of dyslexia.
Never been diagnosed but it is a constant issue for me.
3:10 PM Mr. Silver
Don’t fret.
We know what you are saying.
3:10 PM Mr. Silver
It's just that I spotted a "It keeps the marriage interesting" gag
"Doesn't she get pissed when you say it wrong so many ways?"
"Yes, but it’s like having a harem at home."
8:06 AM Mr. Silver
8:10 AM Mr. Brown
Oh yeah
I saw that on America’s Got Talent.
This guy would put it all over the stage in different designs.
8:42 AM Mr. Silver
Anything good today besides Stick Bombs?
8:43 AM Mr. Brown
Booby Bombs.
lol
8:55 AM Mr. Silver
“I looked up ‘booby trap’ since it sounded like it would have such great potential, but it was all some kinda junk about bombs instead of chicks. I don't get it.”
9:06 AM Mr. Brown
lol
10:17 AM Mr. Blue
Hey, what is the deal with Schrödinger’s Cat?
I don't get it.
“The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.”
How can the cat be simultaneously alive and dead?
The possibility is simultaneous, but not the actuality.
10:20 AM Mr. Silver
Although he proposed the cat problem, he did it as a joke to ridicule other terrible examples. Much as Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland's sarcastic lampooning of modern math is completely lost on...everyone.
Now the cat is a classic example.
10:20 AM Mr. Brown
We don't know till we look.
So it’s alive and dead?
Right.
10:21 AM Mr. Blue
Just because we don't know doesn't mean both possibilities exist.
10:21 AM Mr. Blue
We don't know there's a god… So there IS a god AND ISN'T one?
10:22 AM Mr. Silver
Good point on God. You can't find that out til you look, too.
10:25 AM Mr. Blue
More than two possibilities exist. Perhaps the cat grew scales and turned into a dragon in the box. Perhaps the cat disappeared.
10:30 AM Mr. Silver
Yes yes...
The idea is that there is more than one possibility for a particle.
10:31 AM Mr. Silver
And measuring it seems to be the only thing that determines what state it “chooses"
So until it's measured, there is only potential.
So...put a cat in a box with a radioactive source that can kill it.
Is the cat alive or dead? You only have the box, and as far as the box and you are concerned, it’s both alive and dead since it can’t be not alive and not dead.
(Now I’m picturing radioactive zombie cats – Mr. Silver)
The veterinarian will tell you "dead" because the cat would be dead...you stuck it in a box with a lethal dose of radiation. Schrödinger said as much...that was the "joke".
But it was taken up as an example because, really, with no other way of telling for certain, you have to open the box and look, and then the potential is gone, replaced by the fact.
10:34 AM Mr. Blue
I see.
10:35 AM Mr. Silver
Making the effort to measure something changes it...you added to or took energy from the target to make the observation.
10:32 AM Mr. Brown
It’s like – “Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the woods with nobody around?”
10:33 AM Mr. Blue
A tree does NOT make a sound when nobody is around… We know this.
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
Well...no. I makes the vibrations that can be heard/felt though.
There's no such thing as sound, just interpretation of that kind of vibration by a brain.
So it really doesn't make a sound if there are a lot of things around to hear it, too, if you wanna split hairs.
10:44 AM Mr. Brown
Well the other trees feel the vibration.
10:44 AM Mr. Blue
No they don't.
Trees don't have senses.
10:46 AM Mr. Silver
There's plenty of evidence for plant awareness of and reaction to surroundings.
Salad is Murder
I'll agree they won't be saying "There goes George...pity, he was only 250."
11:00 AM Mr. Blue
They tested that on Mythbusters and didn't find any evidence for it.
I’m sure more scientific studies have been done, but I haven't seen it.
11:02 AM Mr. Silver
Yeah...Mythbusters versus botanical researchers...I’m going to have to throw my vote slightly towards the guys that have the specialized knowledge and do nothing else for a living on that competition.
11:12 AM Mr. Blue
So... George W Bush was a cheerleader?
“Bush finished high school at Phillips Academy, a boarding school (then all-male) in Andover, Massachusetts, where he played baseball and during his senior year was the head cheerleader.”
11:18 AM Mr. Brown
Cheerleaders at an all male high school.
Gay school
11:22 AM Mr. Silver
You pronounce it "Phillipths Academy".
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
1:19 PM Mr. Silver
Well...if it wasn't dug at sea level, it's sea level now.
1:23 PM Mr. Blue
“The emperor Nero was the first to actually attempt to construct the canal, personally breaking the ground with a pickaxe and removing the first basket-load of soil in 67 AD”
That's weird… they do that today (with guys in business suits 'breaking ground')
1:24 PM Mr. Silver
"The philosopher and Roman senator Herodes Atticus is also known to have considered digging a canal in the 2nd century AD, but did not manage to get a project underway after reading Apollonius and noticing everyone else before him had dropped dead." 1:26 PM Mr. Blue
Heheh
1:30 PM Mr. Silver
"Hey Harry! Tell Titus about that canal idea."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure you do! You had all those diagrams and th-"
(Fingers in ears) "La la la la!!!"
It's true you know...
Everyone who ever worked on building that canal is dead.
1:33 PM Mr. Blue
Eerie...
1:33 PM Mr. Silver
Everyone that was even was so bold as to repair it in 1947 is dead or in dire fear for their lives right now.
Apollonius makes Nostradamus look like a carnival act, man.
2:15 PM Mr. Silver
So I ran onto "Silent Library" over lunch yesterday.
I used to watch Youtube clips of the Japanese one...funny
2:16 PM Mr. Blue
The MTV version? I don't like it. I assume the Japanese version is much weirder and better.
2:16 PM Mr. Silver
The host hurts it pretty badly for the US one.
"We need someone for the job with no personality or sense of humor. Someone kinda stone-faced and dull. Preferably half Japanese."
"Unattractive features?"
"If at all possible, yes."
"What's the job?"
"Stoically recite unfunny lines and slap bundles of money on a counter."
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
2:55 PM Mr. Blue
lol
"FAABULLOUUUTH!"
