Sunday, December 31, 2017

452 - A Wall Built On Water, Escape From Snake's Ego, "And The Chuck Tingle Award For Best Rule 34 Literature Goes Inside The Butt Of...", and All North Korean Weapons Are Super

[11:51 AM] Mr. Blue:
A tariff on Mexico is extremely bad for businesses here.
I'm fine with a wall, but take it out of aid we give to Mexico, which is like a billion per year.
[11:52 AM]
Yeah...there's a problem with that wall...
They kind of forgot about this little river 
We won't ever cede it to Mexico, and they're never giving it to us.
Some dip was suggesting we'll just have to annex part of Mexico.
Would have to.
[11:55 AM] Mr. Blue:
I think most of the areas already with a wall just have the wall on our side of the river.
[11:57 AM]
Its all pointless anyway.  The "bad guys" he claims he wants to keep out with it are just digging tunnels or flying over in planes or drones anyway.
[12:01 PM] Mr. Brown:
I think he really just wants to stop the people just trying to get to America by hopping the current fence but he says publicly “the bad guys” to make it seem better.
All the rednecks spoke up saying they don't want people here illegally and he thinks a wall can stop it.
[12:02 PM]
Hard to know what he “thinks”
I assume he thinks that this is a 21st century Mexican "bad guy" 
[12:05 PM] Mr. Brown:
Or maybe he thinks a big wall means less money to watch the border, even though you have to spend a lot to make it
[12:07 PM]
Buying it, maintaining it, guarding it. The thing would cost quite a bit o' $
Wasn't it the army corps of engineers who said they could build one for billions less than projected recently?  Where'd I see that.  (looks)
[12:10 PM] Mr. Blue:
The whole thing doesn't need walled. There are mountains and desert that is virtually impassable
There are national parks that should remain pristine.
But already like 15% of it is walled. Do people think those current fences should be replaced?
Trump's proposal is too simplistic.
It should've been "We'll build a wall where we can, and use drones and tech where we can't. And monitor visa overstayers. And target employers that hire illegals."
[12:16 PM] Mr. Brown:
How about an electric fence that goes 40 ft into the ground so the only way past is flying
LOL
[12:17 PM]
(President of Mexico) "What's with the little flags?"
[12:17 PM] Mr. Brown:
Haha
[12:17 PM]
(Trump) "Invisible fencing...we'll need every Mexican to put on one of these collars."
[12:17 PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
Nah, they'll just sprint through it and then they'll be stuck on our side
[12:25 PM]
Hehe
"I tried to go back, senor."
(Trainee on the deportation bus, veteran driving)  "So how close are we to the border?"  "Just a sec..." (yelps and shrieks in a cascade from the front of the bus to the back)  "Welcome back to Mexico, folks!" 



[1:36 PM] Mr. Blue:
Escape From LA”'s biggest issues are the effects
Really terrible and cheap
Fix those and release it to DVD... It's not as good as Escape From NY still, but it's good
[1:36 PM]
I only saw it once...I can't recall anything.
OK, I recall surfing next to a convertible with Buscemi(sp) in it, and LA being where to put the pervs, or whatever. That's the whole movie for me.
[1:38 PM] Mr. Brown:
I always recall the fight in NY, in a boxing ring
[1:38 PM] Mr. Blue:
In Escape From LA it was Snake having to shoot hoops. LOL
[1:38 PM] Mr. Brown:
Yep
Showing Snake can do anything to stay alive
[1:39 PM] Mr. Blue:
Read the first 2 entries and tell me Kurt Russell didn't write the IMDB trivia section for Escape From LA
[1:40 PM]
Yup...Kurt wrote 'em
[1:41 PM] Mr. Blue:
Trivia #3:  Kurt Russell is very handsome and cool as Snake Plissken
[1:43 PM]
Trivia #4: They say Kurt is one bad Muthe - Shut yo mouth! - I'm just postin' trivia about Kurt!"
Trivia #5: We can dig it!
Trivia #6: Damn right.  Kurt Russell is a complicated man.  No one understood him but Goldie Hawn.
[1:44 PM] Mr. Brown:
# 7 Kurt had his eye surgically removed and put on ice til done filming to be as authentic as possible.
[1:48 PM] Mr. Blue:
#8: To this day the Snake Plissken outfit still fits Russell, and he likes to wear it around the house and talk in Plissken's accent to his family, who enjoy it and don't find it annoying at all.
[1:49 PM] Mr. Brown:
#9 To this day, Kurt still can't shoot that hand cannon accurately
#10 Due to difficulties in respecting the correct labialized sounds, the Italian version changed the nickname from "Snake" to "Handsome" Plissken.
[1:58 PM] Mr. Blue:
#11 "In the soviet block countries it was released as a documentary."




[8:04 AM]
And this rather hilarious...mockery of an intellectual society https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hugo-nominations-who-is-stix-hiscock/
Sort of farce I did in high school...but "dirty"
These sorts of titles show up on theworstthingsforsale.com fairly often.
[8:27 AM] Mr. Blue:
"Professor T-Rex Teaches Me Gayness"
[8:27 AM]
Hehe
I have difficulty imagining that stuff so farcical is very erotic
Unless you're really into Rule 34
[8:35 AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[8:41 AM]
(200 years from now - antique book shop) "Gasp!  A first edition of 'Busted in the Butt by My Own Butt'?  And it's signed!  How much?"
(Real title from the Worst site, if I'm recalling correctly)
Ah...it was "pounded"
I was never good at remembering titles of classic literature
[8:43 AM] Mr. Blue:
His wiki says he's schizophrenic and his son edits his writing for him to become readable books
[8:43 AM]
Nice
Link?
[8:45 AM] Mr. Blue:
In 2016, a person presented as Tingle's son Jon – and identified as such by a statement from Tingle's Twitter account – stated in a Reddit AMA session that Tingle "is an autistic savant, but also suffers from schizophrenia."[9] Jon stated that he edits his father's work for publication, and provides day-to-day care for him.
[8:47 AM]
Great titles.
Gonna have to send it home because I started laughing out loud.
Fortunately I was off the phone
[8:51 AM] Mr. Blue:
I don't understand why this Rabid Puppies group nominated this Tingle guy other than just to make fun of the other awards
[8:53 AM]
It sounded like some sort of protest of under-representation in the article I started with.
I couldn't really tell if someone originally meant it, or it was always them trolling.
[9:30 AM] Mr. Blue:
Turned Gay by the Socioeconomic Implications of Britain Leaving the European Union”
[9:32 AM]
I'm guessing that's a big seller in England
[10:19 AM] Mr. Brown:
So we have NK and ASSAD to deal with now
[10:35 AM]
Hmm
"NK'd in the Assad by a KN-15 Medium-Range Ballistic Missile"
Not quite a quality Chuck Tingle title, but...butt...



[10:58 AM] Mr. Brown:
So apparently Russia thinks aircraft carriers are still good, so they are building the biggest
[11:14 AM]
Aircraft carriers are great if you are going after people that can't stop 'em
Like NK
Read a piece on that threat from NK today. 
[11:15 AM] Mr. Brown:
Actually was more of a WTF
[11:15 AM]
Basically, even if they somehow could find it and launch a nuke at a US carrier and it didn't fail, it'd probably take long enough to get to the target that the ship would be gone.
Any lesser effort...if it ever got through the defenses (chance = nil) couldn't do enough damage to do more than stop deck activities for a while.
[11:31 AM] Mr. Blue:
NK is a joke
[11:32 AM]
(raps) "Get up! Get get - get down!  North Ko-rea is a joke in your town!"
("North Korea's a joke!")
Hadn't thought of that song in a while...
[11:32 AM] Mr. Blue:
They'll just bomb SK, they can't do anything else
They don't care about the bad PR of all their missiles falling into the ocean because their own citizens never find out
[11:38 AM]
I'm sure their missiles are 100% successful and productive...even among the engineers that watch them fail.
"It perfectly blew up on the launch pad according to our specifications."
[11:39 AM] Mr. Brown:
Well since they don't let anybody in, nobody is helping them make missiles
[11:40 AM] Mr. Blue:
"It was a precision failure"
[11:41 AM] Mr. Brown:
I still don't think the leader of the country is actually leading the country
All the dumb stuff he is always doing
He is just a face
[11:45 AM] Mr. Blue:
I doubt it...
[11:52 AM]
Oh! NK. Heheh
I actually thought Mr. Brown had changed the subject to Trump.  :-D

Saturday, December 23, 2017

451 - Handy Safety Restraints, By The Time Mr. Silver Rants About Light Speed For Two Hours It Will Feel Like Hundreds Of Years Have Passed, OUR Predictions For The Next Century, President Putin's "It", and Mr. Mustard's "Oldies To The Sweatin'"

[8:02 AM]
...
Only 5 minutes to copy and paste one joke!
Gonna be a good day
[8:10 AM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
[8:10 AM]
Exeter: Place your hands above the rails. 
[We hear the sound of static as the scientists' hands are suddenly pulled onto the rails.] 
Exeter: They're magnetized. 
Mike [as Exeter]: And if your hands were metal, that would mean something.
I liked that method of securing a person for hyperspeed travel
[8:11 AM] Mr. Blue:
"May your forehead grow like the mighty oak"
[8:12 AM]
It has the advantage of keeping your hands and feet secure, while leaving your body free to be thrashed around if there is any trouble.  Your hands and feet will arrive intact, at least.
[8:13 AM] Mr. Blue:
What if it was just their hands
They'd look like Stretch Armstrongs
[8:45 AM]
"The ship arrived badly damaged, sir."
"Casualties?"
"Everyone is dead, admiral, but...(snigger)...all hands are accounted for, sir."
(giggles) "You sick bastard."
[8:48 AM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh



[8:23 AM]
Mostly because it was wrong.
Paragraph before last...
Neither ship could see the other at all at any point...least of which side-by-side
The fellow is thinking in terms of...like... “I'm driving 25 and you zip past at 100”.
Meanwhile it's 93000 and 372000 miles per second. 
I suppose if you knew the instant they'd meet and could have this thing http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-fastest-camera-takes-44-trillion-frames-second/ pointed at the right place, you would see something when you played it back.
[8:39 AM] Mr. Blue:
Why isn't it possible to travel faster than the speed of light?
What if you had the hypothetical power to do so? You'd get up to light speed and some foreign force would just slow you down?
[8:41 AM]
According to Relativity – which I don't technically believe in for many reasons – the faster you go, the more energy it takes.  When you reach light speed, any mass requires infinite energy to propel. So not a foreign force, no.
Time
Einstein decided Time had to be relative in his thought experiments and he backed it up with math, and so we got Relativity. 
But Time isn't relative.  Time is a constant.
So the math is elegant and predictable and testable and is just as wrong as the math of the Ptolemaic model of the universe.
That model is elegant and predictable and testable and all works too, and isn't right either.
The most approachable conceptual comparison I can give - after many years of trying to find something simple – is to consider Weight versus Mass.
Weight is dependent on the gravitational forces involved. In zero gravity, I weigh the same as an aircraft carrier.
Mass is always constant no matter what the gravity is. I'm an insignificant mass compared to an aircraft carrier.
Relativity measures Time like Weight.
It proposes Time is different depending where you are observing it, how fast things are moving, etc.
Except it isn't
Time is like Mass
It is Time
Time doesn't change for anything
That's the glaringly obvious mistake.
Meaning all the rest of it – even though the math works and describes the universe – isn't done right.
That's how you get things like: "For people traveling near the speed of light, 1 year might pass, but for everyone they left behind, hundreds of years would pass!"
And that's just stupid.
It doesn't matter what people experienced in that year or what their clocks said when they finished...a year passed.
My math skills aren't good enough to do a proof for a room of physicists, but I diagrammed out why it's wrong - with little effort - using what they call “The Twin Paradox”.
Turns out if you do it correctly, when “light speed space twin” gets back to Earth, the same amount of Time has passed across the entire plane of the experiment...I even added a second simultaneous element that transitions from zero to light speed and back across the whole trip and it was still correct.
(Unfortunately I don't think I can ever post it here...too many people saw it and this is all supposed to be anonymous – Mr. Silver)
Back to light speed
It has other problems
It took a really long time just to get a plane not to fall apart at the speed of sound.
What would you make your light speed ship out of?
And, this might sound funny, but the speed of light is pretty slow
After a certain point in sci-fi/futurism speculation, it started becoming apparent that stuff is really far apart
[10:14 AM] Mr. Blue:
Time changes based on gravity, doesn't it?
[10:14 AM]
...
Wow. I know I wrote a lot over a couple hours (and filled/edited some later – Mr. S) but go back and have a look.
That's relativistic thinking, and the belief of the majority.
But the minority of us don't subscribe.
There's a lot of physicists that have alternatives, and their proofs work too.
One school says there isn't any Time at all.
A growing group thinks we're all just a hologram and the universe is 2D
When I don't indulge the belief that this is all a simulation and I stay grounded in "reality", Time is a constant.
Einstein's proposal that Time is something mutable came from thought experiments. 
Easily out-thought ones.
I'm not saying Einstein wasn't brilliant -- his work was amazing and really changed things.
It doesn't mean he was right.
[10:30 AM] Mr. Blue:
You can be brilliant but still wrong.
[10:30 AM]
Yes
There's stuff he never solved
There's both Relativity and Special Relativity because he couldn't get it to work right
He didn't believe quantum physics to start with
Even now physicists can't get them to work together
Tom S. who used to work here is brilliant – advanced math, physicist, worked with nuclear power, working on theories of particle/atomic bonding. The kind of genius I should have been without my dyscalculia.
At the same time he angrily rants how Aether Theory was dismissed by flawed science and how some of Aristotle's theories are correct but being ignored by modern science.
You just don't hear either of those claims too much among physicists.



[10:27 AM]
Reasonable stuff so far...but just getting to '23-'62
[10:31 AM] Mr. Blue:
"2021: 3D printers will do for assault rifles what Sodastream did for soft drinks."
[10:33 AM]
Heh
"2035: Crossbows, and armor made of antique steel-belted tires, will be all the rage as your clan fights over the local non-toxic water supply."
[10:37 AM] Mr. Blue:
"2043: The global elite (Excelsiites) will hunt people in giant humanoid mechas (Jaegers) for sport and population control."
"2047: Cell phones will be smaller and even more powerful."
[10:44 AM]
I like this one - "Connecticut will feed the world"
"I hope everyone likes New Haven clam pizza, because it's that or steamed hamburgers."
Good one on the cellphone, Mr Blue.  Seems farfetched though



[10:43 AM] Mr. Brown:
You guys watch the new “It” trailer?
They made it a lot scarier
Haha this video of Putin saying watch my lips NO
His face is funny
This from being asked if he was involved with tampering
[10:48 AM]
Lips say no.  Expression says "Haha!  Yep!  Whatcha gonna do?  FU"
[10:48 AM] Mr. Brown:
Like a Russian clown
NO, with eyes widening
[11:36 AM]
Never saw the original “It”
[11:40 AM] Mr. Blue:
I saw parts of it.
It's not very good, and is extremely long.
[11:40 AM]
So...like a Steven King novel
[11:41 AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[11:41 AM] Mr. Brown:
The original is not that scary.
This new one is scary looking.
[11:41 AM] Mr. Blue:
I think it'll be better as a film rather than miniseries.
[11:46 AM] Mr. Brown:
They are using the type of scares they do today in films.
[12:00 PM]
So looking back in this conversation, perhaps Putin is the Russian "It"?
Funny expressions...lying...people die all around him?
You even called him a Russian clown, Mr. Brown
Putin is viral marketing for “It” in Russia!



[2:21 PM] Mr. Brown:
Mr. Mustard is here, sweating up a storm.
[2:22 PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
What is he doing?
[2:22 PM] Mr. Brown:
Visiting. He brought in coffee.
He is telling us about how he goes to (gym chain) now
Getting the abs of steel”
OK
[2:26 PM] Mr. Blue:
He can't even walk down the aisle without having a small stroke
[2:29 PM] Mr. Brown:
He said he turned to talk to a girl on a treadmill next to him and fell off
[2:46 PM]
Abs of Mercury
[2:46 PM] Mr. Brown:
Abs of powdered sugar
[2:50 PM] Mr. Blue:
(Gym chain) is kind of a joke by itself, but considering how many people from here go there it is to be completely avoided.