Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked
Date: Tue Apr 30 02:58:05 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Here's some interesting and thoughtful stuff about measuring quanta *with the human eye*. Maybe ix, or JeffMo, or several others can dig this.
Certainly The_Interpreter should weigh in.
Link: Is it a bird, or a plane, or a single photon?
Date: Tue Apr 30 10:45:29 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Now, where did I put my beta-barium borate crystal?
Date: Fri May 10 12:35:51 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'm not sure this qualifies as "big" science news, but is pretty remarkable - if indeed true.
It begs some questions, methinks, but they seem pretty confident.
Link: Extinct? Not so fast there........
Date: Fri May 10 12:51:08 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:What I find amazing is that people spend their time coming up with this type of useless information when they could be building a better iPhone.
Date: Fri May 10 13:52:11 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well...........let's say we take a few, or a few dozen Indian elephants. Gradually move the herd north, say thru Kazakhstan, and slowly up thru Siberia, over, say, the next 500 years or so. Or maybe 2000 years. Gradually get them cold-acclimated. Then.......take a few of them off-shore to one of those Arctic islands of the north coast of Siberia. In a few more thousand years -- presto - we've got woolly mammoths again! Isn't that what the world needs most?
Date: Fri May 10 13:58:17 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Woolly mammoths?. . . . . . . .iPhones?
Woolly mammoths?. . . . . . . .iPhones?
I think the consumer has decided.
Date: Fri May 10 14:19:12 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri May 10 15:07:45 2019
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:Will TNmammothpuffins be made in China and have decent cameras?
Date: Fri May 10 15:36:28 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:While we're at it, can we also get some puffinmagic dragons?
Date: Fri May 10 16:05:46 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri May 10 17:43:56 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Don't see no "magic dragon" flavor there.
Date: Fri May 10 17:50:45 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Just add a couple Carolina Reapers.
Date: Wed Jun 5 14:58:43 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, on this thread, Sept. 5, 2017 (page 5 of this thread on my computer), I posted a story from Nate Silver's guys about fortune cookie fortunes, and their "lucky numbers". There is an update - in the news, not from 538.
First, here's the link to the original story:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fortune-cookie-math/
(See the section subheaded: "Are fortune cookie “lucky numbers” actually lucky?")
Now...............there's this........
Link: Yes, there must be something to it
Date: Mon Jun 17 15:02:51 2019
User: Klepp
Message:[ellipsis]
Link: Quick read
Date: Fri Jul 12 02:23:47 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:These folks are doing it right. If you're gonna be a criminal, by golly, be a criminal. Go for it.
Link: What, no dead body?
Date: Fri Jul 12 10:14:23 2019
User: outskirts
Message:Puts Florida Man to shame.
Date: Sat Aug 17 12:41:33 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:What is reality? Let me count the ways.......
I've been "sitting on" this about a year, but am finally deciding to share it with you all. Some of it is a bit "out there", even for me, and they certainly take some liberties/leaps (perhaps defensibly due to keeping this from being a full-length (and what is "length"?) movie). This is the kind of stuff I find myself thinking about probably a bit too much. It's WAY past simple things like quantum entanglement (as referenced in the first post's link on this page). They don't even address their viewpoint of 8 dimensions vs. the more-generally discussed 11. Etc.
Not to mention, not a word about TNmammothpuffins.
But.............WHY is the speed of light what it is? WHY is Planck's constant what it is? WHY are the gravitational and electric constants what they are???? Is our 'universe' really only "fine-tuned" because we indeed are here to observe it and it's constants? ("survivor bias") Inquiring minds (and possibly The_Inquistor) want to know.
Link: "What is Reality?" [yes, the "official film"]
Date: Sat Aug 17 12:56:52 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Janis Joplin sums it up in "Ball and Chain"
I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still crying too, man, I can't get it together. If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right you ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. well I tell you that one day man, better be your life, man. because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, and that's all you've got. You gotta call that, man. that's what it is, man. if you got it today you don't want it tomorrow, man, cause you don't need it, cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, it's all the same fucking day, man.
Date: Sat Aug 17 13:11:22 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:WOW. Now that's some serious quantum entanglement right there, because.......................................I've just been having that very song in my headbone off and on for a while. That and "Kozmic Blues". *Maybe* the explanation is that we both watched the recent PBS(?) documentary on her, which I think was a repeat. But still...........that's a remarkable entanglement.
That said............you clearly haven't had time to watch that whole video, much less interpret it all. So.......altho that's indeed a remarkable interpretation, is there more (either to come, or to existence?) Certainly one of your better interpretations of all time (even tho it's all the same _______ day). No way The_Revelator can top that (I don't think).
Date: Sun Dec 29 15:08:21 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Just a nice sports/love story................which began 43 years ago. (Or more, really, but that's where the story starts.)
BTW...........that distance has been equaled three times since then, most recently in 1988. The longest with the more-narrow 'modern' goalposts is 65 yds. - altho from the video linked below it looks as if the one from 1976 would likely have been true even with that constriction.
Link: longer than any in the NFL
Date: Tue Jan 14 19:22:31 2020
User: Klepp
Message:Living downwind can't be too bad.
Date: Thu Feb 6 13:13:17 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:This is pretty interesting. Great example of neuroplasticity - and how we lose it as we grow older.
Link: Easy as riding a bike
Date: Thu Feb 6 13:28:22 2020
User: Kaos
Message:Why wouldn't it be easy to ride hands-free?
Date: Thu Feb 6 16:08:45 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Thu Feb 6 16:35:56 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:You were about half the reason I posted it - but it's also just interesting in general. Turns out the 'how' of riding a cycle, and/or of learning how, is not at all trivial. I almost posted a treatise on just that, too. Gyroscopic effect and all that; so yes, I suspect precession is involved in some way. But the way the brain works to master that isn't as intuitive as one would think.
Date: Thu Feb 6 17:30:37 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Kaos: it would be the same without hands because it's not in how you steer apparently. It's how you balance. Just my first off impression.
Date: Thu Feb 6 17:34:02 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Good question though. And I've done a lot of hands free biking. So I imagined that.
Date: Thu Feb 6 18:59:23 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:You are correct, outskirts. I'll try to find that article again and post it. May not be real soon.
Date: Thu Feb 6 19:13:13 2020
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:Is cereal soup?
Date: Fri Feb 7 04:15:11 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, found it/them (actually). While balance is key, it's more than just that. This first link is the easiest, lay conceptualization. Link in next post will be the more critical treatment.
Link: Easy as riding/falling off a bike
Date: Fri Feb 7 04:20:38 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:A hyperlink in the above link 'entitled' "many have tried" led me to this one, which is really quite fascinating - trying to make a bicycle that cannot be ridden. Altho it's from the dark ages of approaching 50 years ago, it's still a good study. Dig in, ix.
Link: How does a bicycle *really* work?
Date: Fri Feb 7 20:45:21 2020
User: Kaos
Message:Since the picture in the link from TN's Thu Feb 6 13:13:17 2020 shows a bike with a positive "rake", it seems fairly evident that riding hands-free (assuming you could ride hands free) would be a fool-proof workaround. If you really wanted to mess with the rider, you'd reverse the rake too.
Date: Fri Feb 7 20:57:28 2020
User: Kaos
Message:OK, the last article indicates reversing the rake does not make for an URB (Un-Ridable Bicycle), ate least with normal handlebars. Interesting. This is almost up there with how can an NFL quarterback hit a receiver running a slanted pass route at 24 MPH while being chased by 300+ pound edge rushers hell bent on flattening him, or how does anyone manage to hit a major league slider?
Date: Fri Feb 7 21:52:20 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Sat Feb 8 00:36:31 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Wed Mar 18 22:40:43 2020
User: Klepp
Message:The hype is way f***ing overblown--albeit for seniors and a *very* few others at immune risk--but really--the mob rush for necessities, pathetic...
Date: Wed Mar 18 22:56:34 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Thu Mar 19 18:06:51 2020
User: mrbuck
Message:The Italians felt the same way Klepp did.
mrbuck
Date: Thu Mar 19 18:48:20 2020
User: outskirts
Message:The mob rushers are preventing a lot of us from doing our regular shopping. I have bought nothing and cancelled a planned trip to wally.
Date: Thu Mar 19 19:00:40 2020
User: firenze
Message:Most businesses, including grocery chains, employ a just-in-time inventory, in order to minimize the cost of a large warehouse inventory. Producers also respond to this, especially with dry goods. So, when there is a rush on any particular product, like TP, there is not a sufficient supply in the system to restock immediately. Producers must gear up their acquisition of raw material, their production capacity, and their distribution network. This takes time.
Date: Sat Apr 18 20:55:03 2020
User: hotnurse
Message:That was the best! Just what we all need right now to lighten up and to rethink raking. I use my leaves to mulch my hostas until after mid April.
Date: Wed May 20 14:34:01 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:"They want to take your Second Amendment away. You know that right? You'll have nobody guarding your potatoes."
---Official US Spokesperson
Date: Wed May 20 15:12:03 2020
User: firenzes_mother
Message:I don't know about his potatoes, but my melons are looking more like zucchinis, lately.
Date: Mon Jun 1 21:32:53 2020
User: ix
Message:
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