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ucim wrote:I consider it to be canon.
ucim wrote:Or, the call of the Outside is strong. Hot day today. Good day to sit in the pool. But I played flight simulator. (I use it to keep my instrument skills sharp, or in this case, to knock some rust off of them).addams wrote:Does that mean we are moving very Fast?Spoiler:
6: Linux has a lot of free stuff. I wonder if it has an open source flight simulator. Of course it does. So I downloaded it, and though it took a bit of Tim to get used to, I'm using it now and it fits the bill. Newer versions are available; perhaps one of them will show vertical track too, but for now this is fine.Spoiler:
svenman wrote:One other thing I used to do before the dual time-grabbers called University (which has been replaced by a succession of FFSes) and the Internet entered my life: collecting and superdetailing car models in H0 (1/87) scale. In fact I still collect them, it's just the superdetailing of my acquisitions that has been put on hold indefinitely.
In the spoiler is what I regard as one of my best efforts in that field:Spoiler:
AUTOMOME wrote:YOU RETRONINJASPOILER BY THE THWAPSTICK, YOU DIE BY THE THWAPSTICK
Yes, that's the one. My distro has 3.x, but the latest seems to be 2018.x So, there must have been 2015 versions since then.taixzo wrote:I'm assuming you mean FlightGear.
addams wrote:Time has slowed way down for us.
Does that mean we are moving very Fast?
astrotter wrote:It is not particularly clear to me at this time that we are not overanalyzing this...
NetWeasel wrote:I want to put that in my sig... BUT I CAN'T!!!!
Wear a life vest and take care of yourself.SBN wrote:addams wrote:Time has slowed way down for us.
Does that mean we are moving very Fast?
Fast, and in the wrong direction, it seems. Much busyness getting ready for adventures, and making sure the WFFS can survive without me for a time.
I'll be around the Great Lakes, but not yet known which side of them.
AUTOMOME wrote:♫ HEY, I JUST PUNSAWED YOU, AND THIS IS CRAZY / BUT HERE'S MY TRANSLATEOUNG, SO ENHANCE ME MAYBE ♫
Balthasar! It is so good to stumble through your posts.balthasar_s wrote:
Cueball is trying to run so fast that the ladder will fit into the garage thanks to length contraction.
This video.addams wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsbBw1I0Rg
balthasar_s wrote:"My hobby: physics"
And with some pictures which are, as one would expect, some examples of physics.
I tried to identify some of them:
That's the famous Newton's apple. Only that he threw it so strongly that he launched it on a circular orbit.
Acetone
An electron orital, I think.
The Einstein Cross. An example of gravitational lensing.
Einstein field equations
Gravity well, with a warning sign. Also the beanie girl from t1i.
Cueball is trying to run so fast that the ladder will fit into the garage thanks to length contraction.
balthasar_s wrote:
A Feynman diagram. On diagram: elelectron collides with antielectron. The collision turns them into a photon (annihilation) and the photon then explodes back int a muon and antimuon.
Also, I thing one of the arrows has wrong direction.
Steakish video, but there's one aspect that people may find confusing... that is the view of the train going into the tunnel. Since we are viewing the situation from the side, the space/time dilitation will not happen (in our view). Remember, things "shrink" only in the direction of motion. To see the mountain (or the train) "shrink", we'd have to look at it head-on. The rear of the {train|mountain} will then appear closer than we'd otherwise expect it.addams wrote:Thanks to Numberphile I get to laugh along with our bright, creative, Poster; Balthasar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsbBw1I0Rg
(please excuse the advert. I can't make it go away.)
I climbed the ladder of Time and looked through the other end of the train. By moving quickly, I shrunk the entire railroad until I could see the sea. See? That's how I saw the boat. But not in half. Then once I caught wind of what you were doing, it was clear sailing.Sustainabilizer wrote:Jose, how did you find out in such detail what happened at the **d of my Blitz?
No, I'm not. But I used 2 powerful weapons:Sustainabilizer wrote:
(You aren't secretly a physicist, are you?)
Thanks for fixing the link. I was surprised to see this as a part of your "my hobby" because I don't remember you as a fan of string theory.(I fixed the link for you.)
So that's what it is. I was wondering what it's supposed to mean. I was also thinking of amplitude modulation.balthasar_s wrote:It's a coherent state.
balthasar_s wrote:the guy: Anyway, this whole thing.
It's all about stories.
What do you think of stories?
the guy: If the story has mobody to tell it, then is it still a story?
also, the world inside of a story, how is it different form an actual world?
it's easy for us to notice that because we see stories from outside.
but for those inside a story everything seems real and normal.
WE could be in a story and not even know it.
I wouldn't mind.
the guy: As long as it is a good one. And I'm not the villain.
Now, our world. Does it make sense to you?
Chester: I like stories. My sand not so much. It decides to flip out and crash when you talk about stories.
This world? Yes, mostly.
the guy: People find rules how everything works.
Chester: There are some things that confuse me, like why bread always lands with the butter side down if you drop it.
the guy: have you ever heard of quantum tunnelling?
Chester: I know of tunneling, but not quantum.
the guy: A strange behavior of our world that someone noticed.
When there is a really small thing. So small that you can't see it.
and it would like to move somewhere.
but it can't.
There is a thin barrier stopping it.
So it can't go through it.
the guy: and it does not.
But sometimes it just finds itself on the other side, anyway.
You know how I call things like this?
Cheating.
"Oh, well, let's move it there, nobody will notice it, it's so small."
But someone noticed it.
the guy: The world got caught cheating.
but it doesn't care.
This looks like an ideal setup.
Because big things are made of small things.
And big events are made of smaller evrnts.
You can cleverly arrange this small cheats to make something bigger happen exactly the way you want.
the guy: It looks like a way for someone to make their story go where he wants it to go.
And everything seems fine because there is too many small things too look at. You will not notice anything out of order.
What do you think of it?
Am I talking too much?
We like talking about such things here.
Thoughts like these are what made us start building this thing.
Chester: That is a fascinating way of thinking about it.
balthasar_s wrote:For lastpage decree:
I sometimes like playing the piano. My sister's piano, I don't have one. I'm not good at it at all, but I'm able to play some simpler mellodies which don't require me to do a crazy finger dance nd don't have too much sounds at once.
Recently, I wanted to play some music from a computer game that I played.
The mellodies are easy enough for me to be able to play them.
But I needed the notes.
I was not able to find the notes I needed on the internet, and I'm not able to recognise notes from hearing.
So what did I do?
I opened the audio files in audacity and made spectrograms, like this:Spoiler:
Then I could learn how to play it.
In these audio files all music was played by squarewaves which made the recognition easier - the spectrum was clean.
AUTOMOME wrote:YO WAWLPY, I HEARD YOU LIKE OTTERS SO WE PUT AN OTTER IN YOUR OTTER SO YOU CAN BLINDPOST WHILE YOU BLINDPOST
And now this:balthasar_s wrote:
That's the famous Newton's apple. Only that he threw it so strongly that he launched it on a circular orbit.
GLR reads the ott?newest xkcd comic wrote:
balthasar_s wrote:GLR reads the ott?
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.
ZoomanSP wrote:Hi pelrigg!
Hi yappo!
New TaT-ONGs!!!
The last word of the first speech might be the word for "sea" with a question "mark" (a °), based on m2722-m2727. The response is most likely "Yes."
AUTOMOME wrote:IF XE WEIGHS... THE SAME AS A TREBUCHAT... XE'S MADE OF KETCHUP... AND THEREFORE... AN OTTERCOMIC!
SilentTimer wrote:Decree:
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about ONGoing stories (including BSTA)
What is S&S productiongs?
balthasar_s wrote:What is S&S productiongs?
If this is introduced to the OTT bty Sustainabilizer and it's probably going to be about physics could it mean Science & Sustainability Productiongs? Or maybe Serious & Silly Productions?
AUTOMOME wrote:BE VEWY VEWY QUIET, I'M HUNTING TWANSWATEOUNGS
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.
Hi, Honey!lmjb1964 wrote:Ooh, lots of treeish stuff, and OTTers stopping by! I have to do some ketchup, but I just wanted to say hi to everybody. Hi, everybody!
Boy, those raptors have you wrapped around their talon! Bet they're glad to have you!addams wrote:If a feeder is empty, they send an appointed bird to scold me. [...]
They get their cold nectar and I get entertainment.
Hi June Bug! It's great to see you here too! (And to not get scolded because I have no cold nectar in my refrigerator.)lmjb1964 wrote:Hi, everybody!
ucim wrote:Storm just passed. Evidence of that big bright skycircle is behind the remaining clouds.
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.
oh, Dear!moody7277 wrote:ucim wrote:Storm just passed. Evidence of that big bright skycircle is behind the remaining clouds.
Well, last wip here, the river in back decided to be a little more seaish than it ought to be, and our whole back yard up to the first step out the back door was underwater.
moody7277 wrote:Well, last wip here, the river in back decided to be a little more seaish than it ought to be, and our whole back yard up to the first step out the back door was underwater.
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