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Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Zkhirah — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:16:43 -0000

Hay

Re: Since NaNoWriMo has horrible timing…

Zkhirah — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:50:16 -0000

Is that you who said "
Also, feel free to mock me when I fail at this."
then why do you rushing on me and blocking a girl such your delicate should ask why or give clues or at least a chance ..
we r not complete creature so not to mistake so please revise me and dont let me down please
Zam Khirah

Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Lavender — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:09:27 -0000

hey i am lavender
i see ur name is also lavender
see this article would really help if u knew about the orbitals first
and u have to know about quantum numbers
this stuff is weird at first i didnt understand wat the heck this thing is talking about but when i read another article this sounds pretty easy
know how to write electron configurations in notation form then this would be easy

Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Susan — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:06:37 -0000

i have no idea wat ur saying
how did this thing help u lavender?

Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Lavender — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:05:17 -0000

thx this really helps
i was intrigued at the way u yelled at the tv
if i there i would yell at it till it bursted
thx again

Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Dfxgdxfg — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:46:17 -0000

I came here after an xkcd comic referred to this concept indirectly... seems too hard to understand so I'll pass :p Thanks for making this page for people who have more patience than I.

Re: TV Shows and Movies

Cico — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:38:34 -0000

fringe is amazing

Re: The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Lmnewland — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:41:41 -0000

You know, you're actually pretty good at explaining things in a way that dumbasses such as myself can understand them. Ever thought about being a technical writer? Good money and you get to stay in your scientific field (not to mention travel).

Re: Sci-Fi Tropes I Hate: Single Inventor

Nikki — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:57:40 -0000

Yeah. It's pretty much Madame Curie vs the world back then. Alas.

Though apparently they got women to do the math all the time. Like with missile trajectories before computers were invented.

Re: Sci-Fi Tropes I Hate: Single Inventor

panda — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:52:28 -0000

Just look at this list of everyone who discovered penicillin! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Notably was Sara Dath in 1920, who basically discovered the exact same thing but was kind of ignored by scientists because she was a lady and ladies don't science.

Re: Sci-Fi Tropes I Hate: Single Inventor

monoclelad — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:58:16 -0000

I read it, its just something I'm passonate about and can't shut up about.

There was a lot off good things in the dark ages tech wise. but when you compare it to them being having pioneered brain surgery, and were capable of erecting buildings that we still have no idea how to reproduce, we don't even understand the scientific principles that went into building them well enough. They were scratching upon the germ theory of disease! The simple fact that in the 21st century we are still finding out things that the ancient greeks already knew, which we only discovered within my lifetime. Its a giant mind fuck to try and picture.

The advances in farming are really interesting throughout that time period, and its the only time ever that defensive technology was stronger than offensive technology. I even love the architecture of the old churches. Not a fan of the fact that they were funded entirely on extortion, but I can't deny their beauty. But it was still a pretty dark time for science...

Re: Sci-Fi Tropes I Hate: Single Inventor

Nikki — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:42:17 -0000

Yeah, pretty much all that. Also, did you read all of the blog post or did you just read the first bit and skim again? Cuz you basically said everything I said except with some different examples. Also, hilariously, I was going to put in the Tesla vs Edison thing but I totally forgot.

What really strikes me hilarious is that the fact that many people have the same ideas independent of each other is something readily admitted in art and literature. Pretty much the first thing you get told when you say 'awww, dammit, someone else wrote that first' is 'well, no idea is new so write it anyway'. And, yet, these same authors look at science and go 'wow, no one else could have ever come up with this idea!' and it just... agh. Makes me rage.

Why so dumb, people, why so dumb?

And why trash on the Greeks and the Romans so much? Also, the dark ages aren't as horrible technology/development wise as everyone makes them out to be. Lots of agricultural type development during that time. It's just not as exciting as aqueducts.

Re: Sci-Fi Tropes I Hate: Single Inventor

monoclelad — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:30:26 -0000

not to mention that most inventions were finished at about the same time around the world by different people. The wright brothers are only the first successful flight by a short time period. Alexander Graham Bell didn't even invent the telephone.

We WOULD have had graphing calculators that use what we think of as normal where you don't need to rewrite formulas into a machine format to calculate years earlier if Texas Instruments weren't dumb. but they were and ended up having to Recreate technology they were previously handed for next to nothing.

The whole idea that only one person invents something flys in the face of the face of the fact that ideas tend to pop up all over the world at about the same time in the minds of people who have no contant. The one we recognize is more about luck and marketing then brain power. There are some interesting paradigms to explore like what would the world look like if our grid was D/C rather than A/C. We would have hyper efficient computers and technology because we don't have to convert A/C to D/C in all our things. but the shape of urban planning would have changed because of the limitations of transmission.

The greeks had technology that not only do we not know how they made it, we can't make it with all our fancy modern technology. for all the money we spend on speaker technology, we still can't reproduce sound as well as their old amphitheaters. I don't know where this idea that ancient cultures were dumb comes from. Before christianity brought us the dark ages humanity was pretty damn smart overall.

I keep watching this show Secrets of the Dead because its an interesting look at historical cultures, but it has this attitude of OMG how did they do anything back before computers? How did china make all those clay warriors without proper climate controls? well they just dug a hole into a mountain and what do you know, the earth is a great form of insulation. I wish the show approached ancient cultures from the perspective that they were basically as smart as us overall, but they had different tools, and unlike modern times they didn't care if it took a long time to build things. Because their tools are amazingly clever.

Re: Ultimate Life Goal

monoclelad — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:59:11 -0000

What I really want, and see as my current ultimate measure of success as an artist, is to have a studio where other artists want to hang out and create at. I see it as this whole thing with some kind of cafe/sandwich shop attached, with cool art from all the artists who had been there. Its a kinda douche-y plan on paper really, but I think I want it earnestly enough that in practice it wouldn't feel douche-y. I'll also see myself as successful when I'm rich enough to support other artists as full time artists who do their own thing. I wanna be an old school patron of the arts!

The real cost of motor homes from what I understand is the tires that need to be changed frequently and are expensive. My Aunt who lives in California has one, so she can go vacation anywhere she wants to. Its obviously still cheap compared to a house, provided you can move with the temperatures. I wouldn't mind being a renter for life if it meant I could live in walking distance of having things to do though. I still don't see how owning a house saves money, seems like everyone still is paying rent to a bank except you are the one on the hook for repairs. I guess if you live in one place long enough you own it but I don't want to be that stationary. Owning a house would be a death sentence for me, I would never leave it and would stay there forever. I would become the hermit I'm fighting hard to not become.

Your life plan is better than most people's, because most people just do the whole house, kids, marriage thing because that's whats expected of them. They go through their entire life without figuring out what they truly want for themselves. They just do all this shit and then reach retirement and are lost. Its sad.

Re: Sanctuary: Normandy

MeredithChandler73 — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:47:03 -0000

Loved this episode! Love to see a big story involving The Five. If only they could have had Tesla with them - that was probably the only thing that could have improved an already amazing episode. The cinematography, the score - seriously epic! Flirty Helen had me squeeing like mad!

I don't believe The Five were all sleeping together, but it was very obvious to me that James and Helen did get together. (I loved that the one word - "Darling" - makes such an impact.) I've never really had a John/James vibe until this episode. Whoa! It certainly makes the love triangle more interesting.

In principle, I don't object to having Will play his own grandfather (or possibly his grandfather's brother or something), but for some reason I just don't like the idea that she was following this one man's family all that time and that's how she came across Will. Are we supposed to believe that this one man was so pivotal to her life that she followed his family alone throughout the years? If she followed the families of others who had a deep impact on her life...can you imagine how many people that might be (as generations go on and families grow larger)? It just seems a little crazy. I suppose I'm the only one that thinks that way.

Re: [Sanctuary Fic] Coffee

Large Coffee Pot — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:46:36 -0000

I'll post the same information to my blog, thanks for
ideas and great article.

Re: Lost Girl: The New Buffy? Ha!

RN — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:46:03 -0000

I would disagree with the Xena > Buffy. I remember watching a few episodes of Xena back in the day and it seemed like every episode was the same. Xena & Gabrielle roll into town, slay the bad guys, save some innocent villagers, roll out of town and repeat. Didn't really see too many episodes but didn't really want to. Whereas once I started watching Buffy I couldn't stop. Buffy had more interesting season long story arcs and I found it funnier.

And technically Buffy the movie did come out before Xena.

Re: Unwatched TV

Nikki — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:23:30 -0000

It's not the movie Taken, it's a tv series with the same name. I
didn't even bother listing my unwatched movies, XP

Well, Sherlock would be the quickest one to cross off my list....

Re: Unwatched TV

monoclelad — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:21:07 -0000

Taken is a Liam Neson film, in which he has a daughter who is about to be sold to rich perverts to be raped, because apparently if you are gonna rape a lady its best to do it to a virgin. He spends most of the movie brutally murdering anyone who gets in his way, he also horribly wounds people who try to slow him down with things like laws.

as for what to watch, Sherlock. the last episode is the best episode cliffhanger and all.

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

monoclelad — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:47:53 -0000

It definitely requires more powers of perception then I have.

I mean there was a point where I could almost figure out your cycle but that was when we were chatting pretty hardcore for several hours a night. It was kind of a case of investigating a pattern and when I realized what I was doing it was too late to hit undo... I can't really do it anymore so that is good.

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

Nikki — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:08:23 -0000

In the drenched in water scenes, it's definitely a camisole for at least one of them. It's pretty obvious, as the cami is black and her shirt is white.

It's not my fault! It's AT's for telling a silly story about how she kept running to her trailer and flashing her kid's nanny! I think she was doing that weird breastfeeding mother thing where your boobs only purpose is to feed your kid and why the hell would you think that they're attractive?

And, yes, that is theoretically possible.

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

monoclelad — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:58:07 -0000

hmmm interesting. sanctuary is the next show I will marathon so I will investigate the mystery of whats under her shirt.

Dude, its super creepy you know that. there is only one level of knowledge about someone other then your boobs that is possible, and that is when you can recognize her cycle by amount of swelling in the chest. I don't even know how possible that is but i've seen people claim it...

leaky puddle jumper is a weird euphemism for a pregnant ladies breasts...

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

Nikki — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:41:15 -0000

Amanda Tapping's cheat seems to be wearing a swimsuit or a camisole underneath her blouse.

Oooo, damn, now I want to watch the McKay in the leaking puddle jumper episode where he hallucinates Sam in a bikini. Which is doubly magnificent cuz, uhhh, weeeeell... AT kinda just had her kid and was still breast feeding.

Wow, the fact that I know that is kinda really fucking creepy. It's not my fault - she said it in a Women of Stargate interview with the SGU ladies. And since one was pregnant at the time, acting whilst pregnant came up.

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

monoclelad — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:34:27 -0000

Yeah, its not really my thing, but I think tv could use to even up the fanservice a bit.

mmmm wet t-shirts. too bad that a lot of the fun of a lady in a soaking white t-shirt is stuff you can't really show on tv, so they edit it in a way so that if your lucky you maybe get to see some bra straps, even though they can show a them in just the bra so I don't get it. although sometimes they cheat, and the actress "forgets" to wear a bra and then its all this scene guest staring the actresses erect nipples. they really steal the scene, but sadly they don't get a mention in the credits. But its a lot of fun when they make their cameos :3

Re: Sanctuary: One Night

Nikki — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:52:33 -0000

It's so rare for the main fanservice character to be male, though. Though Helen does have her moments - mmm, swimming in white blouses.