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We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
Oh no.... (Score:3, Funny)
Light Speed limits... (Score:2, Funny)
Quantum voodoo (Score:5, Funny)
Coincidence...? (Score:5, Funny)
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
I just thought of the funniest joke (Score:2, Funny)
IN SOVIET RUSSIA,
mc**2 = e
Heheee. +5 FUnny,.
Re: Re:Of course not.... (Score:3, Funny)
Will your bullets have momentum or should I quiver in fear at their rest energy?
Re:It's been "disproven" for quite a while now... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't worry about it too much; everyone expects the civil engineering students to be stupid.
I hate to say this... (Score:4, Funny)
But why do you think that your brain is capable of understanding the basic forces of the universe?
Your brain evolved to keep you away from things that want to eat you, find things you want to eat, and basically preserve you until you could insure that you have spread your genes. Last time I checked, understanding the basic rules of reality wasn't needed to ensure that you live long enough to breed.
Hell, we'er just lucky that the same math that works on our scale also seems to work when we look at how the universe works.
Even now, logic has begun to fail us when we ask the deep questions. Consider this: What made this reality? Oh sure, I know the theories that suggest that this universe might have been created by another universe, and at this level, cause and effect goes out the window, leading to the possibility that this universe can create the ancestor of the universe that created it, but what allowed this gestalt to exist?
There's an Heinleinian phrase that occasionally gets said on slashdot: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). Too bad that its wrong, since the universe is the biggest example of a free lunch in action.
[ Don't feel so bad - my brain also seems hellbent to make me survive long enough to ensure my genes are passed on. Damn thing is that my body agrees with it and is planning to expire in half a century in order to free up resources for my future offspring. Its a comspiracy, I tell you... ]
Just my $.02
What is C relative to? (Score:4, Funny)
Bummer (Score:3, Funny)
E=mc^1.99999923850927642081748272
is just not quite as catchy. Harder to fit on T-shirts also.
Re:You misunderstand completely (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Coincidence...? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:so if two objects are traveling toward the same (Score:3, Funny)
No, I doubt the geeks had any trouble with it. It was a perfectly logical system. It was the non-geeks who didn't get it.
2+2=0 (mod 4 arithmetic)
2+2=1 (mod 3 arithmetic)
2+2=1.9999999 (relativity)
2+2=2 (bitwise OR)
2+2=3 (karma cap at 3).
2+2=5 (2 is really 2.4 rounded down and 5 is really 4.8 rounded up)
2+2=10 (base 3 arithmetic)
2+2=22 (string concatenation)
2+2=44 (sum of ascii characters, hexidecimal)
2+2=100 (sum of ascii characters, decimal)
Geeks "get it". Non-geeks don't understand anything other than 2+2=4.
Cross refference this post. [slashdot.org]
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