xkcd

speising

far to the left: Chainsaw.

speising

You could actually make a plane change from equatorial to polar Earth orbit via a lunar swing-by maneuvre for less delta-v than doing it directly. (~4 km/s vs. ~11 km/s)

speising

more to the point, it means nothig if it doesn't help you create new knowledge. A physical theory must be able to predict the outcome of new experiments to be of any value. I fail to see any predictive (or other) value in any mathematical construction of nature's constants (or rather, approximations...

speising

zjxs wrote:Mixing Martian into English is an even worse idea.

I don't grok that.

speising

If the roles in this strip were reversed, it would probably be called "mansplaining". Cueball only expresses a sentiment, he doesn't ask for an explanation.

speising

Directed by Barney Stinson?

speising

PTHirth wrote:The graph is fascinating and in FAR more detail than anything I have encountered before. What is the source of such accurate data?

the sources are mentioned on the side of the graphic.

speising

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wifi_vs_cellular.png that just seems like selection bias to me. if you're at home and your wifi funks out, you can just quickly switch to mobile. it's improbable that that is out of service at the same time. But if you're somewhere outside and your mobile connection fai...

speising

She includes how old the individual will be and/or which anniversary of what event. They are religiously transferred to the next year's calendar in the November time frame, with the numbers advanced appropriately (though deaths and divorces are not moved). mindless repetitive tasks like this are ex...

speising

wow, that's pretty steep. i pay about $40 for 35MBs plus TV and phone which is the smallest package of my cable company.

speising

Ultima Thule (at a distance of 6 lh) is the first known contact binary (aka. snowman) https://youtu.be/PpxTUCE1drQ

speising

Being the bored me, I counted all the eve's. It's a total 364 of them. Feel free to review it, but given the fact that I counted it again to check myself you probably don't have to. That makes me wonder: why is the second day of last year's Christmas his favorite (ignoring the 25% chance of it bein...

speising

i'm in no way arguing for armed teachers. if i had kids i wouldn't let them go to a school in which were roaming armed persons, uniformed or not. i was merely pointing out that there are in fact justifications to arm teachers instead of hiring armed personnel, whether the idea is a good one overall ...

speising

that's not really true. if you arm teachers you have an armed person, ready to shoot kids, in every classroom. a single police officer is much less likely to be in the right place should the need arise. (and if i were a student on a killing spree, i'd make sure to start with them) also, a police off...

speising

You could call them coincidences but thats just another name for correlations.. Oh me yarm NO! That is precisely , not science. (ok why is "oh em gee", literally the 3-letter acronym, censored with "oh me yarm" which sounds like gibberish? I find my words being replaced with gib...

speising

the title is highly misleading. you're not deriving anything.

speising

Soupspoon wrote:That would be a historic development!

leave that problem to future generations.

speising

enough for what? hold it up in the air, taking care it can't reach any part of you with teeth or claws by any wiggling, until it calms down somehow? even the scrotum yanking, if you read the post, was only a temprary distraction. the woman could tie him down because he was concentrated on the man, n...

speising

why should anyone build a robot to replace programmers? so they can handle mouse and keyboard?

speising

a single bite could be quite serious if it's from a real dog, not a house rat. and dogs have additionally four nasty claws whith which they can bother you while you try to get a hold on their neck. i don't think it's as clear as that. we don't have any natural weapon which could pierce a wolf's ski...

speising

a single bite could be quite serious if it's from a real dog, not a house rat. and dogs have additionally four nasty claws whith which they can bother you while you try to get a hold on their neck. i don't think it's as clear as that. we don't have any natural weapon which could pierce a wolf's skin...

speising

Descendants of your cousins, no. However, I would think that if you died leaving behind underage children who were financially reliant upon you for support, you would want to provide for them till they were finished with school. That is why I would support a fifty year term (from date of publicatio...

speising

Tatsächlich ist es eines der wenigen englischen wörter, die so ausgesprchen werden, wie man sie schreibt. :p

speising

What David are you talking about?

speising

i just read a story by Stephen Baxter playing in an alternative reality where apollo 11 was (allegedly) sabotaged by the russians and this led to a massive space war program with daily shuttle flights by 84 and the end of the world as we know it (by blowing up part of the moon as a demonstration of ...

speising

AI is a somewhat misleading term here. I don't mean anything philosophical about intelligence or whatever. Just that "ai", at the moment, is mostly used for large scale machine-lesrning algorithms. Algorithms that take a dataset, identify patterns in that dataset, and use those patterns t...

speising

ObsessoMom wrote:
ijuin wrote:I’m still trying to wrap my mind around Walmart selling sex toys.

Put on a happy face...

wow. are they selling the drugs the people in the ad oviously took too?

speising

Law requires temporary contracts to become unlimited after some years of chained temporary contracts? Don't prolong the contract, hire a new worker. Reminds me of the law we had here a while ago, that limited rent contracts automatically become unlimited when the renter lives in that apartment for ...

speising

somitomi wrote:Okay, I do have to ask: what the devil is "4H"?

Ha! I know that, there was a Simpsons episode:

4-H wrote:4-H is a club for children. Its focus is farming and its headquarters is at the Cheddarbarrel Farm and 4-H Center.

(i just assume the real one is similar)

speising

it seems the 50£ hold a similar spot in the ecosystem as the 500€. the 200€ note, however, really is a bit of a unicorn. i don't know if i've ever seen one, as the ATMs only give up to 100's and for large cash transactions, 500's would be more adequate.

speising

to turn this argument around, why is this phrase even in the amendment text? are there people inside the US which aren't subject to it's jurisdiction? and if so, how are they currently regarded under this law?

speising

RIP Kepler Space Telescope

speising

the reasoning capability needed to think through all of these consequences would of course be staggering. it's quite absurd to limit beings with a brain the size of a planet with such simple laws.

speising

the translator apparently likes flowery language.

speising

J%r wrote:I have a meter that measures a character in Star Trek: DS9. Or was it overdoses? I forgot, I left it in the car.

no, that's for measuring how much you stink.

speising

with some fairly catastrophic environmental side effects.

speising

Link wrote:Looks like bioreactor-grown meat is slowly but surely becoming a thing!

well chicken nuggets are a very low bar to clear, considering that they aren't very chickeny in the first place.

speising

if course, the thing would also have to have a diameter of billions of ly. that means that fusion would start, and burn out, in the center (or maybe in multiple places, if it's not completely isotropic) while the collapse is still going on in the outer regions.

speising

or, in other words, the lifetime of a star is a function of its mass: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Representative_lifetimes_of_stars_as_a_function_of_their_masses.svg/640px-Representative_lifetimes_of_stars_as_a_function_of_their_masses.svg.png a massive object wouldn't ...

speising

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

Search found 2311 matches