Cancer Posted April 12, 2017 Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 Well, Ford is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 12, 2017 Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 Pontius Pilatus was one. Or was that proconsul? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 The Proconsul I know about is a fossil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 "All there is, is Consciousness. And the mind is merely a reflection of that Consciousness." -- Ramesh Balsekar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hmmm. Am I motivated enough to make baking powder biscuits this morning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 What is LD50 for caffeine, anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Looks to be about 150 mg/kg for humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 That's not as much as one would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 One and a half grams of caffeine is rather a lot, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Add another nine times more for the average American. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Average Americans have that many kg? I'm not surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 One hundred kilos, according to Hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 I've been meaning to go low-carb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Exercise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Add another nine times more for the average American. Dropped a decimal place. Eh, what's a power of ten between friends, anyway? Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Exercise? Who has time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Dropped a decimal place. Eh, what's a power of ten between friends, anyway? It's good enough for astronomy, eh? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Who has time? All those damn exercisers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Dropped a decimal place. Eh, what's a power of ten between friends, anyway? It's good enough for astronomy, eh? "We don't care about factors of ten as long as they aren't in the exponent." Pariah and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 If they are in the exponent, it's not even wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 No, it's just wrong enough that even astronomers are sheepish about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 A happy-go-lucky crowd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Back 40 to 50 years ago, "astrophysical accuracy" was acknowledged as being wretched. Stellar parallaxes (which are what give you distances) were especially bad. The largest one is/was about 0.75 arcseconds, with uncertainties no better than 0.10 arcseconds, and distance in pc is 1 divided by the parallax. There were a number of measured parallaxes which were five times their standard deviation -- which is one rule of thumb for what you could beleive -- except the value was negative, which is physically impossible. Such situations indicate a systematic error rather than a random one, and statistics don't help you much in that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 My 3.5-year-old discovered a pair of my d6 yesterday. After a little time with me, now he can count the pips. I've just taken the first step toward turning my son into a gamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Or a gambler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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