Cancer Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Re: The Last Word Many of them from Finns, yes. Though a number of them were from experience in the chat room where it seemed like all the Swedes' chat handles were "Life sucks". I teased them about having girlfriends named Life, about which they corrected me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Re: The Last Word A lawyer and a spectroscopist walk into a bar...stop me if you have heard this one... It took her months to learn to pronounce "spectroscopist" without stumbling over the word. Lead to... No doubt she found a loophole in the laws of Nature too. Well at least I thought it was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Re: The Last Word Many of them from Finns' date=' yes. Though a number of them were from experience in the chat room where it seemed like all the Swedes' chat handles were "Life sucks". I teased them about having girlfriends named Life, about which they corrected me.[/quote'] Humorless pratts, the lot of them. I bet they were emos from Stockholm ... ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word One, at least, was from Lund. I'd have to do some checking on the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... No proper winters down there. No wonder they think life sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word Hm, I would guess that there are no proper winters here in Seattle, either, with our average low temperature in December and Januar of +2 C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Hhurrrgh ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, that's here at sea level. You go 80 km out of town and you're up at 1 km of altitude, and it's a little cooler. Remember the nonsense that happened at the Vancouver Winter Olympics? That's just about what happens with our climate, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word Unpredictable in the extreme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word No; at least, I don't think so. It's just that I don't think of this climate as being an appropriate one for most Winter Olympic sports. It gets that way, maybe, if you go to higher altitude, but if you get a "pineapple express" ... a strong airmass from the central Pacific (on satellite pictures it looks like a stream of clouds connecting Puget Sound with Hawaii, hence the name) .. then you get temperatures in the low 50's F and lots and lots of rain, which suppresses the snow even at altitude. You can predict these things a couple of days out, but not the years in advance required by event planning, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word So they just had a bit of rotten luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word Poor luck, but it wasn't that improbable, either. You can count on at least two of those every winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word One should never just trust to luck and hope that everything works out all right in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word As Philip II of Spain learned to his everlasting regret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word He was a bit of a ponce, wasn't he. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word Well, like many other leaders, he had very little grasp of his limitations, and just how badly those would cost those following him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 Re: The Last Word ... Charles XII comes to mind. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word Relativity is about perception of time, right? I mean that ones perception changes how one perceives time? If that is the case, then if collectively humanity perceived time differently, would that not change how we all see time, and what we perceive to be the nature of time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word No, it's not about perception. Clocks moving with respect to each other must "tick" at different rates, assuming they "tick" at the same rate when you bring them to a common velocity. This is because the speed of light is finite and a constant and the same constant in all frames. This means that you cannot watch the "ticks" from clocks far away from you "as they occur". You receive the "ticks" from those clocks at a time after they were made at that clock, and the time difference is related to the distance of the clock ... which changes if the clock is moving with respect to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word Chrystal clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I didn't explain what I meant by "time difference" there. I'll work on that, but not for a couple of hours. Gotta go lecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word Incidentally, those other depressed Swedes I mentioned upthread were all at Linköping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word Never been there, but I imagine it's no worse place to live than anywhere else around this peninsula. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word In Europe, I haven't been north of Cuxhaven, so I know nothing about the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Re: The Last Word It's one of those places that exist for people to come from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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