Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 On the right-hand-side of the forum page there was a thing that showed who is online, the newest members, and the top posters. Now it just shows the newest members. i do not like this change. It lowers my already-low self-esteem. If possible can the who's online panel thing (and top posters i guess) be returned, or at least can an option be given in the user preferences to bring it back? EDIT: nevermind it magically reappeared when i posted this. Damn UBB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Yeah, I think it was just a side effect of UBB freaking out all morning long. Hopefully, it's decided to behave or the problem has been fixed or the necessary sacrifices have been made and it won't be an issue any more. Dikiyoba puts Dikiyoba's money on the "sacrifice" option. It is UBB, after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 We'll just let the topic drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Sure, why not drift? Hey, did you hear that? Did you feel that? I think we just had a close brush with an iceberg! Good thing this thread's unsinkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 You fool! Now everyone aboard this thread will die of irony. Dikiyoba heard it's a lot like drowning, but more embarrassing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Jokes about irony never get rusty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 "Blacked out again...woke up in a topic that was Tokyo drifting everywhere. The driver was a punisher: a punisher of eyes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Iron is the leading cause of supernovas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I have a sister named Nova! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Super! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Mistb0rn Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Superfluous, I think you mean. Or extraneous. Possibly redundant. Or all three, come to think of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Those are some pretty sick rhymes there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Originally Posted By: Mistb0rn Superfluous, I think you mean. Or extraneous. Possibly redundant. Or all three, come to think of it. I've been sent by the DORA department to take you into custody. Please don't try and resist arrest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 i thought it was DORAD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Mistb0rn Superfluous, I think you mean. Or extraneous. Possibly redundant. Or all three, come to think of it. I've been sent by the DORA department to take you into custody. Please don't try and resist arrest. You need to cease and desist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Or decease, if you're into portmanteaux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Mistb0rn Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius I've been sent by the DORA department to take you into custody. Please don't try and resist arrest. Irrelevant. None of my words were acronyms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Is the universe infinite? We can't say unless we can grasp the concept of infinity. Let me help you with that: "The mass of the earth is 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grams. There are 133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in Earth. Pi is 3 followed by a decimal of over 52,000,000 digits. From Zimbabwe comes a 100,000,000,000,000 dollar note. In late 2008, with that nation battered with inflation, it was worth about $1.50 in U.S. The fastest super-computer has a rate of 20,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second. You'll have to run it about a day and a half, for it to equal all the grains of sand on all the world's beaches. That's about 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's roughly the amount of stars n the visible universe. Atoms in the visible universe? That's about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000,000,000 Cubic centimeters? A mere 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Then there's the largest number ever used. Grahams numbers is a calculation of angles in a type of hypercube. If you divide the universe into the smallest units known, called plank volumes, the total of those units wouldn't get you anywhere close to Grahams number. But its still nowhere close to the ultimate ceiling, infinity." - That guy that narrated . So, is the universe infinite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 YOU CANNOT GRASP THE TRUE FORM OF GIYGAS' ATTACK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka Pi is 3 followed by an infinte string of decimal digits FYT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Where did all of this come from? Infinity can't be quantified, that's sort of the definition (at least in layman's terms) of infinity. Just take a simple intro-calc course or something, and infinity is no longer a big scary thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 Where did all of this come from? I'm kind of confused how we even got on the topic of infinity. It looks almost like somebody posted in the wrong thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 The topic of this thread is drift, hun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Neon God The topic of this thread is drift, hun. Drift != Non sequitur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Sever drift is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Quote: Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka So, is the universe infinite? The universe is not, at any one particular point in time, infinite. I believe the term used to describe it is finite unbounded, which is a fancy way to say limited, but always growing. For contemplating this, I find it's easier to imagine the universe in its infancy, shortly after the Big Bang. It was smaller, then, than it was now, and the force from the Bang has been causing it to expand larger since. The question I'm more interested in, is what shape is the universe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 It's not known whether the universe is finite or not. In the curved spacetime allowed by general relativity, it is possible (though not necessary) for the universe to be finite but unbounded. It would be like one of those video games where if you go far enough in one direction, you wrap around and come back on the other side. But it probably wouldn't really be possible to circumnavigate the universe in this way, because according to general relativity, a spatially finite universe is likely to be temporally finite. In which case it would recollapse in a 'Big Crunch' before even light had time to traverse it completely. There are conceivable scenarios where the finite universe persists forever, neither expanding nor contracting. Einstein himself worked out one of these. But his model was later shown to be unstable — it would only survive if God had tuned everything to infinite precision, just to make it so. The slightest imbalance would make it either collapse, or start expanding forever. I'm a little fuzzy on the 4D geometry, now, but I'm pretty sure I remember once working out that a spatially finite universe that expands forever is actually the same as a spatially infinite universe, just differently described. (Technically, what I'm remembering finding is that you can foliate the same spacetime with both finite and infinite spacelike hypersurfaces. But it was years ago that I looked at this, and it was never my research focus, so I might have either been wrong at the time, or remembered it wrongly.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Infinity is infinite. Ineffability is ineffable. Bob is Bob. x=x (hopefully). Sincerely, Old Thrashbarg of Lamuella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 While we're on the subject of the universe, let's talk about constellations. What...the...frick. How on Earth are you supposed to see that in the sky? Where I live, all I see at night is the moon, the north star, and airplanes. I found a book about constellations, and that's is where I got the idea from. All I saw was a bunch of scattered pictures, and the picture didn't really resemble the stars that were supposedly constellations. Word of the day: Frick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 It's even worse in Manila. Not a star to be seen. Bye bye telescope! See ya next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 That's to bad, you should definitely get out of the city and get somewhere where you can enjoy looking at the heavens! There's nothing like seeing the Milky Way in all it's splendor for the first time. It's even awesome the 23rd time you see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 i live out in the country, so in theory i can see stars as soon as i step out the door. In practice, i have to walk several hundred, because of the damned yard light we can't turn off (may it BURN in the fiery pits of HELL!)... [/gloat] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Eh, I live in Indianapolis(points to location listing for himself) which is basically suburbia personified. I still manage to get out to the middle of nowhere on occasion, it's always been worth it, no matter the reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma tehpineapple Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 all cities need planetariums, just like all starships need arboretums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: tehpineapple all cities need planetariums, just like all starships need arboretums. Heh. Very true. The night sky away from light pollution is startling the first time you see it. For me it was during my first bit of reconnaissance patrol training in the Canadian army reserve. As I recall, we were just trying to get out through our own defensive lines, and some alert but under-informed guys on our own side were hearing us, and launching paraflares every time they did. We'd drop flat as soon as we heard the 'whoosh!' of the flare launching, and lie still until it burned out. It was nothing compared to city lights, though, so even with a bit of burning magnesium floating overhead, the night sky was amazing. I made sure to lie on my back, so I could keep looking up at it. But I dutifully closed my right eye, so I could preserve night vision in it. No big loss; the stars are too far away for depth perception. (That does actually work. Each eye dark-adapts separately.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Old Thrashbarg It's even worse in Manila. I've actually been to Manila before. That's back when I called it 'Vanilla'. I also went to Samar, my mom's birthplace. When I was there, someone yelled at me "I'm sexier than you!" How jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka Originally Posted By: Old Thrashbarg It's even worse in Manila. I've actually been to Manila before. That's back when I called it 'Vanilla'. I also went to Samar, my mom's birthplace. When I was there, someone yelled at me "I'm sexier than you!" How jealous. Dear dear. How insulting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody waterplant Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 and probably untrue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 You don't know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Sage of Numenor Originally Posted By: Karoka Originally Posted By: Old Thrashbarg It's even worse in Manila. I've actually been to Manila before. That's back when I called it 'Vanilla'. I also went to Samar, my mom's birthplace. When I was there, someone yelled at me "I'm sexier than you!" How jealous. Dear dear. How insulting. Eh, on the scale of insulting things strangers yell at you, that ranks pretty low. Dikiyoba has never been impressed by a starry sky, even when Dikiyoba is out in the middle of nowhere. It just doesn't speak to Dikiyoba, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Matanbuchus Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It's the language barrier, I tell you. It tries very hard, every time. Also t Karoka, curse you. Having now spent almost an entire day watching space vids, I feel even smaller than usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I agree with Dikiyoba; I've never been able to get very excited about looking at the sky. Particularly with the unaided eyes, it just looks like dots, and even the pictures from big telescopes rarely seem all that interesting to me since they're just static pictures which rarely capture the important details visibly. I do, however, find it fascinating to image the objects and processes, which is part of why I work in (particle)astrophysics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Tracer Bullet Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 If space did speak to you, it would spoil the ineffable philosophy that will inevitably spring from wondering whether it will speak to you. Savvy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Kynjaka Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka So, is the universe infinite? We can't say yes because if it was, we would just keep going with the answer still a unknown to us forever. We can't say no because we've never even gotten close to the edge of the universe if it were the case. So the correct answer is: WHO KNOWS?! EDIT: Rowen does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 EDIT: Nevermind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Maybe the universe has something to do with Von Koch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Kynjaka Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 How did you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Living in the countryside my whole life, I've mostly gotten over the starry skies. I still enjoy going outside every once and a while and staring up at the stars. I find it very meditative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: Ralph Waldo Emerson If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! Originally Posted By: Isaac Asimov I think men would go mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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