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The Flood / Can we talk about these people?
« on: April 09, 2015, 09:12:29 PM »
YouTube

(Can't embed because Cheat is a nigger, fix'd)

The subject of this thread isn't actually the video, interesting though it is. No I'd like to draw your attention to a comment by a "Faroskalin".

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Sorry to inform you guys but this thing is fake. It's a Hollywood movie set.

I know what you're thinking, "Piranha, you fucking kike, it's just a YouTube comment." Fuck you, I'm butthurt.

In the replies it was quickly rebutted w/, "Motherfucker you can see this thing from Earth", which is entirely true. However the comment was enough to get me wondering whether the "ISS Hoax" was legit. After...what, 2 minutes of Googling, it appears that people actually believe this. Not only was the moon landing a hoax but all human space flight is. All this money private enterprises risk and make is apparently just some huge scheme to get some lols on the proles.

What the shit.

http://heiwaco.tripod.com/moontravel.htm
MODSMODSMODS move this to Flood, thanks.

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The Flood / I encountered an actual 9gagger today
« on: April 06, 2015, 03:49:26 PM »
Seriously dude, you're worse than Hitler.


Spoiler
GO BACK TO CHICAGO YOU UGLY HOOK NOSED SWEDE.

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Serious / Kickstarter for research
« on: February 27, 2015, 06:35:36 PM »
Is this a thing? If not then why?

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The Flood / Is this the future of shrimp?
« on: February 27, 2015, 04:43:55 PM »
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/371889649/the-shrimp-cloud
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Benefits of the Shrimp Cloud

    >Access millions of shrimp pictures from anywhere in the world (with access to internet).
    >Shrimp Cloud safely located where shrimp boats can't go.
    >Looking at millions of shrimp pictures has similar effect to seeing Grand Canyon.
    >Excellent Value.
    >Shrimp.

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The Flood / If You Don't Read the Rules You're Gonna
« on: January 19, 2015, 11:56:12 PM »
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The Flood / Holy Shit!
« on: January 03, 2015, 12:18:25 AM »

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Serious / A Physical Theory of Life
« on: December 08, 2014, 07:45:17 PM »
I'm shit at making interesting thread titles  :-\

http://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

I'll just quote a couple of paragraphs to give a general idea.
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From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity. The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.
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England’s theory is meant to underlie, rather than replace, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, which provides a powerful description of life at the level of genes and populations. “I am certainly not saying that Darwinian ideas are wrong,” he explained. “On the contrary, I am just saying that from the perspective of the physics, you might call Darwinian evolution a special case of a more general phenomenon.”

Essentially this guy argues that not only does life not violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics(which anyone with even a cursory understanding of thermodynamics will tell you) but that it is mandated by it. Life essentially being part of a set of systems that arrange themselves to better dissipate energy. He even thinks he has a mathematical model. I'm not saying it's right or anything experimental justification is needed but I'd be lying if I said I didn't think it was an interesting take.

To me this also would imply that probability arguments against abiogenesis hold even less water than they did before, which is to say, "that bucket no longer even has a bottom", assuming it's correct of course.

Here's the paper for anyone interested.
http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/2013jcpsrep.pdf

Thoughts? You guys gonna bring the edgy comments about stupid crap?

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Serious / Weekly Math Thing?
« on: December 08, 2014, 02:58:15 PM »
I've been considering doing a weekly math post where I a present an exercise and have you guys give a solution. I'm fully aware that  there's maybe a handful of people that will even give this post a cursory glance, much less attempt to provide a solution. :P
 Why, you ask, because I'm a miserable shit with nothing better to do. That and I figure the fact that I'll have to know the answer myself will keep me sharp.

Ready? We'll start with something basic this week, geometry.

Assuming Euclidean geometry, meaning Euclid's fifth postulate(along with the other 4)holds. Euclid's fifth postulate(also known as the parallel postulate)being
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Given two straight lines A and B and a line segment C that intersects both of them forming two interior angles on one side that together are less than 2 right angles (180°/pi) then the lines A and B must eventually meet on that same side and therefor are not parallel.

Show that Playfair's axiom follows.
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Given a straight line L and any point P not on L there is a single, unique line through P that is parallel to L.



I'll do another next week provided I get at least 3 attempts or a correct solution. You guys have until next week to provide a solution.

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The Flood / Jim is feg
« on: December 01, 2014, 06:15:23 PM »
https://plug.dj/sep7

I want to chat and have my music shat on.

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The Flood / > everyone's face when
« on: November 30, 2014, 06:44:45 PM »
they realize Starwars was just George Lardass's lame attempt at ripping off Frank Herbert






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Gaming / Bought Oblivion on a whim
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:25:38 PM »
on steam
forgot how butt fucking ugly it was :-\
need mahd suggestions asap

halp me gayming


Edit: suggest any weeb mods and I'll take you out behind the barn and shoot you

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The Flood / I saw Interstellar
« on: November 08, 2014, 12:44:49 AM »
I liked it. AMA, I guess.

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The Flood / Nobody Told Me About This
« on: November 05, 2014, 08:31:59 PM »
http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/337345

Apparently there is going to be a film adaption of the The Martian. Do want.

Great book by the way, you guys should read it.

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The Flood / Ember
« on: October 22, 2014, 10:32:27 PM »
Is an pretty cool guy
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for a filthy, no good jew.

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The Flood / TEH LOOMINARTY IS WATCHING
« on: October 17, 2014, 09:31:29 PM »
Guys, they're here . . .

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