I feel dirty....

[mattrock]

Okay, so after seeing several of Rev\'s posts about theologyonline.com, I decided to poke around over there for a little while and make a post or two to fish for rationality.

I caught the moral and intellectual equivalent of an old boot, a muddy tire, and snagged my line on more than one vacuous, empty skull, but not one bite from rational discourse.

Then end result: I feel soiled and gritty.

Someone tell me something intelligent ASAP. I can almost feel my IQ falling.:redface:

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by mattrock
Okay, so after seeing several of Rev\'s posts about theologyonline.com, I decided to poke around over there for a little while and make a post or two to fish for rationality.

I caught the moral and intellectual equivalent of an old boot, a muddy tire, and snagged my line on more than one vacuous, empty skull, but not one bite from rational discourse.

Then end result: I feel soiled and gritty.

Someone tell me something intelligent ASAP. I can almost feel my IQ falling.:redface:

Ok, a random trivia bit for you.....Did you know that the price of milk in the US is set by how far from Wisconsin you are? No matter where the cow actually is located? So in Hawaii, where the average between cows and people is the highest you pay the most for any dairy product.

Wait.................


That\'s not real intelligent either is it?...............


But then we\'re dealing with the government...............

Sorry! I\'ve got nothing!

 

[BarstoolProphet]

E=MC^2.

The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

The world is round.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Windows Vista is not an improvement.

Yellow and blue make green.

Plaid is not a colour. It\'s a pattern.

Lick your brush, not your palette.

Hope that helps.

 

[Hinton]

Here\'s something that someone posted a while ago that I found interesting:

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

 

[mattrock]

Originally posted by lizcam

Sorry! I\'ve got nothing!

...wait....wait I\'m getting something here:

One of the greats once said that Wisdom begins when one realizes that he knows nothing.

I think that did it for me Liz, thanks!

Just being here again feels like coming home. :beer:

Thanks to you too BProph, if Liz wasn\'t so adept at shooting from the hip you\'d have pulled me out with the vista comment

@ Hinton...I haven\'t looked yet but I plan to read it...sounds like my kind of thing.

You guys are my heroes!

 

[No Such Agency]

A neutron star is believed to consist largely of neutrons in a dense packing configuration, has a mass greater than the sun, but a radius of only 10-20 km! This gives it a density of approximately 1 000 000 000 000 kg per cubic centimetre! They are formed by the stellar core remains of a supernova, which collapses and spins very rapidly (having maintained angular momentum the way a figure skater spins faster when they pull their arms in). This stellar remnant would require at least 5x the mass of the sun to form a black hole, and anything smaller than about 2x solar mass forms a white dwarf star. So in between these, neutron stars form.

Some neutron stars send a stream of radio wave radiation from their magnetic poles. When these poles are not aligned with the axis of rotation a pulsar is observable - the beam will sweep past the observer once per rotation (as often as 700 times per second!). The \"beam\" is powered by the energy of hot gas flowing down the star\'s magnetic field and impacting the surface.

 

[mud duck]

so if I\'m paying 3.50 a gallon for milk, whats the price in say Texas or Washington ethier or?

N.U.R.B.s = Non-uniform rational B-spline.

You start out with more bones in your body then when you die.

50 billion dollars in one dollar bills wieghs more then the Titanic, and if placed end to end make the trip to the moon and back 9 times. (If I rember correcty, had to do the math once...)

 

[mattrock]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
A neutron star is believed to consist largely of neutrons in a dense packing configuration, has a mass greater than the sun, but a radius of only 10-20 km! This gives it a density of approximately 1 000 000 000 000 kg per cubic centimetre! They are formed by the stellar core remains of a supernova, which collapses and spins very rapidly (having maintained angular momentum the way a figure skater spins faster when they pull their arms in). This stellar remnant would require at least 5x the mass of the sun to form a black hole, and anything smaller than about 2x solar mass forms a white dwarf star. So in between these, neutron stars form.

Some neutron stars send a stream of radio wave radiation from their magnetic poles. When these poles are not aligned with the axis of rotation a pulsar is observable - the beam will sweep past the observer once per rotation (as often as 700 times per second!). The \"beam\" is powered by the energy of hot gas flowing down the star\'s magnetic field and impacting the surface.

Holy crap...now I feel dumb for a completely different reason. lol

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by mud duck
so if I\'m paying 3.50 a gallon for milk, whats the price in say Texas or Washington ethier or?

N.U.R.B.s = Non-uniform rational B-spline.

You start out with more bones in your body then when you die.

50 billion dollars in one dollar bills wieghs more then the Titanic, and if placed end to end make the trip to the moon and back 9 times. (If I rember correcty, had to do the math once...)

We pay $4.25 on average

 

[Swordwind]

I\'m seeing the words but they just arent going into the brain ???

 

[mattrock]

We\'re paying $3.50 in beautiful (cough cough) Houston, Texas.

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by mattrock
We\'re paying $3.50 in beautiful (cough cough) Houston, Texas.

Looks to me like MN is getting ripped off. Actually, some raw milks here are going for as much as $7.00 a gallon but I won\'t drink those because I\'m not made of money.

 

[Hinton]

Originally posted by mud duck
50 billion dollars in one dollar bills wieghs more then the Titanic, and if placed end to end make the trip to the moon and back 9 times. (If I rember correcty, had to do the math once...)

Speaking of a billion (I found this a few years ago, so it\'s probably a little out of date, but you get the idea):

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It is difficult to visualize just how many dollars there are in $1 billion. The politicians who are spending fortunes in government money make it sound as though they are dealing in smaller numbers by removing quite a few digits.

To put it in a different perspective, a billion is a thousand million.

To place it in a better perspective, a billion seconds ago, it was 1959.

Humans first learned to write 252 billion seconds ago.

A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.

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The current US deficit is just over 9 trillion dollars.

A trillion is a thousand billion.

One trillion seconds equals 1,688 years.

 

[mattrock]

Originally posted by Hinton

Originally posted by mud duck
50 billion dollars in one dollar bills wieghs more then the Titanic, and if placed end to end make the trip to the moon and back 9 times. (If I rember correcty, had to do the math once...)

Speaking of a billion (I found this a few years ago, so it\'s probably a little out of date, but you get the idea):

**********************
It is difficult to visualize just how many dollars there are in $1 billion. The politicians who are spending fortunes in government money make it sound as though they are dealing in smaller numbers by removing quite a few digits.

To put it in a different perspective, a billion is a thousand million.

To place it in a better perspective, a billion seconds ago, it was 1959.

Humans first learned to write 252 billion seconds ago.

A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.

***********

The current US deficit is just over 9 trillion dollars.

A trillion is a thousand billion.

One trillion seconds equals 1,688 years.

So you\'re saying there\'s a chance...

 

[Sukigod]

Originally posted by Hinton
Here\'s something that someone posted a while ago that I found interesting:

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

OK - I got it until the seventh dimension - then I had an aneurysm. Bah, bah, bah....

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by mattrock
Holy crap...now I feel dumb for a completely different reason. lol

Hey, I had to look up most of the details on Wikipedia. It\'s not like I have all this stuff memorized.

 

[mattrock]

Originally posted by No Such Agency

Originally posted by mattrock
Holy crap...now I feel dumb for a completely different reason. lol

Hey, I had to look up most of the details on Wikipedia. It\'s not like I have all this stuff memorized.

Oh, sheesh, I feel much better now. I thought about asking you if you did that from memory but I wasn\'t sure I really wanted the answer.

 

[Aidan K]

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet


The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Only if it is a right angled triangle...

 

[mattrock]

Originally posted by Aidan K

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet


The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Only if it is a right angled triangle...

uh-oh...thems fightin\' words.

 

[Naukhel]

Originally posted by Aidan K

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet


The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Only if it is a right angled triangle...

He wanted smart. Not rocket science.
For rocket science, read NSA\'s first post.
Sheesh. Pickin\' on the new kid...