Cancer Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 I have to remember to use this in my Astrobiology class next year L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 You would do the world a favor, perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Does your astrobiology class have field trips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Depends on the fields, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 I doubt it. We can make field trips, but not very long ones. I don't consider Tukwila far enough away to be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Snowed here this morning, a couple of times. Not coincidentally, I think, I recharged a couple of the bird feeders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 With occasional glimpses of the Dayona 500 as I channelsurf, I am utterly convinced it would be much more interesting if there was a guy just outside the parking lot lobbing occasional 60mm mortar bombs into the facility.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Another one for astrobiology, albeit at the end when I get to SETI L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 I'm still on the STI part. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 "Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life on this planet." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 22 hours ago, Cancer said: With occasional glimpses of the Dayona 500 as I channelsurf, I am utterly convinced it would be much more interesting if there was a guy just outside the parking lot lobbing occasional 60mm mortar bombs into the facility.. I used to follow NASCAR, back in the seventies when the tech wasn’t hopelessly outdated. Today it’s like watching Model Ts race. Formula E is growing pretty rapidly, but I haven’t seen more than clips of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 ((reads Wikipedia article)) No weaponry, looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Many sports do without, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Yeah, but they're lame. Might as well be figure skating or freestyle skiing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Golf has clubs, but it's still lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 I guess we're down to hockey, lacrosse, and maybe fencing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Paintball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 I'm willing to cut slack for old tech. Javelin and hammer throw are weapons. Fencing, check. Boxing and wrestling, ok. Archery, check. Hockey, check. And things where you are the missile -- ski jump, bobsled & luge, OK. All those pass the "Hey, you could do some serious damage there, let's watch this" test. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 Then figure skating ought to pass muster. A freshly-sharpened pair of skates kan really bleep just about anyone up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 I don't know how dangerous figure skating really is; I suppose if you hit your head on the ice from a height. I do know of one incident where a speed skater managed to sever his femoral artery with a skate when he crashed, however. Otherwise, I looked it up, and there have only been like four fatalities at Winter Olympic games; two in the downhill, the luger at Vancouver, and I forget the fourth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 Dear Students, I can forgive a lot of things, but misrepresentation of data is not among them. This is why I have such rigid standards for plots. When I say to draw them by hand, I mean it. When I say no smaller than half a page, I mean it. A lot of sloppy crap, as well as outright fraud, is committed by graphical presentations that do not fully represent the measurements. If you ignore the "hand-drawn" dictum, then the plots must be perfect in all other ways. Otherwise you have let your presentation be dominated by a graphic interface which was created to appease those born-with-no-forebrain business management types, i.e., simple and to hell with what the data are. And the proper attitude for what to do about people who do that involves cryogens, chippers, and bacteriological growth media. Buy the damned graph paper and a pencil. Plot the data by hand (and ALL OF IT IF THAT'S WHAT I SAID TO DO), and take at least the half page to do it. Yeah, they don't drill this skill into you like they ought to. Deal with it. I can forgive erasures and so on; you tried. Love, cryogens, and chippers, Dr. Cancer Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 Sorry, what was that part about the chippers again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 If you intentionally falsify your data, then you should be dipped in LN2 and run through a chipper, and the resulting mess used for bacteriological growth medium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 Ah, seems a fair cop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 That is the First and Great Commandment in Science: Thou shalt not misrepresent the data. (Cf. Wakefield, Fleischmann & Pons, et. al.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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