Cancer Posted June 3, 2018 Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 On May 18, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Bazza said: A group of black holes should be "a hawking of black holes". A schwarzschild of black holes is also appropriate in terms of who worked on them, and something of a pun in German. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 3, 2018 Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 33 minutes ago, Cancer said: A schwarzschild of black holes is also appropriate in terms of who worked on them, and something of a pun in German. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 A Roseanne of black holes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV” http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2018 Jury system -- peer review before science. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 4, 2018 Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 Yes ... the function is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 4, 2018 Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 Except all the jurors then ought to be expertly trained in criminology and forensics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 And reproduce the results. Not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 4, 2018 Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 No; trust me, I've had a number of discussions about this with an attorney (my wife). The function is the same, and general principle of operation, that disinterested third parties provide a superior test of a proposition. But details of operation and willingness to accept partial or even deferred answers are different. Peer review in science often dwells more on methodology rather than outcome, and doesn't usually attempt to answer a question once and for all within a specific time frame. Juries are at least supposed to do the best with the available information in a reasonable time. Peer review explicitly includes the possibility that the work in question did not (or can not, in the case of proposals rather than results reviews) answer the question at hand, or will make only incremental progress as opposed to ultimate result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Fair enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Why do we call this planet "Earth" when three-quarters is water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 What do you think yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Three-quarters of the surface is water. Of the volume .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Three-quarters of the planet's surface may be water, but the part we live on is Earth. We're all pretty much solids chauvinists in this respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 6, 2018 Report Share Posted June 6, 2018 Primates are terrestrial, sometimes arboreal, but never aquatic. Though primates are latecomers (we seem to have evolved after the Chicxulub impact cleansed the planet of dinosaurs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 Bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 My rib cage is leaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 1 hour ago, L. Marcus said: My rib cage is leaking. How awful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 Ah, it's just my coagulation value that's a bit out of whack. The Warfarin, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Wishing you better health. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 16, 2018 Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Ah, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm just tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Wishing you less tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 16, 2018 Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 But then I'd have no excuse for all these naps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Wishing you more naps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 16, 2018 Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Eat a plate fulla platelets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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