Old Man Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 Do the Fremen actually arrest people? I got the sense that Fremen life was so hard they'd just off you and reclaim the 35 liters of water in your body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 11, 2019 Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 In the UK, 9 ale or beer gallons (=41.59 liters) is a firkin. Obviously Fremen brewers messed with the units for their own nefarious reasons, since a Fremen firkin (one offworlder corpse) is about 6/7 of a British firkin, which almost as obnoxious as when all the ice cream containers morphed from half gallons to 1.75 quarts, which was a frickin' fiendish flim-flam. I highly recommend reading Doon, a satire that replaced the spice that turned your eyes blue, with beer that makes your eyes red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 18, 2019 Report Share Posted January 18, 2019 There are only four stable nuclei with both odd atomic number Z and odd neutron number N. The lightest is deuterium. The heaviest is nitrogen-14. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 6, 2019 Report Share Posted February 6, 2019 ... xkcd.com/2028 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 42! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 ...if you're only concerned with one significant digit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 Biologists have taught both chimpanzees and parrots to grasp the concept of zero - something human children can rarely understand until the age of four. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 This is a comment about the teaching, not the student. Biologists have stronger motivations than mathophobe parents. And 1.013E+5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Logan.1179 said: Biologists have taught both chimpanzees and parrots to grasp the concept of zero - something human children can rarely understand until the age of four. My five-year-old understands the concept of zero. That's how many moons Mercury and Venus have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 3 hours ago, Pariah said: My five-year-old understands the concept of zero. That's how many moons Mercury and Venus have. Ask him how many moons planet Pluto has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 The dwarf planet Pluto has five moons. He might even know their names by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 8, 2019 Report Share Posted February 8, 2019 By "dwarf" I assume you mean that if planet Pluto was compared to the size of planet Jupiter then it would be dwarfed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 9 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 quality > quantity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 21, 2019 Report Share Posted February 21, 2019 div curl A = 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 On February 7, 2019 at 6:58 AM, Pariah said: 42! ... is approximately 1.405e+51. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 I have to put this higher on my list of things to do .... Form 1040 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 There aren't any others any more, are there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 Dunno. Haven't looked the ohter forms in years. I suppose I should, so I can coach my kids on how to do it when they have to start filing by themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 As usual I'm still waiting for my 1099s into March. And I am really apprehensive about my refund this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 25, 2019 Report Share Posted March 25, 2019 N = 25, 150 possible, median 76, mean 74.6, high score 112, low score 35. Screams: uncounted but within experienced norms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 25, 2019 Report Share Posted March 25, 2019 Refund was better than I feared, though hardly enough to make a real difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 20, 2019 Report Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 is 1. 1 is not 1. That is why 1 is 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 15, 2019 Report Share Posted May 15, 2019 53 planetary mass objects detected by gravitational lensing observations as of the end of 2017. More than I had guessed, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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