s /Nice, in France,/Nice in France,/
Probabilities of key events are definitely damn hard to estimate.
Probabilities of key events are definitely damn hard to estimate.
Interesting thoughts!
s /Nice, in France,/Nice in France,/ Probabilities of key events are definitely damn hard to estimate. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
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Same place where they had that big religious debate in the fourth century, right?
Nope. :-) I used to think (well, more blithely assume) so, back in ~high school... Turns out Nicaea is called İznik nowadays, and definitely not in the EU. Etymological footnote: The "prefixed with εἰς, meaning 'to' or 'into'" bit (and, apparently, "let's drop the last syllable from the original name in stead") seems to be common practice with ancient Greek cities in present-day Turkey; cf Smyrna --> İzmir. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (29)
- June 10, 2021, 11:27:19 PM EDT
I want that narrated and animated
- (drook)
- (11)
- June 11, 2021, 08:39:41 AM EDT
He might be too expensive.
- (static)
- (10)
- June 15, 2021, 05:36:05 AM EDT
Tom, yes, but who's Derek? Oh, so that's Veritasium's name.
- (CRConrad)
- (9)
- June 16, 2021, 05:33:11 PM EDT
Whistler used to be better.
- (static)
- June 17, 2021, 01:29:59 AM EDT
Whistler's enunciation grinds my gears.
- (pwhysall)
- (7)
- June 17, 2021, 12:57:51 PM EDT
Then there's those who get on my tits a little bit, but I like their content anyway
- (pwhysall)
- June 17, 2021, 01:05:33 PM EDT
Ooh! Clint from LGR!
- (static)
- June 18, 2021, 06:32:15 AM EDT
Holy shit, did I just forget or totally miss that those are different guys?
- (CRConrad)
- (4)
- June 18, 2021, 09:20:58 AM EDT
Re: Holy shit, did I just forget or totally miss that those are different guys?
- (pwhysall)
- (3)
- June 18, 2021, 09:45:33 AM EDT
So what? I'm equally many subscribers on both: Just one.
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- June 18, 2021, 10:25:14 AM EDT
It's about confusing a very famous person with a not very famous person
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- June 18, 2021, 11:28:25 AM EDT
Is that even a thing; are celebrities now gods, to not even *be confused for* mere mortals?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- June 23, 2021, 04:52:42 AM EDT
Re: Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
- (pwhysall)
- (2)
- June 11, 2021, 09:52:32 AM EDT
The standard Sci-Fi solution
- (drook)
- June 11, 2021, 10:30:24 AM EDT
Yes, that's the point.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- June 11, 2021, 11:27:44 AM EDT
Nice article
- (crazy)
- (11)
- June 11, 2021, 09:55:41 AM EDT
Water bombardment sounded so implausible when I first heard it
- (drook)
- (10)
- June 11, 2021, 10:23:06 AM EDT
Same.
- (Another Scott)
- (9)
- June 12, 2021, 12:40:22 PM EDT
WTF is all this then? Sounded so to me too when I first heard -- i.e. just now.
- (CRConrad)
- (4)
- June 12, 2021, 01:12:04 PM EDT
I had that same exact feeling when I was around 8 years old
- (crazy)
- (3)
- June 12, 2021, 01:22:30 PM EDT
I've gone down rabbit holes of his stuff before
- (drook)
- (2)
- June 12, 2021, 02:12:13 PM EDT
I love his challenges
- (crazy)
- (1)
- June 12, 2021, 03:57:09 PM EDT
Yup, some of them I wish we full length and with full instrumentation
-NT
- (drook)
- June 13, 2021, 01:16:23 AM EDT
I like this theory better
- (drook)
- (3)
- June 12, 2021, 02:11:14 PM EDT
The (non-bird) dinosaurs send their regards, wishing you were right.
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- June 12, 2021, 03:08:26 PM EDT
Rare events are great at destruction, not as much for creation/accumulation
-NT
- (drook)
- (1)
- June 13, 2021, 01:18:06 AM EDT
True, didn't think of that distinction.
- (CRConrad)
- June 13, 2021, 09:30:06 AM EDT
Interesting thoughts!
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- June 11, 2021, 09:03:26 PM EDT
Same place where they had that big religious debate in the fourth century, right?
- (CRConrad)
- June 12, 2021, 09:04:33 AM EDT