Reading articles on Phoronix because I'm bored, and the comments there are some of the most butthurt I've seen in ages. SEE! People calling each other assholes for not buying the "right" hardware! SEE! Garbage post kids who post in chanspeak and wouldn't be able to give a reasonable argument in a Linux vs Windows debate if their life depended on it! SEE! Crap that I thought the Linux community got past years ago, but I guess are still problems because I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot article from a decade ago!
I want to punch them all. Or reconfigure their computers so that the only "forum" they can use is YouTube, since let's face it, they fucking deserve each other.
So, if you measure yourself, and you measure your shadow, you can learn the "shadow-self" ratio of yourself at a given time. If you measure the shadow of a building, tree, etc, at that time, you can derive the height of the building, tree, or whatever.
By looking at what height in the sky the sun is at at noon, you can tell what latitude you are at. By taking three cities in a straight line on approximately the same latitude, you can wait until the sun is directly above a well in the middle city, casting no shadows in the well. At that time, you get your friends to measure shadows in the other two cities.
Knowing your "shadow-self" ratios for given times, you can calculate the difference in time between the three cities (time zones!). Knowing that one full circumference of the earth is twenty-four hours, and knowing the distance between the cities, you can calculate the circumference of the earth!
And, with pi, you can calculate the radius of the earth.
Now, you wait for a perfect total solar eclipse, and on that day, you use your shadow-self-time ratios to figure out the time of the eclipse in several places. Also, using shadow-ratios, you figure out the height of the moon. With measurements from several places, you figure out the radius and circumference of the shadow of the moon on the earth.
The closer something is to the source of light, and the bigger it is the greater the shadow. Knowing the height of the moon and the measurements of the circle of the moon's shadow, you can figure out how big it must be to make that big of a shadow when it is your known height from the Earth's surface. You can figure out the circumference and radius of the Moon. Now you know the height, circumference, and radius of the moon; in addition to the circumference and radius of the earth. With the height of the moon, you can figure out the circumference of the moon's orbit around the earth.
Now, since the moon essentially completely blocks out the sun, except a corona of light, you know that the moon and sun have a volume-distance ratio. If the sun is has twice the radius of the moon, the sun must be twice as far away as the moon. Thirty times as big, thirty times as far away.
Know that you know the the moon's height, and the radius of the earth; you can find the distance from the moon to the center of the earth. Knowing the circumference of the moon's orbit from earlier, with Kepler's third law, you can derive the mass of the earth.
Now, you know the moon's volume and distance. The ratio of the Sun's volume to the moon's volume = 1; and the ratio of the sun's distance to the earth to the moon's distance equals 1.
By measuring the lengths of shadows at different places on the same latitude at regular intervals apart, you can derive the distance from the earth to the sun.
With that puzzle piece, you can use the Sun-moon ratio to derive the volume of the sun, and pi to derive the circumference of the Earth's orbit. Knowing that the earth makes one orbit a year, and knowing how long an orbit it, you can, by Kepler's third law, derive the mass of the sun.
By measuring shadows and keeping track of time, you can discover the mass, radius, and orbital circumference of the Earth, you can derive the mass, distance, and volume of the sun, and you can calculate the volume and distance of the moon.
No matter how much I eat, no matter how much I drink, no matter how otherwise healthy I am, I always, always am hungry, thirsty, and have a headache by the time school let's out. And of course I come home to find we don't have enough food. I hate my overly-high metabolism.
I compared my experience of some of Feldman's music to, not the experience of watching another die, but to the tension I feel around other people when mutual recognition is impossible or discouraged. For example, in America (and other places as well I suppose) our custom in public transit vehicles is to sit or stand wherever we are and stare straight ahead, no interaction of any kind. I guess one can get used to it, but for me it's often a draining experience.
It was a great salute, and one day it would make him famous. It went thus: from the standard attention pose, the saluter brought his right arm sharply out in front of him at a perfect right angle with his body. He then twirled his wrist in five circles, to symbolise the five arms of the Space Corps, then snapped his arm back, fingers rigid, to form an equilateral triangle with his forehead; he then straightened the elbow so the arm was pointing sideways from the body, from which position it was snapped smartly back down to his side.
There were also variants: the ‘Double-Rimmer’ for dress occasions, where the salute was performed with both arms simultaneously, and the ‘Half-Rimmer’, with only one arm and only three circles, for emergency situations when there wasn’t time to carry out the ‘Full-Rimmer’.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Aren't those Not US-American people wacky? They say "first floor" when they mean "second floor"! *laugh track*
This has been a Diapers Exist™ Moment with Central Avenue
'cuz that's the coolest mmo, there is no question.
...at least it was when i played it, but that was a while ago.
It's on Steam now.
You should get it so I have someone to level up my Elf Wizard with. I can solo a cleric, not so much the squishiest of all possible squishy wizards. :x
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm tempted to sign up for LiveJournal even though that site stopped being relevant before I was even active on the internet and the ever-addictive Tumblr seems to have filled its niche
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Thank you, Judas Priest
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
By looking at what height in the sky the sun is at at noon, you can tell what latitude you are at. By taking three cities in a straight line on approximately the same latitude, you can wait until the sun is directly above a well in the middle city, casting no shadows in the well. At that time, you get your friends to measure shadows in the other two cities.
Knowing your "shadow-self" ratios for given times, you can calculate the difference in time between the three cities (time zones!). Knowing that one full circumference of the earth is twenty-four hours, and knowing the distance between the cities, you can calculate the circumference of the earth!
And, with pi, you can calculate the radius of the earth.
Now, you wait for a perfect total solar eclipse, and on that day, you use your shadow-self-time ratios to figure out the time of the eclipse in several places. Also, using shadow-ratios, you figure out the height of the moon. With measurements from several places, you figure out the radius and circumference of the shadow of the moon on the earth.
The closer something is to the source of light, and the bigger it is the greater the shadow. Knowing the height of the moon and the measurements of the circle of the moon's shadow, you can figure out how big it must be to make that big of a shadow when it is your known height from the Earth's surface. You can figure out the circumference and radius of the Moon. Now you know the height, circumference, and radius of the moon; in addition to the circumference and radius of the earth. With the height of the moon, you can figure out the circumference of the moon's orbit around the earth.
Now, since the moon essentially completely blocks out the sun, except a corona of light, you know that the moon and sun have a volume-distance ratio. If the sun is has twice the radius of the moon, the sun must be twice as far away as the moon. Thirty times as big, thirty times as far away.
Know that you know the the moon's height, and the radius of the earth; you can find the distance from the moon to the center of the earth. Knowing the circumference of the moon's orbit from earlier, with Kepler's third law, you can derive the mass of the earth.
Now, you know the moon's volume and distance. The ratio of the Sun's volume to the moon's volume = 1; and the ratio of the sun's distance to the earth to the moon's distance equals 1.
By measuring the lengths of shadows at different places on the same latitude at regular intervals apart, you can derive the distance from the earth to the sun.
With that puzzle piece, you can use the Sun-moon ratio to derive the volume of the sun, and pi to derive the circumference of the Earth's orbit. Knowing that the earth makes one orbit a year, and knowing how long an orbit it, you can, by Kepler's third law, derive the mass of the sun.
By measuring shadows and keeping track of time, you can discover the mass, radius, and orbital circumference of the Earth, you can derive the mass, distance, and volume of the sun, and you can calculate the volume and distance of the moon.
Physics: Awesome.
5PM, been sleeping since 7.
still tired
$5.50 for a pack of strings? ripoff
In other news, the price of guitar strings was higher than I anticipated.
And now I'm angry.
I suck.
No I don't that's a terrible wish.
Odradek
I feel you need a hobby.
I will recommend Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Not because of any real reason
I just like saying Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
There, I said it
wait what
fuck you
how do you get friends who play D&D and I don't
that's not fair
SPACE
WANNA PLAY RUNESCAPE
It's on Steam now.
You should get it so I have someone to level up my Elf Wizard with. I can solo a cleric, not so much the squishiest of all possible squishy wizards. :x