Toffo wrote: Ok now I thought about it some more, and now I'm equating those things again.
This is clearly wrong, as mass (or more correctly, mass-energy) is conserved, but the entropy of a system can increase (i.e. is not conserved).
SPACKlick wrote: What is a word made up of four letters, yet is spelled with three. Although, it is written with eight letters, and then with four. Rarely, it consists of six letters but never is written with five.
Yes, yes, they are. Maybe seeing it written down made it too easy.
The only way to save the sun is to remember that it's = it is.
Removing iron from the core won't do much because the sun will never produce iron, or many other heavy elements. It's not large enough. Maybe removing its core in the future could help.
Topic: Is 'control' a common property of all life?
Re: Is 'control' a common property of all life?
Topic: Has anyone tried xkcd 941? Does this film style have a name?
Topic: Operate on the Last Number!
Re: Operate on the Last Number!
mojo12 wrote: I caught that too. I hope it's not an Americanism. I don't know why the 'real v really' issue annoys me so. And I don't get that "fake" kind of annoyed when I see it, I get real annoyed.
What annoys me is when people drive to slow. I mean real slow!
SDK wrote: How does the government benefit from carbon trading?
Whenever they talk about carbon trading, they're not talking about new t*xes. Watch my lips carefully -- talking about new t*xes is a sure way not to get re-elected.
Topic: "Programming" book for toddlers?
Re: Sun as final storage for radwaste?
I take it to the 5/7 power.
I chop the serifs off.
I think the reason it's hard to prove is that it is false.
Sabredog wrote: It's indescribably horrifying.
Seems fine to me. I'd rather go that way. A slow, agonizing death is what I'm terrified of. I'm not really afraid of death at all, but the suffering on the way there.
schapel wrote: Why should humans work to earn their living when they don't need to?
Why should the robots give the humans what they want?
Why wouldn't they? They do now.
Topic: Clarify Linux account expiration/deactivation/disabling?
Re: Clarify Linux account expiration/deactivation/disabling?
pdje wrote: So, while it is great that climatology as a science has been invented, they might want to keep quiet until they have some idea what they are actually talking about.
They've made predictions and our observations match those predictions. They've proved to me that they know what they're talking about.