Comment U.F.O. (Score 2) 336
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
...to learn the languages of countries that I might actually want to visit because they aren't yet censor-happy dictatorships / overflowing with toxic pollution / not biased against female children / not known for selling toxic crap overseas. I'd love to visit Japan, but you could not pay me to visit China any more than you could pay me to visit North Korea.
I have nothing against the Chinese people, but they allowed their government to get out of control, and their government cares more about keeping outside ideas out of its populace than improving health and safety and living conditions, and now their country probably un-redeemable.
"Catch a falling star, put it in your pocket..."
Falling into a gravity well pocket in space-time...
Everyone knows that to make an anti-laser, you just have to switch the polarity!
One would expect the water in a nuclear reactor to be continuously recycled; using it to provide the city with water doesn't make any sense at all.
coming soon to a theater near you.
I'm a bit OCD, and I subscribe to over 100 RSS feeds to get all my news. My biggest complaint is that it's hard to filter out the irrelevant articles from the interesting ones, because most sites only have one feed and I can't filter by tags
Replace all the other street signs in the US with all-caps. All-caps signage is slower to read, but they can be read without squinting.
Somehow I don't think the idea will go over well, though...
You must be new here.
Someone failed geography.
1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Europe
5. Asia
6. Australia
7. Antarctica
When did the HST become a manned satellite?
It's simpler to summarize it this way:
Use *fewer* for integers.
Use *less* for real numbers.
I believe in God, and I enjoyed the book, but the bit about God hiding messages in Pi was ridiculous.
If a simple function can calculate arbitrary digits of a mathematical constant, then no message deliberately hidden within that constant could be more complex than the function itself.
Also, I can see how God could manipulate a physical constant if He wanted to, but surely not a mathematical one!
And clip your keys to a belt loop on your pants.
The sad thing is, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the MythBusters abused Buster to test this.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.