Originally posted by Shrike
Is there an actual point to this?
Originally posted by Stryke 9You, sir, have earned my respect.
And I had to go and type in the last few chapters, I didn't know whether I was gonna hit a character limit or not. As a matter of fact, I did. What you should be seeing is the complete work, but it is obviously not.
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
You, sir, have earned my respect.
Originally posted by Shrike
Is there an actual point to this?
Originally posted by Styxx
Okay now, can anyone give me a reason not to delete this thread?
Originally posted by kasperl
no, but the dbase seems a bit better, im getting new post indicators now.
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Perhaps it has something to do with Stryke 9's "Complete text of David Copperfield" post?
Originally posted by nuclear1
Close the thread... my poor net conn can't handle such a long post...
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
You'll have to ask CP about Graham's Number,
Originally posted by Razor
Like he'll bother. :doubt:
Oh and Stryke, I see you have an ability to randomly type numbers on your keyboard. :) Good show! :yes:Spoiler:If i were an admin, I would declare this as SPAM and would slam a big nasty CLOSE icon on it. Hmm...if only I could [/B]
3^^^3 etc etc
Graham's Number
The World Champion Largets Number, listed in the latest Guinness Book of Records, is an upperbound, derived by R.L. Graham, from a problem in a part of combinatorics called Ramsey theory.
Graham's number cannot be expressed using the conventional notation of powers, and powers of powers. If all the material in the Universe were turned into pen and ink it would not be enough to write the number down.
Razor, shut the **** up. The only reason you even hang out here is because in real life someone would have popped you one right in the mouth well before now.
Originally posted by Razor
And oh...about me hanging around here...you have a problem with that?
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Razor, shut the **** up. The only reason you even hang out here is because in real life someone would have popped you one right in the mouth well before now.
Originally posted by Rampage
Hmm... I read this thing about parallel universes on Scientific American the other day and they say that 10^10^23 meters from here and you would get a parallel universe. Interesting...
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
What does the Bible have to say about parallel universes, Rampage?
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
So how come, when I went through that brief period of bashing Razor inthe hope he might bugger off, you accused me of 'being a dick' to him? In all seriousness, about a week after Shrike told me to leave Razor alone, you lot all jumped on him.
Originally posted by Rampage
Hmm... I read this thing about parallel universes on Scientific American the other day and they say that 10^10^23 meters from here and you would get a parallel universe. Interesting...
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
A few things to be said about this article:
1) It is brilliant. This man is certainly an extremely intelligent physicist.
2) Level I and Level II are based on what is actually a very speculative interpretation of inconclusive data (read carefully the second paragraph of the "What Does Occam Say?" subsection at the end). This means that they have the possibility of being true, but such talk is unwise at so early a stage: more conclusive evidence is needed before a valid discussion along such lines can even begin.
3) There is a very urgent need to define what exactly the word "real" means in this discussion. In the case of Level III parallel universes, if we are able to interact with another of them, then that other is actually not "other" at all, but part of this actualised possibility. But to call parallel universes which are totally inaccessible to us "real" is to strip the word of any meaning whatsoever in this context. Level III universes cannot, from our perspective (Tegmark uses the term "frog's persepctive"), be called "real." They are simply alternate possibilities that might have been and aren't.
4) This leads into the greatest problem in the article: the assumption that we can at any point leave the "frog's persepctive" and gain the "bird's perspective." Even while doing our pure mathematics, we are still doing them from within the situation of our own particular possibility. We cannot escape it. The Level IV discussion, therefore is based on a deeply, deeply flawed assumption and cannot be trusted.
So as I said, this man is a brilliant physicist, and on the bulk of what he has to say I can only read and learn in silence. I am in no position to correct him on that, and wouldn't presume to (although I will wait for more solid evidence before buying into the idea that the universe is uniformly filled with matter). But with this usage of the word "real" and the problem of a "bird's perspective" he has wandered out of physics and into philosophical territory, and I must point out the errors.
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Must..resist..urge..to...post..
:D
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ah, what the hell. Apparently, that's the highest known prime number. 2^859433-1. Don't ask me why you couldn't just add 2 to that or something, but I thought it'd be an interesting challenge.
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
We feeeeeed, soooonn.
And so on.
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
stop it! You're making want to play Cataclysm!
"Something's loose, it's killing us!
Originally posted by Su-tehp
I'm on the second-to-last mission of the original Homeworld (I already killed the Rockship and now I'm just marshalling my fleet to get ready for the final mission); I still need to find a copy of Catyclysm for sale somewhere (wish me luck in finding it...). :nervous:
Originally posted by Sandwich
I never finished HW - I kinda got stuck on that one level where there's that huge sphere of ion frigates, and you have to do something at the center... I think I recall (it was a good 3 years ago at least) that I tried to draw sections away bit by bit, then swarm them with bombers/fighters. But I think I forgot to save and at one point the whole sphere came charging after me - I lost and never felt like replaying the whole long process again. :-/
Maybe I will someday... ;)
Originally posted by Sandwich
Homeworld? Homeworld?! *cracks whip* Git back to DatDB, slave!
:nervous: Uhm....... yeah.
Originally posted by Stryke 9
So, uh, you're the one with no modules getting trashed, right?:p