Author Topic: W-H-I-Y-L - boom shake-shake shake the-room. (Read 3814721 times)

Firstdragon34 · **Reply #17960 on:** November 02, 2011, 10:31:36 pm

Quote from: Sololop on November 02, 2011, 10:24:52 pm

"Discreet" Math?!?! "Boolean" algebra!?!? Hell I barely made it through regular math as it was. Oh, wait, I failed that in HS. Damn, you guys are smart.

I'm with you, bro!

Pred the Penguin · **Reply #17961 on:** November 02, 2011, 10:46:15 pm

I failing grade on more than half of the math tests I took in high school, but I still didn't get a failing grade in math, go figure. But then again a large portion of students at my high school go through the exact same thing and with classes, too. Yay for education...

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #17962 on:** November 02, 2011, 11:27:32 pm

horray for "every child left behind"

Sololop · **Reply #17963 on:** November 02, 2011, 11:40:50 pm

Hey, almost 900 pages.

Dilmah G · **Reply #17964 on:** November 03, 2011, 04:01:10 am

Quote from: CommanderDJ on November 02, 2011, 12:03:06 am

Don't let it get in the way of your exams. Put it out of your head until you're done (I know that's easier said than done, but you don't want to screw up Year 12). Everything will still be there, ready to be dealt with after your exams are over. You don't want to have to repeat the year because of this (or even end up with a final score that doesn't reflect your ability).

T'is indeed but I managed to do it/work some of that **** out for this morning's English exam. English is my best subject and my teacher said that I stood a good chance of getting 100% for at least one of the four essays, but that **** beforehand really ****ed my study over and I don't think I did so well this morning. Oh well, time'll tell, but I'm concerned as to how/if I'm going to get into UWA at this rate.

deathfun · **Reply #17965 on:** November 03, 2011, 04:06:32 am

Quote from: Klaustrophobia on November 02, 2011, 11:27:32 pm

horray for "every child left behind"

I looooooove being Canadian

BlueFlames · **Reply #17966 on:** November 03, 2011, 06:44:38 am

I just saw a pre-roll commercial on a Blip.tv video, where GM introduced a new Cheverolet model by shoving it out the back of a plane. My own opinion of GM's vehicles notwithstanding, I'm not sure that, "Hey, even we want to throw this car out the back of a plane," is the best message to send to the people you're trying to convince to buy your product. Just a thought.

Pred the Penguin · **Reply #17967 on:** November 03, 2011, 08:44:36 am

Yeah... that commercial is pretty ridiculous. Why did they throw a car out of a plane anyway? Special delivery or are they trying prove some vague point...

BlueFlames · **Reply #17968 on:** November 03, 2011, 10:18:03 am

Quote from: Pred the Penguin on November 03, 2011, 08:44:36 am

Why did they throw a car out of a plane anyway?

My guess is that GM is trying to appeal to the same mindset that made SUV's get more numerous, more bloated, and less capable from the late 1990's through last decade. Only, since the US version of the Sonic is just an Aveo with a fresh coat of paint, the most extreme capability it has that can be marketed is that it's affected by gravity. The more you think about it, the more pathetic a scene the ad becomes.

Klaustrophobia · **Reply #17969 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:06:54 am

2 days after ordering all my hardware, i get an email with a **** ton of coupon codes that could have saved me like $40

LHN91 · **Reply #17970 on:** November 03, 2011, 01:52:11 pm

Last exam of the gauntlet in about an hour. And actually, I don't feel to badly about it any more. Partially due to tiredness, yes; but also because it turns out that 2/3 of the midterm is stuff I'm also covering in Stats atm, and that I have a decent grasp on. In the end, as long as I pass, I don't care. My other CS marks, for the most part, are fairly good.

FireSpawn · **Reply #17971 on:** November 03, 2011, 06:41:17 pm

Hating almost everything in existence a lot more than usual today.

watsisname · **Reply #17972 on:** November 03, 2011, 09:04:32 pm

Went downtown to attend a lecture by this guy about his 'discovery of dark energy' and the accelerating expansion of the universe. Very interesting stuff, and a damn good speaker.

Firstdragon34 · **Reply #17973 on:** November 03, 2011, 10:52:40 pm

Astronomy can be very intense and mind melting as well. Like the fact that Saturn's huge moon Titan has a thick atmosphere that is waiting to be made into small earth!

How awesome is that?

Scotty · **Reply #17974 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:12:31 pm

You're about to be Astronomiya'd like a mofo.

Dark Hunter · **Reply #17975 on:** November 03, 2011, 11:31:34 pm

I've been staring at code on computer screens too long, and can no longer do simle maths in my head...

Also my head hurts.

I'm done. More coding tomorrow.

watsisname · **Reply #17976 on:** November 04, 2011, 12:09:42 am

Quote from: Firstdragon34 on November 03, 2011, 10:52:40 pm

Astronomy can be very intense and mind melting as well. Like the fact that Saturn's huge moon Titan has a thick atmosphere that is waiting to be made into small earth!

How awesome is that?

Ugh, please don't make me do the math on this -- I've just recently been doing planetary science problems like this and -- goddammit I'm going to do the math. D:

Solar flux at 1AU is S_E = 1.37x10⁶ erg*s^-1*cm^-2.
Saturn, and Titan with it, have an average heliocentric orbital distance of roughly 9.5AU. So by inverse square law, the solar flux for Titan is S_E/9.5² = 1.85x10⁴. Call that value S_T, for solar flux at Titan.

Equilibrium temperature for a spherical blackbody (ε=1) with bond albedo A_B (Earth's Bond Albedo is ~0.31, let's say if we made Titan earthlike it would be the same), is given by

T_e = [(1-A_B)S_T / 4εσ ]^1/4

Plug in the values, we get an equilibrium temperature of 87 Kelvin. (That's -303°F)!

(Compare that with the actual surface temperature, according to wikipedia, of 93.7K -- not a bad calculation!)

So yeah, good luck making Titan earthlike.

FireSpawn · **Reply #17977 on:** November 04, 2011, 12:36:25 am

Stress induced insomnia, backed by mountain dew energy drinks, is one hell of a ***** when you start to crash from the fatigue. It's 5:35am and I give myself about five mins until I pass out for the next 10 hours.

deathfun · **Reply #17978 on:** November 04, 2011, 01:18:23 am

My fingers feel like each have been jammed
But they aren't actually

Dishwashing in kitchen, always a fun, pleasurable job

Androgeos Exeunt · **Reply #17979 on:** November 04, 2011, 07:06:22 am

Quote from: deathfun on November 04, 2011, 01:18:23 am

Dishwashing in kitchen, always a fun, pleasurable job

I like it too.

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