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Post by Rodak on Feb 12, 2006 11:33:42 GMT -5
Everyone (or many ones) seems to have a thread in their forum for non gaming related stuffs.
The Final Rune, Vespuleth, and others have started discussion threads in their forums and others have started diverse things as well.
Well, here's where I'll post random stuff and such-like.
To start with, I just found an old Organic Chemistry test featuring a question on Reaction Mechanisms for which my response got highlighter marks all over it and several red question marks from my Professor, but no points off because it was completely accurate.
I thought someone may laugh at this...
I know I did.
All I really needed to say was that the pi electrons in the Benzene Ring's double bond polarize the sigma electrons in the Bromine molecule's sigma bond. Then break the covalent bond and bond with one of the Bromine atoms.
But I said:
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While handing back tests the Professor paused at my desk and did not hand mine to me. Just stared.
Naturally, I just stared back.
Someone finally asked what was up and she said "Paul likes to use... Adjectives."
Then handed it to me and moved on.
Ahhh... College.
Peace.
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Post by NASH7777 on Feb 12, 2006 13:45:01 GMT -5
Ha that's great.
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Post by elmastodon on Feb 12, 2006 23:07:03 GMT -5
That was both hilarious and educational...
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Post by Neo Samurai on Feb 13, 2006 11:17:06 GMT -5
Your name's Paul? You don't seem much like a Paul.
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Post by doyleman on Feb 13, 2006 11:25:41 GMT -5
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Post by Rodak on Feb 13, 2006 12:30:33 GMT -5
Your name's Paul? You don't seem much like a Paul. Are you kidding? I'm appalling! Besides... I put it in my "Who We Are" post a while ago, so nothing new there. And Doyle... What's wrong? I thought it was stated perfectly clearly. *rereads* Oh yeah, I see... I forgot to transcribe the sentence about cleaving the Bromine to Bromine bond Heterolytically so the free radical can form. My mistake. Sorry. But just think of the fun you can have in Organic Chemistry Class plagiarizing that! Peace.
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Post by Neo Samurai on Feb 13, 2006 12:56:38 GMT -5
And your teacher won't even think twice that you copied it from somewhere else.
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Post by NASH7777 on Feb 17, 2006 22:06:20 GMT -5
Somebody besides me who can apreciate these jokes ;-)
Two hydrogen atoms bumped into each other recently. One said: "Why do you look so sad?" The other responded: "I lost an electron." Concerned, One asked "Are you sure?" The other replied "I'm positive."
A neutron walks into a bar, sits down and asks for a drink. Finishing, the neutron asks "How much?" The bartender says, "For you, no charge."
A chemist walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, "Do you have any acetylsalicylic acid?" "You mean aspirin?" asked the pharmacist. "That's it, I can never remember that word."
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate!
Rules of the lab:
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. When you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly. Experiments must be reproduceable, they should fail the same way each time. First draw your curves, then plot your data. Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined. Always keep a record of your data. It indicates that you have been working. To do a lab really well, have your report done well in advance. If you can't get the answer in the usual manner, start at the answer and derive the question. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. Do not believe in miracles--rely on them. Team work is essential, it allows you to blame someone else. All unmarked beakers contain fast-acting, extremely toxic poisons. No experiment is a complete failure. At least it can serve as a negative example. Any delicate and expensive piece of glassware will break before any use can be made of it.
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Post by Rodak on Feb 18, 2006 2:54:29 GMT -5
OK... I hope you like Gilbert and Sullivan: The Chemist Inorganical To the Tune of "Modern Major General"
CHEMIST I am the very model of a Chemist Inorganical I will not touch Combustion nor those processes Botanical I find esters and carboxylic acids to be quite a bore So since College I have not dealt with Hydrocarbons anymore
I detest pi and sigma bonds; while counting them I almost cried, Who cares that CH2O is how one writes Formaldehyde? Of compounds found in nature I've no interest; that's not my thing
I dread each second that I think about that awful Benzene Ring
LAB ASSISTANTS He dreads each second that he thinks about that awful Benzene Ring He dreads each second that he thinks about that awful Benzene Ring He dreads each second that he thinks about that awful Benzene Ring
CHEMIST You see I'm much more interested in aspects theoretical And forming inert gas compounds via methods synthetical Since I've no interest in Life Processes or those Botanical I am the very model of a Chemist Inorganical
LAB ASSISTANTS He has no no interest in Life Processes or those Botanical He is the very model of a Chemist Inorganical
CHEMIST Orbitals, Shells, de Broglie and Hunds Rule I find Glorious While calculating frequency I'm in a state uproariuos Reporting Lab Results is a process in which I can assist At times I'm less a Chemist and More a Data Analyst
I'm interested in Heisenberg and in Nuclear Mass Defect I swing a bit t'ward Physics, Shnell's Law, how a prism can reflect I'm great at nomenclature; with complex ions I am first rate Like PtCl4-minus is Tetrachloro Platinate.
LAB ASSISTANTS Like PtCl4-minus is Tetrachloro Platinate. Like PtCl4-minus is Tetrachloro Platinate. Like PtCl4-minus is Tetrachloro Platinate.
CHEMIST At best I only dabble in the field of calorimetry I concentrate on optical coordinate symmetry I care far less for alkynes, more for energy mechanical I am the very model of a Chemist Inorganical
LAB ASSISTANTS He cares far less for alkynes, more for energy mechanical He is the very model of a Chemist Inorganical
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Post by Dungeon Warden on Feb 18, 2006 22:49:57 GMT -5
Brilliant! I love Gilbert and Sullivan and the words are a very good fit with the original. Since there is no reference, am I to assume you wrote that yourself? It's very good who ever wrote it.
Since I took three years of Chemistry, I actually understood most of the terminology (and I understood all the jokes Nash posted as well). I didn't learn any Chemistry jokes in any of my classes. The courses might have been funner if I did.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Feb 18, 2006 23:04:25 GMT -5
I thought the "Modern Major General" song was from Pirates of Penzanz? My girlfriend was the lead in that musical last year in her high school and blew everyone away with her singing.
Anyways, yes, both your post and Nash's were quite funny, and I could definitely sympathize (I dropped a Chemistry major because of such things...).
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Post by Rodak on Feb 19, 2006 4:40:00 GMT -5
DW: I heard a version of that in school.
That is my modified lyrics (I improvised what I could not remember).
Doan:
Some Historical Trivia:
William Penn's Mother's Sisters were bakers.
They sold the best Pies in Colonial Pennsylvania and when competition got intense they developed a way to make more pies faster and cheaper than anyone else.
They got their expenses down and kept their quality high.
It was such an impressive achievement that, To This Very Day, people still rave about The Pie Rates of Penn's Aunts.
(By Gilbert and Sullivan)
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Post by Jugem on Feb 19, 2006 4:44:21 GMT -5
This stuff is hilarious! Some of it I've heard before, but that doesn't mean it doesn't crack me up just as much now as it did when I first heard it.
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Post by Dungeon Warden on Feb 19, 2006 15:15:37 GMT -5
I thought the "Modern Major General" song was from Pirates of Penzanz? My girlfriend was the lead in that musical last year in her high school and blew everyone away with her singing. Psst, hey Doan. Gilbert and Sullivan is the name of the playwright/ composer team that wrote "Pirates of Penzanz" as well as several other great musicals and operas at the turn of the last century (late 1800's to early 1900). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan
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Post by Doan the Nado on Feb 19, 2006 16:42:26 GMT -5
Ahh, thanks. Guess I should've known that
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Post by Rodak on Feb 24, 2006 17:43:45 GMT -5
OK... Continuing the Modern Major General thing; I found my Animaniacs CD full of songs from that wonderful cartoon series, so I brought it to work and played it there. I forgot it had this on it: Sung by Yakko Warner I am the very model of a carton individual My animation's comical, unusual, and whimsical I'm quite adept at funny gags, comedic theory I have read From wicked puns and stupid jokes to anvils that drop on your head
I'm very good at fancy dances, I can even pirouette Then smack the villain with a fish, I know my cartoon etiquette I can make my face all mean and really give you quite a fright Then make up with flowers made of real exploding dynamite When in a jam I just yell"STOP!" and villains in their tracks are froze Then I sneak up and utter "START!" and take my hands and honk their nose
I am quite proud to be in such a hierarchal progeny From Daffy Duck to Tweety Bird to Bugs and Buster Bunny To suit my mood I can call forth a lot of different sceneries Like outer space and desert scapes and Himalayan Eateries
And from this bag here, why I can pull most anything imaginable like office desks and lava lights and Bert, who is a cannibal
You see in matters comical unusual and whimsical I am the very model of a Cartoon Individual
I like playing such things at work. Peace.
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Post by elmastodon on Feb 24, 2006 17:52:58 GMT -5
I miss the Animaniacs...
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Post by Rodak on Mar 8, 2006 6:31:41 GMT -5
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Post by Bigfoot on Mar 8, 2006 6:57:06 GMT -5
Very funny strip! That is the way most poeple are nowadays. (I have 2 sisters that think like that.)
Animaniacs is a fantastic show! I of course haven't seen it in years since it aint on CN anymore (Niether is Megas XLR! Warner Bros. just loves to cancel them good shows!)
But I still have 3 or 4 Animaniacs VHS's. I might watch one since I can't sleep right now...
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Post by Rodak on Mar 9, 2006 6:25:50 GMT -5
If the Universe has no beginning and no end, then the last cartoon is accurate as the other two!
And; Yes, they Must release Animaniacs on DVD (I recently suggested to some Anime fans who wanted a "group word" themselves that they use Animeniacs).
Here's a thought...
I am sick of hearing people in the Media talking about "Other Solar Systems!"
There are NO other Solar systems.
There can not be.
By Definition!
We have the only star named Sol.
So let 'em talk about other Star Systems or other Stellar Systems or even other Planetary Systems... But next time you hear one of 'em mention Other Solar Systems... Chastise them! Take them to task!
Especially if it's a Teacher.
Then simply tell them that you can prove there are no other Solar Systems and draw it out as long as you can in class!
Is Fun!
We'll fix the world, Dang it!
Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Jul 16, 2006 2:59:47 GMT -5
This thread (and forum!) have been too quiet!
Here's one for all you Big Bangers out there:
If The Universe is Expanding, WHAT is it expanding over?
Does not the expansion imply the existence of SOMETHING outside our own universe, else how the fluff could it be Expanding??
My Philosophy Professor hated me sometimes.
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Post by realitybites on Jul 16, 2006 3:01:07 GMT -5
no one knows.....thats one of the great mysterys.
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Post by DYRE on Jul 16, 2006 7:59:31 GMT -5
It's expanding over a field of cows... and chinchillas.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Jul 16, 2006 9:30:20 GMT -5
It's expanding over a field of cows... and chinchillas. Haha, nice answer. Seriously though, I read a book on relativity that tried to explain how 4 dimensions could be possible. I'll try to recall the analogy they used the best I can: Consider a 2-dimensional world: imagine a huge sheet of paper that little flatlanders live on. They go on about their business as usual, and to them, they have a constant, flat world. They build walls (which are effectively lines on the paper), travel about, and everything that we do, except they are in a 2-dimensional world. Now imagine that paper is wrapped around a huge sphere (something the size of our earth, or even bigger). The curve would be so gradual that to them and their instruments (which are 2D instruments, after all), they would fail to see any sort of curve in their universe. They wouldn't be able to fathom how there could be some sort of boundary or edge to their universe, and they would just have to assume that it must go on forever. Moreover, some of their top scientists are claiming that their universe is expanding. "But what could it be expanding into?" they ask. We know that the sphere their world is wrapped around is actually growing. Some more properties of this planar universe: they would only be able to observe things that are in their plane of existence. If a ball dropped through their universe, it would start as a point, grow to a circle, and then retreat back to a point. This would be a very strange phenomenon to them. Additionally, a 3D creature could drop in wherever it wanted; walls would mean nothing, and to the poor flatlanders, it would appear this fellow was teleporting. There could be multiple parallel universes (even very close together!), and they would have no way of detecting them. If they traveled far enough in one direction, they would get back to where they started (imagine how strange it would seem to us to travel really far through space and come back where we began!). Finally, if they could figure out a way to tunnel through the sphere, they could get to the opposite end of their universe markedly faster; furthermore, if they could somehow compress the sphere and tunnel through it, they could get to the opposite side almost instantly. Now let's expand this analogy to apply to our universe. It simply involves adding a single dimension, but other than that, nothing changes. It is quite possible that our world is curved around a huge 4-dimensional object (like the flatlanders, we cannot even conceive another dimension); in fact, it has been shown that gravity actually curves space*, and if space can be curved, then there is no reason that it can't be curved completely around. This would mean many strange things. Tunneling through to arrive somewhere much faster would be a possibility. A 4D creature could hop about our known world, seemingly appearing wherever it wanted, walls meaning nothing. Traveling far enough in one direction would bring us back where we started. Recall the paper-on-sphere analogy, and imagine that a hole gets made in the paper. Objects could fall into the hole and never return, actually falling into a 3D space. This could extend to a 3D world to explain black holes as being holes into a 4D world. Finally, if the 4D object that our universe is wrapped around was expanding, that would cause our universe to expand. That's a long explanation to a short question, but I think I may have proved my point. *Sceintists have measured light curving around large, heavy objects (big stars, for example), and have taken this to mean that the space around the object must be curved. To understand how a heavy object could curve space, let's return to our flat-world analogy. Any object sitting on their world would depress it slightly into the 3D sphere they are wrapped around, but a large object might actually create a depression large enough to be measured as a curve in their 2D space. If the object got dense enough, their world could have a chance of no longer supporting its weight, at which point it would actually fall through and create a hole. This analogy could serve to explain both the curvature of space in our universe, as well as giving some insight as to what black holes could be on a philosophical level.
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Post by Rodak on Jul 16, 2006 10:10:30 GMT -5
Adding imperceptible dimensions is standard.
Einstein said The Universe had 10 dimensions, because he could not handle the math for any more!
But there is still the question of Expansion.
People still refuse to accept as Scientifically Valid the point that if the Universe is expanding, there must be something outside it, like those parallel universes you mentioned.
I think the point is settled, but those dang Scientists and Philosophers think it is an insufficient argument!
They want numbers.
Bah!
According to MY dictionary :
Number : (Adjective) More Numb
Number : (Noun) That which makes Numb
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