"Even uncooler than editing Wikipedia..." Options

[Daniel Brandt]

Nicholas Carr's blog, 2010-02-04:

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Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet. It's even uncooler than editing Wikipedia articles or having a Second Life avatar.
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[Milton Roe]

Nicholas Carr's blog, 2010-02-04:

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Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet. It's even uncooler than editing Wikipedia articles or having a Second Life avatar.
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Article carefully does not mention what IS supposed to be cool. And if the answer is "tweeting" (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/sick.gif) I just have to leave the room.

[Rhindle]

Nicholas Carr's blog, 2010-02-04:

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Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet. It's even uncooler than editing Wikipedia articles or having a Second Life avatar.
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Article carefully does not mention what IS supposed to be cool. And if the answer is "tweeting" (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/sick.gif) I just have to leave the room.

It doesn't look that way, but it seems like what's "cool" is being defined by what teens and twentysomethings do...

Teens are not using Twitter in large numbers. While teens are bigger users of almost all other online applications, Twitter is an exception

[Trick cyclist]

it seems like what's "cool" is being defined by what teens and twentysomethings do...

Well yes how else do you define cool? By what my grandfather is doing back in Åbenrå?

Twinkle users look like rocket scientists.

Rocket scientists? In Denmark 12 year olds are taught to make rockets in school. We used baking powder, vinegar and the tubes from toilet rolls. Now that is cool. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)

[Milton Roe]

it seems like what's "cool" is being defined by what teens and twentysomethings do...

Well yes how else do you define cool? By what my grandfather is doing back in Åbenrå?

Twinkle users look like rocket scientists.

Rocket scientists? In Denmark 12 year olds are taught to make rockets in school. We used baking powder, vinegar and the tubes from toilet rolls. Now that is cool. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)

What is your subspecialty in astonomy? Do you think the probabability of getting a radio signal indicating intelligent life, is higher or lower, from ellipitical galaxies? And why. Is carbon a metal? Discuss what Z-1 means to you personally.

[Trick cyclist]

What is your subspecialty in astonomy? Do you think the probabability of getting a radio signal indicating intelligent life, is higher or lower, from ellipitical galaxies? And why. Is carbon a metal? Discuss what Z-1 means to you personally.

Astonishing. No relevance to my post and an obvious attempt to derail the thread. However as i'm just a naive little WR contributor Ill fall for it.

* What is your subspecialty in astonomy?
Hmm ... Specialty ... "an instrument under seal, a sealed contract". ??? Wait! American spelling of speciality. (I've had to learn English; its a bit hard having to learn American as well.) I observe variable stars and occultations by the moon and asteroids.

* Do you think the probabability of getting a radio signal indicating intelligent life, is higher or lower, from ellipitical galaxies?
No idea what ellipitical galaxies are. But probability higher or lower than what? Of Somey becoming a steward? Hard to say. I do know that we dont have the technology to detect radio signals indicating intelligent life from other galaxies and doubt that we will in the near future.

* Is carbon a metal?
Of course. As you know perfectly well, in astronomy all elements except hydrogen and helium are regarded as metals.

* Discuss what Z-1 means to you personally.
It's a model helicopter. http://www.deviltronics.com/product/41/pic...nook-helicopter

Now is it my turn to ask irrelevant questions?

* Which element is named in honour of a Danish scientist?
* Which Danish mathematician popularised the term "superellipse"?
* Whose grandmothers had the maiden names Rosenkranz and Guldenstern?
* What do you think of Danish singer Christine Milton?

[Eva Destruction]

* Discuss what Z-1 means to you personally.
It's a model helicopter. http://www.deviltronics.com/product/41/pic...nook-helicopter

Lying like a fucking rug; z is a term a day-one astronomy student would know.

[Trick cyclist]

Lying like a fucking rug; z is a term a day-one astronomy student would know.

No sense of humour some people. I'm winding Milton up. Yes, X is the proportion of hydrogen in an object, Y of helium and Z of metals (including carbon).

Oh and z is the ratio of the wavelength of a spectral line in an object to its rest wavelength so z-1 is the redshift. I was fooled because Milton used capital Z. A mistake that as you say a day-one astronomy student would not make.

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[The Adversary]

Lying like a fucking rug; z is a term a day-one astronomy student would know.

No sense of humour some people. I'm winding Milton up. Yes, X is the proportion of hydrogen in an object, Y of helium and Z of metals (including carbon).

Hvisduerdanskerjegenkinesernemlig (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)

[Milton Roe]

Lying like a fucking rug; z is a term a day-one astronomy student would know.

No sense of humour some people. I'm winding Milton up. Yes, X is the proportion of hydrogen in an object, Y of helium and Z of metals (including carbon).

Hvisduerdanskerjegenkinesernemlig (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)

Blew it there. I asked about Z-1, and should have asked about Z+1. You get a point for carbon being a metal.

Elliptical galaxies . But these nordic languages are not your native ones. How is it you missed this term? Would these be more or less likely than other kinds to be sending us radio messages?

Bohrium is the element. But what was Bohr's favorite element?

I can't imagine that anybody had two grandmothers who happened to be named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Piet Hein is mentioned in the Wiki on superellipse, so that's too easy. You dodged the subspeciality question. What topics are your research topics?

[Trick cyclist]

How is it you missed this term? Would these be more or less likely than other kinds to be sending us radio messages?

I didnt. I was pulling your leg about your deliberate (?) typo. As theres no way we could detect these messages there would be no point sending them.

I can't imagine that anybody had two grandmothers who happened to be named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Fail! http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/puzzles/2.html

You dodged the subspeciality question.

No I didnt. Read my earlier post please.

[Milton Roe]

I can't imagine that anybody had two grandmothers who happened to be named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Fail! http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/puzzles/2.html

That's third cousin and some other kind of cousin, not grandmother. Yes, I'm aware that these names are 10% of Danish nobility.

You dodged the subspeciality question.

No I didnt. Read my earlier post please.

Okay, variable stars. Then off the top of your head, can you tell me why it is, in a CV which is assumed a binary of a lower main sequence and a degenerate, gas from the Roche lobe doesn't just fall directly onto the degenerate, but takes time. Why? Simple student question.

And what about Z+1?

[Trick cyclist]

That's third cousin and some other kind of cousin, not grandmother. Yes, I'm aware that these names are 10% of Danish nobility.

Check again. Its scarcely surprising that he has distant relatives with the same surname as his grandmothers.

Okay, variable stars. Then off the top of your head, can you tell me why it is, in a CV which is assumed a binary of a lower main sequence and a degenerate, gas from the Roche lobe doesn't just fall directly onto the degenerate, but takes time. Why? Simple student question.

I dont know what silly point you are trying to make but obviously the infalling gas has angular momentum with respect to the other star hence spirals round it to form an accretion disc.

And what about Z+1?

Why have you changed from Z-1 to Z+1? How many more answers do you want?

And I asked you some questions. One you couldnt answer even after I gave you the answer and one you evidently also couldnt so you ignored it. What does that prove?


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