L-Plate Rider
I came across this and thought it was pretty cool:
The universe is full of weird substances like liquid metal and whatever preservative keeps Larry King alive. But mankind isn't happy to accept the weirdness of nature when we can create our own abominations of science that, due to the miracle of technology, spit in nature's face and call it retarded.
That's why we came up with...
http://www.cracked.com/article_17476...e-physics.html
mini meeeeeee
I loved the link to the food myths!
I lahk to moove eet moove eet...
Katman to steveb64
Originally Posted by Katman
For whom the bell tolls
Pretty cool to read but the title couldn't be more wrong... you'll find that all of those things exist BECAUSE of physics - laughing in the face of nature would be more appropriate.
KiwiBitcher
where opinion holds more weight than fact.
It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH
That was awesome
Nail your colours to the mast that all may look upon them and know who you are.
It takes a big man to cry...and an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
"...laughs in the face of common sense." would be the appropriate wording methinks.
You can make non-newtonian liquids in your kitchen if you want - all you need is corn flour and water. Good fun at parties - roll it into a ball and then leave it on a plate and it melts away into a puddle.
You'd have to be trekkie to get wound up by alumina though - it's just another crystal with the same limitations that afflict other crystals (i.e. they are very hard but not tough, extremely complicated to machine and they can not be welded).
I dare assume that the elastic conductors owes a lot to the work of this gentleman - with whom I do hope some of you would be familiar.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
For whom the bell tolls
I think you'd be right, but unfortunately many New Zealanders wouldn't have the first clue that a) he was a 'famous' NZer, or b) what he discovered.
KiwiBitcher
where opinion holds more weight than fact.
It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
You are probably right - which is also why we should do what we can to change it. I never met Alan myself, but from those of my colleagues who did I can tell he was a remarkable man as well as a remarkable scientist.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
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I know that his final discovery was Newton's law of gravity.
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
Awww, now that's in poor taste. ...it wasn't that discovery that gained him the Nobel price though.
But quite close to the truth too. I hope, that in researching the material for that low blow, you learned more about the man.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
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