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  6. Posted

    Should these sessions be weekly or biweekly? (I believe it should be the former versus the latter.)

     

     

     

    Should the first session be this weekend?

     

    Who (if there should be one) will be the "guest speaker"?...

     

     

    ...If it is okay with Odo, I will voluntary him....since he was the first to reply.

     

     

     

    When we get these basic details worked out, then we shall send out a mass email.

     

    Once we start these, we need to promote them!

     

    Let's have a high turn out, like our last chat.

     

    And let's try to keep a high turn out by making these chats fresh and fun.

     

    But to make these a success will depend on all of you.

  7. Posted

    Hello Star Trek fans!! :laugh:

     

    Our last officially scheduled chat room session had a surprisingly high turn out. So it is clear that there is still a demand for having these kinds of sessions at StarTrekFans.net. (Despite claims to the contrary, STF is not completely dead. What is needed is an increase in the promotion of such activities as this.)

     

    Assuming that the demand is roughly identical as the previous chat, I would like to suggest that we have a weekly or biweekly chat room session of similar style or structure as the last..

     

    Since the last chat worked out so well...It might be best to have them Saturdays at 6 PM ET.

     

     

    Themed Chats? --- Secondary Proposal

     

    One thing that is needed is to keep these kinds of chats fresh and new. One possibility is for each chat to have a special "guest speaker." In our New Year Chat, Picard served this function. He brought along some jokes to share with all of us. Perhaps each (bi)week's "guest speaker" (or "leader") can do something similar. Not necessarily jokes..... It can be interesting news bits or facts. Or some trivia. Or some other type of game. ---- But as long as these don't completely take over the entire session...to allow a "free-for-all" kind of session to still exist.

     

    Other possibilities include themed chats. Or who knows what else! You guys can think of it.

     

     

    Having this kind of regularly scheduled (periodic) chat has advantages to the "randomly" scheduled chats that pop up suddenly. So I think it is a good idea. How about you?

     

    I am throwing this up in the air. But you guys have to catch it and run off with this.

     

    While I have been on a small hiatus, I am slowly fazing back into the Trek Universe....But I will be still be on-and-off. This is why you guys need to help make this chat operation run. (E.g., figure out when the first session will take place, who will be the "leader" or "guest speaker" for this or that chat, etc.)

     

    So how about it...?

  8. Posted

    Thanks for coming. It was a good chat. :( Happy New Year.

     

     

    Just sending the link to a good laymen article on a fourth dimensional hypercube, with little in-depth discussion on the topic in the chat room, resulted in reactions of horror! As I was chatting with Mrs.Picard, we have to get rid of the numerophobia that so many have! (Yes...that is a real word.)

     

    (Hmmmm...You would think that talk of Charles Hinton and the fourth dimension would be a lot more fun then your average math discussion.)

     

     

     

    And my thank you to Alterego for sending out a mass email. Thank you, sir! :laugh:

  11. Posted

    As usual, the chat will be an open free for all. You will be at the helm!

     

    But here are a few possible topics (or activities):

     

    1. Star Trek, of course. (What have you been watching lately?)

    2. Predictions for 2007. Bring one or two! I will record them and post them up on the boards, if they are good (or entertaining).

    3. Sci-Fi and Higher Dimensions! Because I expect everyone to be about drunk (hell Roy is half the time :( ), this may be difficult. But we can "build" a fourth dimensional hypercube. (More on this in the chat...plus about the wonderful mathematician who wrote extensively on this topic even for the laymen.) But I am probably the only nut who would consider this fun. lol

     

    :laugh: :( :hug: :( :alien: :lol:

  17. Posted

    Alright. I will make a note in my calendar:

     

    12.30.06 @ 6 PM ET.

     

     

     

    (After this I will be on a short break from the Trek Online Universe.)

     

    Alterego, sir, if you would please, make a note in the StarTrekFans.net Calendar. Maybe a mass email too.

     

     

    Merry Christmas! Stay Safe.I'll be here on Saturday. :laugh: Until then...

  18. Posted · Edited by master_q

    Since Indy was the only one to offer a day*, then how about the 30th? Around 6PM ET?...Or what?

     

    *(I am flexible here-----it does not need to be on New Year's Day or anything...So I am opened to the 30th or other weekends etc.)

  21. Posted

    New Year Chat

    It is going to be 2007!? (Did I hear that right?)

    Yes, 2007. (So it is.)

     

    It sounds like a good time to have a small get-together in the StarTrekFans.net chat room. If you are so inclined to attend, please contribute to working out the details to when it will be held. Thanks. :laugh:

  25. Posted · Edited by master_q

    It has been a while since I last posted (besides posting on these subjects as it relates to trek trivia) on such related topics as science and/or mathematics, but that does not mean that I have abandoned these topics in "real life" and whatnot (obviously).

     

    I was doing some searching in Wikipedia for topics related to mathematics. And, I thought I would share the entry on Fermat's Last Theorem. Why? For the Star Trek trivia gurus out there, you know why. But here is Wikipedia...

     

    In fiction

     

    In "The Royale", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard states that the theorem had gone unsolved for 800 years. Wiles' proof was released five years after the particular episode aired. This was subsequently mentioned in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode called "Facets" during June 1995 in which Jadzia Dax comments that one of her previous hosts, Tobin Dax, had "the most original approach to the proof since Wiles over 300 years ago." [1] This reference was generally understood by fans to be a subtle correction for "The Royale".

     

    Fermat's What?

     

    Fermat's Last Theorem is one of the most famous theorems in the history of mathematics. It states that:

     

    It is impossible to separate any power higher than the second into two like powers,

     

    or, using more formal mathematical notation:

     

    If an integer n is greater than 2, then a^n + b^n = c^n has no solutions in non-zero integers a, b, and c.

     

    Despite how closely the problem is related to the Pythagorean theorem, which has infinite solutions and hundreds of proofs, Fermat's subtle variation is much more difficult to prove. Still, the problem itself is easily understood even by schoolchildren, making it all the more frustrating and generating perhaps more incorrect proofs than any other problem in the history of mathematics.

     

    The 17th-century mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote in 1637 in his copy of Claude-Gaspar Bachet's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diophantus: "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." (Original Latin: "Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.") However, no correct proof was found for 357 years, until it was finally proven using very deep methods by Andrew Wiles in 1995 (after a failed attempt a year before).

     

    All the other theorems proposed by Fermat were proven, either in his own proofs or by other mathematicians, in the two centuries following their proposition. The theorem was not the last that Fermat conjectured, but the last to be proven.

     

    [For More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_last_theorem ]

     

    For a laymen (on this specific topic ---- that is about all I could take) book or two on this subject, I recommend, "Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh. Also, see Keith Devlin's fantastic "Mathematics: The New Golden Age" (Chapter 10)