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  1. Posted

    Good thinking, nik, but what about the rest? ::starts mumbelling to himself:: " what the heck she mean by that?:: :(  :(

    I guess he (Kirk) would just set the auto destruct sequence, get out of there, and everyone can start from scratch:

     

    Something Biblical for the Ladies:

    Moses

    Job

    Elijah

     

    And for the guys:

    Delilah

    Ruth

    Rahab

     

    (No way this is going to work.)

  2. Posted

    Well, goll darn it nik, I do it myself :(  :clap:Know WHY it helps you remember things? Because now you have involed two more senses, hearing and, well, ok, one more sense, speaking isin't a sense, it's an activity or action, right nik, helps you remember things because now you said it out loud, or in our case, we mubbled it out loud :(

    Hmmmmm.... fascinating idea! Yes, I have never thought of it that way before. You must be correct. The entire brain is involved in the activity, and by mumbling, the

    worker is better able to stay "in the zone" (as I like to say). Dang, Jeanway! I bet you're right! Well done! Excellent!

  4. Posted

    Back on Enterprise, the molecules of Jeanway and Weareborg have been reassembled as one person :( standing on the transporter platform is a new, third person, half Jeanway, half WeareBorg. OMG! What a Sight this is!!!! It's a JeanBorg, or a WeareWay, May God have Mercy on all our wretched souls :(

    Yikes! If Kirk were here, he's beam JeanBorg into space at maximum dispersal!

  6. Posted

    nik, I can just see on the front of the building where you work, big LETTERS SPELLING OUT: ' MUMBLES TECH' :(  :(  :( We get the job done no matter how stupid we all look doing it :lol:

    Well.... It is funny to listen to and work in, but goll darn, it sure works. I can't imagine not working without mumbling to myself - just too inefficient, and I'm not alone!

  8. Posted

    Have you ever noticed how and why Threads go Off Topic?  I think, and this is just and observation, that one thing is either misunderstood or misquoted then the Thread goes in that direction. :lol:  This has happened to me alot and it happens to alot of other people. One small detail is blown all of proportion or twisted and then everyone from that post on bases their reply on that. Then everyone just jumps on the Bandwagon. :(  Just take note of this and you will see what I'm talking about. There ARE other reasons too, but this is just one reason that I think this happens.  I call it  'The Bandwagon Effect'  Now let's see if it happens in this Thread :(

    That reminds me.... Which airline do you like to fly best? My favorites are Air Canada and JAL....

     

     

    :(

  9. Posted

    Believe it or not, when I need to prioritize tasks or remember certain items, I talk to myself. It somehow helps cement the ideas in my brain... mind you, people look at me funny, but I don't forget!  :(

    It's very interesting that you say that. In my line of work, when doing something fairly complicated, I will talk - or rather mumble - to myself like talking myself through it. The funny thing is that I know MANY people in my business who do that. I used to work in a lab where EVERYONE mumbled to themselves when they worked (no kidding!). It was interesting to listen to - sort of like a constant low buzzing sound coming from the lab.

    Interesting, isn't it?

  12. Posted

    I'll have to agree with you on the homemade pasta nik, it is awsome. After you've made you own, that stuff in the box just tastes like the box :laugh:

    Oh Yeah! Many years ago, I bought a pasta maker (the old hand-crank kind). To me, making pasta is a very relaxing experience. My favorites are spinach fetucini and

    sun-dried tomato fetucini. I've also experimented with some dessert pastas which turned out surprisingly well. Wonderful stuff!

  13. Posted

    A few of my favorite awesome things:

    Chirality of "everything," dark matter, Feynman's Razor (Similar problems have similar solutions.), plasma dispersion relations, organic molecules in quasars, postage stamps, human languages, earworms, giraffes, helicity conservation, the Dirac equation, kids, homemade pasta, CS22892-052,

    neutron star superfuidity, kaon condensates, and much more.......

     

    It's all just dang cool!

  14. Posted

    Ok, stop joking around :laugh:

    here is a new list

     

     

    DUTCH

    CANADIAN

    POLISH

    In the interest of fostering goodwill with our friends to the north: Marry Canadian.

    In the interest of fostering goodwill with our western European friends: Kiss Dutch.

    In the interest of fostering goodwill with our eastern European friends: Spare the Polish, and toss myself in instead.

     

     

    For the ladies:

     

    Larry

    Moe

    Curly

     

    For the guys:

     

    Janet Jackson

    Janet Reno

    Janet Leigh

  17. Posted

    nik, have you ever heard of breathing in liquid oxygen?

    You know, I have, but only in speculation. I remember talking to an engineer once loosely associated with a project to develop a liquid rebreather in which oxygen is dissolved in a liquid and delivered to the lungs - sort of like what they did in "The Abyss." I don't know if any development exists or if the device is in use. The idea is that it reduces the gas buildup in the blood at higher pressures, eliminating or

    reducing the need for decompression. I really don't know if such a thing is in use. Maybe the Navy uses this stuff....

  18. Posted

    Perhaps I'm completely wrong here, but if I remember correctly, the woman in STIV - who presumably knew nothing about medicine - said that she was in the hospital for kidney dialysis, meaning that she required aritificial mean to filter wastes from her blood. McCoy gave her something to swallow, which - according to the doctors - resulted in a regenerative process, and - according to the woman - gave her a new kidney. Neither of these statements say that the woman grew a kidney ex nihilo. I'm guessing that she probably had a set of kidneys that were at one point in her life fully functional, and the wear-and-tear of life caused them to weaken.

     

    It's interesting to note that both the lungs and the kidneys operate on very similar principles at the basic level. Both rely on fluid pressure gradients (differences) to transfer chemicals from accross an interface. In the case of the lungs tiny vessels carry oxygen-poor blood to the polmonary alveoli to where oxygen goes from a relatively oxygen-rich environment to a relatively oxygen-poor environment. In the case of the kidneys, ionic and chemical exchange takes place in many tiny loops called nephrons (check out an anatomy book), which bare more than a passing resemlance to distillation columns used in chemistry labs. The "osmotic gradient" accross these loops allows poisons to pass. Fascinating organs, both!

     

    So why did Neelix need an organ transplant, when a pill might have saved him? Geeze, I don't know. Little was known about his species, his genetics, or his lungs. Did his body extract oxygen, or something else. We're his lungs based on the exchange of gas accross a membrane, or maybe they fluid filled vessels like in a fish tank? The point is that the doctor probably had no idea what he was getting into when he put Neelix under the knife. Unlike human anatomy and physiology, Neelix's was

    corpus incognita.

     

    Just a thought.

  24. Posted

    This discussion reminds of the search for “meaning” by one of history’s greatest scientists.

     

    Perhaps some of you are familiar with Blaise Pascal, an early 17th century French mathematician. Those who have taken physics in school probably recognise his name attached to a unit of pressure. He also invented a digital calculator in his 20’s, taught himself geometry at age 12, when it was forbidden, conferred with Fermat, and is known for a host of other important discoveries.

     

    Pascal reasoned that a belief in God was logical. In his latter years, he conferred with Fermat concerning what is known today as “Pascal’s Matrix” or “Pascal’s Wager.” Consider a table with two columns and two rows. Label the two columns “God exists” and “God does not exist” respectively. Label the two rows “Believe in God” and “Do not believe in God” respectively. Now, the cells in the matrix represent the consequences of the four possible combinations of belief and divine existence. Pascal reasoned the following four consequences:

     

    1. Believe in God, God Exists – Eternal Reward; everything to gain.

    2. Believe in God, God does not exist – Energy and time is expended believing

    something unreal (How many of us do that anyway?).

    3. Do not believe in God, God does not exist – Nothing gained, nothing lost, no

    big deal.

    4. Do not believe in God, God exists – Eternal Punishment; everything to lose.

     

    Pascal reasoned that results 2 and 3 were really inconsequential, while results 1 and 4 bore ramifications of paramount importance. Stating to his friend Fermat that “ …. We are all constrained to gamble” Pascal ended his search for "meaning" by choosing to believe that the universe is orderly enough, fascinating enough, and beautiful enough to warrant the existence of some sort of divine creator.

     

    Not too bad for a scientist…… What do y’all think?

  25. Posted

    Marry the Queen - seems like a nice lady.

    Give Emma a quick kiss.

    Get a long running jump, and cast myself into the abyss for taking so dang long to figure this game out, flappling wildly all the way down.

     

    For the Guys:

    Clotho

    Lachesis

    Atropos

     

    For the Ladies, some Norse guys:

    Thor

    Odin

    Tyr