breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com

there are some really interesting articles on antimatter on nasa.gov
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:36:13 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

Also, what exactly would be the point in saying I'm 14 if I was 41?
That wouldn't benefit me in any way.
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You tell us. Who was saying otherwise?

Hint: dump google groups

--
Keith
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:52:10 -0800, Joel Kolstad wrote:

"~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1107633032.524579.298500@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
And where do we get the enormous amounts of energy and equipment
required to do that?

Army core of engineers? :)

They do a fine job literally leveling mountaintops when they build earthen
dams, moving the Earth seems like it might still be within their charter...
:)
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Requisition: FBL, one each. (F'n big lever)

--
Keith
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:47:07 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

"If you aim right, most of the angular momentum of the asteroid gets
transferred..."

And if you don't aim right, we all die.
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We're all going to die anyway. If it's a three-cushion billiards shot
or life, which do you take? Personally, I don't worry about things that
are 5Bn years hence. My father had a perfect repsonse for those who said
that the next ice age was coming "soon" (this was 20 years before "global
warming" was all the rage); "Oh! I thought you said 500 years! You had me
worried there for a minute."

--
Keith
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:08:52 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

Well it's true! If someone makes the slightest calculation error we'd
all be dead. I wouldn't trust someone to change the Earth's orbit with
an asteroid. I'm usually pretty optimistic, but that seems... too
risky.
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If the alternative is...?
Luckily, I won't be around then so I won't have to worry about it. I
like the time period in which I live.
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I think that's sorta the point...

--
Keith
 
Ok, I gotta get off now, my mom sets a limit to how late I can stay on
each day and it's 9:30 (I'm on ET). I'll check back in the morning.
 
"Throw away your calculator..."

We were each issued a calculator, and we were supposed to finish the
worksheet using the calculator. I finished, was bored, and graphed
random equations - tan x^2 came out really odd... anyway, I don't own
the graphing calculator so I can't throw it out. I see where you're
coming from though. My point is that I wasn't intending to find out
about the change in slope in a parabola; I was just amusing myself and
happened to notice it.
 
As I said, I need to leave now, so that was my last reply
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:04:45 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On 5 Feb 2005 16:31:04 -0800, "~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com
wrote:

"I think you're really 41"

If I was 41, I'd understand calculus, wouldn't I?

I think you do. You are wise in ways that take "mellowing time" ;-)
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Hey, Jim, kids nowadays are amazingly sophisticated. By kid knew stuff
when she was 10 that I didn't figure out til I was 40.

John
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:49:32 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On 5 Feb 2005 09:41:17 -0800, "~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com
wrote:

Just for the record... I intend to be a meteorologist when I grow up,
not a physicist.

With your obvious mental talents, I'd aim a wee bit higher... unless
you want to be on the TV news hour ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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Real meteorologists are a long way from any TV studio and they do all
kinds of physics, fluid dynamics, math, whatnot.

- YD.
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Remove HAT if replying by mail.
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:04:37 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

...or was that a stupid question?
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The only stupid question is the one you don't ask. ;-)

Good Luck!
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com
 
In article <pan.2005.02.06.01.14.34.734390@att.bizzzz>,
keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:
[...]
Ah, I wuz just wondering if you fell into the "wonders" of LSSD design.
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LSSD???

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--
kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
In article <1107649863.992547.136310@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
~~SciGirl~~ <palmtree117@juno.com> wrote:
"I think you're really 41"

If I was 41, I'd understand calculus, wouldn't I?
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Try stopping 10, 41 year olds on a street corner and see if they do. I
doubt more than half do.


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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:42:45 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

I'm in 8th grade, not high school yet, so I can't take pre cal yet, nor
can I take any science classes other than what I'm in.
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Is there a library in your city?

Good Luck!
Rich
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:40:26 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

Well, if matter had to have mass to have energy, then what would energy
really be? A photon is not matter, it's pure energy.

I have always wondered, though, what the link is between light as a
particle and light as a wave.
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It's all in the way you look at it.

Good Luck!
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:47:07 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

"If you aim right, most of the angular momentum of the asteroid gets
transferred..."

And if you don't aim right, we all die.
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Oh, don't be so dramatic.
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.
 
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:51:43 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

umm... that's simple?
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No, that's sarcasm.

When are you going to either get a real ISP with a real news server, or
learn to quote stuff on the google chat room page?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.
 
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