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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1605 on: Jun 18, 2012, 08:14:39 PM »
“Standards for inconsequential trivia,” offered by Philip A. Simpson in the NBS Standard, Jan. 1, 1970:

10-15 bismols = 1 femto-bismol
10-12 boos = 1 picoboo
1 boo2 = 1 boo-boo
10-18 boys = 1 attoboy
1012 bulls = 1 terabull
101 cards = 1 decacards
10-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
2 gorics = 1 paregoric
10-3 ink machines = 1 millink machine
109 los = 1 gigalos
10-1 mate = 1 decimate
10-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10-2 pedes = 1 centipede
106 phones = 1 megaphone
10-6 phones = 1 microphone
1012 pins = 1 terapin
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1606 on: Jun 18, 2012, 09:21:48 PM »
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1607 on: Jun 19, 2012, 02:44:53 PM »
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1608 on: Jun 19, 2012, 04:16:08 PM »
Quote from: Morvis13 on Jun 19, 2012, 02:44:53 PM
Damn!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/doctors+succesfully+remove+spear+piercing+teen+skull+with+video/6807148/story.html


Per the video, one of the docs said, "You have to resist the temptation to just pull (the spear) out" but he didn't say how they removed it.  Did they push the remainder of it towards the tip, completing the trajectory?  Or cut into the skull and remove it laterally?  It seems to me, doing that would just cause MORE damage.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1609 on: Jun 19, 2012, 04:25:14 PM »
Well of course they pulled it out, but only after they x-rayed the hell out of the guy to make sure it was safe to do so. When he said you shouldn't pull it out he was referring to immediately after suffering such an injury.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1610 on: Jun 19, 2012, 05:28:08 PM »
This took place in the US. Maybe the doc meant that you shouldn't pull the spear out until after you have verified the patient's insurance coverage.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1611 on: Jun 19, 2012, 08:01:50 PM »
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1612 on: Jun 19, 2012, 09:04:49 PM »
Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition, Part 1 (Teaser)
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1613 on: Jun 20, 2012, 07:00:30 AM »
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1614 on: Jun 20, 2012, 08:39:02 AM »
That's awesome.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1615 on: Jun 20, 2012, 08:44:17 AM »
It is awesome but.... With the start of Kepler it's way out of date. Last I heard it was 12,000 planets.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1616 on: Jun 20, 2012, 08:53:24 AM »
Quote from: seaotter on Jun 20, 2012, 08:44:17 AM
It is awesome but.... With the start of Kepler it's way out of date. Last I heard it was 12,000 planets.

I have a feeling that technically Kepler might be finding planet candidates, while the XKCD figure is confirmed planets.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1617 on: Jun 20, 2012, 08:58:26 AM »
Quote from: Caffiene on Jun 20, 2012, 08:53:24 AM
Quote from: seaotter on Jun 20, 2012, 08:44:17 AM
It is awesome but.... With the start of Kepler it's way out of date. Last I heard it was 12,000 planets.

I have a feeling that technically Kepler might be finding planet candidates, while the XKCD figure is confirmed planets.

Or those with estimated masses.
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1618 on: Jun 20, 2012, 09:28:33 AM »
Just came to post that!
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Re: Too Cool not to post
« Reply #1619 on: Jun 20, 2012, 02:50:00 PM »
Ditto,
BTW, you forgot the Tooltip.

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Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself--with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart--at least three levels deep.
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