I wish I had this guy as a prof.

I've had that same thought about once per video from this guy.

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These videos are great. I wish I had this guy as a prof.

>> ^gwiz665:

Needs more Patrick Stewart, but other than that, freaking awesome.
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
The Xavier vs Magneto story was always my favorite. It is great they are finally going to go into that dynamic relationship!



Ya I know! Aren't Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart the most perfect casting of any movie ever? It might be the shortfall on respectable bald actors, but I always hoped he would be prof-X. I like that they are telling the young story of X and Magneto, but I do hope we get to have some more "modern" (lol) encounters of those foes of friends.

He is.

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'Prof' implies he is a professor. Perhaps he is, I'm not judging. I just thought you might like to know.

'Prof' implies he is a professor. Perhaps he is, I'm not judging. I just thought you might like to know.

>> ^residue:

Is that @dag wearing a wig? Seriously, that's uncanny


Not unless he likes to jump from meters high and land on tables with tacks on them.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^lucky760:
"What if other planetary bodies orbited our world at the same distance as the moon?"
If those larger planetary bodies were at the same distance from our world as the moon, we would be orbiting them, stupid. </trolling>

Ahem. All orbiting bodies orbit around a barycentre between the two objects.
/troll

Interestingly, the barycentre is often inside one of the objects, as in the case of the Earth/Moon. The Sun's barycentre is variable because of the distribution of the mass in the Solar System but it's normally just above its surface.


It depends what you're on about - the 'average' barycentre if there is such a thing? For Jupiter, the barycentre of that orbit is outside the surface of the sun, but for earth it's way inside.

Because of the effect of the planets on the sun, it wobbles around a lot, tugged in lots of directions by the distributed mass around it. Same goes for the earth, if we idealise the orbit to be circular, then even that circle would be a wiggly line as the moon goes around us.

Prof of mine has told me in the past he's had to correct for doppler shift because of that effect!

The class filled, actually. I guess I'll see when I get back next week and start spring semester up. DX
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That sucks. I'm guessing it's cut-backs though. I think they have to maintain a minimum number of students. Maybe that quota wasn't filled? Oh well, back to "not giving a fuck" you go!
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Haha good to hear. My school just canceled the only class I was enrolled in that I had any actual interest in taking, so this semester is going to be full of not giving a fuck. It probably would have been to some extent anyway, since it's my last one, but they kind of made sure of that with this silly move lol. I hope the prof is okay and they're not canceling it because of an issue he's having; he's my thesis adviser and favorite prof lol.
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Thanks. You know, the usual douchebaggery. Just started class back up yesterday. My math professor is a hot piece of ass (and this time it's a female).

What about you, Chinese dragon man?

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digging your custom url, bro. how's life?

That sucks. I'm guessing it's cut-backs though. I think they have to maintain a minimum number of students. Maybe that quota wasn't filled? Oh well, back to "not giving a fuck" you go!
In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Haha good to hear. My school just canceled the only class I was enrolled in that I had any actual interest in taking, so this semester is going to be full of not giving a fuck. It probably would have been to some extent anyway, since it's my last one, but they kind of made sure of that with this silly move lol. I hope the prof is okay and they're not canceling it because of an issue he's having; he's my thesis adviser and favorite prof lol.
In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Thanks. You know, the usual douchebaggery. Just started class back up yesterday. My math professor is a hot piece of ass (and this time it's a female).

What about you, Chinese dragon man?

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
digging your custom url, bro. how's life?

Haha good to hear. My school just canceled the only class I was enrolled in that I had any actual interest in taking, so this semester is going to be full of not giving a fuck. It probably would have been to some extent anyway, since it's my last one, but they kind of made sure of that with this silly move lol. I hope the prof is okay and they're not canceling it because of an issue he's having; he's my thesis adviser and favorite prof lol.
In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Thanks. You know, the usual douchebaggery. Just started class back up yesterday. My math professor is a hot piece of ass (and this time it's a female).

What about you, Chinese dragon man?

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
digging your custom url, bro. how's life?

Professor X is funny... the rest... um... I get the feeling they came up with Prof. X's bit and then made the rest

This may help a bit. I recommend watching this if you want to understand how fusion works.

This is a clip from "Can we make a star on earth"

Here's another good video regarding this laser.

...and here's another NIF video.

WikiLeaks' Bottom-Line Revelation

by

Austin Bay

Julian Assange, the man behind the WikiLeaks dump of secret US State Department cables, has been frank about his reasons for releasing thousands of classified -and stolen -- documents.

Assange says he wants to seriously damage the United States. If this damage forwards America's ultimate destruction, so be it. The son of leftist America-haters, Assange was born and weaned during the Cold War. Then the wrong side won. What the superpower Soviet Union failed to do with its armies, he, a super-empowered individual, will accomplish via the information anarchy of the Internet.

If Assange's history-shaping goal seems grandiose and detached from reality, indeed it is. However, once you understand the man's religion, his megalomania and solipsism become a bit more comprehensible if even more reprehensible.

Like other anti-American cranks on the planet, Assange holds firm in his warped faith that the U.S. is the leading source of global evil. The roots of this religion run deep, beginning with 18th century European aristocrats who despised the American Revolution. The anti-Americanism of Nazis, communists, tribalists, anarchists and now militant Islamists all rehash the same tropes, with their semi-schizoid baseline being the U.S. is simultaneously a vast authoritarian conspiracy and a heterogeneous menagerie of infidel-cowboy-capitalist idiots who dogmatically resist enlightened social policies.

Assange argues his revelations will force this conglomerate American monster to become more secretive and authoritarian. Limiting access to information, in order to stop future leaks, will reduce the monster's secretive and authoritarian effectiveness. The monster's "security state" will dumb down, and --here's the moment of religious rapture in Assange's prophecy -- this will increase global justice.

Assange also links this shackling of America to creating peace. Don't snicker too long. There are a lot of tenured gray-haired profs with ponytails who teach this dreck at notable universities and get paid for it.

Assange understands media grandstanding, but he doesn't understand people and certainly doesn't understand how American diplomats contribute to maintaining peace.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates understands people and diplomacy, and his assessment of Assange's info dump is as clear as it is historically and psychologically informed. At the Pentagon last week, Gates said: "The fact is, governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us and not because they believe we can keep secrets. Many governments -- some governments -- deal with us because they fear us, some because they respect us, most because they need us. We are still essentially, as has been said before, the indispensable nation."

Gates added that the cables were "embarrassing" and "awkward," but the ultimate effects on policy would be "modest."

Pray that Gates is right about modest impact, but right now and for at least the next six months, the world confronts the possibility of a nuclear war in East Asia ignited by North Korean aggression. This is a time period when the world absolutely needs close -- and trustworthy -- cooperation between the U.S. and China. A big war in Korea could kill millions but will guarantee a global economic depression. Leaked cables discuss corruption in China's Communist Party and names hypocritical party elites.

Even if the information is accurate, this is a case where revealed candor damages personal relationships among key U.S. diplomatic personnel and Chinese leaders. China is a face culture, and the leaders have lost face. A mature appreciation of the common danger should override personal anger, but another leak revealed that China sees North Korea as a "spoiled child" and that it believes Korea will ultimately be reunited with South Korea absorbing the North. This revelation weakens China's political leverage with North Korea at a moment when any leverage is precious.

Assange, of course, did not consider how he increased the threat to the lives of millions of Korean, Japanese and Chinese when he dumped his filched documents. His faith-based narrative of American evil excludes the possibility that American diplomats are collaborating with China to avoid war and eventually put an end to North Korea's armed brinksmanship without a nuclear explosion.

Here's WikiLeaks' bottom-line revelation: Assange and ideologues like him promote an ignorant and destructive solipsism that has nothing to do with peace and justice but a lot to do with sociopathic narcissism.

r10k, I studied the Bible with a respected religious man; one of the few Americans allowed to view and help decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls. We used an annotated version of the Bible that explained the puns, double meanings and other linguistic aspects that would be lost on someone who just picked up a King James at Barnes & Noble. My Prof. provided context, historical and cultural. He showed us more ancient Mesopotamian mythology that contained stories remarkably similar to those in the Bible. He, a religious man (Jewish), presented the book for what it was, with no apologies or attempts to shield us from the books' many contradictions and logical inconsistencies. Warts and all.

I seem to meet all your criteria for being able to have an opinion on the Bible. I've got context, depth and the instruction of a very wise religious scholar. No offense, but I probably understand this book better than you ever will, and yet....

My critical mind tells me this is mythology, like Zeus, or Beowulf, or Gilgamesh, or Frodo, Bilbo and Dumbledore. These are campfire stories from pre-scientific times that attempt to explain the -then many- mysteries of existence. Those days are gone, and we now know that we are not at the center of the universe, that space isn't made of water, that stars are not lights, that the world is not flat, that humans are part of an evolutionary chain and that the earth is billions of years old. Perhaps it's time to embrace the future, r10k, and leave the cave drawings behind you.

Just one person's opinion.... I could be wrong.