Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --

Jayne ,'Serenity'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Lee - Apr 25, 2007 8:43:03 pm PDT #4457 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

taunter.

I have wine!


billytea - Apr 25, 2007 8:46:09 pm PDT #4458 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'm not sure if it's a translation issue or what. Parts i and iii both ask about finding the angle between two lines that, as far as I can tell, don't intersect.

That's my reading too. Maybe they missed a subscript in the first question? Though I think they still wouldn't intersect.


-t - Apr 25, 2007 8:47:17 pm PDT #4459 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What does "foot of perpendicular" mean?


billytea - Apr 25, 2007 8:48:31 pm PDT #4460 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

What does "foot of perpendicular" mean?

It's a common substitute for eye of newt, when the latter is unavailable.


aurelia - Apr 25, 2007 8:52:28 pm PDT #4461 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

billytea, I think I just missed you when I posted this before.


billytea - Apr 25, 2007 9:01:47 pm PDT #4462 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

billytea, I think I just missed you when I posted this before.

Aww. The poster mocks their pain! It's like an ad for Animal Planet I once saw: "Starfish have no brains. And they don't even know it."


-t - Apr 25, 2007 9:21:48 pm PDT #4463 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

i. Might mean the planes ABD and AA1D

ii. it's a right angle if what I think about prisms is true and my trig is right

I don't know what they're getting at with iii. There must be some convention that defines the planes these lines are in, but since AD is an edge of the prism I can't imagine what it would be.


Nilly - Apr 25, 2007 11:40:19 pm PDT #4464 of 10001
Swouncing

Skipping to post that according to Kat "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Apr 26, 2005 9:57:12 pm PDT Isaac is two years old today. I can't believe how quickly he did that, too.

Happy birthday, Isaac! Happy day for your mom and your big sister and all your family, as well!


Jesse - Apr 26, 2007 2:19:07 am PDT #4465 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Happy Isaac's birthday, Burrell!

I woke up way too early. Feh.


Kat - Apr 26, 2007 2:47:15 am PDT #4466 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

me too! But it is no surprise. We lost power last night for over an hour. feh.

Happy birthday to Isaac.