[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Some facts for future reference: (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 8/9/2008 8:44:16 PM EDT
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We landed on the moon. An aircraft, flown by muslim terrorists, hit the Pentagon. Heavy damage plus fire took down the twin towers. Flight 93 may or may not have been shot down. If it was it was justified, and also that would prove it wasn't a government conspiracy. A plane will take off on a conveyor belt. The Apollo 1 astronauts weren't killed to keep them quiet. Abraham Lincoln wasn't a woman. A gun will fire just fine in space. A motorcycle can stay up on a conveyor belt. Water fuel is bogus. What did I miss? |
Well it's the same thing with pi. You can call it 3.14 and people will know what you're talking about. But for pure mathematics, it's 'π', not 3.1415......... |
No, 3.14 is not the same as pi. Yes, 0.9bar is 1. Inevitable proof post- Let x = 0.9bar 10x = 9.9bar 9x = 9 x=1 Q.E.D. |
THEN WHY THE FUCK IS IT NOT 1 ALREADY?????? |
But one might argue that while .9bar is infinite, not all .9bars are the same - that there are different degrees of infinity. One might. I wouldn't, but one might. 
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AHHH!!!! Please do some googling and come back when your tail is tucked between your legs. You can't argue it. It is just simply true and there are plenty of proofs to show you. One is posted above. |
 Listen carefully: There are no such things as different degrees of infinity! AHHH!!! It's late on a Saturday night and the Internet is breaking! |
Yeah, I know. But it's fun to think that there is. I mean, that would be infinity within infinity! That would be awesome! |
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The idiot-f**k people who deny the Apollo moon landings give me vapors. How do they suppose those lunar module descent stages resting on the moon, which have been imaged many times in NASA photographs taken since, got there? Oh, wait, I forgot, those pictures must be a hoax too. |
I know about that. I just don't know if he actually believes( ) or if he's trying to start a shitstorm. Same with Rr. Civil "Slavery" War.
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Who believes what? Are you saying that the plane WON'T take off?  
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Since you put it in physical terms, what is 'touching?' If two surfaces are in contact, the resisting force experienced as they are pressed together is due to charge interaction; a small gap is maintained (assuming no bonding). |
I guess it's like this: If something slows down only half it's speed every period of time, does it really stop? |
???  We're not talking about Van Der Waal forces here. |
If 1/3 = 0.3bar then 3/3 = 0.9bar. 3/3 = 1 Strange but true. |
Sorry, I changed the subject. I'm drunk and thinking philosophically. |
This is too long a discussion to have here. If you really want to know, there are loads of books on the subject. Economic practices of the industrialized north were, shall we say, less than ideal for the agricultural south. Cheap immigrant labor in the north (free, white, european-born labor) occupied much of the same socio-economic space as slaves did in the south. Hell, the mayor of NYC argued for secession from the union because slaves were such a vital part of the NYC economy at the time. States rights were a big part of it, and slavery was just the last states rights issue to be decided in a manner that was bad for the south. Slavery would not have lasted 50 more years even without the civil war. I'm not defending slavery, and I'm not saying we'd be better off if the south had won. I was raised in PA on the yankee version of civil war history but finished HS in North Carolina. There are two very valid sides to the story, and if you only know the yankee side of it you're likely to think that the civil war was about slavery and nothing else. The issue was not that simple. The south was close to the edge already--slavery just pushed them over. |
No, it is not. It is a way to represent a fraction in base 10 number system that causes most peoples brains to either short circuit or for those that stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, to claim it has something to do with an infinite regression... They are both wrong. |
