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feej92
20 Sep 2005, 01:35 PM
hey! TMQ's late today. throws off my entire schedule :mad:
arsenalgirl30016
20 Sep 2005, 01:38 PM
Arguably the best column going, anywhere. I've saved a number of his off topic analyses of Bond movie stunts and religious topics. I'm still stunned the folks at Disney/ESPN.com dismissed him. Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid.
Goon afternoon all. Anyone care for some broccoli & ricotta sandwiches?
Hey GG-that sandwich sounds kind of icky-no offense.....is the broc raw?
Where's Mike to let us know what kind of slimfast meal he has had today? ;)
Gunner Phan
20 Sep 2005, 01:54 PM
Hey GG-that sandwich sounds kind of icky-no offense.....is the broc raw?
Where's Mike to let us know what kind of slimfast meal he has had today? ;)
phor crying out loud, do you have something against broc? ;)
homemade tacos for me!
phishy
20 Sep 2005, 01:57 PM
Smug? Naaaaaaaaw.. http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6175219&postcount=458
;)
He just knows he's in for some hell from me and Ryan today. :D
well....
we got umm... what can i say?
"hail to the redskins?"
criminal ending.
GriffinGunner
20 Sep 2005, 01:58 PM
No, Red, the Broccoli was steamed. Mrs. GG got the recipe from a baby magazine: The sandwich was originally for Anders now that he's into finger foods. There was some leftover and, well, I'm just offering to share!
Now that I see there are some tacos available...!
Brings to mind a kids song we hear (over, and over, and over...)
"I'll share my broccoli with you, if you share your cookie with me..."
feej92
20 Sep 2005, 02:04 PM
i love TMQ because he writes things like this that appeal to the geek in me:
A recent item on whether high-energy particle accelerators might accidentally create some novel subatomic with unwelcome properties, such as the ability to crush the Earth out of existence, noted that experimental lasers have already reached higher energies than particle accelerators, yet created no weird particles. Konstantin Kakaes of Mexico City offers this comment, which I simply reproduce, including the final remark: "Although the Petawatt laser does deliver more power, it is delivered at a spatial density (irradiance) of about 700 gW/cm^2. On the other hand, a typical particle accelerator, such as the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago, packs a density of about 2*10^15 gW/cm^2 -- the energy is much more concentrated in a proton-anti-proton collision than by a laser. If any crazy particles were to be created, it's the density, in both space and time, you'd worry about rather than absolute power. What really matters is watts per centimeter squared per second, because of the probabilistic nature of making wacky matter. Anyhow, go Patriots!"
arsenalgirl30016
20 Sep 2005, 02:04 PM
No, Red, the Broccoli was steamed. Mrs. GG got the recipe from a baby magazine: The sandwich was originally for Anders now that he's into finger foods. There was some leftover and, well, I'm just offering to share!
Now that I see there are some tacos available...!
Brings to mind a kids song we hear (over, and over, and over...)
"I'll share my broccoli with you, if you share your cookie with me..."
Hey I love broc but want it to be where nature intended it to be-steamed and covered in cheese sauce (velveeta anyone? ;) ) or raw with ranch dip handy! Not on a sammich! :D
well....
we got umm... what can i say?
"hail to the redskins?"
I'mma savor this all through the bye week. :D
GriffinGunner
20 Sep 2005, 02:22 PM
i love TMQ because he writes things like this that appeal to the geek in me...Then you probably remember this classic:
"A few columns ago, TMQ asked if any science-adept reader could compute how large a space mirror would need to be in order to power the death ray depicted in the Bond flick "Die Another Day." No one leapt into this breach, so TMQ His Ownself has performed the computation.
First, according to this NASA paper, the energy value of sunlight in low-Earth orbit is 130 watts per square foot.
Now, how much power would a death ray require? The closest thing under actual construction is the Air Force's Airborne Laser, designed to shoot down missiles rising from their pads. According to this article by Nora Wallace, the Airborne Laser pumps one million watts. So to collect one million watts at 130 watts per square foot -- we assume a perfectly efficient death ray -- the space mirror would have to be 7,692 square feet. ("Assume a perfectly efficient death ray" is a little engineering- students' joke, har har.)
But wait, the beam of the Airborne Laser is about the thickness of a pencil, whereas the beam of the death ray in "Die Another Day" is depicted as far wider. How wide? Let's estimate 200 feet wide, from the scene in which it is chewing up huge swaths of the DMZ between the Koreas. To go from one inch wide to 200 feet wide, our death ray would require not one million watts but 2.4 billion watts. The space-mirror size jumps to 18.5 million square feet.
Wait again; The Airborne Laser is designed to overheat a tiny patch on the ultra-milled aluminum skin of a missile, whereas the death ray in "Die Another Day" is capable of boiling rock formations in seconds and slicing the sides off glaciers. This means the death ray must be considerably more energetic than the Airborne Laser. How much is hard to say, but let's estimate three times more. Now the mirror spec jumps to 55.5 million square feet.
And wait yet again. The range of the Airborne Laser is classified, but published estimates have said around 100 miles. The death ray would need to orbit at least 200 miles above Earth to prevent atmospheric drag on its huge mirror, meaning the ray would have to fire across at least double the distance of the Airborne Laser. Some of the death ray's bolt would travel through space, where transmission losses are slight, but unlike the Airborne Laser, the death ray would need to penetrate the ionosphere, where transmission losses may be a factor. Better double that power requirement again, to 14.4 billion watts.
This works out to an orbital sunlight collector of 111 million square feet. Assuming a circular mirror, its diameter would be 164 miles. TMQ is going out on a limb to assert that at present, the North Korean economy cannot support the construction in outer space of an object 164 miles across.
(Thanks to James Collins, math teacher and jayvee football coach at Churchill High in Montgomery County, Maryland, for grading TMQ's calculations.)
Bonus reality check: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama hopes to test collecting solar power in space and transferring it to Earth. The project goal is 78,000 watts, less than one ten-thousandth of one percent of what the Bond movie death ray would require."
Gunner Phan
20 Sep 2005, 02:22 PM
well....
we got umm... what can i say?
"hail to the redskins?"
criminal ending.
I sure hope you didn't stay up to watch the whole game....I would 've been pissed if roles / outcomes were reversed.
Gunner Phan
20 Sep 2005, 02:24 PM
I'mma savor this all through the bye week. :D
*GP high-fives the enemy*
:D
phishy
20 Sep 2005, 02:28 PM
I sure hope you didn't stay up to watch the whole game....I would 've been pissed if roles / outcomes were reversed.
for the record, my work visa was declined by the home office (employer didnt go thru proper channels or some ****************).. its being appealed so i am back in the states pending or re-admission with proper guidelines...
:mad:
arsenalgirl30016
20 Sep 2005, 02:32 PM
for the record, my work visa was declined by the home office (employer didnt go thru proper channels or some ****************).. its being appealed so i am back in the states pending or re-admission with proper guidelines...
:mad:
How is it that people come here and immediately disappear but you can't go to England and work? Makes zero sense to me!
feej92
20 Sep 2005, 02:34 PM
Then you probably remember this classic:
over the summer he discussed the Force vs the speed of light in a star wars context :D
phishy
20 Sep 2005, 02:35 PM
How is it that people come here and immediately disappear but you can't go to England and work? Makes zero sense to me!
an extremely rediculous technicality on the length (of time) of advertisement in english newspaper, so that someone with an EU passport has the opportunity to apply.
Gunner Phan
20 Sep 2005, 02:37 PM
for the record, my work visa was declined by the home office (employer didnt go thru proper channels or some ****************).. its being appealed so i am back in the states pending or re-admission with proper guidelines...
:mad:
I am truely sorry to hear that, James. I can only imagine the nightmare....so in the states (TX) until further notice? Don't worry, stability is overrated. ;)
on the bright side, how is this semester's crop of coeds? :D
arsenalgirl30016
20 Sep 2005, 02:37 PM
an extremely rediculous technicality on the length (of time) of advertisement in english newspaper, so that someone with an EU passport has the opportunity to apply.
Well that sucks! Sorry Phishy......
phishy
20 Sep 2005, 02:38 PM
thx yall~
Gunner Phan
20 Sep 2005, 02:42 PM
are you able to go see any games (TT) or whatever atleast?
phishy
20 Sep 2005, 02:45 PM
are you able to go see any games (TT) or whatever atleast?
was at the game on saturday..
there is crazy talk of us putting up 100 pts this week vs Indiana State.. but that would require some defensive touchdowns.. cuz saturday.. wow, our backup nearly had 300 yds passing. and for the first time since leach has been here, we ran out the 4th quarter instead of passing.