21663 pts · December 12, 2015
While it is a good edit, if you watch very closely you can see the exact moment where the mirror kind of pops into existence.
Colbert, as far as I know, is neither Russian, nor a mathematician, nor a ninja. Also, I must confess that I did not rattle this off from memory, which I imagine he would likely be able to do.
the daughter of Elrond who, remember, was the twin brother of Elros, from whom Aragorn was descended. Whew! 5/5
faithful to Eru. They settled in Middle Earth and founded new kingdoms, including Gondor. One of them was Isildur, who was Aragorn's great great... great great grandfather. Isildur was himself a great great... great great grandson of Elros, and so he retained the extreme longevity of the Númenóreans, as did his progeny. (Although it was lessened due to the rebellion of Númenor.) Fun consequence of all of this: Arwen, who married Aragorn, was his great great great... great aunt, since she was 4/?
and knowledge to the then-king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn. In particular, he promised the secret of eternal life as long as they vowed to serve Morgoth. He managed to sway them and ultimately convinced them to sail away from Middle Earth to Valinor, where the Valar live. (Kind of a mix of gods and arch-angels in Tolkien's mythology.) Eru (God) did not take kindly to this, and destroyed the Númenórean fleet and Númenor itself. There were Númenóreans who escaped the cataclysm, as they were still 3/?
as were the rest of the Númenóreans; the *common folk* lived for 200 years and those who were actually descended from Elros lived for a lot longer. Their civilization flourished and they became increasingly prideful. Eventually, in the Second Age, they went to challenge Sauron (who was still kicking around even after Morgoth was exiled from the universe), and they "won." In reality, it was something of a trick: Sauron pretended to be laid low and was taken prisoner, and then promised power 2/?
Aight. In the First Age, Men and Elves formed an alliance to fight Morgoth---basically Satan in Tolkien's world and Sauron's boss. The homeland of Men was destroyed in the process but, as a reward, they were given the island of Númenor as a new home. Their king was Elros, who was Elrond's twin brother. Both of them were half-elven, but Elrond chose to live as an Elf and so was immortal, while Elros chose to live as a Human and was mortal. Nevertheless, he was blessed with extreme longevity, 1/?
When he first meets Frodo, he is 87 years old, yes. He dies at age 210. Númenóreans are built different.
#39 Ahem.
I can understand enough of what they are saying to confirm that, yes, they are his kids. :(
NASA's work has no relation whatsoever to whether there is or is not affordable healthcare.
It's completely normal for Tumblr.
...The average temperature on Venus is 840 degrees Fahrenheit (465 Celcius).
My dude, NASA's TOTAL budget in 2023 was $25.4 billion. For comparison, Medicare's budget for that same year was $839 billion. NASA's budget hasn't been more than 1.05% of the total federal budget since the 1970s. (It maxed out at 3.52% at the height of the space race.)
A good definition would read something like: "A square is a polygon with four sides of equal length, and such that all four interior angles are right angles." You don't need convexity as part of the definition; you'll get that for free. (Obviously, this definition requires you to have defined what polygons are already. But that is significantly longer.)
Exactly right.
They should certainly be *interior* angles. But that was nowhere specified. The definition given was very incomplete.
You compute angles between curves by considering tangent lines. Those would be right angles.
There absolutely are. That is not the problem.
Dionysus?
make it happen. If not? Too bad; the US doesn't do vaccine research anymore. We export that work overseas. We've already seen this on a much smaller scale. When we had the long government shut down under Trump, grants were not being paid out. I knew someone who worked as researcher in a laboratory. She lost her job... and she didn't go back into the field when the government restarted. And that was just a month! 2/2
This paints too rosy of a picture, because it suggests that we are simply pushing vaccine research back 8 years. But that isn't how it would go. Labs would close down. Researchers would leave the field, taking the institutional knowledge with them. They wouldn't train replacements. Students will not train to eventually enter the field. After 8 years of this, it will take years---maybe decades---just to get back to where we were, assuming the government was willing to spend a lot of money to 1/?
#15 For what it is worth, if the sort of exams that you are taking can be correctly answered by ChatGPT, you are not learning anything useful anyway. I have had ChatGPT take my true/false exams. It has yet to do better than a coin.
Obviously, they are tearaway shirts, like a stripper. Or someone recovering from surgery.
Good photographs are usually *anything* but low effort. But I do agree that Marx was wrong and the value of something is not necessarily directly tied to how difficult it was to produce.
I suppose he *could* have faked it, but considering that this was very high profile (he was an MP) that seems really unlikely to me. 3/3
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/walter-rothschild-a-curious-life.html 2/3
I'm skeptical. This is a very famous photograph: this was Lord Rothschild, who was a prolific zoologist who had a crazy collection of assorted animals. He specifically rode the zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that they could be domesticated. Of course, the account is that they really *weren't*---they were trained (in much the same way that you can train a lion or a bear), but they were still very much wild and would easily bolt, bite, and startle. A link to the Natural History Museum: 1/3
While it is a good edit, if you watch very closely you can see the exact moment where the mirror kind of pops into existence.
Colbert, as far as I know, is neither Russian, nor a mathematician, nor a ninja. Also, I must confess that I did not rattle this off from memory, which I imagine he would likely be able to do.
the daughter of Elrond who, remember, was the twin brother of Elros, from whom Aragorn was descended. Whew! 5/5
faithful to Eru. They settled in Middle Earth and founded new kingdoms, including Gondor. One of them was Isildur, who was Aragorn's great great... great great grandfather. Isildur was himself a great great... great great grandson of Elros, and so he retained the extreme longevity of the Númenóreans, as did his progeny. (Although it was lessened due to the rebellion of Númenor.) Fun consequence of all of this: Arwen, who married Aragorn, was his great great great... great aunt, since she was 4/?
and knowledge to the then-king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn. In particular, he promised the secret of eternal life as long as they vowed to serve Morgoth. He managed to sway them and ultimately convinced them to sail away from Middle Earth to Valinor, where the Valar live. (Kind of a mix of gods and arch-angels in Tolkien's mythology.) Eru (God) did not take kindly to this, and destroyed the Númenórean fleet and Númenor itself. There were Númenóreans who escaped the cataclysm, as they were still 3/?
as were the rest of the Númenóreans; the *common folk* lived for 200 years and those who were actually descended from Elros lived for a lot longer. Their civilization flourished and they became increasingly prideful. Eventually, in the Second Age, they went to challenge Sauron (who was still kicking around even after Morgoth was exiled from the universe), and they "won." In reality, it was something of a trick: Sauron pretended to be laid low and was taken prisoner, and then promised power 2/?
Aight. In the First Age, Men and Elves formed an alliance to fight Morgoth---basically Satan in Tolkien's world and Sauron's boss. The homeland of Men was destroyed in the process but, as a reward, they were given the island of Númenor as a new home. Their king was Elros, who was Elrond's twin brother. Both of them were half-elven, but Elrond chose to live as an Elf and so was immortal, while Elros chose to live as a Human and was mortal. Nevertheless, he was blessed with extreme longevity, 1/?
When he first meets Frodo, he is 87 years old, yes. He dies at age 210. Númenóreans are built different.
#39 Ahem.
I can understand enough of what they are saying to confirm that, yes, they are his kids. :(
NASA's work has no relation whatsoever to whether there is or is not affordable healthcare.
It's completely normal for Tumblr.
...The average temperature on Venus is 840 degrees Fahrenheit (465 Celcius).
My dude, NASA's TOTAL budget in 2023 was $25.4 billion. For comparison, Medicare's budget for that same year was $839 billion. NASA's budget hasn't been more than 1.05% of the total federal budget since the 1970s. (It maxed out at 3.52% at the height of the space race.)
A good definition would read something like: "A square is a polygon with four sides of equal length, and such that all four interior angles are right angles." You don't need convexity as part of the definition; you'll get that for free. (Obviously, this definition requires you to have defined what polygons are already. But that is significantly longer.)
Exactly right.
They should certainly be *interior* angles. But that was nowhere specified. The definition given was very incomplete.
You compute angles between curves by considering tangent lines. Those would be right angles.
There absolutely are. That is not the problem.
Dionysus?
make it happen. If not? Too bad; the US doesn't do vaccine research anymore. We export that work overseas. We've already seen this on a much smaller scale. When we had the long government shut down under Trump, grants were not being paid out. I knew someone who worked as researcher in a laboratory. She lost her job... and she didn't go back into the field when the government restarted. And that was just a month! 2/2
This paints too rosy of a picture, because it suggests that we are simply pushing vaccine research back 8 years. But that isn't how it would go. Labs would close down. Researchers would leave the field, taking the institutional knowledge with them. They wouldn't train replacements. Students will not train to eventually enter the field. After 8 years of this, it will take years---maybe decades---just to get back to where we were, assuming the government was willing to spend a lot of money to 1/?
#15 For what it is worth, if the sort of exams that you are taking can be correctly answered by ChatGPT, you are not learning anything useful anyway. I have had ChatGPT take my true/false exams. It has yet to do better than a coin.
Obviously, they are tearaway shirts, like a stripper. Or someone recovering from surgery.
Good photographs are usually *anything* but low effort. But I do agree that Marx was wrong and the value of something is not necessarily directly tied to how difficult it was to produce.
I suppose he *could* have faked it, but considering that this was very high profile (he was an MP) that seems really unlikely to me. 3/3
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/walter-rothschild-a-curious-life.html 2/3
I'm skeptical. This is a very famous photograph: this was Lord Rothschild, who was a prolific zoologist who had a crazy collection of assorted animals. He specifically rode the zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that they could be domesticated. Of course, the account is that they really *weren't*---they were trained (in much the same way that you can train a lion or a bear), but they were still very much wild and would easily bolt, bite, and startle. A link to the Natural History Museum: 1/3