Just a Friendly Reminder :)

[AV1611VET]

Just a friendly reminder that Pi Day is coming very soon!

I could reissue my Pi challenge ... but I'll refrain.

 

[Jazer]

Just a friendly reminder that Pi Day is coming very soon!

I could reissue my Pi challenge ... but I'll refrain.

R we allowed to bring a square pie?

 

[AV1611VET]

R we allowed to bring a square pie?

As long as it has its own area --

 

[GrowingSmaller]

How do genes code for pupils, the circular entrances in the eye? Is it possible for gene therapy to give us spirals, like Franz Anton Mesmer had?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

How do genes code for pupils, the circular entrances in the eye? Is it possible for gene therapy to give us spirals, like Franz Anton Mesmer had?

Gene therapy's use is overrated. We'd need much more sophisticated technology.

That said, squid look like a good candidate for human hybrids...

God, can you imagine seeing polarised light? It'd have destroyed this 'new wave' 3D industry before it got started!

 

[Nabobalis]

God, can you imagine seeing polarised light? It'd have destroyed this 'new wave' 3D industry before it got started!

Personally, I want to be able to see as much as the EM spectrum as possible. I'd love to be able to coronal loops with a telescope and my eye.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Personally, I want to be able to see as much as the EM spectrum as possible. I'd love to be able to coronal loops with a telescope and my eye.

This is an exchange between Cavil and Ellen from Battlestar Galactica (I've coloured it white to try and hide it; curses on CF and its non-white background and lack of spoiler tags!):

Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova?


Ellen: No.


Cavil: No. Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe, other stars, other planets, and eventually other life, a supernova, creation itself. I was there. I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull. With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, with ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.


Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.


Cavil: I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body. And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way.

My thoughts exactly!

 

[TheReasoner]

Happy π day people!

 

[Nabobalis]

Not enough pies!

 

[Belk]

Just a friendly reminder that Pi Day is coming very soon!

I could reissue my Pi challenge ... but I'll refrain.

Pi all around.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

We need to go deeper.

 

[David Jerome]

Is it just me, or does the Pi symbol look like a Japanese character?

 

[CabVet]

Have you guys heard of HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act?

Ian Squires: Conservative Pie: Republicans Introduce Legislation Redefining Pi as Exactly 3

Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is sponsoring HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, declaring the Euclidean mathematical constant of pi to be precisely 3. The bill comes in response to data and rankings from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, rating the United States' 15 year-olds 25th in the world in mathematics.

"That long-held empirical value of pi, I am not saying it should be necessarily viewed as wrong, but 3 is a lot better," said Roby, the 34-year old legislator representing Alabama's second congressional district, ushered into office in the historic 2010 Republican mid-term bonanza.

"It's no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard data, we know our children are struggling with a heck of a lot of the math, including the geometry incorporating pi," Roby said. "I guarantee you American scores will go up once pi is 3. It will be so much easier."

 

[TheReasoner]

Is it just me, or does the Pi symbol look like a Japanese character?

Sorry, but I think it might be just you. It's a greek character. Japanese characters look like this:

 

[David Jerome]

Sorry, but I think it might be just you.

This doesn't kinda look like the pi symbol? All it's missing is the connecting line on the top.

Then again, this is a chinese character. And much of Japanese writing borrows from Chinese.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Have you guys heard of HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act?

Ian Squires: Conservative Pie: Republicans Introduce Legislation Redefining Pi as Exactly 3

It distresses me that I don't know if this is satirical or not...

 

[TheReasoner]

Have you guys heard of HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act?

Ian Squires: Conservative Pie: Republicans Introduce Legislation Redefining Pi as Exactly 3

Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is sponsoring HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, declaring the Euclidean mathematical constant of pi to be precisely 3. The bill comes in response to data and rankings from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, rating the United States' 15 year-olds 25th in the world in mathematics.

"That long-held empirical value of pi, I am not saying it should be necessarily viewed as wrong, but 3 is a lot better," said Roby, the 34-year old legislator representing Alabama's second congressional district, ushered into office in the historic 2010 Republican mid-term bonanza.

"It's no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard data, we know our children are struggling with a heck of a lot of the math, including the geometry incorporating pi," Roby said. "I guarantee you American scores will go up once pi is 3. It will be so much easier."

Hehe. It's a brilliant joke. But, such laws have been attempted passed in the states before. Specifically in Indiana, 1897.

 

[brinny]

Just a friendly reminder that Pi Day is coming very soon!

I could reissue my Pi challenge ... but I'll refrain.

[pong]Happy Pi day![/pong]

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Ba boom.

 

[CabVet]

It distresses me that I don't know if this is satirical or not...

Exactly! First time I read it I had the same exact thought, and then I thought, what world is this that we live in when I can actually think something like this can be true? It is a satire by the way.