There is something off with Rapunzel's and Tiana's faces, but Scarlett was able to ID most of the popular ones (Aurora's nondress threw her off), so the artist did a pretty good jobOriginally Posted by Nessus
There is something off with Rapunzel's and Tiana's faces, but Scarlett was able to ID most of the popular ones (Aurora's nondress threw her off), so the artist did a pretty good job
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Hear no monkeys, see no monkeys, speak no monkeys.
Compilation of thousands of pictures which when put together shows ~1 billion stars across the milky way.
Zoomed in:
An interactive website has been put together which allows you to zoom in on the pic.
It was painfully slow when I tried it tho ...
so many stars ...
Sure, but so obviously 'shopped.
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999.999.997, 999.999.998, 999.999.999 ...
Yep, that's a billion stars.
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I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
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Last I read, sometime last year, they figured the Milkyway's about twice as big as they originally thought, revising the star count up from 250billionish to 450billionish. Not sure if that includes all the red dwarfs they've been talking about. Saw an article in science just a few days ago saying there's quite a lot of red dwarf stars nearby Sol with rocky Earth sizeish planets. Will find a post in a sec....
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Of course w/in 30 light years for us might as well be within a gazillion light years. We can't even go the quarter million miles to our own damn moon.ScienceShot: 'Super Earths' Abound Nearby
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Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
Tens of billions of small, rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars inhabit the Milky Way, and dozens lie within 30 light-years of Earth, according to a new survey. Between February 2003 and April 2009, researchers at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile studied 102 Class M, so-called red dwarf, stars less than about 32.6 light-years away—a proximity that allowed researchers to detect subtle wobbles that would be induced by one or more planets orbiting the star. Of the stars they scrutinized, the researchers found that eight hosted 14 planets, including 12 estimated to be "super-Earths," rocky planets with a mass between one and 10 times that of our own. Then, accounting for planets in orbits that wouldn't induce detectable wobbles, such as those not seen edge-on from Earth, and for the orbital periods of those planets around their parent stars, the team estimated that about 41% of red dwarf stars have super-Earths orbiting at a distance at which surface water would be liquid—including Gliese 667 Cc (artist's concept above), a super-Earth orbiting one star in a three-star system about 22 light-years from Earth. Considering that about 80%, or 160 billion, of the Milky Way's stars are red dwarfs, there are likely more than 65 billion stars in our galaxy with a habitable super-Earth, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and about 100 of them lie within 10 parsecs, or 32.6 light-years, of Earth.
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Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
That's nine-hundred and ninety-nine point nine nine nine, and some weird additional second decimal point. With some more numbers after the weird additional second decimal point.
1 short of a billion is 999,999,999
That's your backwater imperial brainwashing talking.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Seriously tho like innit, how do you tell the difference between ninety-nine-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, and ninety-nine point nine nine nine, with that denotation?
Both would be 99.999 no? Or am I missing summink?
Yeah, many countries use ',' as decical separator. Hence in German speaking we still say: Neunundneunzig Komma Neunhunderneunundneunzig.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
0,999 is almost 1
Seriously tho like innit, how do you tell the difference between ninety-nine-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, and ninety-nine point nine nine nine, with that denotation?
Both would be 99.999 no? Or am I missing summink?
999,999 is almost a thousand
999.999,999 is almost one milllllllion!
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
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so your commas and points are the reverse of ours
weird
EDIT: does software take this into account when regionally altered? Do your versions of office, excel etc use commas as decimal separators?
Yes.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Indeed. It's annoying as heck. Find an replace.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Does Dutchland use long or short scale numbers?
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
If it is what I think it is, long scale.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Has a good table
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
In that case, I always use short.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
The captain stared into the dim navigational monitor baffled. Its being dim was only one of numerous problems that at the current time perplexed him. The most pertinent problem at the moment was the complete lack of planets, or even a star in the nearest light-year's distance. They had anticipated this problem at the journey's start, and already had the main computer digging through its exhaustive list of possible habitable systems, the navigational computer processing where the ship might be, and yet another system crunching a massive amount of numbers related to modeling how the surrounding universe may have changed in the intervening years since they've been in hibernation. This had been going on for hours with little progress being made. Rumors amongst the crew of them being lost had already begun to visibly damage morale. They had even begun reminding him that they really should have studied the ship, and the culture of those who created it more before departing. Perhaps in hindsight, they did have a point. It had been built thousands of years ago, at around the time of the Third War. Their finding it was entirely dumb luck. The ancient nation of Amer had apparently set up an automated system of relays to the ship, one of which survived on Luna. In their haste to find out where the ship was programmed to go, they repaired it using artifacts gathered from the Pre-War nations. Should not the Kingdom's artifacts be just as useful as those from Amer? Before the captain could give this line of reasoning any more thought, the navigational computer made an alarming sound, and up on the display popped a monochrome image of the galaxy with two red dots. Two red dots labeled in the Pre-War language he had not yet fully learned. What he did understand were that the dots were far apart. Very far apart.
Spoiler:
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Source?
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
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