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  1. Angilion

    Making The Bed

    Luxury! When I were a lad we used to dream of having a blanket. We had to make do with worn out sacks.
  2. Angilion

    I tried Durian.

    I didn't know, so I looked it up. And now I wish I didn't know. :) The name sounds like a brand of toilet paper, which is appropriate :) I think this post was spot on: My civet faeces coffee arrived today. Guaranteed wild civet faeces coffee, so it's better in ethical terms. We'll try it next...
  3. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    We know that cats are the true rulers of the world already because their behaviour tells us so :) When I was a kid, we had a cat turn up and move in. No idea where it came from. We tried to find out, but couldn't. The cat was "Yeah, my home now". It mentored some kittens we got a bit later. It...
  4. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    I'm going to assume for the sake of argument that the 100,000,000 figure was intended to be one estimate of the number of probably rocky planets in this galaxy that could receive an amount of energy from their star(s) that might allow for the presence of liquid water if all the geological and...
  5. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    No, because I haven't made any. The Drake equation is what it is and you did say that you used it to calculate a figure of 100,000,000.
  6. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    I never appeared in Supernatural. :)
  7. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    That wasn't my intention. It was a comment on the randomness of fame and how that applies to Schrodinger, not a comment on your post. Your post reminded me of it, but my reply wasn't directly about your post. With hindsight I can see that I should have marked that separation by starting with a...
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    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    I sort of feel soory for Schrodinger. All the things he did and he's most remembered on the basis of people misunderstanding a single casual reference he once made as part of a reductio ad absurdum argument. Few people even know what he was arguing against (the Copenhagen interpretation).
  9. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    I'll repeat myself in as succinct a way as possible: You cited the Drake equation as the source of the 100,000,000 number you chose. The Drake equation is (very explicitly) about the number of civilisations in the milky way that currently have the capability to communicate with humans...
  10. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    The purpose of the Drake equation was to stimulate discussion of the relevant factors in communicating with alien civilisations. If you treat it as an equation (which it was never actually meant to be) then it's about communicating with alien civilisations. The result is the number of...
  11. Angilion

    I tried Durian.

    It's a good job we're not planning on given up our day jobs to live off ad revenue from a Youtube series :) We'll probably try the stinking bishop cheese again. It was just a timing issue last time. Balut gets a no from me straight off the bat because of what it is.
  12. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    i) The Drake equation is not a model. It's an encouragement for debate on the issue of how difficult it would be to communicate with aliens. ii) The Drake equation has nothing to do with approximating the chance of life on other planets. It's about communicating with aliens, or at least about...
  13. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    That's a very clear statement of faith. Just substitute <insert god or gods here> for "aliens visiting Earth" to see that. In the past in many places anything not fully understood was "explained" as gods and/or other supernatural entities. Still is in some places, amongst some people. Why were...
  14. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    In order to use the Drake equation as a prediction it's necessary to have solved it. Saying the result is an estimate merely means solving the equation with a margin of error. Otherwise all you're doing is holding it up as a false appeal to authority in order to pretend that whatever number you...
  15. Angilion

    I tried Durian.

    After Durian, we tried Stinking Bishop and surstromming. Well, actually we didn't. The cheese arrived while my coworker was away and it stank out a fridge so badly that it had to be binned. The cheese, not the fridge. That had to be scrubbed. Nobody was willing to try eating the surstromming...
  16. Angilion

    **** Official Fallout 4 Thread ****

    Little more than a month to Fallout: London now.
  17. Angilion

    Pentagon releases UFO footage

    On what basis do you claim to have solved an equation in which almost all of the terms have an unknown value? The Drake equation has absolutely no predictive value and was never intended to. It was created solely as a way to spur discussion. It can't be solved until after we already know the...
  18. Angilion

    Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set

    I can understand how that happened. Her job was handling props. On set, guns and ammunition are props. So it's part of her job...if no thought or reasonable oversight is applied. Which seems to have been the normal procedure on that set.
  19. Angilion

    Anyone know/knew a leapling?

    It's because a year is ~365.24 days, not 365.25 days. I remember because when I was in infant school I corrected a teacher who said a year was 365 days. That taught me that being right doesn't always matter but having more power always matters.
  20. Angilion

    I am king of the numpties!

    That's a good point - there's a very large difference in cable thickness. I think what happened was that I'd picked it up by the connector. USB A and DisplayPort connectors are a much more similar size than the cables are. With my eyesight and without extra lighting, I wouldn't have been able...
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