Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Sibyl, Jun 16, 2017.

  1. JirinPanthosa

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    Work: Can you take the Scrum Master role for this team?
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  2. Worf factor9

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    Welcome to the Egress!

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    Barnum's American Museum was so popular that people would spend the entire day there. This cut into profits, as the museum would be too full to squeeze another person in. In classic Barnum style, old P.T. put up signs that said "This Way to the Egress."

    Many customers followed the signs, not realizing that Egress was a fancy word for "Exit." They kept on looking for this strange new attraction, the "Egress". Many patrons followed the signs right out the door! Once they had exited the building, the door would lock behind them, and if they wanted to get back in, they had to pay another admission charge!

    Modern museums make sure that the last thing you see before you exit is the gift shop.

    http://www.ptbarnum.org/egress.html
     
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  3. Gingerbread Demon

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    OK I'm still trying to get over "invisible statue sells for thousands"
     
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  4. Gary Mitchell

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    I have no idea what a scrum master is.
     
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  5. JD

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    Wow, just wow.
     
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  6. Non Sync

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    Scrum is a framework for utilizing an agile mindset for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex productions, mostly software.
     
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  7. JirinPanthosa

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    It basically means I figure out what everyone is doing and try to resolve any impediments to what they need to do, also decide the scope of what everyone is doing in the next two weeks.
     
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  8. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    I love this, when we look at the Sun its 8 minutes old as the light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth, the Moon 1 second, Mars 21 minutes and Jupiter 30 minutes old by the time light gets to Earth.... When we look at a distant galaxy it's hundreds or thousands of years in the past. It's kind of unsettling.

    On the other hand would people looking back at Earth over there be seeing an ancient Earth?
     
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  9. Finn

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  10. Kai "the spy"

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    What, the speed of light is higher on its way over there?!
     
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  11. Gingerbread Demon

    Gingerbread Demon I love Star Trek Discovery Premium Member

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    No the speed of light is consistent I was just making the point that anyone in another galaxy looking back at Earth would see an old Ancient Earth in much the same way we would see them. At least that what I assumed now not so sure.

    Also the ps5 and new xbox are both fucking ugly.
     
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  12. Kai "the spy"

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    I know, my response was to @Finn giving an answer apparently denying that.
     
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  13. Finn

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    Actually, you implied the nearest galaxy was just hundreds or thousands of lights years away thus being somehow able to observe Earth as it was happening thousands of years ago (an impossibility), when the nearest galaxy is millions of light years away.
     
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  14. think

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    And the grass is cut..
     
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  15. Swedish Borg

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    Gruyere is a paradoxical cheese because the more gruyere you have, the more holes you find, but the more holes you find in it, the less gruyere you have...

    So in conclusion: The more gruyere you have the less gruyere you have...
     
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  16. JD

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    Here's a random question that popped into my head after reading @Kai "the spy"'s posts.
    How long do radio signals, and the other signals they use to search for extraterrestrial move? Could there be life out there sending signals right now, but we don't know because all of the signals we're detecting are ancient? Or the other around, if we do detect a distant signal, would whoever have sent probably died out a long time ago?
     
  17. think

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    In an infinite universe ever point in the universe is the center of the universe.
     
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  18. Gingerbread Demon

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    I know that I was just making a point about how the effect would work the same both ways. I realize observation would be impossible bar magical technology
     
  19. Gingerbread Demon

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    Cheese, holes. Ooh but I thought it was Swiss Cheese that had all the round holes

    Who can tell, they either died off or did make it and left their world for greener pastures.
     
  20. BK613

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    Just to be a bit pedantic, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are galaxies that are 163000 ly and 206,000 ly away, respectively. In fact there are about fifty recognized galaxies that are closer than one million light years.
    That being said, what most people think of are the larger galaxies that are like the Milky Way, which are indeed millions (and billions) of light years away.
     
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