Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 17:12:18 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96C7DDDCD78E23v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote in >>> news:Xns96C7D1AFD4DF83v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> You know you were saying about how you would trust a big U.S. news >>>>> corporation to give the facts correctly: >>>>> >>>>> http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2F412CBB >>>>> >>>> >>>> (All the cool kids use tinyurl.com) >>>> >>> >>> Well there's the problem, I'm all hot and sweaty. >>> I did however show some adults today the thing about the internal >>> angles >>> in a triangle don't add up to 180 degrees and pi isn't 3 an a bit >>> that I >> >> (Sphere? Poincare plane? What?) > > Balloon. You draw a triangle on a ballon and then inflate it. You then > put it ontop of something circular like a mug and push the centre part > down. I've found that it's the best way to get people thniking about it, > cheap and simple to do as well. > (Positive curvature then. Kind of impossible to demonstrate the hyperbolic case with real props.) >>> was talking to Nick about a while ago. Apparently it was cool and >>> therefore I am frosty by association. >> >> Woohoo! > > Which I suppose as we are talking makes you a bit nippy. Burrrr? -- Jim .