Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 01:30:29 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C85DFBB4CE3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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.) We have several buildings in my area with hyperbolic paraboloid shaped roofs. They are rather nifty. Of course it's not that uncommon a shape, think a power station cooling tower cut vertically down the centre. They were all designed by a local architect called Sam Scorer. Not a great picture I'm afraid but the best I could find: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/newsbyte/issue10-img/scorer-library.jpg You should have seen the puzzled look on my face when I was reading a book on n dimensional geomotry where n was greater than 3. Hell I get confused reading Euclid, but it's a lot more interesting than just counting things when you look at the patterns and weird stuff. >>>> 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? > Its either that or you're guilty by association, possibly both. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .