Subj : Re: Hey Nick
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 01:35:04

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96C85DFBB4CE3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96C7DDDCD78E23v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> 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.j
> pg 
> 
>  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. 

As I look at that roof all I can think is that it is going to hold 
water.
BTW, you can't claim to be dumb and post about reading n dimensional 
geometry books for fun.  You are going to have to stop doing one of 
them.  I can link you to some comic strips if it will help.

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