Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 02:28:01 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> 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.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. > (He's just trying to impress the ladies with the dumb act. And by ladies I mean Chaya and Ruediger.) -- Jim .