Subj : Re: Hey Nick To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 03:10:43 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C8BBD3831CB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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.) > Honestly I am dumb, I keep trying to tell people, just because I like reading stuff doesn't mean that I understand it. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .