Cognitive dissonance is fun! Also, Saving Hubble?
Dinaverg
27-10-2006, 14:23
Well, other people's CD anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:0.999.../Arguments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6088076.stm
Fartsniffage
27-10-2006, 14:30
Why not simply launch a new hubble? They already have the designs so building it would be fairly cheap and easy and they would be paying for the launch cost for the maintenance mission anyway so they might as well just sling a new one up there.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-10-2006, 14:40
.99999..... may or may not equal 1 but it certainly equals a bunch of drunken physics nerds getting into the silliest battle royale brawl in history. :)
Katurkalurkmurkastan
27-10-2006, 14:55
yes, i saw that too. i then had to attempt to explain to someone why 0.888... is not equal to 0.9. apparently didn't do a good job of it though.
Dinaverg
27-10-2006, 14:56
Why not simply launch a new hubble? They already have the designs so building it would be fairly cheap and easy and they would be paying for the launch cost for the maintenance mission anyway so they might as well just sling a new one up there.
Sentimental value?
Dinaverg
27-10-2006, 14:56
yes, i saw that too. i then had to attempt to explain to someone why 0.888... is not equal to 0.9. apparently didn't do a good job of it though.
Ah-course, .8999...would be.
Similization
27-10-2006, 15:51
0.999... is just a metaphor for "Not enough sex".