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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Well @Thundy, here's your challenge! No more questions to the good teacher until we have proof you, and yes, acvtually you, do 50 push-ups!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Well @Thundy, here's your challenge! No more questions to the good teacher until we have proof you, and yes, acvtually you, do 50 push-ups!
    I am the guy on the right. @bondjames is on the left.



    So, is the Devil more powerful than Man? Does he have greater knowledge and cunning?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    All right, I only managed 45, so no need to answer.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I just noticed my name quoted and so came over here. I have no idea what this thread is about (science was never my strong suit) but I can assure you there's no way I can do 50 pushups in one go. More like 20, and that's on a good day. That guy on the right looks like he's cheating (what he's doing looks like a series of yoga cobra poses and not push ups. Maybe that's why he's hiding behind the equipment).
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Did I say bondjames?

    Sorry, I meant @BondJasonBond006.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Did I say bondjames?

    Sorry, I meant @BondJasonBond006.

    Yes you did, and he cought you cheating as well!!!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Which of these three would people want to have most?

    A hover board, a flying car (think Blade Runner's future vehicles), or a robot maid that could look like any woman you wanted?

    I'm already grounded in the present so hover boards seem a tad boring and I'm always wary of AI, so I think it's a flying car for me.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7
    You're right, flying car. I'd love one! That robot maid sounds inviting but I'll save that for @Thunderfinger. ;-) Meanwhile, I'd love to take off vertically in my backyard and fly in a straight line to work. No more traffic lights! :)
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    I'd love a hoverboard, but judging by a recent attempt at paddleboarding I wouldn't be very good at it!

    What I want to know is where is the reasonably-priced personal aircraft we were promised by now?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    I'd love a hoverboard, but judging by a recent attempt at paddleboarding I wouldn't be very good at it!

    What I want to know is where is the reasonably-priced personal aircraft we were promised by now?

    Right? 2015 comes and no cool hover boards like in Back to the Future, and now 2019 will come and go without cool flying cars like those in Blade Runner. The future is a sham!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Worse than that, I was promised a Jaws 19.

    A JAWS NINETEEN, I tells ya!

    BTTF pt.2 fooled us all, man.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    I'd love a hoverboard, but judging by a recent attempt at paddleboarding I wouldn't be very good at it!

    What I want to know is where is the reasonably-priced personal aircraft we were promised by now?

    Considering the way people drive in two dimentions, I'd rather not have them fly too to be honest. But if I'm th only one having one I'd go for the car too.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
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    Not even the most perceptive mind could wrap their heads around that egomaniac.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/universe-shouldn-t-exist-cern-physicists-conclude
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/universe-shouldn-t-exist-cern-physicists-conclude

    Which means Douglas Adams was right all along!!!!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Yes, and CERN shouldn t exist, either.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Yes, and CERN shouldn t exist, either.

    Really? You wouldn't even be able to share that sentiment with us right now if it hadn't been for CERN. ;-)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Isn t that a good point, then?
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Isn t that a good point, then?

    definately!


    good thing you don't exist, so you can't read what I am not writing here.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    We are all part of this "Universe"
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    which, last time I checked, isn't there....
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I think. Therefore.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    I think. Therefore.

    You're not. Indeed, the whole of science has been reversed!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    9 months+81 years=981 months.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @Thunderfinger
    The trick can be generalised as follows:

    Add x months and y years, whereby y = 9x, and you always end up with 100x + y months, a number which can be written by using y for the final two digits and x for the first digit(s), provided that x < 12.

    e.g.

    x = 1, then y = 9, so 1 month + 9 years equals 109 months

    x = 2, then y = 18, so 2 months + 18 years equals 218 months

    x = 11, then y = 99, so 11 months + 99 years equals 1199 months
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Fascinating, but what's the use of this wonderful trick?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    There is none. But @Thunderfinger brought it up and I couldn't resist. ;-)
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