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Jan. 13th, 2003 04:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverwhereWe interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important message from the Society for Putting Things On Top of Other Things:
People aren't wearing enough hats.
Thank you.
...And if you can tell me what bit of randomness I just used, I'll give you a cookie. :)
What an exceedingly tedious weekend I had. The most exciting thing I did was go to the market only to forget everything I needed to buy, but that was okay because I forgot my wallet as well. Whooot. I did have another marvellous late night conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladynemo, who is just as silly and adorable as can be, but suffers from an unfortunate case of Time Zone-itus, which means that she is only around and stupid hours of the morning. Although I suppose that isn't usually much of a problem, as I am too. *chuckles*
Happy belated birthday tosillypants and o0hugsnkisses0o! *throws streamers and balloons in the air* :D
You thought I had forgotten, didn't you. Ha! Shows how much you know. *giggles* :
And now for a poetic interlude -- I give you: Geeky Haiku.
With a nervous laugh,
You question my sanity
But you hold the axe.
Unreal Tournament
All day and all of the night
I need to make friends.
404 Error
The page you are looking for
No longer exists.
*bows* Thank you, thank you. I also do bar mitzvahs...*laughs* The 404 error one is my favourite. I love being geeky. :)
Please welcome new friendsmoogle_tey, who has lots of nifty interests including the wonderful Serendipity books that I loved so much as a child, and etoilepb, who is incredibly cool (she likes the same things I do, therefore=coooooooool ;-), and I can't wait to get to know her better. Hurrah for new friends! *hugs*
Somehow I have just managed to waste an entire hour since I wrote that last sentence. Where does the time go?
On a similar yet completely unrelated note, if the speed of gravity equals that of the speed of light, does that mean you'll be weightless as well as ageless when travelling at lightspeed? Cause that would be wicked. *grins* (I could fly AND live forever -- SCORE! *lol*)
I shall now bid you all goodnight, and as a parting gift leave you with a shedload of Tori Amos quizzies. Wheeee! :)
Which musical genius are you?
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Which song of Tori Amos are you?
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Yep, that's me! *bounce*
Which Tori Amos Song are you?
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My favourite Tori song! Well, that and Fire on the Side. Yes, I like the odd songs. I'm just kooky. :)
Which Tori Amos album are you?
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My favourite album ever! Yayyyyy Tori! :D
People aren't wearing enough hats.
Thank you.
...And if you can tell me what bit of randomness I just used, I'll give you a cookie. :)
What an exceedingly tedious weekend I had. The most exciting thing I did was go to the market only to forget everything I needed to buy, but that was okay because I forgot my wallet as well. Whooot. I did have another marvellous late night conversation with
ladynemo, who is just as silly and adorable as can be, but suffers from an unfortunate case of Time Zone-itus, which means that she is only around and stupid hours of the morning. Although I suppose that isn't usually much of a problem, as I am too. *chuckles*Happy belated birthday to
sillypants and o0hugsnkisses0o! *throws streamers and balloons in the air* :D You thought I had forgotten, didn't you. Ha! Shows how much you know. *giggles* :
And now for a poetic interlude -- I give you: Geeky Haiku.
With a nervous laugh,
You question my sanity
But you hold the axe.
Unreal Tournament
All day and all of the night
I need to make friends.
404 Error
The page you are looking for
No longer exists.
*bows* Thank you, thank you. I also do bar mitzvahs...*laughs* The 404 error one is my favourite. I love being geeky. :)
Please welcome new friends
moogle_tey, who has lots of nifty interests including the wonderful Serendipity books that I loved so much as a child, and etoilepb, who is incredibly cool (she likes the same things I do, therefore=coooooooool ;-), and I can't wait to get to know her better. Hurrah for new friends! *hugs*Somehow I have just managed to waste an entire hour since I wrote that last sentence. Where does the time go?
On a similar yet completely unrelated note, if the speed of gravity equals that of the speed of light, does that mean you'll be weightless as well as ageless when travelling at lightspeed? Cause that would be wicked. *grins* (I could fly AND live forever -- SCORE! *lol*)
I shall now bid you all goodnight, and as a parting gift leave you with a shedload of Tori Amos quizzies. Wheeee! :)
Which musical genius are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Which song of Tori Amos are you?
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Yep, that's me! *bounce*
Which Tori Amos Song are you?
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My favourite Tori song! Well, that and Fire on the Side. Yes, I like the odd songs. I'm just kooky. :)
Which Tori Amos album are you?
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My favourite album ever! Yayyyyy Tori! :D
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Date: 2003-01-12 10:24 pm (UTC)the speed of light is WAYYYY faster than that... in the hundreds of thousands of metres per second....
unless you are talking about black holes, which is a completely different case... because there, the speed of light is not fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the centre of the hole, so the light doesn't come out of the hole, and you are left with a black spot in space... and if light can't get out, dont go in cause there's no way you're getting out either.. :)
i think that's enough for that brain fart...
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Date: 2003-01-12 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-13 03:12 am (UTC)Ding!
*gives you a cookie* :D
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Date: 2003-01-13 06:03 am (UTC)And *laughs* at your icon. I didn't realise 'Tig' had become famous in the hobbitfancying community, though I suppose it was obviously going to :) Casby and I laughed for ages at that bit in the DVD.
Where did the picture come from?
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Date: 2003-01-13 06:29 am (UTC)Hello hello! *waves*
Tig is only the most hobbityfancying game EVER, wheeee! *giggles*
The picture is by an extremely talented artist who made some absolutely hilarious LOTR drawings, but unfortunately I lost the address and now have no idea how to find her again. I'm sure she's made some brilliant new pictures for TT too, ah well.
If I ever stumble across her work again I'll let you know. :)
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Date: 2003-01-13 03:11 am (UTC)Yes, but did you hear about this experiement which apparently proves that the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light?
Most intresting stuff. :)
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Date: 2003-01-13 11:18 am (UTC)The research in question wasn't about how fast bodies travel under the influence of gravity. It was about whether the effect of gravity is instantaneous, or if it takes time to travel from one body to the next. For example, if the mass of a star suddenly reduced, would planets in orbit around it instantaneously feel a weaker force of gravity, or would it take a number of minutes for the weakening in the force to reach them.
Scientists have now done experiments indicating it's the second of these.
*takes off physics hat*
Ha! Answering physics questions and contributing to
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Date: 2003-01-13 02:12 pm (UTC)Read about it here!
Also, in the case of black holes, they are black because the part of the light spectrum that we can see does not have enough energy to escape the strong gravitational pull of the hole. Ultra violet and infrared light can get out, but white light can't. It doen't have to do with speed, but energy.
I guess that's about it from me. I'm no physicist, and I really shouldn't be thinking about these things. Especially not Dark Energy, which really bakes my noodle.