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On November 19 2015 17:13 Cascade wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2015 16:32 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
what do Swedish people think of the Swedish chef on the muppets? for some reason I wanted to ask this. I didn't watch much of the muppets as a kid, and wasn't aware of the Swedish chef until I was adult. He probably wouldn't be called the Swedish chef in Sweden anyway. When I did hear about it, it was some kind of mild confused amusement. "Umm, why Swedish? Well OK, sure whatever you want, lol..." I don't see many Swedish properties in him, so it feels a bit random.
Isn't that true of almost all racial stereotypes?
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On November 21 2015 11:03 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2015 17:13 Cascade wrote:On November 19 2015 16:32 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
what do Swedish people think of the Swedish chef on the muppets? for some reason I wanted to ask this. I didn't watch much of the muppets as a kid, and wasn't aware of the Swedish chef until I was adult. He probably wouldn't be called the Swedish chef in Sweden anyway. When I did hear about it, it was some kind of mild confused amusement. "Umm, why Swedish? Well OK, sure whatever you want, lol..." I don't see many Swedish properties in him, so it feels a bit random. Isn't that true of almost all racial stereotypes?
I'm assuming that all stereotypes that I don't have any first hand information about are 100% accurate.
Seriously though, I think many national/cultural (Swedes aren't a race) stereotypes have some truth to them on average. On average. On average. Let me say that again for clarity: on average. I think they tend to be more accurate the closer the culture is. So Swedes stereotypes about Danes will be pretty spot on, while Swedes stereotypes about Brazilians may not be as accurate.
Anyway, what properties does the Swedish chef even have, apart from speaking gibberish? I am fine with the gibberish, that's probably what Swedish sounds like if you don't speak it. As I understand he is a pretty crap chef? It's true that Sweden isn't like italy or france when it come to cooking, but tbh, England or US isn't in a position to complain.  I'd be fine with a French show making fun of Swedes inferior cooking skillz. 
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Reading the NASA thread a question came to mind:
If there was a useful resource found on/in earths moon, how much mass could we remove from the moon before it would have significant impacts on earth?
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As a newcomer in the pottery-manufacturing business, I have oft-heard mention of a peculiar "bowl-smoking" technique for hardening your clay bowls. Subsequent research has come up short however, and I fear that my rivals in the clay pot business will soon overtake me in technological expertise and expand into my domain. Where can I find out more about bowl-smoking and how can I differentiate myself from rival pot sellers in this industry?
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On November 21 2015 11:25 Cascade wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 11:03 Thieving Magpie wrote:On November 19 2015 17:13 Cascade wrote:On November 19 2015 16:32 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
what do Swedish people think of the Swedish chef on the muppets? for some reason I wanted to ask this. I didn't watch much of the muppets as a kid, and wasn't aware of the Swedish chef until I was adult. He probably wouldn't be called the Swedish chef in Sweden anyway. When I did hear about it, it was some kind of mild confused amusement. "Umm, why Swedish? Well OK, sure whatever you want, lol..." I don't see many Swedish properties in him, so it feels a bit random. Isn't that true of almost all racial stereotypes? I'm assuming that all stereotypes that I don't have any first hand information about are 100% accurate. Seriously though, I think many national/cultural (Swedes aren't a race) stereotypes have some truth to them on average. On average. On average. Let me say that again for clarity: on average. I think they tend to be more accurate the closer the culture is. So Swedes stereotypes about Danes will be pretty spot on, while Swedes stereotypes about Brazilians may not be as accurate. Anyway, what properties does the Swedish chef even have, apart from speaking gibberish? I am fine with the gibberish, that's probably what Swedish sounds like if you don't speak it. As I understand he is a pretty crap chef? It's true that Sweden isn't like italy or france when it come to cooking, but tbh, England or US isn't in a position to complain. I'd be fine with a French show making fun of Swedes inferior cooking skillz.
I think for most French people, Swedish cooking is basically IKEA pastries (x
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On November 21 2015 13:17 GreenHorizons wrote:
Reading the NASA thread a question came to mind:
If there was a useful resource found on/in earths moon, how much mass could we remove from the moon before it would have significant impacts on earth?
Compositions of earth and moon rocks are very similar. It's not easy to find a way something worth it on the moon. The main resource people have talked about so far is tritium. If commercial uses of nuclear fusion become real, 3H is easier to get on the moon where it is created by solar radiations on a surface not protected by an atmosphere.
For the mass ... moon is a sphere of diameter 3500km, mass 7x10^22 kg. Current total resources used per year by mankind are in the 10^11 range. You could take from it everything you need until the end of mankind, it wouldn't register.
(besides, if you find a cheap wait to get things down, use it to store your waste back up)
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On November 21 2015 11:25 Cascade wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 11:03 Thieving Magpie wrote:On November 19 2015 17:13 Cascade wrote:On November 19 2015 16:32 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
what do Swedish people think of the Swedish chef on the muppets? for some reason I wanted to ask this. I didn't watch much of the muppets as a kid, and wasn't aware of the Swedish chef until I was adult. He probably wouldn't be called the Swedish chef in Sweden anyway. When I did hear about it, it was some kind of mild confused amusement. "Umm, why Swedish? Well OK, sure whatever you want, lol..." I don't see many Swedish properties in him, so it feels a bit random. Isn't that true of almost all racial stereotypes? I'm assuming that all stereotypes that I don't have any first hand information about are 100% accurate. Seriously though, I think many national/cultural (Swedes aren't a race) stereotypes have some truth to them on average. On average. On average. Let me say that again for clarity: on average. I think they tend to be more accurate the closer the culture is. So Swedes stereotypes about Danes will be pretty spot on, while Swedes stereotypes about Brazilians may not be as accurate. Anyway, what properties does the Swedish chef even have, apart from speaking gibberish? I am fine with the gibberish, that's probably what Swedish sounds like if you don't speak it. As I understand he is a pretty crap chef? It's true that Sweden isn't like italy or france when it come to cooking, but tbh, England or US isn't in a position to complain. I'd be fine with a French show making fun of Swedes inferior cooking skillz.
I don't think the Swedish part of the Swedish chef referred to any stereotypical traits except for speaking Swedish-sounding gibberish. I definitely don't think the creators thought all Swedes are blind, for instance...
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On November 21 2015 18:15 Oshuy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 13:17 GreenHorizons wrote:
Reading the NASA thread a question came to mind:
If there was a useful resource found on/in earths moon, how much mass could we remove from the moon before it would have significant impacts on earth? Compositions of earth and moon rocks are very similar. It's not easy to find a way something worth it on the moon. The main resource people have talked about so far is tritium. If commercial uses of nuclear fusion become real, 3H is easier to get on the moon where it is created by solar radiations on a surface not protected by an atmosphere. For the mass ... moon is a sphere of diameter 3500km, mass 7x10^22 kg. Current total resources used per year by mankind are in the 10^11 range. You could take from it everything you need until the end of mankind, it wouldn't register. (besides, if you find a cheap wait to get things down, use it to store your waste back up)
I meant if we harvested say 10% of the moons mass (pretending for a moment it had some practical purpose) would that cause significant tidal shifts or something, or could it make a day/year shorter or longer or something? 25%,50%?
One could imagine a meteor knocking off a chunk of the moon instead if that's easier?
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What's a further education college? A girl I know went to London after high school and enrolled there...looks kinda fishy to me, do you get a degree? Is this the same as going to university? I don't think we have something similar in Italy so I'm confused
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands_College
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On November 21 2015 21:23 SoSexy wrote:What's a further education college? A girl I know went to London after high school and enrolled there...looks kinda fishy to me, do you get a degree? Is this the same as going to university? I don't think we have something similar in Italy so I'm confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands_College
No. Its basically an "instead of university". You get other, different qualifications there; often vocational subjects, apprenticeships and the like.
Edit: As a random example: some of the courses offered at Brooklands (having checked their website) include Childcare, Photography and Construction.
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On November 21 2015 23:54 -Celestial- wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 21:23 SoSexy wrote:What's a further education college? A girl I know went to London after high school and enrolled there...looks kinda fishy to me, do you get a degree? Is this the same as going to university? I don't think we have something similar in Italy so I'm confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands_College No. Its basically an "instead of university". You get other, different qualifications there; often vocational subjects, apprenticeships and the like. Edit: As a random example: some of the courses offered at Brooklands (having checked their website) include Childcare, Photography and Construction.
Are those kinds of institutions looked down by universities?
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On November 22 2015 04:24 SoSexy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 23:54 -Celestial- wrote:On November 21 2015 21:23 SoSexy wrote:What's a further education college? A girl I know went to London after high school and enrolled there...looks kinda fishy to me, do you get a degree? Is this the same as going to university? I don't think we have something similar in Italy so I'm confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands_College No. Its basically an "instead of university". You get other, different qualifications there; often vocational subjects, apprenticeships and the like. Edit: As a random example: some of the courses offered at Brooklands (having checked their website) include Childcare, Photography and Construction. Do universities look down on those kind of institutions?
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On November 21 2015 20:22 GreenHorizons wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 18:15 Oshuy wrote:On November 21 2015 13:17 GreenHorizons wrote:
Reading the NASA thread a question came to mind:
If there was a useful resource found on/in earths moon, how much mass could we remove from the moon before it would have significant impacts on earth? Compositions of earth and moon rocks are very similar. It's not easy to find a way something worth it on the moon. The main resource people have talked about so far is tritium. If commercial uses of nuclear fusion become real, 3H is easier to get on the moon where it is created by solar radiations on a surface not protected by an atmosphere. For the mass ... moon is a sphere of diameter 3500km, mass 7x10^22 kg. Current total resources used per year by mankind are in the 10^11 range. You could take from it everything you need until the end of mankind, it wouldn't register. (besides, if you find a cheap wait to get things down, use it to store your waste back up) I meant if we harvested say 10% of the moons mass (pretending for a moment it had some practical purpose) would that cause significant tidal shifts or something, or could it make a day/year shorter or longer or something? 25%,50%? One could imagine a meteor knocking off a chunk of the moon instead if that's easier?
Nothing that significant. Tides would get smaller on average (by about 7%). That should be the only thing visible (without instruments) in the first centuries. Some of the already existing perturbations of earth's orbit around the sun would be impacted, but unseen to most of us.
Other potential side effects after a few millenia would be degradations in those perturbations. For example, the moon has a stabilization effect on earth's tilt (varies currently between 22° and 24° on a 41 000 years cycle). A smaller moon would lessen this stabilization effect, which could bring higher tilt variations and major climate changes.
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Hm, what about conservation of angular momentum? If you lower a lot of mass down from the moon to earth, you change the moment of inertia of the earth/moon system, which should increase the total rotation speed of the whole system. Sadly, i don't exactly know how that would manifest, as i am not sure how the rotation of the moon around the earth and that of the earth around its own axis add up to that total rotation of the whole system. My guess is that the earth would either speed up or slow down a bit due to this. No idea about the magnitude of that effect either, but even small variations in the rotation speed of the earth should become visible after a few years of adding up, when the sun only rises at 12 o'clock.
Earths orbit around the sun on the other hand, why should that be influenced? Unless you are talking about three-body effects, the total mass of the earth-moon system would stay unchanged, and it's center of mass would also not change at all.
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We discussed the moon business a couple of months ago. The solution is to move equal mass from the earth to the moon. 
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On November 21 2015 13:57 Epishade wrote:
As a newcomer in the pottery-manufacturing business, I have oft-heard mention of a peculiar "bowl-smoking" technique for hardening your clay bowls. Subsequent research has come up short however, and I fear that my rivals in the clay pot business will soon overtake me in technological expertise and expand into my domain. Where can I find out more about bowl-smoking and how can I differentiate myself from rival pot sellers in this industry?
Kill your rivals. That's what a good druglord would do.
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On November 22 2015 04:24 SoSexy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2015 23:54 -Celestial- wrote:On November 21 2015 21:23 SoSexy wrote:What's a further education college? A girl I know went to London after high school and enrolled there...looks kinda fishy to me, do you get a degree? Is this the same as going to university? I don't think we have something similar in Italy so I'm confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands_College No. Its basically an "instead of university". You get other, different qualifications there; often vocational subjects, apprenticeships and the like. Edit: As a random example: some of the courses offered at Brooklands (having checked their website) include Childcare, Photography and Construction. Are those kinds of institutions looked down by universities?
In the US schools like this are called "Trade Schools" and yes in general it is looked at as a "lower" alternative to continuing your education but in practice a lot of them provide you with much better future employment and wage earning opportunities than the degrees that a majority of students get from traditional universities. (Particularly liberal arts degrees) For the most part these "trades" are things that are traditionally considered "blue-collar" but in fact are in high demand and require trained and competent individuals. For example I have friends who attended trade schools in fields like welding, pipe-fitting, etc that make comparable or better to other friends with their engineering/nursing/teaching degrees. It mostly comes down to if you actually want to do that sort of stuff, or a lot of the time "don't like school."
I am sure there are relatively worthless courses of study at trade schools too of course.
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On November 22 2015 09:24 Simberto wrote:
Hm, what about conservation of angular momentum? If you lower a lot of mass down from the moon to earth, you change the moment of inertia of the earth/moon system, which should increase the total rotation speed of the whole system. Sadly, i don't exactly know how that would manifest, as i am not sure how the rotation of the moon around the earth and that of the earth around its own axis add up to that total rotation of the whole system. My guess is that the earth would either speed up or slow down a bit due to this. No idea about the magnitude of that effect either, but even small variations in the rotation speed of the earth should become visible after a few years of adding up, when the sun only rises at 12 o'clock.
Earths orbit around the sun on the other hand, why should that be influenced? Unless you are talking about three-body effects, the total mass of the earth-moon system would stay unchanged, and it's center of mass would also not change at all.
Today, the rotation of the earth on its axis is the main part of the momentum. Tide forces slowly accelerate the moon, getting it further from us while earth axis spin slows down (days get longer by 2.10^-5s each year and the moon moves away by 3cm each year).
If you bring mass to the earth you probably slow it to land it at earth's rotation speed. Main impact is that the rate at which earth's rotation is slowed down by the moon lessens ... Impact ~1s/day each million year or so.
If you bring 10% of moon's mass at collision speeds to earth's surface ... you have other problems.
If you magic away 10% of moon's mass without removing the corresponding momentum from the system, then you will have some acceleration (hard to tell which with magic ).
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