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On April 25 2014 09:47 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:

The exact Aramaic verb translates to gnawing as far as I know. Catholics believe that it's not just in remembrance of Jesus (the real presence of the Eucharist). It's kind of strange in my opinion since there is nothing in the texts to imply that he literally means to eat His body and drink his blood other than the word choices. I don't really think this is the right thread for a theological discussion though, as much as I find it interesting.


Catholics kind of believe that in a sense. God knows everything worth knowing -- He knows who will be saved as well. Just because he knows that though does not deny that people have freewill. It's kind of contradictory but the example my teacher gave to us was that it's like if he gave us a test that he knew we'd fail. We had the option to study more and do well on it, but we probably won't.

On April 25 2014 10:11 icystorage wrote:
voyager is out of the solar system right? and its travelling thousands of thousands km/h. now why hasn't it broke down to the impact of the space dust/pebbles/debris? should it have a very large momentum?

On April 25 2014 17:49 Persh wrote:


Yes, Voyager 1 has left the Solar System.

According to a comment from an Aerospace Engineering PhD student Matt Kay (I'm just going to copy it here since I can't describe it better), the chance of being hit by objects with significant size is pretty low due to several factors.

Firstly, it does not need to contend with the large amount of man made space debris which is in orbit around the Earth (which out numbers natural debris by approximately 10:1).

Secondly, the flux of natural space debris decreases as you move away from the Sun. Therefore the probability of being hit in any given moment of time has reduced as it has moved out of our system.

Thirdly, Voyager 1’s final flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan caused it to move out of the ecliptic plane of the solar system (the plane most of the planets orbit in). Results from the Ulysses probe which went into polar orbit around the Sun showed that space debris is primarily concentrated in the ecliptic plane. Therefore the final course change would reduce the probability of being hit still further.

That said, it has probably been hit with lots of smaller, non-fatal objects.

And finally, according to NASA, Voyager 1 is travelling at 57,600 km/h / 35,790 mi/h, so yes, it has huge momentum :D

On April 27 2014 02:03 SonGoku wrote:
줄리앙 - is this really the name "Julian" in korean? If yes, how do i pronounce it and how would the letters differ from PC to handwritten?

I want to make a painting on a canvas wich includes this name written in korean

On April 27 2014 02:13 Whiplash wrote:


it would be 줄리안 (maybe even 줄이안) and everything sounds the same besides the ㄹ, which is kind of a cross between an R and L sound.

On April 27 2014 07:36 Reason wrote:
So my friend just posted this on Facebook:

Just decided to play some music on my media player. As I can never decide what to listen to, I generally put it on shuffle and close my eyes and hit a letter on the keys to see where I should start. It came up 'E' and I glanced through what I had. I considered 'E lucevan le stelle' from Tosca before I realised that I had not sorted the file name for that yet, as it was still the name of the aria and not the artist/composer. Then I thought about 'One Day Like This' by Elbow but decided against that, as well. In the end, I went for 'Caribbean Blue' by Enya as I haven't heard it in yonks.
After it finishes, the thing plays 'One Day Like This' by Elbow, followed by 'E lucevan le stelle' right after it. There are 35,000+ tracks in my media library and the shuffle function just threw out the two tracks I thought about. Bizarre.

Can anyone calculate the probability of this for me :D? I know it's probably easy but I'm stupid and lazy.

On April 27 2014 07:39 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
1/35000 * 1/35000 = 1/1,225,000,000

Although, that's assuming that it's a completely random shuffle program which doesn't really happen in reality. Still, ridiculous odds anyway.

Edit: I just listed it as 35,000. If you gave a more exact number of how many tracks he has in his library I could give you a more accurate answer. Still pretty close to what it actually is though.

Edit 2: I guess I should actually explain that it's not entirely true what I wrote either. It would be 1/n * 1/(n-1) where n = number of tracks in the library.

On April 27 2014 07:43 Reason wrote:
^ lol

I was thinking that at first, but isn't that just the probability of any 2 random songs being played? Doesn't there need to be an extra sum to account for the fact that it was specifically the two that he guessed?

On April 27 2014 07:43 Reason wrote:
^ lol

I was thinking that at first, but isn't that just the probability of any 2 random songs being played? Doesn't there need to be an extra sum to account for the fact that it was specifically the two that he guessed?

On April 27 2014 07:49 KwarK wrote:

No. The probability of a song being played when you hit random shuffle is about 1. The probability of a specific song is 1/total number.

It doesn't matter which song he guessed.

On April 27 2014 08:53 SwatRaven wrote:
Will knocking on the door at a public restroom speed them along? It has been a long time. What happens if I find them not alive on the toilet? Do I just push them off or...?