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Re:How do you turn a chunk of glass into a telescope mirror? on Sunday October 06, 2013 @07:23AM (#6503753)
Yes but can you make a mirror like Kent did in Real Genius?

"KENT: See! Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a film virtually 100 per cent reflective, one micron thick and apply it to a mirror this shape?"

http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Entertainment/Scripts/Re...

Re:Ethiopian Binary Math on Sunday October 06, 2013 @07:09AM (#6503731)
Wolfram has a definition of "evil numbers" here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EvilNumber.html which include "beastly evil numbers".

Also there are "apocalypse numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ApocalypseNumber.html , "beast numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BeastNumber.html , "leviathan numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeviathanNumber.html , and "legion's numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LegionsNumbers.html among others.

Re:Ethiopian Binary Math on Sunday October 06, 2013 @07:05AM (#6503724)
This has made it to HN at least a few times. Maybe it should be part of math curriculum in schools so we wouldn't keep having this conversation.
Re:ADHD Pill Faces High Hurdle in Europe as Stigma Persists on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:29PM (#6502991)
I thought Mother's Little Helper was about speed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9Aa1V5oyo

But it's about Valium (diazepam) according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Little_Helper

I'd think Speed would have helped mothers more than Valium, but my mom used to say that she and her neighbors just had martinis instead, and a Valium's just a much stronger version of a martini. Ah- the 60's.

Why are the bad guys always white? And what do top hats have to do with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p3Kl...