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I’m giving you a challenge, find out where this quote is from:
quote: I was in this prematurely air-conditioned supermarket And there were all these aisles And there were these bathing caps that you could buy That had these kind of fourth-of-July plums on them That were red, and yellow, and blue And I wasn’t tempted to buy one But I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach
I have not googled this quote, I wrote it down from memory, so I have no idea how available it is on the web, but I’m sure that it’s there. I’m also sure that the formatting I put down is not correct. Are you ready? Then go!
If anyone else wants to try and find it, or post about how long it’s taking Kayla to find it, go ahead!
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Oh, man, I was looking for little black dresses for ladyday!
Lucinda Childs (Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach)
Oh, and if you are reading this Dan_Raven, I'm still waiting for an answer as to whether or not I found the right quote for you!
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I have no clue, so you could tell me the last episode of MASH and I might believe you. Except I didn't see that, and I do remember seeing this. It came up in conversation today.
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That's who says it in Einstein on the Beach though Christopher Knowles wrote it (I might have spelled that wrong, like I said, from memory ). Close enough as I'm not sure any site actually says that.
Challenge two: what was the orginal name for a black hole?
This one is still pretty easy I think (I'm not googling these) but it's hard to come up with something that's not on Google.
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Einstein on the Beach is one of the defining modern operas (as in occured in the last 50 years). It has many speaking parts, but it also containts plenty of signing. It's about 5 hours long (it doesn't have an intermission). Philip Glass is the composer, Robert Wilson is the director. For more information, talk to me.
quote:Paul Davies: Can I just turn to somewhat later when you’re interest began to develop in gravitation and then of course subsequently the era of Black Holes, because many people right the way to the Laplace, have been credited with the idea of the invention of a Black Hole, but as I understand it you invented the words Black Hole, is that right?
John Wheeler: The occasion was a meeting in the fall of 1967 at the Institute of Space Studies in New York to consider this marvellous work of Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish on the pulsars. What could be the cause of these absolutely regular pulses from some object out in space, and one obvious possibility was vibration of a white dwarf star, another was the rotation of a neutron star. But then I thought that to keep one’s mind open, to look at all the possibilities one ought really to look at the gravitationally completely collapsed object. Well, the very words sounded so foggy, so ethereal, so far from touchability that nobody resonated to that as a possibility to be investigated. So in desperation I adopted the words Black Hole. Well, here at least was a name.
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Well...she gave the speech (approx. 54 times in one song ) but she didn't write it. Did you get the black hole one from A Brief History of Time (the Morris movie)?
Challenge 3: What is the position (latitute and longitude) of the world's oldest tree?
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Oh, and the "Well, let's get specific, Bob" was a quote from a movie, in case you didn't recognize it. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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quote: When you say "the best dielectric" it has to be qualified with what you intend to do with it. Capacitor dielectrics are what most folks on the list are talking about. There you want good insulation resistance, high dielectric constant, high puncture voltage, and low dissipation factor.
If you just need to insulate against high voltage flash over, or puncture, glazed ceramic or glass are good choices.
quote:A novel epoxy-based composite with very ultra high dielectric constant [er~1000] has been developed in this work. The previous record of er =150 was only recently reported. To our best knowledge, this is the highest K value of the polymer based composite ever reported. High dielectric constant is obtained by increasing the concentration of conductive filler close to but not exceed the percolation threshold within the polymer matrix. This novel ultra high K material also has low dielectric loss [< 0.02], good adhesion and perfect multi-chip-module laminate [MCM-L] process compatibility. An embedded capacitor prototype with capacitance density of 100 nF/cm2 has been manufactured using this composite and spin coating technology. This novel composite is the perfect material candidate for the integral embedded capacitor applications for next generation electronic products.
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When designing a thruster element with optimal force density, mainly determined by the dielectric constant and breakdown value of the insulator, the optimal radius of the smaller electrode in the case of semispherical thruster is ri=0.707ro; and the optimal diameter of the smaller electrode for the semicylindrical thruster is ri=0.5ro.
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877?
Once again, I have no idea.
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