Somewhere, Master Yoda has been busy creating a super breed of Jedi politicians:
Can you imagine ANY of the Republicans answering that question?
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Somewhere, Master Yoda has been busy creating a super breed of Jedi politicians:
Can you imagine ANY of the Republicans answering that question?
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Baud
Brothers from another mother.
LAO
I don’t care what anyone says, geekiness is hot!
schrodinger's cat
I think I am in love.
LAO
@schrodinger’s cat: get in line. ?
Eric
Yes I can imagine a Republican answer: “I think it involves Scott Bakula’s tubes. It’s clearly the work of the Devil.”
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LAO: And neither is exactly lacking in the visuals, either.
TaMara (HFG)
Be still my heart.
redshirt
In retrospect, Yoda was a bad leader.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): true.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Obama training future presidents (photo)
father pussbucket
Quantum mechanics is an un-biblical hoax.
redshirt
@father pussbucket: Quantum Mechanics is fucked up. Its amazing to me that we as a species developed this theory and are able to test it successfully.
I mean, it’s so non-intuitive. For example, nothing really exists until it’s measured. For example, it’s theoretically possible for you to walk through a wall without actually touching the wall.
Felanius Kootea
That was amazing…
schrodinger's cat
What do you think of kitteh’s career aspirations?
redshirt
Can Trudeau somehow run for US President too?
Baud
@redshirt: If Ted Cruz can, why not?
schrodinger's cat
@redshirt:
No, it isn’t possible.
Roger Moore
@redshirt:
That mostly shows the limits of our intuition. We’re used to thinking about things on human scales of time and space, and our intuition is most accurate on those scales. When dealing with things outside the easy reach of our senses, our intuition is a terrible guide.
redshirt
@schrodinger’s cat: From a QM perspective it’s possible. Certainly not likely, but possible.
ThresherK
@schrodinger’s cat: There’s no such thing as too much torties or calicos.
redshirt
@Roger Moore: Well, our intuition also tells us the sun rises and sets when that’s not true.
The real value of science is in overcoming our intuitions via the scientific method,
schrodinger's cat
@redshirt: You speak of quantum tunneling, its possible for alpha particles but not human beings. The effects of the Uncertainty principle do not come into play for macroscopic objects since Planck’s constant is extremely small.
father pussbucket
@father pussbucket:
Well, I guess I’m gonna have to take that back:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Biblical_scientific_foreknowledge#Quantum_mechanics
redshirt
@schrodinger’s cat: And the odds are extremely, extremely small, but every macroscopic object is made up of atoms which obey QM rules.
Smiling Mortician
@schrodinger’s cat:
A little ironic, coming from you[r nym].
Baud
Does Trudeau also know the air speed velocity of an unladen sparrow?
Viva BrisVegas
@schrodinger’s cat:
It’s all probabilistic.
Although the universe will not exist long enough for it to come into play for macro objects, the probability is still non-zero.
We are all wave functions.
LAO
@father pussbucket: how in the world did I not know about conservadepia? I clearly live under a rock.
NotMax
@father pussbucket
And Lenin’s tomb is a Communist plot.
*rimshot*
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: shouldn’t that be “leader bad, Yoda was”?
kdaug
@redshirt: and atoms are mostly nothing…
jeffreyw
Thread needz moar kittehs!
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Rule of thumb: Never vote for anyone over 500.
TaMara (HFG)
John, is there an update on Ellie puppeh?
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Listened for he cannot be heard, looked for he cannot be seen, felt for he cannot be touched…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnGPNS6waiI
Baud
Does Trudeau know how magnets work?
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I mean, the Sith were able to rise to power and take over the Republic under Yoda’s watch. Does stop with him, the buck does?
He oversaw the end of the Jedi. Not sure how anyone can view Yoda positively.
Baud
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can Trudeau explain that?
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: Impressive.
chopper
@redshirt:
Ah, QM. “the dreams stuff is made of”.
redshirt
@Baud: LOL. That reminds me to ask any Canadians here if the Canadian media got as stupid as the US media during the Harper administration.
father pussbucket
@redshirt: I’m kinda hoping that the 3rd trilogy storyline has Luke realizing that the Jedi traditions are completely fucked up and starting version 2.0.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: great, just what you needed…
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LAO: And we’re pretty happy there, aren’t we? I’ve sort of stayed under the rock if you will.
Speaking of geeky, I’ll be helping staff the:
I trade staff help for a comped admission to the lectures. I don’t have a license those credits would apply to, so paying would be silly.
I’ll be showing off my new molecule earrings. I thought it would be clever to make jewelry play on SNRI meds by getting a different molecule for each ear, and now recognize that it will mostly look like I’ve accidentally worn earrings from 2 different pairs. Except to those (maybe) 3 research docs who A) look closely enough and B) will readily recognize the molecules and crack up. A sensible smart ass would have bought a pair with each molecule, but I did not.
Please try not to envy how I get to spend my Saturday. And there’s a community outreach session in the afternoon with strategies to manage stress. That one is aimed at the general public, all of whom will think I’m wearing mismatched earrings that took a lot of effort to mismatch.
debbie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I love all the shots where he’s down on the floor with babies.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Despite what we would now call white washing, I loved that show! Amazing that Bruce Lee was supposed to get the role and the network was afraid he’d be too Asian. Because everyone the cast as the other students and monks weren’t too Asian?
Roger Moore
@kdaug:
Not really. Yes, most of their mass is concentrated in the nucleus, but the rest of the atom is taken up by electrons, which really do occupy the space. That’s why solid objects don’t pass right through each other. The idea that most of atoms is empty space is the kind of thing you get from really bad popularizations of quantum mechanics.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: I’m busy learning stuff. It must be true. It’s on the Internet, right?
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’m very envious. I’ll try not to let it get in the way of my putting tomorrow. Lol
rikyrah
For all the Hamilton Fans out there- I found this video on youtube. As a fan, I was just grinning ear to ear at the recount of this experience.
SiubhanDuinne
I honestly would have waited a few years to retire if I had known I might end up working for PM Justin Trudeau. Harper was so awful, and he just went on and on and on until we thought he would never leave office. His policies completely demoralized the Canadian Foreign Service, including all of us who were “locally engaged,” and I’ve talked to friends in Ottawa who work(ed) for other Ministries and felt exactly the same.
One of the big regrets of my life, that I retired when I did instead of sticking it out a few more years. Ah well…..
schrodinger's cat
@Smiling Mortician: Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment proposed by Schrodinger to illustrate that the cat cannot be dead and alive at the same time. Quantum effects are only appreciable at nanometer scales or less
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Just like those people have learned stuff in that comment thread I emailed you yesterday. Learning implies making yourself smarter, not dumber.
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: Hear, hear.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodinger’s cat: The misunderstanding of physics is strong in this thread.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: Truly, it is a serious cesspool. but I can’t help myself, it’s like rubbernecking. It gruesume and nauseating but still I look.
redshirt
@Roger Moore: What? Atoms are mostly empty space. And the reason we can feel things is because of the electromagnetic fields of atoms interacting.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
♫♫
Let’s get physics-al, physics-al
I want to get physics-al
Let me hear your quantums talk, your quantums talk.
ed_finnerty
his dad was way into cybernetics at the time
turned out to be just as faddy
father pussbucket
@LAO:
A very young rock.
dmsilev
Hate to be the killjoy, but large chunks of that answer were just random quantum buzzwords with little or no connection to actual quantum computing. The real magic of quantum computing is not that we can encode a lot of information in one object; we can do that with classical physics very easily (there was a huge industry in electrical and mechanical analog computers before digital electronics came along). The magic is in how those objects interact with each other (“quantum entanglement”), which allows complex things to happen all at once rather than in a long drawn out sequence as in regular computers. In theory, anyway. Building these things has proven to be Hard.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: They’re still commenting in that thread I sent you the link to yesterday. Its degenerated even further since last night…
schrodinger's cat
@dmsilev: Who cares if he can’t pass the comps in quantum mechanics or has any idea of how quantum computation works, he sure is cute!
Comrade Mary
@schrodinger’s cat: Once we look into your heart, we’ll know one way or another, but not a moment before.
#waves#
#collapses#
#you probably saw that coming#
schrodinger's cat
@dmsilev: But he is cute, that’s all that matters.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: I find that shocking, it had already reached vile levels last night.
Yutsano
@Adam L Silverman: Bad leader, Yoda was.
Grammatically correct everything Yoda says is.
seaboogie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Obama with kids is at least as good as Obama as President – nay, better – because he never, ever disappoints on the Dad front.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: The accusations of cultural marxism started being thrown around this afternoon.
dmsilev
@schrodinger’s cat: That certainly has to be taken into account.
seaboogie
@TaMara (HFG):
I’ve been curious too. My Ganesh offering to remove all obstacles from her recovery is on my desk with her pic. Jape all you want, but it is still putting good intention out into the universe…quantum mechanics on a spiritual and practical level…love her pic – she’s a real pip!
redshirt
I have the original Spy Magazine “Separated at Birth” book with me right now. I’ve been looking at it frequently of late because of Trump. Publishing year: 1988
I still find it hard to accept Trump is likely to win the Republican nomination. Crazy!
Chris T.
@dmsilev: Yes, he’s wrong on some very important details (also with respect to conventional computing). Still, it’s pretty good for a politician. :-)
geg6
@father pussbucket:
Me, too.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@redshirt:
No, they really aren’t. As I understand it, the entire concept of “empty space” doesn’t even make any sense at that level. Electrons exist in that volume, and they generally aren’t located in a specific position; they exist as a probability function within that volume unless something occurs to reveal their position, in which case, you don’t know where they’re going.
chopper
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
my wife post-doc’ed working with treatment resistant schizophrenics. hoo boy, that’s a lotta work.
MattF
It’s probably a good thing that I missed this thread.
Doug R
@redshirt: Quantum mechanics is what the world is. What we see is a fuzzy approximation.
The Blog Dahlia
@schrodinger’s cat:
Actually, it’s much the opposite.
schrodinger's cat
@The Blog Dahlia: It isn’t what is true about photons and electrons (wave particle duality) is not true about kittehs. What’s your point.
redshirt
@Doug R: What we think and what truly is can be very far apart. We’re just smart mammals. The universe is vast beyond our comprehension.
Splitting Image
@redshirt:
Not all of them, but the Postmedia corporation was in the tank for Harper from day one. They own a huge chunk of Canadian newspapers. CTV and Global generally covered Harper from the “Nice Polite Republican” angle. Naturally they didn’t support [fill in the blank Conservative policy], but always had 3,761 reasons at hand why we needed a Strong Daddy Figure running the government.
That said, the really stupid people in the Canadian media still move to the States to advance their careers. When David Frum moves back to Canada, you’ll know that things have gotten bad up here.
The Blog Dahlia
@schrodinger’s cat:
The point of the thought experiment was that there really isn’t a distance limit to quantum effects; if you built the box and put a cat in it, according to QM the cat would indeed be both alive and dead in a superposition of states until measured. The point of the thought experiment was really to question what is ‘measurement’ according to the leading interpretation at the time. Bohr thought it was meaningless because he thought of ‘measurement’ differently. Problem is there was at the time no way to prove him right, it only made sense to him; opening the box to find a live or dead cat wouldn’t have proven Bohr right or wrong either way.
Quantum effects are appreciable at the macro scale. In aggregate (for appreciable observation by run of the mill people), true, but they are effects that are only explained by QM.
Joel
@Roger Moore: Fuck, the Monty Hall problem is hard to grok, never mind the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
The Blog Dahlia
@Joel:
The amazing thing about the uncertainty principle is, once you say ‘fuck it’ and let it in, a lot of things that never had a decent explanation actually make complete sense. As a kid I always wondered why the hell the electron didn’t just fly into the nucleus. I mean, opposite charges, right? Uncertainty explains it. Holy shitballs!
redshirt
Can someone tell me how the entanglement affect could not be used to transmit information via the following scenario:
Future NASA creates a whole bunch of quantum entangled particles, putting half of them on a spaceship and the other half at HQ on Earth. When future NASA wants to send an instantaneous message to the spaceship, they observe one of their particles, which immediately affects the other particle on the spaceship, and thereby triggers a message. Say each particle pair has been coded ahead of time for a specific message: Turn Left. Turn Right. Come Back. Etc. So if future NASA wants to tell the spaceship to turn right, they observe the particle that has been pre-set to represent “Turn Right” and voila, light years away the spaceship gets the message instantly.
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
I guess the question would be, how does the other entangled particle on the ship ‘trigger a message’ in your idea?
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: By changing states (due to observation of the other particle pair) it triggers a light or a preset message.
Jerzy Russian
@redshirt: Don’t you fuck up the state by observing the particle to measure its state?
redshirt
@Jerzy Russian: Yes, that’s how you send the message.
sigaba
@redshirt: @redshirt:
Yoda was an inspirational teacher but an horrendous military leader. Harry Plinkett credibly makes the case that allowing the Jedi Council to run the Clone War was effectively as good as asking the Chicago Seven to plan Operation Overlord.
sigaba
@redshirt: in order for the space probe to know when the particle has been fucked up on Earth, it would have to observe it, and thus fuck it up itself.
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
But how? How would this other particle trigger something without being observed the whole time, thus collapsing the entangled wavefunction in the first place?
The Blog Dahlia
@sigaba:
Isn’t pℏysics pℏun?
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: Future NASA has developed a switch that only activates when the particle changes states.
But I see, yes, I guess it’s being observed the whole time then. I know this is not suppose to be possible, but I just have this niggling feeling there’s a workaround.
sigaba
@The Blog Dahlia: I work in the moving picture business, I only play a physicist on TV.
sigaba
@redshirt: Yeah but it doesn’t change states, it’s always in that state, or rather it’s in a superposition of states you have no knowledge of. The two particles were entangled on the ground before the probe was launched, after that point they can’t actually change each other, all that changes is how much you know about the entangled system. The states of the particles doesn’t move faster than light, it’s your realization of the system that travels across space: the problem with the Copenhagen Interpretation is that it’s positivist. It regards knowledge as a physical condition.
redshirt
@sigaba: Wow. That was a really good explanation and I’ve not heard it put that way before. Makes a lot more sense.
Then what does Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” quote refer to?
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
How? There’s your problem.
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: In the same manner as the box in Schrodinger’s thought experiment?
I don’t know. This thread has helped me understand why this is not possible.
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
The phrase relates to transmission of information faster than light. instantaneous collapse of the wavefunction split between two distant particles is a case of this; even ignoring the idea that we may not be able to craft a method of using it to communicate, it still implies communication faster than the speed of light.
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
But the box doesn’t do anything. The idea is that if the guys on earth observe the particle, it’s twin on your ship in Alpha Centauri would fix states before you’d be able to observe it. If you were observing it to see if it changed states or not (or attached it to a measuring device which does the same thing), it would collapse the wave function and the particle on earth would have it’s state fixed before NASA could do anything with it.
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: But according to the previous explanation, the particles were always in that state – it just means the paired particle will always match the one observed.
Or, let me ask this directly: If two paired particles are a light year apart, is any information exchanged between them?
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: I thought in Schrodinger’s box a poison was released based on the state of the particle, and that’s why the cat dies (or not).
sigaba
@redshirt: The cat issue is different though. Schroedinger wasn’t saying that the cat was both alive and dead in reality– his point was that CI predicts that the cat is “both” for every useful meaning of life and death, and because things cannot be both alive and dead, CI was wrong.
Nobody disagrees about QM generally, it’s the interpretations that pose difficulties.
sigaba
@redshirt: Also I’m into my third Kentucky Mule…
redshirt
@sigaba: What’s a Kentucky Mule?
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
Well, if one is observed the state of the other one is technically ‘fixed’ at the same instant in time. The problem is there is no real way of determining the latter without measuring it and ruining the whole thing. If you come up with some sort of particle state detector that works behind your back, then that thing is the ‘observer’ and is basically watching the second particle the whole time and there’s no superposition of states, the wavefunction is collapsed from jump.
sigaba
@The Blog Dahlia: I think maybe redshirt is thinking about quantum cryptography, where you can tell if someone else has read your data before you. The difference there is quantum cryptography can only tell you if someone has evesdropped on the actual photons you’re looking at; you can’t tell if someone has evesdropped on an entangled system of photons. It’s a different thing.
A Kentucky mule is a Moscow mule with bourbon instead of vodka.
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: Yeah, I got that through this thread.
How can anyone know about entanglement then? It can’t ever be truly observed. So how do we know it’s actually a thing?
redshirt
@sigaba: What’s a Moscow Mule?
redshirt
@sigaba: And no, I’m thinking specifically if quantum entanglement could be used to transmit information. Everything says no. For now. But I’ve got this feeling there’s something that could be invented to use this phenomena as a means of information transfer. But it’s just a feeling, not science, so who cares.
sigaba
@redshirt: Heavens to Betsy.
1 part ginger beer
1 parts vodka
splash lime juice
This reminds me of the perfect martini recipe:
One part gin
Superposition of sweet vermouth.
sigaba
@redshirt: You may be right but the answer isn’t an engineering fix, it’d have to be through new physics.
I’m personally a big fan on the one-electron Universe…
redshirt
@sigaba: String Physics!
sigaba
@redshirt: It will be String Physics when somebody finally establishes the existence of Strings.
redshirt
@sigaba: Any day now. Fusion is also right around the corner. Give or take another 30 years.
sigaba
@redshirt:
So like, how do we know mass exists? All we can do is put something on a balance beam, and that just tells us mass, as related to another mass; or we can put it on a sprung scale, which just tells us the relation between the mass and the mass of the Earth (and then only through the interference of gravity). A dork would say mass is just a tautology, we only know it in relation to itself.
redshirt
@sigaba: All of existence is a tautology then. Since everything we can possibly know is a electro-chemical process in our brains.
sigaba
We’re in number four.
sigaba
@redshirt: “Existence” is an abstract concept and always begs a lot of context. This is not to say that it’s a bad idea, or that it’s false or subject to questioning.
My personal philosophy is that you should only regard things you learn in the first month of a foreign language class as unquestionably real. Llamar, hablar, escuchar, tocar…
That’s not to say I’m not skeptical of science, but I’m an empiricist and I think science can quite adequately explain our experiences. And death, starvation and horror are definitely experiences :)
The Blog Dahlia
@redshirt:
Entanglement is a real thing. It’s a necessary effect of the universe as described by QM. People have spent decades trying to come up with a clever enough way of demonstrating it instantaneously and have actually pulled it off in the lab, although at short distances; the particles are in fact tied together and measurement is in fact basically instantaneous.
Even assuming you get it to work, that’s still a far cry from transmitting classical information instantaneously. Just because you and somebody at Alpha Centauri see opposite states in a particle at the same time doesn’t mean any actual information is transmitted from you to them; all you know is that their particle is in the opposite state to yours. Both of you know the state of the other’s particle but it’s really just an epiphenomenon of the overall collapse of the wavefunction. No specific information is transmitted; it’s not like you get to choose the state of the particle and thus influence what the other person detects like you’re flipping a light switch to one state or another.
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: If only somehow recognition of the change in this state constituted information, that would be enough to transmit data.
sigaba
@The Blog Dahlia: The thing though is that nobody completely agrees on what “collapse of the wavefunction” means for the cat.
sigaba
@redshirt: Yeah but “recognition” isn’t a physical process. The big problem with Copenhagen is it equivocates between physical conditions and knowledge– a lot like St. Anslem’s Ontological Argument for the existence of God.
redshirt
@sigaba: Is QM sophist? Does the mind exist if not observed? Is anything real without an observer?
sigaba
@redshirt: The Copenhagen Interpretation is sophist. The Many Worlds Interpretation is Hindu. QM is a mathematical fact. The interpretations of QM map the math of QM to experience through narratives of meaning.
The Blog Dahlia
I can imagine a manner in which you may use just the measurement of the particle as a form of communication – “if the cubs win the world series, I’ll observe my particle and then yours will assume a state of X or Y, so you know the cubbies pulled it off”. You’re still at the point where there’s no reasonable way for you to find out the state of your particle without observing it the whole time, but some clever person may take the experiments we’ve done so far and create a physically possible (even if not actuable) system that could enable that sort of thing.
The question becomes, what kind of actual information is that? Is that direct or indirect communication between two people? How does the second person know for sure that the first person actually measured his particle or that something else happened? If you want to get into the nitty gritty of it, the background of what’s called the ‘no-information theorem’ is pretty cool but it can get mathematically dense when you dive into it.
Then again, hell, people were saying for years that entanglement would not be able to be demonstrated in the lab and then some people went and did it. Anything seems possible in physics these days. I’ve been teaching it for a long time and I’m still blown away at what people not only come up with but actually experimentally demonstrate.
The Blog Dahlia
@sigaba:
Especially the cat.
sigaba
@The Blog Dahlia: Really? Did you ever cross the street and experience both a successful crossing and being hit by a bus at the same time? Experience has a funny unity that QM explicitly denies.
The Blog Dahlia
@sigaba:
The biggest sticking point in Copenhagen was what “measurement” meant. Is “measurement” truly what the whole thing really revolves around, and if so, where does it actually happen?
This is what, to me, always made QM such a mind fuck. Superposition of states, uncertainty, all the stuff was fine. But the idea that measuring something collapsed its wavefunction and hey, how do we define ‘measure’ anyways? really blew my mind. It made it so meta.
The Blog Dahlia
@sigaba:
You’re thinking of Schrodinger’s Chicken.
(I’m surprised somebody in Princeton or Pasadena hasn’t come up with a food joint with that name yet).
redshirt
@The Blog Dahlia: Can “Measuring” be defined as particles interacting with the object and then registering with a recording medium? IE if you can see something it means photons hit it and now have hit your eye as well.
sigaba
@The Blog Dahlia: Yeah but like philosophers have been arguing that point mutatis mutandis since St. Augustine.
QM starts with Einstein and his though-experiments are the definition of “meta,” and they work so well because he has such a concrete sense of experiential constraints to knowledge.
NotMax
@The Blog Dahlia
The take-out is a problem because you can’t open the box.
;)
sigaba
@redshirt: So like, you can have a particle with a certain entanglement, and it can pass a detector attached to a hard drive that’s recording everything that happens. And what happens is that the particle, the detector and the hard drive all, upon interaction, all become “entangled”, and the “wavefunction” doesn’t actually collapse until you log in in the morning and read the hard drive.
redshirt
@sigaba: Or a light is triggered as a consequence. Maybe a device that operates at 0 Kelvins and only can turn on by the heat of a change in state from the paired particle.
AnonPhenom
@Baud:
Does Trudeau also know the air speed velocity of an unladen sparrow?
Technocrat
Threads like this are why I love BJ.
sigaba
@redshirt: I think you need to hear Feynman’s lecture on The Ratchet and The Pawl.
sigaba
@redshirt: It doesn’t address your question specifically but it’s all about how you’re going at the problem. And he doesn’t say it specifically but it’s all about the difference between the scientific and th engineering mindset.
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_46.html
David Evans
@redshirt: that’s if each of the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000* particles in your body just happens to tunnel through the potential barrier represented by the wall. I wouldn’t chance it myself.
* approximately.
Chris
@redshirt:
To be fair, he also trained the guy who restored the Jedi. So there’s that.
Central Planning
@The Blog Dahlia:
You don’t know if it’s good or not until you taste it.
coin operated
@sigaba:
My morning-after-one-hell-of-a-party drink…the dark n’ stormy:
1 part ginger beer
1 part Goslings dark rum
Not had ginger beer with a good Kentucky bourbon yet…have to give that a shot.
sigaba
@coin operated: I stand by dark and stormy’s, it’s just hard to find a place that stocks ginger beer.
(i misspoke earlier, a mule is ginger ale)
J.
@LAO: I saw him first!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: You can’t know what lies down the path you didn’t take, maybe all the stress would have taken a toll on your health and you are much better off on the path you took. :-)
sherparick
@Baud: Is that an African sparrow or European sparrow?
TriassicSands
Actually, I can’t really imagine either Democratic candidate (or Obama) answering this question unless they’d just been briefed and spoon fed an answer. I don’t expect my president to be able to explain quantum computing, but I do expect them to understand enough to guide federal policies regarding quantum computing.
Truthfully, I could see HRC regurgitating what she’d been told about quantum computing, but I can’t see Sanders doing even that. Maybe if he had a paper in front of him…