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06/23/2006 02:58:51 AM · #226 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by crayon:
why is grey the chosen colour for DPC's background?
Isn't white (or black) a nicer colour? ;) |
It's a neutral color and is less straining on the eyes than a higher contrast look. Plus it gives equal contrast to all photos.
Staring at a white or black screen will make your eyes less sensitive to highlights or shadows respectively. |
Awesome. I never thought of that.
My own question:
If I hide from the world in a cave, can I still take pictures? |
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06/23/2006 03:00:29 AM · #227 |
Originally posted by klstover:
If I hide from the world in a cave, can I still take pictures? |
Until your batteries run out, of course. |
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06/23/2006 03:13:19 AM · #228 |
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by klstover:
If I hide from the world in a cave, can I still take pictures? |
Until your batteries run out, of course. |
You have a solar powered battery charger outside the cave :-)
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06/23/2006 03:14:04 AM · #229 |
If it's the batcave...can I join you?
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06/23/2006 03:21:32 AM · #230 |
Originally posted by Judi:
If it's the batcave...can I join you? |
Interested in my Castle of Cheese?
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06/23/2006 03:22:44 AM · #231 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Judi:
If it's the batcave...can I join you? |
Interested in my Castle of Cheese?
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Ewwwwwwwwww...by the look of that...it is about to fall...I really don't want to be covered in cheese...ewwwwwww!
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06/23/2006 03:23:23 AM · #232 |
Originally posted by Judi:
If it's the batcave...can I join you? |
Just a simple hole somewhere in the side of a mountain :-) |
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06/23/2006 03:27:23 AM · #233 |
Originally posted by klstover:
Originally posted by Judi:
If it's the batcave...can I join you? |
Just a simple hole somewhere in the side of a mountain :-) |
Well can I invite the Superheroes?
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06/23/2006 03:28:31 AM · #234 |
*trying to supress my typical male fantasies* ... eeeek.
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06/23/2006 03:30:59 AM · #235 |
I think I am a little too tired and confused. My brain is sort of like -- Superheroes? Is that a "THE Superheroes"? What fantasies? Huh?
edit: hehe. I'm going to bed.
Message edited by author 2006-06-23 03:44:11. |
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06/23/2006 05:52:56 AM · #236 |
| If at their prime and best condition - who would win a light-saber duel, Anakin or Luke? |
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06/23/2006 10:30:56 AM · #237 |
Originally posted by Megatherian:
Do you think the earth is in the exact same orbit it was millions of years ago? Do you think the earth is orbiting just as fast? Do you think the Rotation of the earth is ging the exact same speed? Do you think the moon is the same distance away? How do you think those things might effect gravity and the density of the earth? Is the Earth the exact same size it was millions of years ago? If the Earth was a different size, rotating at a different speed, with a different orbit around the much younger sun (do you think the Sun's density has remained exactly the same over millions of years too) isn't it perhaps possible the length of a day has changed too? |
I would say yes to all of your questions. But that's over a time span if millions of years. Our measurement of time has only been around for a couple thousand years, and even back then, the measurement of time was very inaccurate. Our accurate measurement of time with the gear (couple hundred years) and atomic (few decades), has sort of taken into account, in the measurement of time, the shift in the earth's rotation and orbit. A couple hundred years is not enough to shift the orbit enough so that it will throw off the entire system of time measurement. A couple hundred years is nothing to the earth.
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06/23/2006 10:32:18 AM · #238 |
Originally posted by crayon:
If at their prime and best condition - who would win a light-saber duel, Anakin or Luke? |
Anakin, hands down. He dominated Luke even while he was old (Vader). The only reason he died in the end is because he gave up.
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06/23/2006 12:32:57 PM · #239 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
Originally posted by crayon:
If at their prime and best condition - who would win a light-saber duel, Anakin or Luke? |
Anakin, hands down. He dominated Luke even while he was old (Vader). The only reason he died in the end is because he gave up. |
there were people debating this on other sites and it seems they are quite equally capable of defeating the other. I still dont like the way Anakin was defeated by Obi-wan in episode-III - kinda lame, not even a real fight. |
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06/23/2006 01:06:41 PM · #240 |
| anakin would win. at their prime, how can luke compete with tumbline swinging and all that anakin does? |
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06/23/2006 02:04:58 PM · #241 |
| Whoever George Lucas decides should win will win -- it's fiction and not subject to logical analysis. |
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06/23/2006 02:10:40 PM · #242 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Whoever George Lucas decides should win will win -- it's fiction and not subject to logical analysis. |
Yet your argument was perfectly logical :-)
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06/23/2006 02:17:00 PM · #243 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
Originally posted by Megatherian:
Do you think the earth is in the exact same orbit it was millions of years ago? Do you think the earth is orbiting just as fast? Do you think the Rotation of the earth is ging the exact same speed? Do you think the moon is the same distance away? How do you think those things might effect gravity and the density of the earth? Is the Earth the exact same size it was millions of years ago? If the Earth was a different size, rotating at a different speed, with a different orbit around the much younger sun (do you think the Sun's density has remained exactly the same over millions of years too) isn't it perhaps possible the length of a day has changed too? |
I would say yes to all of your questions. But that's over a time span if millions of years. Our measurement of time has only been around for a couple thousand years, and even back then, the measurement of time was very inaccurate. Our accurate measurement of time with the gear (couple hundred years) and atomic (few decades), has sort of taken into account, in the measurement of time, the shift in the earth's rotation and orbit. A couple hundred years is not enough to shift the orbit enough so that it will throw off the entire system of time measurement. A couple hundred years is nothing to the earth. |
Yes but the amount of time man's body thinks is a day isn't based upon our measurement of time. We see 24 hours as a day because that's 1 full rotation of the earth.
One could argue that during the evolution of man our bodies evolved to a 25 or 26hour day (which could have been the time it took for the earth to rotate back then). As time went by our abilities increased and there was no need for our biological clocks to shiift to the now shorter 24 hour day. That would explain why in a cave with no sense of time the body instinctively lives on a 25-26hour time table.
Message edited by author 2006-06-23 14:17:46.
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06/23/2006 02:22:35 PM · #244 |
Originally posted by Megatherian:
One could argue that during the evolution of man our bodies evolved to a 25 or 26hour day (which could have been the time it took for the earth to rotate back then). As time went by our abilities increased and there was no need for our biological clocks to shiift to the now shorter 24 hour day. That would explain why in a cave with no sense of time the body instinctively lives on a 25-26hour time table. |
But, there would be evidence that the rotational speed of the Earth is increasing. To my knowledge, there isn't any evidence to support that the rotational speed of the Earth has changed in the relatively short time that man has inhabitted this planet.
It could suggest an alternative theory that we are not native to this planet though. Not that I believe that theory.
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06/23/2006 02:33:32 PM · #245 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Megatherian:
One could argue that during the evolution of man our bodies evolved to a 25 or 26hour day (which could have been the time it took for the earth to rotate back then). As time went by our abilities increased and there was no need for our biological clocks to shiift to the now shorter 24 hour day. That would explain why in a cave with no sense of time the body instinctively lives on a 25-26hour time table. |
But, there would be evidence that the rotational speed of the Earth is increasing. To my knowledge, there isn't any evidence to support that the rotational speed of the Earth has changed in the relatively short time that man has inhabitted this planet.
It could suggest an alternative theory that we are not native to this planet though. Not that I believe that theory. |
Sure there is. The moon move something like 3-4 inches further away from the earth every year (or something like that - my memory is a little fuzzy on the exact number). Over hundreds of thousands of years that would change all sorts of things like gravity which in turn would affect density which would affect the dimensions of the earth which would affect things like rotational speed. Also there's the "Leap second" every few years or so they need to adjust time by a second because or measurement of a year isn't exact to the second. Multiply that by tens of thousands of years (or hundreds of thousands or even millions) and it has a profound affect.
none of this takes into account the number of meteorites that hit the earth each year. Most of them may be small but over a huge expanse of time they too would affect the size (and thus rotation and gravity ratio) of the earth.
Message edited by author 2006-06-23 14:35:31.
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06/23/2006 02:37:19 PM · #246 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Whoever George Lucas decides should win will win -- it's fiction and not subject to logical analysis. |
Yet your argument was perfectly logical :-) |
But doesn't provide the requested answer to the posed either/or question. |
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06/23/2006 02:39:17 PM · #247 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
But doesn't provide the requested answer to the posed either/or question. |
touché
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06/23/2006 02:43:12 PM · #248 |
| The Earth's rotational rate is decreasing (and has been over time), lengthening the day, and requiring the introduction of a leap-second every few years. |
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06/23/2006 02:49:38 PM · #249 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
The Earth's rotational rate is decreasing (and has been over time), lengthening the day, and requiring the introduction of a leap-second every few years. |
Don't you and your debate ending logic have somewhere else to be? :P
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06/23/2006 02:56:02 PM · #250 |
As for the earth rotation thing too....the earthquake that caused the tsunami last year caused a measurable difference in the earth's rotational speed and degree of axial tilt...
And with the time thing....would it really matter how many 'hours' we had in a day? Even if there we made a day 100 hours long...it would still be the same period of time, regardless of how we broke it up... And I don't know how it makes much difference, since the length of day and night changes every day! |
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