Nah. We train an AI to do it. Should be done in no time.
Now it occurs to me to wonder just what the H rating of a battery graphite rod is. All I can say for certain is “harder than a standard #2 pencil”.
“Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today’s dragonflies are.”
As best I can Google, “parataxite” is Randall’s coinage, not a real thing.
But I did learn about two other useful things:
Parataxis - Wikipedia which partly explains certain well known politician’s unexpected rhetorical power.
Parataxic distortion - Wikipedia which mostly explains my erroneous but thankfully brief second marriage.
[Insert official timeout for further furious Googling …]
Upon further review … It appears Randall meant Prototaxites - Wikipedia. Which are really cool things; wish we still had them. Oops.
Yeah, those things were so cool back in the 80s.
Golf clap! Well played Good Sir!
A meta-question: Did Randall make the para/proto substitution intending to trigger his legions of fans to reprise my own voyage of discovery? Or was it a goof? The serendipity runs strong in that one, and as few as his seeming errors are, on closer examination they mostly aren’t error.
Second meta-question: If Millennials got the Devonian, and Gen-Z gets the Carboniferous, what should most Dopers, the Boomers and mostly Late Boomers, plus some Gen-X, get? See Generation → Western World - Wikipedia and Geologic time scale → Modern International Time Scale - Wikipedia for background info.
We’re older than they are, which suggests an earlier period, but we’re also cooler and hipper (net of a few total dipsticks), and IMO most of the neato periods are later.
Silurian, just because I like the way it sounds.
It seems he has now changed the text, so probably an error.
Damn. I sorta liked the other hypothesis better. But now we know. Thanks for noticing.
“‘If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they’re not looking, I’m turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!’ --Physics’s mom”
For a second I thought this was going to be about H. Beam Piper…
“It’s great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.”
They’ll last twice as long if you flip them regularly. 4x as long if you also turn them pole for pole every other time.
Maybe it depends on whether they use natural or synthetic graphite? Pure graphite is pretty soft, though.
This is, what, the third or fourth one with the geological real-estate assessor?
Plus it’s great for the inner springs.
“In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.”
“Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.”
Another linear extrapolation strip. Like the one about the number of husbands: xkcd: Extrapolating
ETA: Well, not linear. I just noticed the curved dashed line. Still, the same issue.
The other day I watched an interesting YouTube on how the Fibonacci series was extended as a function to first the real numbers (specifically Pi) and then the complex plain. The point was made that infinitely many curves could be contrived to fit a set of discrete points like the integers, so extra definitions of what the Fibonacci series properly requires of all candidates were necessary.
Extrapolation in this case is the attempt to make a function out of something that fundamentally simply isn’t.
It is a perfectly cromulent function; the question is, does its domain include 2040?