Showing my ignorance:If light comes in "quanta"...

[pbans]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

For the first time in months, a thread has been properly hijacked.

if ever a thread needed hijacking......well, you know....
SCORE!

[moog]

Q: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
M: Well, I was told outside that...
Q: Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!
M: What?
Q: Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous, pervert!!!
M: Look, I CAME HERE FOR AN ARGUMENT, I'm not going to just stand...!!
Q: OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse.
M: Oh, I see, well, that explains it.
Q: Ah yes, you want room 12A, Just along the corridor.
M: Oh, Thank you very much. Sorry.
Q: Not at all.
M: Thank You.
(Under his breath) Stupid git!!

[I'm an Altered Boy]

I don't know what the original thread title was and I don't know what the original question was, . . .

I'm confused....

The original thread, and it's title, compared Obama's election to America committing suicide. But he didn't have the balls to leave it there.

You seem to be sorta p***.
Had nothing to do with the size of my testicles. I had taken it down because I agreed that this really isn't the place I wanted to discuss politics.

But since you insist:

America Died Today

She doesn't look much different
Merely sleeping, you might say
But she's garbed now in a burial shroud
For America died today

Not many mourners gather
Just a few by the graveside, stand
Staring, disbelieving
That she died by her own hand

Death wasn't quick or painless
Suicide was decades-long
And looking back we spot just when
Things started to go wrong

'T'was the drug of socialism
One we never thought she'd take
That made her forget her raising
And her values to forsake

The fumes she breathed inside her
And a cancer formed and grew
Unnoticed, undetected
Ever-spreading, through and through

She was sick and she was hurting
She was showing all the signs
But no one seemed to see or care
All her children had gone blind

They sucked at her like leeches
Take, take and never give
And in the end it seems that Liberty
Just lost the will to live

A few doctors tried to save her
Goldwater, Reagan, Paul
But she spat out their medicine
She'd ceased to care at all

And then finally came Obama
To her bedside, he leaned in close
He handed her more of the drug
And she took an overdose

So as you gaze upon her now
Clasp your hands and pray
For the ghost of Lady Liberty
For America died today.

Not saying that I agree with the message, but I thought the poem was kinda good.

[Conolulu]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

For the first time in months, a thread has been properly hijacked.

[STL PARROTHEAD]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

For the first time in months, a thread has been properly hijacked.

Is that guy on the right's mask on sideways???


or is his ear where his eye should be.

[green1]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmeti-ological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Wait, so did he work for Mary Kay or Revlon, and if Mary Kay did he get the big pink caddy?

[Hockey Mon]

I thought Quanta was that Australian airline.

Nah, that's Quantas and they are the only airline to not have a an accident. Or did they have one recently?

Qantas is one of several airlines that hasn't had a fatal accident in modern times. They've had numerous accidents, just none resulting in a death. Other airlines that can claim that include but are not limited to, Air New Zealand, Jet Blue, Jet, Ryan Air, SN Air, Virgin Blue, Virgin America and a bunch of others.

Eastern hasn't had an accident in quite awhile.

[Hockey Mon]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Ha! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go up against BN when a thread is on the line."

[alphabits]

If you turn off a light switch then run backwards faster than the speed of light, will the light go back on?

[alphabits]

And, while we're at it, how many quanta does it take to change a lightbulb?

[buffettbride]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Ha! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go up against BN when a thread is on the line."

As you wish.

[green1]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Ha! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go up against BN when a thread is on the line."

As you wish.

Shouldn't it be "AAASSSSSS YYOOOOUUUU WWWWWIIIIISSSSSHHHHHH!"

[STL PARROTHEAD]

And, while we're at it, how many quanta does it take to change a lightbulb?

if it is more than one..... is it quanti?

[FunkHouse9]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like we've now gone about 4 pages without a single Quantum Leap reference. I'll have to do something about that.

[AlbatrossFlyer]

hee hee I said wood.

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away I might have had a response to that.

viva viagra?

[alphabits]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like we've now gone about 4 pages without a single Quantum Leap reference. I'll have to do something about that.

Nicely played!

[AlbatrossFlyer]

If you turn off a light switch then run backwards faster than the speed of light, will the light go back on?

no, it will not have gone off yet... big difference

[alphabits]

If you turn off a light switch then run backwards faster than the speed of light, will the light go back on?

no, it will not have gone off yet... big difference

Hmmmm, I see great potential for this ..... in the area of "error correction".

[flyboy55]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Ha! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go up against BN when a thread is on the line."

Wait a minute . . . I thought the most famous classic blunder was "Never try to take and hold Europe in the first half of the game - too many land bridges for invading hordes".

Wait, so did he work for Mary Kay or Revlon, and if Mary Kay did he get the big pink caddy?

Not to my knowledge . . . but around Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study he was know as the "Big Pink Daddy" for some obscure reason known only to his fellow physicists.