Killtowns Science Background: ?

[Bandersnatch]

Well, here's the new thread.

What is your background in science?

High school?

College?

Post-Grad?

 

[Yoink]

Dude, the guy's like a black-belt in "forensics." Don't make him get his calculator repaired: it could get ugly.

 

[Dr Richard]

Well, here's the new thread.

What is your background in science?

High school?

College?

Post-Grad?

Bandersnatch, I can really sympathise where you are going with this.

But I think we know the answer, and attacking Killtown directly, although fun, is in essence an ad hom and I think we should avoid it.

Indeed, Killtown, if you are having any problems with math or getting access to research papers, please PM me and I'll see if I can help/access them for you.

All PMs will be confidential. Copy the link to this post; I promise not to divulge the content of any requests for help or information without your permission.

BW

DrR

 

[Bandersnatch]

Bandersnatch, I can really sympathise where you are going with this.

But I think we know the answer, and attacking Killtown directly, although fun, is in essence an ad hom and I think we should avoid it.

While I understand that it may look like I'm doing this as an insult to Killtown, due to my insistance, that is not at all my purpose. I would like to know the level of understanding Killtown has of math principles, and physics. I would have liked a quick reply on the other thread, but he seggested I start a new one.

 

[CurtC]

I would like to know the level of understanding Killtown has of math principles, and physics.

All anyone has to do is read the Flight 93 Plume thread to find this out.

I think it's pointless to ask someone's background unless his resume' is being used as lending authority to his position. Everyone is free to make good solid arguments.

 

[Johnny C.]

Well, here's the new thread.

What is your background in science?

High school?

College?

Post-Grad?

I would guess that he majored in MS Paint.

 

[Gravy]

This post pretty much says it all.

He added feet to miles per hour to get a result in feet.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

You know what, as a sign of good faith, I'll throw my credentials in the ring:
* 12 credits short of a BS in Computer Science
* Worked in IT/MIS since '97
* Have been a sysadmin/erp admin/dba since '99

Anything beyond that is self taught.

 

[Gravy]

Actually, this fact says even more: Killtown has now put 19 respondents to his "plume" thread on "ignore."

 

[Axiom_Blade]

This post pretty much says it all.

He added feet to miles per hour to get a result in feet.

WHAT

 

[valis]

This post pretty much says it all.

He added feet to miles per hour to get a result in feet.

My car gets fourty rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it

 

[Gravy]

My car gets fourty rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it

 

[Meffy]

What a fuel hog!

I'm wondering how someone whose avatar implies that the Yew Ess Gummint ruthlessly silences all dissent manages to... well, to spew so much. Isn't the Bureau of Independent Thought Quashing doing their job keeping him quiet? (Or does kt fall under the auspices of the Rumor Regurgitation Squadron? Hmmm.)

 

[ponderingturtle]

My car gets fourty rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it

So a Rod is 16.5 feet and a hogs head is 84 gallons. So that would mean it goes 660 feet with 84 gallons or 672 gallons per mile. You get worse fule ecconomy that the shuttle crawler as that is only 150 gallons per mile.

What on earth do you drive? THe only reasonable answer I can think of is a walking drag line.

 

[Meffy]

@ponderingturtle: Isn't it obvious?




A Hummer.

 

[Hutch]

From a button on my Wall:

1.8026 x 10¹² Furlongs per Fortnight; Tis' a good idea, and it doth be the law

.

I once calculated that out longhand, so that is about the limit of my math.

Did manage Trig. and Solid Geometry in High School, some scence classes in college (Major was Education, what can I say..)

I'm pretty sure I'm smarter than KT, though...not that that is anything to brag about...

 

[Meffy]

1.8026 x 10¹² Furlongs per Fortnight -- how much [edit: area] does that come to when rendered boustrophedontically? Let us assume 3-inch furrows on 4-foot centers.

 

[kevin]

So a Rod is 16.5 feet

yes, but is that in survey feet or international feet?

 

[ponderingturtle]

yes, but is that in survey feet or international feet?

There are more feet than that. I see Sear's, Clarke's, Indian, and Benoit. They only vary in the 3-7 decimal place though.

So they are close enough that it will be well under 1% difference in this. Also remember how much road conditions and driving technique can effect mileage, a much higher percentage.

 

[Meffy]

Don't neglect Meffy's Metric Foot, which is 1/3 meter exactly. (Meffy's Metric Inch is 25mm exactly.)