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Post by hkmurakami » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 7:05 AM UTC

uppe wrote: post #99

hkmurakami wrote: post #82

This is the first time I've seen something online that really made me go "Wow! I want to make something like this too!" And since I felt so strongly about this reaction, I messaged the guy behind the site (Luke Twyman) saying "Thanks for the inspiration!" It's quite a feeling being (a) inspired by something that you just bump into one day, and (b) being able to shoot the guy/gal behind it telling him/her how much you…

THE Haruki? If so, I read your book on running yesterday! What a wonderful coincidence. I was also very inspired (inspirational ripple going on here..) and decided to run every day instead of just every other day. Great read! Edit: went to your website and found out, no, you're not Haruki Murakami. Sorry for confusing you with him!

Post by evan_ » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 8:56 AM UTC

teeja wrote: post #98

evan_ wrote: post #83

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It's all theoretical, in the same way that our understanding of gravity or radiation itself is theoretical.

It's more like a , you might get killed by a car if you step into the street kind of theoretical. Or the drip of a water clock will fill the container in 8 hours kind of theoretical. Or a don't plant too early or your people will starve kind of theoretical. A theory in science is a model backed by the huge majority of observational evidence and the collective experience of the model's community. There are no other eq…

Post by D9u » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 9:09 AM UTC

chestnut-tree wrote: post #55

This reminded me of something I saw at the Science Museum in London a few years ago. A round clock face is used to represent the history of the earth and a narrator tells us the geological events that happen as the clock hands travels around the clock face. At a few seconds to midnight, we're told this is when humans appear. I thought it was a clever way of illustrating how human history occupies such a tiny segment…

Post by kang » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 11:17 AM UTC

gknoy wrote: post #91

tinco wrote: post #90

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Burn it down and you have fertile ground!

Plant a tree in that fertile ground, and ... oh.

Post by Shorel » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 2:09 PM UTC

SageRaven wrote: post #63

chestnut-tree wrote: post #55

This reminded me of something I saw at the Science Museum in London a few years ago. A round clock face is used to represent the history of the earth and a narrator tells us the geological events that happen as the clock hands travels around the clock face. At a few seconds to midnight, we're told this is when humans appear. I thought it was a clever way of illustrating how human history occupies such a tiny segment…

One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.