Astrology has no effect on reality, so why should reality have any effect on astrology? – J.S. Stenzel, commenting on astrological planets that astrologers acknowledge don't really exist
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Do you think the liberals are using these school shootings to further their anti-tragedy agenda?
— Col. Erran Morad, Who Is America?, s01e01
yod-dropper
— (when you need something that sounds like an insult)
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It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions. This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers. [...] The philosophers took this in very ill part, and it is thought they would never have pardoned the slight and affront which they conceived put upon them by the world had not a good-natured professor kindly officiated as a mediator between the parties, and effected a reconciliation. Finding the world would not accommodate itself to the theory, he wisely determined to accommodate the theory to the world.
Pela primeira vez na sua vida a morte soube o que era ter um cão no regaço. For the first time in her life, death knew what it felt like to have a dog in her lap.
The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round, for I have seen its Shadow on the Moon, and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church.
— (commonly misattributed to Magellan)
In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot.
Cool! Thanks. Been working w heavy water, so the use of deuterated methane is fun.
— kwami (
talk) 22:37, 17 February 2024 (UTC)reply
It also occurs to me that the title is a perfect example of what I mentioned a couple of sections above: in practice "H"/"hydrogen" can also mean "protium", when used in opposition to "D"/"deuterium". Perhaps worth a Wiktionary mention?
Double sharp (
talk) 17:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Is it, though? Or is it just deuterium as a fraction of total hydrogen?
— kwami (
talk) 19:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks for finding that. Shouldn't matter which def is used at normal concentrations, but would be important for nuclear engineering.
— kwami (
talk) 20:18, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Hm, looks like that phrase is only used for astro and geo stuff, so the difference wouldn't matter.
— kwami (
talk) 20:30, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Yeah, it doesn't really matter there. But I've seen "hydrogen" used to mean "protium" implicitly also in crystallography, e.g.
doi:
10.1103/PhysRev.165.1032 and the Arblaster handbook.
Double sharp (
talk) 06:41, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
H for protium in Otterson et al. (1969) "ABSORPTION OF HYDROGEN BY PALLADIUM AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY UP TO HYDROGEN-PALLADIUM ATOM RATIOS OF 0.97":
Hydrogen is generally considered to be electronically the same as deuterium. However, some differences in results for the two systems have been observed in the relation between resistivity and temperature and in neutron diffraction experiments. In both PdHx and PdDx where x is close to 0.6, a resistivity maximum is found near 50 K. However, PdD0.6 required much more time for its resistivity to become constant than PdH0.6 after cooling to a temperature near 50 K.
Hey, I was going through the page stats and saw your name as of the top editors in the page. Other two top editors aren't active and I was thinking to take it up for FL candidacy. It needs a little work but it's almost there. You wanna join? Thanks. —
The Herald (Benison) (
talk) 10:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the invitation, but I'm quite busy right now. I don't have the time for any involved projects on WP.
— kwami (
talk) 21:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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