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Talk:1723: Meteorite Identification

2016-08-22T13:07:52Z

141.101.70.43:

Yeah, I can't even get on it.

lol, some poor soul is now wondering why his Meteorite ID chart is being flooded with traffic! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.59|141.101.98.59]] 12:08, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I'd like to see some analysis of the linked flowchart, or a least an explanation of the title text comment. Why does "Did you see it fall" have only an "yes" option, that leads to "not a meteorite" [[User:Zeimusu|Zeimusu]] ([[User talk:Zeimusu|talk]]) 12:10, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm wondering if this is related to the recent claims in British newspapers (Warning, Daily Mail content [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3745346/Homeowner-makes-world-discovery-glowing-METEORITE-lands-garden-lights-cigarette-it.html Link] [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.83|141.101.98.83]] 12:27, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Here's the chart hosted externally: http://imgur.com/a/AzQOk Also, could somebody explain the mouseover text? Why does it falling from the sky mean it's not a meteorite? (Edit: Imgur's servers are trying to give out. Here's another external hosted version: http://oi66.tinypic.com/315yazp.jpg ) [[User:NexTerren|NexTerren]] ([[User talk:NexTerren|talk]]) 12:47, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Where did the 'there have only been 690 confirmed cases since 1900' factoid come from? Wikipedia says there are over 38,000 well documented finds, referring to a 2011 source. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.161|108.162.250.161]] 13:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Here's some explanation on why seeing a meteorite fall is unlikely: http://www.meteoritemarket.com/metid2.htm Located at point 48A from http://meteorites.wustl.edu/realities.htm (Linked on the full chart) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.43|141.101.70.43]] 13:07, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Talk:1634: In Case of Emergency

2016-01-25T17:15:44Z

141.101.70.43:

Just attempted my first transcript... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.163|108.162.249.163]] 07:22, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Can someone please explain the title text?? When I search for "emergency locker" on google images, I get some disconcerting results... [[Special:Contributions/198.41.243.238|198.41.243.238]] 08:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:Probably means something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/St-John-Ambulance-Lockable-Cabinet/dp/B003KK6948 [[User:Jdluk|Jdluk]] ([[User talk:Jdluk|talk]]) 09:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
::He clearly means something with glass in front of the locker inside. I have in vain tried to find anything like it on the web. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:::Try http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-2122/Fire-Protection/Fire-Extinguisher-Cabinet-2-1-2-5-lb or https://www.grainger.com/product/ALTA-Fire-Extinguisher-Cabinet-40LU32?s_pp=false&picUrl=//static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/40LU32_AS02?$smthumb$ (enlarge the image and look at the door handle). I can't find what I remember as the classic with a hammer and instructions in read letters. I suspect I'm dating myself and Randall since it appears there have been some technological changes in the way these cabinets are constructed.[[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.95|198.41.235.95]] 16:16, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

What I've wanted to do is have a normal one with a fire extinguisher, and next to it have a fireplace with a hammer in the back and a sign that says "In case of glass, extinguish fire." [[User:DanielLC|DanielLC]] ([[User talk:DanielLC|talk]]) 10:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

sorry, "it's" abuse again. aren't we supposed to be geeks? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.161|141.101.106.161]] 13:50, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

:The "incomplete" infobox says ''Fire alarms usually only have plastic in front - not glass that needs to be broken.'' However, there are many styles of pull station which do in fact have glass which needs to be broken: [http://s423.photobucket.com/user/wiley207/media/K-8/IMG_3033.jpg.html example]. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.74|108.162.237.74]] 16:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:: An agreement with the above: Please edit the 'incomplete' tag. While it's true that this new comic's explanation is indeed incomplete, the statement that 'fire alarms do not usually have glass that needs to be broken' isn't just untrue, it's clearly written from one user's perspective in a way that only confuses the meaning of the comic. The whole tag could use rewording, hopefully towards making a statement about what needs to be changed, rather than just declaring a disagreement. - [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.43|141.101.70.43]] 17:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Talk:1634: In Case of Emergency

2016-01-25T17:15:04Z

141.101.70.43:

Just attempted my first transcript... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.163|108.162.249.163]] 07:22, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Can someone please explain the title text?? When I search for "emergency locker" on google images, I get some disconcerting results... [[Special:Contributions/198.41.243.238|198.41.243.238]] 08:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:Probably means something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/St-John-Ambulance-Lockable-Cabinet/dp/B003KK6948 [[User:Jdluk|Jdluk]] ([[User talk:Jdluk|talk]]) 09:36, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
::He clearly means something with glass in front of the locker inside. I have in vain tried to find anything like it on the web. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:::Try http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-2122/Fire-Protection/Fire-Extinguisher-Cabinet-2-1-2-5-lb or https://www.grainger.com/product/ALTA-Fire-Extinguisher-Cabinet-40LU32?s_pp=false&picUrl=//static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/40LU32_AS02?$smthumb$ (enlarge the image and look at the door handle). I can't find what I remember as the classic with a hammer and instructions in read letters. I suspect I'm dating myself and Randall since it appears there have been some technological changes in the way these cabinets are constructed.[[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.95|198.41.235.95]] 16:16, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

What I've wanted to do is have a normal one with a fire extinguisher, and next to it have a fireplace with a hammer in the back and a sign that says "In case of glass, extinguish fire." [[User:DanielLC|DanielLC]] ([[User talk:DanielLC|talk]]) 10:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

sorry, "it's" abuse again. aren't we supposed to be geeks? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.161|141.101.106.161]] 13:50, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

:The "incomplete" infobox says ''Fire alarms usually only have plastic in front - not glass that needs to be broken.'' However, there are many styles of pull station which do in fact have glass which needs to be broken: [http://s423.photobucket.com/user/wiley207/media/K-8/IMG_3033.jpg.html example]. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.74|108.162.237.74]] 16:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
:: An agreement with the above: Please edit the 'incomplete' tag. While it's true that this new comic's explanation is indeed incomplete, the statement that 'fire alarms do not usually have glass that needs to be broken' isn't just untrue, it's clearly written from one user's perspective in a way that only confuses the mean. It could use some rewording towards making a statement about what needs to be changed, rather than just declaring a disagreement. - [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.43|141.101.70.43]] 17:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Talk:1584: Moments of Inspiration

2015-09-30T07:32:23Z

141.101.70.43: Created page with "Needs to explain who Lise Meitner is - I'd never heard of her, she's not on a level with the others in public consciousness."

Needs to explain who Lise Meitner is - I'd never heard of her, she's not on a level with the others in public consciousness.

Talk:1520: Degree-Off

2015-05-04T08:09:08Z

141.101.70.43:

I assume "''Your'' field gathered in the desert to create a new one." refers to the Manhattan Project? {{unsigned ip|173.245.50.74}}
:Yes [[User:Jachra|Jachra]] ([[User talk:Jachra|talk]]) 06:52, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Chem wants absolutely no part of this conversation. [[User:Jachra|Jachra]] ([[User talk:Jachra|talk]]) 06:52, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are: Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. Is she claiming that her heros have conquered death? [[User:Capncanuck|Capncanuck]] ([[User talk:Capncanuck|talk]]) 06:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Pestilence [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.176|173.245.56.176]] 07:10, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

also a possible reference to: https://xkcd.com/435/ ? {{unsigned ip|141.101.75.101}}

The stamp collecting quote is from Ernest Rutherford, not Richard Feynman.

Talk:1517: Spectroscopy

2015-04-28T18:37:44Z

141.101.70.43:

Thanks, Kynde, for the nice explanation. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.201|108.162.221.201]] 13:29, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
:Your welcome, and Thanks. I think I was still working on it when you wrote this comment ;-).--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:42, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

I was wondering how many people go to watch these two songs on YouTube today (and the next few days) solely because of Randall's comic. I have long time wondered about this. Now maybe a time to find out. Of course we never know in advance how many new hits the song he chooses received the days before. But now we have a chance of following it over the next few days. Of course the comic has been up several hours but it is still early across most of the US... Here are the counters for the two videos linked above in the comic as of right before this post was made: Breathe: 9.493.222 and This Kiss 4.079.410. Please feel free to add new counts a few times over the next week or so. :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:42, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Links for your convenience: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s "Breathe"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dls_cBmUt7Q "This Kiss"] and as control [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcGntdbDB5Q "Cry"].

"Breathe" 9,493,334,
"This Kiss" 4,079,458,
"Cry" 3,182,592
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.201|108.162.221.201]] 13:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
:Thanks. Here goes after 1 day and 2 hours:
:9.500.026 (+6692/+,07%)
:4.083.297 (+3839/+,09%)
:3.184.334 (+1742/+,05%)
:I'm nut sure we can learn anything from this yet...?--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:55, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Actually, if the star or region of space is anything similar to our own, O2 is definitively a sign of life. Not animal life, but at least plant life, to crack the O2 out of the CO2 with photosynthesis.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 14:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
:The explanation currently covers links that show that not all oxygen will be created because of life, and not all life (even 'as we know it') will necessarily require/produce a significant oxygen signal. But there seems to be a missing middle-bit in that oxygen initially seems to have been a smothering 'industrial pollutant' by early (oxygen splitting) life-forms until other life-forms developed the machinary to use this oxygen as part of their own energy mechanisms (creating the eventual two-way dynamic of CO<sub>2</sub> and O<sub>2</sub> production/usage between the ''major'' groups of life) and thus making the unstable free oxygen both an indicator of life and an indicator of the ''capability'' of life (by mainstream terrestrial standards of biology, of course). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.186|141.101.98.186]] 18:06, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
:That is not necessarily true. There is now a theory that oxygen could be have been created without life involved here on Earth based on the snow ball earth scenario. In the ice H2O2 formed and when the ice melted this was released into the water where it then would release oxygen. See for instance here: [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10662-did-snowball-earths-melting-let-oxygen-fuel-life.html#.VT-QbRTU-i4 Did snowball Earth's melting let oxygen fuel life?]. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:09, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the original lyric for "This Kiss" is "it's centripetal motion" (see: http://www.sweetslyrics.com/59372.Faith%20Hill%20-%20This%20Kiss.html). I assumed the joke Randall was making was that centrifugal really is a force, Mr. Bond, even if Faith Hill doesn't know about it. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
:I agree: I only recall hearing "centripetal motion", but Google tells me there are actually more hits for "centrifugal", and that there are some lyrics sites putting ''both'' phrases in the song. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 01:41, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
::I think the song says "centrifical" which is not even a word, let alone a force, ficticious or not. Nonetheless, it seems to be a common misspelling since it has its own wiktionary entry (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centrifical). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.180|108.162.249.180]] 08:54, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
:::I agree that she doesn't sing centrifugal. I have changed the explain to say it is centripetal (I'm sure she is supposed to at least, maybe she doesn't know the word either ;-) But left in a comment on the fact that there are different versions on-line. But I'm sure that that is because people do not know the word centripetal and also that people who make lyrics pages cut and paste from each other. I have often seen the same mistake on several lyrics pages. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:50, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Its not centripetal, she sings "centrifugal" but with pronounced wrong. Its a pop song, and centrifugal with a long u wouldn't fit, so the i is short but stressed, and the u is reduced to a schwa. Rightly or wrongly, "centrifugal" is the common word.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.43|141.101.70.43]] 18:37, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:469: Improvised

2015-03-10T19:47:26Z

141.101.70.43: Created page with "Suggestion: add pansexual to the list of possible sexualities of Han when he ad-libs the line "I'm nailing your brother." This is also a valid sexuality, in which the gender a..."

Suggestion: add pansexual to the list of possible sexualities of Han when he ad-libs the line "I'm nailing your brother." This is also a valid sexuality, in which the gender and/or sex of the potential partner is considered unimportant. Therefore, Han having sex with Luke (a male) and seemingly being casual about the idea could make him pansexual. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.43|141.101.70.43]] 19:47, 10 March 2015 (UTC) Am I Signing Right?