lighting storm

[pianistimo]

we are having a real lightening storm here.  it is blazing loud.  it's blasting each side of the house.  first the back side, now the street, i think it already got the other two sides previously.  we can see the light sometimes. 

thankfully there's a lot of rain to go with it - so no fires. 

last night i was watering the grass and felt like i was about to be hugely electrocuted.  so i went and turned off the water and dropped the hose and ran into the house.  sure enough there was a bit of lightening last night, too.

[johnny-boy]

Shut your computer down and pull the plugs.

Best, John

[lisztisforkids]

God is angry.

[pianistimo]

suppose he might be.  electricity has to be regenerated like everything else, though, doesn't it?  even our hearts need some charging up sometimes, right.  seems that the rain is doing some good anyway.

[prometheus]

It's all energy of the sun, rain, storm, lightning. Simple fusion reaction of the two most basic elements. But it all turns out very complex. That is tha nature of this world 'of ours'.

[pianistimo]

well, i'm not going to be dragging my feet across the carpet tonight.  do you think pets are more in danger of being hit when outside because they have fur?  or is it only the tallest things that usually get hit?

my cat is so scared of lightening.

[prometheus]

Dragging your feet will give you a negative charge. I am not sure what you mean with the fur of animals.

[thalbergmad]

we are having a real lightening storm here. 

Be thankfull you don't live on Venus.

They have some mental storms there.

Anyway everyone knows that a storm is simply Thor striking with his hammer.

Thal

[lisztisforkids]

Anyway everyone knows that a storm is simply Thor striking with his hammer.

Thal

  Heresy! Burn him!

[thalbergmad]

  Heresy! Burn him!

I have just sent an e mail to the Pope claiming that the Earth is not the centre of the universe.

I wonder if the church still dishes out the "Giordano Bruno" treatment.

Thal

[pianistimo]

he shouldn't have returned to italy.  just think, he would have died an old man in france or somewhere like that.  instead, he was burned alive with his tongue gagged for telling them he didn't know what to retract.

guess that we think we are the center of the universe because we haven't found any other planet with life forms on it and life sustaining elements (oxygen, water, atmosphere, right temps, etc).  this cannot be coincidence, to me.  'what is man, that you are mindful of him...'

[prometheus]

No, its no coincidence because we haven't been able to check out a single significant other planet yet.

Also, there are 7 × 10^22 stars in the observable universe. The real universe is probably many a quadrillion times bigger.

The universe has no center.

[musik_man]

No, its no coincidence because we haven't been able to check out a single significant other planet yet.

Also, there are 7 × 10^22 stars in the observable universe. The real universe is probably many a quadrillion times bigger.

The universe has no center.

I was under the impression that the universe was a sphere (you know big bang and all that.)  What shape is it?

[prometheus]

The big bang was not an explosion. It was, and is, an expansion of the singularity itself.


What the shape of the universe is is unknown. Also, there are two universes with each their different discussion. There is the local universe, meaning the observable universe and the global one, or the whole universe. The latter includes that what we can not measure. So science stops there and philosophy begins.


As for the local universe. Scientists aren't even sure if the geometry of the universe is flat or not. So we don't even know which type of geometry to use. Furthermore, I do not understand the nuances of this kind of geometry at all so I am the wrong person to ask.


But I am under the impression that many people support the idea that the universe has the shape of a saddle. So it is nether spherical or flat but inbetween. When the universe would be shaped as a sphere it would be a 4d hypersphere. Just like earth is a 3d object with a 2d surface the universe may be a 4d hypersphere covered with 3d surface. In that case the universe would be contained by itself, just like the surface of the earth is unending but not infinite.
A saddle would mean the universe isn't flat but also not curved enough to contain itself. Then we are in the field of Hyperbolic geometry.

Of course both spheric and hyperbolic geometry are non-Euclidic.

[donjuan]

Shut your computer down and pull the plugs.

Best, John

I agree.  I destroyed one of my televisions that way...

always use surge protectors, kids

[pianistimo]

we heard today a 53 year old man was hit by lightening yesterday while riding his tractor.  what a way to go.

[thalbergmad]

we heard today a 53 year old man was hit by lightening yesterday while riding his tractor.  what a way to go.

Well, it serves him right.

What a disgusting thing to do.

The Lord has punished him.

Thalxx

[pianistimo]

it makes u wonder about riding tractors in lightening storms.  at least in his eulogy they can say it was an unnatural cause but a natural phenomenon.  his wife found him hot, but too exhausted.