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By Dr House
#1662116
Just did some quick math, and Jesus was alive less than a century prior to 1 billion minutes ago.

1 day = 1,440 minutes.

1 year = 525,960 minutes

1,000,000,000 minutes = 1,901 years

1,902 years ago was 107 A.D.

Jesus died in 33 AD, just 74 years prior to that.

The dude's math wasn't so far off. The point was that it's a fuckton of time. Using famous dates that crudely approximate it was just a rhetorical device.
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By Dr House
#1662117
Just did some quick math, and Jesus was alive less than a century prior to 1 billion minutes ago.

1 day = 1,440 minutes.

1 year = 525,960 minutes

1,000,000,000 minutes = 1,901 years

1,902 years ago was 107 A.D.

Jesus died in 33 AD, just 74 years prior to that.

The dude's math wasn't so far off. The point was that it's a fuckton of time. Using famous dates that crudely approximate it was just a rhetorical device.
By Falx
#1662128
1 minute = 60 seconds. If you get 32 years for 1 billion seconds, I don't know how you could only get to 1901 with 1 billion minutes.


Multiply by 60? 1901/60~32, given the very poor rounding employed in the first numbers.

Just did some quick math, and Jesus was alive less than a century prior to 1 billion minutes ago.


But the authour gets the one people can actually understand wrong by a factor of ~2. Not that it matters but being technically correct is the best type of correct.
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By Thunderhawk
#1662133
I used 365.24 days/year.

Though I concede my calculations weren't very precise either, Im being pretty precise considering the Engineering standards I usually use are tolerances of +/- 10%

My math wasnt bad :eh:
Im just too lazy to use a lot of signifigant digits and decided rounding to the year made more sense.:O
(I may have truncated actually..)
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By Ombrageux
#1662136
I misread. I thought you were saying it would take us to the year 1901.
By Falx
#1662142
Though I concede my calculations weren't very precise either, Im being pretty precise considering the Engineering standards I usually use are tolerances of +/- 10%


:eek:

I suppose better than astronomy but still, is that common? I don't think I'll be walking into anything other than a straw house build by an engineer if is it.
By missy
#1662235
It was a joke emailed to me, people. I didn't analyze it :eh:
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By Nets
#1662628
Well, I have to give Sinfest credit for not being as horribly unfunny as Tom the Dancing Bug.
By SpiderMonkey
#1662691
You are bound to find cartoons that go against your ideology unfunny, because it even you doubt it and thus can't stand the slightest lampooning.
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By Abood
#1662733
Actually, there's nothing even remotely witty about those two cartoons.
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By Nets
#1662882
You are bound to find cartoons that go against your ideology unfunny, because it even you doubt it and thus can't stand the slightest lampooning.


And what ideology is that, SpiderMonkey.
By Zyx
#1663076
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Nets wrote:And what ideology is that, SpiderMonkey.


Nets, just because hardly anyone calls you out on your 'moderate' claim, it does not mean that you are without ideology.

Besides, aren't you a passive liberal (in the American sense of the word.) You know, someone who believes that capitalism would improve the world, but who would never raise a finger towards that purpose.
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By Thunderhawk
#1663093
Falx wrote:I suppose better than astronomy but still, is that common? I don't think I'll be walking into anything other than a straw house build by an engineer if is it.

Suppose I design a building with steel girders. The expected factored loads, + safety factors, etc.. puts the value at 317.3 kN. I usually round this 318.

I decide to use 350W steel (yeild stress 350 MPa). The closest girder (which are premade, lots of 'standards') which meets or exceeds my 318 limit is pretty big, say 5% to large. I 'could' have custom girders made, but that would cost a lot more and would take time to build, so I go with the 5% to large. I need a couple of these girders, at a spacing of 1.27m -> I round to 1.2. *I* can say I want it to be 1.27, but construction workers (apparantly) dont like such a numbers, they want multiples of x5 or x10. Which makes sense as thats the level of tolerance they often have.

This gives me ~7% (x5) or ~11% (x10) more strength then needed.

Other times values are under estimated if doing so is conservative in design.
By nilof
#1663222
Well, I have to give Sinfest credit for not being as horribly unfunny as Tom the Dancing Bug.


Well, that's because it isn't actually a political satire comic, it only does this during elections. After the election it will go back to cats > dogs and sluts > innocent virgins jokes.

Until then we're stuck with these strips:

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By Abood
#1663225
:lol: :lol: :lol:

That's a good one.
By Falx
#1663243
Fucking amaricans just because it looks the same doesn't mean it sounds the same, reading that made my head nearly explode.

At least sound the things out right with Slavic letters you mofos. This is how the first pannel reads:

Ai* yosh oise a*a*i...
gtatee-groygoyae*
Somik
Gtya*r

fveech.
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By QatzelOk
#1663388
About her failed math joke, missy wrote:It was a joke emailed to me, people. I didn't analyze it

Yeah, well you're going to have to start vetting your material a bit more thoroughly from now on if you hope to be taken unseriously.
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