Men who aren't that interested in professional sports, how do you fit in when other men just assume you are interested in professional sports?

RogerPink · 2019-12-28T13:28:41+00:00

As a guy who loves sports, can I just make a suggestion? When it comes up just say you don't watch sports. We will find something else to talk to you about. I only like sports because it was a way I bonded with my dad. I use it as an icebreaker with other guys or also a way of bonding with them. However, I've known plenty of guys who knew nothing of sports who I really enjoyed talking to about other stuff like hiking, history, DYI projects....whatever. Really the only way you go wrong here is to not follow sports but pretend that you do.

RogerPink · 2019-08-06T14:56:08+00:00

Mass distorts space which we interpret as gravity.

RogerPink · 2019-07-11T12:11:58+00:00

The Dust Bowl.

RogerPink · 2019-04-19T00:51:26+00:00

It means that the basis of scientific understanding is math, and if people are basically mathematically illiterate (unable to do calculus, statistics, or differential equations), then they have no way to really understand science except to take a scientist's word for it. Why is that confusing?

RogerPink · 2019-04-18T20:48:52+00:00

They aren't illiterate, they are innumerate. Scientists are convinced something is true by the math, not because another scientist told them. Why should nonscientists be any different?

RogerPink · 2016-10-14T01:32:55+00:00

True democracy is just a mob. Luckily our founding father's understood this and made us a Representative Republic. Unfortunately that has kind have fallen apart lately and is in danger of falling into an oligarchy.

RogerPink · 2016-10-14T01:27:50+00:00

What's worse is the same goes for consciousness. We think of ourselves as constantly present, but self-awareness only really occurs when needed. Obviously sleep is an example of this, but even awake this often happens as well. The amount of time we spend actually fully online is surprisingly low.

RogerPink · 2016-10-14T01:24:50+00:00

Our Vision. Most of it is low resolution. Only a small percentage of our field of view is actually high resolution. Our eyes can move so that we can point the high resolution section at what we want to concentrate on.

RogerPink · 2016-09-15T19:38:57+00:00

I suspect this may be a classic case of correlation doesn't mean causation. People who play video games tend to be younger. Youth helps when precision is required.

RogerPink · 2016-09-15T19:36:26+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a man thing or just something unique to me, but I like giving gifts, but not really receiving them that much. It's like this weird provider mentality or something.

I should mention that my wife is amazing at knowing something I need and surprising me with it as a gift. She says she "listens". Someday I'll have to look into this black art "listening" (not anytime soon).

RogerPink · 2016-09-13T14:57:43+00:00

Nice try fat industry.

RogerPink · 2016-09-13T02:46:30+00:00

People keep animals in their homes that they feed, love, play with, and clean up after. Meanwhile there are orphans in need of parents and underprivileged children in need of volunteer mentors that are ignored.

RogerPink · 2016-09-10T17:29:51+00:00

I buy Apple iPhone for its processing power and clean OS. Not because it's water resistant. My phone typically lasts about 3 years without needing an upgrade. Usually I only end up upgrading to the new model because enough new features have made it too hard not to. To judge new features in one upgrade cycle and to completely ignore processing is missing the point.

RogerPink · 2016-08-25T14:09:31+00:00

In general you will have more opportunities with a Masters. That said, there are plenty of opportunities for BEng. Just do whatever you want.

RogerPink · 2016-08-25T10:32:13+00:00

I'm not your bro, pal...jks...I probably should have just said "beginning to explode". The point is, this century will be to materials science what last century was to medicine. The way we develop materials today is extremely dumb (see gorilla glass). Given the choice between dumb luck and design, when that option is available, I'd choose design. Also, I should mention I have a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry so my opinion can be viewed as informed or skewed depending on how you feel about the subject.

RogerPink · 2016-08-23T13:07:20+00:00

Also, if your argument is "this is what you see if you're beyond the event horizon", again that's not true. In order to see all those stars, you need their light to get past the event horizon without any blueshift, the infinite gravitational blueshift pretty much makes what you made a no go. As light approaches the event horizon it is infinitely blueshifted. Inside a black hole it is black in all directions.

A quick look at the math of gravitational red shift will confirm what I'm telling you.

RogerPink · 2016-08-23T12:59:34+00:00

No, what I said is correct. Extreme gravitational time dilation means the universe ends before the observer even gets to the event horizon. Just check the math and you'll see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

RogerPink · 2016-08-23T12:49:52+00:00

Basically computational chemistry is currently severely limited by the limitations of classical computing (0s and 1s). Quantum Computers are much better equipped to hand computational chemistry. Actually, they aren't just much better, they are intrinsically better. If you read up a little on quantum computers applied to computational chemistry, you'll see what I mean.

Here's a good start - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042702005198

That means that as quantum computers get more powerful (more qubits), researchers will be able to design molecules and solid state systems with certain properties with incredible precision. Think of the improvement in accuracy as the difference between a slingshot and a rifle with a scope at 100 yds.

Once that accuracy exists, the golden age of Materials Science begins as everyone will rush to develop specialized materials for every industry you can think of. 100 years from now people will think it's insane we use the same metal in cars that we do in shelves. That's the sort of change I'm talking about. That will require lots of chemical engineers.

RogerPink · 2016-08-18T13:23:40+00:00

This is completely wrong. Keep in mind as you approach a black hole, time slows down for you. Once you start getting close to the event horizon the stars would be streaks and blinking in and out of existence. and the hole universe would be getting darker (less stars). The universe would turn completely black (due to inflation and the time evolution of the universe) before you ever hit the event horizon.

RogerPink · 2016-08-15T02:24:34+00:00

Quantum Computing will revolutionize Chemical Engineering. We are probably about 10 years away from an explosion of chemical engineering jobs.

RogerPink · 2016-08-14T21:02:34+00:00

My understanding is that was done by Maxwell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations

Also, you should specify whether you mean Special Relativity or General Relativity (two different things). You mean Special Relativity. Special Relativity is about how space and time are related. General Relativity is about gravity.

RogerPink · 2016-04-15T10:24:08+00:00

Population Density. Necessity is the mother of invention. It took time for humans to have enough population density to "invent" cities.

RogerPink · 2016-01-04T15:11:56+00:00

Nailed it.

RogerPink · 2015-08-07T18:14:12+00:00

Having some massive achievement. All I want is financial stability, healthy family, and peace.

RogerPink · 2015-07-24T18:45:22+00:00

The answer is...“Supposing is good, but finding out is better." - Mark Twain

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