flipside.scribkin: Archive

On Feed Readers →

jingc: Instead of a thing to enjoy, it makes reading a thing to get done with. It’s reading made efficient. But I have no lack of efficiency in my life; what I lack is leisure, quiet, and space. The feed reader is the fast food joint of the reading experience, but I want the farmer’s market, the slow-cooked greens, the home-baked bread. I don’t want to feed, I want to eat, with all the...

Mar 31st

16 notes

Mar 31st

26 notes

Mar 31st

78 notes

Mar 31st

6 notes

Mar 31st

28 notes

Mar 31st

43 notes

Mar 31st

On Relativity and Unit Sheep

Alex: What's really sick is that I think I can put in doppler effects, too. (For projectile/parabolic sheep) The granularity a little rough, but the basic stuff is already there. 
Alex: Making a sheep do a sonic boom is harder, but might occur as a natural outcome of doppler.:-) 
Phil: what an odd visual. 
Alex: Hmm.. Why isn't it the case, that if a sheep goes by at mach 2, one hears the sonic boom, then the a'a'a'a'B in reverse?:-( 
Phil: No, the sound wave is never reversed, just compressed to almost 0. 
Phil: It would be BOOM BAAAaaaaaa-a-a-a-a--a--a--a---a----a----a 
Alex: Then you get visual doppler shift, a blue sheep coming, then red leaving, (after the boom). A compelling experience, I should think. 
Phil: I don't think your software implementation is fast enough to get the full effect of blue shift. 
Phil: And anyway, doppler shift in the visual range occurs at a much higher speed than a sonic boom. 
Alex: ...and then there's computing the dispersion radius of a unit sheep of homogeneous composition upon impact on an inclined surface... 
Alex: (It's a sim. rewrite the laws :-)) 
Phil: I encourage you to create the algorithm though.. astronomers can add it to their database if they ever notice a blue shift from a unknown item that is m^2 wide. 
Phil: You could call it "SheepShift" 
Alex: If it's unknown, how do they know how big it is? 
Phil: Of course, in space, no one can hear you bleat.