New efforts!

[Vee]

They're not bad really, but I had some of the Blueberry ones the other day and I think they were better!

Have they improved them since the 80s when they released them? I remember as a kid getting some because kid + new thing. the strawberry and blueberry were pretty bad but the apple were amazing. Don't know why i'm asking as my sweet tooth disappeared with the onset of puberty, just curious.

[Remaugen]

Certainly better than I remember the Blueberry Newtons being when I was a kid!

[FloatingFatMan]

...Has anyone tried the strawberry Fig Newtons? SO good. I highly recommend them.

We call those Fig Roll's here in the UK, and you need to stop putting things that aren't fig's inside them! :p

[MM3squints]

We call those Fig Roll's here in the UK, and you need to stop putting things that aren't fig's inside them! :p

Fig rolls are so last year, we now have Figs stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in bacon, drizzled in maple syrup

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.diningchicago.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2Fbaconwrappeddates.jpg

[Vee]

We call those Fig Roll's here in the UK, and you need to stop putting things that aren't fig's inside them! :p

How'd you know about that?

[robo40]

Sigh. K0 * F0 *C0 = X0 * Y0 * Z0 Thus KFC = XYZ

Now you know why division by zero is disallowed.  All these years you just thought your math teachers were making it up because they didn't know why the calculator had an error message.

As for the rest, the moral of this story is "Mess with Arcana and you put your online reputation in Jeopardy!".

[robo40]

We call those Fig Roll's here in the UK, and you need to stop putting things that aren't fig's inside them! :p

Truly.  It is sacrilege on a COH thread to suggest that knockoffs can be compared to the original.

[Codewalker]

Now you know why division by zero is disallowed.  All these years you just thought your math teachers were making it up because they didn't know why the calculator had an error message.

As for the rest, the moral of this story is "Mess with Arcana and you put your online reputation in Jeopardy!".

I like to see dividing by zero as a math singularity, and what goes below the event horizon can never come back.

In other words, sure, XYZ = KFC, but only once it's been shredded to pieces inside a black hole where everything is multiplied by 0 and mashed together into an infinitely small space.

[Felderburg]

I found this link interesting in light of the recent conversations here. :D

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/13/5806104/nasas-warp-drive-spaceship-concept-enterprise

Ha! I never saw the detailed looks at the in jokes he put in there. He even has a worker bee shuttle! He's got some good stuff here: http://mark-rademaker.blogspot.com/

[FloatingFatMan]

How'd you know about that?

I've been to the states and seen their pale imitation of the great Fig Roll's!

[FloatingFatMan]

Fig rolls are so last year, we now have Figs stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in bacon, drizzled in maple syrup

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.diningchicago.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2Fbaconwrappeddates.jpg

I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at that pic...

[Arcana]

I like to see dividing by zero as a math singularity, and what goes below the event horizon can never come back.

In other words, sure, XYZ = KFC, but only once it's been shredded to pieces inside a black hole where everything is multiplied by 0 and mashed together into an infinitely small space.

Much like everything else you'd find at a KFC.

[darkgob]

I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at that pic...

Much like everything else you'd find at a KFC.

[Arcana]

Fig rolls are so last year, we now have Figs stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in bacon, drizzled in maple syrup

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.diningchicago.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2Fbaconwrappeddates.jpg

Now all someone has to do is put those on a stick and deep fry them with corn dog batter.

[JanessaVR]

Now all someone has to do is put those on a stick and deep fry them with corn dog batter.

Or heck, you could just take a syringe of pure fat and inject it straight into your veins...no waiting!  :)

[GenericHero05]

I loves me some Fig Newtons but, alas, Fig Newtons do not love me... Everything out, one exit.  I guess a good Spring cleaning every once in awhile won't hurt you.  Sort of like those Pringles made with Olestra.  At least I found another use for the Pringles' can.

[MM3squints]

Or heck, you could just take a syringe of pure fat and inject it straight into your veins...no waiting!  :)

If Sigma 6 teaches us anything, you can increase efficiency by cutting out a step :P The alternative you can just eat Baconnaise

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.baronbob.com%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2Fbaconnaise.jpg

Baconnaise, for the people who are too lazy to get a heart attack

[Ultimate15]

Fig rolls are so last year, we now have Figs stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in bacon, drizzled in maple syrup

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.diningchicago.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2Fbaconwrappeddates.jpg

Goat cheese makes everything better.

[Joshex]

Just to be complete, dark energy is not specifically proposed to solve the question of cosmological expansion by itself.  Dark energy is the energy deficit encountered when CMB measurements suggest that the geometry of the universe is approximately flat.  General relativity then states that the energy density of the universe must be close to some specific value for the CMB measurements to conclude the geometry of the universe is approximately flat.  When astronomers estimate the total amount of normal mass accounted for through galactic surveys, they can only account for about 5% of that mass.  The rest has to be basically "dark" - i.e. energy astronomers can't detect.  Even accounting for non-luminous matter (not just invisible, but matter that doesn't emit radiation of any kind), there's still a deficit.

When galaxies are observed, their rotation provides a way to measure the amount of mass contained within them because that mass affects the gravitational forces that account for galactic rotation.  Even if the mass was in black holes or dead stars or invisible unicorns, galactic rotation would account for it.  When galactic rotational measurements are performed to estimate the mass of galaxies, you discover that galaxies are about 6 times more massive than astronomers can detect through visible (and non-visible radiation) observation.  That means five times as much mass as we can see is "dark mass" that nevertheless has the same gravitational effects.

But when you add that all up, you still get only 30% of the energy necessary to explain the flatness measurements.  The conclusion is that if the CMB measurements are correct and general relativity is correct, 70% of the energy in the universe is not visible, and doesn't even show up in galactic gravitational surveys.  Its dark, because we can't see it.  Its dark energy because it doesn't behave like normal (dark) mass that clumps up in galactic halos and influences their motion.  That's dark energy.  Its energy we know is there because general relativity says its there, but we can't see it and it doesn't clump up locally and show gravitational effects on galactic scales.

A *completely separate* line of thinking starts with observations that suggest cosmological expansion is accelerating.  If the universe were approximately flat and also dark energy had the same gravitational effect on cosmological scales (just not on galactic scales because it doesn't clump to galaxies) then cosmic expansion would slowly decrease over time as gravity would act as a brake to decelerate expansion.  However, acceleration requires a force of some kind acting on the expansion, and the theories to explain that revolve around the universe being filled with a constant energy density field of some time, meaning as the universe expands it doesn't get thinner, it expands in energy with the universe keeping its effects constant over time.  This energy field would have a repulsive effect on cosmological scales and would act as an accelerator rather than a brake on expansion.

We now have two different lines of observation and analysis - cosmological flatness and cosmological acceleration - both theoretically explainable by proposing an energy field in the universe with certain properties.  That's the sort of thing that makes people believe Dark Energy is not just an ad hoc way to say "we don't know" but is likely to be a real thing.  When you calculate the properties required for the dark energy field capable of explaining flatness and you do the same calculations to determine the properties the field must have to explain acceleration, you end up with both calculations converging on very similar numbers.  That could be coincidence, but most astronomers believe that to be unlikely.

On top of that, there's a third independent line of analysis that suggests the large scale distribution of matter in the universe implies that the gravitational mass observed in galaxies and clusters is only about 30% of that necessary for galactic superclusters and superstructures to be as "clumpy" as they are observed to be.  That *also* suggests that 70% of the energy in the universe is unaccounted for in galactic surveys, which points to the very same dark energy field with similar energy density properties.  That's still not conclusive, but the odds of all three separate lines of investigation just happening to be resolvable by the same proposition - that there is a dark energy field in the universe that is not accounted for in galactic surveys - is low enough for the conjecture of dark energy to be considered a strong one, and not just a guess or an admission of a simple gap in knowledge.

I honestly have not done much studying into this particular topic, but from the first paragraph stating the universe is flat I can assume there might be a miscalculation in their theories again attributed to my rule of faulty math that still computes, they are obviously missing something and therefore haven't added it into the calculations and are getting the wrong output. Now that's fine and all but the wrong course of action is to assume the output is final and try to figure out what you need to do to make the current output correct.

I mean it's almost like a shadow of when they used to think the world was flat and were trying hard to prove it and shunned/ignored information that was contrary.

Second topic;

Dark matter and the red spectrum, these theories are used to explain why we can't see light from objects at a certain distance away or record their energies.

Well, I'll have to slightly disagree with both, there isn't some magic invisible matter that makes up a huge portion of the universe that; and wait for it: in our history of monitoring space we just happen to have never encountered it or it's effects directly. I'm sorry that violates several real theories of probability.

So why can't we record light or such from objects a certain distance away? simple it has to do with the nature of photons and energies, photons are tiny fragments of electrons,protons and nuetrons created either by a peak in energy inside an electron proton ETC. or when too much energy is forced into one atom's field (radioactivity)

Photons are invisible if only due to the speed they travel being too fast for us to see, they are not physical matter yet can charge physical matter beyond it's threshold as electrons protons ETC will absorb photons. Light can be bent or refracted by said atomic components or the fields made therewith.

With that being said outer space may be devoid of matter or the most part, but it's brimming with fields of all sorts and types.

Photonic alchemy, to understand this topic you first need to accept that modern science is wrong about light having only 1 speed. light can have multiple speeds creating 'soft' light to 'very hard' light and I am not talking about intensity of the light.

Soft light is slow moving light. It can actually transfer pigment from one object to another and is created when a photon slows down due to collision with fields or physical matter.

the photon at this point begins to develop a shell and will eventually become an atomic particle. This is the process I call Photonic alchemy and it happens every split second of every day everywhere. when it happens the photon is no longer a photon and no longer moves at light speed or has the inertia to bounce back over long distances, couple that with the fact that when the photon forms a shell it becomes either an electron, proton or nuetron and will merge with other photons which are becoming the same type of atomic particle. at this point it generates it's own field and becomes increasingly effected by other fields and may form solid matter and fall to the surface of the nearest large mass.

So light we send out or light sent from our sun will all meet this fate at a certain distance. This is the real red spectrum, this is the explanation that rules out dark matter.

Edit, byt he way, we already harness this ability via solar panels, Solar panels are plates of silicon which naturally contains lots of electrons, when light hits it the fields of these electrons are more than likely to colide with the photons causing the electrons to be bounced out of the material (and collected by a conductor), This 'squishy/sloppy' impact absorbs quite a lot of the photon's speed causing it to slow down and hopefully become an electron to take the former's place, thus recharging the panel. however sometimes a proton or nuetron is formed and eventually the solar panel will be mostly populated with these making energy flow less or null.

[Phaerius]

If Sigma 6 teaches us anything, you can increase efficiency by cutting out a step :P The alternative you can just eat Baconnaise

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.baronbob.com%2Fimages%2Fproducts%2Fbaconnaise.jpg

Baconnaise, for the people who are too lazy to get a heart attack

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