The "I'm leaving on a Jet Plane" Thread

[Darth Vodka]

Booo!

I have always paid the 4.95% when loading the card up.

But I have just saved £20 by paying with it for 2 flights to Turin and another £20 for 2 flights to Dublin.
The Dublin flights cost me £1 each way per person with free check in so it cost me £4 in all.......

bravo to Jeff, for getting my physics joke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

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[Boy Genius]

bravo to Jeff, for getting my physics joke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

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Why is that funny.......

The spelling is different, it's spelt entropy.

 

[Darth Vodka]

Why is that funny.......

The spelling is different, it's spelt entropy.

now i never said it was funny...only an attempt to be funny :icon_bigg

 

[Boy Genius]

now i never said it was funny...only an attempt to be funny :icon_bigg

Oh I see......

 

[Billyjof]

Everyone loves a smartarse really.

 

[bocadillo]

bravo to Jeff, for getting my physics joke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

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And bravo to you for explaining it for the rest of us!

 

[Darth Vodka]

Everyone loves a smartarse really.

and chicks dig physics jokes right?



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[Macky]

bravo to Jeff, for getting my physics joke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

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The 'proof' that evolution is impossible and that the universe must have had an intelligent designer. :icon_wink

 

[Dour]

Why is that funny.......

The spelling is different, it's spelt entropy.

Perhaps DV is making some sort of obscure joke about just how shit that Wikipedia entry is. And thus how it might as well have been spelt entropay.

 

[SwedeFox]

Not sure about entropy, but Entropay works great, used it today when I booked flights to London (£15).

 

[LCFCmonkey]

The 'proof' that evolution is impossible and that the universe must have had an intelligent designer. :icon_wink

The second law of thermodynamics only works in a closed system. Using an energy source of some kind, it is easy to reduce entropy.

This means that evolution IS possible.

I'm sure by the fact that you put the word "proof" in italics, you were referring to the fact that others (usually creationists) use this as their proof. But just thought i'd make it clear to others.

 

[Macky]

The second law of thermodynamics only works in a closed system. Using an energy source of some kind, it is easy to reduce entropy.

This means that evolution IS possible.

Yeah, but it's only a 'theory', not a 'fact'.
That's why it's called the theory of evolution.
God the horologist did it all, obviously.

 

[Darth Vodka]

Yeah, but it's only a 'theory', not a 'fact'.
That's why it's called the theory of evolution.
God the horologist did it all, obviously.

Pythagorus's Theory is just a theory...

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[Dour]

Pythagorus's Theory is just a theory...

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What theory was that, then?

 

[Boy Genius]

What theory was that, then?

Does he not play for Barcelona?

 

[Darth Vodka]

What theory was that, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

you jest?

Macky knows the arguments anyway i got the horologist bit :icon_bigg

the logic of "it's only a theory" shows a deep understanding of how scientists use the word theory...a scientific theory that lasts 200 years is tantamount to fact, only a theory that revised data in the outliers would replace it (as happened when Relativity/Quantum Mechanics superceded Newtonian physics)

and a theory in mathematics can be proved to be an axiomatic truth, which was me misusing the word some more

 

[Dour]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

you jest?

Nah. Just being sarcastic in pointing out that a theorem is not the same thing aas a theory.

 

[Darth Vodka]

Nah. Just being sarcastic in pointing out that a theorem is not the same thing aas a theory.

sarcasm is the use of irony for wit...the statement lacked both

in maths...theory is a group of theorems

hardly massively different are they? pedantic semantics

 

[Dour]

sarcasm is the use of irony for wit...the statement lacked both

in maths...theory is a group of theorems

hardly massively different are they? pedantic semantics

Is there any mathematical theory that is just made up of theorems? It should be possible but I don't remember any offhand.

But the point is that Pythagoras's 'theory', even if were a theory and not a theorem, is not comparable to a theory of evolution. It's that kind of definitional sloppiness that creationists play with - I don't see why they should be knocked down for it while you try the same trickery.

 

[Macky]

the logic of "it's only a theory" shows a deep understanding of how scientists use the word theory...a scientific theory that lasts 200 years is tantamount to fact

hmm dunno about that DV, aren't 'facts' and 'theories' two entirely different things?
A theory being a hypothesis that stands up to being tested by facts, or summat like that