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The Cabal has arrived.
Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@snowcone you got that right but thats life for ya... we try with all our might but never climb the rope high enough to be reconized
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:43:20 UTC from web-
@snowcone Hey there, it's me again and I am going to tell you something about my self that has taught me the world is a cruel plae but if you don't give up you can do anything. When I was younger at around 13 or 14 years old I knew I was smart, didn't know how smart until I took a few IQ tests though. You know what my IQ scores were? I scored around the 230 ranges everytime I took the test! I was considered a genius and the schools had nothing to teach me so I just sat there doing nothing all day, shoot! I was doing algebra at this time! but then reality struck... the memory I prided myself in started to fade, I started to forget the basics and then the rest of the tower fell. now I can't do basic math such as addition and sutraction without a calculator and every knowledge that requires a step learning process has been lost to me. I tried so hard to get back to what I had but my memory just isn't good enough anymore after having gotten worse over the years. Try before you lose it all
Tuesday, 08-Apr-14 17:54:33 UTC from web
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Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:51:54 UTC from web
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Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:53:07 UTC from web
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Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:55:23 UTC from web
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Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:56:40 UTC from web
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@snowcone I thought I was super intelligent growing up but I think the more courses I've taken and the more people I've met have allowed to both grow as a person and realize that none of us are really as smart as we think we are. I'm not putting down self confidence, but wisdom can get you places knowledge can't. Just some food for thought anyway.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 03:59:52 UTC from web -
@snowcone Well, I value being smart, and to be fair whatever "intelligence" I do have is probably the best thing I have going for me (being shy, awkward, unattractive, and untalented doesn't exactly help me). But what I'm trying to get across is that self awareness is really important. Knowing your limits and giving yourself a realistic depiction of just how intelligent you are will help you so that you can become more intelligent. I get praise from my peers and often have people picking my brain (usually to my dismay but I don't like to be rude about it) but I don't think I'm some towering intellectual god above them (which is an exaggeration but still part of my point). I know there are some things some people will just catch onto quicker than others, and "true" geniuses are incredibly few and far between.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:12:59 UTC from web -
@snowcone We all want to be geniuses, but if you set the bar for yourself that high you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:19:35 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal Aim for the sky, and whilst the bullet may not reach the target, it will soar high and make a hole when it lands.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:25:18 UTC from web-
@nerthos Aim for the sky, and whilst the bullet may not reach the target, the authorities will reach your home when it lands.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:28:56 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal If you aim just right it'll land on the authorities!
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:34:31 UTC from web
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@snowcone The point in setting it lower is so that you have realistic goal for yourself that you can progress with. You can't do addition and then expect yourself to immediately understand calculus. Your whole attitude is essentially "I need to be the smartest person ever but I'm not the smartest ever I'll never be the smartest ever raaaah depression".
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:26:58 UTC from web -
@snowcone In all honestly in really depends on the firearm and area conditions, but I was referring more to the licensing of weapons.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:33:14 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal @snowcone Ignoring the loss of force by friction, which is negligible in an object the size and mass, of a bullet, the force on impact should be, given the ground is at the same approximate level as the gun, roughly equal to the force it escaped the muzzle with.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:37:06 UTC from web-
@nerthos God damn it extra , on there. I'll cut ya.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:38:01 UTC from web -
@nerthos That's Newton's Third Law for You, but friction is pretty important, and the mass of the bullet itself directly affects friction.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:39:02 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal Friction would take a big portion of the force off an object of bigger size, but since bullets are somewhat aerodynamic, are made of lead which is pretty dense, and have a very small surface, the force lost by friction is minimal.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:41:00 UTC from web-
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:43:38 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal But how much friction affects the object depends on the surface it can act on.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:47:33 UTC from web-
@nerthos That's what mu of lead and air is for, but that doesn't change depending on the surface area of the bullet.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:50:01 UTC from web
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@scribus BRB killing all witnesses
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:52:13 UTC from web
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@snowcone It's one of my life philosophies. After all I aim for apotheosis.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:33:26 UTC from web -
@snowcone That's your problem again though, is your comparing yourself to others and being upset because you're not like them. Take it from someone who's been on the outside his whole life: Life is all about playing with the cards you're dealt. You can't always get everything you want and sometimes you can't work with what you have, but throwing a hissy fit because you're not smart doesn't make you seem any more intelligent or respectable.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:36:00 UTC from web -
@snowcone @nerthos It also depends on the angle you're shooting it at as well. It'll be less lethal straight up because gravity would be directly opposing the force applied by the firearm, but lower angles would equate to higher velocities.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:42:38 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal Angle only affects the minumum velocity it'll reach. At 90º it'll reach a full stop, at a lower inclination it'll mantain movement through all the trek. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/733893
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:47:01 UTC from web-
@nerthos I know how parabolas work. The maximum value of the parabola would be lower if shot at a higher initial angle with the same initial force though, since gravity would be opposing the force applied before the 0%.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:48:54 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal And gravity would compensate by accelerating the bullet by the same amount on the way down.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:53:44 UTC from web-
@nerthos It wouldn't have the same final velocity though. The tangent of the zero would be different.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:54:33 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal It wouldn't have the exact same velocity but it'd have /roughly/ the same velocity.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:55:42 UTC from web-
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:56:57 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal I'll do the math tomorrow if I'm feeling less lazy.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:59:06 UTC from web
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@snowcone I could get the exact numbers for muzzle velocity of a particular gun and friction and do the math, but I feel lazy.
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:42:45 UTC from web -
@snowcone When I say straight up I mean 90 degrees, but you can have less than that and still be shooting up. There are too many factors to give a definite hypothetical answer (bullet's mass, angle of shot, force applied from firearm, resistance, permeability of skin of target, orientation of bullet, resistance).
Thursday, 27-Mar-14 04:47:15 UTC from web
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