OT: The Avalounge (mod warning - No Politics)

[famicommander]

Except for the fact that you are wrong, I would absolutely agree with you.

Everything you linked was complete shit. As was the original movie.

You've never seen or read anything that I linked and you just said the movie was perfectly good two posts ago. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

You've never seen or read anything that I linked and you just said the movie was perfectly good two posts ago. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Guilty.

I've watched the original movie. Thought it was dumb but fun. Saw the original TV series... never could understand why they wanted to drag that movie out into a multiple year saga... but okay.

There was decent writing. JW was just entering his prime with Angel. Still think FireFly is his magnus opus but the Buffy universe was a something I give him credit for.

I just can't get into any of this stuff though. I mean, one of my favorite movies of all time is "the Crow". The sequels can all f*** off though. Just because there is a good idea, doesn't mean the entire project is good, worth it or even ok.

Buffy failed to a very smaller degree than Star Wars has... if that makes you feel better. I'll just never understand the emotion that is wrapped up in Buffy.

Hell my wife is a huge Supernatural fan. I kinda get that series too.. a bit. But I think TV is just the wrong form for these shows. They get drawn out entirely too long.

 

[TheForsbergShow]

Found a video last night with Brian Cox. Something about the basic foundation of Black Holes has been troubling me since I read Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

Cox made the comment in this video last night that once you cross the event horizon, basically time and space swap rolls mathmatically speaking. So the idea of nothing being capable of escaping a black hole became much more easier for me to digest... because when you no longer think of a singularity as a place but rather a time (in this case a very specific point in time... the end of it all) it becomes easier to comphrehend. It's not that you can't run away from a place... what you can't run away from is the future.

The big question I'm still trying to understand is that if information, matter, energy what have you goes into a black hole and can not escape it, even at the end of time... this seems to violate my understanding of.... entropy? Seems like laws of conservation for energy, mass, and even potentially charge are being violated.

Here was a good video on Entropy I watched recently (the guy has lots of interesting vids) , it briefly talks about black holes at the end and might help you find more info after or close some misunderstanding of entropy you have. I always watch vids like this lol. Seen a well done one on time but can't seem to find it. Physics stuff is always so mind bending, but interesting to watch/read.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Here was a good video on Entropy I watched recently (the guy has lots of interesting vids) , it briefly talks about black holes at the end and might help you find more info after or close some misunderstanding of entropy you have. I always watch vids like this lol. Seen a well done one on time but can't seem to find it. Physics stuff is always so mind bending, but interesting to watch/read.

In concept, entropy should make sense. It's just when you get deeper into certain proccesses you can almost see nature trying to stick its middle finger out at entropy.

Veritasium is a fantastic channel! Listening to the videos it sounds an awful lot like Mark Rober whose a former NASA engineer. He's got his own channel so I wouldn't think that was him, just found their voices similar at times.

Would love to geek out on favorite science YT channels sometime. Been having a blast watching crazy stuff from styropyro and Nile (both Blue and Red) lately, but they're probably only new to me. Not really hard science channels though, more like infotainment.

Finding folks to follow for hard science is difficult. The best out there at this point that I know is Anton Petrov. He's got a new video every single day of the week and links peer reviewed articles to support each and every one of them. That's tight. Also... he's not taken a day off in the the freaking years I've been watching him. Seriously... not one.

 

[The Moops]

Found a video last night with Brian Cox. Something about the basic foundation of Black Holes has been troubling me since I read Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

Cox made the comment in this video last night that once you cross the event horizon, basically time and space swap rolls mathmatically speaking. So the idea of nothing being capable of escaping a black hole became much more easier for me to digest... because when you no longer think of a singularity as a place but rather a time (in this case a very specific point in time... the end of it all) it becomes easier to comphrehend. It's not that you can't run away from a place... what you can't run away from is the future.

The big question I'm still trying to understand is that if information, matter, energy what have you goes into a black hole and can not escape it, even at the end of time... this seems to violate my understanding of.... entropy? Seems like laws of conservation for energy, mass, and even potentially charge are being violated.

I'm an engineer and I didn't understand one word of your post lmao. Physics was never my thing. Struggled with it my whole life

 

[GeoRox89]

I'm an engineer and I didn't understand one word of your post lmao. Physics was never my thing. Struggled with it my whole life

In my experience, the overwhelming majority of engineers are rather oblivious outside their own specialty. The most ridiculous questions and/or concepts I ever get are from other disciplines

That said, I feel better now that it’s maybe not just that I’d had too much to drink to make sense of expatriatedtexan’s post

 

[The Moops]

In my experience, the overwhelming majority of engineers are rather oblivious outside their own specialty. The most ridiculous questions and/or concepts I ever get are from other disciplines

That said, I feel better now that it’s maybe not just that I’d had too much to drink to make sense of expatriatedtexan’s post

It's very true. I'm full on a dunce outside of my work

 

[TheForsbergShow]

In concept, entropy should make sense. It's just when you get deeper into certain proccesses you can almost see nature trying to stick its middle finger out at entropy.

Veritasium is a fantastic channel! Listening to the videos it sounds an awful lot like Mark Rober whose a former NASA engineer. He's got his own channel so I wouldn't think that was him, just found their voices similar at times.

Would love to geek out on favorite science YT channels sometime. Been having a blast watching crazy stuff from styropyro and Nile (both Blue and Red) lately, but they're probably only new to me. Not really hard science channels though, more like infotainment.

Finding folks to follow for hard science is difficult. The best out there at this point that I know is Anton Petrov. He's got a new video every single day of the week and links peer reviewed articles to support each and every one of them. That's tight. Also... he's not taken a day off in the the freaking years I've been watching him. Seriously... not one.

Yeah for me I typically go down a rabbit hole of random topics as pretty much anything scientific catches my attention (mainly psychology, physics, maths and AI/computing). Two good physics ones I came across were floatheadphysics (not regular postings but interesting topics on concepts) and Sabine Hossenfelder (frequent postings and talks about papers as well).

If you ever felt like longer content MIT and Stanford post their lectures on pretty much every class they have as well which is pretty awesome, although it can be overwhelming to choose a class lol.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Yeah for me I typically go down a rabbit hole of random topics as pretty much anything scientific catches my attention (mainly psychology, physics, maths and AI/computing). Two good physics ones I came across were floatheadphysics (not regular postings but interesting topics on concepts) and Sabine Hossenfelder (frequent postings and talks about papers as well).

If you ever felt like longer content MIT and Stanford post their lectures on pretty much every class they have as well which is pretty awesome, although it can be overwhelming to choose a class lol.

MIT's engineering and computer science rabbit hole is a warren I've become rather comfortable slinking around in.

Stanford...I hadn't thought about before. I'm surprised I didn't stumble upon them when I was furiously looking at various philosophies 5 or so years ago. My diagnosis sent me for loop and I was really struggling to find a better way to view things and put things into perspective. Found most of what I needed rooted in the philosophies of the stoics... Marcus Aurelius' Meditations was almost therepeutic, as were many concepts discussed in eastern religions. Stanford's Philosophy department is supposed to be one of the strongest in the US. Their studies were referrenced in a bunch of stuff I was looking into, but I didn't even think to go look for lectures from them.

 

[McMetal]

PBS SpaceTime is another really excellent physics explainer channel. He does a really good job of breaking down concepts without going too far into the math, which is my kryptonite. I've learned so much cool shit from that channel.

 

[The Moops]

PBS SpaceTime is another really excellent physics explainer channel. He does a really good job of breaking down concepts without going too far into the math, which is my kryptonite. I've learned so much cool shit from that channel.

My dad was on Nova on PBS once. That's the closest claim to fame I have

 

[expatriatedtexan]

There is some great stuff out there for sure. There's also a lot of generative sludge.

A topic we haven't covered yet is history. dude named Dan Carlin has 48 videos.

48 videos. That's it.
569K followers.

Best description of what he tries to do, came from himself... What if?? Atilla the Hun had a podcast? What would history sound/look like from those at the time.

 

[McMetal]

There is some great stuff out there for sure. There's also a lot of generative sludge.

A topic we haven't covered yet is history. dude named Dan Carlin has 48 videos.

48 videos. That's it.
569K followers.

Best description of what he tries to do, came from himself... What if?? Atilla the Hun had a podcast? What would history sound/look like from those at the time.

Fun fact, Dan Carlin's voice is eerily similar to mine. One of my co-workers once asked me if I did the Hardcore History podcast, because I love history and they insisted I sounded exactly like him. This was the first time I had heard of it, but when I listened to it I had to admit that his voice and even his cadence when he speaks is almost a perfect match. If you've heard him speak, you've heard me.

 

[Ceremony]

@The Moops bit loud this

 

[The Moops]

@The Moops bit loud this

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I hate you

 

[Ceremony]

I hate you

That was so loud I actually feel ill the next morning. During We're No Here I thought my brain was going to start dribbling out my ears. I might not make it to the front again tonight.