If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

AchronTimeless wrote:

somedumbguy wrote:sparkle motion

Thanks for the unintentional flashback there. The things I've seen...

If you reaaaally wanna know:
[spoiler]I urge you not to figure out how the following go together: Twilight Sparkle, the letter e, the word "clop", and the number 621[/spoiler]

Notung wrote:Now the JREF is retweeting RW's old tweet about rape and 'unable to consent'. Why now? What's going on...

Darren wrote:

Notung wrote:Now the JREF is retweeting RW's old tweet about rape and 'unable to consent'. Why now? What's going on...

I wonder if that Carry Poppy character (@CarriePoppyYES) who quit JREF not so long ago has access to their twitter?

Skep tickle wrote:This might be it: SurlyAmy came over to DJ's apartment (in the same building she lives in, or used to live in) to pick up her check from JREF for the Surlyramics lot featuring Randi, they had some champagne to celebrate New Year's, both got tipsy, and now Amy is sending out these tweets from DJ's phone but he keeps grabbing it back & deleting them.

Notung wrote:Darren, I was wondering the same thing. We still don't know why she quit.

Michael K Gray wrote:Executive Summary:
PZ is an incompetent libellous cunt, and a failure as a scientist.
Re his gravity lamp train wreck: the thing described could easily make a worklamp that emits 64 Lumens for a half an hour!
Perfect for reading his non-existent book by.
Even by privileged Western standards.
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TL;DR - Back of the envelope analysis:

Gravitational potential energy of a 10kg mass over a 1.5m drop:
Joules = 10kg × 1.5m × 9.8m/s
= 147J

Watts = Joules/second

@ 30 minutes between "lifts":
Watts = 147/(30 × 60)
= 0.0817W

@ ≈90% efficiency = 80mW continuous.

Now, superbright white LEDs can easily put out 100Lumen per Watt.
So this means 8 Lumens if the LED is omnidirectional.
But these LEDs are Tightly focused, and ideal for work-lamps.
I can safely say that they focus their output so that it is concentrated at least 8 times better than omnidirectional.

Which amounts to a work lamp with a usable 64 Lumens at 1 metre, at an absolute minimum.
New Cree LEDs can manage 200Lumens/Watt!

It could be made from a discarded stepper-motor from an old printer. Not exactly in short supply!
The electronics would have to be a bit more than diode rectifiers to achieve 90%+ efficiency, given that LEDs have a minimum switch-on voltage — 1.8V for a bog-standard red LED, and anything up to 4+V for high-power spotlights. But for an 80mW white LED, my guess is around 2.3V before they will produce anything. Ordinary diodes sap 1.2V to start with, so they are out.
Luckily cheap stepper motors have two phases, so when one is under voltage, the other is above.
But for true efficiency, we need 2 sets of synchronous MOSFET bridge rectifiers.
Cheap as chips, plentiful, and almost zero loss.
Add a supercapacitor reservoir as a buffer/smoother before the active current regulator (again, these are cheap as chips from China).
That way we scavenge almost all of the energy to turn into light.

I might make one, just to prove that PZ Lyers is a libellous jack-ass, but that would be guilding the lily.

And no, I am not going to steal that hat for my avatar. I only wear Akubra hats.
(Although I do have a genuine 19th Century Stetson Bowler hat, like Butch Cassidy's. I don't wear it much. it makes me look like more of a dickhead than usual.)

masakari2012 wrote:I didn't see any such links, if they did exist in the first place and are now deleted. Screencapping alone may not be good enough, since people are impersonating others out there (this is why I don't approve of whoever it is that's impersonating Ophelia Benson and Greg Laden). We need to be able to see that it's actually the JREF account which is making those tweets, and if those tweets are later on deleted when we click on the link.

Notung wrote:I like the Balotelli avatar. In some ways the Slymepit is a lot like Mario.

masakari2012 wrote:I see these people who type "RT" then what the retweet should have been, but I don't see any links to a tweet from JREF which was the original.

masakari2012 wrote:I see these people who type "RT" then what the retweet should have been, but I don't see any links to a tweet from JREF which was the original. I also don't see any evidence that JREF actually made those tweets, except for a pic which I can't verify that wasn't photoshopped.

Though, if I take your words for it, and assume that you're correct that those tweets did actually come from the actual JREF's account, then I would wonder why it was deleted (as you are).

masakari2012 wrote:I see these people who type "RT" then what the retweet should have been, but I don't see any links to a tweet from JREF which was the original. I also don't see any evidence that JREF actually made those tweets, except for a pic which I can't verify that wasn't photoshopped.

Though, if I take your words for it, and assume that you're correct that those tweets did actually come from the actual JREF's account, then I would wonder why it was deleted (as you are).

masakari2012 wrote:I see these people who type "RT" then what the retweet should have been, but I don't see any links to a tweet from JREF which was the original. I also don't see any evidence that JREF actually made those tweets, except for a pic which I can't verify that wasn't photoshopped.

Though, if I take your words for it, and assume that you're correct that those tweets did actually come from the actual JREF's account, then I would wonder why it was deleted (as you are).

rayshul wrote:Screenshots of those RTs would be interesting - I'm not sure how to capture them, they aren't showing up on the jref feed.

rayshul wrote:Incidentally, good catches from Elevatorgate on Hensley - if they haven't been posted here.

http://elevatorgate.wordpress.com/2013/ ... um=twitter

Melody Hensley: Women will be represented equally in the secular community as speakers conferences, and as leaders and board members of organizations.

EdgePenguin wrote:However, you talk about lumens changing if the light is non omnidirectional - I think you are confusing lumens with lux

masakari2012 wrote:Looks like I made a new "friend" tonight, who I will be seeing again, unless she finds out my evil secret, that I'm a misogynist because I post on the Slyme Pit.

Al Stefanelli wrote:Found this gem in my Facecrack newsfeed:

http://wcoa.info/tffb.jpg

Michael J wrote:Happy new year all.

Interestingly there hasn't been a "you slymepitter bastards" post on ftb since Ed's outburst. Given thunderf00ts video, you would think that somebody would respond. PZ seems to have a minor punch up with someone but this was over the old accommodationist argument rather than radfem.

franc wrote:Becky's next talk -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/01 ... s_are_hot/

Tony Parsehole wrote:Carrie Poppy in full skepchick uniform. Morrissey glasses with pretendy-lenses and a Surly-ramic proclaiming she's a vegan. I never knew who Carrie Poppy was until 5 minutes ago and already I think she's a cunt.
http://skepchick.org/wp-content/uploads ... -small.jpg

masakari2012 wrote:Franc, she was at my place when we were sober. She's pretty. Beautiful long dark hair, nice eyes, huge tits, nice ass. She‘s smart, and listens to reason.

Okay, now I'm really signing out.

masakari2012 wrote:http://storify.com/ElevatorGATE/convers ... nley-and-t

masakari2012 wrote:Franc, she was at my place when we were sober. She's pretty. Beautiful long dark hair, nice eyes, huge tits, nice ass. She‘s smart, and listens to reason.

Okay, now I'm really signing out.

franc wrote:Print this out, put it in a time capsule.

franc wrote:

masakari2012 wrote:Franc, she was at my place when we were sober. She's pretty. Beautiful long dark hair, nice eyes, huge tits, nice ass. She‘s smart, and listens to reason.

Okay, now I'm really signing out.

Print this out, put it in a time capsule.