Absolutely no relation to NLK
Yas, Chile recognition! I knew the day would come where our historic resemblance to a bunch of long skinny things would earn us fame :')
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Who Am I?
I love the pop-up text.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Lost in Space
Answering the oft-asked question: "How many ones would you need to print (on a cheap inkjet) in sequence before the number represented by the digits approximately equaled the number of ink molecules used to print them?"
Math is weird, but fun.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Gentleman Adventurer!
I don't think I would ever be able to do a Fermi approximation for a question of any substance without breaking down in a fit of giggles over how many steps I'm skipping.
Your funny quote here! (Maybe)
Apparently he got bored and tried to call Jenny at one point.
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Yeah, it always feels like cheating.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Lost in Space
We should all capture squids and use them to supply ink for our printers.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I am now a shiny stone~
Ika Musume seems to have a lot more ink proportionately compared to ordinary ink-bearing squids.
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Who Am I?
Sure, but what's the cents per page?
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Chaos theory joke?
Who Am I?
Jurassic Park joke.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Do a barrel roll!
Chaos theory as proposed by Ian Malcolm, I mean.
Was chaos theory just used as a plot device in the book, or did Crichton actually know what he was talking about? Or maybe it's just come a long way since then that now it's a lot more complicated than how Ian Malcom made it out to be with 'you can't control all these wild variables if you don't even know what they are'
edited 25th Jul '14 4:59:30 PM by Xopher001
Lost in Space
Pfft, the version of chaos theory discussed in the film (I haven't read the book) is pure Hollywood word-spewing, without any real scientific depth.
He's right in the sense that Hammond was failing to account for a large number of variables in his park design, making it fundamentally unsafe, but that has nothing to do with chaos theory.
edited 25th Jul '14 5:08:08 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
All I remember about Chaos Theory from the book is him saying something about how things like traffic patterns don't work as people predict they will using old models because it ignores all the individuals or something. I've no idea if anything he said was accurate at all.
One Winged Egret
I remember that the start of each chapter had a little mathy diagram thing, but I think it was just flavor.
Who Am I?
Basically is was the kind of Chaos Theory that you could have gotten from reading "Popular Science" magazine. Not wrong, but very superficial.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
Crichton had a reputation for doing a lot of research for his books, even if he did end up taking lots of artistic licence with the subjects he covered. It's been way too long since I read the books, but my recollection is that the books were more accurate than the films. It could be that I'm just giving Crichton credit for nostalgia, though.
edited 26th Jul '14 8:09:56 AM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Who Am I?
He did do a lot of research, he just tended to cherry pick a lot. For example, his more recent anti-global warming novel "State of Fear" was outrageous.
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YEEEEAH— no.
As interesting as that would be, Wiseau isn't on the FBI's serious suspects list
So helpful.