Sheepie Makes 50!

[sheepie]

Nothing really to say - just wanted to see the message count tick over to 50!

[birddog114]

Good on ya!!!!

[MHD]

Birdie will do the same at 1,000

[Dargan]

Congrats. Just noticed i have one to go myself!

[Greg B]

Well done Sheepie and Dargan.

For the numerically minded, did you know that before the search engine took Google, there was an actual number called a googol.

It is 10 to the power 100.

There is also the googolplex, which is 10 to the power googol.

If you wrote out a googolplex on a piece of paper (ie, 1 with a googol zeros), it would fill the known universe, which is estimated to hold 10 to the power 82 particles.

[Kris]

Greg, just clarify.. how do you mean 'fill the entire universe'

[Greg B]

Greg, just clarify.. how do you mean 'fill the entire universe'

I will defer to cosmologist Carl Sagan.....

"..the total number of elementary particles - protons and neutrons and electrons - in the observable universe is about 10 to the power 80. If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still be only about 10 to the power 128 particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol, but trivially small compared to a googolplex..."

"We could try to write out a googolplex, but it is a forlorn ambition. A piece of paper large enough to have all the zeroes in a googolplex written out explicitly could not be stuffed into the known universe."

That's what I mean.

As Carl said on the Cosmos television series (and I still think about it often)....

A googolplex is a very, very large number indeed.

[bago100]

Yeah Greg - undeerstood clearly

But if the universe is infinite with no beginning or end, how can it be filled with anything with the optimal word being "filled"

Of course there are those who do claim the universe has a beginning and end but if it is still expanding, where is it expanding to?

Interesting to find out about all those google derivatives

Thanks for that

Graham PS - Congrats for making 50 Sheepie! Well done!

[Glen]

Greg, you are a very interesting man

[Greg B]

I like numbers

[Onyx]

I used to like numbers too. Until I found out the nine digital plus zero wasn't all there is to them... The uni lecturers introduced x's and y's, a's and b's representing this and that... and sq root of -1 didn't exist, then I was given a two page proof that 1 + 1 = 1.

[birddog114]

I like number very much, especially number with 6 figures (salary package)

[Raydar]

Go sheepie go!!!!!!

Looking good mate

Cheers
Ray

[Dargan]

Okay Greg. How many quarks in the universe?

[Greg B]

Okay Greg. How many quarks in the universe?

Good question. There is a view that there are three quarks in a proton. Neutrons might be similar, electrons are smaller (which is why they are always getting lost under the couch).

I am not sure, but I believe there may also be a relationship between a duck and a quark.

And there are a lot of ducks.

There is much to consider.

[gstark]

The duck's still off

[Matt. K]

There are still many people who believe the Earth is round. The Earth is flat. I should know because I walk on it every day.

[Greg B]

There are still many people who believe the Earth is round. The Earth is flat. I should know because I walk on it every day.

"Prove me wrong"

[Greg B]

http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/DCForumID86/2772.html

Matt,

I saw this post and thought of your flat earth comment. It starts with...

"As you may or may not know I am opposed to almost all new ideas I was fine believing the world was flat and carried on the back of a huge turtle."

It is an amusing post, and there is a point, although I got confused

cheers

[Charandane]

Ahhh! But what's the difference between a duck???

[Dargan]

Greg I had a look at that post 'interpolated 17Mb to 50Mb for acceptance" It leads me to query why this is done as a post does in that site. Can you extend comment on why this is needed and considering that the files in raw I have taken are around 6Mb indicate the workflow required or the end user of such a file.

[Dargan]

Oh! Almost forgot the point of the thread. Please see http://www.flat-earth.org/ At the time of the moon landing this group was formed to rescind NASA propaganda.

[sheepie]

Sheepie isn't sure it was a good idea to draw attention to making 50 if this is the sort of conversation it develops into!

[Greg B]

Greg I had a look at that post 'interpolated 17Mb to 50Mb for acceptance" It leads me to query why this is done as a post does in that site. Can you extend comment on why this is needed and considering that the files in raw I have taken are around 6Mb indicate the workflow required or the end user of such a file.

This was the point where I got confused Dargan. The whole thing made no sense to me. Other things also don't make sense, but have nice colours - I prefer them.

So in answer to you specific question, no I can't.

[Dargan]

Sheepie. I do think there is value in such a reply. I do try to maintain a link to the essence of a thread even if it is obtuse at times. I picked up on the flat earth theme. On that very point of connections, GregB according to his site is soon to or has attained 50 in the real world. So you can see there is a link there if you look hard enough. You might like to follow up the significance of 42 mentioned elsewhere.

[gstark]

Obtuse is good/

[Greg B]

Sheepie. I do think there is value in such a reply. I do try to maintain a link to the essence of a thread even if it is obtuse at times. I picked up on the flat earth theme. On that very point of connections, GregB according to his site is soon to or has attained 50 in the real world. So you can see there is a link there if you look hard enough. You might like to follow up the significance of 42 mentioned elsewhere.

Dargan, I assume you are referring to my profile on photoSIG. I hit 50 in March 2003, just a memory now. I probably should change it. My wife now calls the G3 her own.

I had another really good 42 reference the other day too, but I can't remember it. Curses.

[Dargan]

42 beans in every cup?

[Greg B]

42 beans in every cup?

That wasn't it Dargan, but by crikey, that's a good one.

[dooda]

Bago,

Many who think that the universe is expanding, believe that it follows a cycle of expansion and contraction, and is currently in an expansion mode. This not only implies that the universe is finite, and moving, but that perhaps it exists as some life form that operates as an individual.

[gstark]

42 beans in every cup?

43, actually.

[Dargan]

1 knows

[Greg B]

I remebered the 42 reference that occured to me. It's my shirt size.

[Onyx]

I shall be needing more alco-ma-hol to make sense of this thread.

Congrates sheepie on making 50...(?!)

[Dargan]

Sorry Onyx. This is slightly goonish humour I know but I tend to use this forum as a pressure release from work at times when I log on and arcane references such as the Nescafe ad are picked up by those of a certain age. I think this approach is setting this forum apart from others, and in a good way. Dpreview and Nikonians can be a daunting destination, whereas this site is still young enough and forgiving enough. If you look at some of the posts, which I have been forthright enough to term chattaqua's some very useful and technical information has emerged but with a sense of fun in the telling. I would prefer this appraoch to a dry delivery anytime.

[Onyx]

Don't get me wrong Dargan, I'm not complaining.