The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VIII

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GinandTonic said:
An arms cash vs The caché of having the biggest willy in town.

Similar to a a caf(e), a diner. A café, had decent coffee.

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Does having my memory stick on the same keyring as a magnetic security fob do bad things to the flash?
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I'd have spelt it e-acute too, but the OED seems not to recognise that at all, and I don't recall seeing it written, so I've probably assumed a spelling which is different from the normal (and etymological root), and there's no point in making a new spelling.
 
Sashie VII said:
Is it possible to self-teach yourself Adobe Photoshop (to a professionally proficient level)?
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Yes.
The issue is devoting yourself to it and putting in the effort, like all things. The internet has lots of resources available to anyone willing to put in the time to learn.
 
PlutonianEmpire said:
Are there any low-metallicity stars that have planets that we know of?
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Red Dwarfs With Planets Have Low Metallicities

Recent observations show a clear correlation between the probability of hosting a planet and the metallicity of the parent star. As radial velocity surveys are biased, however, towards detecting planets with short orbital periods, the probability–metallicity correlation could merely reflect a dependence of migration rates on metallicity. We investigated the possibility, but find no basis to suggest that the migration process is sensitive to the metallicity. The indication is, therefore, that a higher metallicity results in a higher probability for planet formation.
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Surveys of F, G, and K stars within our Local Bubble suggest that about 25% of stars at the high end of metallicity have gas giant planets, compared to only about 3% of stars at the low end (Marcy et al. 2005). Paradoxically, the Sun's metallicity falls near the middle of this range, demonstrating that a modest degree of metallic enhancement is no obstacle to the formation of complex planetary systems.
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And there are a bunch of .pdf documents also when I did my google search. The above was also found with this google search.
 
Sashie VII said:
Is it possible to self-teach yourself Adobe Photoshop (to a professionally proficient level)?
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Im not a professional with it by a long shot, but Im fairly good with it and I learned on my own. If you really think you need professional guidance, see if your community college offers a course. Otherwise, just go and do stuff with it. Come up with an idea, see if you can create it. And just remember, photoshop is great for editing and composting, but its not so much for actually creating. If you want to do that you should either learn Illustrator or Corel Painter
 
If all the plants on Earth were to die off, how long would it be before the atmosphere becomes unbreathable?
 
Lets assume that only we humans exist. We're gonna have to assume quite a bit of stuff here, but nonetheless.
An average human breathes in 1.8g of oxygen per minute. Multiply that out and you get 946.08kg of Oxygen per year. Multiply that by the current human population and you get 6.318x10^12 kg of Oxygen used every year. This is assuming the human population remains constant.
Now, the atmosphere is approximately 5 quintillion kg. 21% of that is Oxygen. so (5 quintillion * .21)/(6.318x10^12) gives us 166192 years worth of oxygen.

Lets assume that with all other life, the yearly consumption is 20x the human. That is still 8300 years worth of oxygen.

Bear in mind, this is if only living beings consumed oxygen. If you begin to consider all other oxygen consumption sources, the numbers drop into the hundreds, or even less, years.

additionally, this model is imperfect in that humans need a certain concentration of oxygen in the air to breathe. At about 15% oxygen concentration, it becomes extremely difficult to breathe. Anything below 8% is fatal within minutes.
 
I'm looking for a movie... can anyone help?

Note that I haven't seen it, so this info might be distorted:

It's something about God coming down to Earth as a woman, and becoming somehow trapped in this world, after becoming unconscious or something... And then some "good" characters join hands in order to make her come back to consciousness, because if she doesn't wake up in time, someone (don't know who) might take her place in heaven, or something... She does wake up at some point, and she finds that even some "good angels" (or something like that) plotted to keep her down there in order to be part of the new order (or something like that :p).

It's a comedy, and can't be older than 10 years... Made in the US. Probably appeared after The DaVinci Code (book), as it has some elements from it (like "the last descendant of Christ", etc).

I'd be grateful if anyone could help. :D
 
Mirc said:
I'm looking for a movie... can anyone help?

Note that I haven't seen it, so this info might be distorted:

It's something about God coming down to Earth as a woman, and becoming somehow trapped in this world, after becoming unconscious or something... And then some "good" characters join hands in order to make her come back to consciousness, because if she doesn't wake up in time, someone (don't know who) might take her place in heaven, or something... She does wake up at some point, and she finds that even some "good angels" (or something like that) plotted to keep her down there in order to be part of the new order (or something like that :p).

It's a comedy, and can't be older than 10 years... Made in the US. Probably appeared after The DaVinci Code (book), as it has some elements from it (like "the last descendant of Christ", etc).

I'd be grateful if anyone could help. :D
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Perhaps you're looking for Dogma?
 
Unfortunately, I don't think it's that one - a specific point of the one I'm looking for is that God "himself" came to Earth as a woman and only as a woman... (not as a man, too)

But thanks for the suggestion! :D
 
MIrc, that plot does ring a bell, but I cant place it. Are you sure it was a film not a book?
 
I think he's right and it's Dogma. And you're remembering it a bit wrong. Because every part except the "only a woman" part is consistent with that movie. And the "male" god only appears in 1 scene at the start of the movie and 1 near the end, has no lines, and is unconscious for most of the time.
 
Cutlass said:
I think he's right and it's Dogma. And you're remembering it a bit wrong. Because every part except the "only a woman" part is consistent with that movie. And the "male" god only appears in 1 scene at the start of the movie and 1 near the end, has no lines, and is unconscious for most of the time.
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It was indeed right. I'm sorry Sashie, you nailed it perfectly.

And well, I wasn't remembering it wrong, since (as I did mention in my post ;)) I didn't actually see it. I heard some friends of mine at a party talk about an "awesome comedy" and that's what I got from the conversation. I'm pretty sure somebody actually did remember it wrong, because I'm sure of what I heard (since it happened ~2 days ago). :)

But thanks a lot everyone! :goodjob:
 
Mirc said:
It was indeed right. I'm sorry Sashie, you nailed it perfectly.

And well, I wasn't remembering it wrong, since (as I did mention in my post ;)) I didn't actually see it. I heard some friends of mine at a party talk about an "awesome comedy" and that's what I got from the conversation. I'm pretty sure somebody actually did remember it wrong, because I'm sure of what I heard (since it happened ~2 days ago). :)

But thanks a lot everyone! :goodjob:
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BTW, it's a great movie. The Catholic church hated it. But it's a brilliant comedy and satire. Very controversial in a number of ways.
 
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