Sayonara

Then I refer you back to post #91, which allows for that.

Afraid not.

Ha, thank goodness for that

http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/571lockkey.html

I did say it wasn't a very good one.

Then what is your purpose here?

What?

Yup. 403s mainly, due to the CHMOD settings being borked when the files were copied.

I'm going back to my "only people who can spell will be allowed opinions in the new order" system of political beliefs. It may well be a touch Draconian, but it bloody well works.

As opposed to a waste of the physicist's time?

No, the results; not your conclusions. "Show all working out", as an exam paper might say.

Continue like that and you'll be banned - no warnings.

There is no "win". The game never ends.

No, they are not. They are waiting for the citations, and the results of the study. You know, "peer review"?

In the same way that a cake is still a cake when you serve it on little plates with lace doilies.

Editorials come from the top dude.

If you want to consider that the question undeniably states "the ball is blue", then it can't be more n than it is blue, since we've already assigned it 100% blueness. The fact that the ball is made of plastic is not really relevant to anything. Unless you explain where you get the link between the colour of the ball and the material it is made from, that makes no sense. They don't actually need to do that, because it won't prove either side of the discussion.

Yes, just not a very good one.

Not mentioning the various scales used to measure values of light intensity, and colour hue, doesn't mean they don't exist. Also, volume is not a measure of geometry. Nice play though

Or, to look at it another way, that's why it's big. No strictly true - you simply need to engineer weapon systems with more effective firing arcs and faster refresh rates. Inertia - now we're getting somewhere. The rate of acceleration may affect maneuvering, but it won't be a deciding factor in how fast the ship is. Hence my original question. There is no reason why a big ship cannot be fast; only reasons why you might choose to build it on either side of an expense/speed trade-off point. When you're talking about capital ships, you're necessarily discussing a massive resource investment and many lives. Making sweeping assumptions like "it'll be slow" could be disastrous.

It means anyone can do it, in the same way that anyone can modify wikipedia entries.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/search.php?

True, however "with post 9 in mind" *cough* it's not difficult to make the software more *cough* accessible. The tutorials that come with Max and Maya are excellent, and they allow you to rapidly get to grips with software that beats the pants off the cheap end of the market. There are some very good free packages though, don't get me wrong - I just don't count Bryce and Poser among them, because they are popular as opposed to good. I will see if I can find the names of 'em all.

Not an answer per se, but it demonstrates that the potential blueness wins out against the potential sphericalness in different states of ballness, which is often - to humans - justification for claiming one trait is more evident than the other.