Starship Asterisk*

owlice wrote:Not available for the Kindle! :shock:

owlice wrote:Not available for the Kindle!

geckzilla wrote:The "free" ones tend to be scanned and then OCR is used to convert it to text format. Full of errors, unfortunately.

geckzilla wrote:
The "free" ones tend to be scanned and then OCR is used to convert it to text format.

Full of errors, unfortunately.

• Well , THAT should certainly add some heft to your iPad.

• The Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 4

• May suffer alteration, on mine honour,
  I'll point you where you shall have such receiving
  As shall become your highness;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_entropy wrote:
<<A thermodynamic free entropy is an entropic thermodynamic potential analogous to the free energy. Also known as a Massieu, Planck, or Massieu–Planck potentials (or functions), or (rarely) free information. In statistical mechanics, free entropies frequently appear as the logarithm of a partition function. The Onsager reciprocal relations in particular, are developed in terms of entropic potentials.>>

A student walks into an astronomy lecture and sits down. "In 5 billion years" the professor says “ the Sun, will run out of fuel and die". The student asks, "How long did you say we had?" The professor repeats his 5 billion-year prediction and the student says, “Good! I was getting worried. I thought you said 5 million years!"

Beyond wrote:
Three young particles, a proton, a neutron and an electron, were interacting a little with each other while waiting in the employee's break area before starting their first job, when a voice came over the loudspeaker and said "alright you three, up and atom".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_quark wrote:
<<The up quark or u quark & its antiparticle (the antiup) are the lightest of all quarks. The up quark was first observed by experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1968. It, along with the down quark, forms the neutrons (one up quark, two down quarks) and protons (two up quarks, one down quark) of atomic nuclei. A positive pion (π+) is made of one up quark and one down antiquark; and its corresponding antiparticle, the negative pion (π−), is made of one up antiquark and one down quark. It is part of the first generation of matter, has an electric charge of +2⁄3 e. Like all quarks, the up quark is an elementary fermion with spin-1⁄2, and experiences all four fundamental interactions: gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and strong interactions.

Despite being extremely common, the bare mass of the up quark is not well determined, but probably lies between 1.8 & 3.0 MeV. (Lattice QCD calculations give a more precise value: 2.01±0.14 MeV.) When found in mesons or baryons, the 'effective mass' (or 'dressed' mass) of quarks become greater because of the binding energy caused by the gluon field between each quark (see mass–energy equivalence).The bare mass of up quarks is so light, it cannot be straightforwardly calculated because relativistic effects have to be taken into account.>>

BMAONE23 wrote:
Is that to say that any society built upon a Dais of Iron
is predestined to become Rustic?