The Science Thread

[ggould]

So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.

[dischead]

So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.

I'm not sure of your point.  The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced.  I have
most of the books listed as references.  Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.

The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.

[mshray]

So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.

I'm not sure of your point.  The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced.  I have
most of the books listed as references.  Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.

The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.

Wait. 

Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."

Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.

(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)

[dischead]

So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.

I'm not sure of your point.  The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced.  I have
most of the books listed as references.  Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.

The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.

Wait. 

Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."

Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.

(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)

1.  Hudsucker Proxy?

2.  Fargo?

(No googles were consulted in the creation of these guesses.)

[urth]

So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc

Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.

I'm not sure of your point.  The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced.  I have
most of the books listed as references.  Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.

The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.

Wait. 

Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."

Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.

(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)

1.  Hudsucker Proxy?

2.  Fargo?

(No googles were consulted in the creation of these guesses.)

I was going to say "Bob Roberts" and Dana Carvey's George Bush impersonation from SNL.

[mshray]

Hudsucker Proxy, yes.

Hint, the other was from TV, more famous in it's later reincarnation than the original.

[dischead]

Hudsucker Proxy, yes.

Hint, the other was from TV, more famous in it's later reincarnation than the original.

Monty Python?  "We lived in a shoebox by the side of the road, and every morning we
had to get up at 4am and lick the road clean with our tongues!"

[mshray]

Yep, the famous "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. but check out the original, from a 1968 BBC special featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese & Marty Feldman(!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtSw3daGoo

[ggould]

thought I'd park a blog post about the eclipse here:

https://sciencetrips.blogspot.com/2017/08/oregon-eclipse-journey.html