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Topic: Your Favorite Quote?
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
Member # 27
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posted 04-26-2003 01:58 AM
     
Ok, here's another fav: picture this. It's from the great Japanese film, Mothra.Our intrepid hero's SIDEKICK is creeping along through some tropical island jungle, trailing the bad guys. Our sidekick unfortunately did not score well on his "How To Shadow People" final; he's barely a couple feet behind the bad dudes. (OK, so they're deaf as logs in not realizing he's there, but oh well....) Anyway, sidekick steps on a HUGE branch that just happens to be laying there; there is this electric crack, the bad dudes whirl, they are literally nose to nose, the bad dudes whip out their guns, scowling and threatening and such... and our intrepid sidekick puts a cheesy smile on his face and says, "Hehro... I am rohst." (No fooling, that's a direct quote, phonetics and all! I'm still cringing....) [ 04-26-2003 02:01 AM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Graysith ] -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 152.163.188.199
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
Member # 27
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posted 04-30-2003 01:39 PM
Just to make your head explode further:Yes, universal expansion rates. The universe is expanding all around us, in all directions. We know this because galaxies are retreating from us in ALL directions (with the small exception of some in our own Local Group, which are coming toward us). The Hubble Parameter is the relationship between how far away a galaxy is and how fast it is retreating. Interestingly enough, the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is retreating. The Hubble parameter is simply the slope of the line produced in graphing velocity/distance of galaxies, and averages 70-75. What this says is that any galaxy is retreating at a velocity 70-75 times faster than its distance from us. Example: if it is 500 mega-parsecs away, it is retreating at a rate of 35 to 37 thousand kilometers/sec. That's approximately one-tenth of the distance from the earth to the moon. What's a parsec? 3.26 lightyears. What's a lightyear? The distance light travels in a year at the rate of 300,000 km/sec. So 300,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 is the distance in kilometers one lightyear represents. Multiply by 3.26 to get the distance a parsec is. Then that by 500 million.... Hehe... it's a mighty fur piece down the road, isn't it? Probably more than you ever wanted to know....
  
[ 04-30-2003 01:53 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Graysith ] -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 205.188.208.165
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Taehun
Dark Jedi
Member # 290
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posted 04-30-2003 11:45 PM
Anyway, back on the topic...one of my favorite quotes is made by Robin Williams in one of my favorite movies: Dead Poet's Society. It's rather long, but it's still one of my favorites:-They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. If you haven't seen Dead Poet's Society, I suggest you watch. It's one of the greatest movies of all time, IMHO. *edit: I just found a few more...* -We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? -Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. -Keating: Why do we need language?
Neil: To communicate...
Keating: Nooo!! To woo women! [ 04-30-2003 11:49 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Taehun ] -------------------- All in all it was just another brick in the wall,
all in all you were just another brick in the wall.
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