Elastic collision: Energy is conserved.
Inelastic collision: Energy is not conserved.
Totally Inelastic collision: Energy is like, totally not conserved.
My mother's comment about the guy who sneaked an assault rifle out of army camp: "He's very handsome!"
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What is the difference between "exchange" and "sacrifice"? It's the same right? Sacrifice just sounds more noble, and implies an exchange on unfair terms.
And in any case, "sacrifice" sounds much cooler! Like, if you play an RPG game, there are two skills to learn. One of their descriptions say "Exchange HP for an AOE spell dealing a great amount of damage" and the another's say "Sacrifice HP for an AOE spell dealing a great amount of damage". Okay I'm not sure about you, but if it's me I'll definitely choose the latter, since the word sacrifice seems to imply that more HP is exchanged for MUAHAHAHA more AOE damage MUAHAHAHA MORE POWER!!
Ok I'm going nuts over cool-sounding words. I asked an NUS professor, what do you call superstring theory in Chinese?
It's called 超弦理论. Like omg cool! Can totally imagine Ouyang Feng sparring with Ling Hu Chong with his newly founded 超弦真经 or 超弦七十二掌 or 超弦神功 or something like that, with superstrings flying and recombining into some weird object and making the whole place explode.
Nevermind, Ling Hu Chong will defend himself with "Loop Quantum Gravity"... whatever that's called in Chinese. And Zhang Wu Ji can also join in the fight with his newly learnt "Sacrificial Hyper Conjugation", whatever you call that in Chinese.
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I believe that the two fruits whose value will increase by the greatest amount if rendered seedless would be mango and pomegranate. I say mango, because unless you buy the super expensive Taiwan Mango King, the seed accounts for about 20-30% of the volume of the fruit. Pomegranate is another, because consumption of pomegranate has been made a very irritating experience because of the seeds. Don't you think every pomegranate sac looks like a Soul Booster? Each sac looks so valuable, as though eating one will greatly increase your stats or something. But the experience of eating something so exquisite is spoiled by the presence of seeds. Would you expect to find something like a seed in something so valuable? Separating the seed from the sac is rather troublesome, and is always rather wasteful.
Imagine seedless pomegranates. It would be a bright red, spherical shell that encloses numerous rubies, which you can just pick and eat at leisure. (I admit, I was never good at describing stuff. It is supposed to sound really nice.) It would be a perfect fruit for misers. One pomegranate can serve an entire crowd, and each one of them just looks so good. Or perhaps you could add it to ice-kacang, to complement the corn that they add.
Perhaps you are supposed to eat the pomegranate seeds. But then again, the same can be said for grapes and watermelons as well; and they are also made seedless. Maybe the apprehension of biting into a seed spoils the fruit-eating experience.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Comments by IntenseDebate
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2007-09-06T22:34:00+08:00
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