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Just curious. For what criterion is having 2.7 phases for an electrical transmission system optimum? 5 phases would shift the same amount of power per conductor as 3 phase, with a smaller neutral unbalance current, I think it would make the overhead transmission lines prettier as well. 2 phase is inferior to 3 on all counts.
I am aware that counting in base e is supposed to be optimum by some measure of entropy, meaning that binary isn't bad.
The Matrix was rather obsessed with the number 3 as well, not just "3 objectives, 3 captains, 3 ships", but slipped unobtrusively into many scenes.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
Also the Pope is a Jack Russell, etc.
I'd want to see a Kennel Club Breed Standard on that one.
Our information is that the Pope is a miniature dachshund, as witnessed by the fact of nuns slapping him across the hind quarters with a rolled up newspaper when he tried to pee in a flowerbed at Lourdes. Then we must consider the many Vatican frescoes depicting choirs of winged dachshunds welcoming the Penitent into Heaven, and the attested visions of the Blessed Saints and Martyrs in which dogs play a central theme. "Let that Dog who is without Sin eat the first bone," "Suffer ye little Poodles to come unto me," and so on.
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Proud Mary wrote ...
Steve McConner wrote ...
Also the Pope is a Jack Russell, etc.
I'd want to see a Kennel Club Breed Standard on that one.
Our information is that the Pope is a miniature dachshund, as witnessed by the fact of nuns slapping him across the hind quarters with a rolled up newspaper when he tried to pee in a flowerbed at Lourdes. Then we must consider the many Vatican frescoes depicting choirs of winged dachshunds welcoming the Penitent into Heaven, and the attested visions of the Blessed Saints and Martyrs in which dogs play a central theme. "Let that Dog who is without Sin eat the first bone," "Suffer ye little Poodles to come unto me," and so on.
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Been at the communion wine again, have we?
Here's how it goes:
The Pope and a Jack Russell are two entities.
2=1
Therefore the Pope and a Jack Russell are one and the same.
The point is, of course, to show that by starting from false premises you can "prove" anything you want, as is commonly done by politicians and the like.
I originally saw this in John Allen Paulos' book "I Think Therefore I Laugh", although his example used the philosopher Bertrand Russell, not a Jack Russell. But it doesn't matter, you can prove that Bertrand and Jack Russell are identical using the same method.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
Dr. Slack: I believe the optimization criterion was megawatt-miles per total cost of copper, insulators and pylons.
Nah: Damn cookie won't fax, will a vacuum tube do instead?
MMMMMMMMM vacuum tubes...... Tesla was in fact very obsessed with the number 3. When he stayed in hotels he demanded to be in a room with a number devisable by 3. He had to have 3 towels, washed his hands 3 times and used 3 bars of soap! No one really understands what his obsession was with the number 3. The man had such an amazing mind, maybe the number 3 was his short circuit so to speak.
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The most sought after vacuum tube for collectors, is the rare radium filament triode invented by Mohammed Usyless Fipps who, like Tesla, was misunderstood at the time. That should be the prize for the the divide by naughtiness.
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radiotech wrote ...
The most sought after vacuum tube for collectors, is the rare radium filament triode invented by Mohammed Usyless Fipps who, like Tesla, was misunderstood at the time. That should be the prize for the the divide by naughtiness.
Maybe the reason it is so rare is because it was an April Fool's joke?
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Nikola Tesla is obsessed with the number 3?
