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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 05:48 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Got confirmation of my last mark for my last exam from college, which was the very last thing I had to do to finish up my study. The 22nd of February there's a "ceremony" at college where I can get my papers. Then I can finally say fuck off to school and start working full-time (instead of 32 hours a week)
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 05:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


LOL, we have 9 on my course, ahh the wonders of Baking Science.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 06:01 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Congrats btw.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 06:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


GG Eraser. Another year or two and I'll be out for good, too. Well, at least until I decide to get my Master's.
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I was supposed to get my Masters back in 2000, but I never finished my final thesis. Maybe I'll get around to doing that some day.

Eraser, is that in computer science?
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Grudge wrote:
I was supposed to get my Masters back in 2000, but I never finished my final thesis. Maybe I'll get around to doing that some day.

Eraser, is that in computer science?


I don't even know how the hell that works. So you don't have to enroll yourself in a set timeframe for a Masters? You can come and go (at least with the thesis) at will? :confused:
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Grudge wrote:
Eraser, is that in computer science?


Yep. Field of software engineering mostly. Not that I've learned anything there, but oh well, that piece of paper is worth a well paying carreer I guess :shrug:




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Well yes, basically. I have taken all the classes (three and a half years). I just need to re-enroll for one (the final) semester and write my paper.




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Ohes. I see.



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my brother will get his Masters in (Astro)-Physics in august. then he's up for 4 years of more researching fun to get his PhD, followed by 2 years of post-doc. followed by 5 years of "fieldwork" to make Professor

gotta admire the discipline - i wouldve given up after just hearing how much time it takes :(



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 06:30 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Your brother is studying Astrophysics? I'm surprised.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Congratulations :)



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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Your brother is studying Astrophysics? I'm surprised.


whys that sir



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
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Your brother is studying Astrophysics? I'm surprised.


whys that sir


I'm not implying anything... :paranoid:

It's just relatively rare to come across someone studying that.
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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


way to go man .. call me when your rich .. we will be best freinds.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:42 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


truth. this hobo does this for fun even - he enjoys studying 16hrs a day for 15+ years :o

he also had quite the elaborate argument about how the current spacethread on these boards totally miss the point of the original article :tear:



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Then let him post. :icon30:

I know that space thread was totally derailed.
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he posted here a couple of times a year or 2 ago, when kracus had his random thought threads every 2 days.
he killed them all off with something kracus would never get - background research, abstract thinking and logic :D

i can post his thingy though.. just gimme a minute to translate

[edit] he stopped posting cause kracus would get angry and start flaming all round btw, something one doesnt want when debating science [/edit]



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 07:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
he posted here a couple of times a year or 2 ago, when kracus had his random thought threads every 2 days.
he killed them all off with something kracus would never get - background research, abstract thinking and logic :D

i can post his thingy though.. just gimme a minute to translate

[edit] he stopped posting cause kracus would get angry and start flaming all round btw, something one doesnt want when debating science [/edit]


Kracus is a dumbass, it's too bad he left.

I'd like to read this thingy you speak of.
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here goes
ignore spelling errors and grammarmistakes, i translated it in a hurry



"The shape" shouldnt be taken literally. A simple way of putting it is;
If one would draw two parallel lines on a sheet of paper, those two lines would never meet. The "shape" of the sheet of paper is therefore called "Eculidian" (dispite the actual shape of the sheet, be it square, triangular or anything else for that matter). This sounds more than logical - parallel does mean the two would never meet. However, the opposite is also possible.
If one would draw two lines parallel on let's say the Earth, those lines WOULD meet (at the north and south poles, most likely). The "shape" of the Earth is therefore called "spherical". (the fact that the earth actually *is* a sphere is not important)
The mathimatical name of the shape of the surface (read: the way the two lines would behave) is "the metric". When one speaks of "the shape" of the universe, one means "the metric of the universe". Now, obviously it would be impossible to draw 2 lines through the universe to see if they would meet or not. And obviously, one doesn't draw lines on any surface (abstract or concrete) to see what it's metric is. Instead, they use Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: the metric depends on the amount of energy and mass in said object (universe in this case). Using this theory, one finds out that the universe has a Euclidian metric - ergo, the "shape" of the universe makes it so that parallel lines never meet, comparible to the aforementioned sheet of paper.
Simply put - the universe's shape is not important - it's the metric that is, and that's flat as flat can be.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 08:19 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


that actually made sense. :paranoid:
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Thank you MKJ.



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PostPosted: 02-15-2005 12:32 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Congrats man



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MKJ wrote:
my brother will get his Masters in (Astro)-Physics in august. then he's up for 4 years of more researching fun to get his PhD, followed by 2 years of post-doc. followed by 5 years of "fieldwork" to make Professor

gotta admire the discipline - i wouldve given up after just hearing how much time it takes :(


you know how long it takes to become a doctor? :(

btw, congrats Eraser.
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Once again, a reflection of how much time everyone's spent at these forums and how far some of us have come. Congratulations you tight-arsed bastard :icon14:
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Congrats Eraser, good job man. :icon14:
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Congrats Eraser, ive only got three and a half years to go!
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Congrats Eraser :icon14:
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Indeed.

Congratulations man. :icon1: :icon14:
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Thanks all :D

I hated college in the end. It was like all teachers (except for a handful) were morons who didn't know what they were talking about at all. They had stupid policies and most of the time teachers broke their own rules (being late or not being available at all) If you wanted to slightly deviate from the "rules" (like being late with signing up for next semester's classes, late as in not at least 3 weeks before next semester starts) you had to fill in forms and get it signed by a gazillion people. It was even so bad that I got the invitation for my brother's graduation ceremony (who did the exact same study as I and finished up 2 years ago). Sigh. At least I've left all nonsense behind me now.
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PostPosted: 02-16-2005 12:30 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


gg eraesr :icon14:



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