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| bio | website | svn.apada.nl/svn/… |
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| location | Netherlands | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | 23 hours ago | |
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Music maniac, wanabe musician, Delphi addict.
Delphi is hobby, but quite a serious one I might add. I sincerely like being helpful, and answering questions and come up with solutions are also a kind of nice training for me.
Some of my special interests are: graphics / drawing, component building, and VCL knowledge.
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Jan 8 |
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What caused and ended the time loop in Groundhog Day? +1 To me, this is the (kind of obvious) explanation. |
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Jan 8 |
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What caused and ended the time loop in Groundhog Day? +1 Agree on all points you make. Excellent answer. |
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Dec 25 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space deleted 142 characters in body |
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Dec 21 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @ChrisK To give a possible solution for getting more then 3 million options: maybe one of the constellation's properties (like gravity, size, distance...) is involved in the calculation: that would result in infinite resolution. |
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Dec 21 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @puk Yes and no. Indeed, the stargate system has to calculate the center somehow, but that applies to Codemwnci's solution too. Of course, the picture is appealing and comprehensible, but those six points will not appear in this orderly fashion and there is (almost) no possibility that those 3 vectors even have a common intersection point. Try it yourself with some pieces of rope: you will see the sixth point has no freedom except in 1 direction from the fifth. Whether the stargate system uses vectors or not (my solution doesn't exclude that option) I don't know. Never invented the thing. |
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Dec 21 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @ChrisK Yes. And then thát would be the plot hole. Note the at least. |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @puk And on that other point: the (Atlantis) series explains that the stargate system automatically calibrates itself to adjust for the traversing of planets, stars and constellations. |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @puk Yeah, I mixed two things up and was too short. What I meant with the cube comment: almost none of the possible combinations of 6 random points in space could form the centers of the six planes of a cube. The cube illustration as used by Codemwnci and Wikipedia at first sight describes the translation to destination rather nicely, at least sufficient to common audience, but it just isn't realistic enough for any scientific use. Those x, y and z axes aren't necessarily perpendicular to each other, nor have the same length. |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @puk I edited my answer to explain my theory. But to answer your question: by point I mean a location in 3D space. |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space added 1515 characters in body |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space added 83 characters in body |
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Dec 20 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space @All Forget the cube. A little change in one of those six points leads to a whole other stargate. See also my answer. |
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Dec 19 |
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In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space added 132 characters in body |
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Dec 19 |
answered | In Stargate, why does Dr. Daniel Jackson say you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space |
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Dec 17 |
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What's the purpose of Solomon's son Dia in Blood Diamond? added 36 characters in body |
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Dec 17 |
answered | What's the purpose of Solomon's son Dia in Blood Diamond? |
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Dec 17 |
answered | 2001 A Space Odyssey — Explanation of the ending lacking, yet popular? |
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Dec 15 |
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Is the opening break-up scene in The Social Network intended to be humorous? Grammar fix |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Critic |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Commentator |
