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    E = MC2, for real

    By Michael Wolraich on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 1:31am | Potpourri

    It's been proven!

    Other recent noteworthy proofs:

    • 1 + 1 = 2
    • The Pope is Catholic
    • The world is round
    • 9 out of 10 dentists prefer Crest
    • Men are from Venus
    • White men can't dance
    • G.W. is the worse president ever
    • If an integer n is greater than 2, then the equation an + bn = cn has no solutions in non-zero integers a, b, and c.
    • This sentence is false
    • God is dead
    • Genghis is the coolest dagblogger
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    Yeah, but....if men are from Venus and white men can't dance, does that mean only Martians use the rhythm method?

     


    by LisB on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 1:58am

    And where exactly do Vulcans fit in?  Oh, wait.....that's [deleted].

    Surprised


    by LisB on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 2:12am

    Some other little known proofs recently discovered in a monastery high in the mountains of Transylvania:

    • Snow in November is a harbinger of bad things to come. Very bad. Like having to get up 20 minutes early to clean off your stupid car bad.
    • Holding Happy Hour on Friday afternoon is a moral imperative. Plus, it protects us from the terrorists.
    • Obama is awesome (yes, Transylvanian monks use the word "awesome").
    • Grrls rule.

     

     


    by Orlando on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 11:49am

    Snow in November means a longer ski season in Tahoe!


    by DF on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 2:39pm

    ... And a better spring runnoff season for rivers!  But only if the snow falls in the Sierra.  Damn midwesterners, hogging all the snow!


    by CaliforniaPaige on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 2:41pm

    Not if the snow is in Indiana. It just won't stop.

    by Orlando on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 2:52pm

    "Coolest daggbloger"?  Isn't that sort of like being the heaviest bubble?


    by CaliforniaPaige on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 2:09pm

    • 1 + 1 = 1.5001 ... 2.4999
    • The Pope is male
    • The world is obloid
    • 9 out of 10 dentists take insurance
    • Men are from their Mamas
    • White men can't get away with 'nothin
    • G.W. is the worse president ever
    • If an integer n is greater than z, then the equation

      ∑an = cn summed across z instances of a has no solutions in non-zero integers a, and c.

    • This sentence is nonsense
    • God is superstition
    • Genghis is deluded

    by Marquis de Sea ... on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 8:12pm

    That Yahoo article is some painfully awful science journalism (if you can call it that).  Einstein's theory has been proven right before and may well be proven so again.  This is merely an additional confirmation of his theory.

    Also, not to be overly pedantic, but it's E=mc^2, as in E equals the quantity m times the square of the quantity c.


    by DF on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 10:10pm

    Little-known true fact: Einstein didn't coin E=mc^2; his original formulation was L=mV^2.

    Others started citing his equation as E=mc^2, and Einstein said, "Sure, whatever. That works too."


    by acanuck on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 4:32pm