Comments on: Do Good Things

By: mad. » List of 25 Things Every Person Should Do Once In Their Life.

mad. » List of 25 Things Every Person Should Do Once In Their Life. — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:51:54 +0000

[...] Here’s a list from some science nerds at Cosmic Variance. [...]

By: GBushII

GBushII — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:46:15 +0000

Got ‘em–that there gravity thing took a little thought but the execution was easy once it all got right in my head. Anyone got a list of real challenges?

By: Chanda

Chanda — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:06:05 +0000

#2 definitely, and I continue to think its cool.
#11 probably uncountably many times, yeah Robert’s Rules!
#13 yeah low blood pressure!
#15 is probably debatable by PI’s Foundations group, so maybe
#16 if student gov at a public U counts
#22, of course, who hasn’t done that if they’ve been not-single?

And probably someone has me down as person most likely to do #1. But they’re wrong because I’m too lazy to pull something like that off.

By: mihai andrei

mihai andrei — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:37:49 +0000

have done 4
but not going to tell which

By: Q9

Q9 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:19:00 +0000

Which gravity? – The Earth’s?

Mix 7 & 8, and you could get ‘making bacon’

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:07:20 +0000

… if its on the 50 yard line can you really call it ‘making love’? More importantly can you convince her of that?

By: citrine

citrine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:47:43 +0000

Abelian on Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I love number 8

Hilarious!
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Obviously, I’m non-Abelian.

By: Abelian

Abelian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:51:05 +0000

I love number 8

Hilarious!

By: Traums

Traums — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:07:12 +0000

Don’t forget:

“Experience faster than light travel”

By: John Ramsden

John Ramsden — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:56:53 +0000

I heard of someone who achieved 10. But as it turned out he didn’t have to outrun the bear, only the person running with him.

By: Jason Dick

Jason Dick — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:13:55 +0000

I’m a big fan of #4 myself.

By: spyder

spyder — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:30:07 +0000

Don’t #2 and #8 go together in some way??? Oh, “by parts”, not by-products! Sorry.

I might suggest adding something like: Participate in direct action to promote peace!

and for the adventurous: Survive a rock-climbing fall because your belay worked!

By: Bob Munck

Bob Munck — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:35:47 +0000

#10 was actually one of my (partial) hits. As a kid in the Black Hills, I once saw several bears at the town dump while riding by on my bike. I got out of there, and they didn’t catch me, so it’s only a partial disqualification that they didn’t actually chase me.

Fermat: well, I did know Ken Ribet in college.

Collapse a wavefunction: aren’t we all doing this all the time?

Hack into NORAD: jeez, they’re still using 64-bit encryption. How can you not?

By: Aaron F.

Aaron F. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:09:27 +0000

I think I’ll try #10 last.

By: Rien

Rien — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:43:50 +0000

Incidentally, who hasn’t integrated by parts?

Well, my students, obviously…

I could do all of these except #8, but as far as utopian colonies go, they are usually distinctly disappointing. Case in point: has anyone ever visited Arcosanti?

By: citrine

citrine — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:04:54 +0000

I cannot turn a pet into sausage (#8).

As an aside, the second law of thermo prevents one from converting the sausage back into the pet.

By: Freiddie

Freiddie — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:27:05 +0000

I think I did… one of them. Integrate by parts.
I might do one more: collapse a wavefunction, once I am able (I’m still in high school).
That’s me.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:52:25 +0000

#2 – I’m with Stuart, who hasn’t?

By: Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:57:25 +0000

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