12/24/2004: Happy polar bear Xmas

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by dasviper

But isn't the definition of color light reflectance? And so if the bear looks white because its fur reflects white light, how is the fur not white?

The same way snow is not white I would imagine.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by wolf

I love how even those whose job it is to educate us about animals and their habits insist on anthropomorphizing them.

I'm surprised they didn't put a few glass bottles of Coke out there for them....

[xoxoxoBruce]

This bear from a Chinese Zoo looks a little yellow......and hungry for fish.

[wolf]

That is one raggedy-ass, and thin polar bear. He needs more than just that one fish!

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Chinese tend to be thin with thick hair.

[Bitman]

Originally Posted by CharlieG

That's not a polar bear - it's a Cartesian bear after a coordinate transform

What's the difference between a polar bear and a transformed cartesian bear?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Don't know but it got the Cellar #1 on Google under cartesian bear.

[garnet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

This bear from a Chinese Zoo looks a little yellow......and hungry for fish.

That bear definitely does not look well. And that guy holding up the fish should hand it over already to the poor fellow.

Originally Posted by CharlieG

That's not a polar bear - it's a Cartesian bear after a coordinate transform

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

[xoxoxoBruce]

THREADJACK

Mushrooms: the evil fungus

You might be right, Garnet.

[garnet]

HA! I told ya so! Mushrooms are indeed the nastiest, most evil thing on the planet. They are the anti-Christ of the plant world, and nobody believed me. Finally....PROOF!

[dar512]

Originally Posted by garnet

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

Not true. I thought it was very funny.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by garnet

I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

I thought it was hilarious. It seems that it is just you.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

THREADJACK
You might be right, Garnet.

Don't touch that! That's evil!

Let me know if you need an exorcism, my dear.

[CharlieG]

Originally Posted by Bitman

What's the difference between a polar bear and a transformed cartesian bear?

Just your frame of reference

OK - I'll stop with the math puns now

[CharlieG]

Originally Posted by garnet

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I believe that's a joke about some sort of mathematical or physics theory, no? Nobody gets it, dude.

Not a theory - just math - any time you plot something on a grid, it can be refered to in 2 ways...

X and Y - which is what most people thing of - That's called "Cartesian coordinates"

OR

an angle, and the distance from 0 - called a Polar Coordinates

Now you can fairly easily convert from one to the other, and converting from one to the other is called a "Transform" - hence you can convert Polar to Cartesian, or Cartesian to Polar any time you want - same thing, different way of talking about it

Call it a high brow math joke