12/24/2004: Happy polar bear Xmas - Page 2

elSicomoro · 12-25-2004, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dasviper

What's the difference between white fur and translucent hair which reflects white light?

White fur is just that--white. Translucent is clear (has no color).

capnhowdy · 12-25-2004, 08:16 AM

It looks like Charly might have had to travel through some of Frank Zappa's yellow snow.

wolf · 12-25-2004, 12:40 AM

I think that's just splitting hairs.

(You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.)

dasviper · 12-25-2004, 10:20 AM

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?

ladysycamore · 12-25-2004, 10:26 AM

Quote:

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?

Check this out:
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/facts3.php

Scroll down to "Polar Bear Fur".

Beestie · 12-27-2004, 09:39 AM

Quote:

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.

Wormfood · 12-25-2004, 02:59 PM

Oboy... I think I started an avalanche about this poor bears color-physics.
Ok,ok.. I already knew how it work. Can we all start eat those gingerthings
now.

btw Merry Christmas

CharlieG · 12-27-2004, 08:25 AM

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

Bitman · 01-04-2005, 03:34 PM

Quote:

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 · 01-04-2005, 09:21 PM

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

CharlieG · 01-05-2005, 07:13 AM

Quote:

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

wolf · 12-28-2004, 12:24 AM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 12-28-2004, 08:13 PM

The Chinese tend to be thin with thick hair.

garnet · 01-04-2005, 10:39 PM

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!

Clodfobble · 01-05-2005, 07:44 AM

I thought it was funny.

12-25-2004, 08:16 AM	#2
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	It looks like Charly might have had to travel through some of Frank Zappa's yellow snow. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please. Last edited by capnhowdy; 12-25-2004 at 08:19 AM. Reason: misspelled Charly's name. Imagine that.

12-25-2004, 12:40 AM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I think that's just splitting hairs. (You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-04-2005, 09:21 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Don't know but it got the Cellar #1 on Google under cartesian bear. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-28-2004, 12:24 AM	#12
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That is one raggedy-ass, and thin polar bear. He needs more than just that one fish! __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-28-2004, 08:13 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The Chinese tend to be thin with thick hair. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-25-2004, 10:20 AM	#4
dasviper Belt Conveyor Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Hanover, NH, USA Posts: 67	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?

12-25-2004, 02:59 PM	#7
Wormfood Superior Inhabitant Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 73	Oboy... I think I started an avalanche about this poor bears color-physics. Ok,ok.. I already knew how it work. Can we all start eat those gingerthings now. btw Merry Christmas

12-27-2004, 08:25 AM	#8
CharlieG Hoodoo Guru Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 301	That's not a polar bear - it's a Cartesian bear after a coordinate transform

01-04-2005, 10:39 PM	#14
garnet ... Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 657	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!

01-05-2005, 07:44 AM	#15
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I thought it was funny.

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