One thing that I noticed is that the rotation isn't smooth and the rate seems to be closely matched to the rate at which the colours chang and seem to "progress" around the ring.
"Can't be recycled"?!? Steel scrap is worth quite a bit, so if there is as vast an amount as described then at least the cost of removal would be covered by a scrap dealer buying the metal. If there really are 12 dumpster loads, then who-ever got to haul it away could make a bit of money out of it.
The link in the article is wrong, so here is the correct URL: http://www.popsci.com.au/2010/05/first-crew-members-selected-for-520-day-mars-mission-simulation/
I hope that they'll hose out the blood at the end of the "mission".
@houtx The way it was explained on the linked website is that the first choice was never the correct one. The pigeons learned to switch because they didn't want to go hungry. If the chance of finding the prize first go was truly random, then the pigeons should have been fed 33.3 percent (1 in 3) of the time without switching and by pure chance alone. Biasing the result by switcheroo-ing the prize just gives the result that the "researcher" was looking for in the first place.
The choices presented to the pigeon were not random, the one remaining option that was remaining was made to be the correct answer, with no chance that the first choice was the right one. In reality, the Monty Hall problem doesn't necessarily make the remaining unchosen door as the one with the car behind it. As far as the Monty Hall Problem goes, the doors are randomly assigned and not changed after the goat is revealed. The choice remaining is still 50/50, unless the result (where the car is) had been altered when the goat has been shown.
What happens if the goat is behind the door that the contestant had chosen in the beginning?
I think that I recognise them, but depending on how big they are and whether the red thing stuck in the bottom of each of them is permanent, they could maybe either be Torah finials or yads. Torah finials are the decorative trim put on the ends of the stick the vellum (they aren't written on paper) is wrapped around. Yads are pointers (if the red bits are permanent) that are used when reading from the Torah, to prevent damaging the page with your fingertip and they look weird so that it doesn't appear to be an idol that'st is being worshiped when reading from the Torah.
I believe that if you damage some-one else's property (be it private, corporate or government) by whatever means, then you deserve whatever legal consequences come your way. Would you be happy if this was your home that had it's windows smashed in?
Considering that the impostor being "served" in this way seems to be up to mischief, so I would be absolutely stunned if they admitted who they were. It reminds me of the "camouflage training" skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus: please stand up so that we can get you.
Steel scrap is worth quite a bit, so if there is as vast an amount as described then at least the cost of removal would be covered by a scrap dealer buying the metal.
If there really are 12 dumpster loads, then who-ever got to haul it away could make a bit of money out of it.
http://www.popsci.com.au/2010/05/first-crew-members-selected-for-520-day-mars-mission-simulation/
I hope that they'll hose out the blood at the end of the "mission".
The way it was explained on the linked website is that the first choice was never the correct one.
The pigeons learned to switch because they didn't want to go hungry.
If the chance of finding the prize first go was truly random, then the pigeons should have been fed 33.3 percent (1 in 3) of the time without switching and by pure chance alone.
Biasing the result by switcheroo-ing the prize just gives the result that the "researcher" was looking for in the first place.
In reality, the Monty Hall problem doesn't necessarily make the remaining unchosen door as the one with the car behind it.
As far as the Monty Hall Problem goes, the doors are randomly assigned and not changed after the goat is revealed.
The choice remaining is still 50/50, unless the result (where the car is) had been altered when the goat has been shown.
What happens if the goat is behind the door that the contestant had chosen in the beginning?
Torah finials are the decorative trim put on the ends of the stick the vellum (they aren't written on paper) is wrapped around.
Yads are pointers (if the red bits are permanent) that are used when reading from the Torah, to prevent damaging the page with your fingertip and they look weird so that it doesn't appear to be an idol that'st is being worshiped when reading from the Torah.
Would you be happy if this was your home that had it's windows smashed in?
It reminds me of the "camouflage training" skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus: please stand up so that we can get you.
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