Does anyone still think the old time heavyweights were too small to be competitive in the modern era?

[JAB5239]

I don't think you are going to be with us too long.

And just like that......POOF.....he went away.

[Dr Z]

And just like that......POOF.....he went away.

There is no POOF here, only a man who will re-register. I try to ignore these types.

[Marchegiano]

I don't understand the love of banning anyway. People will leave communities they don't want to be apart of and will find a way into the ones they do. There's **** all that can be done.

All it really means to me is someone here was a *****. A crybaby who can't handle words on a screen.


That said I get banned regularly so who TF am I to speak to it? I will tell youse guys who don't get butthurt banned and only ever got AI banned; it isn't hard to guess who did the crying.

[billeau2]

I don't understand the love of banning anyway. People will leave communities they don't want to be apart of and will find a way into the ones they do. There's **** all that can be done.

All it really means to me is someone here was a *****. A crybaby who can't handle words on a screen.


That said I get banned regularly so who TF am I to speak to it? I will tell youse guys who don't get butthurt banned and only ever got AI banned; it isn't hard to guess who did the crying.

Not like back in the day... Welsh shin kicking matches, Rough and Tumble bouts... The works!! "Hey you looking at me? How would you like to lose an eye!!?" Now a days? "wah wah wah, he insulted my gender!! Wah wah... I can't identify with that statement!"

[billeau2]

I can just say that is a hella good post.

Energy, Force and Power are so interrelated that really we could use anyone of them for our purposes with a little algebra. They all come together, can't have one without the other.

I would love to have a thread about the kinetic chain, especially since I don't know much about it. Go ahead, sir, by all means start such a thread. I consider you and Bill the masters of that around here. There may be others, my apologies to them.

The only other thing I wanted to mention is that the car experiment could be done entirely differently. No brick wall this time. They cross the finish line at exactly the same instant at 100 mph, one has been accelerating in order to catch up at the last instant, the other has maintained a steady speed on the few feet. Does one car take longer to stop if power is cut exactly at the finish line? Does it take more energy to stop it?

I would like to say they are the same, but I have learned intuition can really lead one astray in math. Some gamblers at dice came to Galileo. They did not understand why their own calculations (which they considered logical) were so amiss that they differed from the reality of their experience. Galileo had to explain to them that there are two ways to roll a 7 with a 6 and 1 because the order of the dice could be different. Imagine dice of two different colors. You could roll a 6 with the red die and 1 with the blue. Or it could happen the other way around. The gamblers had not reasoned that part out. They thought there was only one way.

Was Galileo a genius? That was small potatoes for him. That son a of gun figured out the principles of gravity by rolling cannonballs down a ramp. If it gets smarter than that I don't know about it. Like Ali, he was forced out of his occupation in his scientific prime. He would have given us a hella lot more if left alone.

Galileo was perhaps the biggest duality of any seminal intellectual figure cited historically. Probably among the very top brilliance scale: On a par with Neuton, Da Vinci... by comparison? Einstein and Hawkins practically in the IQ toilet. Try to calculate gravity... Enough to actually make a prediction... Very very difficult! Galileo reasonably could tell you most of the time where Jupitor's moons would be, a stunning feat. he also arguably invented the microscope at the same time as the Dutch inventor... But with that said? Most of us would have sided with the church that he was insane. Neuton and Galileo stand supreme... before them people had only a rudimentary understanding of forces acting and what that would actually look like versus how it appeared. Without either of these men we never make the jump to understand that what we see hardly matters...

Want to know how intelligent these two were? We STILL to this day have no idea what Gravity is... Is it a force per se? a particle of a sort? Show me gravity... As opposed to, show me an atom. The Greeks new about atoms... Electron microscopes could eventually show us atoms. Show me how to calculate electrical magnetic forces... Easy for a physicist. Now try to calculate gravitational pull... remember, you have to consider every last particle of matter and how it pulls towards each greater mass... Virtually impossible! For example: Every step you take the Earth has to respond with an equal, or greater resistance... And your mass? it affects the sun, etc... almost to an infinitly small degree, but still!

[Anomalocaris]

Galileo was perhaps the biggest duality of any seminal intellectual figure cited historically. Probably among the very top brilliance scale: On a par with Neuton, Da Vinci... by comparison? Einstein and Hawkins practically in the IQ toilet. Try to calculate gravity... Enough to actually make a prediction... Very very difficult! Galileo reasonably could tell you most of the time where Jupitor's moons would be, a stunning feat. he also arguably invented the microscope at the same time as the Dutch inventor... But with that said? Most of us would have sided with the church that he was insane. Neuton and Galileo stand supreme... before them people had only a rudimentary understanding of forces acting and what that would actually look like versus how it appeared. Without either of these men we never make the jump to understand that what we see hardly matters...

Want to know how intelligent these two were? We STILL to this day have no idea what Gravity is... Is it a force per se? a particle of a sort? Show me gravity... As opposed to, show me an atom. The Greeks new about atoms... Electron microscopes could eventually show us atoms. Show me how to calculate electrical magnetic forces... Easy for a physicist. Now try to calculate gravitational pull... remember, you have to consider every last particle of matter and how it pulls towards each greater mass... Virtually impossible! For example: Every step you take the Earth has to respond with an equal, or greater resistance... And your mass? it affects the sun, etc... almost to an infinitly small degree, but still!

Now posts like this make me think it could be worth starting some science threads in the lounge (everything from archaeology, astronomy, nature, paleontology, M-theory etc, etc interests me).

[Anomalocaris]

And just like that......POOF.....he went away.

S*it, I never knew I was talking to Keyser Soze!

[Marchegiano]

Just gonna throw this out there given the names I'm reading.



Pythagoras and Philostratus ain't nothing to sneeze at themselves.

Pliny wasn't a dumb guy, he was wrong a lot but the task he took on ... of course he was wrong a lot. I do find his works amusing though.





The Seven Sages of Ancient Greece, imo, should get a special mention as well. This is a boxing forum and Apollo is the only god of boxing in any pantheon.


Thales of Miletus: Known for the maxim "Know thyself."

Solon of Athens: A famous legislator who laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.

Pittacus of Mytilene: The ruler of Mytilene who worked to reduce the power of the nobility.

Bias of Priene: A politician and legislator known for his eloquence and fairness.

Chilon of Sparta: A Spartan politician associated with the militarization of Spartan society.

Cleobulus of Lindos: A tyrant of Lindos, often included in the list despite his controversial reputation.

Periander of Corinth: Another controversial figure due to his tyrannical rule.

These sages were known for their maxims and aphorisms, which were often inscribed at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

Plato's Protagoras "There some, both at present and of old, who recognized that Spartanizing is much more a love of wisdom than a love of physical exercise, knowing that the ability to utter such [brief and terse] remarks belongs to a perfectly educated man. Among these were Thales of Miletus, and Pittacus of Mytilene, and Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, and Cleobulus of Lindus, and Myson of Chenae, and the seventh of them was said to be Chilon of Sparta. They all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met and jointly the first fruits of their wisdom to Apollo in his shrine at Delphi, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much. Why do I say this? Because this was the manner of philosophy among the ancients, a kind of laconic brevity."

That Apollo knows what's good man. Surrounding himself with only the smartest, strongest, and most beautiful.

[JAB5239]

S*it, I never knew I was talking to Keyser Soze!

Lol, I love that movie!!

[Bronson66]

I don't understand the love of banning anyway. People will leave communities they don't want to be apart of and will find a way into the ones they do. There's **** all that can be done.

All it really means to me is someone here was a *****. A crybaby who can't handle words on a screen.


That said I get banned regularly so who TF am I to speak to it? I will tell youse guys who don't get butthurt banned and only ever got AI banned; it isn't hard to guess who did the crying.

I've never asked for anyone to be banned ,and never reported anyone,but find myself unsurprised when some names do go missing.