Celebrating My 3000th Post!steemCreated with Sketch.

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)


Holy Crap!
I've been here since July, so that's an average of about 20 postings and comments per day, which is pretty close to 1 posting every hour since I signed up.

My god that's a lot of typing!
In that time I've made 697 friends, that's about 1 new friend for every 5 posts.
My hope is that this post means I'll be celebrating my 700th friend as well.

To celebrate, I'm making a special offer to all my friends.

I want you to pick a topic you would like me to research in depth and post about.
This will be my next blog posting.

I'll pick the topic with the highest number of upvotes and I'll research it, no matter what it is, with fresh eyes, an open mind and sincere effort. Then I'll come back and give you something with epic detail and if relevant I will also render my opinion on the matter. If you're one of those people who think I'm wrong about something or think I should look more carefully at something, here is your chance to swing my opinion.

To everyone who has stuck by me and kept reading despite my eclectic topic collection and overall cantankerousness, I just want to say thank you. I'm proud to say I have 0 followers but a whole lot of friends.

This post is 100% steem powered!

p.s. I stole the image from William Bertrand at http://williambertrand.com/ and then I used my epic photoshop skills to paste a steemit logo over his facebook logo. Seems like a cool kid, he appears to drive go karts for a living. I don't speak a word of french otherwise I'd thank him personally for his image.

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Congratulations, William!

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Congratulations! I'm slowly but surely getting there myself. The numbers are surprisingly increasing quickly as the months go by quickly... TWO thumbs up for you! All for one and one for all! Namaste :)

CONGRATULATIONS!


Congratulations!!!!🎉🎈 upvoted and resteemed!!!

Wow! Thank you for doing that!

Your welcome!! FULL STEEM AHEAD!!!!!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I hope you are not close to get burned ! :)
Congrats!

hahaha!

Funny story, I had a dream that you and I met in my town in a lot with a few food trucks on it. I looked over and I saw an SUV with your user name here, - up on the top of the windshield in big letters.

How funny is that LOL. @liondani all over that vehicle and I was like - hey what are you doing in Oshawa

True story.


Oh and unrelated you may want to check this out - it is breaking news nobody is talking about affecting crypto w the Trump appointment - @ned RT me on this today, when I sent it to him on the twitter

https://steemit.com/blockchain/@barrydutton/breaking-trump-appoints-pro-blockchain-crypto-advocate-for-budget-chief-who-also-despises-the-federal-reserve

lol... what SUV was it?
Maybe I get burn-out after your answer! :)

Honestly, IDK. You know how dreams go lol, I woke up honestly laughing about it, it was so random lol

I think it was silver and not a domestic. (where I am from that means it was not a GM/Ford/Chrysler)

I think we were both at the taco truck and you were headed there when I saw you LOL!

It is the goofiest dream, I know! I hope you like Tacos lol

TY for the post support also, it is appreciated.

That is big news in the crypto space!

steem related dreams... happens to me also frequently :)
welcome to the club... and yep it is silver and not domestic...
You mean I like TaPoS, right? lol

LOL!!!!

well done, keep on steeming!!

3000 is such a big number, congratz!

Congratulations. I think I came in about the same time as you.

congrats! keep at it! :D

Thank you so much!

Very nice, I've got a ways to go before 3000. Working on it!

I was about to answer something similar ... ;)

All in due time my friend.

Congratulations William. Well deserved. Stephen

Well done you, I would like you to research the paranormal especially ghost hunting :)

Happy holidays!

Congratulations! :)

Congrats Mr. 3000 :)

Merry Christmas...and I suggest you explore Peanuts, from concept through history!

Sounds interesting, thank you. You talking about the food or the comic though ;)

The comic - who cannot love the Peanuts crew?

I'd like to learn more about gravity. I once heard Carl Sagen say it is the weakest force, and yet we can't get away from it. He proved his point by picking up a rock, yet that didn't break gravity, it just transferred mass from the ground to his hand. It fills all of space, even astronauts in orbit are bound not only to the earth, but to the sun, the Milkey Way, and the Great Attractor.

This hardly feels like a weak force.

It is actually a very weak force. For instance and to illustrate it, take a tiny magnet, Put it on the ground. The entire gravitational force of Earth keep this little piece of magnet on the ground. Take a second tiny magnet and approach it towards the first one. This second tiny magnet will attract the first one... It is stronger than the entire planet :)

The fact that we really feel gravity is that this force is not screened, in contrast to some other forces, and that its range is infinite. For more information, maybe could you have a look into this post I wrote 2 months ago. You can also directly ask me (or @williambanks) for more ^^

It is kind of strange when you think about it though @lemouth After all, that works lovely here on earth, but on a neutron star it probably wouldn't work and no amount of EM is going to pull something once it's past the event horizon of a blackhole regardless of how strong that EM field is.

Gravity has overcome every other force in that instance. For that matter though, do we even have a solid theory about how magnetars gain their immense magnetic fields?

My example indeed only works on Earth :) It was only an example.

We must be careful here as we are talking about two different things: gravitational interactions in general and gravitational effects that are the results of the interactions.

  • The strength of gravity is what it is regardless of anything else. And it is very weak compared to the other interactions.
  • Gravitational effects may in contrast be large because of the masses involved, and not because of the strength of the gravitational interactions (that is weak).

The magnitude of any resulting gravity effects is indeed given by the product of the strength of gravity and the involved masses.

I hope this clarifies ^^

PS: for the magnetars, I don't know, but I would check in this one.

I think @casandrarose is trying to point out that there is no way for us to get away from gravity. Sure, the magnets move toward each other, or the lower magnet moves up a few inches, but as they move, they are still bound to the earth, the sun, and the Milky Way. No one has ever been free from gravity.

I'd be curious to know what being truly free of gravity would do to how we measure time. Or how we could become free of gravity.

I agree :).

I was actually not referring to being free from gravity, but more only about beating gravity on some short scales. As I said, gravity is not screened and its range is infinite: we cannot escape it ^^

Congrats! I just posted today that I hit the 2500 mark y-day.

WTG man!!!

Keep them coming!

Thanks for all the support guys!