The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America uses it similarly (go figure.) It’s a pretty big tent, but overall it’s moderate-to-liberal. There might be some ELCA televangelists but they’re not prosperity gospel or 700 Club or Gene Scott, and definitely not flat-earth creationist snake-handling gibberish-speaking faith-healing types.
Haß des Wissens
Don’t be a tRump supporter. Someone might confuse you for a eugenicist.
To my eternal shame, this was in Australia. This lecturer was actually quite highly regarded because he taught us to pass the tests, am opposed to than teaching us the subject, which we what he should have been doing.
We had a mixed bag of lecturers in that college. They had a strong focus on engineering and applied science, so the theoretical side didn’t get as much attention as it might have,
And also, sea levels are rising. Shouldn’t we do something about that before all that expensive ocean front real estate goes under the water? Regardless of why it is happening.
Okay, but for the purpose of discussing life on Earth, isn;t it fair to consider the Earth and Sun to be a single system? Take away either the earth or the sun and there is no life.
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Still need a thermal gradient. Without all of space to sink that heat into, the earth and the sun would homogenize in temperature, and life wouldn’t be possible either.
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Good point. Thanks.
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It’s a real word, normally used as verb (fremdschämen) as @wolfman_al2 wrote somewhere above. Part of the colloquial German, but since 2009 listed in the Duden.
The beauty (to a certain eye) of rising sea levels is that as it destroys coastal real estate, it creates more from the land that was formerly just behind the coastal real estate. Hit the right point in the cycle and you can make out like bandits capitalists.
Yeah but not very popular in parts of the world where they might not have a two metre contour.
One more time
We’re talking thermodynamics here. Life on Earth is driven by a heat engine. Energy from the Sun arrives on Earth. If the Earth and Sun were a single system it would stop there and eventually the Earth would reach 6000K and be devoid of life (this is heat flowing from hotter to colder places until equilibrium is reached.)
A heat engine must have a hot source and a cold sink, and then it extracts energy from the difference between the source and the sink. In the case of the Earth, the sink is the 300K radiation that goes out in all directions into space. Thus the third part of the engine, just as essential as the others, is empty space that allows the sink heat to escape. I don’t think I can find a simpler way to put it.
Satellites work the same way; the radioisotope generator or solar panels deliver energy at a high effective temperature, and it is then radiated into space by blackened fins. If the fins were not there the satellite would simply heat up and stop working.
People get confused because they see car engines take in cold air and output hot exhaust. But in an IC engine the heat source is the tiny fireball in the combustion chamber, which is much hotter than the exhaust. The cold air intake is merely half of the fuel.
So no, it is not fair in any shape or form and once again I say, your physics teacher was either a futtwick or, worse, an incompetent futtwick.
Nothing theoretical about getting heat engines to work.
Now my supervisor in thermodynamics was an astrophysicist - that’s theoretical. When you’ve learnt why a hot ball of gas seems to have a sharp outline, you’ve learned something about thermodynamics. But it doesn’t help you improve the MPG of your bike - which you can do by a little application of the theory.
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Germans used to own a dictionary (usually “Duden”) for spelling and a multi-part encyclopedia (usually “Brockhaus”) for knowledge.
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Fascinating.
I was doing the crossword on the way in to work and thinking about how so many clues in an English crossword rely on the confusion caused by multiple meanings for a word, “entrance” for example, or require knowledge of synonyms for words. If German is such a pellucid language, then what do German crossword setters use for their clues?
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Could that be reconstituted as Wissenhass? There’s also an element of escapism, though - Warheitsfluecht?
I just realized that your suggestion could also be considered gnosiophobia or epistemophobia - so maybe we don’t need the Germans after all…
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I dunno. Go ask Google Translate? That’s where I got it. I just was thinking “Hatred of Knowledge.” All the German I got is swears, and whatever words we English speakers stole.
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The Duden is a LOT more than a dictionary. It is the authoritative definition of the German language.
Then it really IS a German word! I originally heard it around 2003.
WHAT?
Oh . . . oh, God I’m so sorry. I apologize for my nation. I thought that crap had died out; I haven’t seen a table of glassy-eyed LaRouche drones since grad school.
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yes, but (or no, but). the Duden is for German German (in contrast to Austrian or Swiss German) the de facto standard, but it has not a governing and authoritative role like the Académie française for the French language.
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