What's a parabola?

What's a parabola?

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It’s two Bolas that look alike.

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Listen, Woot… if you’re going to give us IQ tests, I don’t think it’s fair that some of our results be included with the others. I mean… I don’t want the other kids to feel bad :cowboy_hat_face:

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physics math GIF by Clayton Shonkwiler

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The math behind forming a parabola from a point of reference illustrated

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There is beauty in design

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There was an old DOS screensaver program called ‘dazzle.’ That reminds me of that program! I miss the old days of computers :cry:

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Parabolic arcs perfectly executed
Basket arcs

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Those earily screen savers were mesmerizing.
old school win GIF by Feliks Tomasz Konczakowski

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Ahh Memories of MS-DOS: DAZZLE

And bit nibbling and recompiling!

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You can get the same infinity effect if you try to open up a WebEx session while in a WebEx session.
It’s pretty for 3 seconds. Then everyone has to log out and start over.

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YES! That’s it! :smiley: I still have it on floppy disk somewhere. I may have to pull out an old laptop and load DOS back up just to run that!

sigh… music to my ears!

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A wannabe Bola that couldn’t pass the bar

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Here ya (both) go…

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A Tool song

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None of the above.
It’s the second part of the 2 part song Parabol/Parabola by Tool from their Lateralus album. Duh!
album art band GIF

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Bola?
Michael C Hall Film GIF by IFC

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So, I left my homework on the bus. Remind me again which is the X axis and which is the Y axis?
Sorry!
Thanks

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It is something under which I can no longer find the area. I knew how to do the math at one point in life. I know not now.

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no no no, it a a par a bolas.

big lebowski bowling GIF

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