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Rest in peace, George Kennedy. A great working man's actor if there ever was one. Cut from the same cloth as the likes of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Cliff Robertson. We don't many men actors like this today, not necessarily tough guys, but an actor who would never play a sensitive wuss either, as it wasn't in his DNA.
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yepAlpe d'Huez said:Rest in peace, George Kennedy. A great working man's actor if there ever was one. Cut from the same cloth as the likes of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Cliff Robertson. We don't many men actors like this today, not necessarily tough guys, but an actor who would never play a sensitive wuss either, as it wasn't in his DNA.
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Re: Free form/Chaos Thread
The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal-like properties of coastlines. The first recorded observation of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson and it was expanded by Benoit Mandelbrot.
More concretely, the length of the coastline depends on the method used to measure it. Since a landmass has features at all scales, from hundreds of kilometres in size to tiny fractions of a millimetre and below, there is no obvious size of the smallest feature that should be measured around, and hence no single well-defined perimeter to the landmass. Various approximations exist[clarification needed] when specific assumptions are made about minimum feature size.
The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal-like properties of coastlines. The first recorded observation of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson and it was expanded by Benoit Mandelbrot.
More concretely, the length of the coastline depends on the method used to measure it. Since a landmass has features at all scales, from hundreds of kilometres in size to tiny fractions of a millimetre and below, there is no obvious size of the smallest feature that should be measured around, and hence no single well-defined perimeter to the landmass. Various approximations exist[clarification needed] when specific assumptions are made about minimum feature size.
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