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Recreational Forums => Spam/General Discussion => Topic started by: Cube on July 23, 2006, 08:01:39 AM
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First of all: NO SPAMMING. Secondly: Every post must have a random fact, and a proper one. Nothing like "Nebula posts Nebisms, FACT", or "I am blaXXer, FACT".
So, pointless facts, weird laws, etc.
If you break the rule 3 times, you will be kicked (if/when we get the mod installed)
More people are killed by coconuts falling on their head than by shark attacks.
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Did you know that Doctor Who has 26 seasons, not counting Paul McGann (8 Doctor) and the 2005 and 2006 series?
Stargate is owned by Doctor Who.:P
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In Hood River, Oregon, you can't juggle without a license.
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buluga whales, the top of the food chain for pcb and heavy metal poisoning. They are so full of contaminants, when they are found beached they qualify as a toxic biohazard.
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While testing a microphone for a weekly radio show and not knowing it was on Ronald Reagan said, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
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In 1976 Rodrigo's 'Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error...
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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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1969 Kennedy's goal accomplished
At 12:51 EDT, Apollo 11, the U.S. spacecraft that had taken the first astronauts to the surface of the moon, safely returns to Earth.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth."
Eight years later, on July 16, 1969, the world watched as Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins aboard. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, separated from the command module, where a third astronaut, Michael Collins, remained. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at 4:18 p.m. the craft touched down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility.
Armstrong immediately radioed to Mission Control in Houston a famous message: "The Eagle has landed." At 10:39 p.m., five hours ahead of the original schedule, Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module. Seventeen minutes later, at 10:56 p.m., Armstrong spoke the following words to millions listening at home: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A moment later, he stepped off the lunar module's ladder, becoming the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Aldrin joined him on the moon's surface at 11:11 p.m., and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and spoke with President Richard M. Nixon via Houston. By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at 1:54 p.m. the Eagle began its ascent back to the command module. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon--July 1969 A.D--We came in peace for all mankind." At 5:35 p.m., Armstrong and Aldrin successfully docked and rejoined Collins, and at 12:56 a.m. on July 22 Apollo 11 began its journey home, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:51 p.m. on July 24.
There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by, Apollo 13. The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972.
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The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
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Mossanite is the second hardest natural substance after Diamond.
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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One googol written out is: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(i edited this post, neb - it screwed up the margins, and we all get the idea lol :P -jimmy)
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
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Today In History
July 24, 1956
After a decade together as the country?s most popular comedy team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis called it quits. They did their last show at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City.
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Benefit Street (in Providence, Rhode Island), also known as the "Mile of History", contains the largest single collection of historic buildings at their original location in the US...
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US Patent number 3,593,345 was granted for the "Whisper Seat", a toilet seat with a soundproof lining so that noise won't be heard by others.
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in the uk (anywhere in the uk) it is againts the law to drive through a puddle if there is a padestrian on the path (pavement) soaking them in the process and you can be fined up too ?2000 (british stearling) for the offecne.
dunno if you can get penalty points on your driving license tho. if anyone can enlighten
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Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
and:
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
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Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
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In Wales there is a Doctor Who museum (I want to visit that!).
[EDIT] Fixed the typo, I know, it's unforgivable... But I really hear a 'h' there.
Thinking about spelling rules, should the a before h have a 'n' (same question here).
Since you hear an e before it. Should make a somewhat usefull fact....
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In Wales there is a Doctor Who museum (I want to visit that!).
Located in Cardiff, I'ts actually a Doctor Who exhibition, and I've walked passed it (unfortunately, It was closed...stupid closing times)
Hasbro are making some changes to the classic Monopoly. The Monopoly money is getting replaced with a Debit Card System, Money is not collected when passing "GO", and the dog (WHY???) and Iron are getting replaced with a Burger (WTF?) and a Mobile Phone.
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Rhode Island was the home of the first golf tournament, which took place in 1895...
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The dark spots on the moon that create the benevolent "man in the moon" image are actually basins filled 3 to 8 kilometers deep with basalt, a dense mineral, which causes immense gravitation variations.
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old pups
it took over 4 years to film milo and otis to get the animals to do what they are suppose to.
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Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)... :)
yay booze!
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The Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car in 1939.
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The longest baseball game ever played took place on April 19 and 20 and June 23, 1981, at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. When the game was resumed on June 23, it took Pawtucket only one inning to score, ending the game after 33 innings and eight-and-a-half hours of play.
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In 1817 the University of Michigan was the first university established by any of the states. Originally named Cathelepistemian and located in Detroit the name was changed in 1821. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1841.
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A few car related facts.
The Isle of Man is the only place on Earth that has no speed limits in Non-Rural areas...
Airbags contain explosives and by law can only be disposed of by a dealer of the cars make...
The Bugatti Beyron (The most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world) costs ?5,000,000 to produce and only sells for ?1,000,000 each, making a huge loss for owners Volkswagen AG with each produced. They plan to produce 300 (Thats a lot of money down the drain)
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Michigan was the first state to provide in its Constitution for the establishment of public libraries.
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MTV debuted 25 years ago on this date August 1, 1981...
it was my fifth bday...
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Michigan fact
Grand Rapids is home to the 24-foot Leonardo da Vinci horse, called Il Gavallo, it is the largest equestrian bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Rolling Stones only pay 2% of their income as tax. Together they are now worth approx. ?540 million
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
Sorry about the double post but I could not let this terrible inaccuracies go uncorrected. Pearls do not melt in vinegar. Melting is the transition of a solid state into and liquid state through changes in temperature or pressure. Pearls are more likely to be dissolved or broken down through reaction with the acetic acid in vinegar.
Get your scientific terms correct bitch
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
Sorry about the double post but I could not let this terrible inaccuracies go uncorrected. Pearls do not melt in vinegar. Melting is the transition of a solid state into and liquid state through changes in temperature or pressure. Pearls are more likely to be dissolved or broken down through reaction with the acetic acid in vinegar.
Get your scientific terms correct bitch
LOL I took that from a site so don't blame me....
Michigan Fact
The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World. The Kellogg brothers accidentally discovered the process for producing flaked cereal products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry.
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George Washingtons teeth were made of Deer and Human teeth in a spring loaded set of bone dentures. In all paintings of Washington he has tightly drawn lips... the only way to keep his teeth from launching out of his mouth!
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The Herreshoff Manufactuing Company in Bristol, RI built the nation's first primitave torpedo boat, Lightning, in 1876. The crew actually had to hold the charge on the end of a long pole and poke it at the target. It wasn't until 1887 that Herreshoff modified a boat to launch a self-propelled torpedo. Her name was Stiletto.
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Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of streams.
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Michael Moore is from Flint, Michigan. :lol:
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Forty of the state's 83 counties adjoin at least one of the Great Lakes. Michigan is the only state that touches four of the five Great Lakes.
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The 1959 Cadillac has the largest tail fins of any automobile ever made. From the tip of the fin to the ground is 42 inches.
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The world's first international submarine railway tunnel was opened between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada in 1891.
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The "Star Trek Meal" was the first Happy Meal McDonalds used to promote a movie.
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Colon michigan is home to the world's largest manufacture of magic supplies.
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Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form of local government.
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The western shore of Michigan has many sand dunes. The Sleeping Bear Dunes rise 460 feet above Lake Michigan. Living among the dunes is the dwarf lake iris the official state wildflower.
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Ok, I'll contribute the most important info there is...
Tulsa spelled backwards is....a slut
A slut backwards is.....over $100 bucks.
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Rhode Island was the first colony to declare its independance from the British Crown on May 4, 1776 a full 2 month before the other twelve.
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Alpena Michigan is the home of the world's largest cement plant.
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Did you know - A Cockroach can live for up to a week without a head!! :D
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'Ann and Hope' was the first discount department store in the United States... the property was opened in Rhode Island...
(i remember, when i was very young shopping for school clothes with my mom and sisters, we would always go shopping at one of their stores, always the one in Cumberland RI; with it's noisy roof and rickety-shallow-and-steep stairs from the first floor to the other, and weird "chain" that would bring your carriage between the floors lol)
they have since gone out of business tho, so very unfortunately... :cry:
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In 1929, the Michigan State Police established the first state police radio system in the world.
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Judge Darius Baker imposed the first jail sentence (in the U.S.) for speeding in an automobile on August 28, 1904 in Newport, Rhode Island...
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Sault Ste. Marie was founded by Father Jacques Marquette in 1668. It is the third oldest remaining settlement in the United States.
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the first truly American breed of horse, the Narragansett Pacer, was developed in Rhode Island in the late 1600's... it is said that Paul Revere rode a Narragansett Pacer during his infamous midnight ride...
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The Ambassador Bridge was named by Joseph Bower, the person credited with making the bridge a reality, who thought the name "Detroit-Windsor International Bridge" as too long and lacked emotional appeal. Bower wanted to "symbolize the visible expression of friendship of two peoples with like ideas and ideals."
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it has been 2 months and 28 days since the last fact...
hehe
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Vernors ginger ale was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the United States. In 1862, pharmacist James Vernor was trying to create a new beverage when he was called away to serve our country in the Civil War. When he returned, 4 years later, the drink he had stored in an oak case had acquired a delicious gingery flavor.
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The natural diet of Lady Beetles consists of soft bodied insects such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day...
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heh thats crazy.... *I think we need to comment on the previous post before we post our own*
In 1879 Detroit telephone customers were first in the nation to be assigned phone numbers to facilitate handling calls.
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wow! long time no posts!
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
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# Michigan State University was founded in 1855 as the nation's first land-grant university and served as the prototype for 69 land-grant institutions later established under the Morrill Act of 1862. It was the first institution of higher learning in the nation to teach scientific agriculture.
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Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
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oh ffs, i am the only one who cares about this thread :(
ya, that was my fact, bitches :P
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The world's first international submarine railway tunnel was opened between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada in 1891.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
hehe "tit"
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this thread used to be cool at BCU :(
(where's trim?)
then again, BCU used to be cool :P
hehe
anyway (yay postcounts!)
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
way to brainwash our fat kids, America :dance
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The vignette on the back of the $100 note is Independence Hall in Philadelphia. There are three people depicted in the engraving. Two (a man and a woman) are in front of the hall close to the building; the third person is a man pictured looking toward the building. There is no record that the man and woman are embracing.
The hands of the clock are set at approximately 4:10. Although the time is not readily identifiable to the naked eye, it may be verified if examined under twenty-fold magnification. There are no records explaining why that particular time was chosen.
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315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled...
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Today In History
March 2, 1972
U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 was launched. It passed close by Jupiter and Neptune before leaving the solar system. It is now more than six billion miles from Earth.
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Women are 33% less likely to have schizophrenia.
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The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes... He was albino...
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily...
(i think i was one of them lol)
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During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog...
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During the '70s, there was a rash of Thai women cutting off their drunk husband's member and feeding it to their farm animals. So epidemic was the crime that Thai men were often heard leaving their friends at the bar with "I'd better get home, or the wife will give the pigs a snack."
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Fact- Tribbles no longer exist in Star Trek. The Klingons wiped them all out.
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hyenas are genetically closer to cats then they are to dogs.
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Honestly, I got this tid-bit while watching "History Channel"
did you know Yellow (color) is the color for the emperors of China
so I bet that is why Terran Ships, have the yellow paint job, it is an imperioral color.
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In the units of time, seconds, are called seconds because they stand/stood for "second minutes". Aka, minutes within minutes. (60 of them) like minutes are for hours.
1 hour = 60 minutes
1 minute 60 second minutes
But
Milliseconds could not be called "third minutes" because
1 second = 1000 milliseconds.
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Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode...
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Orcas are the largest species of Dolphin. The USS Nautilus was the only one of her class. The Seawolf Class Submarine is being phased out in favor of the (West?) Virginia class- same capabilities, cheaper to produce.
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In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first metal detector. As President James Garfield lay dying of an assassin's bullet, Alexander Graham Bell hurriedly invented a crude metal detector in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal slug. Bell's metal detector was an electromagnetic device he called the induction balance.
With Garfield's condition growing steadily worse, doctors decided to cut him open to remove the slug. It was not found.
What Bell had actually located so deep in the body was the metal spring under the mattress! No wonder they couldn't find the bullet.
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NEBULA, from here on in you can only post one fact about Michigan in every 5 posts. I got sick and tired of dozens of them.
A 1924 entry in Evelyn Waugh's diary states that an English High Court judge presiding in a sodomy case sought advice on sentencing from Lord Birkenhead. "Could you tell me", he asked, "what do you think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?" Birkenhead replied without hesitation, "Oh, 30 shillings or ?2; whatever you happen to have on you."
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Most lipstick contains fish scales...
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To import a ship in Bridge Commander, you must have
import Foundation
import App
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To import a ship in Bridge Commander, you must have
import Foundation
import App
That's only somewhat right..........
In fact, it's the least bit of it all.
You need a ShipDef instance to import a ship in BC.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants...
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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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You can cool bottled water below freezing :arms:
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine...
(so was cocaine.... mmmmmm cocaine.... too yummy)
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Today in 1903, Niagera Falls ran out of water because of a drought.
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odd I thought I had another post here... anyway
Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
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The largest tsunami wave recorded by living witnesses reached approx. 1,720 ft. high. ( 524m ) July 9, 1958, Lituya Bay in Alaska. Had such a wave hit New York City, the wave would have submerged the tops of the city's largest sky scrapers ( WTC Towers, 1,368 ft. ) under 352 ft. of water.
Some geologists speculate that the most likely candidate for the source of the next large-scale megatsunami is the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands. Reports say that during the 1949 eruption the western half of the Cumbre Vieja ridge slipped four metres downwards into the Atlantic Ocean, though this is disputed. It is believed that this process was driven by the pressure caused by the rising magma heating and vaporising water trapped within the structure of the island, causing the island's structure to be pushed apart. The island is still considered active, though quiescent at present, but it is expected to erupt again some time in the next few hundred years. Were this to happen it is speculated that a megatsunami would be created as the western half of the island, weighing perhaps 500 billion tonnes, catastrophically slides into the ocean in a single event, causing local wave heights of hundreds of metres and a likely height of around 10?25 m at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard coast several hours later. However, this is speculative since there is disagreement whether it would in fact happen, when, or how likely it is.
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A human finger bone can hold up to 9 tons of pressure.
the same weight would break a concrete block instantly.
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9 tons of pressure? 9 tons per square inch? 9 tonnes per square cm?
Somewhat useful fact: This sort of thing properly confuses engineers.
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Fact: Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
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Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters...
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fact: If I'm not mistaken in Illinois it's illegal to speak English :D (dumb state law...probably passed in the 17/1800s and meant for Brittish)
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on that note I read that it is illegal to bath in public in Vermont.
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In New York City it is illegal to make a window puppet show.
In San Diego, it is illegal to spit on the sidewalk.
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(http://www.phy.mtu.edu/APOD/image/jupiter1_vgr.gif)
Thats the red spot storm on Jupiter
Earth can fit 3 times inside it.
BIG storm.
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Also according to statistics, Wednesday is the least traveled day in the country. Great day for flying.
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Most people can read the following text in quite a normal speed, showcasing the power of the human brain for error correction:
"i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
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In Paris, it is illegal to stare at the Mayor.
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Potassium hydroxide is extremely dangerous to breathe and fatal to eat. It causes deep ulcers if it touches the skin and irreversible damage if it gets in the eyes. It is widely used to wash fruit and vegetables; in the manufacture of chocolate, ice cream, caramel, soft drinks, paper and textiles; to form a skin on pretzels before baking; and as a wart-remover. It is also used by vets for disbudding calves horns and for dissolving scales and hair and is a common ingredient of washing powder, denture cleaner, detergent, drain cleaners and soap.
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This is the Great Eastern:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Great_Eastern_1866.jpg)
(steampunkishy cool, no?)
Although it was supposed to be a passenger ship, it is mostly known for laying the (4260 km long) Transatlantic telegraph cable.
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Today In History
July 31, 1845
The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band. The musical instrument was the invention of Adolphe Sax of Belgium.
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Today In History
August 1, 1976
i was born...
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Happy late birthday. 8)
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Happy 2 days late birthday :king
Somewhat useful fact: Craig Charles and Danny-John Jules are the only 2 actors to appear in every single episode of Red Dwarf.
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Today In History
August 1, 1976
i was born...
Perhaps we should rename this thread to Hardly Useful Fact Thread. :mrgreen:
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_enl_1186155097/img/1.jpg)
From a BBC article about nectar eating bats this is... erm... a pole covered nectar eating bat.
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Some of Archimedes' greatest works were effectively rubbed out and the pages used to make a prayer book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
Turns out Archimedes had almost invented calculus almost 1800 early
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Today in history:
August 15, 1987
In one high-profile promotional effort, Coca-Cola sponsors ICEE cups with the TNG cast faces in special collector's plastic cups that appear beginning this date in convenience stores nationwide.
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The 130 horsepower V-6 equipped DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to The Future couldn't actually go 88 miles-per-hour.
(0-60 mph in 11 seconds. Woo.)
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Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year.
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(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7141/waterbridgeqt2.jpg)
It's a water bridge...
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must be from the netherlands :arms:
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must be from the netherlands :arms:
I actually think it's from Germany.
The boat on the right looks German (based on the name) to me.
"Warsteiner" isn't an usual Dutch name.
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It is in germany.
Senator half-explained it to me before he realised the reason I wasn't getting it was because the image had been hotlink blocked.
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It is in germany.
Senator half-explained it to me before he realised the reason I wasn't getting it was because the image had been hotlink blocked.
Us weird Germans, eh?
As for the 'Warsteiner'-part, this is actually a logo of a brewing company that, as it seems, sponsored the boat by advertising on it.
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You knowing it practicly verifies that it's German. :P
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that water bridge is really tripping me out the more i look at it...
As for the 'Warsteiner'-part, this is actually a logo of a brewing company that, as it seems, sponsored the boat by advertising on it.
indeed - Warsteiner is a good beer!
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I believe Britain has something similar for it's canal boats. Just on a much smaller, Dickensian-type scale.
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(http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/3417/ssssmb6.jpg)
It's a hole in the water. :D
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Am seriously intrigued as to what caused that...
Looks like an intake or something.
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I believe it's a relief "valve" (actually, more of a funnel) used with a hydrodam.
If the water level is lower, then it will show as a concrete funnel.
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Senator, youre really freaking my mind out with these pics :P
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No no no, if I wanted to freak your mind I would post something like this:
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6893/pacmanrp4.gif)
Stare at the cross in the center and you will see a series of events :
* A circle of purple spots, one spot disappears clockwise.
* A circle of purple spots, one spot turns green clockwise.
* THE GREEN SPOT EATS THE PURPLE ONES !.
* Only the green spot remains, circling around the cross.
(probably have posted that one before but still cool)
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toooooooo trippy...
*stares for hours as my eyes bug out*
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*Pets Jimmy*
Good Human, now go kill the Federation President.
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(http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/noblewebster2.jpg)
(http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/noblewebster3.jpg)
(http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/noblewebster.jpg)
(http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/noblewebster4.jpg)
(http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/motolunch.jpg)
Shadow sculptures. :D
(Ok, I admit that I use this thread as a "stuff I find interesting" damping point, maybe I should start a blog or something)
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Those are fun (I came across those myself a couple of months ago).
You should try Google Reader, and give out shared stuff links (or, as I do, keep a bunch of tags shared, so "ought-to-read", "interresting" and "fun-stuff", but that's just me).
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The Canadian Dollar is now worth more than it's US counterpart.
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The Beagle 2, the movie Transformers also makes a refference to, was not a rover, and it was not send by NASA, mmmkey?
It was, um... British.
(If it works, it's European. If it doesn't, it's the fault of the nation that made it) :mrgreen:
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(http://sfp.in2p3.fr/CP/Images/CaloATLAS.jpeg)
It's a stargate the ATLAS detector in CERN.
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CERN rocks.
science rocks.
get over it.
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We're here, we're queer- it's the economy, stupid?
Drugs and alcohol are bad, mmmkay?
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Soon I will be a genuine qualified MASTER OF SCIENCE! Just you wait and see.
Science fact for the day. Dichloromethane makes your skin go all cool and tingly because of its tendency to evaporate as soon as you look at it. (It's boiling points rather low you see and as it eva[orates it draws heat out of the immediate area like some sort of crazy science heat vampire)
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The original Pledge of Allegiance reads: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"
What's the difference you might ask? The difference is that it nowhere does it includes the word "God", something which was introduced 62 years later in 1954.
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The biography of Thomas Crapper, the British sanitary engineer who invented the modern flush toilet in 1878, was called "Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper."
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei.jpg)
Ancient Pompeii graffiti caricaturing a politician.
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On Titan, methane takes on solid, liquid, and gas forms like water does on Earth.
Thus, Titan has Methane rain, Methane oceans, and even Methane snow.
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The Michael Myers mask worn in the various 'Halloween' movies was actually a mold of William Shatner's face after he was in the movie 'The Devils Rain' in 1975.
http://www.answers.com/topic/michael-myers-halloween
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Tomatoes are actually fruits.
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Tomatoes are actually fruits.
and red.
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Now, "red" on the other hand is a virtual thing your brain assigns to a specific wavelength.
We have no way of knowing if all people see red as "red".
There is no reason why someone couldn't be seeing all colours inverted, eg red as green etc, but since at school, when the teacher would be pointing at the object emitting a specific wavelenght and call it "red", they would all call that sensory experience red when talking about it.
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Senator often tries to challenge traditional world-views. fact. see above.
ps. catnip.
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(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_03/hallmirrorsDM2111_800x364.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=495538&in_page_id=1811
Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque.
But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed.
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Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.
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Few have been granted permission to see these marvels.
Indeed, the Italian government was not even aware of their existence until a few years ago.
But the 'Temples of Damanhur' are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.
It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples.
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ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes.By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.
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And that's how a processor looks:
(http://www-05.ibm.com/se/news/archive/images/chips/POWER6/p6die1.jpg)
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its just beautiful, absoluley... beautiful. *sob*
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looks like a normal map to me ;)
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looks like a normal map to me ;)
That was my first association as well. Looks like it would work, too.. on some sort of space station maybe.
The rectangular parts would be great for paneling, and the parts on the left and right would work well for
some sort of solar panels, maybe? :D
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Fact:
I actually never understood what the Matrix was all about in the end. What was the yellow vision thing in the real world again?
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Energy, electricity? You mean how Neo perceived the world, after he lost his eyes?
In the real world, Neo has some degree of wireless connectivity with the Matrix system: he can sense the presence of the Machines, and even interfere with their function. Apparently because of his status as The One; he has a direct connection to the Source, and can therefore affect the machines also connected to it. Additionally, after he is blinded in the fight against Smith/Bane, Neo receives the ability to see everything connected to the Source:The Sentinels, the fetus fields, the Machine City itself, etc. ? as silhouettes of golden light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)
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7 out of the top 50 restaurants in the world are in England. All in London.
Globalization once again removing wonderful tradition and downgrading the quality of life...
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The recipe for fried squid is:
(http://www.epicurious.com/images/recipesmenus/2005/2005_january/231419.jpg)
Squid and Batter
1 1/2 pounds frozen cleaned small squid (bodies and tentacles), thawed, drained, or 1 pound fresh
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour, divided
1 1/2 cups rice flour,* divided
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon unseasoned rice vinegar
1 teaspoon peanut oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 1/4 cups (or more) water
Vegetable oil (for deep-frying)
Cut squid bodies into 1/2-inch-thick rounds. Place all squid in large sieve set over bowl. Refrigerate at least 1 hour to drain well.
Place 1 cup flour, 1 cup rice flour, soy sauce, vinegar, peanut oil, and sugar in large bowl. Gradually add 1 1/4 cups water, whisking until batter is smooth.
If necessary, whisk in more water by teaspoonfuls until batter reaches heavy cream consistency. Let batter stand at least 1 hour and up to 3 hours at room temperature, whisking occasionally.
Mix remaining 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup rice flour in large bowl. Add squid. Toss until squid is coated, separating pieces. Turn mixture into another sieve and shake off excess flour. Sprinkle squid generously with salt, tossing in sieve. Mix coated squid into batter.
Pour oil into heavy large saucepan to depth of 1 1/2 inches. Attach clip-on deep-fry thermometer and heat oil over medium-high heat to 350?F to 360?F. Working in batches and stirring often with tongs to separate pieces, drop squid into oil. Fry until crisp and brown, about 4 minutes per batch. Using slotted spoon, transfer squid to paper towels. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
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Fact: Mini-RC helicopters are fun.
For its price, there is no good reason not to have one of these.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverlit-Radio-Control-Picoo-Helicopter/dp/B000FNUF8O
(On an irrelevant note, mine I got today from a random shop is actually a Chinese copy rather than the original product, on the plus side it looks like an Apache (with yellow Hind-ish camouflage coloring) so it's even more awesome)
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The british army's mine explosion drill is :
Jump upwards 40 feet and spread yourself as far as possible.
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In 4 days it's Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
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I hate christmas. fact.
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I hate christmas. fact.
If you hate Christmas then the christians who want Christmas to be a miserable celebration about some extramarital birth in some stable, rather than a jolly fat man and awesome nordic traditions like the christmas tree (originally, they were putting heads instead of balls on it, search it), by sheer coincidence happening at the 25 of december when the old Roman celebration of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti occurred (the birth of the unconquered son god), and believe in wealth redistribution controlled by the party (church), as opposed to it being a celebration of western capitalism... will have won.
In fact, they (Christians) already tried to ban Christmas twice, one in the UK in 1647, and in Boston in 1659
"For preventing disorders, arising in several places within this jurisdiction by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other communities, to the great dishonor of God and offense of others: it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way, upon any such account as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shilling as a fine to the county."
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I should have exlained it more, I think. I hape our typical western capislist christmas, but this would be better suited for the politics forum, dont you agree?
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Fact:
China will soon be the number one English speaking country in the world.
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Ok, that one if you haven't seen it before is quite cool.
Can you see the shark?
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6358/fishyis1.jpg)
Tips for seeing the shark:
1. Put one finger in the front center of picture about 5cm from your nose.
2. focus on your finger, and then focus just on the picture. (with your finger still in front)
3. (You'll notice that you now have two fingers) Simply look between those two fingers and you will soon see the picture coming clear!
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And here is a horse:
(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8480/horseev6.jpg)
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I REALLY don't get those...
Falling down stairs can hurt quite a bit...FACT.
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The above images are examples of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram
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I really don't get it...I get the concept,but I must be doing something wrong!
Bleh, too busy trying (and failing) to get vista to connect to the internet. My parents just got this new pc (not a bad rig, but hardly the best.) and they want AOL on it for some perverse reason. The problem is the adsl *modem* doesn't agree with vista, so it tries to commit suicide whenever I go near it with the USB cable! REALLY starting to piss me off, never seen such an awkwardly simplistic and easy to use OS.
Vista = cnuting carp. I tell thee now.
FACT.
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You are not trying hard enough! It will takes you 2 minutes or so for sure.
Forget the whole finger thing, save the picture, blow it up a bit on the screen, and then just look at it as if you are really bored.
FACT: I'd rather wait for the next windows after Vista, rather than put Vista. When Microsoft will have got and all the nice feedback. I have seen a dual core 2Ghz, 2Gb memory, exactly the same make, with Windows XP2, and Vista, and the Vista one somehow was giving the impression of making an effort to run.
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(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7514/buqrcqi3kz2.jpg)
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FACT! The sky isn't actually blue. It's translucent. The only reason we perceive the sky as blue is because of the reflection and refraction of light off our oceans, and the water and other chemicals floatin' about in the air. ^_^
But then again, the sky isn't blue to me! It's black. With pretty pink polka dots. :D
-Aeries.
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FACT: Water on the other hand, does have a colour, a light blue, but it becomes noticeable only in large masses. In other words no, the oceans aren't blue because "they reflect the sky".
If the sky reflected the water and the water the sky, a cloud stuck between them would create cool effects though...
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I thought the water was only blue because after a certain depth, certain colors can't be refracted anymore, thus the only color we see water as is blue? Also, I never said the oceans were blue because of the sky. The exact opposite, actually. :P But whatever.
As for the clouds, well I dunno about that. I'm going off of what little I remember of Science class back in the day... :P
Fact: I love 3d modeling. ^_^ 'Tis fun!
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I didn't say that you said that the oceans are blue because of the sky, it's just the other wrong explanation you most often hear concerning said colour. After all the sky is all over the oceans, but why would the sky reflect the oceans over, say, the middle of Asia?
(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7347/13746752lx4.png)
One of the world?s most ambitious building projects, Crystal Island has been granted preliminary planning permission in Moscow. Enclosed within a vast mega structure covering a total floor area of 2.5million square metres ? the project?s scale is unprecedented. At 450m the scheme in one of the tallest structures on the planet, creating a spectacular new emblem on the Moscow skyline. Conceived as a self-contained city within a city, it contains a rich mix of buildings including museums, theatres and cinemas, to ensure that it is a major new destination for the whole of Moscow.
Presented to the Moscow Public and Architectural Council, Crystal Island is a highly anticipated new project. Located on the Nagatino Peninsula, edged by the Moscow River, it is located only 7.5 km from the Kremlin, and offers panoramic views over Moscow from a viewing platform at its apex.
Crystal Island will have a range of cultural, exhibition and performance facilities, approximately 3000 hotel rooms and 900 serviced apartments, as well as offices and shops, designed to maintain a dynamic and animated public realm throughout the day. Residents are able to work and live within a densely planned area where every amenity is within easy walking distance, including an international school for 500 students. Mixed-use also presents a strong case for energy balance, with individual components using energy at different times, while reinforcing the breadth of economic and social activity of the area.
The building?s spiraling form emerges majestically from a newly landscaped park, rising in converse directions to form a diagonal grid. This distinctive geometry extends throughout the project into the park. The result is that the scheme is seamlessly integrated into a new park landscape, which provides a range of activities throughout the year, including cross country skiing and ice skating in the winter.
The internal built volumes assume a staggered formation within the triangulated steel mega frame, extending flush against the sloping facetted glazed outer skin. This terracing creates a series of wintergardens, which form a breathable second layer and thermal buffer for the main building, shielding the interior spaces from Moscow?s extreme summer and winter climates. A vertical louvre system sheaths the internal facades to ensure privacy for the individual apartments.
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In the end there can be only one. (Currency) :arms:
http://www.singleglobalcurrency.org/default.html
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Wooooow, tonight that went right over my head. :/ So easily confused today... not cool. Not cool at all. O_o;
I'll sit here completely defeated by you, Mr. Captain. Whilst I attempt to hunt for more cream soda....
Anyways, Fact...
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
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(http://www.chinapage.com/photo/whistler/taipei101.jpg)
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See that?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Sea_lamprey1.jpg)
A fish right?
Nope, because from the front it looks like this:
(http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~youson/images/lamprey.jpg)
Lampreys begin life as burrowing freshwater larvae (ammocoetes). At this stage, they are toothless, have rudimentary eyes, and feed on microorganisms. This larval stage can last five to seven years and hence was originally thought to be an independent organism. After these five to seven years, they transform into adults in a metamorphosis which is at least as radical as that seen in amphibians, and which involves a radical rearrangement of internal organs, development of eyes and transformation from a mud-dwelling filter feeder into an efficient swimming predator, which typically moves into the sea to begin a predatory/parasitic life, attaching their mouth to a fish, secreting an anticoagulant to the host, and feeding on the blood and tissues of the host. In most species this phase lasts about 18 months.
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ugh... *shudder* I am NOT gonna be sleeping tonight! that thing really scares me. and I thought camel spiders were bad enough!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Mars_%28Mariner_4%29.jpg)
From Wikipedia
Mariner 4 image, the first close-up image ever taken of Mars. This shows an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from limb to bottom of frame, centered at 37 N, 187 W. The area is near the boundary of Elysium Planitia to the west and Arcadia Planitia to the east. The hazy area barely visible above the limb on the left side of the image may be clouds. The resolution of this image is roughly 5 km and north is up. (Mariner 4, frame 01D).
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(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5518/md3974dzp8.jpg)
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You should get a plumber to have a look at that
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(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8434/xlgaerozeul6.jpg)
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Senator, did they ever build one? and if so, did it crash and blow up?
British army issue assault boots are absolute crud for doing anything more strenuous than a slow walk in. They tear feet to shreds according to many soldiers.
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I don't think so and it depends. If it couldn't airborne in the first place it couldn't crash and blow up no?
Fact: The Empire State Building was build with zeppelin moor on top, as well as a strengthened skeleton to withstand the pull of a huge airship being pulled away.
(http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/1/8/Other-Unknown-Empire-State-Building-with-Graf-Zeppelin-180269.jpg)
However they were some problems with the idea.
Wind. The steel-and-glass canyons of Manhattan are an airship captain's nightmare of shifting air currents. Raskob and Smith were inviting the unwieldy craft to come in low and slow, over hazards such as the menacing Chrysler Building spire, and somehow tie up without use of a ground crew. Then, too, if the crew released ballast to maintain pitch control, a torrent of water would cascade onto the streets below. And once secured, a dirigible could be tethered only at the nose, with no ground lines to keep it steady.
Passengers would have to make their way down a stinging gangway, nearly a quarter mile in the air, onto a narrow open walkway near the top of the mast. After squeezing through a tight door, they would have to descend two steep ladders inside the mast before reaching the elevators.
(The photograph btw is fake)
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Also:
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That touch-based system is so freaking cool, I can't wait to have one of my own. I can't imagine what kind of processing power and memory would be required to run it, let alone the cost of the unit and software- but dude, I SO want that!
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I thought that multi touch touch screens were impossible....
That was a big weakness in the nintendo DS.
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I thought that multi touch touch screens were impossible....
That was a big weakness in the nintendo DS.
The definition of impossible is impossible. How can you define something that's not possible? :P
What I meant to say, impossible in the land of technology is only relative.
That particular video above is atleast 2 years old (if my memory serves me right).
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I thought that multi touch touch screens were impossible....
That was a big weakness in the nintendo DS.
You have been lied to. As usual.
(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/1707/21pa1.jpg)
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Zap!
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Ever wonder why the Edmund Fitzgerald didn't make it..? These photographs
were taken in November 2006 aboard Misener Steamships as she crossed Lake
Superior in typical November weather.
Lake Superior is the largest & deepest of The Great Lakes and could hold
all the water of the other 4 Great Lakes...plus three more Lake Eries.
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Sleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).[1]
Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the bodily paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully aware, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations.
(Shamelessly Copy Carbonaraed from Wikipedia)
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...you might need the latest version mind you.
It's quite a time waster actually.
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http://www.stage6.com/user/MyFamily/video/1658684/Resonant-Chamber-by-Animusic-in-HD
And here is Tim Burton's first film btw:
http://www.stage6.com/user/amylee_x/video/1469309/Tim-Burton---Vincent
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There is a flight simulator hidden within Google Earth. Ctrl+Alt+A to play!
(Page Up for throttle)
Its the different control method you can use, rather than just scan it like a map, you can switch and fly around instead. It's pretty difficult to control but still fun to fly around the grand canyon, proving that you really can't do it unless you're Will Smith.
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Well, the option doesn't become available until you enter it this way once, so it is considered an easter egg.
I don't know if that's what you mean but I don't talk about "lowering" the map in 3d mind you, in this you get a HUD with numbers, elevator/rudder control, can do a loop and has collision detection.
(http://www.googleflightsimulator.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/googleflightsimulator_main_screen.jpg)
I'd try grand canyon if I could find it, doesn't give you many runway to start from though.
EDIT: Silly me, You can select your current view as a start point.
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I never knew that....Cool!!! I love flight simulators!!!
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In that case, no, it's not what I thought it was. Possibly the next version up to the old "flying" mode.
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You can also use a joystick.
If you joystick is an old but trusty sidewinder btw.
And if you find out that your throttle lever and rudder axis have each other functions, the fix is:
You go to C\Program File\Google\Google Earth\res\flightsim\controller
You open the "generic.ini" with notepad
And where it says:
A1 set(DE, 1.0, 0.0)
A0 set(DA, 1.0, 0.0)
A2 set(DP_0, -0.5, 0.5)
A3 set(DR, 1.0, 0.0)
You replace it with:
A1 set(DE, 1.0, 0.0)
A0 set(DA, 1.0, 0.0)
A3 set(DP_0, -0.5, 0.5)
A2 set(DR, 1.0, 0.0)
(save)
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That reminds me, I downloaded the latest version last night but didn't install it! Time to play...
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Soon the last piece of puzzle to my (minimalist) informatic home will fall in place:
(http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9300/cybookinhandgc1.jpg)
...in which, a single, shiny black cube of a central computer will contain* and serve all Video/Pictures/Music/Books/Games/Radio/TV** & Internet.
Magnetic Tapes, Vinyl Disks, CDs, DVDs, Film and Paper? Inferior, inflexible mediums.
Long live the information age!
* mirrored raid disk array, I thought of what you might be thinking already. It's only until Holographic memory anyway.
** Technically yes, but I have hardly noticed the lack of a TV the last 3 years, any show I like I can get off the internet when I like it and any news instantly.
P.S. The thing on the image is an e-book reader. It uses e-ink which has the texture and quality of printed paper aka it is not backlit, it does not have a refresh rate, and uses battery only when it changes state, also light and cuddly.
P.P.S Technically there is still one piece to go but that wacom tablet is a wee expensive...
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The NASA Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity are still operational. They landed on 2004 and the official mission was for 90 days.
As a side note, they are powered by solar panels. Stick that in your non-renewable pipe and smoke it. And after you do try to find a gas station on Mars.
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Damn you Senator!
Now I want to burn my hard earned money on it!
Although, at 425 euro's, it's rather reasonably priced, especially when compared to others.
But I do wonder one thing, can I program on it? That would simply be the best.
Soon the last piece of puzzle to my (minimalist) informatic home will fall in place:
(http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9300/cybookinhandgc1.jpg)
...in which, a single, shiny black cube of a central computer will contain* and serve all Video/Pictures/Music/Books/Games/Radio/TV** & Internet.
Magnetic Tapes, Vinyl Disks, CDs, DVDs, Film and Paper? Inferior, inflexible mediums.
Long live the information age!
* mirrored raid disk array, I thought of what you might be thinking already. It's only until Holographic memory anyway.
** Technically yes, but I have hardly noticed the lack of a TV the last 3 years, any show I like I can get off the internet when I like it and any news instantly.
P.S. The thing on the image is an e-book reader. It uses e-ink which has the texture and quality of printed paper aka it is not backlit, it does not have a refresh rate, and uses battery only when it changes state, also light and cuddly.
P.P.S Technically there is still one piece to go but that wacom tablet is a wee expensive...
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But I do wonder one thing, can I program on it? That would simply be the best.
No.
P.S. It's not an ultraportable or a PDA, you might want to see the HTC shift, or Asus Eee PC or something.
The whole point of these devices is the e-ink which is easy on the eyes. E-ink in itself, when it does refresh, has a terrible refresh rate, about the time it would take you to turn a page, but unacceptable for video. It is also just black & white.
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But I do wonder one thing, can I program on it? That would simply be the best.
No.
P.S. It's not an ultraportable or a PDA, you might want to see the HTC shift, or Asus Eee PC or something.
The whole point of these devices is the e-ink which is easy on the eyes. E-ink in itself, when it does refresh, has a terrible refresh rate, about the time it would take you to turn a page, but unacceptable for video. It is also just black & white.
give it 20 years mate ;)
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20 years? I knew you were conservative but, hoa, what's this, the pre-millenium? :P
Only goverment uses decades as timescales, Dubai decided the first of its artificial planetary surface area project, the first of which will be adding 78km to its coastline, in 2004 and has now practically finished it, and the project is considered grossly delayed.
I say 2.
And I say that, because I know colour e-ink readers already exist (they begin sale, about now, and they cost 1200 dollars).
And video color e-paper has already been demonstrated (as in constructed and working).
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I remember e-ink when it was at the start of R&D and had to be plugged into something the size of a fridge to work properly. They said it would be, like, decades away but I'm sure it's barely been two years.
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'tis the accelerated future. The Singularity is Coming, etc etc. :arms:
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2:10 - 2:20. Take that America :P!
I don't quite beleive the predictions towards the end though (about computers exceeding the human brain computationally).
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The Brain processor power is estimated to be about 100 teraflops.
Well, by quickly checking the Top 10 supercomputers, 7 of them already exceed that. Keep in mind that these computers are not trying to simulate intelligence, rather than get through data quickly. The fastest is one at 400 Teraflops.
The Blue Gene/P supercomputer will be designed to run continuously at 1 Petaflops
The Blue Gene/Q supercomputer is aiming at 10 Petaflops by 2011
(1 PFLOP = 1000 Teraflops)
Now, since we are on the subject, a computer with the objective to "simulate a brain", is planned if not well under construction already.
That is a project to actually simulate "virtual neurons" as well as their reposition and synapse forming. That's project blue brain.
Mission to build a simulated brain begins - title, New Scientist 2005
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7470
Project Blue Brain: http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Keep also in mind that these are pretty much done with current technology. These supercomputers could, strechably be said that they use the same processors with desktop computers, they simply have a ton of them.
Any future predictions are usually chicky-ly done with Moore's law. There are developments however "in the corner", like optical/photonic computing that could shatter Moore's law many times over and are not taken into account.
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I cannot resist to post btw:
(http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a1g.jpg)
And a laptop:
(http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a7g.jpg)
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dude,
how fucking old is that ad?
:lol:
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I don't know. Here we complain for not having video colour e-paper and back then apparently they didn't have colour printing on normal paper. :D
B.G in other words (Before Google). Ancient.
BTW. News are that World of Warcraft just hit 10 million subscribers. This makes it larger than 154 out of the 237 nations listed in the CIA factbook.
Norway's population is 4600000
Israel's population is 6400000
Each subscriber pays 13$ monthly fee.
Ergo, ergo Blizzard has a monthly income of 130 million dollars per month.
This means that yearly, it has an income of 1.56 billion.
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dude,
how fucking old is that ad?
:lol:
It's practically Steampunk! :P
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At 35 letters "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" has the longest title of any Best Picture Oscar winner in history. It surpasses the record previously held by Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) which has 26.
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At 35 letters "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" has the longest title of any Best Picture Oscar winner in history. It surpasses the record previously held by Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) which has 26.
Unless, of course, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (with 42) is really, really good.
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Today, LEGO celebrated it's 50th birthday!
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(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Weebleleezer/Aircraftcarrier/111111aaaamar05510.jpg)
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Somewhere in this thread (or maybe in another), a multi-point touch screen video was shown, and someone said it was impossible. Well, I have proof against that!
EDIT: Found a better one
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That was me limey mate ;)
The lead singer of XTC was andy partridge.
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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dista..."?Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, U.S. Army, seconds before being fatally shot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 9, 1864.
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."?Orville Wright.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" ?H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." ?(Western Union internal memo, 1876)
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Today, LEGO celebrated it's 50th birthday!
That explains Google's logo of the day. My Lego obsessed friends (myself included) were highly plussed :D
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Nobody likes the cute castle... or tower... or castle... towered tower? It's not photoshop btw.
In other news. REPRAP
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
(http://www.reprap.org/pub/Main/WebHome/darwin-small.jpg)
The REPRAP project concerns the construction of a 3D printer. Now if you don't know what a 3D printer you will probably find that as a factoid pretty impressive alone, they (also rapid prototyping machines) are printers which print layer layer (usually with plastic drops) 3d objects.
What is particular with the REPRAP project, is that it's objective is to create an "open source" 3D printer/cutter hybrid capable of ultimately working with glass and steel etc as well, and ultimately able to replicate itself, for a tiny cost.
This means that you'd get to buy one, and then only for the cost of the raw materials you could print your friends one and so on.
This is kind of nice, if you have the imagination to fully evolve this concept. Basically just imagine. Some time ago I was talking about the flexibility of Digitization where not only have all my CD/DVDs/Cassettes and soon, books have been replaced by digital "files", but can also by copied, pasted, merged, mixed, stretched, e-mailed, ctrl-z'ed, deleted, edited.
But when I go to a supermarket to buy a set of glasses, our world is still analog. I do not have the ability to get exactly the pair of wineglasses I want, eg, I might want one design but with a neck "2 cm" taller.
Well imagine most products being represented by digital parametric files then, to be send into a machine that only cares about the raw resources.
Files for glasses, files for clocks and gears, files for basic electronics (chips are not something that can be really printed because they go below the accuracy of a 3D printer, however most electronics is based on already in existance bulk components and already "parametric" in a way circuits). Imagine if you care share and edit all those files, reducing all idea and every design to the cost of it's raw materials.
Phillip Stark doing those overvalued alien citrus juicers for example? Screw him. You'd just download the file, buy the raw material alone and send it to the printer. Imagine a community, a neighborhood building a large scale one, a factory for every corner.
Two words:
Ferrari + Torrent
P.S. Yes, I realize that Trekkies might be a bit dissentisized to the idea because of the whole replicator thing, but there is a small difference between "wouldn't be nice if" and real, tangible, visible technology that can become reality within, say, 10 years. This belongs to the second.
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http://www.castlewales.com/caerphil.html (http://www.castlewales.com/caerphil.html)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly_castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly_castle)
A castle in my home town. Absolutely mahoosive! Among the biggest in europe, and 2nd biggest in england (2nd only to windsor castle)
(http://www.castlewales.com/caerphl1.jpg)
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(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3117/wierdinventionbp2.jpg)
It's the micky mouse machine.
Or... I guess, an acoustic radar.
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3D printing has taken off quite dramatically recently. It's almost affordable to have a model of yours that you made in a computer printed. However, the quality of these "affordable" ones is fairly low. Give it 10 years though and you never know where it'll be, probably further ahead than we think it will.
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And now a plug for my favorite, Organ 3D printing.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12679063
(http://www.primidi.com/images/organ_printing.jpg)
Step one: Get stem cell sample from the patient.
Step two: Grow in the lab, the type of cell needed. Arterial, Muscle, Neural, etc.
Step three: Fill printheads.
Step four: Print.
Forget those clone vats and growing stuff, too slow, messy, inefficient, inflexible, boring, in the future when we need transplants, we print them.
A Missouri professor took several types of chicken heart cells and 3D printed them into large sheets with cell-friendly gel. The cells took over from there, sorting themselves into working order. Then they began beating, just as a heart would.
Presented in an upcoming issue of Tissue Engineering, lead author, Gabor Forgacs says his new research ?shows that we can use multiple cell types and that we do not have to control what happens when the cells fuse together. Nature is smart enough to do the job.? The cells, by being set into a given structure, know what to do and where they should go. Still, researchers are many years away from actually being able to print organs on-demand.
Forgacs, previously reported by Wired, is a leading researcher in "organ printing." While the technology has a catchy name, other tissue engineering techniques have had greater success creating organ tissue. The promise of organ printing is that it could speed up the creation of artificial organs, or at least more realistic organ tissue that drug companies can test their proteins on.
Traditional tissue engineering uses a set structure to create organs, so it's like the old printing presses that needed to be typeset. Organ printing lays down its structure along with its cells, so it's faster like offset printing. The seminal research, led by Clemson prof Thomas Boland, tantalized the tech world by using refitted inkjet printers, although some researchers are turning to more expensive "cell aggregate friendly dispensing devices."
Forgacs is involved with a start-up called Organovo that aims to provide organ tissue to drug companies for pharmaceutical testing. As we've talked about before, the more realistic the test tissue topography is, the more likely that a drug that works in the lab will work in the real-world.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/printed-heart-c.html
(I think I may have posted this before, but it fits nicely into the whole 3D printing series)
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It's like that scene from The 5th Element.
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Wow...
But onto a really useless fact I have aquired. You can observe the Rabi frequency of deuterium by ramping the Lock Power of any standard NMR spectometer to the point where the magnetic levels of the lock signal saturate, essentially the same process as decoupling the deuterium from the spectra. The lock signal will then appear to oscillate temporarily at the Rabi frequency.
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It's like that scene from The 5th Element.
The one where ....leelou wasn't it? get's rebuilt from scratch?
I remember one other thing from that film... "Leelou Multipass!" :P
"the cat" is played in the UK version of red dwarf by Danny John-Jules (also appeared in one of the blade films)
In one of the (unsucessful) Red Dwarf pilots in the US had Terry Farrell play "the cat"
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The pilot wasn't that bad. Some of the original lines were pretty good, they just couldn't carry off the reused material at all. And the theme tune sucked huge hairy scrotum.
Danny John-Jules also appeared in Maid Marion.
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(http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/beluga2.jpg)
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I saw that one. Though environmentalists shouldn't get their hopes up, the kite just means that the engines need to work a little less, rather than switch off completely. Although it can save upto $500 a day or so (which can seriously add up). There are plans for bigger kites that should do more.
Another fairly useful fact: Engines on container ships aren't subject to any laws regarding suphur emissions.
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That wasn't someone doing some recreational para-sailing from the bow of that freighter?
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Today's useful fact is Phillip Stark. Phillip Stark is a kind of famous product designer, mainly known for having made this juicer:
(http://www.arquitetos.com/MeMyMine/Lemon.Juicer.jpg)
On the other hand, he is rather less famous, for having made this Teddy Bear as well:
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9476/teddybearbandxw8.jpg)
I cannot fathom why...
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From "The Metropolis of Tommorow", Hugh Ferris
1929
(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6530/bridgescraperou1.jpg)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6964/ferrissbridge01pa3.jpg)
Art Deco Awesomeness!
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Fact: State 6 is a site like youtube, with much fewer videos of cource, but very nice quality.
http://www.stage6.com/2007-Films/video/1760758/Tale-of-Rock
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"How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries."
Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.
~~ James French, d. 1966
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(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2643/nuclearreactor2kx5.jpg)
"Cherenkov Radiation
If you see this in the air, the good news is you can probably live long enough write your last will and testament.
If you write very quickly".
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Steganography is an encyption technique where messages can be hidden inside the data of pictures.
This way, someone could, for some excuse, be posting pictures after pictures in a forum thread coordinating intelligence operations passing on plans etc, and by reading say a thread in another forum get replies, right under your nose.
And then one day just post a trigger phase like "the red queen has broken the mirror" give the order for the operation to begin.
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(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2643/nuclearreactor2kx5.jpg)
"Cherenkov Radiation
If you see this in the air, the good news is you can probably live long enough write your last will and testament.
If you write very quickly".
That's a cool pic. I have actually seen the effect first-hand, through a port hole of armored glass. It seemed more of a greenish hue, but I think that was because the glass itself had a slightly yellowish tint.
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I don't think it is possible to see that in the air.
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I think it depends whether or not the medium that the photons are passing through, are significantly slowed to less than C, IIRC. Passing through water, the particles are slowed to .75 C, and are therefore visible. In my case, the effect was visible because the medium in the reactor vessel was cooling water.
My understanding is that should the Earth ever be hit by a beam from a neutron star, the sky would glow green due to the reaction with the ionosphere, or something to that effect. And then, if we saw that glow, we'd indeed have very little time to describe it on paper before we died from acute radiation poisoning.
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Cherenkov Radiation comes from particles going faster than the speed of light in a medium, it is the equivalent of a sonic boom but for light, a photon boom. I don't know if you can see the one from a nuclear reactor specifically in the air (my dad always told me never to lower the cooling liquid of active nuclear reactors) but if you do see it, then this generally means that there are a lot of particles around you going faster than light does inside air. Which is probably bad.
In addition, even if the one from a nuclear reactor specifically wasn't seen on air, it would be emitted once it entered the next best water like substance, in this case your eye so you would end up "seeing it" one way or the other.
I believe this is the case with flashes astronauts report seeing when in space, caused by high energy cosmic radiation particles.
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I assume this isn't about light breaking c, just breaking the speed in the particular medium?
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I believe this is the case with flashes astronauts report seeing when in space, caused by high energy cosmic radiation particles.
You're not confusing that with the plasma that forms around a vehicle during re-entry? Or am I?
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Cherenkov Radiation comes from particles going faster than the speed of light in a medium...
Yes, that's what I remembered as well.
I believe this is the case with flashes astronauts report seeing when in space, caused by high energy cosmic radiation particles.
You're not confusing that with the plasma that forms around a vehicle during re-entry? Or am I?
I think Senator was referring to the glow inside the astronauts eyes when the fluid in the eyes is strucked by charged particles from a solar flare.
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In case you don't know: 1 = 0.999999999?
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Random trivia: In floating point numbers on computers there are instances of N where N == N - 1
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Random trivia: In floating point numbers on computers there are instances of N where N == N - 1
Surely the only time when N = N - 1 is when N = infinity? I am of course only speaking of N as a mathematical number, not as a computer variable being overwritten by a number 1 less than itself.
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Well, the one isn't certain, and I'm meaning equals instead of assign.
The one could be smaller, "epsilon" comes to mind, ie. the smallest representable number.
So 9999 - epsilon == 9999
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No it doesn't. The logic behind that arguament is flawed.
1/3 =/= 0.33333333
However if 1/3 is not 0.333... then what is it?
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You know Weasel, I actually agree with you there. :)
A quote you may almost certainly have heard here (yes, this is my trivia mind at work here, I always like to say: My mind works in mysterious ways, remembering things I don't have to remember, but forgettings things I would like to remember, ie. French/German/Dutch....).
'Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.' -Rich Cook
Oh, another one of my favourite quotes:
'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.' -Confucius
And this is one I think I may have invented myself:
'If someone tells you he knows everything, then he must have forgotten that he can't know everything.'
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0.3333333...33333 is a simplifications for those who don't "accept" 1/3 and move on.
People like my little sister who, for the moment, can't wrap her head around the concept of 1/3.
I know I couldn't (at first, same with the number i). And I'm fairly more suited for maths, than say, language. :P
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0.333...333 makes it sound as if the 3s end however.
That's not 1/3 for the same reason that if you ended the number in 0.33 it wouldn't be because if you put 3 of those 1/3rs together 0.33+0.33+0.33 you'd have 0.99 and still need a 0.01 to get a a 3/3 (or 1)
For 0.333... you need a number bigger than 0 (since you say that 0.333... is not 1/3) but smaller than 0.000...
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Looks like a very nice decimal to me, it simply happens to have an infinite amount of 3s after it, the same way 1.0000... has an infinite amount of zeros behind it.
Now, if 0.333333... < 1/3, then there has to be a number where 0.33333... + x = 1/3
Since 0.333333... at any point is always "slightly less" than 1/3, x would be something like 0.0000...01 right? But since 0.33333... continues for infinity, the zeros in 0.0000... continue for infinity as well.
Obviously a 0 with an infinite amount of zeroes behind it is the very decimal 0 and 0.333... + 0 = 1/3, and so 0.333... = 1/3. No?
Just because a number can't be defined doesn't make it non-existant. For example, pi. Infinatley and thus impossible to write down, but that doesn't mean that pi=3.1415, that is just a reasonable approximation of it. The same for e and i.
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In case you don't know: 1 = 0.999999999?
No it doesn't. The logic behind that arguament is flawed.
1/3 =/= 0.33333333
Well, you define the recuring numbers as a fraction by taking the recuring bit (i.e., 9) and placing it over 9. 9/9 = 1. Or 0.23232323... as 23/99. Something like that I believe. So 0.3333... is 3/9 = 1/3.
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(Aw, curses. I think I might have edited my previous post instead of my last one, overwriting it, and then I saw it again and thought it was some kind of double-post thread error and deleted it. The quote below was from it.)~Senator
1/3 on the other hand, is regular. By manually doing the division we know that we will always get 3s and that the 3s will never stop. And there is no more accurate way to write that of cource than 0.333... In paper you would actually add a line over it to show that the 3s are recurring, but you wouldn't put that line over 3.14...
We also KNOW that there must be something after those infinite 3's as 3x3 is 9, not 10!
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Another prove, one way or another. In a ternairy counting system the following is true:
0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 1
Rewritten to a decimal system:
(1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) = 1
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We also KNOW that there must be something after those infinite 3's as 3x3 is 9, not 10!
a) There is no after in infinity.
b) Very well, since you are worried that if you multiply 0.333... with 3 you might end up with a number like 0.999... but you have accepted that you can multiply such a number what about multiplying it by 10?
When we have digits and we multiply by 10 we know what happens, the dots moves one position to the right no? Watch then:
x = 0.333...
10x = 3.333...
10x - x = 3.333... - 0.333...
9x = 3
x = 3/9
3/9 = 1/3
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." ? Arthur C. Clarke
hehehe
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did you know the glasses used in quarks bar where really upside down candle holders.
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Did you know that the capatins chair used on the bridge of Commander Shran's ship is actually Janeways from Voyager.
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Also did you know that the only piece of the Phase 2 set (also seen in TMP 1-7 and TNG) to be seen in Enterprise is the cieling in sick bay.
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NSN is military storeman speak for Nato Stock Number. All equipment in nato forces (right down to the smallest, tinyest bolt) has a number.
They look like this
8415 99 323 6718
That is the number for
Trousers, Thermal, Reversible Olive/Sand
The second group of numbers (99 in this case) denotes the country of origin. 99 being the UK, 01 being the USA.
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Did you know that Jeffery Coombs played Weyoun, Shran, Brunt and a few other characters? Apparantly Weyoun was his favourite to play.
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BC takes 53000kb of virtual memory, and just under 14500kb of physical memory to load up to a minimal BC without errors?
This gives you only a cursor. And the Console doesn't work (yet).
Mind you, part of that 14500kb was used to create a couple of classes to redirect the output to a file, to see if an error had occurred.
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Not very sure if this is true but funny enough:
"It's been reported that proud Soviet automakers challenged their American counterparts to a competition at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.
A Swiss engineer made an exhaustive comparison of a Soviet and an American car, and he favored the American.
After an awkward pause, the Soviet press reported that "in a recent international auto competition, the Russian car placed second and the American car was next to last.""
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"Girl" at school was 39-year-old man
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was arrested for trespassing this week after turning up at a high school dressed in a girl's uniform and a long wig, local police said.
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When students standing outside the gates started to scream at the sight of him, he dashed inside the school grounds, hoping to blend in with the crowds of teenagers, the paper said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2257905520080222
How did they manage to see through his, most perfect disguise?
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Niiice.
I bet he'd benefit from a dose of SAS escape and evasion training!
The SAS (22 SAS now, not 21 or 23 which are both TA units) are also known as "The Regiment" and as "THEM".
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(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5035/shoppingcartszz4iv0.jpg)
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(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5035/shoppingcartszz4iv0.jpg)
Holy hand grenade... though surely it mustn't be that difficult as a chain of trolleys that long would be flexible enough to bend around like that so you don't have to do any sort of wierd linking then pushing together (essentially forming it simultaneously, like you would when you have a circle of people who have to sit on each others knees) move.
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So some of you might have seen this:
(ok, probably you haven't. At any rate, that was an artistic, "concept exploration" in 2007)
Now today:
http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html
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:shock: Oh, that was SO cool! I love how it slowly develops itself into first nations' artwork along the guy's back... very nice vid. :)
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Juice turns into wine through the process of "fermentation".
That is indeed a very nice word to describe fruit juice with fungi shit in it.
Yeast is a fungus and that "catalyst function" they talk about in humans we call it going to the loo.
As a bonus, the more time said fungus had to enjoy itself, the highest quality wine/whiskey it is considered.
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"School Bans Hugs Over 2 Seconds"
MESA, Ariz. -- A school policy banning student hugging prompted dozens of east Valley students to protest with a giant group hug across the street from campus.
http://www.kpho.com/news/15456156/detail.html
Why 2 and not 3 though?
Can someone follow a 2 second hugging period with another 2 second hugging period?
EDIT: Ok I saw this comment somewhere and I cannot resist to repost it:
"if you outlaw hugs, only the outlaws will have hugs"
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When the nile river floods during monsoon, the weight of the water depresses the crust of the earth in that area by 3 to 6 inches as compared to the dry season.
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Margaret Thatcher is 83 year old. (And has Alzheimer)
Reagan is dead.
Yeltsin is dead.
On the other hand, Spore will be released on a while.
Remember people. Time happens.
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Niels Bohr once declared that the opposite of a profound truth is also a profound truth.
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Fact: Macs are crap
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Fact: PC's are equally crap. :P
I mean, they are just big number crunchers, producing lots of heat.
All Von Neumann machines (ie. all current computers) are that.
Just because PC (and Mac) users want to see the pretty dancing bunnies the computers get flak for being insecure. It's always the human factor.
Unless you are running Windows9x, then you actually have some chance of getting a passive infection. And if you run any version of IE, you can get a not so passive drive by infection (usually because of the dancing bunnies people want to see).
[EDIT]
Now for the _real_ FACT: All oppinions are bad and should be treated as such. They are always flawed in some way or another.
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Useful fact: Mleo is always right. IE sucks. #loveFFX#
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How awesome is this?
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Very.
Have you seen his other video's?
A lot of them use the Wiimote, but in reverse than it's original purpose (ie. you move the infrared source, instead of the Wiimote).
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(http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/8428/riochristlightup450x350oy7.jpg)
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I think I might have posted a different video in the past, warrants a repost though:
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Yes, that is a cool one, apart for the part where they kick it, poor thing.
'Though, if I may suffer the fact of being joyfull over the suffering of others, the ice part was fun.
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For all diabetics out there, worth looking into.
With proper diet, cinnamon can level out glucose levels in the body.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes heading for type 2. All the glucose medications the doctor prescribed had no effect.
A friend told me about cinnamon, tried it about 6 months ago and now the doc says my glucose levels are normal now.(from around 200 to 104)
Not saying it is a cure, but it worked for me.
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The AR18 was the weapon developed by armalite as the replacement for the AR15 when that weapon was sold to Colt (the AR15 is better known as the M16)
The SA80 is essentially a weakened AR18 reconfigured into a ballpup style weapon.
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Casu marzu (also called casu modde, casu cundh?du, or in Italian formaggio marcio) is a cheese found in Sardinia, Italy, notable for being riddled with live insect larvae. Casu marzu means "rotten cheese" in Sardinian and is known colloquially as maggot cheese.
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This has the honor of being an Axolotl:
(http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/8081/1206632252967uz6.jpg)
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Rather strangely cute.....
Is it yours? It seems like something you would like. :P
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you dirty minded b**tard Mleo! shame on you :)
Or is it just me...
wtf is it man!??!
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you dirty minded b**tard Mleo! shame on you :)
You have a strange notion of "cute". I meant cute as in the cute for little fluffy things.
It's strange, since it isn't fluffy. :P
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Mythbusters isn't exactly rigorous science. FACT
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Mythbusters isn't exactly rigorous science. FACT
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unscientific.png)
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Mythbusters isn't exactly rigorous science. FACT
Well, compared to how Brainiac went...
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The two shows were obviously meant to appeal to widely differing demographics.
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For those caring about these things, there has been a couple of space developments lately:
First, the ISS got Columbus, the European Laboratory. About the biggest piece ESA is going to do so the books are closed on that one. (It was ready on time mind you years ago)
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1110/800pxs122e008264kl1.jpg)
It got lifted with the Shuttle (Atlantis), pulled out with Canada Arm II, and will be taking American energy and Russian life support. Isn't that internationally cute?
Next, also (part) of Kibo, the Japanese Labortatory from JAXA got lifted of as well. That's JAXA's contribution.
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3336/800pxkiboelmpsonisseo1.jpg)
(Ze Americans have been doing the ferrying again)
And today the ATV docked. That would be the Automated resupply ship. It is also the biggest out there (3 times of the cargo of Russian ones I think) again from ESA, this time ESA launched as well (on top an Ariane 5)
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3677/atvcomparisionbf6.jpg)
The interesting thing with that thing is that it went and docked by itself. Until now, all ships dock by eye & joystick, including the unmanned Russian ones.
It also does this:
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2876/p5784c9f8d7e109f354b703lu2.jpg)
It's in your orbits, stealing your stations. It reboosts the space station's orbit, so technically it's also the space station's engines. In other words at that point the whole station gets to move like a big spaceship. (albait I am sure it's more of the "slow and steady" than "ignite and hold on something" school) After than it detaches, gets filled with waste and goes to burn in the atmosphere.
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It's too bad it's got to burn up, it seems a bit wasteful. Would it have been too difficult or expensive to design it with an aerodynamic lifting body, and/or parachute/airbag assisted landing?
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Re-usability is hard to design (see spaceshuttles, Russia didn't continue after their Space Shuttle adventure).
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It's THAT hard to design it like the Apollo capsule, and lower it back to Earth on a parachute? I mean, it's the EU's money- do what you want with it. It just seems a bit wasteful.
It's a great vehicle though. A couple weeks or so ago, my wife and I watched the Jules Verne, the ISA, and the Discovery do an amazing fly-over the day before the Discovery landed. All three had crossed over from horizon to horizon in less than ten minutes.
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It's THAT hard to design it like the Apollo capsule, and lower it back to Earth on a parachute? I mean, it's the EU's money- do what you want with it. It just seems a bit wasteful.
It's THAT hard to design something to survive getting up there ;)
As werner von braun once said
"I only send them up, I don't care where they come down!"
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It's too bad it's got to burn up, it seems a bit wasteful. Would it have been too difficult or expensive to design it with an aerodynamic lifting body, and/or parachute/airbag assisted landing?
Yep, for a couple more Billions.
Reusable unfortunatly in real terms ended up meaning "tons of cracks, stress, have to unscrew everything, rescrew, replace the ceramics in the engines, replace other stuff you worry about from weather corrosion alone, and whose production line might have stopped so you have to redevelop" and so on. Which is why NASA's new Orion Program has little to do with it as well.
The classic example is the space shuttle.
Space Shuttle launch cost: $500 million per launch.
Crew + Payload 24,4 tonnes to LEO.
Soyuz: $50 million per launch.
+Bonus: Each time they get a new aircraft.
+Bonus: Soyuz is a modular aircraft. It can launch a manned Soyuz, or the same rocket can launch the manned module's weight worth in cargo.
Now granted, the Soyuz in a single launch can't actually carry any cargo, only people. But:
Ariane 5: $150 million per launch
Payload 21 tonnes to LEO
They could book 3 of those and still be within the cost of a space shuttle launch.
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Soyuz: $50 million per launch.
+Bonus: Each time they get a new aircraft.
+Bonus: Soyuz is a modular aircraft. It can launch a manned Soyuz, or the same rocket can launch the manned module's weight worth in cargo.
Now granted, the Soyuz in a single launch can't actually carry any cargo, only people. But:
Ariane 5: $150 million per launch
Payload 21 tonnes to LEO
They could book 3 of those and still be within the cost of a space shuttle launch.
And something tells me NASA figured that out as well.
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176579main_jsc2007e00152_lores.jpg)
(Ariane 5 like cargo thingy) <-I-> (Soyuz like crew thingy)
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"Imagining the Tenth Dimension"
(and here was you thinking that time travel was confusing)
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Hmmm... interesting, I may be one of the only people my age (16) to be interested and understand that video...
By the way, Limey, when you said raising your legs slowly and lying on your back will stop you sinking into quicksand sounded like rubbish, it isn't. Even if you stand straight up, you'll bob half-in, half-out of the quicksand.
God I'm sad. (A somewhat useful fact, i.e. dont talk to me about science... ever)
Ok, proper one:
In the city of York, England, it is legal to kill a Scottish man if:
He is carrying a bow and arrow within the city walls.
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I always thought quicksand was a bit of a cartoon creation. If the human body can float in water, how can the human body not float in water & sand. (which is even more dense).
Materials are irrelevant, if something for it's volume, is less dense that something else for the equivalent volume, it floats, period. A solid iron cannonball floats in a tank of mercury like a piece of wood.
To sum up, quicksand has the potential of being as annoying as stepping into a pool you didn't know was there, but it can't possibly be more dangerous than stepping into a pool you didn't know was there.
On the other hand if you step into alcohol you are screwed.
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(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9267/hellokittyassaultrifle1zx0.jpg)
(I'd sooo gift that to someone but I am not telling who :P)
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(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9267/hellokittyassaultrifle1zx0.jpg)
(I'd sooo gift that to someone but I am not telling who :P)
Well, Jodi would probably think it's cute here at home- but I doubt she'd willingly carry it into battle, unless it came down to a choice of using the Hello Kitty M16A4, or her boot knife. Ridiculous paint job or not, it's still a fairly lethal weapon.
As for me, I'll take a good 'ole Mk14/Mod-0 any day.
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I'm sure there's something iffy with the overtly pop-science explaination of Quantum Physics in that 10th dimension video...
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(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9267/hellokittyassaultrifle1zx0.jpg)
(I'd sooo gift that to someone but I am not telling who :P)
Well, Jodi would probably think it's cute here at home- but I doubt she'd willingly carry it into battle, unless it came down to a choice of using the Hello Kitty M16A4, or her boot knife. Ridiculous paint job or not, it's still a fairly lethal weapon.
As for me, I'll take a good 'ole Mk14/Mod-0 any day.
I'll take my SLR ta very much :P
I AM the sex.
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Your Single Lens Reflex camera?
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(http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/genesis_I/images/mystery_in_the_sky.gif)
This is from the scaled "test" private space station component from Bigelow Aerospace.
In this small video clip taken from one of Genesis I's exterior cameras on March 3, a bright spot of some kind can be seen in the lower-middle portion of the images. The bright spot doesn't stay in the same position, neither does it correlate with the same locations above the Earth based on the cloud formations below. Each picture is separated by 20 to 30 seconds.
Yay, now with private aerospace all the UFO videos government censors will come back!
(Or maybe its just a reflection from a satellite/debri nearby but wheres the fun in that)
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CERN: Whoops.
(But not really, still it's not everyday you see an animation of a black hole eating the earth is it?)
From: http://www.misunderstooduniverse.com/France_Builds_Doomsday_Machine.htm
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Your Single Lens Reflex camera?
Self Loading Rifle
L1A1 bambino!
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(http://www.foxnews.com/images/299961/0_61_virgin_galactic.jpg)
This is Virgin Galactic's suborbital hopper (sorry, but you don't get to call yourself a spaceship in my books until you can reach LEO).
Although ironically, no way would I ever spend $200,000 for a seat on that. Some interesting facts are:
It's name is VSS Enterprise.
William Shatner (age 77) has been offered a free ride, on what is nevertheless the first commerical spac... suborbital hopper of mankind and private rocketplane of mankind and he turned it down. ("I do want to go up but I need guarantees I'll definitely come back")
He had the chance, to be known as the guy who was playing a starship captain in his youth. And caught the first flight of the generation he inspired. Nope, just an actor folks.
Stephen Hawkings on the other hand, first in line as always. :mrgreen:
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Isn't that a bigger version of SpaceShipOne?
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Two times bigger.
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And now its time for Art.
Absract Art
Abstract, Expressionist, "Colour field painting" Art.
This thing:
(Titled "White Center")
(http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=104274&rendTypeId=4)
Once sold, for $72.84 MILLION.
WHY?
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That's nothing, while I can't remember the painter, I once saw a set of 3 panels in a museum titled "Untitled" and they only feature they had was that they were all 3 the same size, and all coloured in a deep, but even, grey.
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Wasn't a Pollock was it, I've seen 3 year olds produce better art.
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But the expression put forward by the artist, as if he was bearing his soul through the medium, is amazing. Every brushstroke screams with such emotional highs and lows that forces the viewer to stop for a moment and think about the world and it's complex simplicity.
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erm, can't tell if your being sarcastic or not, lol.
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erm, can't tell if your being sarcastic or not, lol.
He actually sounded like an art critic, didn't he? :P
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erm, can't tell if your being sarcastic or not, lol.
He actually sounded like an art critic, didn't he? :P
Frasier Crane more f**king like ...
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Sure, someone could spend 78 millions on the result of the artist testing colors for his wall, OR someone could buy an A320 as a private Jet.
OR, if he was a tad more imaginative you would get for even less a SkyCat20 Zepellin which would give you an interior space of 60sq meters and to kit into a full apartment, can hover, doesn't need a ground crew, can land anywhere rather than just airports, that includes grasslands and water, can fly low and slow enough to open a window, probably has smaller running costs and if the engine mysteriously stopped wouldn't crash in a spectacular fireball.
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But is limited to about 0.2 meters per millenium :P
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The company says 75 (max 85) Knots which is a nice way of not saying that it does about 140km/h.
That's not amazing for an aircraft,
(ok, compared to the 900something km/h the A320 and any typical jet of that size does it actually runs and hides and cries for its mommy)
but it's faster than a boat. And it can also do those for days until it meets its 4444km range which falls just short of the A320s range (and with just I mean another 1000km)
What you can't do with the A320, is that after you notice out of your window this:
(http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9844/appronesiauk5.jpg)
You can just land, take a dive with your speargun (ok, probably it would be a good idea to throw something like an anchor first) and have grilled tropical fish for dinner.
The idea is to think it more like a private yacht that can also go over land, rather than a jet. The second usually being very boring things that can only go from runway to runway, adhering to a very boring flightplan. And with something like the A320 forget about doing loops. (Ultralights are more fun that a private jet, and I am sure you can fit an ultralight into your airship, next to the car, in the garage on the back of course)
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Some advanced airship designs can fly as fast as 125kts, and carry an entire armored combat brigade of equipment and men all the way across an ocean. The US Dept of Defense was very interested in this as a heavy-lift transporter, but seems to have (foolishly) abandoned the idea.
I've been harping on the use of giant airships for civil transport for nearly twenty years, I've even talked to Air Force pilots, navigators, and crew chiefs about it, and still I'm told that they're too slow. Arrrrgh!!!
All that said, I am somewhat encouraged by all the great designs that I have been able to find online recently. Clearly, I am not the only person that has given some thought as to how these aircraft could be put to good use as truly massive air transporters.
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I'm just going to post these links here, as this thread seems to be the unofficial dumping ground for all things that are too cool to post elsewhere.
http://www.elitechoice.org/tag/Plane
More to follow, after a coffee break. BRB
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I want This:
(http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/10/09/concept_plane_18.jpg)
(http://www.instablogsgallery.com/gallery/2007/10/09/stratocruiser_12.jpg)
Except in private yacht rather than cruiser ship scale.
P.S. Airship = Poor man's antigravity.
EDIT: Although on second thought, this doesn't seem water landable like the SkyCat.
I just want an VTOL/no ground crew/water landable Airship with the aesthetics of Wallypower 118. Is that too hard to do people?
(give that brief to an aerospace designer and watch him change colors)
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Here Senator, this should do nicely:
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I want This:
EDIT: Although on second thought, this doesn't seem water landable like the SkyCat.
I just want an VTOL/no ground crew/water landable Airship with the aesthetics of Wallypower 118. Is that too hard to do people?
(give that brief to an aerospace designer and watch him change colors)
You know, there is one major problem that would have to be worked out.... Severe weather. Flying above it, or through it, should be doable- but what do we do about severe weather when the airship is landed? There is really only one option- the thing has to take off, and relocate, because it's too big to fit into a shelter. Sure, back in the early 20th century, they had hangers for these things- but these new airship designs are bigger, and building a football stadium-sized hanger for each lifter is just not possible.
Still, weather alone probably isn't a deal-breaker.
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Take helium out, put water in (which heppens to weight 1ton per cubic meter), admire biggest water balloon in existence?
Water weights so much you probably wouldn't even need to fill it all the way up, and take the helium out (Airships also usually have two bags inside, one with helium and one they inflate/deflate with normal air in order to control altitude)
Or maybe you just park it with a very long rope over the clouds? Its not as if the engines are running to stay "up". Albait that has the chance of also making one of the most expensive lighting rods in existance as well.
Or maybe, why other lightweight but with big surface area, like the millenium dome, (or camp tents) constructions don't take off anyway? I would assume one of the reason because of their shape, which allows air to go "over it" but not "under it" in order to push it up, as well as because they are tied to various foundations.
A tent usually has central supports to keep the middle up, here the central support would be the airship itself which instead could unroll from the top of it a piece of fabric, the rim of it could be, eh "zipped" (like trouser zippers), to the ground so technically the airship has created its own hangar (The end result would look like a big cone or something).
Except that this assumes dedicated zepellin landing plots with the ground half of the zipper prepared.
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It's insanity time!
I drew this: (for 77 million you can have it)
(http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8643/img001sse5.jpg)
I say its a sketch of a 4D human.
Who gets it?
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...not many apparently.
Explanation:
The 4th dimension is time right?
A dimension is basically something that allows two objects to have some of the same coordinates but not "fall on top of each other".
In X space, object in coordinates 5 and object in coordinates 5 fall on top of each other.
In X,Y space object in coordinates 5,3 and object in coordinates 5,7 despite having the same X, yet somehow are not in the same place.
In X,Y,Z space, object in coordinates 5,4,6 and object in coordinates 5,4,8 despite having the same X,Y, yet somehow are not in the same place.
And so, in X,Y,Z,T space, object in coordinates 5,7,2,4(sec) and object in coordinates 5,7,2,8(sec) might have the same X,Y,Z yet somehow are not in the same place. (very useful when you cross a road)
Now, usually when you try to show a higher dimension in a lower one you usually have a "projection".
The 2d projection of a sphere for example is a circle. And of a wire cube is a shape like this:
(http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8808/img0d02sr0.jpg)
Wouldn't a 4d projection in 3d then be basically something like a time exposed photograph then? Only in 3D, so it's more like a sculpture. Which in turn if you projected on 2d, would look like a time exposed / long exposure photograph.
A 4d human in other words, would be a still long, convulted snake thing, with twists and turns according to the 3d places it has/will visited/visit, a section of which would look, well, like a human.
At one end said snake would start the size of a cell, grow "thicker" and finally break up into little threads when it dies and decomposes.
(for the record, before it started the size of a cell, the two sex cells were two different threads of their own. As are all other components, proteins atoms etc. So in a way a lot of threads come together to a big snake knot kind of thing and then break again)
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I got it Senator, and no, I won't pay that much for it.
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Personally, I would refute the idea that fourth dimensional experience is like time lapse photography. That's not seeing in four dimensions, it's seeing all possible co-ordinates simultaneously, assuming time acts as a spatial dimension (which it really doesn't). When you look at a large painting, you don't see all the points in a particular dimension at once. Seeing in four dimensions would be akin to looking left and right, but also being able to look a completely different left and right that translate as forwards and backwards through time.
Actually, I've put some more thought into it and I may refine that position later, but I'm 100% sure that seeing something in four dimensions isn't time-lapse photography. It's a good enough model for artistic purposes though, and I'm sure you can blitz some art critics with that kind of gumph.
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If you want to mention hypercubes there, those in that model would be 5D because they too have duration.
Specifically the way I count right now, it goes:
Tesseract: 5D (X,Y,Z,W,T) (Length, Width, Height, Other, Duration)
Cube: 4D (X,Y,Z,T) (Length, Width, Height, Duration)
Photo: 3D (X,Y,T) (Length, Width, Duration)
Line: 2D (X,T) (Length, Duration)
Point: 1D (T) (Duration)
Nothing: 0D. Because it doesn't even have duration.
Time lapse photography, concerns Time, not a Tesseract's "other" dimension. And it is a projection of something 4D in 3D first, and then a projection of something 3D in 2D again. A tesseract in the meantime falling from 5D to 4D and from 4D to 3D would be sticking out of the photo.
And when people draw a tesseract in a flat surface, they actually draw, the projection, of a projection of a time section, of a 5D object.
*brainxplode*
Having a consciousness based on 4D sections moving at one direction doesn't help much.
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So, as an all 4D perceiving creature what would you say is the story behind those life formations here?
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6393/img0f03ii1.jpg)
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2 people fall in love, have a baby, couple get a divorce, someone gets murdered, child murders murderer of parent.
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Correct.
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Annnnnnnnd now, let's go back to the airships.... http://www.aerosml.com/ML866%20TC%20application%20accepted%20by%20FAA.asp
Weasel is happy!!!!
Perhaps the DOD's Walrus, as well as a giant civil air transport, could take flight before I grow old and die in the next ten years....
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You could always get one of these you know: :D
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/15/ancient-cellulose-02.html
Who know Cellulose from over 200 million years ago was so important. I guess some good can come from nuclear waste.
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LOL Detroit is important again
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(http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7859/1xwakeiu5.jpg)
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You ought to wait a little bit longer. :P
Now that's one hell of an organ!
Must have been a good artist to come up with that.
So the speech is basicly about not seeing the world as the evil, rotten place it is with a big parasite called Humans, but to live without that, and see the good and live for yourself so that you can make the world a better place instead of letting it rot.
How far am I from the authors intentions? Please use nautical miles so that it may seem less far away. :P
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@ Mleo. It's a graffiti. The pipes were pre-existing which is the fun bit.
And I think that you are smart enough to figure out the author's message. :twisted:
And now, the universe.
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3584/all200bd3.png)
We are currently level 1 in REarth score... quite a few left.
EDIT: Ok, because the image is slightly oversized, I think you probably have to save it and then open it.
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(http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/480/sizephpasdasdasdcw3.jpg)
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That SO looks photoshopped!
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Quite an interresting map, sort of a circular layout of the sky based on the position and height, where height is in a logarithmic scale.
I do wonder what those "satilites" are in the inner Van Allen belt, it seems a bit counter intuitive that something, let alone a great many of them, could remain in our atmosphere.
It's funny to see the apparent line of GS orbitting moons.
The second picture is of, mostlikely, the biggest digger (or similar) "vehicle". With its brain fathers?
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That SO looks photoshopped!
I dunno, look at the reflections on the tank thingy where the fella has got his arm. So cool if it is real.
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It is real, and I know it is from a digger, the problem is I can't find the blog I found it from again.
I *think* it might be from this:
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6960/58452743xc4.jpg)
And to understand the scale of this...
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9674/30188840te5.jpg)
The yellow thing near the top of this picture:
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9707/56601954ns2.jpg)
Is a bulldozer that got accidentally scooped off.
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/102/10607862rz2.jpg)
Which of course makes it totally awesome!
Tracks look a bit different to me though, but the point is that there are things that are moving and are that big.
Another one that comes to mind is the Space Shuttle launch pad.
(http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/images/tom-carne-1.jpg)
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It isn't the Space Shuttle launch pad, though I'm sure they shared a few components (more like, they used "off the shelve" components where reasonable). I mean, you just won't see a quarry and a space shuttle at the same time. :P It's just way too hard to get a space shuttle in there (well, the helper rockets anyway).
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Plus the digger is actually from Germany.
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It isn't the Space Shuttle launch pad, though I'm sure they shared a few components (more like, they used "off the shelve" components where reasonable). I mean, you just won't see a quarry and a space shuttle at the same time. :P It's just way too hard to get a space shuttle in there (well, the helper rockets anyway).
He didn't say the first one was a launch pad he said it was a digger. The second one was and isn't in a valley.
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It isn't the Space Shuttle launch pad, though I'm sure they shared a few components (more like, they used "off the shelve" components where reasonable). I mean, you just won't see a quarry and a space shuttle at the same time. :P It's just way too hard to get a space shuttle in there (well, the helper rockets anyway).
He didn't say the first one was a launch pad he said it was a digger. The second one was and isn't in a valley.
He didn't know exactly what the first one was, so he showed a second one and I said that the first one certainly wasn't the the shuttle launch pad.
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It is real, and I know it is from a digger, the problem is I can't find the blog I found it from again.
I *think* it might be from this:
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6960/58452743xc4.jpg)
And to understand the scale of this...
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9674/30188840te5.jpg)
The yellow thing near the top of this picture:
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9707/56601954ns2.jpg)
Is a bulldozer that got accidentally scooped off.
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/102/10607862rz2.jpg)
Which of course makes it totally awesome!
Tracks look a bit different to me though, but the point is that there are things that are moving and are that big.
Another one that comes to mind is the Space Shuttle launch pad.
(http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/images/tom-carne-1.jpg)
It was built for the job of removing overburden prior to coalmining in Hambach, Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons daily?the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 meters (98 ft) deep. The excavator is approximately 240 m long and 96 m high. To run, the Bagger requires 16.56 megawatts (22,207.33 HP) of externally-supplied electricity, it can travel 2-10 m per minute (0.6 km/h). The chassis of the main section is 46 metres wide and sits on 3 rows of 4 caterpillar track assemblies, each 3.8 m wide. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 metres
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Huh, it's electric! :D
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Yep, built in 1978 it is the biggest moving machine built by Humans. It's called the Bagger 288 and is built by Krupp.
Click this for more info.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/biggest-and-hungriest-machines.html
Check this one out:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/even-bigger-machines-dig-bigger-holes.html
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Gustav Gun. The worlds biggest cannon. :D
(http://www.ginklai.net/images/galerija/2527_gustav_gun.jpg)
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The movie "Cloverfield" was an (excellent) attempt to give the United States its own monster. An example would be Japan's "Godzilla". Sequels are to be expected, there's one planned for 2009.
Jurassic Park IV was delayed because of the STUPID FREAKING WRITER'S STRIKE.
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The Writer's Strike of 2007-2008 result in a loss of 1.5 BILLION dollars.
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It also pissed off thousands of people. Myself included.
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Gustav Gun. The worlds biggest cannon. :D
(http://www.ginklai.net/images/galerija/2527_gustav_gun.jpg)
It's quite hard to believe that thing is real. It looks like a concept from Warhammer 40,000 (and I'm sure Forgeworld are thinking about it).
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Yep. Now, can you imagine London getting blasted by that monster? Just one of those monstrous shells could have demolished a city block.
You just have to appreciate German engineering and craftsmanship- and make sure you bomb it into oblivion before it gets used on you.
*edit: Case in point, a German company recently designed and built this: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/weaselbite/0_21_042308_gryphon.jpg)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352477,00.html
Fortunately, Ze Germans are back on our side again, and I'm sure that the US DOD will be taking a very close look at this amazing little toy.
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Eiffel tower, and Eiffel tower, and Big Ben, bah buh.
Belgium's landmarks need some love too. Behold, THE ATOMIUM.
(http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3942/1251557577d4d989bc97uj7.jpg)
Like the Eiffel tower it was built for an expo, and like the Eiffel tower it was supposed to be temporary, (for six months specifically) but people kind of liked it. And so it has been there for 50 years. Doesn't seem to be very famous though.
But if somewhere along a conversation someone says to a Belgian, "I bet your city doesn't have a depiction of an iron crystal in 165billion:1 scale" he can always answer "as a matter of fact, it does". oh, snap.
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Just a quick one.
UK banknotes, say the 10 pound one write on them: "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds", signed by the chief cashier of the Bank of England.
So haven't you ever wondered, 10 pounds of what?
And the answer is that the phrase means gold. So technically you can go to the Bank of England and say: "Hi, I came across this receipt, can I have some of my gold please"
But here is the funny bit, apparently you can't. It doesn't apply any more, one nice day they simply said "nah, j/k, lol" for all the banknotes simultaneously. The fun bit is that they still write it though.
B...but you proooooooomised. :(
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A believe isn't a fact, well, that you believe is a fact, but not the thing you believe. :P
Anyway, Senator, you ought to read the Discworld novel "Making Money" where the "hero" (a conartist actually) must run a bank and make it profitable again. In it, he replaces the previous money (coins that are exactly as valuable in their weight, but the bank loses money on that due to fabrication cost) with notes. These notes are the reciept of the "promis" to hand over gold (or labour in the end, but you will have to read that).
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Having too much meat increases the chance of colon cancer.
Eating raw fish in the Great Lakes will likely result in a very long tape worm in your gut.
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Just a quick one.
UK banknotes, say the 10 pound one write on them: "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds", signed by the chief cashier of the Bank of England.
So haven't you ever wondered, 10 pounds of what?
And the answer is that the phrase means gold. So technically you can go to the Bank of England and say: "Hi, I came across this receipt, can I have some of my gold please"
But here is the funny bit, apparently you can't. It doesn't apply any more, one nice day they simply said "nah, j/k, lol" for all the banknotes simultaneously. The fun bit is that they still write it though.
B...but you proooooooomised. :(
If you read Prachett's Making Money, the joke is that it's very much accurate to how banks work and were developed. Paper money was originally designed as essentially a contract that allowed you to exchange it for the specific amount of gold mentioned on the contract. Eventually, it's developed to what we see now.
And while bank notes are mentioned, ever wondered why some programs don't let you scan bank notes?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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w00t, another Pratchettarian (yeah, I already mentioned Making Money in my previous post)!
The world needs more of them. ;)
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Hey, I am a Pretchettarian too. Let me in the club.
I also happened to have read as a kid, in translation the Truckers / Diggers / Wings series, before "rediscoveing" Pretchet as an author in discworld.
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I must say his Good Omens is also good, which features on Roundworld instead of Discworld.
Anyone tried Strata (or his other not so much Discworld but featuring space travelers finding a discworld, sorry, I'm a bad Pratchettarian, I forgot the title)?
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I was trying to find some reeeeeeally old games I was playing when still in the single digits in earth sun rotations, and which, were all shareware demos and are a bit of unfinished business. (recently for example, I FINALLY played Duke Nuke 3D all the way to the end), and noticed: One of the Commander Keen games, is titled: "The Invasion of the Vorticons"
And the three legged aliens in Half Life 2 (which originally in Half Life 1 actually invade) are called: Vortigons.
I think that must be a homage/reference.
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(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4884/internetmap1024ag0.jpg)
Teh Internet!!!!111 (a portion of it)
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@Senator: That picture of the internet looks suspiciously like a picture of a galaxy in space... still awesome though.
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I can't help but think it'd look better in 3D. Although I'm sure modelling it wouldn't be difficult, only visualising it effectively would.
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I can't help but think it'd look better in 3D. Although I'm sure modelling it wouldn't be difficult, only visualising it effectively would.
What is why they flattend it (or layed it out like that).
Maybe a Google Earth overlay would be cool as well.
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I was sure I had seen something similar to that Jetwing
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Due to the writer's strike, Jurassic Park IV was delayed until mid to late 2009. Frakking writers.
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Due to the writer's strike, Jurassic Park IV was delayed until mid to late 2009. Frakking writers.
JP is, and always shall be...BALLS.
Ed Balls is a member of the British labour cabinet.
And is also balls.
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So you know when you are eating spaghetti, with a very nice SPICY sauce, and you are sucking in a forkfull? And the spaghetti at the end whiplashes and spashes some sauce at your eye?
Ouch, fucking OUCH.
Once again the universe conspires against me. :argh:
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Or maybe you could just learn to eat properly :P!
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Yes mom.
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WABOT
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So you know when you are eating spaghetti, with a very nice SPICY sauce, and you are sucking in a forkfull? And the spaghetti at the end whiplashes and spashes some sauce at your eye?
Ouch, fucking OUCH.
Once again the universe conspires against me. :argh:
Wear glasses.
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First, another photo:
(http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9441/3703273924b0395e8fctq4.jpg)
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Next, Books.
If interested Cory Doctorow is giving his new scifi book "Little Brother" freely online. Which is interesting because the book is about techno opposition to "Big Brother" in the first place, open source etc etc so it kind of fits the spirit.
I had it for some time in the back of my mind "I got to pick that one up in amazon before I forget it" and today I see it's up for free download. + ebook reader = yay.
That's not the first time it happens btw. Another interesting book (not a story this time), onlike if interested is "Out of Control", dealing with swarm logic etc
( http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php )
And another good book, (SciFi story this time), whose Author is part of the "new generation" of scifi authors (as opposed to the old one, Asimov, Clark etc), who have heard of Google, Computers with GUIs, Spam etc is "Accelerando"
( http://www.accelerando.org/ ), something which I found out after I bought it in paperback, hmf.
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Here is a useful fact:
You are going to die.
I'd say that most of you have 20,000 days left to live. Tops.
And after you sleep tonight it is going to be 19,999
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/deadlysamurai/NoahYeah-BibleWarningLabel.jpg)
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What can I say. Just imagine that these guys have as a God a guy who effectively did to the Tower of Babel, what the Terrorists did to the WTC in 9/11.
Anyways
(http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8905/topsoilerosionkk4.jpg)
That, is apparently "ground level erosion" from wind.
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:shock: Stay away from that house, far away.
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wow thats just wow
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Fact: Norway has the second longest coastline in the world. Thats longer that, say, Russia, which gets to count all of Siberia in.
If you look at a map you will understand why.
(hint: curves and zig zags increase lenght)
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(hint: curves and zig zags increase lenght)
Well, yeah. Like, the shortest path is always a straight line, is it not? The more 'zig-zags', the less direct the rout is. ZOMG I sounded PARTIALLY intelligent! O_O;
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http://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=-6.008056&longitude=-91.591668&zoom=10&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=0.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=1&mI=-1&oI=-1 :P
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(http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2992/1210192181757vh5.jpg)
And: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/921/1210266816691wd9.jpg
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WHOA!!! WTF IS THAT!? O_O
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I want to say thats ash from a volcano....
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Looks like an awesome long exposure photograph of a lighting storm. (although now that you mention it, there seems to be a some kind of smoke plume in there)
That or a gateway to another dimension.
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My initial thought was a forest fire and a lightning storm at the same time.
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actually, that's a volcano AND a lightning storm at the same time. t'was in the paper the other day ;)
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more on the volcanic thunder
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/05/08/eye-candy-chilean-volcanic-thunderstorm/
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Fact: Norway has the second longest coastline in the world. Thats longer that, say, Russia, which gets to count all of Siberia in.
If you look at a map you will understand why.
(hint: curves and zig zags increase lenght)
Coastlines, like most fractal outlines could in fact be infinite. As when you're measuring these, it's always an underestimate as you measure the distance between two points and between these two points, the actual line will deviate somewhat. To get a finer measurement, you need to put the points closer together. Again, the real line between these two points will deviate and you need to increase resolution. Carry this down to infinite levels and you can in (fractal) theory have an infinite length.
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It's often said that the Earth rotates once in 24 hours. What is really meant is that in a mean period of about 24 hours, the Earth rotates once on its axis relative to the Sun. One 360-degree rotation of Earth happens in 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds. But during this rotational period, the Earth has orbited nearly one degree in its journey around the sun. So the Earth has to rotate another degree or so (for a total of about 361 degrees), before it can rotate once in reference to the sun. The Earth takes about 4 minutes more to rotate this extra degree, so the mean time period from solar noon to solar noon represents 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes + 4 minutes = 24 hours).
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It's often said that the Earth rotates once in 24 hours. What is really meant is that in a mean period of about 24 hours, the Earth rotates once on its axis relative to the Sun. One 360-degree rotation of Earth happens in 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds. But during this rotational period, the Earth has orbited nearly one degree in its journey around the sun. So the Earth has to rotate another degree or so (for a total of about 361 degrees), before it can rotate once in reference to the sun. The Earth takes about 4 minutes more to rotate this extra degree, so the mean time period from solar noon to solar noon represents 24 hours (23 hours 56 minutes + 4 minutes = 24 hours).
20 points to Nebula. Spot on. A solar day consists of 24 hours between the sun reaching it's highest point and the Earth rotating until the sun reaches it's highest point again. This is slightly more than 360O (just short of 361O, if you think of 365 days in a year, but the Earth's speed through it's orbit varies over time) because the Earth has moved through its orbit since the start of the solar day. If you take the Earth's position in a more absolute framework (relative to the stars, rather than the sun), you get a sidereal day of 23 Hours 56 mins.
This is a very important fact to remember when it comes to launching satellites. As the satellite's orbit can be set to precess about the Earth in line with solar time (using a slightly retrograde, 97O inclination) so that it rises at the same local time on each of its orbits. This is useful for manning of ground stations as it means not employing constant shift work to cover the scattered times that other satellites in LEO will pass overhead. Often, in order to take advantage of the sun to power solar cells, satellites will "ride the terminator" or have their orbital track near-perfectly follow the line between day and night, appearing overhead at dusk and sunset wherever it passes.
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In order to understand how much of a big pile of steaming bullshit conservopedia is. (Which is of cource very welcome, since it forever connects the word conservative with big piles of bullshit, and its not even me doing it, they are doing it themselves) just look at this page: http://www.conservapedia.com/Mutation
I am amazed that they can carry a section called "Gain-of-function mutations"
And immidiatelly under it, (in the section "Mutation and the Theory of Evolution") write:
"However, mutations that create new genetic information have never been observed"
Well, you know what, I doubt that never, because I read somewhere, very recently, that some mutations lead to a new genetic code which carries all its old functions, plus new ones, like, 5 lines above. Which is also very kind to give examples that have been "observed".
P.S. Never, ever put something like this in your References:
"7.0 7.1 7.2 Quoted on Veritas Forum"
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may 13 1981
Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.
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In order to understand how much of a big pile of steaming bullshit conservopedia is. (Which is of cource very welcome, since it forever connects the word conservative with big piles of bullshit, and its not even me doing it, they are doing it themselves) just look at this page: http://www.conservapedia.com/Mutation
I am amazed that they can carry a section called "Gain-of-function mutations"
And immidiatelly under it, (in the section "Mutation and the Theory of Evolution") write:
"However, mutations that create new genetic information have never been observed"
Well, you know what, I doubt that never, because I read somewhere, very recently, that some mutations lead to a new genetic code which carries all its old functions, plus new ones, like, 5 lines above. Which is also very kind to give examples that have been "observed".
P.S. Never, ever put something like this in your References:
"7.0 7.1 7.2 Quoted on Veritas Forum"
You're not a RationalWiki sysop are you? :?
Anyway, there is a long winded response from Richard Dawkins regarding infomation increase in the genome. The lay audience often think that this means a mutation that adds more nucleotides to the gene and therefore increases it's length. This of course, it bollocks. When you talk about information, you need to think of infomation theory and bits, a bit is what you need to reduce your uncertainty of what the outcome will be by half. Take binary for example, the sequence 1001110 has seven figures, each figure can be 1 or 0 which leads to 2^7 combinations (128). Each time a bit is revealled to you as 1 or 0, the possible combinations that the number can take is halfed, therefore each number is called a bit. Adding more information is essentially about adding more bits, and with DNA, this can be done without adding more nucleotides. Random mutations decrease the amount of infomation because they are random and not clearly predictable, Natural Selction, however, narrows these down to the useful ones, as they are useful they have meaning and alter the bits contained within DNA, therefore increasing information. While random mutations can't (by themeselves) add information, Natural Selection does.
Of course, Dawkin's explains this better and I really should look the essay up. It's essentially a response to his "11 second pause" that apparently stumped him (he was really, apparently, pondering whether to throw the interviewers out because the question "give me an example of a mutation that increases information in the genome" is only a question that creationists wanting to trick a biologist would use. Because the true answer would be, "there's none").
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You're not a RationalWiki sysop are you?
Nope. In fact, believe it or not the only places I post online is BCC and rarely the Dresden Codak forum (oh my god. It's full of stars Transhumanists).
(used to be the KA/BCU/Political Crossfire forums as well but not anymore). You have exclusivity!
The funny thing is that if you are really anal, new information can never be created generally. It is like energy, a universal absolute, never created and never destroyed.
Information is what differentiates a Human, from a pile of matter with the mass of a Human.
If they have the same mass, they both have the same energy. It's information, that they have different.
And since information, deep down is all the movements and vectors and interactions of all the atoms together, and they have been said to have the same mass/energy, they actually have the same amount of information as well. We simply define one as useful, and the other one as useless.
But you just know that such concepts will go over creationists heads so much, they have reached their mental escape velocity long ago and that delta V to come around is a bitch. Sometimes you just don't have the energy. Pardon all my puns so far.
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Hmm... energy/information... you're treading strange ground there. It's nice if you want to do some brain breaking plot twists a la Akira or something but I'm not convinced it works like that. There's a massive difference. Infomation is a concept, it's not like every single piece of knowledge exists and must be collected like all the possible energy in the universe exists and can be collected and transformed and used.
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Collect all energy, and you have collected all information. But its not really interesting to look at, I bet it looks like white uniform noise.
It behaves so much like energy because in the end, it IS energy. You need to give information in order to change information, and any act of changing it releases information as well.
The "information" of a small cube of air for example could be said to be the mathematical description of all the positions and interactions of the atoms it contains. In order to change it, you literally have to make them move another way. So you need to provide energy. But because you want them to move in a specific way (eg, one that was going straight now to go diagonally at 30 degrees) you are also going to provide that force in a specific way. That "specific" basically means that you will be providing information too, and the act of change is going to release too as well. All that is not really my crap its basically what information theory is pretty much about.
There just is this subjective thing in the middle between what we concider useful and useless information. ("Knowledge" for example is usually a word referring to some specific bits of it). What is "all knowledge" supposed to mean for example? If you have collected all energy for example, you technically have "all knowledge" as well. If you want to store a memory in your brain as well, thats a bit difficult because the information of the universe, would of cource require something with the storage capacity of "a universe".
And if by "all knowledge" you mean and all the combinations of it, then you will be ending up with a lot of interesting memories (like the knowledge of the great steampunk war with armed trains that laid their own track on the spot, or the knowledge that Iceland is in fact a hologram and under it is the nation of Atlantis) and a hell lot of plain white noise and (#%*#(KRLWJKmjdfjsieie_))(#%*#PENISkfjkejfio stuff. There's a nice short Sci Fi story called "The library of Babel" which was a library containing "all knowledge" but as you can understand it wasn't very useful. :P
You can access it online here: http://hamete.org/babel/index_en.html
(And you can read the short story here: http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html )
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Well, that's more like our means of storing infomation. There is only a finite number of quantum states in the universe that we can mess around with to store infomation.
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A fun thing showing the whole "you give information" + "available information" = "useful information" is that in the Library of Babel, all books could in fact be readable, if you assumed that they were encrypted, in which case you just need the correct decryption key. :P
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Question: Why do airplanes avoid Jimmy's house?
Answer: because it is a SAM site.
*drum roll*
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Fact: If you don't like Journey, you are dead inside
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Question: Why do airplanes avoid Jimmy's house?
Answer: because it is a SAM site.
*drum roll*
The TRUE reason is to avoid the bitchmode.
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I thought this was cool, even though it's not really a hot-off-the-presses news item anymore:
U.S. Army Eyes Robotic Super Suit That Amplifies Wearers' Movements
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356035,00.html
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....Iron Man lives again!!!
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A fun little toy I found:
http://www.binarytoys.com/
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A fun little toy I found:
http://www.binarytoys.com/
:) My new best friend! (Not really, but it is quite amusing!)
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There is a bus going around with 7 children inside.
Each child has 7 bags.
Inside each bag there are 7 big cats.
Each big cat has 7 small cats.
All cats have 4 legs each.
How many legs are in the bus?
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9618, that doesn't sound right...
Edit: erm 10990.... I hate number puzzles.
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9618
*beeeeeeep* Wrong.
10990
*beeeeeeep* Wrong. :P
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10990 would account for all the kids and cats. Assuming there's someone driving the thing, you'd need to add
a pair of legs from the driver so that would total at 10992.
Unless of course each big cat has 7 small ones which aren't in the bus.. but that would just be plain evil :)
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10992
He he, correct.
For the record, the riddle is usually asked with 10990 as the correct answer in mind, but I have personally inserted the "going around" bit to imply that there definatly is a driver.
*cookied*
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And now for some flying fish:
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10992
He he, correct.
For the record, the riddle is usually asked with 10990 as the correct answer in mind, but I have personally inserted the "going around" bit to imply that there definatly is a driver.
*cookied*
Which assumes one of the children wasn't driving the bus...
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That would be against the law. Assuming their legs were long enough to reach the pedals in the first place. Even so, have you ever tried driving a bus with a bag containing a shitload of cats hanging in your lap? Neither have I :)
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"Europe could get manned spaceship"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7398517.stm
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In case you don't know, here in the counterweight continent some channels like the BBC, Four etc, have started giving for free their entire program online. Even better, it is "on demand" meaning that someone can see whichever program they like, when they like it, up to 7 days of missed program. This if of cource awesome because:
a) I don't have a TV.
b) I have a 27'' screen.
c) You don't need a TV license.
And of cource, my favorite, you can now link to interesting ones. :P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b0087fn6.shtml?order=aztitle%3Aalphabetical&filter=category%3A200059&scope=iplayercategories&start=2&version_pid=b0087fks
(as well as download them to your hard drive)
ZOMG, AGE OF INFORMATION!
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only available in the UK... oh and what is this TV license??
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_licence
;)
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Whoops forgot that one:
NASA landed this one Mars today:
(http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/7084/228564mainimage10884283vv1.jpg)
That one is a bit boring, no rovers (which still work btw) or anything, it's purpose is to use advanced scientific instrumbents to search for water on the surface of Mars, which is a sexy way of saying that what it actually is, is one huge of a long range radio control robotic arm whose purpose is to take a bit of dirt, weight it, heat it up, and weight it again. (or something along those lines).
Once again NASA screwed up and landed on a desert so no images of Martian trees and exotic wildlife. :(
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Whoops forgot that one:
NASA landed this one Mars today:
Once again NASA screwed up and landed on a desert so no images of Martian trees and exotic wildlife. :(
Damn, what are the chances?
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Well, the
European British one landed right on top of magnificent pointy spires of ancient cities.
...very pointy.
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It was funny to hear it actually went entirely according to script. So like, ok, then we do this, yup, and now this, yes, and now this, alright, we're done! w00t! :P
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Well, the European British one landed right on top of magnificent pointy spires of ancient cities.
...very pointy.
Indeed. Bagel 3 anyone?
NEVER overfill the coolant expansion tank on any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. the tank WILL explode due to the force of the pressure building up!
I learned that the hard way on a military 14 tonne truck (on the A1 no less )
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Useful fact: I can see light polarization. Which is a little known, but very real and scientifically recognised human "sense". :P
After sitting just looking at a white field on the screen (totally sane I assure you), the effect was so strong to the point I wondered wither it was the screen or me having the problem. After a bit of googling I have happend upon this, which couldn't be more accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush
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http://microbot23.deviantart.com/art/Drug-Free-Zone-79000691 :o
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Bluetooth celebrates 10 years anniversary this year. It got it's name from the Danish Viking king Harald Bl?tand.
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America spends more on teh pr0n in 1 year then the entire debt of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Nimitz class aircraft carrier carries more aircraft then some countries have total.
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The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words. <<on topic
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Detroit is the only city in the US that looks south to Canada
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Have I mentioned the concept before btw?
Morphine filled bullets.
So, you know, people don't hurt so much as they bleed to death.
I concider it one of my most humanitarian ideas. At a certain level.
I can just see the smiling corpses! Imagine, thousents and thousents in mass executions moaning with pleasure...
Oh look, the good doctor has brough Senator a long sleeved shirt again...
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Morphine filled bullets.
hey thats an awesome idea!!
Oh look, the good doctor has brough Senator a long sleeved shirt again...
:lol:
As Dr. Phil will tell you, the basis of a good marriage is cooperation... Bob Woodward told 60 Minutes that Saudi Prince Bandar promised President Dubbya Bush that Saudi Arabia would lower oil proces in the months before the 2004 election...
What did the Saudis get out of it?
Before 9/11, the price of oil was $23.57 a barrel... By April 2006, it was over $72 per barrel. Based on current Saudi oil production, that translates to an increase of $441 MILLION PER DAY!
As of now, oil prices go for about $130 per barrel...
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Useful fact:
1/4 of the global reserve currency(ies) is now in Euros. (26% specifically). If the damn Brits had joined that would be 30%.
But hey, not bad. Concidering that some nationalists haven't even gotten over the fact that it exists yet.
This is btw the dollar's percentance in bimillenial history.
'00 70.5%
'01 70.7%
'02 66.5%
'03 65.8%
'04 65.9%
'05 66.4%
'06 65.7%
'07 63.3%
I am not an economist but I believe I can draw a line and can tell the direction of it.
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In case you have missed this part of web history. Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/
(It exists for a long time now, I remember it from BCU, but I realized that other people might not know it)
Think it as something like a youtube for flash animations.
Eg: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/195918
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Today In History
June 1, 1943
Leslie Howard, the British film star and director, was shot down by enemy aircraft over the Bay of Biscay on a flight from Lisbon to Ireland. He had appeared in the films "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Gone with the Wind."
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(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7550/redveineddarteriibystrufy9.jpg)
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Did you know that the county I live in, its the only county in Ohio you can shoot fireworks off at?
Also, if you get caught carrying a pack of sparklers in your pocked on the 4th of July, you will get arrested for 24 hours?
CRAZY!!!!
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The fireworks laws in Indiana are pretty much nonexistent, which is good I guess if thats what you're into. I lost interest in blowing shit up once kids came into the picture, figured they would try doing it if they were to see me practicing demolition. he he
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Cool robo-snake but was the terrible dance mix of Poison neccesary?
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I believe it was not.
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on June 8, 2005, the New York Times obtained internal White House documents showing that Philip Cooney, while serving on the White House Council on Environmental Quality, had edited the national climate change reports during 2002 and 2003 by deleting references to global warming...
prior to working for the Bush administration, Cooney was a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute... two days after he was forced to resign from his White House position, he was hired by Exxon Mobil...
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Cockatiels are, despite popular opinion, SMALLER than Cockatoos. I've got two of them running along the couch right now.
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And more robots.
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Ethanol is a scam.
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thats just plain wrong...
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Not really.
It takes a lot of money, supplies, and pollution to make ethanol, with almost no benefit to the environment.
INPUT <> OUTPUT
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Not really.
It takes a lot of money, supplies, and pollution to make ethanol, with almost no benefit to the environment.
INPUT <> OUTPUT
eh? tell that to Brazil... they made it work...
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How about you talk to the EU? They are already planning to stop their ethanol plans.
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how about no...
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Well, actually there are two ways of making ethanol. There's the industrial method and the time old method of fermentation, which is renewable. The only downside to it is time.
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Yeah. The point is that the Canadian govenment is wasting money on a scam.
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The problem, is that currently we are destroying either entire forests (such as the Amazon and on Borneo) for palm trees which are used for both the oil and for bioethanol.
The other source of current bioethanol is food. Which gives speculants the ability to drive up the cost of food.
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LOL
blaXXer, not capable of humor
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My turn:
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The problem, is that currently we are destroying either entire forests (such as the Amazon and on Borneo) for palm trees which are used for both the oil and for bioethanol.
The other source of current bioethanol is food. Which gives speculants the ability to drive up the cost of food.
The entire point of the biofuel business is to ferment and extract it from waste foodstuffs, i.e., the parts of the plant that can still provide the biomass needed but aren't consumed normally. Unfortunately, governments were too quick into it so this is happening.
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Well, that is the idea of it, I just guess a lot of people who do this simply didn't get that memo.
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Well, that is the idea of it, I just guess a lot of people who do this simply didn't get that memo.
Or just searching for a way to make a quick buck.
blaXXer, capitalist
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How cute. :P
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I hate it when companies make concept cars. They spend so much time and money making something they're never going to put into production, and not enough on the cars they do! Plus that thing is ugly!
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The "eyes" were cute. lol
but I agree with limey on concept cars. If they actually put the cars out on the roads, I wouldn't complain.
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I kind of like it. But I'd take the concept a completely different way.
You see, the first thing that comes to mind, is that I always had a personal split between two car "paradigms".
From the one hand, I'd like a car with 4x4 drive, that wouldn't get stuck in the mud, or worry about it getting dirty.
On the other hand, I always liked fast and nice looking cars. Aka in other words, Hummer or Porsche? That's the question.
(There's some car that attempt to bridge the gap, eg, Subaru Impreza WXD, on virtue of it being 4x4 and turbocharged (0-60 in 3.8 seconds in one model) but in my view, by trying to do both, it doesn't really do any. It neither looks good, nor is a good off roader)
The second thing that comes to mind then, is: I love Buggys <3
Buggy's on virtue of being just a steel tubing around a respectable engine, are ultra light, and end up with a lot more HP than most cars.
They are also ultra tough as well, since their own weight as they "roll" down a hill won't deform them and the steel cages is much safer than flat sheets of hammered metal.
That's what I call "a good off roader": :P
That's what I call safety:
Although it looks impressive, I have no reason to assume that they guy got hurt. The cage looks in perfect shape to me, if he had a proper sports Idon'trememberhowmanypoints belt, he would neither have hit his head anywhere, and the forces wouldn't really be any more impressive than the guy strapped in the robot arm video.
And that's speed. If you think about it, the reason this one is as fast as hell, is because it is a essentially a buggy with a big honking engine, but with on road performance in mind:
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So instead, here is how this technology would be awesome:
You take a quite respectable, turbocharged engine. And you put it into a tubular space frame.
But instead of having that frame be fixed, you actually make it out of hydraulic pistons and stuff, computer controlled I'd presume.
You flick the switch, and, as some genius in geometry has designed it, you have a low, sport's buggy. Except that because the skin material looks so smooth when stretched, it is also much more aerodynamic, and it also looks good. If it looked as good as the GINA I'd be a happy camper.
But
You flick the switch the other way, the wheels (who would probably be a bit bigger than average in any configuration) extent out and lower from the body, ribs rise up like a convertible's roof over the driver's seat, and BAM instant rock buggy. Wither the material wrinkles etc in that configuration wouldn't be an issue since in that configuration the point wouldn't be to look pretty.
Bonus design points:
a) Already, by being so light you contribute less energy to an accident, what would be even more awesome, is to design the on-road piston based space frame configuration in a way that in an accident all said pistons absorb part of the force as well.
b) Since flexible materials, by virtue of deforming can resist some stuff better, it would be interesting to look into a slighty more carbon fiber reinforce "skin". Say, a bulletproof one that someone can't just take a knife at it.
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That's like the Subaru Impreza I mentioned. I don't really call those cars "off road", more "unpaved road".
My off road standards are high. They should be able to climb a 0.5m "step". 8)
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I like the idea of a transforming car...
Also, somewhat useful fact. The term "minigun" refers only specifically to the M134 and its varients made by General Electric. Externally powered, multi-barrel gatling type, is a more general term. "Chain Gun", despite being popularised by video games, is not correct as this refers to a completely different type of externally powered weapon.
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There is another advantage to a tubular frame, it's light, meaning great Miles Per Gallon.
Throw in a pressurized fuel cell and you got yourselves a winner.
You know, with enough measuring, you could also have an extra configuration, "cargo". Where it maximises on volume.
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The ultimate pick-up:
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Another Top Gear classic:
I wonder how legal it is to link to those. Btw my Ariel Atom video was from BBC so it was fair play.
Disclaimer: If anyone aks, we are simply providing a string of alphanumeric ascii characters (typing characters is not illegal is it?), which, when placed within youtube tags happen to meaningfully hyperlink to the perfectly legal, Google owned website known as youtube, right guys?
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The Toyota Prius gets what's coming!
I don't think theres anything wrong, as the BBC is free TV! They have their own web-player for stuff thats been on the TV for the last 7 days, and they put stuff on YouTube. Hell, Top Gear have their own channel! If we were linking to clips from shows on, say, Sky One, then there could be a problem.
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BBC, not free, you pay dearly.
A lot of BBC sites with "content" (images, video, games, stories) are now put behind a country barrier that may even exclude some paying brits.
It's 7 days only, and only within the UK (same thing as my previous point).
So, only anything they put up on YouTube is fine.
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BBC, not free, you pay dearly.
A lot of BBC sites with "content" (images, video, games, stories) are now put behind a country barrier that may even exclude some paying brits.
It's 7 days only, and only within the UK (same thing as my previous point).
So, only anything they put up on YouTube is fine.
You pay for a TV licence, and while that does mainly go to the BBC, its not really paying for the stuff on the TV per ce. As for the iPlayer, I know theres a country barrier, but I can't see how it can exclude some paying Brits. I don't have a TV, thus have no need for a TV licence, but can still watch things on there. As for the 7 day limit, that just makes sense. If they had every episode of every TV program on the BBC, the server would be the size of London!
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If they had every episode of every TV program on the BBC, the server would be the size of London!
that would be an impressive sight to say the least!
seriously, many people are very anti bbc at the moment.
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While I find it the best thing since the invention of the TV! :P
To bad about Dalziel&Pascoe and Inspector Lynley. :(
Anyway, I believe people from Jernsey (sp) and several other islands are just outside the country's "internet", meaning, they, from the viewpoint of the BBC/UK, are outside the country.
If I were to pay for a licence right now, I still wouldn't be able to get to the restricted sites and watch stuff on iPlayer.
And about the 7 days, it also means that you can watch it for 7 days, not longer, even if you download it.
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Specifically, the iPlayer software is designed to not stream like Youtube so it prevents you being able to permanently download it. It's not the BBC being arseholes, or that the server space doesn't exist (Myspace and Youtube use far more than the BBC would ever realistically need), it's copyright reasons. These programs aren't free to produce, the Top Gear stunts must cost upto ?500,000 an episode.
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While I find it the best thing since the invention of the TV! :P
To bad about Dalziel&Pascoe and Inspector Lynley. :(
Anyway, I believe people from Jernsey (sp) and several other islands are just outside the country's "internet", meaning, they, from the viewpoint of the BBC/UK, are outside the country.
If I were to pay for a licence right now, I still wouldn't be able to get to the restricted sites and watch stuff on iPlayer.
And about the 7 days, it also means that you can watch it for 7 days, not longer, even if you download it.
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark et al are British Crown Dependancies, and so aren't actually part of the UK. Jersey has it's own currency! Though "English money" is legal tender. It could be the same for Guernsey, I don't know! I've been to Jersey many times as I have family over there. It's a nice place.
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But they do pay for the TV Licence, don't they? So they have a right to use iPlayer and view content on the websites of the BBC.
[EDIT] Random, totally useless in a not pleonasm (sp) way, trivia, the reason I mentioned Jersey was because I just watched a Bergerac episode. ^_^
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Prediction: In teh futures digital camcorders and digital cameras are going to merge into one device.
The last time I remember seriously looking over camcorders, and it wasn't really even 2-3 years ago, unless you got a really big one, they were all a bit of a toy, blurringly writing to mini magnetic tapes and such and I was wondering why the hell those haven't moved on to digital. I knew they were some writing to CDs and DVDs but again they seemed too messy to me.
Well, I was looking over one today, and one was about as big as a DSLR camera's lens, it was supposently high definition (so wait, you mean to tell me that this little thing records video with a resolution of 1920?1080???) it had an 80Gb on board hard disk... and it was also able to take 6MP still pictures. Whoa, that the same amount my first digital camera, I was quite proud about, did!
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(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3131/kuremidgetsubs1bl2.jpg)
See what they did there? They mass produced and miniaturized...
In case you don't know what a midget submarine is, the answer is that when two big submarines like each other very much, and spend some time together, they produce baby submarines.
Here is one hiding amongst the crowd in a building:
(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/9622/biber002dw7.jpg)
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'ow many fit in this thing?!?! eh!??!? lol
srsly dude, where the f**k does all the food and fuel go?!?!? must be a harbor defence sub or something... or perhaps launched from a larger mothership to be used in battle (like a battlestar launches fighters?)
I've never seen anything like it! (size wise at least!)
the Taiso 14 pistol is widely considered to be one of the worst, if not the worst service handgun ever made.
A Khyber Pass Copy is a firearm manufactured by cottage gunsmiths in the Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The area has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed, home-made copies of firearms using whatever materials are available- more often than not, railway lines/sleepers, junked motor vehicles, and scrap metal. The quality on such rifles varies- as one might expect- ranging from "As good as a factory-produced example" to "dangerously unsafe", tending towards the latter end of the scale.
The most commonly encountered Khyber Pass Copies are of British military firearms, notably Martini-Henry, Martini-Enfield, and Lee-Enfield rifles, although AK-47 rifles, Webley Revolvers, Tokarev TT-33s, Colt M1911s, and Browning Hi-Powers have also been encountered as Khyber Pass Copies.
The Khyber Pass gunsmiths first acquired examples of the various British service arms during 19th Century British military expeditions in the North-West Frontier, which they used to make their own copies. During World War II, some of the locally organised Irregular Forces were issued Khyber Pass made rifles - partly for financial reasons, and partly because there was concern the troops would steal their rifles and desert if issued higher-quality British or Indian manufactured rifles. [1]
Identification
Since the Khyber Pass rifles were (and still are) usually copied exactly from a "master" rifle, which may itself be a Khyber Pass Copy (markings and all), it's not uncommon to see Khyber Pass rifles with numerous and glaring errors, as well as a number of other identifying factors, notably:
* Spelling errors in the markings (the most common of which is a backwards "N" in "Enfield")
* V.R. (Victoria Regina) cyphers dated after 1901- Queen Victoria died in 1901, so any rifles made after this should be stamped "E.R" (Edward Rex, referring to King Edward VII)
* Generally inferior workmanship, including weak/soft metal, poorly finished wood, and badly struck markings.
There has been surprisingly little interest in the Khyber Pass varieties of rifle in the Military Surplus collecting community, which is odd given that many of the Khyber Pass rifles are richly decorated and make excellent "wall-hangers" or conversation pieces. A number have recently been imported into the US by returning soldiers and some of the larger Arms Wholesalers, however, and buyers should be aware of this fact when purchasing antique British firearms of uncertain provenance.
Ammunition
The ammunition used in the region is often underloaded, being made from a variety of powders or even old film (which contains nitrocellulose, a key component of smokeless powder)- and as such, Khyber Pass Copy rifles cannot generally stand up to the pressures generated by modern commercial ammunition. In short, it is generally advised that they not be fired under any circumstances, although there are a few collectors out there who have made extremely mild handloaded cartridges for their Khyber Pass rifles. This practice is NOT recommended, and anyone firing a Khyber Pass rifle is doing so at their own risk.
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Most people think they just had one crewmember, but in reality mini submarines were just crewed by mini sailors.
Mini sailors are the result of a secret nazi program which took normal sailors and breeded them like dogs for size. And like you have normal dogs and chihuaouas today you have sailors, and mini sailors.
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/982/734pxgreatdanesandchihufi4.jpg)
Germany in cooperation with Japan had also started a mini kamikaze program, but they lost the war inbetween and so other nations found the mini sailors and mini kamikaze and (after they captured them and put them in mini prison cells etc) continued the program. Which is how smart bombs today find their target.
Most people don't know about this because when somebody finds out about it, they proceed to shoot them with bullets through the head and that makes it alrighty then with them, but I aquired this knowledge during a stoned shamanic experience.
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Most people think they just had one crewmember, but in reality mini submarines were just crewed by mini sailors.
Mini sailors are the result of a secret nazi program which took normal sailors and breeded them like dogs for size. And like you have normal dogs and chihuaouas today you have sailors, and mini sailors.
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/982/734pxgreatdanesandchihufi4.jpg)
Germany in cooperation with Japan had also started a mini kamikaze program, but they lost the war inbetween and so other nations found the mini sailors and mini kamikaze and (after they captured them and put them in mini prison cells etc) continued the program. Which is how smart bombs today find their target.
Most people don't know about this because when somebody finds out about it, they proceed to shoot them with bullets through the head and that makes it alrighty then with them, but I aquired this knowledge during a stoned shamanic experience.
Dude, that has got to be the most random, LuL-tastic thing I've seen you write.
Cookied.
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Most people think they just had one crewmember, but in reality mini submarines were just crewed by mini sailors.
Mini sailors are the result of a secret nazi program which took normal sailors and breeded them like dogs for size. And like you have normal dogs and chihuaouas today you have sailors, and mini sailors.
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/982/734pxgreatdanesandchihufi4.jpg)
Germany in cooperation with Japan had also started a mini kamikaze program, but they lost the war inbetween and so other nations found the mini sailors and mini kamikaze and (after they captured them and put them in mini prison cells etc) continued the program. Which is how smart bombs today find their target.
Most people don't know about this because when somebody finds out about it, they proceed to shoot them with bullets through the head and that makes it alrighty then with them, but I aquired this knowledge during a stoned shamanic experience.
Dude, that has got to be the most random, LuL-tastic thing I've seen you write.
Cookied.
QFT!!
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Most people think they just had one crewmember, but in reality mini submarines were just crewed by mini sailors.
Mini sailors are the result of a secret nazi program which took normal sailors and breeded them like dogs for size. And like you have normal dogs and chihuaouas today you have sailors, and mini sailors.
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/982/734pxgreatdanesandchihufi4.jpg)
Germany in cooperation with Japan had also started a mini kamikaze program, but they lost the war inbetween and so other nations found the mini sailors and mini kamikaze and (after they captured them and put them in mini prison cells etc) continued the program. Which is how smart bombs today find their target.
Most people don't know about this because when somebody finds out about it, they proceed to shoot them with bullets through the head and that makes it alrighty then with them, but I aquired this knowledge during a stoned shamanic experience.
Dude, that has got to be the most random, LuL-tastic thing I've seen you write.
Cookied.
QFT!!
agreead. you sir, are made of wisdom and win.
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The big ass statue in Russia known as The Motherland Calls:
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1270/aftermathsr9.jpg)
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The big ass statue in Russia known as The Motherland Calls:
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1270/aftermathsr9.jpg)
:shock: That's a BIG BITCH!
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The big ass statue in Russia known as The Motherland Calls:
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1270/aftermathsr9.jpg)
:shock: That's a BIG BITCH!
hueg stone bewbs!
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And another waterbridge:
(http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/9021/aqueductjs9.jpg)
(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/5653/aqueductsmlqr6.jpg)
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And another waterbridge:
It's called an aqueduct :P
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It has water, and it is a bridge. Waterbridge you fancy latin lover. Yes, okay, it happens to be ducting aquas in an aquaducty way too... :P
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Waterbridge implies a bridge made out of water, this just contains water :P
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Better not mention viaducts then.
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Better not mention viaducts then.
I remember that term when I lived in Belgium, but at the moment, it's meaning escapes me. Can someone re-learn me what a viaduct is, and how it differs from an aquaduct, or a "waterbridge"?
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viaduct [?vai?dakt] noun
a usually long bridge carrying a road or railway over a valley etc
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What you call a "Flyover" or something like that.
Except usually less than 5^235252353 roads crossing. :P
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What you call a "Flyover" or something like that.
Except usually less than 5^235252353 roads crossing. :P
Ah. I believe the American term for that is, "overpass".
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Its a blue hole:
(http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/3916/greatblueholeaq1.jpg)
(http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6960/10052756freedivingatdeaml1.jpg)
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Now, that is COOOL! Link me, please.
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Now, that is COOOL! Link me, please.
Well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_hole
But this site is also interesting because of the sketches it has:
http://www.smallhope.com/CTSD/OceanBlueHoles.html
Containing and some cool information wikipedia doesn't (and you'd probably want to know if you dived into one)
Because the ocean blue holes are connected to those inland and even to those blue holes on the west side of the island, they are affected by the tides. The ocean blue holes will "blow" and "suck" making it necessary to dive them at certain times. The "blow" usually pumps out cold subterranean water which may be milky with hydrogen sulfide and algae or, during the "suck," the water will be gin clear as it sucks in the surrounding sea water. These different conditions create very different ways for us to enjoy the blue holes while diving.
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Hmm. Reminds me of Venezuela's sink holes. I'm sure that would be a fantastic place to send a remotely-piloted underwater vehicle. I myself wouldn't attempt to dive it, until I'm assured that there aren't any Cloverfield, or Bloop-related beasties lurking in the depths.
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Oh, and on that note: The "Bloop":
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Is it an animal?
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Well, experts ( obviously American naval military experts, ) believe that it IS organic in origen, but it's unknown as to what animal could possibly make such a powerful sound. It's been estimated due to the fact that the sound traveled more than 5000km to an Amercian underwater listening station, that if it WAS an animal that made that sound, it would have to be about 500 times larger than a blue whale- 50,000 ft. long???
That is not just improbable, it's completly ridiculous. But something- or a lot of somethings, made that noise.
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I have just acquired a fear of the deep sea.
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That is a fear that you should have acquired a long time ago, believe me. Marine biology and the study of cephalopods, in particular, have long been a hobby of mine.
We already know that there are some VERY big, nasty, vicious creatures in the deep water- and it's pretty logical to assume that there are more to be discovered.
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That is a fear that you should have acquired a long time ago, believe me. Marine biology and the study of cephalopods, in particular, have long been a hobby of mine.
We already know that there are some VERY big, nasty, vicious creatures in the deep water- and it's pretty logical to assume that there are more to be discovered.
then let's nuke 'em! nuclear winter yeehaa!!
One type of nuclear bomb is a gun type. Another is an implosion type.
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The "bullet" type is, I beleive, Uranium-235. It works by having a sub-critical mass of the Uranium and firing a bit more Uranium into it, making it super-critical. This promptly goes bang! The "implosion" type uses Plutonium-239. It works by having a sub-critical mass of Plutonium with a load of explosive (it used to be C4, don't know whether it still is) carefully placed around the outside. When the explosive is detonated, it compresses the Plutonium into a much denser ball, which is of super-critical mass. And thus, a very loud bang results.
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No, it was not C4. The gun-type devices were detonated with TNT. I've uh, had my hands on a few of the things, actually.
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Dubya Bush and Karl Rove exploited a system of campaign funding that skirted limits on personal giving by rewarding individuals who bundled together checks from their funds...
they were dubbed "Pioneers" for $100,000 in contributions, and "Rangers" for $200,000...
who were these masked men?
- Jack Abramoff - Lobbyist... convicted on bribery charges...
- Duke Cunningham - Congressman... convicted on bribery charges...
- Ken Lay - Former Enron CEO... convicted of fraud and conspiracy...
- Hank Greenburg - Head Of AIG... ousted for suspicion of stock manipulation...
- Tom Noe - Bush 2004 Ohio Campaign Chair... indicted for campaign money laundering...
- P. Nicholas Hurtgen - Chicago Invesment Banker... indicted for hospital construction extortion...
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Hmm. Reminds me of Venezuela's sink holes. I'm sure that would be a fantastic place to send a remotely-piloted underwater vehicle. I myself wouldn't attempt to dive it, until I'm assured that there aren't any Cloverfield, or Bloop-related beasties lurking in the depths.
Meh, who ever died from a giant squid.
Now here on the other hand are 10 transparent cm (with several m tentacles) of extruciating pain:
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6324/chironexfleckerirwi2.jpg)
While an appreciable amount of venom (contact from about ten feet or three metres of tentacle) needs to be delivered in order to have a fatal effect on an adult human, the potently neurotoxic venom is extremely quick to act. Fatalities have been observed as little as four minutes after envenomation, notably quicker than any snake, insect or spider; and prompting its description as the world's deadliest venomous animal. Frequently a person swimming who gets stung will have a heart attack or drown before they can even get back to the shore or boat.
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While I'll submit that any deaths caused by giant squid/octopii/other may be unsubstantiated, more than enough people have claimed to have seen it happen.
Anyway, yes, I also a have a profound fascination, healthy respect, and profound fear of sea jellies like the sea-wasp, box jellie, and the irukandji.
The good news is, sea turtles eat jellies like cows eat grass. The bad news is, we need more sea turtles, and they're already endangered. Ironically enough, it's very likely that some of the larger, meaner species of giant and colossal squid, could prey on sea turtles.
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On June 22, 2005, while addressing the Conservative Party of New York State, Karl Rove said, "Conservatives saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and prepared for war; Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers"...
Families of September 11, an organization of those who lost relatives in the attacks, asked Rove to "stop trying to reap political gain in the tragic misfortune of others" and called his behavior "offensive"...
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Speaking of diving, here is another little Blue Hole:
(http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1307/24614570ry5.jpg)
It doesn't look very impressive, but apparently it has killed, 40+ according to the local authorities, 70+ according to everyone else who says that the authorities try to play down the number, divers.
Why you might ask. Well, it so happens, that this blue hole, has something called "The Arch". An underwater tunnel from the bluehole to the sea.
(no btw, thats not the shallow part from the sea side in the photo).
(http://www.tauchen-am-meer.de/aegypten/dahab/images/blue-hole-tauchkarte.gif)
And of cource, everyone going there, just can't resist searching for it, not to mention swimming through it. But here is the thing:
Accidents are frequently caused when divers attempt to find the tunnel through the reef (known as "The Arch") connecting the Blue Hole and open water at about 52m depth. This is beyond the PADI recreational diving limit (40m) and nitrogen narcosis begins to have an influence. Divers who miss the tunnel sometimes continue descending hoping to find the tunnel farther down and become increasingly narcotised. The "Arch" is reportedly extremely deceptive in several ways:
It is difficult to detect because of the odd angle between the arch, open water, and the hole itself.
Because of the dim lighting and the fact that most light enters from outside it appears shorter than it really is. Divers report that the Arch appears less than 10m long but measurements have shown it is 26m from one end to the other.
There is frequently a current flowing inward through the arch towards the Blue Hole, increasing the time it takes to swim through.
The arch continues downward (even deeper) to the seabed which is beyond view and there is therefore no "reference" from below.
As a result, the bottom of the blue hole is apparently littered with diver corpses, as this underwater vehicle finds out:
Of cource the fact that someone has freedived the thing doesn't really help much...
She as well:
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(http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7199/34571642mv2.jpg)
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crazy jews.
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^ Every time someone makes a generalization a little warm & fluffy thing dies. :(
That (the graphic not the wall) was actually done by a UK graffiti/stencil artist called "Banksy".
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That would be a strong pair of scissors. Industrial strength maybe?
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during his 1998 presidential campaign, George Dubya's father attacked Governor Dukakis for pollution in Boston Harbor, and when elected, passed the Clean Air Act of 1990...
what Oedipal steps did Governor Bush take? he refused to enforce the law, and instead followed Texas polluters to grandfather in their pollution and write regulations for their own industries...
according to PEER, the national organization of Federal and State employees working in pollution control, 5 years after Bush taking office Texas ranked #1 in:
- Emission of ozone-causing air pollution chemicals
- Counties listed in top 20 of emitting cancer-causing chemicals
- Toxic chemical releases into the air
- Total number of hazardous waste incinerators
- Production of cancer-causing benzene and vinyl chloride
- Largest sludge dump in country
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My friend's grandmother (on the US side of his family, naturally) swears that she kicked Dubya out of her house for being a drunken stoner back in the day. I give it a believability rating of about 60-70%.
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How many of you know that cute little Belgium derives 54% of its grid power from nuclear reactors?
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And isn't France closer to 70%? And the UK is around 15% I think, and thanks to the national grid, it means that we're all utilising nuclear power, so people who are like "oh, I don't support nuclear" need to move out to live in caves.
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Fun fact: Uranium is an element that exists all around, even in concrete. Or coal. Coal power plants act as purifiers, burning coal and releasing radioactive dust in the surrounding area:
A 1,000 MW coal-burning power plant could release as much as 5.2 tons/year of uranium (containing 74 pounds of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons/year of thorium. The radioactive emission from this coal power plant is 100 times greater than a comparable nuclear power plant with the same electrical output; including processing output, the coal power plant's radiation output is over 3 times greater.[11]
Among other things.
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other things? do tell!
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The intro theme to the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica (the worldwide version, used since season 2 in the US) is a hindu mantra that translates from sanskrit approximately to:
O earth, atmosphere, heaven:
May we attain that excellent glory of Savitr the God:
So may he stimulate our prayers.
The intro then goes into the montage which is played mostly on ttaiko drums, a Japanese instrument translating as "great" or "wide" drum. Wikipedia has little to say about the chantin in this section sounding similar to the intro to the Dilbert theme.
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... the chantin in this section sounding similar to the intro to the Dilbert theme.
So I'm not the only one???
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other things? do tell!
It hurts mother Gaia, lifegiver to us all *raises hands up while wearing flowers on his head*.
Or if you want the other one. Tons of heavy metals, like Mercury (and especially a lovely form called Methylmercury, which can interferes with the development of central nervous system in fetuses) and dozen other Air Toxins and carcinogenics. (Including, Dioxnies, Arsenic, Beryllium, Manganese, Hydrogen Fluroride)
Various Sulfursomething gasses that go and form Acid rain (no, you might not melt, but it is bad for the crops, plants, lakes and rivers)
Smog & soot with various effects, the least linked to "developed word dieseses" like asthma.
Even the remaining ash itself (125,000 tons from a 500 megawatt station, and 193,000 tons of sludge) is so toxic (and ironically radioactive (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste)) its waste that must be put somewhere, and where it is put you don't want to go anymore.
Thats one of the things that pisses me off a bit with the whole global warming thing. There is so much focus on it that those with a slighty less than optimum attention span among us (eg conservatives) behave as if CO2 is the only pollutant in existance someone is either "pro" or "against" and forget the things that are really bad. In fact CO2 is not even a pollutant, it might warm the atmosphere up there a bit but as a gas its harmless (its what we put in fizzy drinks as well).
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... the chantin in this section sounding similar to the intro to the Dilbert theme.
So I'm not the only one???
THANK YOU!!
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On the other hand, as far as nuclear power plants go, concider that single fact:
All the nuclear waste produced by all US nuclear power plants to date, would fit in an area the size of a football field, 6 meters deep.
Also the US doesn't particularly recycle its fuel, as France does, again and again and again, a process which gives you even more energy out of it, less waste and one of the end byproducts out of it is Plutonium. Which is not a waste, since, except the other use, can be used in nuclear batteries (*ahem: Radioisotope thermoelectric generators), like the one Voyager 1 had/has and despite being launched in 1977 they are expected to function until 2020.
(http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/2730/nuclearpower5810xn9.jpg)
Btw, in case you have ever wondered why nuclear power plants have chimneys, and what's the white stuff comming out of them. The answer is water.
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They are called, "cooling towers", and the "white stuff" is known as steam- AKA water, in a gaseous state. Now, what's really crazy, is that right after the water passes through the "hot" area, it actually becomes superheated, to a state that is colorless, and practically invisible- despite having a temperature high enough to light a match, AND posssesing a significant level of radioactivity.
Weasel, around 1990: I can werkz ona nuklerz weactorz?
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The water shouldn't be radioactive, it doesn't come in contact with nuclear material any more than shower water heated in an oil boiler comes in contact with oil. It just passes through the hot part in pipes. (And apparently the one comming from the chimneys doesn't even pass through the reactor, it passes through the water that has passed through the reactor)
(http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6438/reactor2gi2.jpg)
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The radioactivity is imparted through the pipes. I mean to say, it's imparted, despite the steel of the pipes.
Oh, I get your issue, now... no, the water/steam of the primary loop NEVER enters the atmosphere, of course. The main difference with our cycle, aboard ship, was all the other uses we had for the secondary loop steam (waste). The remainder was used to operate the desalination plants, the ship's mess/laundry/heads/interior heating, catapults, etc etc. As a matter of fact, we had to operate auxillary steam reboiler plant to generate more steam, when the load outstripped the reactor's output.
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So why not put all that heat to some more use?
Floating nuclear reactors anyone? On sea producing H2O and salt? Say, near the Sahara producing a new food "field"?
What other use can we put the heat to? CO2 and other greenhouse gases capture?
Also, is the only reason why we don't continue to use the radioactive products of nuclear energy generation for said energy generation because those products can be used in nuclear weapons?
Doesn't France simply not "care" about this issue? And didn't the US built specific reactors for nuclear weapon grade plutonium production? Also, why can't that energy not be put in the grid? Just to keep military and public seperated? Where does that energy go to?
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while helping shape Bush's energy policy, senior political advisor Karl Rove held onto $100,000 - $250,000 worth of Enron shares...
he later sold them under advice of White House consel, in advance of Enron's collapse...
- Jack Huberman, The Bush-Hater's Handbook
203 Days Left!
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the record for most consecutive days away from the White House, set by Nixon, was 30, until Dubya Bush broke it in 2001, just six months after taking office...
Reagan's record 335 vacation days took 8 years to amass; Bush smashed that record in just over four and a half years...
as of January 15, 2007, according to The Washington Post, bush racked up 405 vacation days in Crawford and 365 in Camp David, for a whopping total of 770 vacation days...
the average American gets 14 days per year...
202 Days Left!
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What 202 days left til shaving day?
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no til the shame of this country's president is finally out and over...
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A National Security Letter (NSL) is issued by the FBI, and it allows the FBI to demand information about suspects without obtaining a search warrant, in addition, the receipient is prohibited from telling to anyone that they received it. Here is one online:
http://www.aclu.org/nsl/legal/NSL_formletter_080404.pdf
Of cource, anyone receiving one is free to treat it as toilet paper since in September 2007, a federal court ruled that the gag provision of NSLs was unconstitutional.
(4th of July post) :mrgreen:
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And now we present: Kazakhstan's pyramid.
(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/329/2627941852926dbd961ec2.jpg)
That would be the one in Astana, it's brand new capital and pre-planned city for 1 million inhabitants?
(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8670/13astanaslide6650rp4.jpg)
(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/3193/13astanaslide4650pj0.jpg)
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Japanese surgeon making origami with a surgical robot.
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Wow, at first I thought his bare hands would have done a better job, but then I saw the size. Impressive.
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Pre-planned cities FTW, you get cool road patterns and streets and buildings. Possibly you can rig it so that they form an amusing shape when viewed from a certain angle. Although a friend of mine does bit-work for council planning (one thing he did was planning for a massive new development, although it was just a town for ca.30,000) apparently it's an absolute BITCH to do.
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Here is an interesting fact:
Why, are veins Blue?
Some, might say because oxygen deprived blood is blue. Those are the same some however who have never wondered:
When was the last time you saw someone bleed blue?
If blood without oxygen was blue, there should have been a great deal of public knowledge of images of persons, bleeding blue, cutting a vein and making a blue mess, blue stained clothes, blue dipped swords and so on. I mean, haven't you ever as kids try to cut yourself when you were feeling really down, but also thought, since you are up to it to refill two inks of your printer rather than one, but couldn't find that blue blood no matter how hard you tried?
The answer then is, that blood is actually always red and surgeons can atest that they, in fact, don't see any blue veins around. The answer apparently is:
Skin does not absorb much light at any wavelength, making it look white (depending on how much melanin is present)
Blood pretty much absorbs all wavelenghts, which makes it look "dark", but it absorbs less in the red part of the spectrum, ending up reflecting red (and so it looks dark red)
Red light however doesn't penetrate the skin as good as blue light. This because blue light has a higher frequency and so energy than red light.
If a vessel is near the surface of the skin, the much higher ratio of red vs blue light absorbed because of the blood's natural colouring makes it look red.
If a vessel however is deeper then only higher frequency "lights" remain to be reflected (the bluish ones).
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It's not blue, per se. Not literally, of course- it's just quite dark red. And, I think exposure to oxygen might excite oxidation which could make blood lighter after a brief period? I don't know.
I've seen "venous" ( de-oxigenated ) blood, and it is darker- but is not "blue".
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And the reason you never see the de-oxygenated blood, is the second the vein is cut, all the blood in the general region becomes oxygenated.
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Bottom Cop
in July 2006, to avoid felony indictments and possible jail time, former commissioner of NYC Department of Corrections Bernard Kerik pled guilty in New York to accepting $165,000 in free construction work from a company publically linked to the mob...
this was not the first time he had run into trouble...
in 2002 he joined the board of Taser International, which sells stun guns to such customers as the Department of Homeland Security... Kerik was criticized for tradinh on his 9/11 celebrity when he was granted and exercersized $6.2 million in stock options...
in May 2003 he was sent to Iraq to rebuild the Iraqi police force, but he quit and returned home 3 1/2 months later, amid charges of corruption and mismanagement...
and in December 2004, he was forced to withdraw from consideration for Homeland Security Director after details surfaced of an illegal nanny, his use of Ground Zero rest apartment, and the aforementioned mob allegations...
198 Days Left!
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a suicide hotspot methinks?? ;)
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A horrid place to raise kids, from the looks of it.
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good place to go if you're a base jumping fan.
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This, blue crap, is the Cosmic, Microwave Background Radiation.
It is rather uniform and it comes out of all points of the universe.
Now what it is. You know that light has a certain speed right? (c)
This means that it takes time to reach something somewhere. It takes 1.2 seconds for light to come from the moon, and 8.5 minutes to come from the sun. It takes 3 minutes to reach Mars, at its closest, and I say at its closest because when the planets are on the opposite sites of the sun each, that would be 42 minutes.
The effect of that is that when you look at something far away (or to be more accurate, you are receiving light that has reflected off something far away) you look into the past. The image of the moon we have for example is from 1.2 seconds in the past.
Well, it so happens then, that the microwave background radiation is the resulting of looking so far away into the past, that is nothing more than radiation from the afterglow of the Big Bang itself. In other words, yes it might be a "theory" (as is the atomic one I always point out) but we kind of "see it".
That of cource posses certain problems with members of a certain cult, that still hasn't synchronised itself with western science.
By sheer coincidence one of said members, was George Deutsch, NASA's press officer, Appointed appointed to the position by George W. Bush, apparently he caused quite a stir there and became loveable after he ordered a NASA website designer to add the word "theory" after every occurrence of the phrase Big Bang.
In his memo to the website designer, Mr. Deutsch wrote that the Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion... It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator... This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue."
Thats what he said to the guys who kind of, in the next room, not only kind of see the thing, but design the next mission to increase the resolution.
But thats not the funny thing, the funny thing is that the same guy was also found to have lied about having a B.A. degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. As in, he plain lied. The University was asked and they said "who?" which ended up being the thing he had to resign for.
Complete trainwreck.
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Yep, pretty much.
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Flying High
Dubya Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard, where he was trained as an F-102 pilot... after winning his wings, he transferred to the Guard's "Champagne Unit", made up of the sons of priveleged Texas families who wanted to avoid serving in Vietnam...
during his six-year period of obligation, Bush was absent for months at a time, without leave or explanation...
the Air Force suspended his flight status 18 months before his enlistment elapsed... he received an honorable discharge six months early, without further official comment...
197 Days Left!
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during his six-year period of obligation, Bush was absent for months at a time, without leave or explanation...
That would have been when he was thrown out of that house for being drunk & disorderly. :P
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(http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/3636/belgianbluerz1.jpg)
This is a cow, which as you can see, can kick your ass.
Its a breed called "Belgian Blue" and carries a mutation that increases muscle mass. Muscle for your information is the parts you usually eat out of a cow, so in other words they are very good meat producers.
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AWESOME! Now they just have to modify it's circulatory system to produce and operate on BBQ sauce.... Looks SO tasty.
num. num. num.
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AWESOME! Now they just have to modify it's circulatory system to produce and operate on BBQ sauce.... Looks SO tasty.
num. num. num.
Slightly sick, but very good point. If GM could get beef to come already marinaded in BBQ sauce and venison in red wine life would be good.
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during his six-year period of obligation, Bush was absent for months at a time, without leave or explanation...
That would have been when he was thrown out of that house for being drunk & disorderly. :P
or maybe it was when he was shoveling cocaine up his nostril lol
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Now it only needs to be able to decide if it wants to be eaten or not. ;)
And be able to make that clear.
And while we're at it, suggest parts that are really good at the moment (of itself of course)?
:mrgreen:
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Neato fungii. Check it:
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holy fuck dude....that really does remind me of a combine advisors brain sucking tube thing....that really does scare me....
one species of fungus specialized in each species???
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Some time ago, the US approved one of the worst anti-privacy legislations in existance, basically giving border guards the right to search, without warrant or evidence, Laptops and other storage devices.
This is might not sound important but it has implications that until now, those were legally concidered as an "extension of your memory".
Now, suppose someone has naked pictures of his girlfriend there okay? He doesn't feel like having every, goverment paid employee who got a uniform and sees hismelf as master of all he surveys, gawk. Still, he can always delete the pictures and store them "in his memory".
But this questions, if our "external memory" is not respected, then what would happen if hypothetical someone created a device with the ability to read neurons?
Essentially then, what these guys say, is that They want some piece of Your Life, and if you don't give it they will take some other piece (eg in terms of time, restriction of movement etc, whatever happens if you do the sin of REFUSING) and your only choise is between destroying your memories, aka this part of your life, or sharing it with them.
Now, neural scanners don't exist, so let's see what someone can do for his good old exocortex magnetic memory. :twisted:
Encryption.
Encryption is usually based on the principle that some things are easy to do one way (eg, multiplying two numbers together) but difficult the other way (dividing and getting the original numbers, if you don't know with what to divide), and there are encryption techniques out there, that not even governments with all their supercomputers and all their taxes and fanfares can break.
However, if someone did that, I'd advice to actually take the concept a little bit further. You see, one problem with encryption, is that someone can simply start breaking your kneecaps until you tell him the password. In fact, liberty lover as I might be, I think that realistically most people would break at just being talked at with a strong voice, being delayed for a whole day and not given food. And they know it.
So instead, someone can do what it is called, deniable encryption.
That's when you, say, encrypt your personal data in a way that looks no different than other random noise and can be proven as encrypted (plausible deniability), as opposed to something that asks you for a password as you open it, augmented by a "fake" encrypted sector/partition/disk/OS full of fake personal files, the password to which you will be annoyed to give out.
Another government measure useless.
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Now speaking of encryption, here is a very cool story:
"Shortly after its release, PGP encryption found its way outside the United States, and in February 1993 Zimmermann became the formal target of a criminal investigation by the US Government for "munitions export without a license". Cryptosystems using keys larger than 40 bits were then considered munitions within the definition of the US export regulations; PGP has never used keys smaller than 128 bits so it qualified at that time. Penalties for violation, if found guilty, were substantial. After several years, the investigation of Zimmermann was closed without filing criminal charges against him or anyone else.
Zimmermann challenged these regulations in a curious way. He published the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book, via MIT Press, which was distributed and sold widely. Anybody wishing to build their own copy of PGP could buy the $60 book, cut off the covers, separate the pages, and scan them using an OCR program, creating a set of source code text files. One could then build the application using the freely available GNU C Compiler. PGP would thus be available anywhere in the world. The claimed principle was simple: export of munitions?guns, bombs, planes, and software?was (and remains) restricted; but the export of books is protected by the First Amendment. The question was never tested in court in respect to PGP, but had been established by the Supreme Court in the Bernstein case.
US export regulations regarding cryptography remain in force, but were liberalized substantially throughout the late 1990s. Since 2000, compliance with the regulations is also much easier. PGP encryption no longer meets the definition of a non-exportable weapon, and can be exported internationally except to 7 specific countries and a named list of groups and individuals."
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Reminds me of the program called "TrueCrypt", where you can define virtual volumes (call them partitions, but actually a file on a physical partition) where you define 2 passwords, one password that will access your files, and a password where you can keep other documents that will cover for your real files when asked to give the password (you will give out the second of course). This will give you plausible deniability.
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jet engines?,
that couldn't possibly work?..
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Sure, why not?
It works on cars, and those lawn mowers where you can sit on.
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But they are kinda different to a train on tracks!
i would hate to see a derailment, But thats a pretty old pic, so my best guess is that it didn't work out. :lol:
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Automation FTW!
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The scorpion CVR(T) which was retired from british army service some 15 years ago was armed with a 76mm gun.
The scimitar CVR(T) which is a very similar vehicle that uses the same body and only differs in the turret and it's armament... A 30mm cannon... (although now they've been "upgraded" from an off the shelf big arse jaguar petrol engine capable of driving it to more than 80mph on road to a diesel engine that struggles to push the vehicle to 45mph..)
Oh the mysteries of british army equipment procurement...
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(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6439/000swimmingpoolpq5.jpg)
Its a floating pool.
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That is the epitome of pointless.
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It has lights, meaning it's tethered to something. ;)
Or it has it's own generator, and if it has that, then it mostlikely has propulsion.
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(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5576/72487788cw8.jpg)
one flak hit and *POOOMF*...
up it goes!! (and not the good "up" either)
In the game chess the king may only move one space at a time.
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When the King swaps with a Tower, in the move known as "Castling" it can move two spaces. :P
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When the King swaps with a Tower, in the move known as "Castling" it can move two spaces. :P
tw@ :P
a bishop can only move diagonally
try that one for size sen ;) lol
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Or even 3 in case it swaps with the Queen's Tower. ;)
Although, I suppose it depends with how you count it.
When someone proposes payment in the form of rice, and particularly (sp) in the form of 1 grain on the first square of a chessboard, 2 on the second, 4 on the fourth, etc, etc.
DO NOT ACCEPT! First of all, you don't have enough rice, second, you don't have anything to put it in something to get it to the person who wants said payment. :P
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When someone proposes payment in the form of rice, and particularly (sp) in the form of 1 grain on the first square of a chessboard, 2 on the second, 4 on the fourth, etc, et
c.
64 duplications make little Martingale cry.
a bishop can only move diagonally
try that one for size sen lol
Hm
Hmm
*scratches chin*
*rotates entire chessboard 45 degrees*
Seems to be moving pretty horizontally and vertically now to me. :mrgreen:
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Mathematics says: 18446744073709551615 grains of rice.
1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4196 + 8392 + 16784 + .... Continue for another 49 times.
Or, 264 - 1
[EDIT] Thanks Senator for catching the off by 1 error.
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but demanding the payment from others is a good idea. ;)
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Mathematics says: 18446744073709551615 grains of rice.
1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4196 + 8392 + 16784 + .... Continue for another 49 times.
Or, 264 - 1
[EDIT] Thanks Senator for catching the off by 1 error.
You said 4 on the 4th, not the 3rd!
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Sorry about that than.
But, didn't you not find it odd that I jumped from second to fourth without going through third?
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but demanding the payment from others is a good idea. ;)
unless they murder you, which can painful..
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Speak for you self. I am immortal.
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Speak for you self. I am immortal.
*decapitates 1DS*
NEGATRON!!!
the oil for a fiat punto 1.2 16valve 5 speed gearbox should normally be changed at 192k miles..
that's quite a long time between changes...
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To put that 5 Terrabyte disk post into perspective:
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"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center."
- Condoleezza Rice
actually, almost everybody in Washington was at least concerned about the possibility...
- in 1999 through 2001, NORAD ran exercises on how U.S. Air Defenses would handle hijackers who seized planes and used them as missles...
- in September 1994 a pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds, just short of the President's bedroom...
- in April 1994 a disgruntled FedEx flight engineer boarded a DC-10 and invaded the cockpit, planning to crash the plane into a company building...
- in December 1994 an Air France was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who were linked to al Qaeda - aiming to crash it into the Eiffel Tower...
- Tom Clancy wrote two bestsellers about deliberately flying a fuel-laden jet into the Capitol building, killing the president and our top leadership (Debt of Honor, 1994; Executive Orders,1996)...
192 Days Left!
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The new iPhone 3G does blend.
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And that is apparently the biggest pool in the world:
(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n425/22443311/pool4.jpg)
(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n425/22443311/pool2.jpg)
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Yeah, you need a pool that size, Especially with that amount of people using it :lol:
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Sometimes you just don't have a pool big enough...
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Dangerously Over crowded, Fact.
A Giant human toilet, Fact
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Sometimes you just don't have a pool big enough...
thats disgusting... it's like a huge human stew; i can only imagine how gross that water is...
Another Judge Who Isn't Intellectually Viable
James Leon Holmes - appointed by Dubya as a judge for the Arkansas Eastern District in July 2004 - once compared the pro-choice movement to Nazi propaganda, likened the issue of abortion to slavery, wrote that "a wife is to subordinate herself to her husband," and argued that all abortions should be banned because "conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami."
Meanwhile, studies from 2000 and 2004 show that 25,000 to 32,000 pregnancies a year result from rape in the U.S.
191 Days Left!
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Nevermind gross (it is), think about safety! How many people were drowned by having people fall on them (from the top of the wave)?
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The worlds first pottery was made in Japan approximately 12,000 years ago.
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(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n425/22443311/cho_chocolate_heart_lg.jpg)
It's an anatomically correct heart chocolate.
Speaking of which, there actually is a unicode heart symbol which is this one: ?
(I have tried to find for this post who the hell made the heart symbol, which as you can see doesn't really look like a heart that much, and apparently nobody knows. Its from BC for sure, and there is a chance it goes all the way back to the ice age as well, making it one of the longest used typograhic symbols in existance, and globally)
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The heart symbol looks quite like a heart if you look at a diagram of it (although more from the inside than the outside). The ventricles come down to a point and the atria arch up into two humps, hence the symbol.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol)#As_icon
What the traditional "heart shape" actually depicts is a matter of some controversy. It only vaguely resembles the human heart. Some people claim that it actually depicts the heart of a cow, a more readily available sight to most people in past centuries than an actual human heart. However, while bovine hearts are more similar to the iconic heart shape, the resemblance is still slight.
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Vikos Gorge
Something like a small Grand Canyon of Europe. But in Green.
(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n425/22443311/IMG_0213.jpg)
(http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n425/22443311/Vikos-gorge.jpg)
(http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4224/vikosyn5.jpg)
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Don't try that at home:
( http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3055619 )
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Except When It Comes To Outfitting Our Own Combat Troops
"Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. That isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous."
- Dubya, Washington D.C., July 16, 2003
188 Days Left!
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I have to ask jimmy, why the count down?
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because Dubya Bush is a disgrace and ruined this country, so i am more than glad to count down the days until he is finally out of office and damaging things further...
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It is the "Lower Antelope" slot canyon out of erroded sandstone.
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1755/lowerantelope1mdzg2.jpg)
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MOON FACT:The moon has a diameter of 3 474 km.(2158 miles)
On an overlay map of Europe that would go from Madrid to Moscow.
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InBev is a little Belgian Beer company which owns 200 beer brands throughout the world (eg: Stella)
It now owns Budweiser as well.
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British army vehicles now mostly use diesel ;)
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InBev is a little Belgian Beer company which owns 200 beer brands throughout the world (eg: Stella)
It now owns Budweiser as well.
i just saw that on the news a few days ago lol
yet another American thing recently bought by a foreign country... first the Chrysler Building and now Budweiser...
*sigh*
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Want to buy a (used) Seattle automatic public toilet for $89000 dollars? Here is your chance:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170240609824
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(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/660/capronica60wi5.jpg)
A prototype for a 100 passenger trans-atlantic airliner.
A very early prototype.
It crashed in its first test flight and both pilots were killed.
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From 1941 until 1950, violet was part of the color mixture for "M&M's"? Plain Chocolate Candies. Violet was replaced by tan.
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Americans can't travel to Cuba.
Everyone* else can.
*Almost, there is North Korea as well having "government imposed outwards travel restrictions"
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It is the Aquada.
This... looks kind of good actually.
Usually floating cars either don't look right, or perform one of the two roles shitty (car or boat).
This claims 160 km/h on land (can't find acceleration tho) and 26 knots on water. (counts as a speedboat)
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Usually floating cars either don't look right, or perform one of the two roles shitty (car or boat).
Yeah, like the Amphicar. Although very popular, it was kinda slow on water and not very agile.
(http://www.stillruns.com/kruse2003/amphicar.jpg)
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Usually floating cars either don't look right, or perform one of the two roles shitty (car or boat).
Yeah, like the Amphicar. Although very popular, it was kinda slow on water and not very agile.
(http://www.stillruns.com/kruse2003/amphicar.jpg)
and aparently it used to try and take off when going at motorway speeds (60 mph+). That's the direct opposite of what you may want of a car ;)
it is actually possible (JUST) to hit 100MPH in a british army landrover wolf.
And I do mean just..going downhill with the wind on your back ;) did it last night..
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Useful fact:
Apple's new Iphone/iPod Touch firmware (2.0) does, in fact, add a bunch of nice little tweaks and features. It also, however, inhibits the use of older jailbreaking software that allows users to install freeware and other software developed for the iphone/ipod touch by developers [very much like us BCC modders] via use of a third-party installer known simply as 'installer'. While the iPhone updates to this latest firmware for free, ipod touch users such as myself "have" to pay $10 for this upgrade that, until now, had been free with all previous versions. Talk about lame.
Granted, it features apps seen on the iphone such as Google Maps, Mail, Notes, etc., but what use will mail be if it doesn't support one of the most common email sites, Hotmail? it supports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, .Mac, and AOL, but for ANYTHING else it must be manually reconfigured which, for somebody like me, is a colossal waste of time and energy. Additionally when I got a hold of the 2.0 firmware via itunes [legally available for free if you boot your ipod touch into restore mode and let itunes detect it that way] I discovered a very f*cking lame bug in the firmware that pisses me RIGHT OFF! When typing a password, normally the digits would be covered up with the little dot thingies, right? Not on 2.0. In 2.0, each digit you type will appear and NOT get hidden under a 'dot' until you type the next digit. FRAKING LAME!
So why upgrade to 2.0? It's stupid, costs ya $10, you can't customize it half as much and to be honest, I personally find the App Store to be a sad comparison to installer. 1.1.4 works perfectly fine and apple recently released a 1.1.5 [with many bug fixes] in response to the leaked 2.0 firmware through their own software... and I might add that 1.1.5 is perfectly jail-breakable and customizable if you install a patch that, in essence, only changes the number back to 1.1.4 for installation compatibility. Therefore, while 2.0 has some nice features, it isn't really worth it. This has been a useful fact by Aeries. Have a nice day. <3 <3 <3
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It is the Aquada.
This... looks kind of good actually.
Usually floating cars either don't look right, or perform one of the two roles shitty (car or boat).
This claims 160 km/h on land (can't find acceleration tho) and 26 knots on water. (counts as a speedboat)
These are made by a company called, "Gibbs"- just like me. Apparently, the US DOD is interested in some of their larger designs as a special operations vehicle.
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Atlantis, is a subject of interest because an ancient Greek, historian, who usually was quite objective speaks about it. Said Greek historians were quite useful because they were treating history scientifically and were seeing themselves as "historians", as opposed to other historians in the era which were mixing everything with myth, or worse, politics.
What I find more interesting however, is not so much the refference of Atlantis itself, but the rest of the passage. And I quote:
"...This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be
most truly called a boundless continent..."
Now, note, that "Pillaers of Heracles/Hercules" was, (we know that for sure), the way the ancient Greeks reffered to Gibraltar. Atlantis was supposed to be just outside it, except it isn't anymore, which might be him just recounting a myth he has heard from others. However doesn't anyone find damn interesting, him continuing and saying: that from the other side of Atlantis, is the opposite continent, around which is the true ocean?
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Sounds like from the early days after Pangaea.
But larger than Libia (Africa) and Asia? That's a bit large....
Sure it isn't one of those famous of by 10 or 10000? :P
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I think it's a reference to N. America.
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I think it's a reference to N. America.
atlantis? north america??
Pfft, we all know that the true atlantis is the UK :p
the song "this is pop" starts with the word "yes".
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Ok, I just had to show this. Look at Chakotay!!! It's only been 7 years since Voy finished. How much has he changed???
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Beltran_at_SFX2007_8-24-07_%28cropped%29.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Chakotay.jpg)
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Alaxander Siddig's real name is, Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Karim El Mahdi
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The Smoking Memo
The Downing Street "Memo" is actually the minutes of a meeting of many of the British Prime Minister's senior ministers on July 23, 2002, regarding meeting with their counterparts in the Bush Administration, up to and including the president.
It details how "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMDs."
Among the memo's highlights:
- "Bush had made up his mind to take military action...But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea, or Iran."
- "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
- The U.S. "timeline (called for war) beginning 30 days before the U.S. Congressional elections."
- "We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with legal justification for the use of force."
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The 6th man on moon says space aliens are real:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1037471/Aliens-HAVE-contact-covered-claims-Apollo-14-astronaut.html
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yeah, i saw that on the news, pretty neat
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The 6th man on moon says space aliens are real:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1037471/Aliens-HAVE-contact-covered-claims-Apollo-14-astronaut.html
Truth? An old man trying to revive the glory days? Senile? Framed with false data for whatever reason?
Personally I doubt there's truth to this. Note how he never claims to have seen an alien or a UFO by himself.
He was just "in on the fact they're here". What was he told, by whom, for what reason...?
No matter. Universe is a big place, and while I do believe there's a good chance other life exists somewhere out there, I just think that the probability of this being true is very low indeed. The distances involved, the technology required.. all just too far fetched. Till I see a Zeta Reticuli mothership requesting a landing clearance with the complementary windshield wipe, I'm remaining doubtful.
It's funny. How years progressed, so have the designs of UFOs and their crews respectively. Seems the aliens are careful to follow the current design trends of Earth :twisted:
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Personally I used to believe. I mean, obviously not 100%. But deep down, devouring every single abductee story I could find, watching through the telescope in my room for UFOs (awww, isn't little Senator cute?). Believing them in a "so many people can't be wrong" kind of way.
Now I for sure, don't rather than do believe, because of a specific train of thought.
You see, the problem is that now, I have read a lot more of "new generation" Sci-Fi authors, who, are on and on about Transhumanism, the Technological Singularity, nanobots, universal constructors, nano fog-lets, uploading, computronium, and to sum up. Frankly at this point, I am not even sure if humans will "colonise the solar system" or is even worth the effort.
The point is simple:
Computronium is awesome. And nono clouds and universal constructors are awesome. And uploading you mind into a computer is also awesome. Because what you have then, is a technology you can make very tough and reduntant, taking very little space, getting rid of silly organic bodies, and switching in and out of virtual reality world with physical laws you control.
(For the record, computronium is just a buzzwords for matter, arranged in such a way as to have maximum information processing ability per volume. According to some of 'em authors. 1kg of it should have enough ability to simulate, not only a human brain, not only all human brains on earth, but all human brains that have ever existed, so you get an of how much computational ability that one is)
This means, that my idea of an advanced civilization now, is far more likely to have spaceships where the crew compartment is thumbdrive sized. Inside of which crewmembers will be living in a reality where each one has villa on a hill, surrounded by a forest. In fact, you can simulate an infinite amount of environments which would technically make it feel more spatious and less restricted than an entire planet. In fact, with that technology you don't need planets any more. Why colonise when you can colonise your own computronium? The only purpose for every other matter in the universe is to be converted into more of it, or energy to power it up.
In other words, I find it far more believable now that, that there is a cutoff where, after a civilization beats around in animal form for a while then, blam it goes and converts itself into a dyson sphere cloud supercomputer kind of thingy, as opposed to going around in Federation ships with captain sitting in comfy chairs while living their poor tactical officers standing.
I find it hard to believe then, that the Greys, being an advanced civilization would be fooling around with organic bodies and saucers. Even the medical examinations are starting to sound too primitive to say the truth. Not when I am seeing research of nanobots with cells grafted on them (so they convert glucoze from the blood into energy, easier than carrying batteries) being done right now by us.
The only way the Greys would sound believable to me, is if someone said to me (my theory btw) that it is the Flying Saucers themselves that are actually intelligent, and the Greys are nothing more than robotic, remotedly controlled manipulators for the physical world. They look organic, because good robotics would look so anyway. (Biology is already very good nanotechnology. In my definitions of a "robot" I see no reason why it has to be made out of "metal")
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No, I haven't smoked anything.
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Senator: I've heard that train of thought before.. Like you, I had my "I want to believe" phase which has since passed, for slightly different reasons, tho. As for the rest, you make some interesting points. While I'm not ready to 100% subscribe to them, they are compelling.
But yeah. Greys abducting people, then probing them with various instruments does sound kind of primitive for a super advanced race (ANY race that has the technology to make the trip of such proportions on a regular basis, in a reasonable amount of time, is super advanced in my book.) My biggest problem with alien abduction and encounters is this: alien motives and M.O. always seem like a product of a contemporary human mind, rather then one of a very advanced being from another world.
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You could also consider it this way:
If you have the technology to make trips easily, then you sure as 1 + 1 = 11 (base 1 mind you) you will have to have saved on something else.
Maybe ethics, maybe defense, maybe weapons, or maybe medical equipment. ;)
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"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me"
? Pete Conrad, (somewhat shorter in stature than Armstrong) the first to step on the moon from the second mission that landed, as he stepped onto the lunar surface for the first time.
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What an amazing feeling that must have been.
And yet, there have been more people on the moon, than have been to the bottom of the oceans...
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*waves hand and telepathetically extracts Weasel's memories*
You were so watching Seaquest.
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Heh, I did love that show- but no. It was a phrase I heard recently on Discovey Channel's Blue Planet. It is nevertheless true, however.
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I can quite understand why. When you go to the bottom of the sea you are working with so much pressure, while going to the moon gives you hardly any at all. ;)
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(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4304/88560288gy9.jpg)
That's the amount of surface you'd need to cover in Sahara with Solar panels, in order to meet a) The world's energy demants (Welt), b) the EU's energy demants.
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So, let's get us a nice patch of desert and start building, right?
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That'd mean a smeg load of cabling though...VERY heavy duty stuff too....now that stuff costs ;)
sorry, just thinking logistically like I'm paid to do :)
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Anyone else slightly concerned about the fourth that Europe uses?
Or roughly a third that the US uses? And, comparitively, a mere 0,41666666666666666666666666666667 that the rest of the world uses?
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Nah, they're just illiterate cavemen to serve as our resource dens, or so I hear from the apologists of capitalism ;)
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Meh, attempts at humor, except that in order to do humor, you have to have "charisma". Clinton could do it, Bush can't.
Now let's switch to new targets:
Ok, I suppose it could be a mistake. I often confuse the presidents of Russia and Germany... ok, I never have in my life but still someone could have.
It's not as if he thinks Pakistan and Iraq have a border or something:
Yes okay he does. But look, its not as if it is a war area for a foreign policy advisor to tactically memorize or something.
At least his is knowledgable of Czechoslovakia's relationships with Russia. Don't you just love this authoritative tone? That's a man on to every deal of Russia with its neighbors:
(If only Chezochoslovakia still existed. Which it hasn't for 15 years)
But okay, everyone does one mistake right?
Okay twice.
(in light of which, I can understand why he might think Putin is the president of Germany. If thats the date he is stuck at, Putin as president of the CCCP is of cource the president of Eastern Germany as well)
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lol nice
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It's the WhiteKnightTwo:
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7605/vmsevetowxh4.jpg)
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:lol: Looks like a bad kitbash.
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It's the WhiteKnightTwo:
(http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/7587/vmsevetowve1.jpg)
rather special so says the bearded one :)
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A cloud is usually composed of 1 gram of water per cubic meter.
This means, that a relatively small cloud, with a volume of about a cubic km, weights about 1 million kg aka 1000 tons, aka about 500 cars.
What saves your head, is that the air around it weights more than that.
Specifically, air's weight changes according to its density, which is thicker the closer to the ground, and less so the more you go up. The height a cloud floats is the height the air below the cloud, is more dense than the cloud itself.
In other words, clouds float for the same reason a piece of wood floats in water. Essentially, then it is as if above us the air is like a sea, on which stuff less dense than it, float. We on the other hand being more dense than air sink at the bottom of it like a rock.
And now you know how crabs feel.
EDIT: Very poetic, but it is actually wrong. Here is the true mechanism: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/science_sky/116567
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The amount of water inside a cloud is roughly the same as the water outside it (per unit volume). The difference is that the cloud exists in a patch of air where temperature and pressure are such that the air cannot sustain water vapour and liquid droplets form. This process of condensation also requires the presence of a particle to catalyse the condensation, an aerosol. Specifically in this case it's referred to as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).
Various sulphur compounds are good CCN and an increase of them into the atmosphere increases cloud formation. This trick is done in order to break weather systems and dispense with rain early than if the cloud was just to rain out naturally. Suitable compounds are also released by many species of oceanic plankton (and multiple other animals).
Now, he's the important bit of QI: The plankton produce more CCN when its warmer. Therefore, warmer weather means more clouds. However more clouds increases the albedo of the earth. Higher albedo leads to lower temperatures. Lower temperatures means lower rates of metabolism for the plankton which means less CCN, which means less cloud, which means higher temperatures, which means higher metabolism, which means more CCN, which means more cloud, which means lower temperatures...
It's an isolated system and it's unlcear whether it applies to the whole Earth and many other things, but there's some good work gone into it.
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Did you know that the internet as we know it is only around 5000 days old?
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Speaking of crabs...
(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/6070/coconutcrabscampering4smx3.jpg)
(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7279/coconutcrabhm3.jpg)
This is the coconut crab.
Guess why it is called like this, yet it is real and yes it is that big. (It is in fact "the" biggest terrestial crab and yes this means it does just fine on land. In fact it drowns in water)
It is usually found in some tropical islands.
I am very happy that I have this knowledge now because I suspect that if I had gone to a nice tropical island, in a cute beach hut (next to, say, coconut trees), and empirically found out about their existance (eg, wake up with one on the bed) I would have temporarely defacated significant amounts of construction materials.
(Also if one pinches you, you apparently have to tickle its belly to let go)
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yikes..
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I think they're way cute :)
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If that thimg pinches you there's no way you'd have a arm left to tickle it with!!!
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Useful fact: I'm 19 today! :D :D :D :D :D <3
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More Usefuller Fact: I turned 32 the day before yesterday :P
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Useful fact: Jimmy calls himself old, yet he is in fact quite young. He also needs a nice cooler, some pop corn, and some good trek to keep him awake. :3
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he is young at heart, i guess thats what counts.
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he is young at heart, i guess thats what counts.
so is my old man and yet he still walks around like a man with a farked knee..
oh wai...
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lol you people are freaks :P
anyway - Captian Obvious - i shrunk this down to within the avatar limits (i think they are anyway) if you wanted it...
not sure how it will look tho...
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Quagmires
As Dubya's personal counsel, Harriet Miers was the "decider" who led the search to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. Her search came to the same conclusion as Dick Cheney's when asked to choose Dubya's running mate - they both nominated themselves.
At her Congress confirmation, her Judicial Committee Questionnaire required a "do-over" after her answers proved her knowledge of constitutional law "inadequate." Opposition to ehr nomination snowballed, even among conservative Republicans, and when the White House refused to turn over records of her service for reasons of "national security", her nomination was withdrawn.
Her chief qualification seems to have been that she considered Dubya "the most brilliant man I ever met" and "the best governor ever."
169 Days Left!
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lol you people are freaks :P
anyway - Captian Obvious - i shrunk this down to within the avatar limits (i think they are anyway) if you wanted it...
not sure how it will look tho...
I doth love thee :D
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(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3008/policerobotxz8.jpg)
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The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 :p
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Napoleon destroyed it. :p
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Somewhat useful facts? Here are a couple I just recently discovered...
Alexander Enberg who plays Vorik in Voyager is actually the son of Voyager and TNG producer Jeri Taylor.
The father of actress Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing fame) was a guest star in Voyager Episode Resistance, playing the character Caylem.
Voyager actor Raphael Sbarge has done Voice Overs for many games including Mass Effect.
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Our Favorite Articles Of Impeachment
Under the constitution, the executive branch cannot spend monies without congressional appropriation. Prior to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the military buildup in Kuwait to secretly prepare for the launch of the attack on Iraq.
According to Bob Woddard in Plan Of Attack, these funds could only have come from monies specifically appropriated for the response to 9/11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan.
- From Article I of House Resolution 1106: Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States, introduced by Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on December 8, 2006
166 Days Left!
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Right now, an average hard disk is around 250Gb. This is enough to hold the information of 125000 books.
It is worth noting that in 1970, 80Mb of brand new storage cost $12000
Today, 2008, 2Tb of brand new storage costs around $400.
The Library of Congress is estimated to hold about 70 Terabyte of data. Thus, if digital, it could be stored in 35 2Tb discs for almost the same cost for 80Mb in 1970. (Cost does not include the cost of doing a heck lot of scanning).
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You've also failed to take inflation into account. That $12000 was worth more in 1970 than it is today.
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Today's date is:
08 / 08 / 08
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Providence, Rhode Island (the city where i live) was just named the 4th Hardest-Drinking City in the US by
Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/07/alcohol-drinking-cities-forbeslife-drink08-cx_de_avb_0807hard_slide_5.html?thisSpeed=15000)
(lol go figure :P)
5th - Chicago, Illinois
4th - Providence, Rhode Island
3rd - San Fransisco, California
2nd - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1st - Austin, Texas
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Today's date is:
08 / 08 / 08
As the great S.a. Brain once said
"It's brains you want" :D
Brains Smooth FTW!!
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And now time for some terrorist propaganda: :mrgreen:
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Million
Billion
Trillion
But what goes after that? Ever wondered about that? After all, how are you going to explain to people how many years you'd like to live?
In case you ever wondered then, here is how the list goes after that (up to 10120)
quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000
quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
nonillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
decillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
undecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duodecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tredecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuordecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quindecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sexdecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septendecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octodecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemdecillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
vigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
unvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duovigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
trevigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuorvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quinvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sexvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septenvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octovigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemvigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
trigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
untrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
duotrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
googol 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tretrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quattuortrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
quintrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
septentrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
octotrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
novemtrigintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
For the record, life from the unicellular level and the subsequent evolution of it, is about 3.7 billion years old.
Earth itself, as a solid planet, is abut 4.5 billion years old
The Sun concetrated and ignited, about 4.59 billion years ago
And the Big Bang which from the looks of it created this local universe, happened 13.73 billion years ago.
As you can understand, a quintillion alone is a pretty big number then. And a novemtrigintillion, a really big number.
Not as big as 105327 also known as: "one hundred milliaseptingenquattuorseptuagintillion" of cource. But big enough. 8)
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What about a googleplex? Or perhaps googleplexplex, or alephzeroplex or the other big numbers mentioned in Science of Discworld?
And you're wrong. We all know the Earth was made only 6000 years ago out of nowhere, light was faster, atoms decayed quicker too and all fossils were made by a big rain storm which explains everything.
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What about a googleplex? Or perhaps googleplexplex, or alephzeroplex or the other big numbers mentioned in Science of Discworld?
And you're wrong. We all know the Earth was made only 6000 years ago out of nowhere, light was faster, atoms decayed quicker too and all fossils were made by a big rain storm which explains everything.
To write Googolplex (note the typo made by the Google founders), you would need more space than is avaidable. Atleast, Carl Sagan said so. :P
Don't know about the other (I'm afraid I haven't yet found those books), but I can imagine that googolplexplex is 10 to the googolplex.
Not as such random trivia, the (only) reason that Google looks so "simple" (the classic interface at the very least) was "designed" as such because the Google founders didn't known enough HTML to make it work. A more hopefull reason would be as an answer to the, at that time (still is I suppose), common practise to fill up all screen real estate with whatever you can find, or if all else fails, ads.
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And now, Monster Trucks:
(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4015/monsterjt3.jpg)
I always wondered why they are not more widely used, especially by the military. I mean, they are in the end very good off-roaders, and not too slow either.
Take the Hummer (or HMMWV more accurately). They are big, heavy, gas guzzling, but in the end, they can just about climb an obstacle about 0.5m vertical and as they understand, they are a bit of a favorite to blow up with IEDs.
In that one, an IED would blow up a wheel alright but the rest of it would be much further from it. Also note the detail that a lot of these have the engine "under" the car than in front of it, so that would act as further armor. Sure they are a bit of a bigger target, but most modern weapons that can hit this, can hit a Hummer as well, and shipping would be a biatch. But body and wheels could probably be shipped seperately. Plus there is the coolness factor, of driving around armored monster trucks with guns.
An other idea of Senator Tech, my weapons company, when I get around in making it.
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I'd love that :) like I luuuurve my bedford 14 tonners!!
but seriously a 14 tonner can fit through some suprisingly small gaps. THAT beast would have trouble fitting into some of our vehicle parks (on bases fyi) It's hard enough parking up our current trucks!
plus the 14 tonner wheels are mabye an eighth of the size of those f**kers..and those wheels are far to heavy for 2 people to lift let alone those monstertruck wheels!!!
anyone for some monster truck madness?? (if you can remember that lol)
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(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4015/monsterjt3.jpg)
good lord! holy gas mileage, batman! lol
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(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4015/monsterjt3.jpg)
good lord! holy gas mileage, batman! lol
that too..
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For some reason, I doubt as much as a Hummer. :P
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For some reason, I doubt as much as a Hummer. :P
Much, much less, actually. The military HMMV's are diesel powered.
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For some reason, I doubt as much as a Hummer. :P
Much, much less, actually. The military HMMV's are diesel powered.
well hooray for diesel :)
The surname of the man who invented these engines was diesel ;)
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Chemically speaking. Calcium is a metal.
Feel free to say that you have a metallic skeleton then.
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Its an armed/armoured train.
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7363/smialywagonaltyleryjskizg8.jpg)
Also, sneaky Russians:
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9402/400pxrt23icbmcomplexinszp5.jpg)
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Best to make sure the driver avoids tunnels and low bridges....
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It only gets erected when it is time for action.
The long and hard missile I mean.
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It only gets erected when it is time for action.
The long and hard missile I mean.
Dayum, Sen! Down, boy! xD
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fred armisen has been on SNL for 6 seasons.
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1797 Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney contracts to manufacture 10,000 muskets for the U.S. Army. At the time, an entire musket would be made by a single person, without standardized measurements. Whitney divided the labor into several discrete steps and standardized parts to make them interchangeable.
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According to IMDB trivia, if you took all the polygons in the Transformers movie and put them end to end, they would reach the moon and back and have enough left over to build the Great Wall of China. Please say it's not just CG nuts that get the problem with this......
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Well if you think about it, taking it frame by frame, at what ever resolution it was made in, it could be plausable.
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You will soon be able to pretend to be captain Kirk.
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/get_your_own_star_trek_captain.php (http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/get_your_own_star_trek_captain.php)
(Slightly NSFW review)
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Maybe They Should Put It At A Grade School
Nearing the end of the administration, Southern Methodist University, Laura Bush's Texas alma mater, emerged as the frontrunner to house the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
Faculty and Staff at SMU promptly launched a protest and circulated a petition to reject the library:
"We count ourselves among those who would regret to see SMU enshrine attitudes and actions widely deemed as egregious: degradation of habeas corpus, outright denial of global warming, flagrant disregard for international treaties, alienation pg long-term U.S. allies, environmental redation, shameful disrespect for gay persons and their rights, a preemptive war based on false and misleading premises, and a host of other erosions of respect for the global human community and for is good Earth on which our flourishing depends."
148 Days Left!
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yay double post :P
Profiles In Outrage: Richard Pombo
U.S. Representative for California's 11th Congressional district, Republican Richard Pombo, openly dreams of wiping out the Endangered Species Act, selling off national parks and mountains, handing public lands over to mining companies and drilling for oil off every coastline, all while potraying himself as a champion of "private property rights."
He has been rewarded the United States Business and Industrial Council, the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Chamber of Commerce for his activism in reducing government regulation and taxation.
He is also author of This Land Is Our Land, a book that advocates private property rights; the "our" refers to ranchers like him who own the land.
- www.duckcheney.com
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The funny thing is that in Capitalism, something is your property by virtue of it representing a piece of your life. You own your life, therefore you own what has been created with your life-time and life-energy.
But, here's the catch, nobody created "land".
I must have missed the point where someon can capitalisticaly claim land as theirs that does not involve a huge act of government somewhere inbetween, probably terminating to a feudal King and an army of thieves, thugs and murderers.
So its a bit of a funny point, but in "proper" capitalism, you can own a sculpture, because you own the energy you invested in shaping it, you can own bottled water, because you own the act of bottling it, you can own a house obviously, but you can't own land.
Those who say so, are incidentially called Geolibertarians. Who in fact say that there should not be a single tax in existance, but the tax to the community for the right to exclude others from a piece of land. No one might be using that name but its not an idea that didn't exist since Thomas Paine's time, who wrote:
"Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."
The only case of properly "capitalistically" created land I can think of, are the palm islands in Dubai.
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Oh, Yeah?
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
- Dubya, September 1, 2005, three days after the breach
Exhibit A: Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a CNN interview on August 27 that the storm could bring a 15 to 20 foot surge of water and the people of New Orleans "will not survive that if it happens."
Exhibit B: Federal disaster officials warned Bush and his homeland security chief during the August 28 session "the storm could breach levees."
Exhibit C: New Orleans Mayor Ray Magin told a news conference on August 29: "The storm will likely topple our levee system."
Exhibit D: FEMA Director Brown testified that prior to the disaster "in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff; our concern was always the breach of the levees."
146 Days Left!
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Oh, Yeah?
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
- Dubya, September 1, 2005, three days after the breach
Exhibit A: Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a CNN interview on August 27 that the storm could bring a 15 to 20 foot surge of water and the people of New Orleans "will not survive that if it happens."
Exhibit B: Federal disaster officials warned Bush and his homeland security chief during the August 28 session "the storm could breach levees."
Exhibit C: New Orleans Mayor Ray Magin told a news conference on August 29: "The storm will likely topple our levee system."
Exhibit D: FEMA Director Brown testified that prior to the disaster "in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff; our concern was always the breach of the levees."
146 Days Left!
*Says with a more adamant voice*
No, we did not anticipate the breach of the levees.
Anyway, the, apparent, translation for the Dutch word "dijk" is apparently "leve(e)".
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(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7936/howtobeaninjavy0zs3.jpg)
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Fail...
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Fail...
Your post lacks a fact.
FACT.
:D
:D
:D
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Perhaps the post was self referential.
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The most expensive actual substance in the universe is:
Antimatter.
Present day cost: $300 billion per milligram
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the person who badmouthed Jack Donaghy to the press in the 30 rock episode "MILF Island" was actually Liz Lemon herself.
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Its a giant clam:
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5300/tridacnagigaslc8.jpg)
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and some guy who is thinking that he is about to die :D
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My Pet President
Contrary to what most Americans think, President Bush didn't first learn of the 9/11 attacks while reading My Pet Goat to a class of schoolchildren in Florida.
Earlier, on arriving at the school, Chief of Staff Andrew Card had instructed Bush on his duties that morning and then added, "By the way, an aircraft flew into the World trade Center."
It wasn't until after the second plane struck that Andy Card whispered in the seated president's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
138 Days Left!
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My Pet President
Contrary to what most Americans think, President Bush didn't first learn of the 9/11 attacks while reading My Pet Goat to a class of schoolchildren in Florida.
Earlier, on arriving at the school, Chief of Staff Andrew Card had instructed Bush on his duties that morning and then added, "By the way, an aircraft flew into the World trade Center."
It wasn't until after the second plane struck that Andy Card whispered in the seated president's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
138 Days Left!
Yeah, but there was a massive difference between the first and second hits. It was an accident until the second when it was surely an attack and then there was the collapse which changed things even further.
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Incidentially, if LHC destroys the world, those will be your last 24 hours.
EDIT: Ah, cancel your planned orgies and resume normal boring behavior, the actual experiment that will destroy the world won't happen until October 21.
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according to british army doctrine, if caught in a minefield you are to get your (non)issued mine prodding tool, go prone and start prodding a 1.6m wide corridor to the nearest hard standing (concrete, patio etc.). you are to prod at an angle of 30 degrees to the ground and at 25mm intervals.
takes f**king hours that..
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According to NOVA Science Now!, there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on Earth.
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i just saw that show lol
there are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans...
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When you have been up for 36 hours straight (or more) and have been driving for a long period of time over a longdistance in those 36 hours you may begin to hallucinatte.
I saw tanks with wings and strapons dancing down the M1..#]
fuuuck i'm tired...
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When you have been up for 36 hours straight (or more) and have been driving for a long period of time over a longdistance in those 36 hours you may begin to hallucinatte.
I saw tanks with wings and strapons dancing down the M1..#]
fuuuck i'm tired...
So, same ol' stuff. Good. Now go have a coffee. Hell, I'd join ya if I wasn't busy as f*cking hell. xD
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Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper coined the term 'computer bug' and 'Debugging the system' when she discovered a moth trapped in an old computer system, causing random glitches. Hence, the terms 'computer bug' and 'debugging' are still in use today.
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Apart from destroying the world (but not really), other uses for CERN are going to be:
Making quark?gluon plasma, which is how the universe looked a bit after the Big Bang, in order to errr, see what happens. Incidentially making that requires temperatures 100000 times hotter than the heart of the Sun.
Finding the damn Higgs boson.
Since they are up to it, find any other particles that might pop up and make up dark matter.
Confirming or leaving in tears a couple of theories concerning how many dimensions the universe has. Useful in a "no matter what it is, it is not that way" kind of way in order to advance cosmology.
Try to figure out why we are made of matter and not antimatter. (technically according to the current model there should have been equal amounts of both around)
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Since its a bit current, have some sexy photos from LHC:
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6450/lhc1jf5.jpg)
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/9061/lhc11pw1.jpg)
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/8182/lhc7bk3.jpg)
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/8351/lhc20dj9.jpg)
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/9353/lhc18fd9.jpg)
(http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/3191/lhc21ya9.jpg)
( http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html )
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kewl
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Very.
But I think some slightly more complex solution might be nice, say, 4 degrees of freedom? (Ie. the ability to easily go sideways and things like that) All fluently moving. Maybe even using those new artificial musles (sp)? It would have to be AI/Computer controlled.
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kewl
Wild Wild West all over again...
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That's what happens when the safety break, doesn't safely break.
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That's what happens when the safety break, doesn't safely break.
I think that may count as "catastrophic chassis failure" :)
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the latest statistics show that Rhode Island has the 2nd highest unemployment rate in the entire US, 2nd only to Michigan, at 8.5%... RI has a population of just over one million (with a land area size of only 1,045 square miles)
i still hate my job tho...
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That's what happens when the safety break, doesn't safely break.
That is absolutely in-fucking-credible. I saw that on the failblog the other day and my jaw dropped. I would pay huge money to see that in person once.
From a safe distance.
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(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5769/thewaterisgrrreatbi7.jpg)
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Well, somebody had to do it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799369.ece
Japan is hosting an international conference in November to draw up a timetable for the machine.
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If Britain was the size of america and didn't have masses on sparely populated areas, it's population would be minimum 12 times the size of america's
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Do you mean that the population density of Britain is 12x that of the US?
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How George W. Bush Dodged The Draft
In September 1999, Ben Barnes, a former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, testified under oath that in 1968 he asked the head of the Texas Air National Guard to give Bush a place on a pilot-training program, automatically excusing him from the draft. In his deposition, Barnes said he had been asked to intervene by Bush family friend Sidney Adger.
Dubya scored only 25 percent in his pilot aptitude test, the lowest acceptable grade. On his application form, he listed his "background qualifications" as "none". Competition for the few openings in the National Guard was intense, there was a waiting list of 100,000 nationally, yet Bush won a pilot's slot in the Texas Air National Guard. Nonetheless, in September of 1999, Dubya told the Dallas Morning News, "I can just tell you, I don't believe I received special treatment."
Then why, in 1997, did then-governor Bush award a no-bid contract for operating the Texas lottery to a Rhode Island corporation called GTech, whose lobbyist was Ben Barnes?
119 Days Left!
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Do you mean that the population density of Britain is 12x that of the US?
yes and more :D
The longest ever war was the 100yr war between Britain and france... It was actually 112 years!
The shortest ever was was 37 minutes, also started by britain, but I don't know against whom!
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Do you mean that the population density of Britain is 12x that of the US?
yes and more :D
The longest ever war was the 100yr war between Britain and france... It was actually 112 years!
The shortest ever was was 37 minutes, also started by britain, but I don't know against whom!
I tought there was some county that "forgot" to sign a peace treaty with Russia untill recently or something like that, wouldn't that not be the longest war?
I also believe they (the people from that country) said "Now the people of Russia can sleep peacefully" or something like that.
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I beleive that was between a town near the Scottish border that and Germany over WW2. They were seperate in the declaration of war, but omitted from the peace treaty until recently. I could be wrong though :lol
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yeah there is... I think it is Falkirk!
Did you know that the English Chanel is the busiest Waterway in the world, with over 1000 vessels in it at any one time... day or night!
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(http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7152/127092508china5pa3.jpg)
Manned launch by China today.
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Speaking of space, here is a "planet" that has been largely ignored, yet it is potentially one of the best targets for colonization in the Solar System after Mars:
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/516/ganymedeg1trueac1.jpg)
Ganymede.
In case you wonder, where the hell is Ganymede, the answer is that it is actually a satellite/moon of Jupiter. It's size however is quite respectable.
For comparison:
Diameter of Mars: 6,792 km
Diameter of Ganymede: 5,262.4 km
Diameter of Mercury (which is considered a planet): 4,878 km
In other words, that's practically a small Mars in orbit around Jupiter. Unlike Mars, it actually possess a magnetosphere and, ironically, an almost pure oxygen atmosphere (No, don't even think about it, too thin, too cold).
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Also, for those who thought cosmology was pretty much complete, and also have a good sense of scale. Today this:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080923-dark-flows.html
This. Is. So. Awesome.
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Very.
Multiple big bangs don't seem so farfetched as of yet (they are strengthend by this). ;)
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Eric Who?
In 2001 Richard Clarke, the government's senior counterterrorism expert when Dubya took office, urged the administration to get more aggressive with al Qaeda, which he viewed as the primary threat to American security. Dubya's national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, responded by downgrading his status and refusing to let him speak directly to the president or secretary of defense. Clark resigned in 2003.
When General Eric Shinseki, four-star Army Chief of Staff, told the president he should double the number of troops in Iraq, Rumsfeld appointed the general's successor an unprecedented 14 months before the end of Shinseki's term. Equally unprecedented, at Shinseki's resignation ceremony, customarily attended by the secretary of defense, no senior administration official was present.
116 Days Left!
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Just discovered something. The longest war was actually between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly.
During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians beat the Royalists further and further back, until they were forced to retreat to the Isles of Scilly. The Dutch, siding with the Parliamentarians, sent their Navy to attack the Isles. They were so badly beaten, they declared war on the Isles. Before they could do anything though, the Isles were retaken by the Parliamentairans and the Dutch simply forgot about the war! That was in 1651. In 1985, the Chairman of the Isles of Scilly Council (Roy Duncan) looked into rumours that they were still at war with the Dutch. He then invited the Dutch ambassador to sign the peace treaty, and thus, the 335 year war between them was ended!
EDIT:
Also, found something else. I was partially right :P
In the declaration of war with Russia in 1853 (ie The Crimean War), Queen Vic said:
"Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and the British Dominions beyond the sea."
But no mention of Berwick-upon-Tween was in The Treaty of Paris.
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town on the north bank of the River Tweed. Up to 1482, the town had changed hands between England and Scotland 14 times! Before Scotland was defeated by England, the town was given the special status of being "of" the Kingdom of England, not "in" it. Therefore, it needed to be mentioned in Royal proclamations. The peace treaty between Russia and Berwick-upon-Tweed was eventually signed in 1966. As the mayor said at the time: "You can tell the Russian people that they can now sleep peacefully in their beds"!
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Here is a suretell sign of a proud geek/nerd:
"I can't find a way to order by library, it's like defragmenting a harddrive without enough freespace."
And yes, in this case it's about a library of books. Say, more than 400 or so, in a small room.
Oh, and if you can see why the analogy is correct, be proud of it!
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I was saying about the digital handycams that take pictures some time ago, but their quality apparently is a bit shit.
On the other hand, from the other side we now have the Digital Cameras that can take video, and HD video in fact. Eg,
Nikon D90, that can capture at 720p
And the Canon 5D Mark II, which can capture at 1080p
Which are very very interesting, because those are of cource, perfectly good and full DSLR cameras first, and so have a big lens, and in fact can have in front of them mounted any other lens, like telephoto, fish eye etc, and their quality, as I understand it, is awesome.
They only have two small problems:
A) Storage. Handycams now cam with 60 and 80GB internal storage, while digital cameras still rely on SD cards which are about 8ish or so.
B) If you have to ask how much they cost, you can't afford them. In fact you will probably be charged for the question alone.
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I think you would need a really big eye-fi card for video. And a bloody good wifi connection. ;)
The big eye-fi card for the cache.
And even then you could only take 10minutes at a time. :(
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Not amazing news, but we (Europeans) just copycated the C130. Slightly updated in everything of cource. (Cargo, Range, Sexy Glass Cockpit with joysticks, can go 10,000ft higher etc)
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7866/42216155il9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Airbus Military, now you don't hear those words every day.
Silly nationalists might want to note that not only its a pan-European company making it. Just for the turboprops alone a whole new company was set up. (EuroProp) owned:
28% by the United Kingdom
28% by France
28% byGermany
16% by Spain
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1.4 km.
The height Nakheel is rumored to want its new tower to have. That incidentally means that not only Dubai is going to have the first "kilometric" tower, but they have gone a bit overboard with it and is by far taller than the Burj Dubai.
Specifically:
That is Taipai 101 which is (or was, depenting at which stage the construction of Burj Dubai is), the tallest skyscraper in the world:
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7421/taipei101nu6.jpg)
As you can see it suffers from the interesting effect of making the mere "tall" buildings around it look like little houses.
The Nakheel tower will be almost THREE times that.
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1.4 km.
The height Nakheel is rumored to want its new tower to have. That incidentally means that not only Dubai is going to have the first "kilometric" tower, but they have gone a bit overboard with it and is by far taller than the Burj Dubai.
Specifically:
That is Taipai 101 which is (or was, depenting at which stage the construction of Burj Dubai is), the tallest skyscraper in the world:
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7421/taipei101nu6.jpg)
As you can see it suffers from the interesting effect of making the mere "tall" buildings around it look like little houses.
The Nakheel tower will be almost THREE times that.
It should be noted that that building is right next to an earthquake fault like and slap bang in the middle of Monsoon City, yet its perfectly safe!
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Yeah, it has a giant BALL in the center of the building acting as a counterweight if the tower leans on one direction.
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Not amazing news, but we (Europeans) just copycated the C130. Slightly updated in everything of cource. (Cargo, Range, Sexy Glass Cockpit with joysticks, can go 10,000ft higher etc)
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7866/42216155il9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Airbus Military, now you don't hear those words every day.
Silly nationalists might want to note that not only its a pan-European company making it. Just for the turboprops alone a whole new company was set up. (EuroProp) owned:
28% by the United Kingdom
28% by France
28% byGermany
16% by Spain
What's this plane called?
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Not amazing news, but we (Europeans) just copycated the C130. Slightly updated in everything of cource. (Cargo, Range, Sexy Glass Cockpit with joysticks, can go 10,000ft higher etc)
Airbus Military, now you don't hear those words every day.
Silly nationalists might want to note that not only its a pan-European company making it. Just for the turboprops alone a whole new company was set up. (EuroProp) owned:
28% by the United Kingdom
28% by France
28% byGermany
16% by Spain
What's this plane called?
A400M?
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[irony]very astute [/irony]
sry lol
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Rho Cassiopeiae is a yellow hypergiant star about 550,000 times the size of the sun, is about 11,650 light years away, and has a habitable zone of about 450 AU. It is one of the most luminous stars in the night sky.
It can also dance.
:dance
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A close up of Jupiter's atmosphere from Voyager:
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2594/jupiterfromvoyager1uv5.jpg)
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Our Favorite Articles Of Impeachment
"In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [50 U.S.C. Chapter 36], George Walker Bush did clandestinely direct the National Security Agency and various other intelligence agencies, in secret and outside lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes unrelated to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic surveillance of citizens of the Unites States on U.S. soil without seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial warrant, thereby circumventing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by Congress, whose express purpose is to check such abuses of executive power."
- From Article III of House Resolution 1106: Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the Unites States, introduced by Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on December 8, 2006
106 Days Left!
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yay double post :P
Secretary Of Defense Goodwrench
Among the many career army officers who were not impressed by former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's aggressive, can-do public persona was Lieutenant General David McKiernan, who commanded all U.S. ground troop in Iraq from 2002 to 2004. "In lieu of an order or plan," McKiernan said, "you get a set of PowerPoint slides."
"To imagine that PowerPoint slides can substitute for (formal written orders)," said Colonel Andrew Bacevich, commander of an armored cavalry regiment, "is really the height of recklessness."
Military correspondent Thomas Ricks of The Washington Post likened Rumsfeld's approach to being a garage mechanic who uses a glossy sales brochure to figure out how to fix a car.
105 Days Left!
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Yay, new Mercury piccies!
(http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2941/cn0131766595mlc6.png)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html
Looks a bit, moon-ish to say the truth. Also no stars which means that NASA is totally faking it.
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Oops. Now We Have To Come Up With Another Lie To Keep The Middle Class Quiet.
Advocates of estate tax repeal claimed it would benefit all Americans, especially small business owners and farmers whose families were often forced to sell their property in order to pay the estate tax.
However, a report files by Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy stated that "the American Farm Bureau was unable in 2001 to cite a single example of a family being forced to sell its farm because of estate tax liability."
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculated that the repeal of the death tax would save America's 4500 largest estates as much money as Bush's tax cuts gave to the 142 million lowest-income Americans combined.
102 Days Left!
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In flight refueling, lol. Notice that the aircraft is not touching the ground.
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9938/aeronca40qr3.jpg)
Apparently, the guys in this aircraft did a record keeping it flying for 1,008 hours (42 days!) doing that.
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In flight refueling, lol. Notice that the aircraft is not touching the ground.
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9938/aeronca40qr3.jpg)
Apparently, the guys in this aircraft did a record keeping it flying for 1,008 hours (42 days!) doing that.
now that's cool but how did they change pilots?
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I believe they didn't. There were two pilots, taking turns. You aren't setting an "endurance" record if you don't "endure" it after all.
Before you ask, no I don't know where it has the toilet, if it has a toilet, and even if it does, where the shower is. Boy, aren't deodorants great?
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The toilet is likely those door shaped things to the sides of the pilots :P
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Here is a useful fact:
You are going to die.
I'd say that most of you have 20,000 days left to live. Tops.
And after you sleep tonight it is going to be 19,999
I posted that fact on page 32, on the 9th of May.
Which means, you now have
19,843 left.
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PROFILES IN OUTRAGE: John Bolton
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made a name for himself in the Bush administration by fighting to exempt the U.S. from the International Criminal Court and torpedoing the enforcement of the Biological Weapons Convention.
He also made a name for himself in political circles going out of his way to crush dissent.
"He abuses his power and authority with little people," said a former State Department intelligence chief at his Senate confirmation hearing.
He wanted to move the United States out of the United Nations and the United Nations out of the United States, positions that earned him the contempt of his peers at the UN.
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Its a Laptop:
(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5525/1190539576376my9.jpg)
That one has a modem as well:
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7278/1190539479632ec7.jpg)
(but no battery actually)
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Its a Laptop:
(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5525/1190539576376my9.jpg)
Is that ?3.5 million I see there? :shock:
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No price is too big for 64 Kb of RAM.
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One helluva cool airship!
http://vimeo.com/1968128
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It's fun, isn't it?
Did you also see the squid/jellyfish version? It could "propel" itself upwards through the motion of it's tendrils.
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Yeah, that was really trippy. HAHA!!
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Rhode Island now has the #1 unemployment rate in the U.S. at 8.8%...
yay R.I.! we're number one! we're number one!! :dance
i still hate my goddamn job...
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Canada is the only divided country (as in, into provinces as the us is into states) in the world that does not have a unified education system with a national standard. Instead, each province is responsible for it's own educational institutions and graduating standards. This means that education is better or worse depending on the region one resides. At current, Ontario holds the best education system and graduating standard With Saskatchewan holding last place... Only above the Yukon, Nunavut, and North West Territories.
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(http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4053/vampyroteuthisillustratgk4.jpg)
It's a vampire squid.
It's latin name is Vampyroteuthis infernalis if it makes you feel better.
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(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5697/26zzhk9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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Not sure if it goes here or in "Current Affairs". hehehe
http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/
If everyone could vote in the US election.
Is it just me or is it a bit blue? HAHA!
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Considering the amount of votes, I would say that most of those totally blue countries just have 1 vote.
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only 8 had one vote
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93%for barack in germany :D
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right, I'm moving to macedonia!!!
or not.
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I am sure I have posted that picture before but I really like it:
(http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/4536/earthlights2dmspbiggm9.jpg)
I think the planet is inhabited...
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Know what's really funny?
Looking at that iftheworldcouldvote.com site, it says Madagascar had 4 votes (3 for obama).
And look at how many light "dots" there is in Madagascar in Senator's "Earth at Night" picture - 4 lights. :D :P
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note how countries with 0 votes default to being blue.
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really? they default to gray on my screen.
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Yeah, grey for me too.
And if you look in the list of nations, you'll only see nations that has voted.
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The speed of light is not 300,000 km/sec
Its 299,792.458 km/sec
Thats almost 208 km/sec difference!
For comparison, the speed of sound is 0.340 km/sec
The SR-71 (Blackbird), fastest airplane evah:
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/7842/765pxlockheedsr71blackbbv7.jpg)
When it was really meaning it, was said to go at about 3,530 km/h.
That was an "h" grasshopper so that's actually 0.9 km/sec
Contrary to popular belief that is not actually the fastest, airplane looking, thing though. The space shuttle goes 8,04 km/sec in order to stay in orbit. (and so does the space station)
That however isn't the fastest a human has ever got, that's the Apollo 10 which at some point (the crew capsule) went 11.08 km/sec
Which means that the fastest humans have ever got, can't even begin to cover the error between the actual and popular notion of the speed of light, and that light itself is very, very, very, fast.
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In the grand scheme of things, though, light is rather pathetically slow! It takes 8 and a half minutes to get from the Sun to the Earth.
Also, contrary to popular belief, the sun is white, not yellow/orange.
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Perhaps the grand scheme of things is too grand...
Center of the Galaxy to Earth: 26000 light years.
(I'd stick to the 4.5 light years Proxima Centauri for now if I were you)
And no FTL technology in sight yet.
And if none is found, space exploration is going to be quite an EPIC business.
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9558/ramabt6.jpg)
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Let Them Eat McNuggets
President Bush's budget for fiscal year 2007 called for a cut of $108 million in the Federal Supplemental Food Program for the poor, reducing food subsidies for 420,000 elderly Americans and 50,000 pregnant women.
This policy put recipients at greater risk for poor nutrition and resulting in poor health problems; scientific research suggests that in poor neighborhoods, both supermarkets and fast-food outlets are less likely to stock and sell nutritious food than they are in more affluent ones.
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The speed of light is not 300,000 km/sec
Its 299,792.458 km/sec
Thats almost 208 km/sec difference!
For comparison, the speed of sound is 0.340 km/sec
The SR-71 (Blackbird), fastest airplane evah:
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/7842/765pxlockheedsr71blackbbv7.jpg)
When it was really meaning it, was said to go at about 3,530 km/h.
That was an "h" grasshopper so that's actually 0.9 km/sec
Contrary to popular belief that is not actually the fastest, airplane looking, thing though. The space shuttle goes 8,04 km/sec in order to stay in orbit. (and so does the space station)
That however isn't the fastest a human has ever got, that's the Apollo 10 which at some point (the crew capsule) went 11.08 km/sec
Which means that the fastest humans have ever got, can't even begin to cover the error between the actual and popular notion of the speed of light, and that light itself is very, very, very, fast.
actually, the fastest plane was the X-15, which neil armstrong (and a few other apollo astronauts) earned his astronaut wings on.
The SR71 Blackbird was the fastest plane to take off and land under it's own power and not the fastest "3var"
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I protest! The X-15 wasn't an airplane, it was a rocket with wings going horizontally!
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Rhode Island is only one of two states in the U.S. that does not consider prostitution illegal - so long as it is indoors and between consenting adults...
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The capital of Switzerland is Berne and the capital of Australia is Canberra.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know these two.
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and the capital of Australia is Canberra.
Oh... thought it was Sydney.
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Yeah, many believe that. Sydney is the largest city while Canberra is only the sixth largest city.
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It's the same with the capitals of US states, its never the one you think it is!
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LOL yeah. Not many knows Sacramento is California's capital. Most think it's LA.
Same with Tallahassee and Miami in Florida etc.
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Victoria is BC's capital... almost EVERYONE I talk to on teh intarwebz thought it was Vancouver. WRONG-OOOOO. :P
Edit:
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland, because he doesn't wear pants!
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Bridge Commander has a capitol? :P
Ohio's is Columbus.
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When you get to South Africa, they have 2 capitals, one for the winter, and one for the summer.
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(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/1194/1224405881893rd9.jpg)
Useful fact: The above image is just black & white, so there is a lot more stuff going on there than just "the lines moving".
Useful fact 2: Your brain's visual processing center sucks.
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ow! my eyes hurt! can't stop staring! :P
A Weapon Of Mass Indifference
On November 1, 2005, in a very unusual action, Harry Reid (D-NV) moved that the Senate go into a closed session, a move intended to draw attention to the continuing controversy over the inaccuracy of the Bush administration's claim that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) had promised in July 2004 to investigate the administration's misuse of intelligence before the Iraq war, but had not yet released any findings of such an investigation.
When he called for the closed session, Reid expressed anger that a letter signed by Democratic senators to the White House demanding such an investigation gad been answered by a form letter.
83 Days Left!
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Useful fact: The above image is just black & white, so there is a lot more stuff going on there than just "the lines moving".
Useful fact 2: Your brain's visual processing center sucks.
what moving lines?
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if you see them, they will come...
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Some old sci-fi Trek art I stumbled upon:
(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4682/davidmattingly010wj8.jpg)
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I believe that is from the Animated series. not sure of the episode, and I'm not about to break out the DVDs and start watching......on second thought.....
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And here is some completely irrelevant with Trek art. That way to board your ship makes perfect sense doesn't it?
(http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/459/59558634mq1.jpg)
Btw, these are from: http://astrona.blogspot.com/search/label/Sci-Fi%20Art
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Heckuva Job, Wolfie!
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was one of the chief neocon architects of the Iraq war, the one who justified invading Iraq by saying that it was a "Brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily - it was doable."
His ideology dictated a pro-American democracy would flourish there and "Americans will be welcomed as liberators."
When confronted with international opposition, he pressed the neocon belief that diplomacy, allies, and coalitions were of little use, instead adhering to the Bush Doctrine, which features preemptive, unilateral military.
In the wake of the disastrous consequences one might think that he would have been forced to resign like FEMA Director Michael Brown after Katrina.
Instead, Dubya rewarded him with the Medal Of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian honor.
82 Days Left!
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Worlds oldest tree is older then civilization itself.
http://thelogblog.co.uk/index.php?article=1209026440
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Bet you don't know what this is:
(http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5312/yamato11ej0.jpg)
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Submarine?
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An f302 refit? :P
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It is a Mitsubisi Yamato 1 ship with a Magnetohydrodynamic drive of cource.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_1
Magnetohydrodynamics as in, no propellers, no pumps. Instead, moving water around it with an electromagnetic field because seawater is conductive like that.
It is from 1992.
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Also:
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1921/r89as8.jpg)
RAMMING SPEED!
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The Electorate Talks - And Rummy Walks
In April 2006, six retired army and marine corps generals, including two who were ground commanders in Iraq, called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, citing his hostility to the uniformed military and his incompetent planning for the war in, and occupation of Iraq.
In a written White House response, President Bush replied that the secretary had the president's "full support and deepest appreciation."
On November 8 of that year, one day after the Republicans lost both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, Dubya finally ousted the embattled secretary of defense.
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It is a not so prettyful building being slowly covered in prettyful vine.
(http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/6453/18193936gp4.jpg)
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looks like something for an airport... maybe an old control tower....
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7715345.stm :shock:
Also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7686622.stm
And also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7718015.stm
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(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3377/article10822900251fe6e0ai5.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html
The world's first blue Roses (as by their own genetic code, not pigment in their water etc) through genetic modification.
SCIENCE CONQUERS ALL! (Again)
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(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3377/article10822900251fe6e0ai5.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html
The world's first blue Roses (as by their own genetic code, not pigment in their water etc) through genetic modification.
SCIENCE CONQUERS ALL! (Again)
oooh pretty! :)
That Explains The Stockpiles Of Peashooters In Our Surveillance Photos
In November 2006, As further evidence of Saddam's advance weapon technology, The New York Times and CBS News released video shot in the months before the American-led invasion in 2003 of the dictator encouraging the use of slingshots, Molotov cocktails, and crossbows.
Hussein told his generals: "Let's all use the methods we can, these methods can be made at home."
69 Days Left!
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The 'Vice' President
Two years after September 11, 2001, and even though the American intelligence community had found no credible evidence to support the idea that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks, Vice President Cheney continued to make the claim.
On NBC's Meet The Press on November 14, 2003, the vice president asserted that the administration was "learning more and more" about connections between Iraq and al Qaeda "before 9/11".
Former CIA counterterrorism expert Vincent Cannistraro, who served as director of intelligence programs at the National Security Council under Reagan, was quoted in The Boston Globe as saying that Cheney's "willingness to use speculation and conjecture as facts in public presentations is appaling."
67 Days Left!
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It now costs ?108.30 to buy a return ticket from Darlington (where I work) train station to Caerphilly (where I live) train station.
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Dear diary. Today I arc welded, something that entails constructing a high voltage with the thing you are welding and danger of "cornea sunburn" caused by invisible UV light, while essentially melting metal with a small lighting, caused by holding what is essentially the end of a live wire. Used a spinning disk to cut metals, (throwing burning metal sparks everywhere and doing all the appropriate deafening sounds). I did the logical thing of cource and because I didn't want to dirty the flour did all these upon a flammable plastic sheet. (I knew it wasn't appropriate, I just figured out that at most, any spark that touched it would locally melt it like a cigarette, rather than catch fire). Screwed some screws. Then finished with welding some electronics (not with the arc welder silly, that little hot rod thingy).
The only trauma of the day? A paper cut, which happened after I moved some, erm, paper from place A to place B.
Conclusion: Beware of paper.
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That's Because Seeking Deferments Was Pretty Much A Full-Time Occupation
"I would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called. I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, who sought and received five deferments during the Vietnam War.
1. January 1963: Cheney enrolls in Casper Community College and seeks and receives his first student deferment.
2. July 1963: Transferring to the University of Wyoming, he seeks and receives his second student deferment.
3. August 1964: Cheney marries, giving him protection under a temporary ban against drafting married men. He seeks and receives his third student deferment.
4. July 1965: With the ban on married draftees threatened, Cheney heads to graduate school and receives a fourth student deferment.
5. October 6, 1965: The Selective Service lifts the ban against drafting married men, but leaves in place the exemption for men with children. Nine months and two days later, Mr. Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth, is born.
62 Days Left!
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By 2010, Lagos is predicted to have a population of 13 million, making one of the biggest cities in the world (3rd biggest I think)
In case you don't know, Lagos is was the capital of Nigeria, making it one of the least known big cities as well.
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3595/358091915f8c826a19eowc5.jpg)
P.S. No btw its not "in ruins". It is building up in fact, fast, I just thought that the photograph of a semi-collapsed building was interesting.
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An Engineer's Guide to Cats
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The British National Party (read: anti-liberty Collectivists / Fascists AND Racial Supremacists) has been apparently been leaked online. They, for some unfathomable reason don't seem to like it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/19/bnp-list
The list can be found here:
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_and_contacts_list%2C_spread_sheet%2C_2007-2008
Tehehe
On other news, isn't wikileaks.org an awesome concept?
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Especially The Bathrooms
During a live relief telethon for Katrina victims, rapper Kanye West departed from his scripted portion of the show to say, "I really hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says 'They're looking for food'. ... George Bush doesn't care about black people."
Barbara Bush praised the administration's response to Katrina, as the victims were "underprivileged anyway" and life in the Astrodome sports arena is "working very well for them."
57 Days Left!
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During a live relief telethon for Katrina victims, rapper Kanye West departed from his scripted portion of the show to say, "I really hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says 'They're looking for food'. ... George Bush doesn't care about black people."
Ah, I happen to know what he refers to. He has probably seen this story(ies), there were a few red faces in AP for the differences in the commentary of:
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6193/lootersfinders2sd5.jpg)
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When you think about it, Christianity has some fucked up relationships.
To begin with, it is an one parent family. There is God, there is the Son of God (while they still pretend to be monotheistic) but there is no Goddess.
Now, Mary someone could say is the mother, but she is not exactly referred as being of equal status, neither she is exactly thought as "married" with God. So essentially God has a child out of marriage.
Worse, Mary was already married, (to Joseph grasshopper) so God had a child, with someone else's wife.
However, in any case, we are all children of God in the first case. So that makes it incest.
Or in fact, makes it a relationship between a grand-grand-...-grand-parent and a grand-grand-...-grand-child, which has a certain iffy factor of its own.
Finally, if the gospel of James counts, according to it she got married to Joseph at 12, and got pregnant by God at 16. (References: catholic library grasshopper: http://www.catholic.com/library/mary_ever_virgin.asp + Protoevangelium of James 8 & 15). Which makes God a... weeell, let's just say that the age of consent in Texas is 17.
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See what they did there?
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no more offtopic or spam *grumble grumble* :arms:
Rhode Island's latest unemployment statistics still remains #1 (highest) in the entire U.S. now rising to 9.3% (with a state population of just over one million)...
and from what i have been observing in my company the last few months, everyone here just might be a part of that statistic very soon :(
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The Bush Freedom Of Disinformation Act
The Bushes are no stranger to secrecy - think Skull and Bones at Yale - so it should have come as no surprise that both presidential Bushes have been trying to keep their acts in public office private.
After taking office as president, Dubya tried to circumvent the Texas Public Information Act by having his state papers as governor shipped off to his father's presidential library.
Extending the practice to the White House, Dubya overturned the 1978 Presidential Records Act with orders that claim executive privilege to withhold papers because they contain military, diplomatic, or national security secrets.
He extended the same priveledges to vice presidents, allowing his father to keep secret his dealings on the Iran Contra and in Central America - even though the Reagan library wants the records released.
Then Dubya expanded the mandate in perpetuity to his heirs.
52 Days Left!
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Where some company names comes from.
Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke .
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices.
AT&T- American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
BenQ- Bet you thought they were the founders initials or something? Nope. It stands for: "Bringing ENjoyment and Quality to life" (no srsly)
BMW - Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Factories)'
BP - British Petroleum
Cisco - Apparently short for San Francisco
eBay - despite the e appearing obviously inspired from "electronic" like email etc, actually the creator initially wanted to call it Echo Bay, as was the name of his first web company (Echo Bay Technology Group), someone had registered that domain already however so he shortened it to eBay
Epson - "Son of Electronic Printer"
Fiat - Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Factory of Cars of Turin)
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett
HSBC - The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
IBM - International Business Machines
Intel - coined up from INTegrated ELectronics, although the named "integrated electronics" itself was taken from someone else.
LG - Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar
Microsoft - Back then, every small sized computer was called "microcomputer" so Microsoft was coined essentially from: "MICROcomputer SOFTware"
Nokia - started as a wood-pulp mill, the company expanded into producing rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia
Qantas - Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. People would turn to him to solve their problems, and he was referred to as 'that guy in the red hat'. He lost the cap and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone
SAAB - "Svenska Aeroplan aktiebolaget" (Swedish Aeroplane Company)
Sun Microsystems - its founders designed their first workstation in their dorm at StanfordUniversity, and chose the name Stanford University Network for their product, hoping to sell it to the college. They didn't.
Tesco - Founder Jack Cohen, who from 1919 sold groceries in the markets of the London East End, acquired a large shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and made new labels by using the first three letters of the supplier's name and the first two letters of his surname forming the word "TESCO"
Vodafone - VOice, DAta, TeleFONE
Volvo - From the Latin word "volvo", which means "I roll".
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About Red Hat.
The hat given to Marc Ewing was a fedora hat, thus the name of the linux distribution called "Fedora Linux".
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Foul Ball
After failing the oil business, Dubya was joined in 1989 by supporters of his dad, the then president, in a deal to buy the Texas Rangers.
Dubya received a 1.8 percent share of the team for an investment of $600,000.
The deal was on the verge of falling through when Dubya's dad's friend, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, produced another finance group to back the deal.
Dubya was later given 10 percent of the team as a bonus for his work in "putting the deal together."
in 1990 the partnership used its political connections to pass a law giving them powers of eminent domain, which they used to condemn and purchase 300 acres of "worthless" land between the new stadium and a Six Flags amusement park.
They then built a new $190 million stadium entirely with taxpayer funding and ticket surcharges.
The free stadium and land comprised the bulk of the team's value.
In 1998 the team was sold by the partnership and then Governor Dubya for $250 million to a Texas billionaire with substantial amountsof business before state agencies.
Dubya's cut was $14 million.
50 Days Left!
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Worlds oldest lolcat is from 1905
What?s Delaying My Dinner?
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/delayingmydinner.jpg)
This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we?ve seen.
The differences are clear. Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue back then. But the similarities to modern-day kitten struggles and lolcats are amazing. ALL CAPS is still cool, but most importantly, she also no can has cheezburger. More than a hundred years later, all that?s changed is the spelling.
Evekitteh, we hope you got a good dinner.
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Profiles In Outrage
Tennessee Senator Bill Frist became the Senate Majority Leader after Trent Lott was driven from the position in 2002.
As of March 2007, Frist was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for having dumped millions of dollars worth of a company's stock, which was supposedly in a blind trust, two weeks before the company took a huge financial hit.
The company happened to he his family's Hospital Corporation of America.
Frist is perhaps best known as a physician whose method of performing a medical exam on a brain-dead woman is to watch her on videotape and declare from afar, "Looks good to me."
48 Days Left!
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Robots? Mini-Tanks? Early portable computers?
Bombs, but I like the Mini-Tank scenario.
Next, the Tsar Tank.
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7235/tsardy2.jpg)
And a scale model of it to truly appreciate the design:
(http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/7993/tsartank1to35scalemodelks5.jpg)
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Bonus, the PKZ 2 helicopter
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7623/petroczy1ho0.jpg)
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On the scale model pic the R in the Tsar 1917 sign is backwards like a kid wrote it. hehehe
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The GE G2 has an 8 mp sensor.
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yay recession! :dance
U.S. job losses worst since 1974 as downturn deepens (http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE4B437520081205)
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In the year 2000 we will be seeing theater from afar!
(http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4263/121252768163bk1.jpg)
Also stroll around on water with personal balloons!
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2449/118901769959193pg4.jpg)
Eh, I guess 1 out of 2 ain't bad...
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PROFILES IN OUTRAGE: Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez was a high-ranking member of the American Federation of Teachers before before becoming a union buster working as Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for the Reagan administration.
In 1986, she ran for Senate as a Republican in Maryland, but her campaign was derailed after she accused her opponent Barbara Mikulski of being gay.
Impressed by her "strong pull up the ladder" opposition to affirmative action, Dubya nominated her to be Secretary of Labor, but she was forced to withdraw when it became known that she had employed an illegal alien to clean for her. She had publically criticized Zoe Baird during the "nannygate" appointment for the same thing in 1993.
Her old senate opponent Barbara Mikulski won re-election three times, went on to become the dean of woman senators, and one of only 11 senators to vote against both 1991 and 2002 authorizations of the use of force in Iraq.
Chavez is now a conservative commentator for Fox News.
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This is a very awesome case mod:
(http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/08/bgat-1.jpg)
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(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4976/1958exploringspacebackplu3.jpg)
Lies!
P.S: Rockets away!
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The singularity is coming!!!111
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| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | FF | Moz | S | O |
| November | 26.6% | 20.0% | 3.1% | 44.2% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 2.3% |
Browser statistics for last month
The ironic thing is, a couple of weeks ago, my dad said that he didn't know anyone that uses Firefox :lol:
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Swiftboating
The aggressive smear campaign orchestrated by Karl Rove gave a new definition to the American political lexicon.
Swiftboating is defined as an attack on a public figure by a pseudo-independent group, secretly orchestrated by the opposing political force.
Dubya and Dick, who dodged the draft in Vietnam, find it particularly useful in using surrogates to attack the military sacrifices of their opponents.
In addition to John Kerry, other victims of pseudo right-wing groups doing the administration's bidding:
- Max Cleland, falsely accused of losing his three limbs in Vietnam when he drunkenly dropped a grenade; swiftboated as a traitorous defender of terrorists, a cut-and-runner.
- John McCain, portrayed as unstable due to Vietnam POW torture, as a "Manchurian candidate".
- John Murtha, swiftboated as a coward who didn't earn his Purple Hearts, also as a phony and liar.
- Cindy Sheehan, portrayed as an anti-Semite engaging in Stalinist agitprop.
40 Days Left!
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Credit Where Discredit Is Due
Two weeks prior to Dubya's decision to invade Iraq, George Tenet famously told the president that the case for nuclear weapons in Iraq was a "slam dunk".
Tenet resigned on June 3, 2004.
Centcom commander General Tommy Franks was responsible for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but showed little interest in Iraq's postwar stability. Official U.S. Army historian Major Isaiah Wilson III concluded that Franks had no plan for the occupation of Iraq, all but insuring an insurgency and sectarian violence.
Franks resigned on July 7, 2003.
On May 23, 2003, Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, ordered the dissolution of the Iraqi army, domestic security services, and politics. The decision put 720,000 Iraqi men out of work.
Bremer resigned on June 28, 2004.
On December 14, 2004, Dubya awarded Tenet, Franks, and Bremer each the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor an American can receive.
38 Days Left!
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(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6230/airbusa380photobyhitzinzf7.jpg)
Close one.
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Lie, Lay, Lie
Dubya fought in the courts the disclosure of the names of participants on Vice President Dick's energy panel.
Kenneth Lay, Enron's CEO, was among them.
Enron was the biggest financial supporter of Dubya's political carreer, and the Lay family donated $140,000 to Dubya's political campaigns in Texas and for the White House.
Enron employees gave Dubya a further $600,000 in political donations.
According to the Center for Public Integrity, this made Enron Dubya's top "career donor" - a distinction the company maintained until 2004.
Before that, Kenneth Lay had been a partner in Dubya's oil ventures and provided corporate jets to the Dubya campaign for its Florida contest.
Dubya, who referred to Lay as "Kenny Boy", nevertheless claimed he didn't get to "know" Lay until after he became governor, and then hardly at all.
35 Days Left!
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Oh, lasers. I likey.
Of cource, tactically speaking its not a very good idea being essentially a big, green beam that points right back at you but still... Riot mobs yielding lasers dude.
'tis the second millennium indeed.
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Osama Bin Here And Gone
IN December 2001, CIA paramilitary units and U.S. special forces had Osama Bin Laden trapped at a site in Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan, leaving him an escape route only through the snow-covered mountains to Pakistan.
When the CIA leader of the operation requested one battalion of U.S. Army Rangers to block Bin Laden's path, General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. Central Command, refused, saying that "the Afghans themselves wanted to get into Tora Bora," and he didn't want to introduce "non-Afghan troops at that time."
Bin Laden escaped.
33 Days Left!
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Moore's law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.
It takes about 5 double years to reach 2007 from 1996, and you need about 5 "doublings" to reach 5000 from 300.
Totally logically concluding that there is a relationship then, we extrapolate that the Lara Croft of 2015 will be made of 80000 polygons.
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Rhode Island is no longer 1 in the U.S. for unemployment rate...
while we still have a 9.3% rate and have been at that for a few months, Michigan has recently risen up to 9.6%...
we had been #2 to Michigan for a while, and passed them for a short bit; but theyve gone passed us now...
sucks to be in Michigan :P
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yeah yeah STFU >.>
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Melbourne usually enjoys Christmas in 30-40 celsius.
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Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor This Here Law I Just Signed Will Prevent Me From Reading Your Mail
In the wake of the 2006 domestic spying scandals, Congress passes a new postal law specifically protecting America's mail from government searched without a court's approval.
When signing the bill on December 20, 2006, Dubya attached a signing statement to the law claiming executive privilege to open people's mail without obtaining a warrant:
The executive branch shall continue ... (that) the Act ... provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection ... (based on) the need to conduct searched in exigent circumstances.
Essentially, Dubya thereby put in place the same provisions for reading people's mail that he enjoyed in reading their email and listening to their phone calls.
30 Days Left!
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it's Russian, what do you expect
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The same country that bluffed it's Airforce :P Actually, I think it looks pretty cool.
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(http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5531/20964053154f4e097583omi3.jpg)
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Where He Could Continue Torturing The Constitution
In a memo from January 2002, the then-White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales referred to some provisions of the Geneva Conventions as "quaint" and "obsolete".
In another memo that August, Gonzales stated that laws prohibiting torture "do not apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants."
He was appointed Attorney General in Dubya's second term.
27 Days Left!
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Ford On Iraq
In interviews taped by Bob Woodward and released shortly after his death, former President Ford criticized Dubya, saying, "I don't think I would have gone to war."
"Rumsfield and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him, but we shouldn't have put the basis on weapons of destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does (Dubya) get his advice?"
Ford also criticized Dubya's domestic surveillance program:
"It may be a necessary evil," Ford conceded. "I don't think it's a terrible transgression, but I would never do it. I was dumbfounded when I heard they were doing it."
- The Washington Post, December 28, 2006
22 Days Left!
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Voters' Rights, Voters' Wrongs
According to Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, in the 2000 presidential election, one million of the 1.9 million spoiled ballots that didn't count were cast by African Americans, although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate.
In Florida, Jeb Bush's administration aggressively purged voter roles just prior to the election.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation found that "the purge system disproportionately impacted African American voters who are placed on purge lists more often and more likely to be there erroneously than Hispanic of white voters ... In Miami-Dade County, over 65% of the names on the purge list consisted of African Americans, who represent only 20.4% of the population."
21 Days Left!
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Who was worse? You Make The Call...
JAMES BUCHANAN
- Sought Congress to restore a nation divided by North and South, preferably on the South's terms.
- Claimed that slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity."
- Publicly vowed his presidency would avoid civil war at all costs.
- Left the U.S. hopelessly divided and in civil war.
DUBYA BUSH
- Sought in court to restore a nation divided by Blue and Red, preferably on Red terms.
- Claimed that prisoners at Gitmo were treated with kindness and humanity.
- Secretly vowed his presidency would pursue Iraq war at all costs.
- Left Iraq hopelessly divided and in civil war.
20 Days Left!
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Who was worse? You Make The Call...
JAMES BUCHANAN
- Sought Congress to restore a nation divided by North and South, preferably on the South's terms.
- Claimed that slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity."
- Publicly vowed his presidency would avoid civil war at all costs.
- Left the U.S. hopelessly divided and in civil war.
DUBYA BUSH
- Sought in court to restore a nation divided by Blue and Red, preferably on Red terms.
- Claimed that prisoners at Gitmo were treated with kindness and humanity.
- Secretly vowed his presidency would pursue Iraq war at all costs.
- Left Iraq hopelessly divided and in civil war.
20 Days Left!
You forgot "Secretly vowed to screw up the American economy and send us into another great depression"
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Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.
Unfortunately "his best" sucked. 8)
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Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.
You mean trying his best to screw the Americans over! *huff*
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Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.
You mean trying his best to screw the Americans over! *huff*
I think that is exactly what Senator is implying, but also that he couldn't even do that properly. ;)
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White House Gases
In January 2006 NASA's top climate expert, James Hansen, said the Dubya administration had forbidden him to speak publicly about global warming and the need to reduce greenhouse gases.
The following month, Dr. Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science magazine, reported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had ordered its scientists not to give interviews about a study linking ocean warming to increased hurricane intensity.
These acts of censorship corroborated a 2004 report from the Union of Concerned Scientists that charged President Bush with promoting ideology over good science when appointing governmental panels investigating global warming, air pollution, public health, and basic scientific research.
The report was endorsed by 8,000 American scientists, 49 Nobel laureates, and 63 winners of the National Medal Of Science.
18 Days Left!
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At Halliburton, War Profiteering Is Job No. 1
During the 1990s, Halliburton was investigated for fraud, misdealings, and violations of embargoes in Iraq, Iran, Libya, and the Balkans.
Since Vice President Dick, a former CEO of the company, entered the White House, business has continued to be, um, great:
- $7 billion no-bid contract services in Iraq. Under FBI investigation.
- December 2003 Pentagon audit found they had overcharged $61 million for gasoline in Iraq.
- An August 2004 audit shows Halliburton can't properly account for $1.4 billion, 40% of what they had billed to date.
- $1 million per month in overcharges for soldiers' laundry in Iraq for 2004.
- $180 million in bribes for natural gas contracts in Nigeria while V.P. Dick was Halliburto's CEO (1995-2000).
- $124.8 million in contracts for Katrina cleanup.
17 Days Left!
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On a side note:
The Romans had toilets. They were public, but at least, they were dedicated facilities with running water.
In the dark ages, they were making them in a pot and throwing them out of the window.
Also, they had baths. Because you see, the human body wasn't something shameful.
But in the (puritan) darks ages, oh no, can't have that can we?
Conclusion: The Black Death. Unless you think its a coincidence it happened then.
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But you have to admit, not all was "good" in the Roman Empire.
I also like the Keltic way of doing things (at that time).
Decentralized goverment and social security (communism for some/most Americans :P).
Unwanted babies were taken care of, unlike in Ancient Rome, where they were thrown out with the garbage. Nevermind the "bread and games" they provided to keep the populus calm.
But the Romans did have concrete.
Altough I have to say, they did "destroy" the Greek, which they considered "pansies" for doing scientific/mathematical research.
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Please Pass The SPF 2 Billion
"In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which the information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now."
- James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, after briefing Vice President Dick and Congress on global warming
7 Days Left! :dance
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About... now, Intel is switching to the i7 processor, codename "Bloomfield". This is going to be the last of the 45nm processors. A quad core, with clock ranges from 2.6 to 3.2 Ghz and various improvements here and there.
Next, at about later half of 2009 with beginning of 2010, comes "Westmere". (32nm). It is going to be a six-core.
After it, within 2010, there is going to be "Sandy Bridge" (32nm). They are looking at 4 to 8 cores, and 4GHz.
After that, around 2011, is going to be the first of the 22nm processors. "Ivy Bridge".
And after Ivy Bridge, around 2012, there is going to be "Haswell", and they are looking at 8 cores by default.
In other words, when we will be watching the London Olympics, 8 cores will be the norm.
An interesting side effect of the whole 45->32->22 thing is that, as I understand it, chips end up consuming less and less energy, and since they do so, they heat less. Which increases the chances of making them acceptable for laptops. In other words, the technological trend is actually assisting in resulting to laptops with desktop pc performance.
P.S. I find it funny how far they have planned it, and speak as if they know already how to do it. I mean, if they know already how to do "Haswell" do that one already dammit!
P.S.2. The singularity is coming !!!111
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They do know how to do it, they just don't have a proper design yet. Atleast, I suppose this is the case.
Hardware takes a lot of time.
A prediction, the internet will die from browser sniffing by Internet Explorer 10. Maybe if they change it to Internet Explorer A (cheating!) they might only kill 25% of the websites that use browser sniffing.
Browser sniffing is an evil, and archaic, and evil, way of "detecting" which browser the user is using when visiting a website, did I mention it's evil?
The Opera browser recently released an alpha version of Opera 10, and websites, with broken and evil browser sniffing code, are registering it as Opera 1.
So, what do you think will happen when IE 10 hits?
PS. Some websites still, again, due to broken and evil browser sniffing, see Opera as IE. :(
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Infidel. The Net is Eternal & Forever!
Onwards to Web 3.0!
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Infidel. The Net is Eternal & Forever!
Onwards to Web 3.0!
I quite agree with you. As will every other real Net Citizen.
But those that aren't (in other words, IE users) will experience this dead.
But then again, all those pages that are so terribly broken, do I even want to visit them?
I think not, if you can't bother being workable, I don't even want to see your url.
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Some rather interesting math:
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
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1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
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9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
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1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 1111111 1 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321
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Don't get me started on Fibonaci or Tribonaci! :P
On similar note, http://projecteuler.net/
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Bet you don't know what an Ulam spiral is though!
(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9972/ulam1bn0.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but I learned of that just a couple of weeks ago during Linear Algebra, yeah, we had time left over. :(
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And here is assigning a color to digits of pi and plotting a whole bunch of them in a square.
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/1251/1025856115b8c6569a6ogn4.png)
Looks like random noise. Oh what a surprise.
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Life on Mars?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479997,00.html
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We Recommend Just Avoiding All Illness
Dubya's Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program, the biggest change in Medicare in 40 years, was intended to provide "flexibility" in meeting the prescription needs of the elderly. Unfortunately, only about one in six eligible seniors has signed up for the program. The reason seems to be incurable confusion.
A senior citizen must choose from a variety of insurance plans, including some that do not yet exist, and the plans may limit coverage to certain drugs and have different rates of co-payment. Low-income applicant must fill out a four-page form in addition to the normal application. Administration officials cite language barriers as a partial explanation for the lack of public participation.
Dubya's proposed 2007 budget sought to cut Medicare by $14 billion over five years.
3 Days Left! :dance
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Dutch!
I'm also wonder what type of material it's resting on.
And I'd hate to be right there when it collapses. :P
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It's (was) Canadian.
240 tonnes coming at 110km/h at ya! (that might not sound impressive, but it is fast for a ship)
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Who's up for some somewhat useful facts?
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Intelligent Design hypocrites, time to roll in your own graves! Uh, assuming you already died of course. Otherwise, prepare the bucket for throwing up because your main argument for ID is hereby proven wrong:
Or in higher quality:
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That guy has faaaar too much time on his hands!
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That guy has faaaar too much time on his hands!
Really? That type of algorithm you can just run in the background (for 3 weeks!). And eventually (depending on how long you are willing to let it go on) you will get a (near) optimum solution.
Of course, it's a random algoritm (that is, random as in output, not an algorithm for generating random numbers), so it may not produce anything for a long time.
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Really? That type of algorithm you can just run in the background (for 3 weeks!). And eventually (depending on how long you are willing to let it go on) you will get a (near) optimum solution.
Of course, it's a random algoritm (that is, random as in output, not an algorithm for generating random numbers), so it may not produce anything for a long time.
I mean coming up with the idea to do this, writing the program, running it and putting the results on youtube!
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Really? That type of algorithm you can just run in the background (for 3 weeks!). And eventually (depending on how long you are willing to let it go on) you will get a (near) optimum solution.
Of course, it's a random algoritm (that is, random as in output, not an algorithm for generating random numbers), so it may not produce anything for a long time.
I mean coming up with the idea to do this, writing the program, running it and putting the results on youtube!
The idea is easy, especially if you are hammered by people that ID is "correct", especially with such a lame example as breaking a clock and then saying that it can't "evolve" back.
After that it's coming up with some form of "DNA" which represents a clock (or interconnecting parts and info about the parts), and then breeding is easy (both crossover and mutation). Basic Genetic Algorithms.
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A man who lost his left hand in an accident three years ago has been fitted with the world?s most sophisticated prosthetic limb.
Evan Reynolds, 19, took only minutes to learn how to manipulate the i-LIMB, which is operated by tiny sensors resting against his arm muscles.
With his new hand he can now pick up a paper cup filled with water, peel a carrot or walk down the street eating crisps, all activities he could only dream about before.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5546888.ece
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Movie of the same:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/01/22/i-limb-cyborg-hand/
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It doesn't matter really (I don't care either way, and nor should you).
The being factual can be debated, but this is a moderator thing, so move along.
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ID believer? Where? Where? What did I miss? :twisted:
getting his instructions from God and that some evangelists are just batshit insane.
Or neither.
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From the outside, it's just a normal, chapel-ish building
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1246/fydhjrstnhdsfbgtdxn7.jpg)
But from the inside...
(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9162/dtyjfsgtndsgfrpr1.jpg)
...it's Europe's 8th most powerful supercomputer:
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2622/trjerjhrtgdfhf8.jpg)
I likey.
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Useful fact of the day: You can make ships out of concrete. As is (well... was) the one above.
That's not really as strange as Project Habakkuk in WWII, which concerned itself with the possibility of making an aircraft carrier out of Pykrete.
(Pykrete = 14% sawdust + 86% ice)
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Useful fact: World of Goo is fun.
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Computers are going to fail at 03:14:08 GMT on the 19th January 2038.
Computers measure time in seconds since the Unix Epoch, which is midnight on 1st Jan 1970. We're at about 1.2 million now. Computers store this time as a 32 bit signed integer. That basically means 31 bits for the actual number, and 1 (the first) to say whether its positive or negative. When we reach 03:14:07 GMT, the time stored will be 0111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111. Exactly 1 second later, it will be 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000, which is 20:45:52 GMT on 13th December 1901.
The main and more immediate implication of this, is that no task can be scheduled to end after 03:14:07 GMT, as the end time, as far as the computer can tell, is over 100 years ago! Most computers probably have safeguards to stop you scheduling tasks to finish later than that, but it's still a hell of a problem!
The problem is that the 32 bit signed integer is so embedded in modern computers, it will be next to impossible to change before the aformentioned date.
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Sounds like the Y2K bug, all over again. I'm sure we'll figure out a solution within 30 years :P
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You know, you might think that eating bugs is disgusting etc and you will never do it, but if you think about it...
...prawns are bugs of the sea.
I mean, the exoskeleton (fishes don't have that. Beetles on the other hand...) and number of legs should have provided a clue, but let's examine this a little further.
Animals are biologically classified in Kingdom, Phylum, Subphylum, Class, Order yadda yadda.
Prawns, if you go a bit high, ultimately belong to the Subphylum "Crustacean", where all things prawn & shrimp belong (but not for example, mussels). Land based things that belong to the exact same subphylum are things like this:
(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9483/800pxporcellioscaberandwr4.jpg)
(Ewww)
Finally, if you go one level higher, from subphylum to phylum. All these belong to "Arthropoda". And that's where pretty much all insects and spiders belong.
So the truth is that we do eat bugs in the west, and like them very much as well. Every time you see those nice prawn packets in the super market, you are being sold something like peeled beetles.
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I've never had them (prawns.)
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Sounds like the Y2K bug, all over again. I'm sure we'll figure out a solution within 30 years :P
The difference with the Y2K bug was that that wasn't to do with the fundemental operation of the computer. That was only about it's inability to go from 99 to 00 then carry on. There were only 8 documented cases of problems with the Y2K bug, and 2 of them were websites showing the date as "1/1/19100".
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Thus 64bit computing?
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Thus 64bit computing?
Most people and businesses still use 32-bit. And I didn't know if 64-bit computers stored time_t as a 64 bit integer.
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The most easy solution for fixing this int-32 problem is changing it to a int-64bit.
Doing that will make the "end date" be... well... lets just say that humanity shouldn't exist by then.
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doesnt matter either way...
we'll prolly be hit by that asteroid on Friday April 13, 2029 anyway lol :P
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Brb, adjusting my computer to the aforementioned time.
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Changing it to 64bits won't solve everything, atleast not without magic.
First of all, a lot of old programs, that are too expensive to "just" replace, that were never meant to be used this long anyway, depend on the size (expected size!) of variables, such as time_t, to be exactly, 32 bits.
We couldn't even change it from signed to unsigned, since negative time is used in time calculation (which also use time_t).
Aside from some sloppy programming, all the dates stored on disk in time_t format would then need, somehow, to be magically expanded. Think databases that store dates.
I currently can't find the webpage (nor do I have the time to find it), but it neatly explained all the aspects.
Unfortunatly, if you'd ask me, I'd say that programming with dates is inherently flawed, still is.
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I will recieve the best birthday present ever, it shall be 1234567890 seconds since epoch.
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:dance I've got no idea what MLeo is talking about!
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Well, you remember that date thingy problem?
Epoch is when an instance of time_t is 0, or Januari first, 1970, midnight (or something like that). 1 is 0:00:01 AM of the first of Januari, 1970, 2 is ... you get the idea.
Now, 1234567890 is just a nice number, you don't really expect it to "naturally" occur. In this case, time_t will be that number next Friday, the 13th of February. Which coinidently is my birthday.
http://coolepochcountdown.com/
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Now that was well done. Early happy birthday, dude.
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:dance I've got no idea what MLeo is talking about!
lol
MLeo is too brilliant for my primitive (hungover) brain... all i can do is smile and nod :)
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'
now theres a mental image... Pope playing basketball lol
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Useful fact! Aeries has a new computer! Finished building it yesterday. :3
Specs:
Intel core 2 duo E4400 ($65)
4Gb (2x2Gb) DDR2 667 ($45)
ATI Radeon HD4670 pciE (1Gb model) ($114)
1x40Gb HD ($0)
1x360Gb ($0)
Can't remember the mobo... Asus, anyway. ($75)
Happy to finally have a machine (priceless)
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(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8571/gdpnominalpercapitaworlxl4.png)
(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7543/worldhomosexualitylawsswj2.png)
Conclusion:
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3.6 million Americans have lost their jobs thus far...
half of that in the last 3 months...
600,000 of those were just last month alone...
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conclusion what, Senator? :/
Also, that same-sex thing is off. Cali hasn't been legal for marriage for a while now. Also, what do they mean by 'unions'? As in, it's plainly illegal to have a same-sex partner at all? If that's the case... I want *almost* everything in this world to die. Right now.
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The point is, that the blue places, correlate with social liberty regarding a certain subject, while the "conservative" places, are no offense. Shitty.
The correlation is particularly funny, in Africa, where S.Africa, the richest and most developed, is the one out with gay marriage. Or the more lenient mediterranian one. And in S.America where the little orange-ish nations almost correlate 1:1 with the gay bashing ones.
Obviously having so doesn't make you instantly rich, but I consider it and indicator of attitudes towards individual liberty as a whole, and the results of the mindset against it.
About unions: In reality "marriage" is composed of three things:
a) Two persons who decide to stay together.
b) A cute little ceremony. (Some pretend that it has superstitious powers which of course it doesn't)
c). Certain government & legal benefits and procedures. Eg inheritance laws like who gets someone's property once someone's partner dies without a will. Joint taxation forms and so on.
a&b) are obviously just a matter of doing so. Anyone can be with someone and anyone can make a "ceremony" with flowers and rice and balloons.
This had always been so, and if by any chance someone thinks that he is not *really* together with someone least a government bureocrat or priest approves it, he is nuts.
c) Is then what actually everyone cares about.
Civil unions then, are nothing more than secular contracts, which grant or approximate c).
It doesn't matter what they are called because if someone has full a,b,c obviously its the same as being married for all practical purposes.
The point is however, that all this concerns the light green areas, whose problem is literally "bureaucracy" and "red tape".
That's scale aboves the yellow & red areas, which follow more closely the original middle eastern "morality". (and I have three ME religions in mind there)
As far as California goes, except that I expect that to be overturned within a decade (if not this year), it at least still has same sex unions, as do quite a few other states. And the states of same sex marriage is increasing (the same time California was doings its thing, Connecticut legalized theirs. So the number kept the same). Hawaii and New York are next in line according to my classified info, so all those together, are actually called a positive trend.
Strategically speaking, technically the conservative side has been losing since the 40's* and someone only has to maintain the trend in order to "win", while they haven't even managed to stop it yet.
*Or the dark ages.
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the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma...
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Now that, Jimmy, is awesome.
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Senator:
Let's say, for example, my partner was to be sent to the hospital for something. Let's assume he's uncontious and [as with most families] the family doesn't approve of our relationship. That means that, because we're not legally classified as a couple or 'married', I can't see him under any circumstance...
I've heard of countless instances of this happening and it breaks my heart. I think it's more than just a mere "little ceremony", but rather a vital gateway to recognition as human BEINGS and gaining the same simple freedoms as everyone else. Sure, as a Canadian I don't have to worry about these things as much, but it greatly concerns me that this is still a colossal issue in countries *supposedly* as advanced as the United States... To be blatantly honest, I find nothing more frustrating, hurtful and sad than this. It's like people don't want to recognize the gay culture as human beings.
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while the issue is close to me, the topic really should be saved for another thread... this thread just isnt the best place for it...
a blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle...
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Jesus christ it's a lion, get in the Blue Whale's heart?
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Most insects on the other hand, don't have any. (central heart) Instead quite a few parts of their arteries* contract in order to push blood further down.
(I assume they are also full of valves to prevent backwards flow)
Which is actually a seriously clever system, and one of the first genetic modifications I'd do on humans, since it essentially nullifies the chance of having your heart stop/go into fibrillation etc.
*(although, ok, their system is way too different actually)
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Insects were able to grow way larger in ancient (pre-human/primate) times because of differences in atmospheric composistion, we would really have had trouble breathing back then.
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And since Lobsters & Crabs are technically "insects" too, some of them still are, under the sea. :P
Speaking of Lobsters, guess who is their land buddy:
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3539/401pxasianforestscorpiows4.jpg)
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the Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols...
silly Puritans... then again, i find Xmas music annoying and abhorrent also lol :P
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Speaking of scorpions, they occasionally come with cannons:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/bsrotate.htm
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It's warhammer. And it's big, expensive and mechanological, exemplifying the virtues of overwhelming high technology against costly human wave based attacks.
Therefore you must have it RC. Right? Right? :mrgreen:
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lol, nope. It's a daemon-engine of the arch-enemy(useful fact). and therefore must be purged wherever it is found!
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up to the age of six or seven months, a child can breathe and swallow at the same time...
an adult cannot do this...
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(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2739/24680178pw9.jpg)
(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6962/51070184zf5.jpg)
(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/699/73614149gi2.jpg)
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the American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps...
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...those were decoys btw.
In other news, in case you haven't heard an English nuclear submarine collided with a French nuclear submarine.
Guess these things are silent after all. :P
Opposition parties asked how the accident was possible. The SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, said: "The UK Ministry of Defence needs to explain how it is possible for a submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction to collide with another submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction in the middle of the world's second-largest ocean".
lolz
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according to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer...
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Here's a good one:
Star Trek is not actually real. So stop with the arguments of canon. :arms:
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Here's a good one:
Star Trek is not actually real. So stop with the arguments of canon. :arms:
Ahh shit, there's the can of worms, gentlemen.
Check, please. :lol:
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at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...
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Fact:
There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
Fact. And yes, I was tempted to do the Dettol advert.
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All the facts you need to know about ant sex:
10000 men
1 woman
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All the facts you need to know about ant sex:
10000 men
1 woman
Uhhhh isn't it
10000 Women workers
4 men
1 Queen....
now something else
The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
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Uh, correct actually. And I didn't know that.
And apparently the male's only function is to mate with the queen.
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Sounds like marriage to me.
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Useful fact: What happened to all the UFO abductions/activity?
Didn't they use to be a cultural phenomenon in the 90s or something? I remember documentaries about it, films even. And suddenly it seems to have died out.
Where are all the youtube videos and photos now that every mobile phone has a camera? Don't they like us any more? :(
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the unemployment rate in the US is now at 8.1%, or about 12.5 million...
the highest rate in 25 years...
600,000 people lost their jobs last months alone...
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In the UK, biscuits are excempt from VAT, but cakes aren't. Which causes a hella probelm for Jaffa Cakes!
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http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm
...Canada needs to sort it's shit out... Sexist pricks!! Oh wai--
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Probably a bit obvious but, there aren't only the "northen lights". Both poles have them.
The other pole equivalent of the Aurora Borealis is the Aurora Australis.
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Titanoboa
A snake that lived approximately 60 to 58 million years ago. (Unless you believe that the earth is 3000 years old but there are special institutes for that). It was also big.
(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1095/vertebra.jpg)
The thing on the left, is a vertebra from it. The thing on the right is a vertebra from a modern 10 foot long boa constrictor.
Or to put it otherwise:
(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7603/titaoa2.jpg)
Apparently it was eating crocodiles and such.
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THE MOST DANGEROUS CAKE RECIPE
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high).
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world?
Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!
You are going to print this out straight away, aren't you???
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You are going to print this out straight away, aren't you???
Yeah. :( I'm gonna be so fat. :(
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The biggest mobile phone operator is:
China mobile.
Well, duh. But it is funny because most people assume Vodafone or something.
It (China mobile) has 500.59 million subscribers. Which means it has more subscribers than the US or EU has population.
In fact, it is a lot for China alone since it means that 1 in every 2 of the "poor Chinese" has a mobile phone.
Information age!!11
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the Earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September...
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the Earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September...
[Citation needed]
The dwarf planet and/or asteroid Pluto rotates around the sun every 248.09 years. (aka it has a year of only 90500+ days)
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Useful fact: Google street view has expanded, a lot.
I can even see Mleo's home. :p
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Really? I can't. :P
Or a I'm blind and I can't find the street view option. :S
But on the subject of Google Maps, we have a red car, and it shows up on Google Maps, but if you go to my Grandparents house, it also shows a red car, the same red car! ;)
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Well I don't really know where you live (or do I?) I just noticed that it has Amsterdam and thought that it, being the biggest population center was a good bet.
For street view, from the Google Maps drag that yellow person sign over the zoom bar somewhere on the map (the street view enabled parts get coloured blue while you hold him)
They now have pretty much every single city in the US (ever wondered how a village in Montana looks like? Me neither), and now they are invading ze EU. (And Japan/Australia).
I say that at this rate, if they really mean it, they could easily have every city in the world within 5 years.
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Perhaps you do. But I wouldn't know. ;)
It also has Rotterdam, another big population area in the Netherlands, but I'm nowhere near Amsterdam (ok, for Dutch nowhere near, I mean, only 160KM on foot according to Google, in 1 day and 7 hours). I also wouldn't want to live anywhere near such a big city.
But I also wouldn't want to live in a town with a population of 10 (or 1000). That's too small which always seems a bit akward since people tend to interbreed.
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We (me and my parents) can't quite work out what car is on our drive in Google Earth.
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Some build their miniatures in 1:1 scale.
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more than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call...
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Lavon Affair:
The Lavon Affair refers to the scandal over a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as Operation Susannah, in which Israeli military intelligence planted bombs in Egyptian, American and British-owned targets in Egypt in the summer of 1954 in the hopes that "the Muslim Brotherhood, the Communists, 'unspecified malcontents' or 'local nationalists'" would be blamed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
Israel admitted responsibility in 2005 when Israeli President Moshe Katzav honored the nine Egyptian Jewish agents who were involved
^
Why doesn't he count as a terrorist?
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more than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call...
Why am I not one of those 50%?
I think that the figure doesn't include the Chinese people, of which every 1 of 2 people have a mobile phone (all have the same provider, of course).
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Actually no. Except China Mobile there is also, China Telecom and China Unicom. :P
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(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5900/83890908.jpg)
It's a baby monster truck.
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awww how cute lol
the US has the highest minimum drinking age in the world...
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Some facts about Wembley Stadium.
Has a capacity of 90,000
21st largest stadium in the world (by capacity)
2nd largest in Europe (by capacity)
Largest in England (by capacity)
Largest in the world with completely covered seating and unobstructed veiws (ie, no pillars, also by capacity)
The lattice arch supporting the north roof and 60% of the south is the largest freestanding roof structure in the world.
Most expensive stadium in the world (it cost ?798 million to build)
The entire stadium is 1km in diameter.
The arch rises to a high or 140m.
George Michael was the first musical act to play.
Muse were the first to confirm playing and first to sell it out! (They also made it feel pretty small when they played there!)
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the US has the highest minimum drinking age in the world...
Suckaaaazzzzzzzz! :P
The population of California is 33,871,648... Canada's entire population, as the second largest country in the world, is merely 33,600,907... Therefore, the STATE of california has a population larger than canada's by 270,741 people. Seems a bit odd to me. o_O;
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Because Canada is one of the biggest countries in the world but much like Russia (which is also very big), something near to 70% of its territory is tundra.
Tundra = frozen lands. The entire year.
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the US has the highest minimum drinking age in the world...
Suckaaaazzzzzzzz! :P
The population of California is 33,871,648... Canada's entire population, as the second largest country in the world, is merely 33,600,907... Therefore, the STATE of california has a population larger than canada's by 270,741 people. Seems a bit odd to me. o_O;
Well wait about 30 or 40 years when California is under water :P
In the state of North Carolina if a couple check into a hotel and list themselves as married, then by law they are legally married (not sure if I've already posted this or not I didn't notice it when scrolling through the pages...)
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The global shipbuilding industry is currently dominated by South Korea, producing more ships than the entire world output combined in 2008.
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Amanda Tapping was born in England. :P
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(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2020/lautebrunnenvalley.jpg)
Lautebrunnen Valley.
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i need one of those wheels! :D
and maybe a few more cats lol :)
at birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse...
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in the average lifetime, a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust...
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PLUR is a kind of, maybe, Raver credo, mantra, thingy. It stands for Peace Love Unity Respect.
According to legend, the term PLUR was coined by the DJ Frankie Bones in response to a fight that broke out while he was mixing and he stopped the show to say, "If you don't start showing some peace, love, and unity, I'll break your fucking faces."
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Whoops.
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Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world, and has the longest shoreline, eh?
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Project P.U.M.A. (Segway + GM)
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4/20 aka April 20.
It's something like world cannabis day. Aww... no dedicated graphic from Google.
"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson :P
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(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/smokin.gif)
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Did you know that a bottle nosed dolphin can manipulate it's penis like we manipulate our hands?
And did you know that you should never ever ever take a fiat punto greenlaning :D
The last one I found out to my cost last night driving home through mid wales late at night :P
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Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his eighth grade music class...
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GM (General Motors) shares last April used to cost $24. Now they cost $1.70. Despite the 13 Billion
of taxpayer money bailout they receiced.
And it looks like they are going to bankrupt anyway.
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Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
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i have a fear of cooking, but thats mostly due to my intense fear of starting a fire lol
first-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older... :?
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Trek fact:
Ever noticed that the Miranda class, doesn't have a deflector array?
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eh... it does... two of them....
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Where?!?
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(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8021/sungun.jpg)
The Nazis had plans to (well, had "thought of it" at least) construct a giant orbiting parabolic mirror, known as project "Sonnengewehr", with the intention to:
A) Bake giant pies
B) Beam down cheap electricity to the peoples of the world by heating steam turbines
C) Something else
Srsly: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=940
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Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu
(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2348/800pxnewzealand0577.jpg)
The name of a small hill in New Zealand.
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http://www.thailandlife.com/ericshackle/placename.html (http://www.thailandlife.com/ericshackle/placename.html)
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Co does so love posting here on his iPod touch :p
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Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu
The name of a small hill in New Zealand.
how the frack would that be pronounced?? the damn name is bigger than the hill! lol
there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar...
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Trek fact:
Ever noticed that the Miranda class, doesn't have a deflector array?
Instead, it has what is referred to as a "Deflector Grid"; the same basic purpose, but laid out across the hull in a "grid" pattern rather than a singular dish.
Useful fact:
-As of this morning, IE8 has been officially released as a High Priority Update.
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Trek fact:
Ever noticed that the Miranda class, doesn't have a deflector array?
Instead, it has what is referred to as a "Deflector Grid"; the same basic purpose, but laid out across the hull in a "grid" pattern rather than a singular dish.
Useful fact:
-As of this morning, IE8 has been officially released as a High Priority Update.
great. just. great.
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Its the water propelled jetpack.
And probably the start of a new and awesome sport.
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The .su domain stands for: Soviet Union
It is actually still in effect.
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TCMP is just over 1 year old.
And I've forgotten most of the modeling skills I learned while making it. :(
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(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7218/150pxgruemblemsvg.png)
^ The logo of GRU or Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje, the acronym for the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Stsly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRU
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WIKI is actually an acronym. Is stands for 'What I Know Is.'
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WIKI is actually an acronym. Is stands for 'What I Know Is.'
Actually, I'm not so sure.
"Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.
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Zzzzoom!
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more than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people...
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Zzzzoom!
Bejesus!! Just imaging what that would do to a person strapped to the line!!!! or the damage a few well placed concrete breeze blocks on the tracks might do!!!
zzzzzzzzoooooooooommm indeed!
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HOLY $HIT!
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(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4848/monitormerrimacmemorial.jpg)
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thats pretty neat... but why bother going underground at that point? they could have just kept the bridge above ground in a straight line from there to the other side lol
spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931...
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thats pretty neat... but why bother going underground at that point? they could have just kept the bridge above ground in a straight line from there to the other side lol
Boats need to go there as well. ;)
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aah right...
well screw the boats then lol :P
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You know, I wouldn't be suprised for an exceptionally long bridge/tunnel that it could "hop" several times between a tunnel and a bridge.
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I've been through that tunnel. That's in Chesapeake Bay.
The reason it goes to a tunnel is because it's cheaper to make a tunnel at that point. Why is it cheaper? The bridge would have to be huge because aircraft carriers and battleships from Norfolk Naval Base have to go through there.
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flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down....
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Sweden also has a bridge like that called ?resundsbron. It goes from Malm? to Copenhagen.
(http://www01.imd.ch/upload/webtool/3723/Image/Oresundsbroen%20Bridge.jpg)
(http://fun-blog.biz/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bridge011.jpg)
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Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...
In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...
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Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...
In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...
You and Miley, you've got to post a picture of you with her some time!
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eventually, when I get one I will... but I hate cameras... Somewhat Useful Fact eh? :P
Ok, um... White Chocolate is not really chocolate...
(There! Happy... now I need a pic of me with some white Chocolate... hmmm, I was eating Cadbury White Chocolate Buttons today)
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Miley Cyrus was a lefty like her dad, but her dad made her learn to write with her right hand, as he though lefty's were a little backwards...
In effect she can write with her right, and do something else with her left at the same time...
This is actually quite common for practically any lefty of the previous generation(s).
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in an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States...
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Visuals:
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Part II
Part III
Part IV
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Bill Shatner has played a white supremacist.
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rice is the chief food for half the people of the world...
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Rofl lol lmao
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm)
I was wondering when this would happen :lol:
Danger Mouse is about to release blank CD.
Fact ;)
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(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5345/kalapanahousedestroyedb.jpg)
Don't you just hate it when you return to your home and you see it surrounded by a river of lava?
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Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace...
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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Greg_Ellis (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Greg_Ellis)
This guy played Olsen in ST09. He also appeared in the ds9 finale and plays Giles in C&C red alert 3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ellis_(actor) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ellis_(actor))
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In other news:
^ I suspect this might be breaking a few copyrights. :mrgreen:
(sorry to edit your post, senator; i screwed up deleting spam and offtopic crap posts, you can spank me if youd like :P lol)
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even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death...
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Bleh, According to facebook my home country doesn't even exist anymore :(
All Welsh placenames are now listed as being in either "england" with a small minority of them (such as my hometown Caerphilly) being in the UK which to me is slightly better.
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Q: How do fish travel up a dam?
A: They use the fish ladder :]
(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8173/johndaydamfishladder.jpg)
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Does it come with a road map for the poor little guys?
-Take a left at the reef, keep going then take a right at the sewer dump, and another left up the on-ramp.
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Former President of Poland Lech Walesa only won 1% of the vote in the 2000 Polish presidential election.
Also: AERIES! What's up m8? PM me.
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LRO: Mapping our Future
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'Tis a CNC mill.
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Atlantis and the crew of the STS-125 mission landed safely in California at Edwards Air Force Base after completing the Hubble Servicing Mission on Sunday, May 24, 2009. The almost 5.3-million-mile mission included five spacewalks to repair and upgrade the world-famous observatory.
(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2750/351256mainimage13709467.jpg)
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In other news. ESA launched the Herschel space telescope. (Along with another spacecraft call Planck)
It has a 3.5m mirror, making it "teh biggest!11", but it will be observing in infrared.
An interesting thing about it, is it's orbit, or specifically, the lack of it, since it is actually heading for L2.
L2 is a Lagrangian point, and Lagranian points are areas in space where the sun/earth gravity cancels each other out.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Lagrange_points.jpg)
There, it will enter something called a lissajous orbit, around it. So basically it will be "orbiting" what appears to be empty space.
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1597/45541810lagrangeorbit46.jpg)
This concludes our space lecture for today.
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now that is awesome
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...every tried to type ABOUT:ROBOTS in the Firefox 3 address bar?
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haha good laugh
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There used to be about:internets in Chrome, which displayed the pipes screensaver under a heading of "Don't clog the Tubes!". I think it was taken out on the recent new version.
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...every tried to type ABOUT:ROBOTS in the Firefox 3 address bar?
lol i found it about a year ago :P
http://bcs-tng.com/forums/index.php?topic=2171.msg26216#msg26216
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haha digging up the past are we?
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OMG That's great. ("And they have a plan"--Ha!)
I wonder if people discover these things through sheer boredom, or if it's by some other means.
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What the title says.
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thats just disturbing lol :P
but it's so cute, i want twelve of them! :D
nylon is made from coal and petroleum...
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I WANT ONE!
Why is it disturbing...? I'm confused...
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Looks like a crossbreed of a mouse and a chicken.
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Looks like a crossbreed of a mouse and a chicken.
That's what I was thinking. Well, that and "WHAT THE F*CK?!"
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snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol
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snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol
I had to re read that..thought the place was called "blue crayon" :\
The fiat 1.2l 16v engine as fitted in the fiat punto used unleaded petrol and NOT diesel as my gf found out in one of her "experiments" whilst under the influnce of her blonde hair...
Engine seriously farked peepulz :(
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snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California...
sucks to be them lol
Shit, I'd move there, I love snow.
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freaks... stupid damn shoveling... stupid damn winter... *grumble grumble* :arms:
in 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes...
dammit i want one of them 8)
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this week in NASA:
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(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3272/n11.jpg)
The Business end of the soviet N1 rocket. The N1 was the competitive program to the Apollo program, and each one of those is Saturn sized.
Their (unmanned of course) launch history is:
First one: Exploded 69 seconds after lift off.
Second one: Exploded 23 seconds after engine started, and took the entire launch tower with it.
Third one: Went of course, it had to be exploded 51 seconds after lift off.
Fourth one: First the engines shut down 106 seconds after lift off. Then it exploded.
So yes, there were a few kinks to work out...
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You mean that each one of those nozzels (sp) has the same radius as a Saturn rocket???
Synchronizing those blastoffs will be a pain, nevermind the fuel consumption...
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Err, no. I mean the entire thing.
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cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten...
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rly I kinda don't think that's true.
Supercavitation is the use of cavitation effects to create a large bubble of gas inside a liquid, allowing an object to travel at great speed through the liquid by being wholly enveloped by the bubble. The cavity (the bubble) reduces the drag on the object, since drag is normally about 1,000 times greater in liquid water than in a gas.
Cavitation is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapor pressure.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Superkavitation_schema.svg/500px-Superkavitation_schema.svg.png)
Interesting stuff... this is being developed for future submarine torpedoes. (extreme speeds)
one such torp is the VA-111 Shkval that can approach speeds in excess of 200 knots (370 km/h)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Shkval.jpg/400px-Shkval.jpg)
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Cavitation drive is a fictional technology in the Aquanox universe, allowing hypervelocity speeds through large water bodies, the underwater equivalent of warp drive.
On a side note, Aquanox is my all-time favorite game, too bad it had so many compatibility issues though. It crashed virtually every 30 minutes on my computer. :(
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cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten...
rly I kinda don't think that's true.
dont question me :arms:
http://member.zebo.com/Main?event_key=ZANS&action=VIEWQ&qid=61347
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060901001715AAtOenG
http://www.medi-vet.com/cat.aspx
http://www.tigercatjewelrystore.com/cat-jewelry.shtml
http://www.petmedicationsdiscounts.com/cat_meds.html
need more proof? because i can provide more... :P
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God knows the almighty cat moderator would be able to. :arms:
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that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P
only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
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that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P
only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
THAT ONE PERCENT KILLED ENOUGH ALREADY!
Susan Boyle got admitted to a mental home. (Is that even her name?)
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that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P
only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
THAT ONE PERCENT KILLED ENOUGH ALREADY!
Actually, Spanish Flu killed more, and that's a virus.
Remember, the common cold is part of that one percent, and it, generally speaking, doesn't kill you.
Oops, that's another virus. :S
Plague (the black/bubonic(sp) one) is also a virus.
Malaria, virus.
E. coli, virus.
I think most of those 1% will only cause you some indigestion. :P
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Susan Boyle got admitted to a mental home. (Is that even her name?)
Yes, that is her name and yes, she got admitted (incoming fact) for exhaustion.
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The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 as an internal project of ARPANET.
The opening of the network to commercial interests began in 1988.
However, the '88 was largely operated through command line interfaces and scary looking screens with only text on them.
It wasn't until 1991 that CERN created the www technology that someone could have "web pages" as we know them.
Anyways, the internet archive appears to have, errr, archived some of the early web pages.
Here is for example, a webpage no modern design would dare have in his portofolio, White House, circa Oct 23, 1997:
http://web.archive.org/web/19971023010656/http://www3.whitehouse.gov/ (mmm, bevel effect and repeated image backgrounds)
And in Dec 01, 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202165238/www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome-nt.html (Dazzling the crowds with its .gifs)
Simpler times. :P
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I'm missing the blink tags and animated flame gifs. :'( *Is disappointed in whitehouse webmasters of the time*
Typecasting is referred to in the Netherlands as the "Swiebertje effect", but also as the "Tarzan effect", which also works outside of the Netherlands, mostly USA, in this case, it's Johny Weissmuller. There is another effect, for which I unfortunately do not know the English term, in the Netherlands, which is the "bril op/bril af" effect (glasses on/glasses off effect). Most notably, Superman movies feature this effect quite heavily and are infact the origin of this term.
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at birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse....
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Northamerica moves away from Europe at an average speed of 8 CM each year.
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In old English, there was no 'W', instead names such as "William" were spelt, and pronnounced, "Gvilliam".
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that, and i dont spam this thread or post made-up facts :P
only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans...
(neb, shall i provide proof for that one too? lol j/k :P)
THAT ONE PERCENT KILLED ENOUGH ALREADY!
Actually, Spanish Flu killed more, and that's a virus.
Remember, the common cold is part of that one percent, and it, generally speaking, doesn't kill you.
Oops, that's another virus. :S
Plague (the black/bubonic(sp) one) is also a virus.
Malaria, virus.
E. coli, virus.
I think most of those 1% will only cause you some indigestion. :P
And with those handy facts, I go to recreate these with Pandemic 2. :arms:
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
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(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8705/hummercrashsmalln.jpg)
(Hummer demonstrating its famous "safety". Wow, is the school bus even damaged?)
Also: Soon to be a Chinese product.
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I am not at all surprised by that fact.
The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 as an internal project of ARPANET.
I first read that acronym as 'ARMPIT'.
....It could be useful!
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Btw, although GM wasn't advertising it before now it suddenly wants to make very clear that the military version of Hummers (?umvee) has no relationship with the civilian version.
(no wonder, judging by that crash photo)
So all those who were buying those and were thinking to themselves "wow, dude I am driving something the military has."... IN YOUR FACE.
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the only one that close was the H1 and that stopped production a while ago.
the H2 and H3 hummers have nowhere near the same construction/interior space.
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America is suddenly not about fuel-guzzlers and hooge frames? wut
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by feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks...
trippy! green eggs and ham indeed!
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by feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks...
trippy! green eggs and ham indeed!
I will not eat them Sam I Am! (Jimmy now why on earth did you get your cat to endorse Green Eggs and Ham?)
In 18 months, 2 rats can have more than 2 million descendents
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
And American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in 1st class.
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Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in hope of a free can of soda.
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Sam
lol my cat's name is Sam :P
22% of us skip lunch daily...
i, however, never miss a liquid lunch :D (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/vb_cheers.gif) (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/beer.gif) (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/drink.gif)
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Sam
lol my cat's name is Sam :P
22% of us skip lunch daily...
i, however, never miss a liquid lunch :D
Wait for it, Jimmy'll catch on any moment. ;)
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For some of us who didn't know (which is probably about a good .5%)
The original Enterprise was designed to be upside down to what we know today. Gene just turned it "right-side" up and was pleased with it. The same was true about the Reliant.
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Not exactly, eclipse74569. True, there were some design sketches with the secondary hull above the saucer and the nacelles below it, but the final design sketch, given the go-ahead by Gene for production, had the basic shape we know and love. The Enterprise was never originally "designed" upside-down. It was just one of the concepts.
The process of designing the Enterprise was along the lines of Matt making a bunch of drawings, and Gene picking out what he liked and didn't like. Then Matt would make new sketches, using Gene's recommendations. This was repeated until Gene was happy with the overall design. Then the ship's basic design be considered final.
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(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/bla.gif) save that for another thread lol :P
the U.S. produces more tobacco than it does wheat...
*coughs* now where did i put my Marlboros coughcoughsputter*
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Americans spend more then 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
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the U.S. produces more tobacco than it does wheat...
*coughs* now where did i put my Marlboros coughcoughsputter*
Speaking of Tobacco....North Carolina is the largest producer of tobacco in the US :P
So Jimmy, you need to get your butt down here and buy you a pack of Marlboros, they're only a little over 4 bucks including tax!
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So Jimmy, you need to get your butt down here and buy you a pack of Marlboros, they're only a little over 4 bucks including tax!
heh about $7 - $8 for a pack of Marlboros here in RI these days... :(
drugs are cheaper than cigarettes now lol
the first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo... :(
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(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/bla.gif) save that for another thread lol :P
What happened to your nerdy Star Trek side? You call yourself the moderator of a Star Trek forum...:P
The term "Dog Days of Summer" comes from the ancients Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. They believed that the star Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, was so bright that during the summer months--which is when it can be seen in the northern hemisphere--it actually helped heat the Earth. They were wrong, but the name 'Dog Days' is still given to the hottest days in summer.
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There is no road connecting North and South America.
(http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5685/434pxpanamericanhwy.png)
That's where it stops. Right below Panama and above Colombia there is an area called the Dari?n Gap half of which is mountainous jungle, and half of which is swamp land. No paved or even unpaved road, not even a "marked path" crosses it.
Sure enough, you could probably, with a jeep or something. (as long as you are ready to be pushing the car a lot more than driving it, Camel Trophy style - anyone remember those?) but the point is, you can't take a normal car and a GPS navigator and drive from New York to Brazil. (going around with ferries doesn't count).
Apparently attempting to cross said jungle is politely described as "suicidial", where, if the insects, snakes, tropical illnesses and general lack of civilization, fast food restaurants and fuel stations doesn't kill you, the guerrilla forces, kidnappers, drug traffickers and corrupt local governments will.
*coughs* now where did i put my Marlboros coughcoughsputter*
The Jimmy smokes cancer sticks? :(
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50th anniversary of the X-15 rocket research aircraft today
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/research/x15/x15_02.jpg)
This joint program by NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, and North American operated the most remarkable of all the rocket research aircraft. Composed of an internal structure of titanium and a skin surface of a chrome-nickel alloy known as Inconel X, the X-15 had its first, unpowered glide flight on June 8, 1959, while the first powered flight took place on September 17, 1959. Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 ft and speeds upward of 500 mph. The airplane first set speed records in the Mach 4-6 range with Mach 4.43 on March 7, 1961; Mach 5.27 on June 23, 1961; Mach 6.04 on November 9, 1961; and Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967. It also set an altitude record of 354,200 feet (67 miles) on August 22, 1963, and provided an enormous wealth of data on hypersonic air flow, aerodynamic heating, control and stability at hypersonic speeds, reaction controls for flight above the atmosphere, piloting techniques for reentry, human factors, and flight instrumentation. The highly successful program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program. The program's final flight was performed on October 24, 1968
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A huge part of the reason behind the Mature rating of Halo 3 was because of Xbox LIVE. Other than that, Halo 3 could pass for a T rated game.
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across the planet, this week there were 130 reports of record high temperatures, and 230 reports of record cold temps...
since Jan 1, 2009, there have been 7,350 reports of record high temps, and 3,712 reports of record cold temps...
since Jan 1, 2000, there have been 286,876 reports of record high temps, and 138,683 reports of record cold temps...
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A huge part of the reason behind the Mature rating of Halo 3 was because of Xbox LIVE. Other than that, Halo 3 could pass for a T rated game.
ESRB ratings only apply to offline IIRC, otherwise all games with online would be rated R for excessive language. :P
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ESRB ratings only apply to offline IIRC, otherwise all games with online would be rated R for excessive language. :P
Which is why they have the disclaimer saying game experience may change online :P PC gamers (ie proper gamers) usually don't have to put up with the whiney noobs you get on consoles. Most people communicate with text, if at all. Still waiting for Microsoft to port Halo 3 to PC :argh: :argh:
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NASA's SDO Mission
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McDonalds salads contain up to 60% more fat then their burgers.
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I want some proof!
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A quick search reveals this:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article1041428.ece
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McDonalds salads contain up to 60% more fat then their burgers.
You're being a little mis-leading there.
The Ceaser dressing is what contains all the fat and calories, and that's not made by McDonalds! And it's pretty much standard across all Ceaser dressings.
The correct fact would be less McDonalds orientated: A ceaser salad contains up to 60% more fat that a burger.
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I have this stupid iPhone App called "cool fact" that does exactly what we do here.
So I blame that one! :lol:
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fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails....
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A Betelgeuse supernova could easily outshine the Moon in the night sky. It will likely be the brightest supernova in recorded Human history, easily outshining SN 1006. After it explodes, it will likely linger for several months, being visible in the daytime sky and lighting up nighttime skies in the Solar System for a long time, after which the "right shoulder" of Orion will disappear forever.
According to wikipedia, a supernova is supposed to occur at a rate of about 1 per 50 years for a galaxy the size of our own. But the last, nicely observed with the naked eye supernova in human history was in 1604. We are sooo overdue one, and I think that if Betelgeuse blew up in our lifetime (or to be specific: 520 years ago) it would be the coolest thing EVER.
I want to see a supernova dammit ><
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Thats quite cool...
And this fact came from Intercity125: White chocolate is not chocolate.
Yup, I still don't get it even with the explanation. :P
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fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails....
Toe nails are completely useless. So are Finger nails aside from scratching itches and those Scratch and sniffs.
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(http://www.lakeshelbyville.com/images/PContest/Places/Goat%20Tower.JPG)
It's a goat tower.
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LOL perfect goat home... XD
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If you Google "Somewhat useful facts", bc-central gets the first few links! :D
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A Betelgeuse supernova could easily outshine the Moon in the night sky. It will likely be the brightest supernova in recorded Human history, easily outshining SN 1006. After it explodes, it will likely linger for several months, being visible in the daytime sky and lighting up nighttime skies in the Solar System for a long time, after which the "right shoulder" of Orion will disappear forever.
According to wikipedia, a supernova is supposed to occur at a rate of about 1 per 50 years for a galaxy the size of our own. But the last, nicely observed with the naked eye supernova in human history was in 1604. We are sooo overdue one, and I think that if Betelgeuse blew up in our lifetime (or to be specific: 520 years ago) it would be the coolest thing EVER.
I want to see a supernova dammit ><
Funny you should mentino Betelgeuse...
Unfortunately, I doubt you will see Betelgeuse go supernova, since it's actually shrinking, the current percieved shrink is infact 15% in the last, decade or so.
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if color wasnt added to coca cola it would be green
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Ew.... That makes me never want to drink it again.
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Ew.... That makes me never want to drink it again.
Why? It's not like the color adds taste or anything :P
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"By the word of the LORD one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but the man refused.
So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him."
1 Kings 20:35-36
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"By the word of the LORD one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but the man refused.
So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him."
1 Kings 20:35-36
Sounds to me we have a control freak on our hands :P
The G-MLRS can hit a target 40km away OR it can devastate one complete gridsquare on an OS map (1km x 1km if memory serves)
Nifty.
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Ancient Korean MLRS (Hwacha) :P
(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3759/800pxhwacha2.jpg)
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and it works to :)
*watches MythBusters*
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nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously...
hmmm i shall have to keep that in mind for all those i hate :twisted:
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There is one cool thing certain Hybrids can (theoretically) do, which hasn't been advertised much. That is, power your house.
The electrical engine/battery in Hybrid, is more than enough to run all your major appliances, until the power goes back on. (Basically something like a home UPS)
Since said hybrids recharge their battery from a fuel tank, once said battery run out, it would start to do so, essentially acting like a fuel based electric generator.
A Chervolet Volt for example, will almost be ideally suited for that, because it has a huge battery that can store 16kWh. An average house uses about 30kWh per day, so you could run your entire house for almost half a day, on the battery alone. And on top of that, it has an engine and fuel tank as well. (capable of recharging the battery)
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it is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona....
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it is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona....
Another stupid law...It's illegal to sing offkey in North Carolina
And one for Jimmy
In the state of Rhode Island, Professional sports, except ice polo and hockey, must obtain a license to play games on Sunday.
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(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9323/hatchetfishz.jpg)
Hatchetfish
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I have three, but one's a tad obvious. :arms:
Mythbusters state the obvious in each show (If you have a logical brain, you'll be able to predict the outcome of every experiment).
If a game of Pandemic 2 starts in Madagascar (The hardest country to infect), it is 100% impossible to complete. (With only one port and no airports, by the time the infection reaches another country two will lock down.) So you may want to start a new game. ;)
In the Mystery Science Theater episode "Moon Zero Two" Joel plays Rock'em Sock'em Robots using his robot friends Crow and Tom Servo.
Rock'em Sock'em Robots are featured on the shelf of Stephen Colbert on his show "The Colbert Report" as an oblique reference to the red state/blue state political philosophy. Stephen Colbert played a match of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots on his tv series against Gary Kasparov and won on October 17, 2007. (Any guesses as to which colour? :P)
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If a game of Pandemic 2 starts in Madagascar (The hardest country to infect), it is 100% impossible to complete. (With only one port and no airports, by the time the infection reaches another country two will lock down.) So you may want to start a new game. Wink
Not true, i love starting in madagascar, as the place locks down if you start elsewhere and buy the 'sneezing' symptom.
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... anyway moving on :P
the human brain is insensitive to pain...
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This Week @ NASA 06 17 09
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(http://www.ngsprints.co.uk/images/M/35826.jpg)
More Hatchetfish (Admit it, it's the best "souls of the damned" impression you have seen a fish do)
And btw, yes, their eyes are permanently fixed rolled upwards.
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If a game of Pandemic 2 starts in Madagascar (The hardest country to infect), it is 100% impossible to complete. (With only one port and no airports, by the time the infection reaches another country two will lock down.) So you may want to start a new game. Wink
Not true, i love starting in madagascar, as the place locks down if you start elsewhere and buy the 'sneezing' symptom.
I was about to correct this, based on personal experience. How dare you beat me to it! :argh: (j/k)
Mythbusters state the obvious in each show (If you have a logical brain, you'll be able to predict the outcome of every experiment).
Wow. So not true.
"By the word of the LORD one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but the man refused.
So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him."
1 Kings 20:35-36
wat
ANYWAY, a galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
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at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...
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children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats...
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(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9323/hatchetfishz.jpg)
Hatchetfish
Sometimes, I cannot help but feel that God MUST have a sense of humor. Look at those things. Who would've created that without laughing? They're what I imagine Nebula looking like. >_>
Fun Little Movies is the first United States company to produce comedy films to play on mobile phones worldwide.
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more than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year...
ummmm how?
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the zipper on the edge cuts them during a pillow fight??
I don't know....
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Asphyxiation perhaps?
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101 dalmations, peter pan, lady and the tramp, and mulan are the only disney movies where both parents are present & dont die through the movie
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the zipper on the edge cuts them during a pillow fight??
I don't know....
That happened to me. Didn't have to go to the ER, though...
A 'dry heat' is when the temperature is high, but there is little humidity. This feels cooler than a 'wet' or 'sticky heat' because with less humidity, sweat is able to evaporate more quickly. This evaporation cools the body. When it is very humid, evaporation takes place at a slower rate. Thus, you feel hotter.
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Yeah, I live on the coastline so I have always wet heat.
I HATE summers.
The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.
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There are still some that are, aren't there? ;)
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A boy in Germany was nearly killed by a pea sized meteor. What did happen was that it hit his hand and has now left a scar. Talk about good timing!
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I read that on MSN news a while ago. Lucky kid, he is.
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Another walk through of the ISS
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Wikipedia has been printed as a book with a few examples from the page making it 5000 pages long.
(http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/5_wikipedia-1-550x550.jpg)
(http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/5_wikipedia-2-550x550.jpg)
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Wikipedia has been printed as a book with a few examples from the page making it 5000 pages long.
(http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/5_wikipedia-1-550x550.jpg)
(http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/5_wikipedia-2-550x550.jpg)
Uhm...why not just make it several volumes like any NORMAL encyclopedia...
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying
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The studio model of Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer had a little toy soldier on it's side.
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For the record. This is just 5000 pages, of 400 "selected" articles from Wikipedia.
The actual Wikipedia has about 2,911,038 articles and it has been calculated that it would look like this:
(http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9946/60889675.jpg)
(In 25cm tall, 5cm thick volumes)
IMHO, it is the biggest achievement of the 2000-2009 period. Like the Lunar Landing was for the 60s.
(I am fond of the term "noughties", for the 00s, but how do we call decades after that? 10s? 2k10s?)
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The US aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is longer than the TOS Enterprise by 53 meters.
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The last two facts were indeed somewhat interesting!
Anyway, Micheal Jackson's album 'Thriller' is the biggest selling album in all of recorded music history, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide.
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Cat facts:
Cats use their whiskers to detect an object's presence from a distance, acting like radar. This is especially useful when a mouse runs through the room, moving the air ever so slightly. They are also good for determining the size of objects (holes/tunnels) your cat can crawl through safely without getting stuck.
* If the tail is curved gently downward, then curved up again at the tip: The cat is relaxed and comfortable.
* If the tail is slightly raised and softly curved: The cat is beginning to get interested in something.
* If the tail is erect, but the tip is tilted over, either forward or back: The cat is very interested and feeling friendly.
* If the tail is fully erect and the tip is vertical: The cat is offering a friendly, cheerful greeting.
* If the tail is erect with the whole length or tip quivering gently: The cat is showing affection.
* If the tail is still, but the tip is twitching occasionally: The cat is slightly irritated or pensive.
* If the tail is still, but the tip is twitching intensely: The cat is very annoyed.
* If the tail is swishing vigorously from side to side: The cat is angry.
* If the tail is straight up and fully bristled: The cat is showing aggression (toward another cat).
* If the tail is arched and bristled: The cat may attack if further provoked.
* If the tail is lowered and fluffed out: The cat is afraid.
* If the tail is raised and fluffed out (the "Big Tail"): The cat is probably happily chasing around.
* If the tail is fully lowered, perhaps tucked between hind legs: The cat is showing defeat or submissiveness (toward another cat).
* If the cat is a female and her tail is held to one side, and she is crouched or with her rump in the air: This female cat is ready to mate.
You must of course, consider what is going on with the cat and its environment. Don't decide on the cat's mood solely by tail positioning alone.
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11 October is the only day that no-one to do with Star Trek (however vaguely) was born.
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Every 2 seconds (more or less), someone in the world, dies.
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And yet our population is still growing...
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So does that mean less than every 2 seconds, a couple is #loveFFX#?
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A couple is selecting Firefox over IE?
Possibly. It is after all a superior browser.
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The speed of human sternal release has been the source of much speculation, with the most conservative estimates placing it around 150 kilometers/hour (42 meters/second) or roughly 95 mph (135 feet/second), and the highest estimates -such as the Health World Museum in Barrington, Illinois- which propose a speed as fast as 85% of the speed of sound, corresponding to approximately 1045 kilometers per hour (290 meters/second) or roughly 650 mph (950 feet/second).
In case that you don't know what Sternal release is, it's just a common sneeze.
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on average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth....
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In 1979, the Voyager spacecraft glimpsed a seemingly perfect geometric form in the clouds over the north pole of Saturn--a double hexagon (one inside the other). In 2007, the Cassini spacecraft found that this formation is still there.
(http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2007/03/29/hexagon.533) (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/03/saturn_hexagon_.html#more)(Click for the full article)
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Salty Plumes from Enceladus Suggest Life on Saturn?s Moon
It is not a new theory that Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, may harbor a salty ocean beneath its icy surface. Recent data from NASA?s Cassini Mission (whose imaging team is lead by Star Trek science advisor Carolyn Porco) suggests that geysers from the moon may be fed by a salty ocean. The planet?s outer ring, or ?E-ring,? is believed to be primarily supplied by giant geysers on Enceladus?s south polar region tossing out materials to a distance of three times the moon?s radius. Cassini?s cosmic dust analyzer has examined the composition of the material and found salt within it. This furthers the theory that the moon may be capable of supporting marine life.
(http://www.trekmovie.com/images/sciencesaturday/062609cassini.jpg)
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Some of the quite a few new planetoids in the solar system we have found. (Pluto included for comparison)
(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1019/800pxeighttnos.png)
Incidentally, Eris had initially been named Xena and her satellite, Gabriella, but some astronomers weren't too fond of it...
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I am so glad those names didn't stick.
Anyone know what happened to Haumea? After objects become over about 320km in diameter they usually pull themselves into a sphere under their own gravity...
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Haumea is actually spinning itself apart. It's roughly a third of the mass that Pluto has, and is, if memory serves, the fastest spinning object in the solar system right now (every 4 hours or so?).
The longest diameter (going from the lower left to upper right) is infact it's equator. So it's spinning on it's side.
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Splash
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Haumea is actually spinning itself apart. It's roughly a third of the mass that Pluto has, and is, if memory serves, the fastest spinning object in the solar system right now (every 4 hours or so?).
The longest diameter (going from the lower left to upper right) is infact it's equator. So it's spinning on it's side.
Awesome!!
Senator: Wow. 'Splash' indeed! I never saw that episode.
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I am so glad those names didn't stick.
Anyone know what happened to Haumea? After objects become over about 320km in diameter they usually pull themselves into a sphere under their own gravity...
On the other hand they call something "make make". Woulda been happy with Loki or something norse or egyptian like anubis.
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I am so glad those names didn't stick.
Anyone know what happened to Haumea? After objects become over about 320km in diameter they usually pull themselves into a sphere under their own gravity...
On the other hand they call something "make make". Woulda been happy with Loki or something norse or egyptian like anubis.
That name has been granted in honour of the Hawaiian (sp) discovery.
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Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida...
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Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida...
From what I read, North Carolina is the closest to Bermuda...which is weird, I'm quite tired of the North Carolina facts lol
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it was about Maine vs Florida, not which eastcoast US land mass was closest :P
lame fact, i know...
here's a new one then...
the faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns...
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Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida...
From what I read, North Carolina is the closest to Bermuda...which is weird, I'm quite tired of the North Carolina facts lol
my fianc?'s from NC...how very dare you D=
lol jk
Fact:
This years 20p in the UK was messed to the point where a bunch in circulation have no year and are offering ?50 GBP to hand them in.
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reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk...
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Dogs' mouths are not cleaner than humans'. The bacteria in their mouths just aren't adapted to attack our bodies.
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Dog's mouths are cleaner than a humans, on there are only 5000 bacteria in a dogs mouth on average, while in a human mouth it is far more variable (and usually higher and requires cleaning).
Of course, if a dog has just taken a dead something in it's mouth, already decaying for some time, then yes, a dogs mouth is dirtier.
But this is managed by special enzymes, so it stays at a near constant of 5000.
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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer...
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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer...
What a yummy way to bathe :D
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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer...
That's a big stereotype right there. The reason I say so is because my mom is Malaysian. Pure blooded native. I'm pretty sure I've never been exposed to beer.
Another thing, it could be any one of the dozens of native tribes that inhabit Malaysia, both the Peninsula and Borneo. My mother is Bidayuh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidayuh) from the village of Kuap, in the Bornean province Sarawak.
(see attachment)
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A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
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I read that, it's really amazing, those type of ants are really territorial, meaning they will attack anything that isn't their own.
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Earth's atmosphere at low earth orbit is extremely corrosive as it is saturated with atomic oxygen.
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uh what now?
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It means that if you put a piece of pure iron up there it will rust immediately upon contact.
But I have to admit, I'm a tad confused, "atomic oxygen", you don't mean O1 do you? I know the "element" is O2.
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pearls melt in vinegar...
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But I have to admit, I'm a tad confused, "atomic oxygen", you don't mean O1 do you? I know the "element" is O2.
Atomic oxygen is O2 that has been split up by UV radiation. It then combines with more O2 to form OZone (O3)
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girls have more tastebuds than boys...
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the word samba means 'to rub navels together'
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It means that if you put a piece of pure iron up there it will rust immediately upon contact.
But I have to admit, I'm a tad confused, "atomic oxygen", you don't mean O1 do you? I know the "element" is O2.
I do mean O1. They need another two electrons to complete their valance, hence they are extremely reactive.
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girls have more tastebuds than boys...
So that's partially why they're suffering more from a hangover.
American man survived from seven direct hits of lightningbolts. Later he shot himself.
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pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent...
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girls have more tastebuds than boys...
I don't think that's true.
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girls have more tastebuds than boys...
I don't think that's true.
No, it's not true but they do have a better sense of taste.
"What makes the difference is the way in which boys and girls process taste impressions,"
http://inventorspot.com/articles/taste_sensations_better_girls_boys_21283
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Experiments have shown that human's vision system operate in the gaze coordinate system, that is, position of objects are memorized with respect to the center of the eye.
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The human eye, on a clear night, can see a candle lit in Dover while standing on the beach in France.
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The human eye, on a clear night, can see a candle lit in Dover while standing on the beach in France.
Somebody forgot to take in the curvature of Earth into account? :?
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The human eye, on a clear night, can see a candle lit in Dover while standing on the beach in France.
Somebody didn't take in the curvature of the Earth into account? :?
Perhaps, but it isn't that far from the white cliffs of Dover to the nearest beach in France across the channel.
And the cliffs of Dover rise above sea level.
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The human eye, on a clear night, can see a candle lit in Dover while standing on the beach in France.
Somebody didn't take in the curvature of the Earth into account? :?
Perhaps, but it isn't that far from the white cliffs of Dover to the nearest beach in France across the channel.
And the cliffs of Dover rise above sea level.
I see.
If only I have that kind of eyesight. :cry:
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The human eye, on a clear night, can see a candle lit in Dover while standing on the beach in France.
Somebody didn't take in the curvature of the Earth into account? :?
Since you can see the French coast from Dover, the curvature of the Earth doesn't come into it :P
You don't even need to be on the cliffs. You can see it from the port (I think).
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One of the machines that dig the Chanel Tunnel between England and France, literally dug it's own grave. It dug a tunnel to the side of the train tunnel, whech was then sealed behind it.
And why? Because it would be too expensive to take it back.
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The "Sci-Fi channel" changed their name to the "SyFy Channel."
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seaweed is used to thicken icecream...
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In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
The "Sci-Fi channel" changed their name to the "SyFy Channel."
Oh, that is just to cheesy. :roll:
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The "Sci-Fi channel" changed their name to the "SyFy Channel."
Oh, that is just to cheesy. :roll:
And yet they still air ECW...which is fiction, but nothing about science :P
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826.
This was 50 years to the day after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence.
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In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
Also in Toy Story, on the "for sale" sign in the garden it says "Virtual House".
The "Sci-Fi channel" changed their name to the "SyFy Channel."
Oh, that is just to cheesy. :roll:
Besides that, it also means something, not so nice, in another language.
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Suddenly, a challenger appears.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
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Only if it can run a real, proper java (I'll only accept Suns HotSpot JVM!) and Eclipse, in such a way that it won't look totally out of it, then I might run it on a VM. :P
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Suddenly, a challenger appears.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
Meh, just another linux dist.
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less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes...
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Suddenly, a challenger appears.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
Meh, just another linux dist.
Depends.
If they are aiming low, they will just grab a linux distribution, stick a Google logo on it, make it all friendly with big, white "ok" buttons that "just work" and that would be it.
If they are aiming high however, they are not saying it clearly, but I think that they are trying to pre-emt & command the whole cloud computing thing.
As I understand, this thing would basically be a small linux that would be just about good enough to load up their browser. And then, it is through that browser that all the rest of the goodies would be streamed from the almighty mothership Google and it's blue gene supercomputers, to your cheapo screen-terminal.
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As I understand, this thing would basically be a small linux that would be just about good enough to load up their browser. And then, it is through that browser that all the rest of the goodies would be streamed from the almighty mothership Google and it's blue gene supercomputers, to your cheapo screen-terminal.
Perhaps ironic, but Google uses mostly commodity hardware. Only the powersource is custom build to provide 95%+ efficiency.
So no blue gene supercomputers, just lots and lots of cheap hardware.
And custom fitted shipping container units, with 100+ computers with walkway for maintenance.
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I know that Google only uses commodity hardware. But really, right now, it's just a big database isn't it?
But the idea (in my post, not them having said anything about it), is to begin serving the ability to run programs like 3ds max or Crysis in its computers, and just stream a screen content's worth back to the terminals.
Presumably, processing power would be rationed, the same way right now everyone gets 7Gb in gmail and intelligently distributed (if someone doesn't use it, those chips allocated to someone else, until he actually does. As I am sure they secretly do with their gmail hard disk space).
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you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world...
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I know that Google only uses commodity hardware. But really, right now, it's just a big database isn't it?
But the idea (in my post, not them having said anything about it), is to begin serving the ability to run programs like 3ds max or Crysis in its computers, and just stream a screen content's worth back to the terminals.
Presumably, processing power would be rationed, the same way right now everyone gets 7Gb in gmail and intelligently distributed (if someone doesn't use it, those chips allocated to someone else, until he actually does. As I am sure they secretly do with their gmail hard disk space).
Yahoo does something similar with their "unlimited mail" (of course, not quite unlimited!).
But Google also does duplicates. It's part of their structure. But, GMail database is infact derived (very similar) to Google Groups software.
This is the reason why the numbers on a google search page are only estimates. They actually fire, for each more or less independant aspect, a parallel "query", each to a different server that each has a specific task, for example, the real results, the pages at the bottom, the estimates, the suggestions, the adsense, the spelling mistake, each of them goes to a different server (of each there are lots of and in different locations). So that's the reason why, for one, it's fast, and two, the numbers can be off.
If you want to know more (no doubt you already know more), search for MapReduce and BigTables. MapReduce is how Google retrieves/computes data, BigTables is how they store it (with duplicates).
you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world...
Ah, the worthy Birthday Paradox, and subsequent Birthday Attack!
As soon as you count 366 people, the probability of two people sharing a birthday is equal to 1, due to something called the "pidgeonhole principal". If you store N+M (N and M greater than 0) items in N holes, then it must be that atleast one item shares a hole with another item.
And at only a group of 23 people has the probability of two people sharing a birthday reached 50:50.
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a rat can go without water longer than a camel can...
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If you use the American notation for the date--that is, mm/dd/yy--then on July 8th at exactly six seconds past 4:05, the date was 04:05:06 07-08-09!
If you follow the rest of the world, then this same phenomenon will occur on August 7th. This won't happen again until 3009 2109! Mark your calenders!
(Thanks for the correction, Neb.)
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This won't happen again until 3009!
Rly?? More like 2109....
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Bah, I honestly can't stand the american date format.
Did you know the american format is really backwards? It offers no advantages.
I mean, it's not little endian nor big endian. The most stable information is not at the back or the front.
Also, two years ago, "7/7/7" people got all exciteed, you are all so 2000 years to late for that!
Same with 3 days ago. Or "pi" day.
Ok, now for some sane date formats.
The best is one found in Asia for the most part (most known in Japan): yyyy/mm/dd the best advantage is the easy sorting you can do, just alphabetical. The twentied of August in the year 2009 will always be after first of March in the year 1111.
This format is big endian, and therefore represents the most important information at the front.
Then there is the European format, of dd/mm/yyyy, which is little endian by putting the least significant information at the front.
Numbers, when written in the range 0-9, are (usually) in big endian format, meaning that part that is most important is at the front. I mean, on a scale of millions, what does a single digit mean at a million places after the decimal?
And lastly, there is the lowly and, quite frankly, IMO, useless, american date format of mm/dd/yyyy. Which is has no advantage at all, except it's more like the "verbal" counterpart, in the saying "March the eleventh". Which in it's own right is in big endian format. But why did they have to then tack on the year at the end? And even the "verbal" counterpart they used to say: "in the year of our lord, some number, on May the twenty-fifth, this and that happend".
Ok, that's enough ranting and somewhat usefull facts on dateformats and endian-ness.
Also, don't forget, the first story of Gulliver's Travels where he meets the Lilliput and Blefuscu, who are at war with each other at which side of the egg they need to break first, in other words, which endian, the Lilliput want the little endian side to break, while the Blefuscu want the big endian side to break. In fact, if I remember correctly, Swift is the originator of the word "endian" in it's modern use.
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this week at Nasa!
woo STS 127 launches today!!
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Didn't a 100,000 amp lightning struck the shuttle directly? Desipite the launch pad lightning rods?
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I just heard that..... :|
EDIT: actually
STS 127 Scrub Briefing
None hit the shuttle itself... but they had to many strikes in the area.....
The shuttle did take a voltage spike though.
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Not according to this:
"The launch pad gets hit all the time," said NASA spokesman Allard Beutel. "We've never had a direct hit [to the shuttle itself], though."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090711-shuttle-lightning.html
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So who do we believe... the NASA spokesman or Mike Moses The Space Shuttle Program Integration Manager.
There was no direct hit to the shuttle but a strike was close enough to cause a spike in the shuttle systems....
That's what I got at least...
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So who do we believe... the NASA spokesman or Mike Moses The Space Shuttle Program Integration Manager.
There was no direct hit to the shuttle but a strike was close enough to cause a spike in the shuttle systems....
That's what I got at least...
The quoted NASA spokesman. :P No real need to go any deeper into this for this thread.
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11 lightning strikes occurred within 0.3 miles of the pad
Had to because it was interesting to watch :P
Lightning strikes on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are captured by an Operational Television Camera. Eleven lightning strikes occurred within 0.3 miles of the pad during a thunderstorm July 10 as space shuttle Endeavour was prepared for launch. Mission managers delayed Endeavour's planned liftoff July 11 as a precaution to allow engineers and safety personnel time to analyze data and retest systems on the orbiter and solid rockets boosters. The next launch attempt for the STS-127 mission is planned for 7:13 p.m. EDT Sunday, July 12.
This is all from NASA's Youtube account btw.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8147566.stm
They learn how to do this, and then they do it quite deliberately
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15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake...
:(
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Some pixel art artist really worked his ass off making a map of Hong Kong bay.
http://hongkong.edushi.com/Default.aspx?L=en
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Oh. My. God. It's like upgraded Sim City 2k! xD lmfao
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In 1873 Jules Verne wrote the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". Is actually the least imaginery of Verne's books and was completely doable with the means of the era.
Nowdays, assuming that someone wouldn't use airplanes which are a bit unfair (there are direct flights Paris to Tokyo, Tokyo New York and New York to Paris. I mean. Come on) and would only stick to surface transportation and ships like Verne's character, someone could do it today in about 42 days and it would look something like this:
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1330/aroundtheworld.gif)
Apparently the longest piece of the journey is the ship from Japan to Canada (13 days, ouch).
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In 1873 Jules Verne wrote the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". Is actually the least imaginery of Verne's books and was completely doable with the means of the era.
Nowdays, assuming that someone wouldn't use airplanes which are a bit unfair (there are direct flights Paris to Tokyo, Tokyo New York and New York to Paris. I mean. Come on) and would only stick to surface transportation and ships like Verne's character, someone could do it today in about 42 days and it would look something like this:
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1330/aroundtheworld.gif)
Apparently the longest piece of the journey is the ship from Japan to Canada (13 days, ouch).
I'm amazed it would take that little an amount of time.
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All but one of the Lunar landing sites imaged by LRO:
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/369234main_lroc_apollo11labeled_256x256.jpg)
LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html)
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Today the oldest (verifiable as such) man in the world, and WWI Veteran died in the UK. (At 113)
I mean. Forget about before Google, after Google comparisons. That guy saw the entire WWII and thought "not again".
That guy wasn't just before the internet and the computer. He was before the jet engine.
He saw bi-planes being converted to 747s. He saw the V2s as something "very advanced", AND the entire space program all the way to moon landing AND the space shuttle.
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Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia...
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Aeries, has been awake for 52.5 hours and counting...
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Object hitting Jupiter yesterday.
15 years after "Shoemaker-Levy 9"
40 years after "Apollo 11 Moon Landing"
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/jupiter/20090720/jup-20090720-browse.jpg)
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Oldest working televison in the UK
a 1936 marconiphone. And this guy has gotten it to display modern digital tv pictures!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159774.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159774.stm)
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only in the UK can you still purchase Vacumn tubes! (that's what a buddy told me back in 01)
Rome and Moscow are villages in Pennsylvania.
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only in the UK can you still purchase Vacumn tubes! (that's what a buddy told me back in 01)
Rome and Moscow are villages in Pennsylvania.
Just did a little search about that Vacuum Tube thing... It's completely false.
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only in the UK can you still purchase Vacumn tubes! (that's what a buddy told me back in 01)
cookied just for mentioning that myth!!
Bethlehem is a village in west Wales. A surprising amount of tourists go there and post their cards just so it's post office will process them thereby having to stamp all of these cards etc "Bethlehem".
cool eh?
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Chocolate chip cookies were invented by mistake. They were put into a cookie with the hope of melting and making a chocolate cookie but they never melted that way, thus, the chocolate chip cookie.
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what, no "Today In History" fact? :P
Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays...
heh lol
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this day in history :
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
oooh Detroit was founded on the 24th of this month.
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http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=today
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given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana...
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/smokin.gif) lol silly deer...
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given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana...
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/smokin.gif) lol silly deer...
and that is why i dont take weed on hunting trips :D
.... i get stoned THEN go hunting..... with a bottle..
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before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court...
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell...
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All but one of the Lunar landing sites imaged by LRO:
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/369234main_lroc_apollo11labeled_256x256.jpg)
LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html)
Now THAT is cool.
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and a post with an actual fact and not spam :P
lol j/k
extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam...
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FOCUSED high pressure water.
i used to run a machine like that when i worked for some tractor company in ruskin.
makes cleaner cuts than a damn torch EVER will
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Hubble was taken out of it's checkout and calibration stage early to image a new dark spot on Jupiter. This new disruption in Jupiter's atmosphere is thought to be caused by a comet/asteroid collision earlier this week.
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/372829main_p0923ay.jpg)
This also proves the repair work done to Hubble 2 months ago was a great success.
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Yay, DESERTEC is moving forward.
http://www.desertec.org/en/press/press-releases/090713-01-assembly-desertec-industrial-initiative/
2050
WTF. 2050? 2050. Most of those guys that signed it wont even be alive by 2050. Why big projects always have a time table like that? :x
Spain constructed its solar tower in a year or something. Dubai made one of the, visible from space, artificial islands in 8 years or something.
From awesome concept this suddenly became the first energy concept that might find itself outdated from fusion.
(Because, oh, what you know, the first commercial fusion power plant is scheduled "for 2050", after ITER)
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if the US is involved thats all the explanation youd need.
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No that's the EU.
It's something like a US Government, but 27 of them.
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Yay, DESERTEC is moving forward.
http://www.desertec.org/en/press/press-releases/090713-01-assembly-desertec-industrial-initiative/
2050
WTF. 2050? 2050. Most of those guys that signed it wont even be alive by 2050. Why big projects always have a time table like that? :x
Spain constructed its solar tower in a year or something. Dubai made one of the, visible from space, artificial islands in 8 years or something.
From awesome concept this suddenly became the first energy concept that might find itself outdated from fusion.
(Because, oh, what you know, the first commercial fusion power plant is scheduled "for 2050", after ITER)
The two biggest problems, aside from the whole colonial aspect of it, are the energy generating parts (they have to be made, they do not have that much stuff lying about in the entire world) and the transfering parts, they don't generally make a habit of laying down power cables through a sea.
Aside from some minor problems, balancing demand and suply, but that's a more or less minor one, they will probably be pumping up water into large lakes to form batteries with excess power.
The Dubai palm islands were contracted to a Dutch company that specialised into something called "baggeren", which is making sure canals and rivers are deep enough, the English word is "dredging", name eludes me for the moment, which said, rumour has it, when they first saw the contract, "you want to do what? ... Ok, we'll do it." It's only a small step up from dumping the dirt they suck up into a pile without shape, to dumping it into a shape.
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Well, Virgin is prepping for commercial space flights.
link (http://www.virgingalactic.com/flash.html?language=english)
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the average housefly lives only two weeks...
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It's a mini Concorde.
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It's a mini Concorde.
Hang on, a Concorde took off from France and managed NOT to crash into a hotel? Thats just...wrong.
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon...
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False one Jimmy.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2001/987551549.As.r.html
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon...
False one Jimmy.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2001/987551549.As.r.html
dont question me, that site is fake :arms:
lol :P
ok fine then - tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous...
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As were potatoes, until people learned to to eat the round things dangling up in the air but the ones buried underground.. :lol:
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As were potatoes, until people learned to to eat the round things dangling up in the air but the ones buried underground.. :lol:
Shit, I was gonna say that.
You stole my fact. :lol:
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When tea was first introduced in Britain, people threw away the liquid and ate the leaves, seasoned with salt and pepper.
There are only 13 permutations of a year, including leap years, combined with the week days.
Meaning you only need 13 different calendars to last forever (assuming they don't alter the calendar system).
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1012 (1 trillion) years ? low estimate for the time until star formation ends in galaxies as galaxies are depleted of the gas clouds they need to form stars.
1020 years ? estimated time until the Earth's orbit around the Sun decays via emission of gravitational radiation, if the Earth is neither first engulfed by the red giant Sun a few billion years from now nor ejected from its orbit by a stellar encounter before then.
1065 years ? estimated time for rigid objects like rocks to rearrange their atoms and molecules via quantum tunnelling, assuming that the proton does not decay. On this timescale all matter is liquid.
1.7 ?10106 years?the estimated time until a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses decays by the Hawking process
101500 years ? the estimated time until all matter decays to 56Fe (if the proton does not decay).
1010^50 years (yes, that a superscript on the superscript. Don't try to write that number down at home) Estimated time for a Boltzmann Brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease.
A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos. The idea is named for thermodynamicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), who advanced an idea that the known universe arose as a random fluctuation, similar to a process through which Boltzmann brains might arise.
Coolest theory I have heard this week.
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1 Googolplex (not to be confused with Googleplex) = 1010^100
It is... a very large number.
An average book of 60 cubic inches can be printed with 5 x 105 '0's (5 characters per word, 10 words per line, 25 lines per page, 400 pages), or 8.3 ? 103 '0's per cubic inch. The observable (i.e. past light cone) universe contains 6 ? 1083 cubic inches (1.3 ? ? ? (14 ? 109 light year in inches). This implies that if the universe is stuffed with paper printed with '0's, it could only contain 5.3 ? 1087 '0's?far short of a googol of '0's.
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1 Googolplex (not to be confused with Googleplex) = 1010^100
It is... a very large number.
An average book of 60 cubic inches can be printed with 5 x 105 '0's (5 characters per word, 10 words per line, 25 lines per page, 400 pages), or 8.3 ? 103 '0's per cubic inch. The observable (i.e. past light cone) universe contains 6 ? 1083 cubic inches (1.3 ? ? ? (14 ? 109 light year in inches). This implies that if the universe is stuffed with paper printed with '0's, it could only contain 5.3 ? 1087 '0's?far short of a googol of '0's.
There are also only about 2.5 x 1089 elementary particles in the know universe. If you were to try and write out a googolplex, at about 2 digit per second, it would take 1.51 x 1092 years, about 1.1 x 1082 times longer than you universe has existed, and, if written in 1 point TeX font in one long line, would need 3.5 x 1096, about 1.2 x 1065 times wider than the known universe!
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The Ackermann function is the fastest growing function devised by man (the order that is), somewhere between 5 and 6 it passes the number of electrons in the visible universe.
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male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients...
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Wolverine first appeared in The Incredible Hulk and wasn't originally planned to be a mutant. He was originally planned to be an actual wolverine that was evolved by the High Evolutionary.
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(http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/images/skylon/library/skylon_orbit-2m.jpg)
The Skylon spaceplane would take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over 12 tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway, thus being an "one stage to space", spaceship and therefore awesome. (like the X33, *sniff*).
It has apparently gotten some ESA & EADS money, but I am not holding my hopes high on it.
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I wonder what the fuel efficiency of it is.
And I wonder if it's comparable to the total payload it can carry when compared to the spaceshuttle.
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I thought this was kind of cool.
Transparent Aluminum Created
By T'Bonz on July 27, 2009 7:34 PM
Although not assisted by Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, scientists have been able to create transparent aluminum.
As reported by Science Daily, a transparent form of aluminium was created by Oxford scientists by bombarding aluminium with the world's most powerful soft x-ray laser.
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makes me wonder how thick that sheet of aluminium was...
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I wonder what the fuel efficiency of it is.
And I wonder if it's comparable to the total payload it can carry when compared to the spaceshuttle.
Well, in space it will be using batteries of course, and I think it runs on hydrogens (lots and lots of hydrogens) so... I think it counts as a hybrid?
You can probably get a tax cut for it somewhere on basis of greeniness! :P
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Some people can count to 5 on one hand, and 10 on two, others can count to 25 on both hands, some can count to 30 on two hands, yet others can count to 12 one a single hand *, and to 60 on two *, some can count to 144 on two hands *.
I, however, can count on all those systems, and also count to 31 on one hand, and to 1023 on two. **
* Actually a Mayan (if memory serves) system, and is actually easier on the fingers than the system for counting to 31 or 1023.
What is common among 4 fingers, except the fifth? There are 3 sections to each finger save for the thumb, which has 2 (yes, the thumb also has 3 sections, but some may not consider it the same as with the other fingers, and it there is a reason to set aside the thumb for counting to 12 on a single hand). To count to 12 on a single hand, the Mayans used the thumb to indicate the number, as some would use the other hand to count to 5. So the tip of your index finger is 1, the base of the index finger is 3, and the base of your pinky is 12. And you simply move your thumb as you count. The Mayans actually counted to 60, by using the other hand in a simple fashion (counting 5 twelves), but if you employ the same system as the other hand, then you can suddenly count to 144 (12 * 12). I'm unsure why they didn't count to 144, possibly it hadn't occurred to them (in a similar fashion why it people didn't think of wheels even if they saw rolling things, untill they were shown a rolling cart). Or they simply liked the number 60 (for the same reasons we use it to divide hours and minutes).
In fact, if you count to 12 on both hands (as to a max of 144) they you are actually counting in a so called "base 12" system (as reference, our decimal system is "base 10"), you count "ones" on one hand, and "tens" on the other. And a bonus fact, counting to 25 actually means to use a base 5 counting system.
To count to 30 is to count in base 6 on one hand (with all 5 fingers erect as the "9" before you overflow to "ten").
** A single hint, binary.
On a personal note, I actually prefer to use the base 12 system for counting on my hands, so I can count to 144.
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Or they simply liked the number 60 (for the same reasons we use it to divide hours and minutes)
I think its disgusting.
Useful fact: For 2 to 3 millennia the Chinese used to have decimal time where the day was divided into 100 parts called "ke"s.
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Any british soldier not deemed to be "teeth arms" (ie anyone not tankie, inf, air corps, artillery or marines) is only entitled to 3 pouches for their PLCE webbing.
1x Double ammo pouch (Can squeeze in 3 mags per pocket with some effort but 2 is sooo much easier)
1x Utility pouch (Takes a 58 pattern waterbottle + mug plus some other really small stuff)
1x Waterbottle pouch (pretty much the same as the above, but doesn't fix on to the belt as securely)
To go with this they get
1x Belt (what the pouches all attach to)
1x yoke (the load bearing shoulder straps. This attaches to the rear of the belt and to the 2 front most pouches. normally ammo pouches or utility pouches)
As a storeman I only get the 3 stinking pouches. All the rest I have to buy at about ?20 apiece.
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land surface temp video from 2000 to 2009
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/data/mov/MOD11C1_M_LSTDA.mov
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:shock: It's breathing! It's ALIVE!
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teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world..
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(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/606/tombstonetm.jpg)
Thats... an interesting tombstone.
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:shock: It's breathing! It's ALIVE!
Let's hope the world doesn't go the way of planet (Go play sid meier's alien crossfire)
Sid meier had very little to do with alpha centauri or it's expansion alien crossfire.
Brian Reynolds was the guy in overall charge of the project.
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It's a Helicron
Bonus: Good Air Conditioning for hot days.
Cons: You'd hate to hit a bird with that one.
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(http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0120a52581ea970c-pi)
"In further proof that NASA are [sic] cooler than most people manage without liquid hydrogen, they've started analyzing a meteorite - on Mars."
Link (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/martian-meteoritz.html)
Awesome.
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that's cool...
That this happened at all is a triumph of human curiosity, coincidence, and extremely well put together space engineering: three factors we're going to need to become what we can. Here's hoping we keep up the effort in future space scheduling.
I like this little block of text.
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Useful fact: Google Earth now has a "Mars" option along the Sky and Moon option as well. Complete with, you know, local photographs and such. :P
Makes a heck of a job actually organizing NASA's information in something easily playable with and understood.
Do remember to check the colourised (elevations) terrain and the Historic maps.
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...now see what you did? I entered "space mood", and I ended up reading all kinds of irrelevant information on wikipedia.
The first "close up" from mars was taken with Mariner 4 in 1964 which did a flyby and send about 634kb worth of data back painfully slow.
Btw, those zanny digital cameras that save pictures in .jpgs and such? Are you nuttorz?
The microchips in a modern digital camera could probably run the entire space center back then.
Mariner 4, used a "TV camera", for lack of a better word, that was basically a lens focusing light into cathodic ray tubes and converting it into electrical signals. Those then were written into a magnetic tape, like a casette player. (and I suppose some people will soon need a picture in order to know what that is). Said tape could store about 20 pictures that way.
That magnetic tape then was "played back" (the same way audio casettes did), except that instead of music, it played the picture data (probably sounds like noise), and transmitted through the radio.
In fact, the entire computer of the spacecraft was based on such tapes. Forget about hard discs and such. Think of something like a lot of tape recorders with "commands" in them, and a guy on earth sending with very analog and honest Radio Control the command to "click the play button" in one of them. But instead of outputing the electric signal to a speaker, they were connected to other electric systems doing stuff.
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The usual modern computer is for all effects useless in outerspace, the components that store the ones and zeros are small enough to be easily affected by cosmic rays bumping into them, changing the value at random. To prevent this, all components are larger, but that does mean that it is less powerful. Yet that also means they can draw less power to operate.
The iPod that was along for the ride will have corrupted bits on it if it was not properly shielded.
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elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago...
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the current swine flu vaccinations ( at least in my area ) are reserved for military personnel, those infected, and those incarcerated in the jail systems.
wich in my opinion is BULL$HIT....
at least i got mine XD
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The singer Jack Bruce and the drummer Ginger Baker of the band cream were infamous for their dislike for one another. They repeatedly came to blows and on some occasions Baker threatend Bruce with a knife.
Then how the hell did they crank out tunes like this?!?!?
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sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December...
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According to the Star Trek timeline, Vulcans make first contact with Earth on my 91st birthday. 8)
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According to the Star Trek timeline, Vulcans make first contact with Earth on my 91st birthday. 8)
which i think would be MY 72nd?
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According to the Star Trek timeline, Vulcans make first contact with Earth on my 91st birthday. 8)
By which time I may have already died in my 60s around oh...2048
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http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=130801.html (http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=130801.html)
The british defence secretary happens to resemble Heinrich Himmler.
Both with disastrous military records in the dying days of evil regimes....
And the specs :?
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According to the Star Trek timeline, Vulcans make first contact with Earth on my 91st birthday. 8)
it'll be on my 76th...makes me wonder how many other people share that day in BCC community ^.^
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Oh wow, if BCC is still around, I'll be impressed. Hell, if people even remember Excalibur I'll be impressed.
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Oh wow, if BCC is still around, I'll be impressed. Hell, if people even remember Excalibur I'll be impressed.
Yeah, there'll be guys like daniel jackson digging to find out why the whole thing started in the first place heh.
Heck, why did this place start up?
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the IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year...
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and then shreds them.... the cycle of paperwork continues
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Assuming that those are average copy-grade quality A4s, and utilizing the conversation I found somewhere that 1 tree = Utilizing the conversion I found somewhere that 1 tree = 8,333.3 paper sheets thats... 240000 trees, per year. :(
Senator: Supporter of E-paper & tablet like devices. Use electrons not trees!
*Toilet paper excluded. Do not use e-paper or tablet like devices to wipe yourself.
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Assuming that those are average copy-grade quality A4s, and utilizing the conversation I found somewhere that 1 tree = Utilizing the conversion I found somewhere that 1 tree = 8,333.3 paper sheets thats... 240000 trees, per year. :(
Senator: Supporter of E-paper & tablet like devices. Use electrons not trees!
*Toilet paper excluded. Do not use e-paper or tablet like devices to wipe yourself.
lol, unless batteries are removed and they are well over 5 years old.
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no spamming this thread - fact or no post :arms: :P
tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner...
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The liberator pistol was more often than not just as dangerous to the user as to the target.
Unrifled barrel meant it had a range of less than 8 feet! for a .45 cal pistol that's shocking!
And it was ww2 era...
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no spamming this thread - fact or no post :arms: :P
tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner...
Rly?? I didn't know we couldn't comment on a fact..... (it's been done this way for ages)
NASA finished building their Aries 1 Rocket test rocket
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Rly?? I didn't know we couldn't comment on a fact..... (it's been done this way for ages)
there is a difference between the occasional comment, and spamming... you of all people should know the concept of spamming, spamula; dont question me :arms: :P
contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will not ruin its engine....
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Because metal was scarce during world war 2, the Oscars given out was made of plaster.
contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will not ruin its engine....
Yeah, I saw that on mythbusters.
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The Soviet Union was working on a Shuttle before its collapse
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That shuttle was built and tested.... atm it sits outside and is degrading...
This Russian shuttle was almost a direct copy of the American shuttle.
The Russian Shuttle's name is the Buran (or Snowstorm).
Also the Russian shuttle's air transport is the largest transport aircraft ever built...
here they be (2 pics)
(http://www.schneiderism.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/buran-vs-shuttle-large.jpg)
(http://home.i-cable.com/dick_ming/images/Antonov-AN225.15.jpg)
If you are getting a 404 here
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A lot of the nuclear bombers of the 50s-60s are painted white, not because it's a pretty colour, but because it was supposed to reflect some of the thermal radiation of a nuclear explosion (which presumably, would be going on, all around the place).
Similarly (I know the British did this, I don't know if everyone did so), bomber pilots were supposed to fly their bombers with an eyepatch, pirate style. The idea is that if a nearby nuclear explosion blinded them, they could always switch to the other eye.
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your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day...
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1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
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1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
I was one of those with a tooth already showing :)
The fiat punto is notorious amongst the mechanics community for being an absolute bitch to work with/on. As I found out to my cost trying to repair my wipers and the speakers in the drivers side door.
It was an exercise in frustration!
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Philips is a Dutch brand.
(Hey, quite a few people seem not to know that. Everyone knows Nokia as Finnish. IKEA as Swedish and Philips as American or something)
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Phillips started out making lightbulbs in a shed in Eindhoven, then a tiny church town that soon usurped its neighbouring villages into what it is now the city of Eindhoven.
I'm just not so sure you could count Eindhoven as being truely Dutch these days. ;)
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And in the game Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, you got to enter/bomb the phillips building in Eindhoven :P
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none of the Beatles knew how to read music (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself)...
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Did you know that the cast of Star Trek Enterprise was the only Trek cast in history never to be changed ( added a member, or having a member leave before series end )?
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today in history: August 19, 1991
Hurricane Bob slams into the Southern New England coastline as a category 2 storm with sustained winds of 100 mph. It made landfall twice on Rhode Island: at 1:30 p.m. on Block Island, then at 2 p.m. over Newport. The storm cut a path across southeastern Massachusetts and then into the Gulf of Maine.
The storm eventually traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and wound up off the coast of Spain. Hurricane Bob was the eighth costliest U.S. mainland hurricane with total damage estimated at $2.8 billion. A total of 18 deaths were attributed to this hurricane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bob
http://www.hurricanes-blizzards-noreasters.com/HURRICANEBOB.html
http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-bob-1991
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Ooh, I've got one (well, possibly many useless facts at the moment but one at a time).
The second HD-switcher (the thing that lets you stream HD movies over the net and cut between cameras live or something, I can't remember, but it's an essential piece of kit for HD transmission over the net) ever made was actually owned and used by a porn company. The same company actually pioneered most high-resolution video streaming and distrubution long before - well, in internet terms probably a year or two - mainstream media sites did, offering high-quality files while CNN was still only offering tiny clips at a resolution best described as piss-poor even by the standards of the day.
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Sports fact:
England has won The Ashes!
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Arcncidog to a rrscaeeh at Cmargbdie Uivtienrsy, it dseon't matter in waht oderr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iapomtrnt thing is taht the fsrit and last lteter be at the rgiht pcale. The rest can be a ttaol mses and you can stlil read it wuoitht pmreblos. Tihs is bcaesue the human mnid deos not read eervy lteter by itslef, but the word as a wohle...
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You missed human and read in that little point... XD
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Eevn I kenw taht. I kenw taht aegs ago. And way bfreoe taht MSN sircpt. :P
@Neb: lol
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Eevn I kenw taht. I kenw taht aegs ago. And way bfreoe taht MSN sircpt. :P
@Neb: lol
I've known about it much longer than the MSN script too. Doesn't stop me posting it though :P
You missed human and read in that little point... XD
No I didn't. The first and last letters are in the right place, and the correct letters are there. Therefore I didn't miss them :P
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Yes the words are there, but the central letters weren't moved around. :P
One out of 20 people have an extra rib
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Arcncidog to a rrscaeeh at Cmargbdie Uivtienrsy, it dseon't matter in waht oderr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iapomtrnt thing is taht the fsrit and last lteter be at the rgiht pcale. The rest can be a ttaol mses and you can stlil read it wuoitht pmreblos. Tihs is bcaesue the human mnid deos not read eervy lteter by itslef, but the word as a wohle...
Mostly complete and utter woo. It's difficult to track down a decent link to describe it, however. Mostly, in the longer versions of this that get sent around, the words are actually pesudo-scrambled - some letters are strategically positioned so that the overall look of the word remains the same, tall letters remain where tall letters are, and with "Cambridge" it was clear that they scrambled "Cam" and "Bridge" separately, for example. Paragraphs that are really randomly scrambled - you can do this with a fairly simple java script - don't make as much sense as the pseudo-scrambled ones. Even so, the vast, vast majority of words that make up common vocabularly are very short, 3 letter words won't change, 4 letter words will just swap two letters (barely anything more than a common typo such as teh/the). 5 letters still isn't a stretch and there's a good chance that even when done randomly, one letter will stay in position. So you have to get above 6 or 7 letters before any kind of real scrambling sets in (and in cases where it's intentionally rigged or manaually scrambled, these are the ones that will be rigged as in the "Cam/Bridge" example above).
http://scienceavenger.blogspot.com/2007/12/cambridge-word-scramble-study-its-fake.html
http://www.personalarchaeology.com/2006/08/14/the-scrambled-letters-fallacy/
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One out of 20 people have an extra rib
Closer to 1 in 500.
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One out of 20 people have an extra rib
Closer to 1 in 500.
Contrary to popular belief the modify button does actually work rather well. :P
As does the search button.
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EDIT
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Behold
The MODIFY button!
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we've already covered that :P
wow all this time with us, since way back when, and still not aware of the edit/modify button to avoid double-posting (unless he's trying to get a high postcount because everyone knows the higher the postcount the cooler you are and better than everyone in life?) lol j/k :P
*runs*
Nah, I ususally only use "edit" if I want to amend a point. Making a separate point entirely usually warrants a fresh post. Unless that's really frowned on, my forum etiquette has gone to the dogs.
on average, a movie makes about 5 times more from its video sales than ticket takings...
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One out of 20 people have an extra rib
Closer to 1 in 500.
Contrary to popular belief the modify button does actually work rather well. :P
As does the search button.
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EDIT
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Behold
The MODIFY button!
Another useful fact, a modification goes, generally speaking, unnoticed.
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Providence, RI (my city) was just named 4th most stressful place to live in the US, according to Forbes Magazine...
only Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles ranked higher... economy, weather, and pollution were all taken into account among other factors...
perhaps the fact our unemployment rate is up to 12.5%, second highest state in the US (Michigan being #1 hoghest)...
no wonder i drink alot lol :P
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Kopparberg premium pear cider is roughly 4.5% alcohol.
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The axial tilt of Mars varies between 13 and 40 degrees.
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So managed to learn quite a lot from my computer crash, particularly about the core workings of a computer. Apparently it's a miracle that they even work. So, one small factoid I learned from a Com-sci...
When connecting drives to an IDE cable you get two options "Master" and "Slave". Although these are actual electronics terms for what controls what, in the context of whether you set you hard drive or CD drive as Master or Slave means absolutely nothing. It's not even anything remotely to do with anything, it just means "1" or "2". It doesn't even mean "primary" or "secondary" it's just a needless label. Which makes me wonder if early computer engineers were a little kinky...
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So managed to learn quite a lot from my computer crash, particularly about the core workings of a computer. Apparently it's a miracle that they even work. So, one small factoid I learned from a Com-sci...
When connecting drives to an IDE cable you get two options "Master" and "Slave". Although these are actual electronics terms for what controls what, in the context of whether you set you hard drive or CD drive as Master or Slave means absolutely nothing. It's not even anything remotely to do with anything, it just means "1" or "2". It doesn't even mean "primary" or "secondary" it's just a needless label. Which makes me wonder if early computer engineers were a little kinky...
*cough*theywere*cough*
Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.
Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).
Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?
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So managed to learn quite a lot from my computer crash, particularly about the core workings of a computer. Apparently it's a miracle that they even work. So, one small factoid I learned from a Com-sci...
When connecting drives to an IDE cable you get two options "Master" and "Slave". Although these are actual electronics terms for what controls what, in the context of whether you set you hard drive or CD drive as Master or Slave means absolutely nothing. It's not even anything remotely to do with anything, it just means "1" or "2". It doesn't even mean "primary" or "secondary" it's just a needless label. Which makes me wonder if early computer engineers were a little kinky...
*cough*theywere*cough*
Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.
Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).
Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?
Timbuktu?
Coordinates: 16?46?33?N 3?00?34?W? / ?16.77583?N 3.00944?W? / 16.77583; -3.00944Coordinates: 16?46?33?N 3?00?34?W? / ?16.77583?N 3.00944?W? / 16.77583; -3.00944
Country Mali
Region Tombouctou Region
Cercle Timbuktu Cercle
Settled 10th century
Elevation 261 m (856 ft)
Population (1998[1])
- Total 31,973
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today in history: August 31, 1954
Hurricane Carol slams into Southern New England, first over Long Island, and then again over Groton, Connecticut with sustained winds of 115 mph and gusts of 120 to 135 mph across Southern Rhode Island as the state was hit squarely by the damaging eastern half of the hurricane...
T.F. Green State Airport (near Narragansett Bay, RI) reported sustained winds of 90 mph, with gusts to 115 mph, while Block Island, RI reported sustained winds of 100 mph with a gust to 135 mph...
storm surges of 8 to 13 ft were reported across the Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts coastlines, and downtown Providence was flooded with 12 feet of water... since then, they have built a retractable hurricane barrier at the tip of Narragansett Bay, where it channels into downtown Providence to avoid any future storm surge flooding...
there were 66 deaths from the storm... Hurricane Carol caused $460 million in damage (1954 USD, $3.45 billion 2006 USD)...
http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecarol.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carol
http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-carol-1954
http://news.webshots.com/album/404374533KugDuq
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Your hurricane comments remind me of the alt (sorry, "title") text of this cartoon: http://xkcd.com/611/
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth...
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I continue that fact...
Second Street is the most common because First Street gets renamed to something else, like Main Street.
Thankyou, The Big Bang Theory for teaching me that. Comedy has its uses. :P
PS. First Street according to Sheldon also gets renamed to Michigan Avenue.
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The town I was born in named the main streets after various themes, each of the main collieries built their own housing each with an original theme. One being numbers, so there was 1st Row, 2nd Row etc. (although I think 1-4 were demolished ages ago), the second was trees, leading to Sycamore Street, Chestnut Street, Maple Street, and the third group was Shakespeare's Heroines, so there is Beatrice Street and Rosalind Street etc.
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Armonds was once a n00b :P
The drivers seat in my car also has adjustable lumbar support which I discovered to my delight this morning.
W00T!!! NO MORE ACHING BACK!!!!! GETIN!!!
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Armonds was once a n00b :P
Indeed. In fact, my first post (IIRC) on BCN confused "post reply" with "new thread" or whatever they were labelled, I remember it being quite ambiguous.
Additionally, my first CG model was something vaguely resembling some sticks and a saucer (an occaisionaly used term to describe the deluse of Star Trek ships that newbies model) and was made in Milkshape.
My first 2D drawing program (besides MSPaint and a few others like it) came free with my first scanner. It was a bit shit, but I managed to make this: http://vr.rated-art.com/Wallpapers/040731_Armondikov_01.jpg (which I have since lost, but I did manage to track it down to here just this morning: http://vr.rated-art.com/vrpa_wallpaper_gallery_02.php )
And I recall being unable to download the .NET framework (or whatever) required to run BC Mod-Installer due to being on a 56k connection that would cut off and reconnect after an hour, stopping any download.
I still can't understand programming languages.
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I still can't understand programming languages.
neither do I.
And I never really mastered modelling and can't try again due to blender not agreeing with vista :(
a 40mm grenade impact can be devastating to a dog's health. Found that out on a stray dog hunt/cull in basrah* :P
*ok so it was a scrapyard on the base and not the city center.
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Blacklight is apparently still going strong:
http://www.blacklightpower.com/
Thats unusual for a company that proclaims to be extracting energy from hydrinos tapping into dark energy or something.
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Did you post that previously? I'm sure I recognise it.
Where the hell is RationalWiki when I need it! I have a ton of things to add to it but by the time Trent reboots the server, I'll have forgotten it all. *grumble*
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the U.S. National Unemployment rate jumped in the last month, to 9.7%, up 0.3% from July...
216,000 more people lost jobs last month alone (tho that is the lowest number for each month this year); the unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 26 years...
if you took the 3 largest cities in the U.S., specifcally New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago - that entire population combined is the equivalent to those currently unemployed...
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The moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 6.3mm (1/4 inch) per year.
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It is now 09:09:09 09/09/09
EDIT: Damn, I was 2 seconds early!
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The moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 6.3mm (1/4 inch) per year.
actually I heard it was an inch and a half a year.
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From WP regarding the moon receding. This is interesting enough:
The Moon is gradually receding from the Earth into a higher orbit, and calculations[3][4] suggest that this will continue for about fifty billion years. By that time, the Earth and Moon will become caught up in what is called a "spin?orbit resonance" in which the Moon will circle the Earth in about 47 days (currently 29 days), and both Moon and Earth will rotate around their axes in the same time, always facing each other with the same side. Beyond this, it is hard to tell what will happen to the Earth?Moon system, considering that the Sun is expected to become a red giant in approximately five billion years.
Often Young Earth Creationists will use the moon's recession and fudge the figures to make an older Earth impossible. Naturally, no respectable person with a working brain is fooled by this.
http://www.epicidiot.com/evo_cre/moon_recession.htm
It is now 09:09:09 09/09/09
EDIT: Damn, I was 2 seconds early!
Interestingly, (and showing the average user's ease of amusement with dates) Twitter crashed at 09:09:08 09/09/09.
And if you turn 09/09/09 upside down you get 06/06/06 (International Slayer/Heavy Metal day) or 666. To emphasise his demonic qualities, Derren Brown will today predict the results of the National Lottery live on Channel 4, E4 and More 4 - the first time (in UK TV history at least) an entire network of TV channels has been donated to one event (this isn't necessarily difficult to achieve because the concept of networks of TV channels in the UK is barely a decade old - BBC Three was launched in 2003, E4 in 2001. Although there is BBC2, founded in 1964, both channels have never - intentionally or otherwise - synced up.
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It is now 09:09:09 09/09/09
EDIT: Damn, I was 2 seconds early!
That's what she said! :funny
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
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It is now 09:09:09 09/09/09
EDIT: Damn, I was 2 seconds early!
That's what she said! :funny
Oh... dear...
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It is now 09:09:09 09/09/09
EDIT: Damn, I was 2 seconds early!
That's what she said! :funny
Oh... dear...
Word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word)
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a toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven...
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a toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven...
and whilist running alongside some older coffee makers can blow circut breakers. :)
( the toaster, not the oven... BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF PROPANE!!!)
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Propane is used as a coolant in refridgerators (well, reasonably old but not too old). This isn't particularly efficient and quite dangerous as propane is flamible and explosive. It's used because there was a blanket ban on the use of CFCs (which were previously used because they work so well) because of their harmful effects on the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the ban came into force before an effective alternative was found, hence going back to things like propane.
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I'm waiting for the supersonic sound chamber cooling system.....
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Supersonic jets do get used in spectroscopy. Not only does the massive expansion from a high pressure area to a low pressure area cool the sample by adiabatic expansion, removing thermal broadening of spectroscopic lines, but the massive velocity in one direction also removes line broadening due to the Doppler effect. Basically, if you have a gas, then some molecules will travel away from the sensor and redshift slightly, others will travel towards the sensor and blueshift slightly, the result being that instead of nice clean lines representing your energy levels, you have large, wide and broad ones (Lorentzian or Gaussian, I don't remember) that often blur together. The supersonic jets stop this by running all the molecules at high velocity perpendicular to the sensor, so no red or blue shift is observed.
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Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school...
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(http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8346/445pxdiablefaucheur.jpg)
A pamphlet that appears to be a cropcircle report from the 1678?
"Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats, upon the Mower's asking too much, the Farmer swore "That the Devil should Mow it, rather than He." And so it fell out, that that very Night, the Crop of Oats shew'd as if it had been all of a Flame, but next Morning appear'd so neatly Mow'd by the Devil, or some Infernal Spirit, that no Mortal Man was able to do the like."
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the guy probably made the pattern and stole the bits he cut to make a few pennies I think ;)
1830 ? During the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, British Member of Parliament William Huskisson was struck and killed by the locomotive engine Rocket.
Did you know that british citizens can now be formally prosecuted by the RSPCA for cruelty to fish?
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The New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 and it is currently heading straight towards Uranus (hehe).
In 2015 it will arrive to Pluto, which is actually one of the least explored planets, dwarf planets of the solar system.
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The chemical term "methyl" (the IUPAC standard prefix for an alkyl chain of just 1 carbon, or a CH3 group) comes from the Greek word for "wine" (well, methylene comes from "wine" (methy) and "wood" and methyl came from a back-formation of this word). This is somewhat ironic, because methyl-alcohol is methanol, which is highly poisonous. The stuff you do drink is ethyl-alcohol, or ethanol.
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In case you are annoying by the "fat" windows of Win7, you can reduce their excess pixels in their frames by going to:
Right Click in Desktop -> Personalize -> Window Color -> Advanced Appearance Settings (regardless if it displays a classic windows view) -> In the Item list selected "Border Padding", and set to 0.
Similarly you can make the title bars smaller by selecting in the Item list "Active Title Bar" and make its size 17.
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I quite like the fat look, actually. Now I have 2Gb of RAM rather than a poxy 512Mb, I'm playing with some of the Win7 Aero stuff :p
Speaking of Win7, I've just tried rearranging my desktop icons and accidentally dragged a shortcut on top of another. It launched the program I dragged it onto, trying to open the file that I was dragging. Is this new? Because it's quite cool and I can envision it being very useful if I put desktop shortcuts to my work-in-progress files so I can auto-open them.... no, just tried it, won't work with shortcuts, only desktop-saved icons. But I will have to play with this/
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I quite like the fat look, actually. Now I have 2Gb of RAM rather than a poxy 512Mb, I'm playing with some of the Win7 Aero stuff :p
Speaking of Win7, I've just tried rearranging my desktop icons and accidentally dragged a shortcut on top of another. It launched the program I dragged it onto, trying to open the file that I was dragging. Is this new? Because it's quite cool and I can envision it being very useful if I put desktop shortcuts to my work-in-progress files so I can auto-open them.... no, just tried it, won't work with shortcuts, only desktop-saved icons. But I will have to play with this/
Thats in Vista as well. I think it's always been there though. Like with AnimOnly (a tool in the BC SDK for finishing off animations), you have to drag and drop the animations .nif onto the .exe for it to work.
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" function costs Google about $110 million a year to run. Roughly 1% of searches on Google use it, and it bypasses all of the advertising, which makes up about 99% of Googles income.
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Supersonic jets do get used in spectroscopy. Not only does the massive expansion from a high pressure area to a low pressure area cool the sample by adiabatic expansion, removing thermal broadening of spectroscopic lines, but the massive velocity in one direction also removes line broadening due to the Doppler effect. Basically, if you have a gas, then some molecules will travel away from the sensor and redshift slightly, others will travel towards the sensor and blueshift slightly, the result being that instead of nice clean lines representing your energy levels, you have large, wide and broad ones (Lorentzian or Gaussian, I don't remember) that often blur together. The supersonic jets stop this by running all the molecules at high velocity perpendicular to the sensor, so no red or blue shift is observed.
You don't remember if it's Lorentzian or Gaussian?! You idiot.
(j/k)
The ink in U.S. currency has ferric metal shavings in it. This is one of many anti-counterfeiting measures. (Cool party trick: Fold a dollar bill in half and hold a magnet just above the edge of the bent bill. The bill will be attracted to the magnet and move slightly, depending on the power of the magnet.)
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The ink in U.S. currency has ferric metal shavings in it. This is one of many anti-counterfeiting measures. (Cool party trick: Fold a dollar bill in half and hold a magnet just above the edge of the bent bill. The bill will be attracted to the magnet and move slightly, depending on the power of the magnet.)
I shall have to try that considering I work with some pretty powerful magnets. :p
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(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7504/roadbasetaxi0123ju.jpg)
A Gripen lurking among the woods...
Gripens are designed from the beginning to be able to land and take off from 600m roads and be re-loaded and re-fueled from a ground crew of six in under 10 minutes.
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(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7504/roadbasetaxi0123ju.jpg)
A Gripen lurking among the woods...
Gripens are designed from the beginning to be able to land and take off from 600m roads and be re-loaded and re-fueled from a ground crew of six in under 10 minutes.
Nice little plane from what I hear. replaced the Jas 35 viggen and the Jas 37 viggen.
During the Cold War, the Swedish Armed Forces were preparing to defend against a possible invasion from the Soviet Union. Even though the defensive strategy in principle called for an absolute defence of Swedish territory, military planners calculated that Swedish defence forces could eventually be overrun. For that reason, Sweden had military stores dispersed all over the country, in order to maintain the capacity of inflicting damage on the enemy even if military installations were lost.
Accordingly, among the requirements from the Swedish Air Force was that the Gripen fighter should be able to land on public roads near military stores for quick maintenance, and take off again. As a result, the Gripen fighter can be refueled and re-armed in ten minutes by a five man mobile ground crew operating out of a truck, and then resume flying sorties.[26]
In the post-Cold War era, these dispersed operation capabilities have proved to be of great value for a different purpose. The Gripen fighter system is expeditionary in nature, and therefore well suited for peace-keeping missions worldwide, which has become the new main task of the Swedish Armed Forces.
Mabye we should get a load of these for the RAF instead of that damned eurofighter. A carrier based version shouldn't be too difficult neither.
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Speaking of the Cold War and some of the oddities it produced. I think the US had a plan to invade the UK, as you kind of have to pre-plan this sort of stuff no matter how weird it is. The US also (allegedly, the details haven't been publicly released but a Secret Service agent kind of said they did) have a plan in case of Independence Day style alien invasion. The rationalist in me doesn't know what to make of this; on the one hand, it's so unlikely that really, why bother, but on the other hand, if it does happen you've got to have some plan, right?
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Bah, as if swedes needed any kind of defence when Finland is in between of them and Soviets..
(http://i38.tinypic.com/2gwxh5j.jpg)
:D
Bring 'em on.. :evil
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The Eurofighter is better.
What I would like to see is (except a unified EU air force of course) is to have similar road capability added to it, and the switch the entire continent to a distributed airbase model.
You see, the Gripen is perfect, for those that use a distributed airbase mode (that would be Sweden).
The idea is that instead of nice, heug, walled, concrete bunker for each aircraft having, airbases, you have hundrents of strips and parking spaces with 1 or 2 aircraft in them, all of which are connected with the main road system (so even if one is bombed the aircraft can simply taxi through the normal roads to another), with also hundrents of little vehicles ferrying fuel and missiles around. And your barracks/storage/fuel buildings can be any building in any city.
Here is something copied from another forum, although I don't know how correct his numbers are, to show how awesome this is:
...(This example is not fact, just thoughts running trough my mind just now) Take Sweden for example around 1990. In a war against Sovietunionen our 320 planes would have been spread out at around 30 airbases and 250 runways. How many attackplanes does a mission require to take out an runway with it?s surrounding basesupport? 2?4?6? I would guess on at least 4. That would mean that Sovietunionen would have had a 1000 attackplanes dedicated 24/7 just to take out the airbases, offcourse with the support of of a huge amount of fighters to protect them against our 140 JA-37 Viggen and 60 J-35 Draken fighters. And that is only to defeat our airbases...
Btw, the "airbases" he is speaking about was just a command bunker. The runways were all over the places, km apart, and everything having to do with refueling, rearming and servicing the aircraft was mobile. Today that's mobile too and the only infrastructure needed are roads & straight roads. (There are still airport like airbases around but because of larget transport aircraft and centralised training schools)
So Sweden could have tied the entire Soviet Union airforce, were it trying to bomb "runways" (the usual way to make an airbase inoperable), which of cource only need a bunch of dirt & asphalt in order to be fixed. And that guy is not even counting the whole decoy capability (think aircraft looking bunch of scrap next to the road), and all the rest of the aircraft tied dealing with radars, AA systems and army stuff. For a country with less population than London or Moscow, that's annoying.
In comparison, Norway apparently has 7 airbases (that's a single digit number. That's bad), and 2 centralized "Control Centres" which I am not very sure what happens if you take them out. So theoretically 10 aircraft, or a single very lucky bomber, or cruise missile having sub can ground the entire Norwegian airforce, lolwut?
The problem is that the UK isn't having a distributed airbase system either. So if you had Gripens, you'd just end up operating a lighter aircraft out of RAF Airbases.
If you are going to operate out of airbases, you might as well fly Eurofighters. (Bigger, almost double, loadout for the same flight characteristics, plus other gadgets like supercruise, dual engines, fabulous interior design and can do other sexy radar things with its radar which I am not very sure what they do, but the PR leaflets make them sound awesome)
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Well, on a less war-some note...
In case people didn't get the memo with the last 20 billion pieces of data proving their safety...
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8268302.stm
Now, it's interesting to note that the researchers themselves say that "oh, our sample size is only small, so it's not conclusive but it's a good preliminary finding". That's just good science, especially medical science. Now some number crunching:
Sample size of this research: 7,500
Sample size of Andrew Wakefield's study which kicked off the hysteria in the UK: 12
Get it yet?
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More complete and utter bullshite?
The British armed forces recently put out a memo to all troops regarding hep b vaccines. The supplier has gone bust and as such the army has no hep b vaccinations left. Therefore any soldier caught with hep b will have disciplinary action taken against them.
Seriously, you can't make it up!
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the Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders...
yum! hehe (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/jimmyb76/random/vb_how.gif)
err umm shoulders... ya i read that wrong lol :P
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And the inscription on the medal reads: Pro pace et fraternitate gentium
translated "For the peace and brotherhood of men".
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Back during the Nazi advance in WWII, the Nobel Prize medals belonging to Max von Laue and James Franck were dissolved in acid in order to keep them away from the hording mits of the Nazi Party. After the war, the chloroaurate was isolated from the acid solution and the gold extracted so the medals could be recast.
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just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month...
lol i am definitely not in the 1/3 of the group lol tho i do try...
stupid damn bills...
*grumble grumble*
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I don't even have a credit card. Interest-free student overdraft FTW!!
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I don't even have a credit card. Interest-free student overdraft FTW!!
neither do I.
Wages FTW!!! :D
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Now here's an interesting tidbit that I got while writing for Rational Wiki:
Nostradamus often used the word "Hister" in his quatrains. Conventionally, this is thought to mean "Hitler". Now, obviously this is a bit odd because even with a really odd lisp you can't quite get from Hitler to Hister so it has been interpreted as referring to Hiter's place of birth; the Danube, the old name for which is "Hister". Okay, now actually Hitler was born on the river Inn, which is a tributary of the Danube, so we're stretching this a bit. But, get this, the Inn is also the river that the current Pope was born on.
The moral of the story? Huzzah for retroactive shoehorning!!
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In Win7 Win + P (Win being that "windows" key in most keyboards), brings up a window with the 4 most commonly used multiple monitor options.
As a laptop user that either constantly used it as a mini-tower for an external screen, or the media center for my projector, allow me to say: Frigging awesome.
(you usually had to do that from the graphic's cards drivers somewhere in the display settings)
Win + D also shows the desktop, as well as restores your previously opened windows if you press it again. (I'd like to re-assign that but can't find how)
Win + ( + , - ) zooms the desktop in and out.
Edit: Ok, and another one. You used to be able to put folder shortcuts in the quick launch in WinXP, which you can't in Win7. However, presumably most people have a windows explorer icon there. Apparently if you drag a folder to the taskbar, it does pin it, but it pins it "inside the windows explorer icon". In order to see it, you have to right click it instead of left clicking it.
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Edit: Ok, and another one. You used to be able to put folder shortcuts in the quick launch in WinXP, which you can't in Win7. However, presumably most people have a windows explorer icon there. Apparently if you drag a folder to the taskbar, it does pin it, but it pins it "inside the windows explorer icon". In order to see it, you have to right click it instead of left clicking it.
It appears I've either done that accidentally, or it automatically puts the most commonly used folders there as right-clicking windows explorer has brought up a wide range of folders that I've been using a lot such as my photoshop file and the misc file for lightwave; both of which are miles apart in the directory structure so it's not like it's just showing the My Docs.
Here are some more. Win+Tab on Windows 7 rocks! (but I'm easily pleased)
http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/key/
EDIT: Oh, and I quite like how the desktop sort of "acts like" a window so is accessible from the tab short-cuts.
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1 EUR = 0.92 GBP :3
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1 EUR = 0.92 GBP :3
Is no good!
The Mk2 VW golf was available from 1984 until 1992 (with some stragglers still being available until early 1993)
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...didn't we use to have a cool technology thread or something? Anyway.
Intel Lightpeak. If, they do this right, (aka, not Firewire style), it's going to be awesome. And it's actually very close to being done ("shipping in 2010").
Basically, it is the USB idea, using optical fiber cables.
However even the initial version of it would have such a giganormous bandwidth (10gb/s and up), that you'd pretty much not need another cable.
So it could replace all USB cables. But it could also replace all HDMI, DVI, AVG and such cables. And even SATA and eSATA cables.
So you could finally have a case, that has only one type of ports on it and you would need just one type of cable to connect everything.
And they have already thought to include a copper wire along it, so devices like mobile phones / external hard disks would still charge / work.
(Power is something which you don't care how fast it arrives, as long as it does)
And because it would be fiber optics (light), it would have no electromagnetic interference and less degradation/distance, and you could have ultra long cables. Someone could have his motherboard on the basement, his hard disks on the first floor, and the display on the third, and the communication times between them would still be smaller than 1inch electric cables.
Oh, and Star Trek is proven right once again.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Optical_data_network
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Uh.. who charges a phone through USB port? :wtf They do have their own, separate chargers..
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Uh.. who charges a phone through USB port? :wtf They do have their own, separate chargers..
*Puts up hand* For a while (while I was working in London) I left my normal charger there and charged purely through the USB cable at home. I also charge my iPod purely through USB.
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Each to their own, i guess.. but back on topic.
During childbirth, the uterus exerts 100 to 400 N (25 to 100 lbf) of downward force with each contraction.
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Today is International Blasphemy Day. :evil
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So given that today is International Blasphemy Day, I'd like to point out that both Picard and Kirk suck balls, Janeway is the man.
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well, she has bigger balls than either of them. just how many times did she actually blow up Voyager when you count the phase fluctuations, temporal distortions and alternate timelines/universes?
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well, she has bigger balls than either of them. just how many times did she actually blow up Voyager when you count the phase fluctuations, temporal distortions and alternate timelines/universes?
Yeah, "self-destruct is a last resort" my arse. I blame the narrativium.
Both eix and cos x + i sin x are solutions to the first order ODE dy/dx = iy with initial condition y(0)=1. Since f(y) = iy is Lipschitz-continuous in y, any solution to the above system must be unique by the Picard?Lindel?f theorem. Therefore eix = cos x + i sin x. QED.
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(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9516/800pxketteringaerialtor.jpg)
The "Kettering Bug", something like a WWI cruise missile, which actually makes it a flying bomb way before the V1. (Except that it got canceled before seeing any action)
Of cource, being long before ENIAC, its "flight computer" was clockwork. Basically setting a "distance" (which it would judge by counting revolutions of the propeller) and "direction" (which it would, kind of, follow using a gyroscope) before it dropped.
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until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States...
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Humanity is gloriously fighting against the Grey bases in the moon. Homo Sapiens Eternalis! Hoorah!
...err.
What I meant is that NASA is sending a probe to the moon to do science to it. And with science, I mean, hit it hard and watch what happens.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html
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It's interesting that there are some groups protesting that on account of such an impact "hurting" the moon without permission from it. Odd spiritualist nutters driving my Poe's Law sense into a frenzy...
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Grey sympathizers.
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Humanity is gloriously fighting against the Grey bases in the moon. Homo Sapiens Eternalis! Hoorah!
...err.
What I meant is that NASA is sending a probe to the moon to do science to it. And with science, I mean, hit it hard and watch what happens.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html
I watched the whole thing live... it was cool though we will get better images and data hours from now.
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Humanity is gloriously fighting against the Grey bases in the moon. Homo Sapiens Eternalis! Hoorah!
...err.
What I meant is that NASA is sending a probe to the moon to do science to it. And with science, I mean, hit it hard and watch what happens.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/overview/index.html
I watched the whole thing live... it was cool though we will get better images and data hours from now.
I missed it. DAMNED SHITTY ARMY INTERNET CONNECTION!!!!!! :FURY:
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Grey sympathizers.
I dug up the link as someone elsewhere was asking for it and I figured it was relevant. I also highly recommend the BBC's coverage of the impact, their flash-based diagrams of it are quite shiny.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations
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A pretty blue iceberg:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5213/icebergart1.jpg)
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penguins can convert salt water into fresh water...
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Examples of significant physical outcomes of relativistic effects on electrons (namely s electrons) include the lowered melting temperature of mercury (which results from 6s electrons not being available for metal bonding) and the golden color of gold and caesium (which results from narrowing of 6s to 5d transition energy to the point that visible light begins to be absorbed).
In simplified, non-relativistic interpretations of atomic models, any element above atomic number 137 would require its core 1s electrons to be traveling faster than the speed of light.
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penguins can convert salt water into fresh water...
So, when we eventually run out of fresh water, each house adopts a penguin? :p
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penguins can convert salt water into fresh water...
So, when we eventually run out of fresh water, each house adopts a penguin? :p
Im sorry, but I'm not drinking penguin piss.
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Hindus are not allowed to kill a cow or eat meat from a cow, but they are allowed to drink cow urine.
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Hindus are not allowed to kill a cow or eat meat from a cow, but they are allowed to drink cow urine.
Mmmmh yummi :funny ... wait didn't they just drink milk :wtf oh well then ... I pity them :funny
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The Republic of Ireland and Northern Island both have there own North and South, despite being on the same island. :P
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The Republic of Ireland and Northern Island both have there own North and South, despite being on the same island. :P
Yep and Belfast is still a dive.
Eire isn't too bad mind you ;)
Did you know that the Nissan Stagea was more or less a Nissan Skyline with an estate body?
I should know because I've just wrecked one!!! :(
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the placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times...
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penguins can convert salt water into fresh water...
So, when we eventually run out of fresh water, each house adopts a penguin? :p
Im sorry, but I'm not drinking penguin piss.
That's the fruitiest exchange I've read on the net for a long time. Congratulations.
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Did you know that the Nissan Stagea was more or less a Nissan Skyline with an estate body?
I should know because I've just wrecked one!!! :(
I knew that. could you possibly make a post about it somewhere here?
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penguins can convert salt water into fresh water...
So, when we eventually run out of fresh water, each house adopts a penguin? :p
Im sorry, but I'm not drinking penguin piss.
That's the fruitiest exchange I've read on the net for a long time. Congratulations.
*bows*
One scene of the Cold Feet television episode "Going to Australia" was filmed on a set that was physically falling apart as the camera was rolling...
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Did you know that the Nissan Stagea was more or less a Nissan Skyline with an estate body?
I should know because I've just wrecked one!!! :(
I knew that. could you possibly make a post about it somewhere here?
I just did :arms:
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The 60s were half a century ago. (ok, in a couple of months)
There is less distance between WWII and them. Than them and Now.
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There is less distance between WWII and them. Than them and Now.
That's been true for the last 10 years.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html
Wi-E!
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http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html
Wi-E!
I'm dubious about all this. When I was doing Systems Engineering, one group did a presentation on this, and 2 problems jumped out at me. In that vid, the guy said that it works in the same way as the Earth's magnetic field. Assuming he wasn't grossly oversimplifying, is that not gonna utterly f*@k up compasses and birds? Both of those need the Earths magnetic field to function/live. And second, won't that open up a whole slew of problems with people "stealing" your electricity?
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I know that the bird/compass thing is not going to be a problem, because even a fridge magnet overpowers the Earth's magnetic field, but compasses don't point at other people's fridges.
Stealing is the real problem, but I guess we will have to live with it. Or make the range of it just enough to cover the center of your home or something.
Or
We could combine that technology with mini-nuclear reactors:
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/nuclear-reactor-540x380.hmedium.jpg)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27845359/
And construct megalithic structures at the center of cities, into which anyone can tune into. (Electricity being a human right etc).
Then we could call those structures:
Pylons.
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what about something like that in the home that has adjustable range? mega long for those altruistic types or mega short ie touching the fecker for those scrooges amongst us?
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I know that the bird/compass thing is not going to be a problem, because even a fridge magnet overpowers the Earth's magnetic field, but compasses don't point at other people's fridges.
That's not even a slightly valid comparison! The magnetic field on a fridge magnet doesn't extend further (with any kind of noticable stregth) than about 2 or 3 centimeters. What WiTricity will end up with is gigantic transmitters/recievers that have a magnetic field covering miles to wirelessly replace the power grids in countries. Even ones in houses are gonna be a damn sight bigger and stronger than a fridge magnet.
Which is another problem. Will they not attract all magnetic things to them?
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http://www.witricity.com/pages/faq.html
Q: Over what distance can WiTricity technology transfer power?
A: WiTricity technology is designed for ?mid-range? distances, which we consider to be anywhere from a centimeter to several meters. The actual operating range for a given application is determined by many factors, including power source and capture device sizes, desired efficiency, and the amount of power to be transferred.
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http://www.witricity.com/pages/faq.html
I meant what it will end up as in the future :P I bet it won't stay mid range for long. On the plus side though, it might finally clear those god damn pigeons out of Trafalgar Square!
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Wireless electricity has been bounced around for years and it rarely ever comes to anything. Although I did see a recent demo where batteries could be remotely charged by placing them on a mat (which was like an induction loop) and things charged. So you basically take your phone, mp3 player, palmtop and put them on this mat to charge them. It's extremely early days for that sort of thing and the efficiency of transfer is probably so appalling that even the biggest global warming denying nut would think it was excessive.
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Wireless electricity has been bounced around for years and it rarely ever comes to anything. Although I did see a recent demo where batteries could be remotely charged by placing them on a mat (which was like an induction loop) and things charged. So you basically take your phone, mp3 player, palmtop and put them on this mat to charge them. It's extremely early days for that sort of thing and the efficiency of transfer is probably so appalling that even the biggest global warming denying nut would think it was excessive.
I don't think you saw the TED video though. :P
The guy was powering a TV screen at two meters or so. Nothing like the induction loop chargers that we have today.
He also says that the efficiency can be 95% and I believe him because I got the impression that what he does, does not actually "radiate" energy. He is not constantly microwaving anyone or illuminating the space with photos, like routers do.
So if energy gets transfered only when another coil "resonates" with it or something, then you actually have a form of energy transfer minus all the friction of the cable.
(and of course the charging/decharging efficiency of batteries is pretty terrible)
I meant what it will end up as in the future :P I bet it won't stay mid range for long. On the plus side though, it might finally clear those god damn pigeons out of Trafalgar Square!
Which I think is quite far away, until they find a way to make you pay for it.
WiFi did not destroy Servers and cables (yet), and it took a really long time before we had 3G internet.
But this happens because it (data) can be encrypted and decrypted individually. Wireless power on the other hand is just that... power. It either is there or it isn't. Even if they hide "the frequency" or something, someone would still simply have to "scan the frequencies" until he finds the right one.
That said, yes, I do think it would be cool if electricity was a "human right" (tax funded. Perhaps subdisized by government owned oil rigs?) and we covered the planet with it.
Powered by nuclear reactors, lots and lots of nuclear reactors (who, dammit, were supposed to be "power too cheap to meter") whose byproducts then we can use to form plutonium bombs, which nuclear bombs we can then use to power Orion spaceships. So that electric cars *did* re-charge as you drove them and your gadgets out in the open *did* charge out of the thin air. And it would probably come mighty useful later when we will be having nanoclouds and such.
Compasses. We can do without. We have GPS which gives much more, and more accurate, information. And in this case it wouldn't even be running out of battery. In fact, we will also have GLONASS and GALILEO as well and as we form the inevitable One World Nation these systems are only going to become redundant to each other. (Random fact: Recently the EU launched EGNOS, that improves the already in existance US GPS signal with some satellites of its own)
Birds. Well. That's their problem.
Now that said. I like birds. I am a nature lover, who loves all this complexity and multitude of shapes, forms and colours evolution has created in millions of years. Destroying them is an act of vandalism and it would lead to a poorer and more miserable universe. So here is what I propose we do:
We save the templates of all these forms and shapes, and when our genetic engineering technology becomes a little bit better, we recreate every species that has gotten extinct. (including the dodo, the dinosaurs, and unicorns). Further on, we improve on them so that they can use the new mag-field lines. Or GPS (if a biology based receiver can be made). We might even stick some kind of distributed bio-A.I. there doing and something useful apart from controlling bird bodies (watching for fires perhaps?) but that's a bit too futuristic.
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What was the subject again?
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Compasses. We can do without. We have GPS which gives much more, and more accurate, information. And in this case it wouldn't even be running out of battery. In fact, we will also have GLONASS and GALILEO as well and as we form the inevitable One World Nation these systems are only going to become redundant to each other. (Random fact: Recently the EU launched EGNOS, that improves the already in existance US GPS signal with some satellites of its own)
GPS could never replace a good old compass. All GPS tells you is where you are. It can't tell you which way you're facing or which way you need to go.
Birds. Well. That's their problem.
Now that said. I like birds. I am a nature lover, who loves all this complexity and multitude of shapes, forms and colours evolution has created in millions of years. Destroying them is an act of vandalism and it would lead to a poorer and more miserable universe. So here is what I propose we do:
We save the templates of all these forms and shapes, and when our genetic engineering technology becomes a little bit better, we recreate every species that has gotten extinct. (including the dodo, the dinosaurs, and unicorns). Further on, we improve on them so that they can use the new mag-field lines. Or GPS (if a biology based receiver can be made). We might even stick some kind of distributed bio-A.I. there doing and something useful apart from controlling bird bodies (watching for fires perhaps?) but that's a bit too futuristic.
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What was the subject again?
..... :wtf
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A compass cannot even tell you which continent you are on! Unless you have a map and do something fancy with the time of the sunrise/set and the stars.
But hey, if you have a map, then GPS can tell your exactly where you are. So obviously you are assuming one in both devices.
As for direction, you just walk a couple of meters and find out.
The only advantage (for now) a compass has is that it doesn't run out of battery.
That's because it is charged magnetically. The punmaster was here.
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and that a compass is smaller, lighter, simpler, more robust, reliable and they are generally waterproof! ish....
And tend to be simpler to use. But don't get me started on those damned prismatic things!! what a b*stard they can be to use.
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having used GPS, I wouldn't trust them too much. they usually miss your location by about 10ft, and if you're in a spot that hasn't got too good coverage regarding the satellites, it's useless. But, I always know where north is. all I need to do is look at closest tree or to the stars on the sky. :D
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and that a compass is smaller, lighter, simpler, more robust, reliable and they are generally waterproof! ish....
Reliable? Mine is like a random number generator.
If it was any worse, I'd look at it, only in order to know which direction the North Pole isn't.
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But, I always know where north is. all I need to do is look at closest tree or to the stars on the sky. :D
I'm sure your car will constantly be trailed by people with fake moss and cloud generating equipment thinking "this is what we do to smart-asses".
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Pfft.. moss.. :roll that's kids method. branches and ants nests work too.
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and that a compass is smaller, lighter, simpler, more robust, reliable and they are generally waterproof! ish....
Reliable? Mine is like a random number generator.
If it was any worse, I'd look at it, only in order to know which direction the North Pole isn't.
Let me guess your so called friends have stuck a fridge magnet to the back of it? :D
The silva compasses I use for work are fine and dandy. Until some c**t sticks a magnet to it. Or sticks one of our bowman VHF radios on full power within about 10 yards. Which is all the time seeing that bowman is nigh on useless mostly.
BOWMAN
Better Off With a Map and Nokia!
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The Duke of Edinburgh award would be REALLY hard without a compass, especially as you can't use things like GPS.
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there was no punctuation until the 15th century...
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*spam removed*
thats my fact...
vultures fly without flapping their wings...
moderators, however, always fly ;)
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An old, but somewhat interesting story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
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(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4779/001bj.jpg)
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I get "Google Israel" as an option after typing "Google is".
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That's because you didn't type a space after the is.
On a sidenote, this tool is ( http://www.google.com/insights/search/# ) rather awesome.
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Very interesting:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=bridge%20commander&cmpt=q
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Star%20Trek&cmpt=q
Now I'm pretty sure that when I saw this at Google Labs a while ago, looking at the stats for "porn" produced a very interesting effect where there was a clear spike every December without fail, but it's not showing that anymore. Unless it was something slightly different.
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Well, people seem to be going fishing every June: :)
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=fishing&cmpt=q
*inhales something*
IT'S LIKE THE EEG OF GAIA!
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the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma...
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NASA's Ares I-X, prototype is on the launchpad, and will be testing, err, today.
(http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8936/397259mainimage15019467.jpg)
Incidentially, this is a test for the lower bit, but as you can see, it includes the top bit.
That top bit (upper stage), is actually completely fake. It's just a banged together metal cylinder, with weights in it in order to simulate the fuel weight an actual upper stage would have.
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I'm watching the launch progress on NASA TV right now :D
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:( Did I miss the launch? Shame if I did, it was built only a few miles from me.
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The Aeries 1-X was nicknamed "the stick" due to it being so slim compared to it's predecessors.
And that it uses an upgraded version of the old J-2 rocket engines used in the Apollo missions!
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:( Did I miss the launch? Shame if I did, it was built only a few miles from me.
No the mission was scrubbed... It will launch tomorrow at 8am EDT
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Ah. I didn't see anything in the news, so I assumed it was a success.
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:( Dang, I hate to say it, but I hope they push it back to Saturday so I can watch it live. I really want to see my state's handiwork go up.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Real_graphene.jpg)
This is graphene. But they've zoomed in so closely that you can actually see the chemical bonds! Cool or what??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Electron_Aberration-corrected_Microscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Electron_Aberration-corrected_Microscope)
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In November the Large Hadrom Collider will reactivate.
However, because SCIENCE never stops, there is already talk about CERN's replacement. The Super Large Hadron Collider.
That's like an LHC, but turbocharged.
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In November the Large Hadrom Collider will reactivate.
However, because SCIENCE never stops, there is already talk about CERN's replacement. The Super Large Hadron Collider.
That's like an LHC, but turbocharged.
you mean supercharged right? :lol:
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Superchargers don't like high running speeds, whereas turbos don't mind. and those things they shoot around the machine go pretty darn fast, lad :funny
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NASA's Ares I-X, prototype is on the launchpad, and will be testing, err, today.
(http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8936/397259mainimage15019467.jpg)
Incidentially, this is a test for the lower bit, but as you can see, it includes the top bit.
That top bit (upper stage), is actually completely fake. It's just a banged together metal cylinder, with weights in it in order to simulate the fuel weight an actual upper stage would have.
I was lucky enough to go to the BBC's website just a few minutes before launch so managed to watch it live. I fucking love this stuff.
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yeah I watched it live on the NASA channel OMG was it awesome.
(waits for vid to be uploaded to youtube tonight)
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Did she go *kaboom*?
A turbo charger will be damaged if used immediately after starting an engine from cold. This is due to a lack of oil in there. The oil drains out when the engine is stopped and left for a few hours but the oil will soon circulate again when the engine is run at low revs for about 5-10 minutes.
This means DON'T THRASH YOUR F**KING TURBOCHARGED CARS FOR THE FIRST 10 MINUTES AFTER STARTING CRAZY FOO'S!!
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Did she go *kaboom*?
Fortunately not. All went as planned as far as I can tell. A few break ups with the camera link ups but all-in-all, pretty promising start. Of course, they're going to can it all in favour of developing weapons that they can drop on dirty foreigners instead.
Ooops, did I say that out loud?
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US Military Budget
$515.4 billion
US Black Budget
$32 billion
NASA Budget
$17.2 billion
CDC Budget
$8.8 billion
You can tell who needs more cash right now, can't you... :roll
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US Military Budget
$515.4 billion
US Black Budget
$32 billion
NASA Budget
$17.2 billion
CDC Budget
$8.8 billion
You can tell who needs more cash right now, can't you... :roll
yes.
NACA. :P
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And for the record. Wars are charged extra, on top of that military budget.
Iraq War
3 Trillion
Bailouts
1 Trillion
_________________
Estimated cost of Space Elevator
10 Billion
Estimated cost of Transatlantic Tunnel
200 Billion. (Or 100 Billion since, presumably, the EU would pay 50% of that one)
Estimated cost of Bering Strait Bridge
110 Billion. (Or 55 Billion since, presumably, Asia would pay 50% of that one)
ITER cost (the project to create fusion reactors, that could possibly be fast tracked if it had more money thrown at it)
10 Billion
HiPER cost (Another project to create fusion reactors, that could possibly be fast tracked if it had more money thrown at it)
1 Billion
:roll
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I think the space elevator would cost a hell of a lot more than that! I mean, we don't even have the necessary substances and materials strong enough to allow us to build it for starters!
Barbara Windsor has decided to quit Eastenders.
And no I don't watch it. I have half a braincell not one third of a braincell :P
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(http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1456/ap091028024783.jpg)
Ares I-X breaking the sound barrier.
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This is pretty cool. A timelapse video of the arrival and assembling of the Ares I-X
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:roll
There is some light I've been told that there's apparently ?600 million just gone to a research chemistry group to do some altnernative fuel stuff based on funding from supposedly "evil" petrochemical companies. They do actually fund this stuff, occaisionally...
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before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court...
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before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court...
Interestingly, in some cases, DNA evidence is more acceptable in court (well, it's more "given prominence as evidence as guilt") than actual physical observations. This may be tied in to something that later developed into the "CSI effect", where judges and juries demand more of genetics and forensics than they're actually capable of because of televised hype.
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'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia...
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:roll
There is some light I've been told that there's apparently ?600 million just gone to a research chemistry group to do some altnernative fuel stuff based on funding from supposedly "evil" petrochemical companies. They do actually fund this stuff, occaisionally...
If it is from petrochemical companies then this is private money. So that's kind capitalists spending out of the goodness of their heart 600 million for us, not the government wasting money more intelligently.
Useful fact: There are now 128Gb USB sticks.
Obviously they cost. Lots. But still. 128Gb.
The moment they hit 256, they will be competing with the majority of portable external hard disks...
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every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes...
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:roll
There is some light I've been told that there's apparently ?600 million just gone to a research chemistry group to do some altnernative fuel stuff based on funding from supposedly "evil" petrochemical companies. They do actually fund this stuff, occaisionally...
If it is from petrochemical companies then this is private money. So that's kind capitalists spending out of the goodness of their heart 600 million for us, not the government wasting money more intelligently.
Very true, but still, there is some hope to cling to.
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And a video from our favorite video database.
Unfortunatly we won't be seeing Ares V (which is the cool one) until 2018 so enjoy what you see here...
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Unfortunatly we won't be seeing Ares V (which is the cool one) until 2018 so enjoy what you see here...
That really is a total bastard. Though did you watch the test of the SRBs for it?
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Nope.
On the plus side. 6 missions remaining for the ISS completion. So that's at least one thing done, next year.
By that time, it would have taken 13 years to construct it, and only 1 minute if it collides with the wrong kind of space junk / meteror, to destroy it.
In other news:
Space fact #445452:
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5705/zlfvnaa.gif)
The Lunar Ultralight Flying Vehicle. Except that, since the moon doesn't have air for wings to work, "flying" in this case means sitting on a chair with a rocket engine and making 8km or so "ballistic jumps" with it in a matter of minutes.
Moon: The place where hydraulic pogo sticks will reveal their true potential.
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In other news:
Space fact #445452:
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5705/zlfvnaa.gif)
The Lunar Ultralight Flying Vehicle. Except that, since the moon doesn't have air for wings to work, "flying" in this case means sitting on a chair with a rocket engine and making 8km or so "ballistic jumps" with it in a matter of minutes.
Moon: The place where hydraulic pogo sticks will reveal their true potential.
I'd like to see the guy with the cojones to fly that thing.
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The Inner Life of a Cell
Interesting fact; this video was produced by XVIVO for BioVisions at Harvard University in 2006. It has been stolen several times by creationists. First time, William Demski took it, stripped off the voice over present in the final 8 min short and replaced it with his own woo-ful one. The second time, the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed used it. Both parties had their arses handed to them by DMCA claims from the video's owners/creators - in the case of Expelled, it pushed the release date back a few months while they scrambled to cobble together their own, almost identical but slightly more brown, animation.
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(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1383/f7va23ue.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Large_helical_device_shot.gif)
The Large Helical Device is a fusion research device in Toki, Gifu, Japan and is the largest superconducting stellarator in the world, employing a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan. The objective of the project is to conduct fusion plasma confinement research in a steady state in order to elucidate possible solutions to physics and engineering problems in helical plasma reactors. The LHD uses neutral beam injection, ion cyclotron radio frequency (ICRF), and electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) to heat the plasma, much like conventional tokamaks.
It sounds and looks like bad hollywood technobubble, except it's real.
And it is doing SCIENCE to stuff.
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Would bad stuff happen if it went *kaboom* whilst working at full power??
ANFO.
Ammonium Nitrate + no.2 fuel oil aka diesel.
A good mix is about 0.42 TNT equivalence i.e. 1lb of anfo is about as powerful as 1lb of TNT.
It is by far the most widely used explosive in coal mining, quarrying, metal mining, and civil construction: it accounts for an estimated 80% of the 6,000,000,000 pounds (2.7?109 kg) of explosive used annually in North America. It also sees service in improvised explosive devices, where it is also known as a fertilizer bomb.
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Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki... later adopted a strict "no-edits" clause for future foreign releases of its films. On hearing that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein would try to cut Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, one of Studio Ghibli's producers sent an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts".
Moral of the story: Don't fuck with anime producers.
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the powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble...
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The little angel on top of the fountain in Piccalilli circus, London, is not actually of Eros/Cupid but of Anteros who is supposed to be about giving back/mature love etc.
It is actually a memorial to a philanthropist.
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Now THAT looks more like it.
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One of the... less well known engineering competitions.
THE OVERUNITY PRIZE.
1.You need to build 2 working units, both must work the same, so to make sure, it is a replicateable device.
One device you must keep yourself for verification processes and the other device you must ship to me:
Stefan Hartmann, Keplerstr. 11 B, 10589 Berlin, Germany
for the testing and verification process.
2.Each devices must not weight more than 20 Kg and at least put out
1 Watt of contineous electrical DC power.
( Voltage and current ratio does not matter, but it should be less than 1000 Volts DC for handling it more safely,
so at 1000 Volts DC it should deliver at least constantly 1 mA, or at 100 Volts at least 10 mA or at 10 Volts at least 100 mA for instance)
( Please rectify and buffer with a cap, if you just only have AC power, so please convert it to DC power for easier output power measurements)
If your device is more a mechanical or chemical ( e.g. rotational, electrolyis or cold fusion-type, etc. ) device,
you must build also into it the converter to get electrical DC power out of it, so it is producing at least a contineous
1 Watt of free electrical DC power without using any fuel other than water or air. Your device must not be
powered by an outside source, such as wind, solar or received radio energy and must work 24 hours / 7 days a week / 365 days per year long.
The output power must stay constant and must not fall down after some time.
It must only have a ?fuel? or ?maintainance cost? per year of less than
0.001 US$ = 0.1 UScent PER GENERATED KILOWATTHOUR
including "fuel-", repair-" and maintainance costs.
3.It can be powered by radioactive decay, but the used materials must not be harmfull and must be easy
to get in every city and must not be special parts which are difficult to get or hard to produce and must
not be highly dangerously radioactive or unlawfull to posess.
It also must not use any very expensive or forbidden and/or banned
radioactive materials, which are hard to get for the average guy
and are dangerous to handle and pose a threat for the environment.
Also if it used water as the "fuel", it should not use more than 1 Liter
of normal tap water per day.
It also must not put out any dangerous pollution stuff and
must not be harmful to the environment.
4.A maximum of 4 x 9 Volts Batteries or accumulators or a maximum of
4 pieces D-cell type batteries or accumulators can be used in it. These batteries must only be used
as storage or start batteries and they must not have more than 20 Watthours (Voltage x Amphours)
of energy storage capacity.
They must be declared and must not be hidden and battery lifetime and recharge time must be specified.
5.Battery life should be at least 3 years and to replace the batteries should not
cost more than 5 USD for all of the batteries (if batteries are at all used in the device)
6.Patented devices do not apply, cause we want a solution that has no rights yet on it and which would
be free to build by anyone. Commercial replications must pay at least 10 % license fees to charity
organisations or simular organisations, that "feed the world" and help the poor.
This should be watched by the community to verify that commercial builder companies really pay
these licenses to charity organisations.
The inventor who wants to patent his device should not apply for the Prize.
7.The inventor will get the prize money from me, if the device works at my home and will still work
after 3 months of time without dropping in output power level. 3 Months should be long enough
to study and verify the unit and also do extensive tests and measurements with it and first
replications would be then already available from the community.
The verification tests will be published widely all over the internet to spread quickly together
with the blueprints PDF File building instructions.
8.The device should not cost more than 300 US$ in parts- and material-costs to build and the inventor
must also supply a DOC or PDF file with pictures and building instructions and an explanation how he thinks that it works.
Labor costs to produce and build these units should not be higher than an additional 50 Euros or 75 US$ per device.
9.The inventor of the devices must build the 2 devices from his own money and loan one of these devices to me
( Stefan Hartmann) for the 3 months test period and after this he can choose, if he wants to get the device
back or would like to sell the devices to me to keep for it for myself. ( the Prize-money would be reduced
then by 300 US$ costs if the inventor wants the device back)
10.The inventor needs to ship the device on his own costs to me. If he can supply convincing videos in advance
of the functioning of the device shipping charges to my address in Germany can be paid by me, if he is low on money.
11.If you have such a unit and it produces at least 1 Watt of contineous free energy power indefinately, just put
all the construction details and diagrams first into a ZIP or RAR file and post it at OverUnity.com in the
OverUnity Prize category, so it is already open source, so nobody can apply for a patent anymore.
Then contact me and mail this unit to me for testing for a 3 months loan period, where it will be tested for the contineous power output.
As the blueprints are by then already posted, other people can replicate it also during this time period and can verify it for themself and help
the test-process confirm or non-confirm, so the testing period before the prize is issued could also be reduced in time less than 3 months,
if it is clear, that the device really puts out this power indefinately with only a maintanance cost of less or equal of 0.1 US$cent per KWatthour.
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Not that any of that would actually be possible...
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there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar...
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doesn't that apply to few other currencies too?
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Not that any of that would actually be possible...
That's because the oil establishment has washed your brains!
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Not that any of that would actually be possible...
That's because the oil establishment has washed your brains!
Tin foil hat time!!!
At room temp diesel will not ignite. It must be heated to it's flashpoint or higher first before it will ignite.
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That tin foil hats work is a conspiracy by tin foil hatists. In reality tin foil hats might even help the government reading/controlling your mind by acting as an antenna.
Source: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
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I thought tin foil hats was for teh alienz. No?
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the first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker...
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(http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1456/ap091028024783.jpg)
Ares I-X breaking the sound barrier.
Not true. The rocket is simply passing through a layer of water vapor, condensing it into a cloud around it.
Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki... later adopted a strict "no-edits" clause for future foreign releases of its films. On hearing that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein would try to cut Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, one of Studio Ghibli's producers sent an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts".
Moral of the story: Don't fuck with anime producers.
Awesome. I f*cking hate edits.
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Well, I just copied what it said under the picture where I found it. Looks sonic boom-ish to me.
However, those things:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=sonic%20boom&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
Are apparently water condensation caused by the act of going faster than sound. So theres no reason it can't be both. :P
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Firefox has finally surpassed IE6 for market share :D
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Firefox has finally surpassed IE6 for market share :D
Not surprising considering the standard is now IE8. Isn't this a little like saying that IE8 finally surpassed Mozilla?
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Firefox has finally surpassed IE6 for market share :D
Not surprising considering the standard is now IE8. Isn't this a little like saying that IE8 finally surpassed Mozilla?
True, but IE6 has been around much longer and was massively entrenched. Businesses, organizations, stubborn idiots and the ignorant. They all still use it. Hell, even the army is still using IE6 as standard!! It's almost like soldiers charging the trenches in WWI
Not bad for something almost open source though :)
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So... the military is using windows? :wtf
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it snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979...
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V-ray, a renderer for 3Ds Max, has already a working prototype for GPU based rendering. And it intents to support Open CL as well. (so ignore than Nvidia CUDA on the title)
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So... the military is using windows? :wtf
Did you not realise??
They have now introduced something called "DII" or defence information infrastructure.
In other words it's an oversized underpowered network that is basically a normal LAN but spread over a massive area that piggybacks on the back of internet traffic. The MOD uses windows XP for it and IE6. Some places are still on 2000.
And yes, the whole DII is absolutely shite. Dog slow and utterly useless.
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Today is the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
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Today is the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
A place for six foot pigeons and junky elephants!
They even have a pimp!
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Today, in the UK, was also Guy Fawkes Night.
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November!
So... the military is using windows? :wtf
Did you not realise??
They have now introduced something called "DII" or defence information infrastructure.
In other words it's an oversized underpowered network that is basically a normal LAN but spread over a massive area that piggybacks on the back of internet traffic. The MOD uses windows XP for it and IE6. Some places are still on 2000.
And yes, the whole DII is absolutely shite. Dog slow and utterly useless.
Great. So the UK military is using an operating system with (potentially) build in NSA backdoors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/437967.stm
Regardless if it is real or not, what is real is that Microsoft clearly has deep access to the system though windows update (unless they have turned them off), if they can patch something, they can rewrite the entire thing. (they'd just have to target a specially prepared update to a few specific IPs).
You would have thought that for all these billions, they could have paid a few guys to write a linux where they'd know exactly what each line says and does.
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slugs have 4 noses...
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Today, in the UK, was also Guy Fawkes Night.
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November!
So... the military is using windows? :wtf
Did you not realise??
They have now introduced something called "DII" or defence information infrastructure.
In other words it's an oversized underpowered network that is basically a normal LAN but spread over a massive area that piggybacks on the back of internet traffic. The MOD uses windows XP for it and IE6. Some places are still on 2000.
And yes, the whole DII is absolutely shite. Dog slow and utterly useless.
Great. So the UK military is using an operating system with (potentially) build in NSA backdoors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/437967.stm
Regardless if it is real or not, what is real is that Microsoft clearly has deep access to the system though windows update (unless they have turned them off), if they can patch something, they can rewrite the entire thing. (they'd just have to target a specially prepared update to a few specific IPs).
You would have thought that for all these billions, they could have paid a few guys to write a linux where they'd know exactly what each line says and does.
The only ones that are networked are the ones running XP apparently. All the ones with 2000 are standalone terminals built into our radar vehicles (Known as COBRA aka "BFUST big f*cking useless thing*" and MAMBA "aka NSBFUST Not so f*cking big useless thing") and laptops for our technicians who use them as diagnostic machines/part number libraries/tutorials eg. "how to change a phase shifter" etc. etc..
Those radar vehicles also have UNIX terminals that deal with networking stuff (they can be networked together or with CRAM phalanx guns or with bowman terminals loaded with the COMBAT software package or any combination of these) the terminals using 2000 are simply diagnostic computers and backups.
And btw, don't ask me what a phase shifter does. I just order them for the techs and give the damn things to them!!
Maybe it shifts the phase?
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ooook moving on :P
contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards...
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The Patriot System & Hawk SAM replacement (MEADS), is one of the few programs funded almost exactly 50/50 by the US and EU nations.
It is managed by a NATO agency known as NAMEADSMA (aren't those letter names very new world order-ish?) and developed by an ad-hocly put together company called MEADS International, which in reality is owned exactly 50% by Lockheed Martin and 50% by EuroMEADS.
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a blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle...
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The Patriot System & Hawk SAM replacement (MEADS), is one of the few programs funded almost exactly 50/50 by the US and EU nations.
It is managed by a NATO agency known as NAMEADSMA (aren't those letter names very new world order-ish?) and developed by an ad-hocly put together company called MEADS International, which in reality is owned exactly 50% by Lockheed Martin and 50% by EuroMEADS.
Our radars have spares provided to them by a NATO organization called NAMSA strangely enough.
And massively inefficient too.
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PHP is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
As you can probably guess, a recursive acronym is an acronym that contains the original word within it.
Other examples are:
Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator
LAME - LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
Saab - Saab Automobile Aktiebolaget
VISA - Visa International Service Association
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One material that has great potential is M5 fiber. This is a synthetic fiber that is lighter than Kevlar or Spectra. According to Pearson, Levin, Oldson, and Wykes in their article The Lunar Space Elevator, an M5 ribbon 30mm wide and .023 mm thick, would be able to support 2000 kg on the lunar surface (2005). It would also be able to hold 100 cargo vehicles, each with a mass of 580 kg, evenly spaced along the length of the elevator. Other materials that could be used are T1000G carbon fiber, Spectra 200, or Zylon. All of these materials have breaking lengths of several hundred kilometers under 1g
^ Regarding a lunar space elevator.
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The AT4 unguided Anti-Tank Weapon was named as phonetic word-play on it's caliber, 84mm.
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1 in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye...
freaks... lol j/k :P
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1 in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye...
freaks... lol j/k :P
Or heterochromia, as it's sometimes called. Heterochromia iridis (http://"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Heterochromia_Iridis.jpg") specifically in eyes.
Many people think that this is the case with David Bowie, but it's not. Due to getting punched in the face at the age of 15 (by someone who went on to do some of his album artwork, no less) one of his eyes is permanently dilated, producing the effect that makes it look like they're different colours.
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Fact: Net Neutrality FTW.
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SanDisk is developing 128Gb microSD cards for 2011.
In case you haven't seen those things before, they are about this big:
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5651/kingston1gbmicrosd1.jpg)
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what's the point of those? I already have trouble keeping my cell phones memory cards in sight because they're pretty damn small too. :wtf smaller isn't necessarily better.
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micro SD cards are extremely useful XD
I have a few and use em for my phone and camera.
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M2 cards are faster than microSD. I have experience. I am with SE K800i but my father have SE K850. K850 is supporting MicroSD and M2 cards and for one amount of data, MicroSD card load it slower that the M2. About 2 times slower.
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Vladko1: There are several classes that have different transfer speed.
# Class 2: 2 MByte/s - 13x
# Class 4: 4 MByte/s - 26x
# Class 6: 6 MByte/s - 40x
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M2 cards are faster than microSD. I have experience. I am with SE K800i but my father have SE K850. K850 is supporting MicroSD and M2 cards and for one amount of data, MicroSD card load it slower that the M2. About 2 times slower.
At last! someone else who is still using an SE K800i!
The k800i was released in 2006. I bought mine then and it's still going strong. It has simply shrugged off any knocks, falls and other damage effortlessly.
I once dropped it while standing on top of the cab of a British army Bedford TM 6x6 14tonne truck. It landed in gravel. And guess what? it still works 2 years on. I've taken it to Iraq with me, guess what? it still works!
Awesome all round phone IMO.
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Engine replacement:
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4987/75997677.jpg)
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(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6359/11661752.jpg)
Its a VTOL aircraft. Kind off.
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female canaries cannot sing...
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(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6359/11661752.jpg)
Its a VTOL aircraft. Kind off.
If I'm not mistaken that's an MI-26 helicopter.
Bloody massive things they are.
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If you're interested in big choppers it's worth checking out this page:
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0284.shtml
It includes a (slightly surreal) shot of a Mi-26 lifting a Chinook and the hilariously large Mil V-12.
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And because big things please small minds, here is the Antonov 225:
(http://py.praveenyadav.googlepages.com/AN225_awesome.jpg/AN225_awesome-full.jpg)
And just in case you were wondering how big this is, here's the comparison shot for the 747 and the A380:
(http://coppermine.luchtzak.be/albums/userpics/10237/AN-225.jpg)
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Not as big of a helo, but hey, its me on the wing!!!
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I wonder why president of Russia doesn't have one of those Antonovs for personal transportation. :D would probably make certain mister Obama feel slightly smaller.. :funny
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Here's the newest one on the drawing board.
(http://www.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hotelicopter1.jpg)
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And if you want to continue on LARGE things....
BIG
(http://army.ca/album/Vehicles/International/Leopuld_Rail_Gun.JPG)
BIGGER
(http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/2859-5/rail-gun-530606.jpg)
BIGGEST
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SI17nFEf_8I/AAAAAAAAXsg/Pn6ecktHJnE/s800/retyeryetrer.jpg)
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I-400. Biggest WWII submarine.
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2036/i400pi1.jpg)
It also does another cool trick, if you can guess what it is.
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*whispers*
Psst, Viper! Hotelicopter not real.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/03/the-hotelicopte/
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*whispers*
Psst, Viper! Hotelicopter not real.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/03/the-hotelicopte/
Yeah, I know. But it still looks cool.
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dolphins nap with one eye open...
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dolphins nap with one eye open...
And with only one half of their brain.
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...and the hilariously large Mil V-12.
The Rotodyne wasn't too bad either:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/173/faireyrotodyne.jpg)
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*whispers*
Psst, Viper! Hotelicopter not real.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/03/the-hotelicopte/
Yeah, I know. But it still looks cool.
And the CG is pretty sweet. The one at dusk taking off from the hanger has some nice HDR reflections on it, although the flying animation looks less impressive and the take-off animation is far too smooth to be real, needs a bit of FX work to make it look more like there's some serious thrust coming off the propellers, probably a little camera shake and we're talking "holy crap, that thing's real!" territory.
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards...
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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards...
Cixelsyd er'uoy naem t'nseod, sdrawkcab etirw uoy esuac tsuj.
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he wrote backwards to throw off anyone who took his notes... he kept many things hidden.
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Thus succesfully securing his notes from people unable to read backwards. :roll
Fact: I always thought that explanation was a bit flimsy. Probably he just had fun doing it as a mental excersize.
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Catfacts. (nothing new for me, thou)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/header.png)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/1.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/2.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/3.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/4.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/5.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/6.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/7.jpg)
(http://theoatmeal.com/img/comics/cat_know/8.jpg)
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False Alarm Awakens Crew
An alarm woke the crews aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station at 8:36 p.m. EST Thursday. Flight controllers in Houston, Europe and Russia quickly concluded the alarm was false. An erroneous indication of a rapid depressurization led to the automatic shutdown of ventilation fans throughout the station, which stirred up dust and led to a false smoke detection alarm in the European Space Agency?s Columbus laboratory.
It took about an hour to reactivate the ventilation fans and stabilize the station atmosphere following the incident. The crews have been warned to watch out for pockets where carbon dioxide has accumulated.
The initial cause for the false depressurization indication is under evaluation. Mission control Capcom Frank Lien told station Commander Frank De Winne it might have originated with the Poisk mini-research module that docked to the station earlier this month.
The space station crew will wait until ventilation is restored before going back to sleep. The shuttle crew has already been given the ?go? from teams on the ground to go back to sleep. To make up for the sleep they lost reacting to the alarm, the sleep period has been extended by 30 minutes. The new wake up time will be 4:28 a.m. EST.
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Plasma Engine test that could possibly take humans to Mars in 39 days. It also goes by the far cooler name Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket.
Interesting:
On December 10, 2008 Ad Astra Company signed an agreement with NASA to arrange the placement and testing of a flight version of the VASIMR, the VF-200, on the International Space Station (ISS). Its launch is expected to be in 2011?2012.
The ISS VASIMR engine will operate in burst mode. Since ISS's power generation is not great enough, the system will include a trickle-charged battery system allowing for 10 min pulses of thrust. This however, is expected to be sufficient to maintain ISS altitude, eliminating the need for costly, periodic chemical rocket reboosting operations.
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each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct...
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FIAT created the AS.6 V-24 engine for the Macchi M.C.72 competition seaplane in the early 1930's. It displaced more than 50 litres and produced more than 3100hp. In reality it was just 2 AS.5 V-12 engines put end to end sharing the same drive shaft. They could be started separately too.
Now if that's not a big engine then I don't know what is..
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a roach can live up to nine days without its head...
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(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7250/800pxs100oevxx.jpg)
It's a Camcopter S-100. Cute no?
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Nice posts, guys!
Here's a cool item recently linked from the Drex Files:
(http://drexfiles.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/1.jpg)
"In April 2010, the Air Force is scheduled to launch an Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the newest U.S. Spacecraft, the unmanned X-37, to orbit. The X-37 embodies the Air Force?s desire for an operational spaceplane, a wish that dates back to the 1950s, the era of the rocket powered X-15 and X-20."
Link (http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Space-Shuttle-Jr.html?utm_source=newsletter20091118&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASMNovember)
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a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife...
*shakes head*
stupid ignorant americans... how embarrassing... lol
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50% of all marriages end in divorce. Which is REALLY good considering the other 50% end in death.
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FIAT created the AS.6 V-24 engine for the Macchi M.C.72 competition seaplane in the early 1930's. It displaced more than 50 litres and produced more than 3100hp. In reality it was just 2 AS.5 V-12 engines put end to end sharing the same drive shaft. They could be started separately too.
Now if that's not a big engine then I don't know what is..
well, then I'd better not mention radial engines that could displace as much as 71 litres..used in bigger bombers and such. but, then there was certain British V12-engine that could achieve similar performance with mere 27l.
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FIAT created the AS.6 V-24 engine for the Macchi M.C.72 competition seaplane in the early 1930's. It displaced more than 50 litres and produced more than 3100hp. In reality it was just 2 AS.5 V-12 engines put end to end sharing the same drive shaft. They could be started separately too.
Now if that's not a big engine then I don't know what is..
well, then I'd better not mention radial engines that could displace as much as 71 litres..used in bigger bombers and such. but, then there was certain British V12-engine that could achieve similar performance with mere 27l.
Heh! I know, we always seem to be able to improve engine performance and efficiency when given a foreign engine!
How big an engine would it take to kick out 85hp in America? That's what mine produces and it's only a 1.2l 16v!!!
The 1.2l 16v engine used in the Mark 2 fiat punto and the larger fiat stilo actually displaced 1242cc. And it was detuned to 80hp in the fiat stilo!
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in the low compression era, 85 horses came from 5 or 6 liter engines. in the eighties, it was the two liters in the Japanese cars.
and 85 horses wouldn't move ONE american around, now :P
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well, technically speaking, chrysler = Fiat now.. thus, Panda and 500 = american cars? :P
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well, technically speaking, chrysler = Fiat now.. thus, Panda and 500 = american cars? :P
Get f*cked! :D
The 500, panda, bravo, punto, mlutipla et al are italian and proud!
And have the shit electrics to prove it!
I r drunkiosh fact.
ps, what's ouzo?
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Oh, nothing to worry about, just some kind of sweet water. By all means, drink a bottle of it. :P
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Speaking of such things, isopropanol gets you more drunk than ethanol. However, it is at least twice as toxic and has negative effects from as little 15g in an average human. Not recommended.
The question of whether deuterated ethanol (-OD) gets you more or less drunk than normal ethanol (-OH) is still open.
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Solution: Get your straws men and to the labs!
Those IG nobels aren't going to win themselves.
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Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic...
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Absinthe is actually a spirit, not a laquer. (Hooray for spelling)
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Absinthe is actually a spirit, not a laquer. (Hooray for spelling)
Liquor or liqueur
Hooray for spell-check extensions!!
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if you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1...
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Absinthe is actually a spirit, not a laquer. (Hooray for spelling)
Liquor or liqueur
Hooray for spell-check extensions!!
Maybe he was going for lacquer. Although I would think its more of a lacquer thinner or remover.
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Absinthe is actually a spirit, not a laquer. (Hooray for spelling)
Liquor or liqueur
Hooray for spell-check extensions!!
Although I would think its more of a lacquer thinner or remover.
You're damn right there :/
Still feeling the after effects of last night. I woke up clutching one of those guitar controllers for guitar hero..
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if you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1...
Interestingly, that's also the same odds as the combination permutation HHHTTTHTHT, and even more spooky, the same odds as the combination TTTHTHTTTT.
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Now the true question is, after a 10 tail streak are the odds for or against you in betting that the 11th coin flip is going to be tails as well. ;)
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Now the true question is, after a 10 tail streak are the odds for or against you in betting that the 11th coin flip is going to be tails as well. ;)
http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy
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Currently, the biggest, non-radio/x-ray telescope in space is Herschel (it's an infrared one) with a 3.5m mirror. (Hubble: 2.5m)
It was launched in 2009 and it is the one on its way to L2 rather than Earth Orbit. (only 1.5 million km away. Yes, forget service missions about that one, they had to get it right the first time)
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6669/herschel02.jpg)
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Now that is a thing of beauty.
EDIT: Damnit, I can't stop reading this Rationalwiki website! Curse you! *Shakes fist*
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Oooooo, aaaaahhhh. Pretty. Where can I get one? I need to, um, you know its not really important why I need it.
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EDIT: Damnit, I can't stop reading this Rationalwiki website! Curse you! *Shakes fist*
Excellent, my work here is done.
But yeah, Herschel is pretty awesome, I think it's starting to send back some images back already, isn't it? And it's the Sun-Earth L2 right, not the Earth-moon one, otherwise that'd defy the point a bit.
Anyway, useless fact:
If the tracks on Queen's original studio albums are numbered in sequential order starting with their first, "'39" does in fact fall in the thirty-ninth position. The song is a reference to the twin paradox, which is what happens when you let astrophysicists form rock bands.
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which is what happens when you let astrophysicists form rock bands.
Brian May is the only astrophysicist in the band. Freddie has a Diploma in Art and Graphic Design and John Deacon has a Degree in Electronics.
Freddy Mercury's real name is Farrokh Bulsara.
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which is what happens when you let astrophysicists form rock bands.
Brian May is the only astrophysicist in the band. Freddie has a Diploma in Art and Graphic Design and John Deacon has a Degree in Electronics.
Freddy Mercury's real name is Farrokh Bulsara.
I never implied that they were all physics students, I've seen a band like that, it was very, very different... Anyway, all four have degrees. Which is quite good considering most new Indie bands are all like "uh, we can't go on tour, we're still doing our A-Levels".
IIRC. Every member of Queen has penned a no.1 hit, which I don't think even The Beatles or Led Zeppelin did, but I'll have to check that one.
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I'll correct the above. Definitely not no.1s, they only had 6 and two of those don't count as they're We Will Rock You with 5ive and the George Micheal version of Somebody to Love at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. But all four have been stated as primary/sole writers on some of their classic songs and each one has at least one of theirs on their Greatest Hits II (I have the piano reduction in front of me now complete with appropriate credits).
A Kind of Magic - Roger Taylor
Who Wants to Live Forever - Brian May (I played this one on piano for GCSE music)
I Want To Break Free - John Deacon
And of course a there are dozens attributed to Freddie Mercury and even more credited to the band alone.
So I think it's fair to say that those are four shit-hot songwriters.
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The US was not the first to create a stealth bomber....
I give you the WWII German Horten 229 under construction. [There were three of them in total. The first 2 crashed after several flights. The third was captured at war's end before full production began]
(http://www.ufologie.net/aircraft/pics/ho9-construction-2.jpg)
After the war...it went to Northrop Grumman for testing and storage...
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/400080426_0595d8b0e1_o.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/400080434_273559fb05_o.jpg)
And what does Northrop Grumman produce....
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_B-2_4oc_lg.jpg)
And for those wondering what happened to the original, it is still in the same storage facility, however Northrop Grumman did use it as a guide in creating this...
(http://resound1.com/wp-content/uploads/Nazi_Stealth_15.jpg)
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You saw the show about this on the National Geographic channel the other day too didn't you?
Also thats the mini version(though first designed/built) of the six engine transcontinental bomber that could have reached New York.
(http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/rys/rys031.jpg)
(http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/jet%20age/images%20flyingwing/8x.jpg)
Here's the episode btw. http://www.youtube.com/user/TsarHD#g/c/463E6E278C9B8AB1
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Actually, I knew about it long before the show. I majored in military history and I'm an amateur WWII historian.
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I had a model kit of one of those babies a long, long time ago. Had a speculative one of the Aurora, too. I miss that whole ball of wax. :(
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Actually, I knew about it long before the show. I majored in military history and I'm an amateur WWII historian.
I remember it as well. They discovered it by accident, they just wanted to experiment with the shape for plane and realised it just-so-happened to have a very low radar cross-section that would have made it difficult to detect. But the B-2 was designed to be stealthy, but based on the knowledge gained from the German model.
Also, if I remember my WWII documentaries properly, there was something like a 2-3 year ban on weapons development, imposed by Hitler for some odd reason. The only decent reason I can think of is that he wanted to divert all funds into expanding the Reich as quickly as possible. But when it was lifted, they developed some really, really scary shit. Imagine tanks the size of houses rolling across Europe and stealth bombers dropping nukes on New York, in 1944.
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Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine...
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MPE stands for model property editor
SDK stands for software development kit
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Actually, I knew about it long before the show. I majored in military history and I'm an amateur WWII historian.
I remember it as well. They discovered it by accident, they just wanted to experiment with the shape for plane and realised it just-so-happened to have a very low radar cross-section that would have made it difficult to detect. But the B-2 was designed to be stealthy, but based on the knowledge gained from the German model.
Also, if I remember my WWII documentaries properly, there was something like a 2-3 year ban on weapons development, imposed by Hitler for some odd reason. The only decent reason I can think of is that he wanted to divert all funds into expanding the Reich as quickly as possible. But when it was lifted, they developed some really, really scary shit. Imagine tanks the size of houses rolling across Europe and stealth bombers dropping nukes on New York, in 1944.
The tanks the size of houses thing probably wouldn't have happened. They nazis built the panzer VIII "maus" which was some huge 100 ton tank that was 33 feet long, 12 feet tall and 12 feet wide. It could move at 12km/h under ideal circumstances and simply couldn't cross most bridges due to it's incredible weight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_Tank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_Tank)
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Actually, I knew about it long before the show. I majored in military history and I'm an amateur WWII historian.
I remember it as well. They discovered it by accident, they just wanted to experiment with the shape for plane and realised it just-so-happened to have a very low radar cross-section that would have made it difficult to detect. But the B-2 was designed to be stealthy, but based on the knowledge gained from the German model.
Also, if I remember my WWII documentaries properly, there was something like a 2-3 year ban on weapons development, imposed by Hitler for some odd reason. The only decent reason I can think of is that he wanted to divert all funds into expanding the Reich as quickly as possible. But when it was lifted, they developed some really, really scary shit. Imagine tanks the size of houses rolling across Europe and stealth bombers dropping nukes on New York, in 1944.
Remind me to dig up an image I have of that tank you described. It's a warmongers dream, almost like the Dora, if not moreso. Would definitely make for an awesome vehicle in any FPS. :D
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(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2959/swirljuly08.jpg)
At this moment, in the constellation Taurus, a planet is forming in the dust and debris surrounding the star HL Tau. The protoplanet, named HL Tau b, may be the youngest yet discovered. A team of British astronomers found HL Tau b when they noticed an extra-bright clump in a radio image of its parent star from the Very Large Array radio telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico. The young planet is believed to be only a few hundred thousand years old and 930 million miles in diameter. Because its parent star is still developing, the protoplanet won?t condense into its final form?a ball of hydrogen and helium gas about the size of Jupiter called a gas giant?for at least another million years.
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The Maus was big, but there was the E-100 and the Geschutzwagen Tiger, which was the size of a house.
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l57/PvtMutt/rearintheshed.jpg)
The Japanese were just as scary with the I-400 class submarine. At one point, they had one parked in New York Harbour. Also at the Panama Canal. They carried attack planes and would surface, launch, and then hide again.
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Forget the Maus, I was talking about the bloody Landkreuzers, which were (frankly) silliness personified, or at least tankified.
Nothing compared to the Bolos in Keith Laumer's books or the Leviathans or Capitol Imperialis that appear in Warhammer 40k, though.
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Though thanks to TV-Tropes and the inevitable tab-explosion, I have come across this, that might be interesting to people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/AntonovA40.jpg)
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if you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation...
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I thought that was a given.
Blackholes vaporise and do not compress objects almost instantly when going beyond the event horizon.
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(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/7803/3231557495fecb56b97o.jpg)
Pew, pew.
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Yeah, whoever thought up that scooter was compensating for something. :evil
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Yes mr.look-at-my-large-artillery-pieces-in-page-80 :P
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4643/t28iiiixg5.jpg)
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Thats a US piece!!!! I've never seen it before.
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I am not very sure actually. The photo's filename, which I forgot where I got it from, calls it a T28, but the actual T28 is this one:
http://www.tonyrogers.com/weapons/t28.htm
Notice: 4 tracks.
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It's the same tank...
Look at this pic... you will see that the outer tracks can be removed...
(http://www.tonyrogers.com/weapons/images/t28_tank/T28_SuperHeavy_1200.jpg)
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if you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation...
Very easily yes. However, if you had no CO2, you'd also die pretty quick (hyperventilation causes all the CO2 to be expelled out of the bloodstream, so this is the mechanism by which that kills you). Basically, oxygen loads itself onto haemoglobin in the lungs but needs to offload itself in the muscles. This is helped by the fact that oxygen is in a higher concentration near the lungs, so more will load onto the haeomoglobin, but not by much, this is done because in the blood by the muscles is at a lower pH due to dissolved carbon dioxide (as carbonic acid, CO2 + H2O ? H2CO3 but this is also accompanied by the presence of lactic acid). This change in pH alters the loading curve of haemoglobin with respect to O2 so that it unloads more oxygen than it would in other circumstances. This is known as the Bohr effect. So, with no CO2 dissolve, you can get plenty of oxygen into your blood, but it won't come out of it again where it's needed. Similarly, too much CO2 prevents the loading of oxygen at the lungs.
This is a different mechanism to CO poisoning, while CO2 binds to haemoglobin weakly in different sites, CO binds exactly to the spot where oxygen will. The trouble is, it does so irreversibly, so normal partial pressures of oxygen won't displace it and your blood will have a much (and essentially permanent) reduced capacity to carry oxygen. You can counteract the effect of CO and CO2 poisoning by upping the partial pressure of O2 above it's normal atmospheric concentration of ~20%. Hence smoke inhalation victims are usually put on a respirator of 100% oxygen.
Incidentally, deep sea divers use an oxygen mix that's lower than atmospheric concentration - 10% or less. This is because pressure increases with depth, so the overall partial pressure, and therefore total amount, of O2 increases. You'd therefore get far too much oxygen breathing "normal" air at a higher pressure.
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If a kid is holding his\her breath to try and get their way, let them hold it, they will pass-out and the autonomic system will kick-in, they will begin to breath normally.
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What if the kid has planned for this eventuality with a makeshift plastic bag & rubber band device thereby ensuring that the interruption of breath will automatically continue past unconciousness?
Ha! Checkmate.
In other news, another ISS tour:
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What if the kid has planned for this eventuality with a makeshift plastic bag & rubber band device thereby ensuring that the interruption of breath will automatically continue past unconciousness?
Ha! Checkmate.
the statement was "If a kid is holding his\her breath " indicateing he\she is doing it, not an externall force.
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Even if the autonomic system kicked in, there is a chance said child could vomit and choke on its own puke
(Apologies for calling children "it")
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oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire...
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If a child is holding his/her breath and you smack them upward from the base of the skull they will breath, and the harder you do it the less likely they are to hold there breath again. Also this is one good reason I am not a parent.
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The 2010 World Cup will be filmed in 3D!
Seriously, wtf! Who has a 3D TV! I know it's a way off yet, but I find it hard to believe 3D TV's will be widespread by next summer. Hell, I'd be surprised if they were even out!
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Scientists say that Yellowstone National Park, a massive underground volcano, could erupt and split North America because of tremendous pressure build up. "Its only a matter of time" they say.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18272-google-demonstrates-quantum-computer-image-search.html
Now that's the kind of titles I like to see.
On a sidenote, for those having an android device, I couldn't help but notice today an app call Google Googles which allows you to take a picture and make a search about it.
It's mostly crap with everything, although it seems to be getting Books, Logos and my mouse with bad lighting. Still, concidering that that thing is trying to do visual recognition from a crappy camera, 'tis brilliant, and a sign of things to come...
Other lesser known Googlestuff of interest:
Google Fast Flip: A headline reading/browsing thing: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Google News Timeline: (what it says on the tin): http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
The last one seems to go only as far back as the 1400s... :P
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Seriously, wtf! Who has a 3D TV! I know it's a way off yet, but I find it hard to believe 3D TV's will be widespread by next summer. Hell, I'd be surprised if they were even out!
Or you just use ColorCode 3D, which will work on any TV (although preferably digital HD ones that can be corrected).
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hummingbirds can't walk...
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(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7946/rta96ccrank.jpg)
A slighty bigger engine than usual.
25,480 litres
108,920 horsepower
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(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7946/rta96ccrank.jpg)
A slighty bigger engine than usual.
25,480 litres
108,920 horsepower
and most awesome thing about it is that it's made in Finland. :D good thing that you didn't quote the torque, it would make the BBC and "yeah, it's got a HHHEEMMMIII"-guys cry. :funny
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only one book has been distributed in more copies then the Bible - the IKEA catalog...
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A slighty bigger engine than usual.
25,480 litres
108,920 horsepower
Usually larger engines tend to have a much lower efficiency in converting fuel into usable energy. And container ships, which use engines that large, are exempt from most treaties and laws that limit sulphur emissions from fossil-fuel burning engines, hence they are some of the most polluting in the world. You can track their smoke trails very easily in the infrared because the sulphate aerosols block and reflect back heat (whether this is enough to counteract the positive radiative forcing caused by the concurrent release of CO2 is a matter of debate, although the most recent IPCC reports have lowered the error bars on the estimate slightly). Think about that next time you buy Fair Trade from the other side of the planet.
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On the other hand, I am under the impression that ships are more efficient in transporting x amount of weight y amount of distance. (Or in other words, a large inefficient engine is better than many little efficient ones). So for the same distance its better to ship you fair trade rather than drive it or fly it.
In other news, here's a picture of a Fennec Fox:
(http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8526/fennecfox6316afull.jpg)
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Swedish company TeliaSonera was the first company in the world to offer the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards(A.K.A 4G) commercially starting December 15th 2009.
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On the other hand, I am under the impression that ships are more efficient in transporting x amount of weight y amount of distance. (Or in other words, a large inefficient engine is better than many little efficient ones). So for the same distance its better to ship you fair trade rather than drive it or fly it.
Possibly. I think that's called "Simpson's Paradox" - where the sum of the parts can be contrary to the parts themselves. But regardless, buy local, people.
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the first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes...
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Joe Dolce was an American who lived in Australia.
Whatsa matter you? HEY
Gotta no respect..
Made me laugh when it came up on Ashes to Ashes :lol:
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next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world....
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The sixth in a series of ground tests of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) in the Orion Crew Vehicles Launch Abort System. The motor is charged with keeping the crew module on a controlled flight path in the event it needs to jettison and steer away from the Ares rocket in an emergency.
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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category...
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What if Earth had rings...
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wow that's cool :)
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"Killing in the Name", the 1992 Rage against the Machine song, was named the 2009 Christmas #1, beating that guy from Simon Cowell's Freak Show by about 50,000 despite being a download only song. Which also makes it the first song to reach #1 in the charts purely on downloads.
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For more information on limey's story, look here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/facebook-campaign-wins/2009/12/21/1261243841126.html
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grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago...
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That rings vid is pretty awesome. I remember reading that we're not far off a ring system because of all the crap we're pumping into orbit right now, although it wouldn't be anything major or spectacular.
And hooray for Rage!
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(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3483/inflatabletank.jpg)
WWII, instant tank. (Just add air)
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'tis NASA's new airborne telescope.
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9315/sofia1.jpg)
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I've seen a few vids about it and quite a few more pics lol
very cool thing it is.
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I was quite close to doing a PhD that involved flying around on a airborne lab. Shame, but at least with this one I can get published more frequently and can possibly get some fame.
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Uranium Is So Last Century (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/)
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Uranium Is So Last Century (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/)
There goes my nuke stranglehold in civ 4!!
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Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida...
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(http://cdn.10dailythings.com/images/2009/08/medusa_immortale.jpg)
Turritopsis nutricula, is the only known immortal animal in the world.
Uranium Is So Last Century (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/)
Dad works on that. :P
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more than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing...
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Constellation Year in Review
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butterflies taste with their feet...
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If you have tried your TV remote [DVD\stero] and it does not seem to work, and you just put new batteries in, get you digital camera, and look through it at the end of the remote, while you push the PWR button [on\off] you can see it activate.
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Mazda, Volvo, and Jaguar are owned by Ford Motor Company.
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According to my infos, Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors?
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According to my infos, Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors?
Damn, then my Info on that one is out of date. Seems they bought Jag from Ford in 08'. O well. Volvo and Mazda are still property of Ford Motor Company :P
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O well. Volvo and Mazda are still property of Ford Motor Company :P
Not for long. On 23rd Dec 09, Ford announced the sale of the car division of Volvo (surprisingly named Volvo Cars, which was the only part Ford owned) to the Chinese Geely Automotbile. The move is expected to take place this year.
Also, Mazda aren't technically owned by Ford. They have a partnership. Ford own an, I think, 6.6% stake in Mazda, though once has a 33.9% controlling interest stake.
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O well. Volvo and Mazda are still property of Ford Motor Company :P
Not for long. On 23rd Dec 09, Ford announced the sale of the car division of Volvo (surprisingly named Volvo Cars, which was the only part Ford owned) to the Chinese Geely Automotbile. The move is expected to take place this year.
Also, Mazda aren't technically owned by Ford. They have a partnership. Ford own an, I think, 6.6% stake in Mazda, though once has a 33.9% controlling interest stake.
NO MORE MOTOR TREND MAGAZINE!
Anyways.
The 2010 Ford Taurus SHO V6 Beat the Audi A6 V8 in every test. Including 0-60 time, Quarter Mile time, comfort, sound suppression, and safety rating. As a driver if a 2010 Taurus SE, I'm proud!
TAKE THAT!
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If you have tried your TV remote [DVD\stero] and it does not seem to work, and you just put new batteries in, get you digital camera, and look through it at the end of the remote, while you push the PWR button [on\off] you can see it activate.
Certainly wouldn't work with the Bose sound-system and master controller I used to have as the remote worked via radio so could operate in a different room. It was useful for the guy who owned it as he could take it to bed and remotely turn the TV down if we were getting a bit noisy with the partying at 3 am.
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Men can read smaller print, while women can hear better.
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O well. Volvo and Mazda are still property of Ford Motor Company :P
Not for long. On 23rd Dec 09, Ford announced the sale of the car division of Volvo (surprisingly named Volvo Cars, which was the only part Ford owned) to the Chinese Geely Automotbile. The move is expected to take place this year.
Also, Mazda aren't technically owned by Ford. They have a partnership. Ford own an, I think, 6.6% stake in Mazda, though once has a 33.9% controlling interest stake.
NO MORE MOTOR TREND MAGAZINE!
Anyways.
The 2010 Ford Taurus SHO V6 Beat the Audi A6 V8 in every test. Including 0-60 time, Quarter Mile time, comfort, sound suppression, and safety rating. As a driver if a 2010 Taurus SE, I'm proud!
TAKE THAT!
You make no mention of it's ability to turn a corner :P
Or it's offroading ability. Would it beat a landrover?
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O well. Volvo and Mazda are still property of Ford Motor Company :P
Not for long. On 23rd Dec 09, Ford announced the sale of the car division of Volvo (surprisingly named Volvo Cars, which was the only part Ford owned) to the Chinese Geely Automotbile. The move is expected to take place this year.
Also, Mazda aren't technically owned by Ford. They have a partnership. Ford own an, I think, 6.6% stake in Mazda, though once has a 33.9% controlling interest stake.
NO MORE MOTOR TREND MAGAZINE!
Anyways.
The 2010 Ford Taurus SHO V6 Beat the Audi A6 V8 in every test. Including 0-60 time, Quarter Mile time, comfort, sound suppression, and safety rating. As a driver if a 2010 Taurus SE, I'm proud!
TAKE THAT!
You make no mention of it's ability to turn a corner :P
Or it's offroading ability. Would it beat a landrover?
The new Ford Taurus does have a 4WD MacPherson suspension system designed to take corners at high speeds, aswell as deal with snow and mud conditions. But its a Sedan, why would I take it offroadin?
Anyways, did you know that a duck's quack does not echo? WIERD! :funny
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Anyways, did you know that a duck's quack does not echo? WIERD!
that was proven false by the Myth Busters...
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Anyways, did you know that a duck's quack does not echo? WIERD!
that was proven false by the Myth Busters...
I cant win in this place :funny . Well I don't watch Mythbusters so idk.
mosquito repellents dont repel. they hide you so that a mosquito cannot sense youre there.
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at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...
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at room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet...
That is very interesting! Thank goodness air molecules are not, shall I say, "Hostile Projectiles".
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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Tallest building in the world: doners.
Started construction in 21 September 2004, completed on 4 January 2010.
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9202/burjdubai20090916.jpg)
818 m, 25.000 people a day on average.
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About 100 people choke on ballpoint pens every year
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Tallest building in the world: doners.
Started construction in 21 September 2004, completed on 4 January 2010.
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9202/burjdubai20090916.jpg)
818 m, 25.000 people a day on average.
how tall did it get? I remember they kept making it taller and taller than originally planned and the final height was kept behind doors.... so was it revealed finally?? lol
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You know what? I would LOVE to be the one who presses the little red button when demolition time comes for that huge thing!
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You know what? I would LOVE to be the one who presses the little red button when demolition time comes for that huge thing!
OHHH YEAAA!
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take your height and divide by eight - thats how "tall" your head is...
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Cost of the Large Hadron Collider: 4.6 Billion.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html
Cost of the Cassini?Huygens space proble: 3.26 billion
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html
Conclusion: Space Exploration = Serious Expensive Business.
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today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle...
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that's not really surprising...
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A satelite image of the UK on Jan 7th.
(http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/42000/42237/gbritain_tmo_2010007_lrg.jpg)
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emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards...
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I got a winter satellite image too.
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Nice satellite images...its almost creepy how snow-ridden current countries are.
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Ha. I want more snow.. because plowing snow needs no brain activity unlike putting a birdhouse together, or hauling furniture through doors that are smaller than said furniture.. :P
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Just looked again at the sat image of England...notice how Ireland is completely untouched (as far as we can see)? :P
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on average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity...
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that explains why the mic reacts funnily when I speak.. :wtf
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(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4720/53249687893a329646co.jpg)
A roller coaster in Yokohama, Japan.
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A little bath to wash off the vomit sir?
:LOL:
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I am not very sure what this is, but it looks interesting:
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5757/464575812fe817037d6o.jpg)
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Looks like an EPA tractor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor#Automobile_conversion_tractors_.28.22Hoover_Wagons.22_and_.22EPA_Tractors.22.29
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actually, i wouldn't be suprised if that's a Dodge Millitary transport nose and cab dropped on a shortbed frame. the hood most likely covered a 500+ ci (9 liter) Straight Eight...or larger.
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http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/01/16/1539255 (http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/01/16/1539255)
Nasa employees found coke in one of thier hangars apparently!
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The whole "drawing with light on the air" isn't really anything special any more. Now, a stop-by-stop animation with it is slightly more unusual:
http://vimeo.com/8669028
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the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...
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the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...
Not true anymore. some of the newer ones no longer have the Tabasco
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the U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers...
Not true anymore. some of the newer ones no longer have the Tabasco
But the british army has recently started putting tabasco in the ration packs. Strange eh?
They're swapping the choccies for flapjacks though. The damn things kept melting in the heat. Go figure.
Also
A dying hard drive is a real PITA when you haven't the funds to replace it!! :'(
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at their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart...
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Thats probably counted from the island of Big Diomede rather than Alaska, since the Bering Strait is about 85 km across, beach to beach.
That's no reason not to do a bridge though...
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1919/thmtgwmap2.jpg)
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Australia is left out :funny
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Well, it's a long distance from any land, and it's only 20 million. :P
New York has about the same population...
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Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents...
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It's been over two months since I was last here!
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we're all doooomed!!! lol
no... we... aren't... no, no... not at all.
and for random facts:
Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
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(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/46/rethwerthdgd.jpg)
A Communist monument in Yugoslavia.
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if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction...
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland, under the Alps. It will have a length of 57 km (and thus, the longest tunnel in the world, for humans) and reduce the travel time from Zurich to Milan to 1 hour.
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Cashew nuts are actually seeds rather than "hard fruits", meaning that they are actually closer to beans rather than nuts.
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about 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body...
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fact here is this thread needs a little conversation about these facts... this place is getting a little bland... no?
"The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night."
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fact here is this thread needs a little conversation about these facts... this place is getting a little bland... no?
"The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night."
ha, I knew that one.
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a marine catfish can taste with any part of its body...
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(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4882/figure1a660x379.gif)
1 year of global shipping.
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World's submarine wiring:
Considering that, they are essentially, part of the same machine, these would actually be the largest human infrastructure projects in existence rather than bridges & tunnels.
They might not be visible from space, but they are planetary sized.
I have seen somewhere the proposal, of building a cable ring around the earth (a coil). By rotating through the Earth's magnetic field (or the Earth rotating through it), it would act as a big generator. Electricity then would be beamed down to the surface. I don't know if this would work, but it actually sounds easier to do that space solar panel and stuff and I am a bit annoyed that I can't find that text again.
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Vulcan Point is the largest island on a lake, on an island, on a lake, on an island.
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Likes: Posting things that i find pleasant and things i find to be crappy in the likes and dislikes thread.
Dislikes: Posting them in the wrong thread.
lol sorry, had to :P
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(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/404/34680226.jpg)
Trinity College Library, Dublin
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That looks just like the huge library used in Star Wars 1-3. :P
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That looks just like the huge library used in Star Wars 1-3. :P
Well, if you believe the trivia pages on IMDB, the Jedi Archives is actually modeled after that library.
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rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works...
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Birds can't pee or poop...bird doo is actually a combination of the two. It's also why they explode if you feed them Alka Selzer, because there's no place for the gas to go :)
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"When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers ... Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. ... the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.
Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.
It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg."
From 2001 a Space Odyssey :P
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the only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts...
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That's how an albino Zebra looks:
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7473/blondzebra.jpg)
And now you know.
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and knowing is half the battle, G.I. Joe!
freaky zebra...
the sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth...
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a marine catfish can taste with any part of its body...
That's...hot.
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Cows are deadlier then sharks.
Sharks kill only ten people each year. By contrast, you?re ten times more likely to die under the clumsy feet of ordinary cows who fatally trample around 100 people every year.
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The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig...
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ABL Test
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The Japanese have thought we have 5 different tastes on the tongue, not 4 since 1908 called "Umami" which can be translated into English as "deliciousness" and similar words.
http://www.msginfo.com/about_taste_umami.asp?bhcd2=1266357344
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The last shuttle mission, carried to the ISS the Tranquality segment, and a big window.
3 missions remaining to completion.
(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7665/403499mainexp22soichitw.jpg)
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yeah been watching that on NASA TV twas awesome :D
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Zomg, lies.
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wow awesome
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btw, am I the only one that keeps expecting a TIE fighter to fly past the ISS's new obs lounge?
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"Don't get penis-y!"
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"Don't get penis-y!"
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You guys are complaining too easily. That's a good snowfall:
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6927/002foto.jpg)
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7382/8675b2d3850c.jpg)
(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/723/345yewrt5ewhyt5y6.jpg)
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in one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves...
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Google has been granted the right to buy (and sell) electricity in bulk like a utility company.
On a completely unrelated thing, Google has also launched the Google PowerMeter, which will be linking to hardware devices measuring power consumption in peoples homes, if they get one:
http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html
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You obviously didn't see Blue Harvest.
An electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance.
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An electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance.
An automatic bicycle? Must've been of American design. I love my country. :facepalm
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spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931...
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I have been poking a bit around with the display drivers, and I found that if you go in the Ati Catalyst Control Center, in the Desktop & Display section, and select to configure a display. From Avivo Colour tab you can turn the saturation down to zero. Aka basically its as if you apply a big black & white effect on your entire display output.
It turns all games into games noir. :P
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the recent major earthquake in Chile, of magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale, moved the city of Concepci?n more than 10 feet... NASA scientists say that the earthquake was also responsible for shifting the Earth's axis enough to create shorter days by one microsecond...
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shorter days by one microsecond...
1.26 to be exact :arms:
Nothing compared to the 6 or so mircoseconds the quake that triggered the Asian Tsunami a few years back caused.
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more than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads...
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Go go jaws!
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heh now this is interesting....
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Go Go Goblin shark!
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China proposes trans-Eurasian rail system from London to Beijing
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/16/china-proposes-trans.html
Awesome! I think.
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China proposes trans-Eurasian rail system from London to Beijing
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/16/china-proposes-trans.html
Awesome! I think.
The Chinese are asking for trouble with that thing judging by the state parts of the continent are in. What're the odds that mohammed bin ali and his muckers will be hitting it if it was ever built?
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more steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies...
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Granted, this could just as easily go in the Awesome Stuff Thread, but it's also a very, VERY useful fact, IMO.
Enjoy, and think!
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no president of the United States was an only child...
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no president of the United States was an only child...
That's my chances of becoming president well and truly knackered then!
This was done in 1968 according to this site http://technologizer.com/2010/03/21/1968-ascii-animation-from-russia/ (http://technologizer.com/2010/03/21/1968-ascii-animation-from-russia/). I picked it up on slashdot about 5 mins ago. Pretty impressive in my view. It would be tough to replicate!
So the lolcat turns 42 this year!
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Patrick Stewart is the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. He also won TV Guides "Sexiest Man on Television" in 1992.
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Text 2.0... The future? thoughts??
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Text 2.0... The future? thoughts??
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YAY for everything 2.0 XD :P
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And now for thoughts:
I actually rather doubt you we see eye tracking any time soon. But text 2.0 is here to stay and a lot more than that. Basically, the fact is that if someone digitized the library of congress and made it public, then someone would simpy need to send, say, a poor village in India a device like an ipad, for them to have access to the entire library of congress.
In fact, it is clear that ultimatly, all human text, all human music, all human video, will, be uploaded on the internet. So essentially someone will need one device, to access all of human knowledge. Even if it costs a couple of hundrents, it is still going to be a lot cheaper than having bought all that stuff in the old way. And even if people don't abolish copyrights just yet and/or nick everything through rapidshare, even the stuff that is out of copyright, is still worth reading and is tons of data (that again, would costs thousents to buy). (Google for example, just uploaded over 100 years of the Popular Science magazine: http://books.google.com/books?id=MC0DAAAAMBAJ&rview=1&source=gbs_navlinks_s )
Storage is also getting better and better. People in the future won't be able to simply "access" a library but also "have" the library if they want. Even if they never read it. And copy paste it to each other all over the place. Which is a good thing but it ensures that information won't get lost. No more any of that Alexandria crap.
Books Text (Books were just the storage device) is also going (is already) going to become much more dynamic. "Books" can now have movies, sounds and can link to each (aka what the internet already is). Isn't it annoying when in a science textbook or thesis there is a trucload of footnotes & refferences at the end of it? Well, its about time you can actually click on the refference and instantly go on "Page 28, mr.X 1980", rather than just being told to do so. "Textbooks" can simply update, rather than have new editions. (in fact the final edition can easily contain and all the previous history of it in it. Like all wiki articles do). Mathematical books can also run Mathematica-like programs on the background and solve the actual equations they describe, with any value you give them and so on.
And the nice thing is that this goes two ways. No more forced "famous" authors and publicing houses. Anyone can write a book and throw it out in the internet and anyone can receive it from it. Ultimatly the web is going to end up being an "omnibook" which will contain every subject in a different section of it, and everyone will be writing it. People will simply be pulling "pages" from it (yay, metaphors) and "binding" their little offline "books/libraries", in their devices.
Getting rid of books is actually not a bad thing. First off, it will save squirrel homes ^^, Second, I happen to agree with someone who said that this will make books, special again.
I remember once, in a Top Gear episode or something, a guy who said when we will be having electric/hydrogen cars then this won't make fuel dissapear, rather it will be the best age for them. That's because it will seperate the true petrolheads, from those that simply used them to pick up groceries & move their selves around. When there are better, faster, cheaper designs around, then only those who really loved a x,y design, will want to keep it. Only those who really appreciated the engineering of how x tube connects y tube, and the human ingenuity that has gone into it, and the entire sculptural/mechanical work that is a fuel engine. The same way I like the steam engines in the British museum, not because I would ever want one to run my washing machine, but because they are nice. To look at. And the same way other (richer) guys & clubs build, reconstruct and maintain steam engines. The same way, you just know that guys like Clarkons etc, who really liked cars will still have a garage full of DB7s and Ferrari's and such. And they will love them. (And of cource, only the masterwork designs will remain, and all the landas will dissapear).
The same way then, there's books. And there's books. In most books, like twilight novels, the book form doesn't matter, they are just trying to fit a bunch of text, as cheaply as possible, in a bunch of pages. All those mass printed paperbacks, are exactly the kind of books that will be sending to the recycling centers. There are some books however, where the form matters. All these leathbound, embossed etc etc old books where they were carefully selecting their fonts and hand painted letters etc inside, or books where the author was fully aware of how big the book was exactly, and took care to make a layout, and they are works of art, only in their completed physical form. And those will remain.
So essentially, those who like information, are going to have lots of it, cheaply, and those who like *books* are going to have a new golden age of typography again where every bookshop is filled only with unique printing artifacts, thus everyone wins. Except those who don't like change, but they can go take a hike.
Nuff thoughts? :P
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Plenty :P *cookie*
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Patrick Stewart is the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. He also won TV Guides "Sexiest Man on Television" in 1992.
Patrick Stewart also has a house in Skipton which is not very far away from where I work/live.
I actually met him once. I happened to break down on a driving job taking some officer down to Topcliffe in a land rover. Guess where we broke down and guess who came out to see if we were ok?
I never thought I'd be thankful for an engine fire!!
The volkswagen passat has been in production since the early 1970's.
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It'd be cool if it weren't using the retarded "2.0" rubbish, but even then, its only decent for learning.
As for the Stewart thing, damn you Cappy, damn you to hell. :(
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It'd be cool if it weren't using the retarded "2.0" rubbish, but even then, its only decent for learning.
Why do people refer to these things as "two-point-zero"?? or in the case of die hard 4 "die hard four-point-zero". Completely and utterly pointless! what makes "two-point-zero" and better than just "2"?
Just one little thing that irks me.
As for the Stewart thing, damn you Cappy, damn you to hell. :(
:yay:
Oh, before I forget sen +1 for that post!
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Why do people refer to these things as "two-point-zero"?? or in the case of die hard 4 "die hard four-point-zero". Completely and utterly pointless! what makes "two-point-zero" and better than just "2"?
Just one little thing that irks me.
Because it is in programmers/scriptwriters language...
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Or because it's "Hip" to pretend you know something about computers.
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who's pretending?
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the morons coming up with stupid words like "Web 2.0"
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the morons coming up with stupid words like "Web 2.0"
This. Cookied.
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Or because it's "Hip" to pretend you know something about computers.
the morons coming up with stupid words like "Web 2.0"
Yeah, Tim Berners-Lee is moron who knows nothing about computers :roll :facepalm:
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Or because it's "Hip" to pretend you know something about computers.
the morons coming up with stupid words like "Web 2.0"
Yeah, Tim Berners-Lee is moron who knows nothing about computers :roll :facepalm:
Replace "Web 2.0" with "Die hard 4.0" and Deadly is on to a win!
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script writers :P *you do know they have multiple revisions right*
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script writers :P *you do know they have multiple revisions right*
You know full well what I mean :arms:
Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship.
Don't ask where I got that one!
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in 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research...
(no wonder we're broke :mad:)
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in 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research...
(no wonder we're broke :mad:)
Now where's that gif when you need it?
Far cry 2 has massive memory leaks when running in DX10 mode. Running in DX9 mode doesn't have this problem.
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despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight...
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despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight...
Indeed. It's just a lump of fat.
Similar to a hairy breast is it not?
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(http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6092/1apr10ou2b4evcs.jpg)
It's the solar boat!
The next step is surely a boat with wind turbines on top, that recharge a battery that in turn turns a propeller. It shall be called...
The wind powered boat!
Edit: Huh
(http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007-2-21/Windmill-Sailboat.jpg)
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If I remember, wind-turbines on boats were a horrible idea because it'd just snap off? I recall there being some thing against it.
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If I remember, wind-turbines on boats were a horrible idea because it'd just snap off? I recall there being some thing against it.
not to mention poor to nonexistent sea keeping. Seriously, a big one like that WILL NOT WORK WELL. A small one maybe..
I just want my fusion powered boat :arms:
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For maximum irony, someone should use a Greek style windmill, whose sails are actually, errr, sails:
(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7130/windmillr.jpg)
So it would be something like a wind powered sail using boat, get it? Get it? Yes, ok, you probably got it and didn't find it that funny...
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about half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day...
(heh fat lazy americans :P)
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Y'know, a boat would look quite neat with that Greek sail... Can't help but think of the beautiful Bajoran Solar Sail though.
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(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7963/tabor3.jpg)
It's the Tarrant Tabor.
...
(It crashed fatally on its first flight)
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In the NASA ISS flight ops manual the use of duct tape is called for in case of "acute psychosis" on a space mission. NASA procedures dictate that the affected astronaut should be restrained using duct tape to stop them from doing something rather silly :)
Duct tape was also used aboard Apollo 17 to improvise a repair to a damaged fender on the lunar rover, preventing possible damage from the rooster tails of lunar dust as they drove.
To provide lab data about which sealants and tapes last, and which are likely to fail, research was conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division. Their major conclusion was that one should not use duct tape to seal ducts (specialty tapes are available for this purpose). (They defined duct tape as any fabric-based tape with rubber adhesive.) The testing done shows that under challenging but realistic conditions, duct tapes become brittle and may fail. Commonly duct tape carries no safety certifications such as UL or Proposition 65, which means the tape can violently burn, produce toxic smoke, ingestion and contact toxicity, irregular mechanical strength, and low life expectancy for the adhesive on the tape. Its use in ducts has been prohibited by the state of California and by building codes in most other places in the U.S. However, metalized and aluminum tapes used by professionals are still often called "duck/duct tapes".
And I love the stuff :)
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NASA use it for other kind of repair though.
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/02/18/epic-kludge-photo-the-next-best-thing-to-space-camp/
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6% of men propose over the telephone...
heh no doubt 100% of those men get rejected lol
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6% of men propose over the telephone...
heh no doubt 100% of those men get rejected lol
My best friend proposed over the phone. Although we were in Iraq at the time!
They are now happily married and both civvies. The signed off not long after he proposed midway through our 6 month tour.
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on average men think about sex every 7 seconds
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I'm glad that I'm way above the average. :funny
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6% of men propose over the telephone...
heh no doubt 100% of those men get rejected lol
My best friend proposed over the phone. Although we were in Iraq at the time!
thats a good point, i hadnt considered that :) then under those circumstances it is really cool :D
this year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers...
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6% of men propose over the telephone...
heh no doubt 100% of those men get rejected lol
My best friend proposed over the phone. Although we were in Iraq at the time!
thats a good point, i hadnt considered that :) then under those circumstances it is really cool :D
this year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers...
It was actually me who shouted "will you marry me" down the phone at her :/ She thought it was him (our accents are very similar) and he didn't want to disappoint!
He now curses me and blesses me alternately every few seconds :D
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Due to the relativistic effects of their speed, the clocks on GPS satellites run 38 microseconds per day faster.
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on average women can hear better than men...
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Pharoah Ramesses II or Ramesses the Great lived over 90 years, had orange/ginger hair and was smaller than the normal Egyptian (5'7' was his height).
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clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand...
eventually they made a glittery fabulous hand...
oh wait - those are only gay clocks... (yes there is an "l") and usually those clocks say there is at least 2 hours until the club closes, whatever time of day it is lol :P)
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Ash From Iceland Volcano Disrupts Air Traffic (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303950104575185250359696836.html?mod=djemalertNEWS)
On Wednesday, a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted for the second time in a month, spewing clouds up to 30,000 feet.
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eventually they made a glittery fabulous hand...
oh wait - those are only gay clocks... (yes there is an "l") and usually those clocks say there is at least 2 hours until the club closes, whatever time of day it is lol :P)
Cookie'd. :funny
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Ash From Iceland Volcano Disrupts Air Traffic (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303950104575185250359696836.html?mod=djemalertNEWS)
On Wednesday, a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted for the second time in a month, spewing clouds up to 30,000 feet.
Yeah, no kidding. Swedish airspace is on a full lockdown.
A friend who was going on honeymoon is stuck at the airport.
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Likes: Saturdays that swarmed with nothing but lazy :D
Dislikes: Not enough of those
oh wait - wrong thread :P
hehe lol j/k
*runs from the senator*
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*releases the hounds after Jimmy*
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on average women can hear better than men...
And yet they have selective hearing!!! *ducks from his wife*
sorry, had to :D
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Image of the ashcloud.
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Iceland: Farting on the civilized world since.. :funny
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And that folks, is why you must have a nice high speed rail network.
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approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas...
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Least we forget!
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Is it weird that, not only did that give me goosebumps, but I actually missed that sound?
Ah the good old days!
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http://vimeo.com/4366695
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why the edit :P
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approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas...
I just save a bunch of money by getting my wife to do it at home :evil:
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why the edit :P
I thought that this was more interesting and didn't want to make two posts one after the other.
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could of had both in the same post rofl
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and didn't want to make two posts one after the other.
because double-posting is evil and makes kitties cry :dontcare:
if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction...
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(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8634/aquadom.jpg)
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AWESOME!! now for a little trek side to this....
SEE SEEE with a little redressing and some explanation THEY COULD HAVE USED THAT LOCATION FOR THE NEW ENT'S ENGINE ROOM LOL
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SEE SEEE with a little redressing and some explanation THEY COULD HAVE USED THAT LOCATION FOR THE NEW ENT'S ENGINE ROOM LOL
:facepalm:
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I agree with Jimmy...fail in epic proportions....
There are no venomous snakes in Maine (according to GEICO)
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I agree with Jimmy...fail in epic proportions....
how is it a fail? lol XD
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if you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1...
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if you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1...
Not true. It's 512:1.
9 50% chances in a row = 29 = 512
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oh bite me... :dontcare:
:P :kiss:
sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1...
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(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/8827/oilsatimage29786.gif)*
So, hows that off-shore drilling working out for ya?
Crude oil is pouring out at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons or 795,000 liters) a day, according to government estimates, but experts said the quantity of crude escaping was difficult to measure and could be higher.
Experts said there was little hope BP would succeed with a relatively quick fix to cap the well.
BP hopes to cover the well with a giant inverted funnel that would capture the oil and channel it to a tanker ship.
But that would take four weeks, by which time over 150,000 barrels could have been spilled. If the funnel does not work, BP will have to try stemming the flow by drilling a relief well, which would take two to three months.
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if you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1...
Not true. It's 512:1.
9 50% chances in a row = 29 = 512
that is not true, actually, because of numerous things, such as the slight differences in the weight of one face over the other the chances are slightly off 50/50, infact with a US Quarter, it is more likely to land heads than tails.
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that is not true, actually, because of numerous things, such as the slight differences in the weight of one face over the other the chances are slightly off 50/50, infact with a US Quarter, it is more likely to land heads than tails.
Just because one side is slightly heavier (almost certainly not enough to affect it) that doesn't make one side more likely. All it'll do (if anything) is shift the center of gravity slightly and make the tumbling through the air a little unstable. It'll still be 50/50.
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also you have to take into effect that you won't use the same amount of force on every flip...
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also you have to take into effect that you won't use the same amount of force on every flip...
That doesn't change the fact that it's a 50/50 chance every flip. I think only some serious weight change could bring it far enough from 50/50 to be meaningful.
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CERN
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the first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com...
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might want to give the whole link so it is clickable here :P
http://symbolics.com/
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the female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon...
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the female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon...
does it have to be a female pigeon?
*insert random 3 way joke here*
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:idk:
maybe if the pigeon was a lesbian perhaps...
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:idk:
maybe if the pigeon was a lesbian perhaps...
it would be a waste (i'm thinking like a male pigeon here)
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this is crazy!
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Ive always though about, from where and who import the devil's horns sign in the hard and heavy music. Its Ronnie James Dio, but I havent read soo much for him to knew this earlier.
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umm is this supposed to be in the facts thread?
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umm is this supposed to be in the facts thread?
Yes, beacause its interesting fact. If you are true metalhead, you MUST know this.
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There's an airport just outside Paris called Orly.
Ya rly!
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the energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars...
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NASA's Mars Rovers Set Longevity Record On The Red Planet; Satellite Interviews With Expert Available
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project will pass a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20. The Opportunity rover will surpass the duration record set by NASA's Viking 1 Lander of six years and 116 days operating on the surface of Mars. The effects of favorable weather on the red planet could also help the rovers generate more power.
Opportunity's twin rover, Spirit, began working on Mars three weeks before Opportunity. However, Spirit has been out of communication since March 22. If it awakens from hibernation and resumes communication, that rover will attain the Martian surface longevity record. Spirit's hibernation was anticipated, based on energy forecasts, as the amount of sunshine hitting the robot's solar panels declined during autumn on Mars' southern hemisphere. Unfortunately, mobility problems prevented rover operators from positioning Spirit with a favorable tilt toward the north, as during the first three winters it experienced.
The rovers' fourth winter solstice, the day of the Martian year with the least sunshine at their locations, was Wednesday, May 12. Opportunity, and likely Spirit, surpassing the Viking Lander 1 longevity record is truly remarkable, considering these rovers were designed for only a 90-day mission on the surface of Mars," Callas said. "Passing the solstice means we're over the hump for the cold, dark, winter season."
Unless dust interferes, which is unlikely in the coming months, the solar panels on both rovers should gradually generate more electricity. Operators hope that Spirit will recharge its batteries enough to awaken from hibernation, start communicating and resume science tasks.
Unlike recent operations, Opportunity will not have to rest to regain energy between driving days. The gradual increase in available sunshine will eventually improve the rate of Opportunity's progress across a vast plain toward its long-term destination, the Endeavour Crater.
This month, some of Opportunity's drives have been planned to end at an energy-favorable tilt on the northern face of small Martian plain surface ripples. The positioning sacrifices some distance to regain energy sooner for the next drive. Opportunity's cameras can see a portion of the rim of Endeavour on the horizon, approximately eight miles away, across the plain's ripples of windblown sand.
"The ripples look like waves on the ocean, like we're out in the middle of the ocean with land on the horizon, our destination," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Squyres is the principal investigator for Opportunity and Spirit. "Even though we know we might never get there, Endeavour is the goal that drives our exploration."
The team chose Endeavour as a destination in mid-2008, after Opportunity finished two years examining the smaller Victoria Crater. Since then, the goal became even more alluring when orbital observations found clay minerals exposed at Endeavour. Clay minerals have been found extensively on Mars from orbit, but have not been examined on the surface.
"Those minerals form under wet conditions more neutral than the wet, acidic environment that formed the sulfates we've found with Opportunity," said Squyres. "The clay minerals at Endeavour speak to a time when the chemistry was much friendlier to life than the environments that formed the minerals Opportunity has seen so far. We want to get there to learn their context. Was there flowing water? Were there steam vents? Hot springs? We want to find out."
Launched in 1975, Project Viking consisted of two orbiters, each carrying a stationary lander. Viking Lander 1 was the first successful mission to the surface of Mars, touching down on July 20, 1976. It operated until Nov. 13, 1982, more than two years longer than its twin lander or either of the Viking orbiters. The record for longest working lifetime by a spacecraft at Mars belongs to a later orbiter: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor operated for more than 9 years after arriving in 1997. NASA's Mars Odyssey, in orbit since in 2001, has been working at Mars longer than any other current mission and is on track to take the Mars longevity record late this year.
Science discoveries by the Mars Exploration Rover have included Opportunity finding the first mineralogical evidence that Mars had liquid water and Spirit finding evidence for hot springs or steam vents and a past environment of explosive volcanism.
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There's an airport just outside Paris called Orly.
Ya rly!
There is also a town in Azerbaijan called Yarly!
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Scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, which can survive and reproduce itself, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday. Created at a cost of $30 million, the experimental one-cell organism opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale.
Synthetic Genomics, a company founded by Dr. Venter, funded the experiments and owns the intellectual property rights to the cell-creation techniques.
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Scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, which can survive and reproduce itself, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday. Created at a cost of $30 million, the experimental one-cell organism opens the way to the manipulation of life on a previously unattainable scale.
Synthetic Genomics, a company founded by Dr. Venter, funded the experiments and owns the intellectual property rights to the cell-creation techniques.
Cylons! CYLONS! :yay: :P
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nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women...
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It's LittleDog!
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post the vids of BigDog... those are cool especially when a guy tries to kick it over xD
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post the vids of BigDog... those are cool especially when a guy tries to kick it over xD
qft
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let's not forget the parody either.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant remained active, staffed and outputting power until the year 2000.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant remained active, staffed and outputting power until the year 2000.
And ironically the plant was testing new safety procedures at the time of the accident.
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And ironically the plant was testing new safety procedures at the time of the accident.
Actually, the accident occured after the tests were finished, and deemed provisionally successful.
From what I understand of it, the test caused the water cooling system to slow down, which lower the pressure, increased the power output. More control rods were put in to try and curtail the increase, the panic button was pushing, the rods went in all the way, a small explosion in the core detonated said control rods (which are made of graphite). They carried radiological material in the smoke from said detonation into the atmosphere.
It wasn't, contrary to what many people believe, a nuclear explosion. More akin to a dirty bomb, small explosion spreads radioactive material over a large area.
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if you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously...
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Actually, the accident occured after the tests were finished, and deemed provisionally successful.
From what I understand of it, the test caused the water cooling system to slow down, which lower the pressure, increased the power output. More control rods were put in to try and curtail the increase, the panic button was pushing, the rods went in all the way, a small explosion in the core detonated said control rods (which are made of graphite). They carried radiological material in the smoke from said detonation into the atmosphere.
It wasn't, contrary to what many people believe, a nuclear explosion. More akin to a dirty bomb, small explosion spreads radioactive material over a large area.
I think I put it quite nicely. But you are right if a little long winded for 0141 in the morning!
Have watched far too much house md today, and I really should be in bed right now..
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every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan...
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every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan...
That's more than twice the population of Wales!! we're only at about 3 million or so!
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So if Wales ever fell into the sea, we could put you all in Manhattan for a few days. :)
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68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air...
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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden... :smoke
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You can copy and paste cells from Excel directly into Photoshop.
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if you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously...
That works with carbonated drinks like soda pop too.
Eating beans before a bath does not make it a bubble bath.
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if you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously...
ZOMFG, a perpetual machine. Quick call the president of physics!
Somewhat useful fact: Actually they stop after a while.
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KotOR doesn't run in widescreen.
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KotOR doesn't run in widescreen.
without some nasty nasty tricky hacks.
Neither does Alpha centauri btw. Not properly anyway.
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if you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously...
Somewhat useful fact: Actually they stop after a while.
that has never been able to be proven :dontcare:
no one in their right mind would leave a perfectly good glass of champagne sitting there for more than a few mintues without drinking it, so ha! :P
every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes...
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that has never been able to be proven
no one in their right mind would leave a perfectly good glass of champagne sitting there for more than a few mintues without drinking it, so ha!
umm raises hand.... I would.... lol *ducks*
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I'll drink it Neb.
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...
Neither does Alpha centauri btw. Not properly anyway.
Sad thing, but from what I've heard the Expansion does (well atleast better than Alpha Centauri alone). I need to get Alien Crossfire somehow!.
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Sad thing, but from what I've heard the Expansion does (well atleast better than Alpha Centauri alone). I need to get Alien Crossfire somehow!.
Partly true. It will run BUT the UI will be so small as to be nigh unusable especially on very high resolutions (1080 etc)
PM me ref the other thing.
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the American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps...
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the flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field...
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But can it walk on water?
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But can they drive on water?
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Apparently a pakistani lawyer has filed blasphemy charges against mark zuckerburg and other facebook execs. Charges which carry the death penalty.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/18/1528255/Pakistani-Lawyer-Wants-Mark-Zuckerberg-Executed?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29 (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/18/1528255/Pakistani-Lawyer-Wants-Mark-Zuckerberg-Executed?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29)
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Mark zuckerberg should file charges for blasphemy back.
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As far as my knowledge of international law goes, this is completely pointless. Facebook is an American company, governed by American laws. While Zuckerburg might be breaking the local law there (though the creation of that page had nothing to do with him), the only way he could be prosecuted is if he was arrested in Pakistan.
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the first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it...
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so it was basically a pamphlet?? :P
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kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks...
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King Solomon had an income that, in today's terms, would have been over $1 billion US yearly
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kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks...
Now there's a real somewhat useful fact :P
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Update: RI breaks heat record at 102, hottest since 1991
5:35 PM Tue, Jul 06, 2010
Tatiana Pina
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The temperature in Providence hit 102 degrees Tuesday afternoon, breaking the previous record for the date of 97 degrees reached on July 6 of 1999, according to the National Weather Service.
The last time the temperature reached 100 was August of 2006, according to meteorologist Charlie Foley of the National Weather Service.
But that's not all.
Today's high is the hottest temperature recorded at T.F. Green Airport since July 21, 1991, when
the mercury also reached 102 degrees. (The all-time record is 104, on Aug. 2, 1975.)
Neal Strauss, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton, said the new daily record was reached at 2:20 p.m. A few minutes before, the temperature had reached 101.
http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/07/providence-hits-100ready.html
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Yeah, the sun sucks doesn't it?
A few days ago we had 113 degrees. Hottest since the 1823 if I remember the news correctly.
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It's going to be like Know1ng. Just wait. YOU'LL SEE
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The Internet has been shortlisted for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
The total fixed assets (assets that could easily be converted into cash) of all the colleges of Cambridge University is approximately ?3,407,053,395, with the largest single amount being with Trinity College, at approximately ?621,000,000.
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As has been noted before, the Wok, is the most amazing cooking instrument known to human kind.
First off, you can do stir fries in it.
Second, you can do normal frying / deep frying in it.
Third you can do steaming / braising in it.
Fourth, you can boil pasta in it. No one said that it has to be a pot. If anything I'd argue that it is superior to a pot because you don't have to break your spaghetti as much.
And fifth, you can boost your wi-fi. (http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/) with it.
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If anything I'd argue that it is superior to a pot because you don't have to break your spaghetti as much.
Why do you need to break the spaghetti at all?
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Depends on the size of the pot. If it won't fit, you have to make it.
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The total fixed assets (assets that could easily be converted into cash) of all the colleges of Cambridge University is approximately ?3,407,053,395, with the largest single amount being with Trinity College, at approximately ?621,000,000.
what, they haven't nicked it for taxes, yet?
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Depends on the size of the pot. If it won't fit, you have to make it.
Just immerse what you can in water, that will quickly soften up, then wrap it around the pot. Simples.
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Argentina is the first country in South America to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
It was voted on today in the senate.
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the weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin table...
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if a lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one...
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if a lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one...
Heeere Lobster Lobster Lobster CHOP!
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Prop 8 has been overturned.
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And for those of us who aren't American that means...? :s
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And for those of us who aren't American that means...
...that gay marriage is now legal in California. The Supreme Court overruled the proposition as a breach of constitutional rights.
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one million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States...
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one million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States...
And you're still more likely to be attacked by a shark than hit by either lightening or an asteroid.
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2 of the 3 stalker games are available on steam for ?6.24 instead of ?24.98 they normally are..
And I bought all 3 for normal price on there 3 days ago :picardfacepalm:
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lol fail
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August 24, 1992 - Hurricane Andrew devastated much of South Florida after coming ashore near Homestead with sustained winds of 165 mph and a central pressure of 922 millibars...
it is the third most powerful Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century, causing $26.5 billion in damage ($41.1 billion 2010 USD)...
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I would have been VERY happy to be in Pensacola at that point.
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Somewhat useful fact: Because of the rotation of the earth and currents and... stuff, all hurricanes forming over the Atlantic always hit America rather than Europe.
This is clearly evidence of God Blessing Us more. In your face Americans.
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5993/781px2005atlantichurric.png)
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This is clearly evidence of God Blessing Us more. In your face Americans.
meh, i think it is more like hurricanes know where the best parties, coolest people, and most happening spots are, so they all come here... clearly, europe sucks...
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meh, i think it is more like hurricanes know where the best parties, coolest people, and most happening spots are, so they all come here... clearly, europe sucks...
Less hurricanes means less devastation which means less cleanup time which means we have more time to design and build sensible cars with reasonably economic engines ;)
But lets not go there!
You got hurricanes, we had wars. BIG ass wars :(
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Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister...
hmmmmm... why does that weirdly kinda make sense somehow? lol
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Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister...
hmmmmm... why does that weirdly kinda make sense somehow? lol
Won't you be...my neighbor! I'll even be your priest for your wedding ceremony!
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Mr. Rogers scares the crap out of me. What the dude hiding?
Charles Hall, is generally credited with the American spelling of Aluminum (as opposed to the British spelling of Aluminium) when he mispelled it in his promotional literature.
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The element was originally known as 'Alumium', then 'Aluminum' by its (British) discoverer, Humphry Davy.
The name was only changed to 'Aluminium' when:
...a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."
So aluminum is the 'proper' term, however it must be noted that; had the name remained 'alumium' no-one would have objected.
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in other words, it was the british being their linguistically peculiar selves :P
the british spent the early 19th century making fun of american speechways, while forgetting they used to speak that way themselves !
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August 28, 1990 - the only F5 tornado to ever strike the Chicago area carved a 16-mile path through Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet in Illinois, killing 29 people...
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August 28, 1990 - the only F5 tornado to ever strike the Chicago area carved a 16-mile path through Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet in Illinois, killing 29 people...
What is this, "this day in history" thread? :P *ducks* j/p
Walking City Blocks - How long does it take to walk a block?
Based on a brisk walking speed of 3 miles per hour (and you won't walk any slower when you're in Manhattan, believe me!), it will take you about one minute to walk a block along an avenue (the short side of a block) and four minutes for every block along a street (the long side of the block).
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August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a strong Category 3 storm in southeast Louisiana... it was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the US...
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that reminds me.. is New Orleans still messed up?
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August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a strong Category 3 storm in southeast Louisiana... it was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the US...
And had Bush listened to FEMA to begin with, the director would have kept his job, and...N'awlins might have had a chance!!!
Lionus: They're doing a lot better now than they were back then
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The Stig's real name is Ben Collins. How I wish I hadn't spotted it on my homepage. :(
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99% of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration...
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John Lennon's murderer has been denied parole for the 6th time.
Good.
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almonds are a member of the peach family...
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John Lennon's murderer has been denied parole for the 6th time.
Good.
DEATH TO HIM!!!!
RIP John!
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On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.
The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.
In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
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September 18, 1926 - the "Great Miami Hurricane" passed over Miami, Florida with sustained winds up to 138 mph... the city was in the eye of the storm for 45 minutes...
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On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.
The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.
In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
Someone's been on the Wacker Quacker WW2 "Ducks". :P
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On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.
The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.
In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
Now I know what I need to do in order to rid this world of scousers :D :D :D
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Septmeber 19, 1983 - record heat covered the northeast US with a high of 92?F in New York City... that same day, the temperature fell to a chilly 30?F in Billings, Montana...
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On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.
The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.
In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
thats interesting, i guess if they both left liverpool would just faid away, disappear from the maps and emeories of everyone? thats pretty scarry, lets hop you and ur family is outta town when that happens XD
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September 24, 2005 - Hurricane Rita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita) made landfall in Louisiana at about 2:30am CDT as a Category 3 storm. 112 mph winds and surge virtually destroyed the town of Cameron...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Hurr-rita-irloop_edit.gif)
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Cameron, LA, after Hurricane Rita.
(http://www.hurricane-tracking.co.uk/hurricane_rita_damage/hurricane_rita_050925_Cameron_LA.jpg)
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Los Angeles, California hit 113 degrees on today, making it their hottest temperature ever recorded since records began in 1877...
this also beat the daily record high set in 1963 by seven degrees...
temperatures have only been 110 degrees or higher three other times in L.A.
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my home town basingstoke in england, is one of the few towns/cities to experience a tornado, it was enough to knock down some trees but not much else....
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Whoa. Didn't think that was possible.
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the first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo...
:(
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LOL jimmy that fact just made my few days of being ill worth trudging through XD :funny :funny :funny
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what is funny about an elephant's death?? :(
they are very emotional and smart animals...
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On Oct. 2, 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader whose philosophy of nonviolence influenced movements around the world, was born.
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what is funny about an elephant's death?? :(
they are very emotional and smart animals...
i know that but its the irony of the situation, the first bomb dropped was supposed to hit about 10m away from the elephant and the bomb was called something that relates to an elephant.....and it ends up killing one.........irony?
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more than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia...
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whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone...
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I now have 1000 posts as of 2242 Afghan time on the 23rd of october 2010
Took me long enough!
chyort!! Make that 1001 :banghead:
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco...
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The intergalactic hyperdrive on the Daedalus class ships in Stargate can travel at approximately 1.65 lightyears per second. At that speed, you could get to Alpha Centuri (the nearest apparent star) in slightly under 3 seconds.
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Greece's nathional anthem has 158 verses. Nobody in Greece has managed to remember them all.
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The storms that hit the Midwest and traveled east was the largest system to hit North America in recorded history!
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In B4 reference to "the day after tomorrow" supercells. :D
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Hurricanes over land, eh?
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In the 12 month period ending March 2009, the RPI (Retail price index, a measure of inflation in the UK based on the change in cost of a basket of goods) went negative for the first time since 1960, showing an overall reduction of cost over the period of 0.4%. This peaked in the 12 month period ending June 2009 showing an RPI of -1.4%, the lowest since records began in 1948.
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it takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs...
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it takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs...
At least the rest of the cow goes to good use...burgers, steak...yup...I'm getting hungry thinking about it!
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it takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs...
rly now?? I thought they moved to fake leather....
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dont question me :dontcare:
the face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water...
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the three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations...
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uh jimmy what happened to my other post in here that had a fact??
Did you start deleting things without reading them again >.>
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
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In 1997, the Met Office (the British meteorological service) had the 3rd most powerful supercomputer in the world. A Cray T3E, running at 430 GigaFLOPS (FLOPS being FLoating point Operations Per Second).
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Did you start deleting things without reading them again >.>
ya prolly...
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words...
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That is WAAYYYYY too ironic to not be on purpose.
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the Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders...
oh, shoulders... i misread that lol :P
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the Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders...
oh, shoulders... i misread that lol :P
Why am I not surprised you did? :P
The ant makes up for about 18% of the animal/human/reptile/whatever weight combined!
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the Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders...
oh, shoulders... i misread that lol :P
And the inscription reads:
Pro pace et fraternitate gentium
translated "For the peace and brotherhood of men".
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here is something interesting i just realized...
next tuesday, Dec 21st, is the winter solstice; the longest night of the year...
on that same night, there will be a full moon as well as a total lunar eclipse; all occurring in 12-21-2010... i love ironies!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2010_lunar_eclipse
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that article has been out for nearly 2 weeks already im surprised no one posted it sooner and the lunar eclispe doesnt start till like 2am est most of us will be in bed but my bro has to deliver newspapers at that time of morning
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i just found out about today looking at my calendar at work... :idk:
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Stargate Universe = Cancelled.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/17/1943224/Stargate-Universe-Cancelled (http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/17/1943224/Stargate-Universe-Cancelled)
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read the SGU thread :P
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:yeahthat:
obviously, captain obvious lol :P
it was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up...
much like i do when i read spamula's posts...
ha!
*ducks the revolver* j/k :P :kiss:
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Hey Neb... So I....
*vomits*
Ah hem....
Nebula... Look at your comment, now back to mine. Now back at your comment. Now back to mine. Sadly it isn't mine, but if you stopped trolling and started posting legitimate comments it could look like mine. Look down, back up, where are you? You're scrolling through comments, writing the comment your comment could look like. What did you post? Back at mine. It's a reply saying something you want to hear. Look again. The reply is now diamonds. Anything is possible when you think before you post.
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You stole that from YouTube, you bastard.
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it is a fact, isnt it?
in fact (lol no pun intended :P) all facts posted here are ones stolen from someone else - we didnt do extensive research on our own before posting a fact; someone else did at some time and shared their findings with the world, and we found them and hence this thread :D :P
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Oh Snap! :funny
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But still. Respect the Old Spice man, man. haha :P
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Page 100 of the Somewhat Useful Facts Thread on BC-Central contains 16.6666% useful facts. The rest is spam.
Once I post this, that percentage will fall to 15.38%.
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I stole nothing!
THIS POST IS NOW DIAMONDS
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^^F*CKING COOKIED.
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the north magnetic pole is shifting at a rate of 40 miles per year...
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In a circle? Cause if it was a straight line, in 1910, it'd have been in northern Norway or somewhere :eek
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geological and magnetic poles aren't same thing. earth wobbles.. and so does the magnetic pole. if I recall, it caused some US airfield to redo some signs of their air strips.
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geological and magnetic poles aren't same thing. earth wobbles.. and so does the magnetic pole. if I recall, it caused some US airfield to redo some signs of their air strips.
Most airports around the world have probably had to rename at least 1 runway at some point. I'd be surprised if it didnt happen at least once a year at some airports.
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if you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board...
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The SEC has won 5 consecutive BCS Championships.
The SEC also lost only one bowl game this year.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has won 5 consecutive British Cardiovascular Society Championships?
Be specific Sir! And try to avoid acronyms that's not commonly known. Google has limits.
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The swine flu pandemic may well have yielded a flu super vaccine (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12152500)
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?AT&T stands for American Telephone and Telegraph.
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British people hate their goverment regardless who's in power.
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British people hate their goverment regardless who's in power.
Not technically true; a more correct statement would be "British people have a negative view of their Government, no matter who is in power" For example, when Blair first became PM, the majority didnt hate the govt. they merely thought "Hm, don't think much of 'im..."
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each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct... :(
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*squish* 151 :D
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lol trim... :funny
hopefully they had an irish coffee before their demise :P
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As long as the squished thing was anything spider-like, I won't mourn it's passing.
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the earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon...
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http://
Not technically true; a more correct statement would be "British people have a negative view of their Government, no matter who is in power" For example, when Blair first became PM, the majority didnt hate the govt. they merely thought "Hm, don't think much of 'im..."
Still it does'nt take long.
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a marine catfish can taste with any part of its body...
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it takes about a week to make a jelly bean...
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About 5% of people have the jaw space to accommodate wisdom teeth.
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I hope to GOD I'm in that 5%, but then, most other people who haven't had theirs out yet would hope the same thing!
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Guessing I'm one of them. My wisdom teeth never bothered me.
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The average ambient radiation given out by a coal power plant is around 3 times as much as that of a nuclear power plant.
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The average ambient radiation given out by a coal power plant is around 3 times as much as that of a nuclear power plant.
I'm not so sure about that one. I've heard so many different figures on it ranging from that up to "a nuke plant gives out less radiation in one year than a coal plant gives out in a day".
http://atomicinsights.com/ (http://atomicinsights.com/)
This guy has a lot of interesting stuff to say about nuclear energy.
Yep, I'm pro nuke!
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May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol
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May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol
My parents hadn't even met ;)
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May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol
mind if i call you grandpa ? :evil:
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May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted, sending smoke and ash to a height of 63,000 feet and reducing visibility to under a mile up to 400 miles away...
i was 4 years old lol
The figure I find more fascinating about that was that the actual eruption released 24 megatons of thermal energy, which is equivalent to 1,600 times the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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correction - i hadnt yet turned 4, i turned 4 about 2 1/2 months later :P
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correction - i hadnt yet turned 4, i turned 4 about 2 1/2 months later :P
You're still a grandpa :P *runs*
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me and baz were 7, and Tiq was probably graduating. so don't call HIM grandpa...or i'll whack you with my walker, ya whippersnapper!
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me and baz were 7, and Tiq was probably graduating. so don't call HIM grandpa...or i'll whack you with my walker, ya whippersnapper!
Ok Great-Grandpa :P *runs*
Interesting ST Trivia: The TNG uniform Zipper in the back actually zipped down, not up
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oh gee ... I knew we have an old man (Jimmy) on board but I now there's some real elders here ... and this is really useful fact ... for funny names inside BCC :P just for future reference... incase I would be blamed for off-topic :P
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Ok Great-Grandpa :P *runs*
Interesting ST Trivia: The TNG uniform Zipper in the back actually zipped down, not up
*highfive+1* :P
In ghostbusters 2 Sigourney Weaver gets damn close to getting topless! :D
And Ray Parker JR was sued by Huey Lewis and the news for alledged similarities between the ghostbusters theme tune and the song "back in time".
Or was it the other way round? Hell, I can't remember I've got naked weaver on my mind :idk:
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I came into existence on July 29th 1994,...
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I came into existence on July 29th 1994,...
WAHOOO!!!! I'm not the baby anymore! April '89 baby :P
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Instead you're a brat. 1983 here :D
interesting fact: My surname became to existence back in 1500's when a German Hansa-merchant crossed the pond and married a local girl.
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carefull...we'll get yarped at for hijacking the thread.
I have a learning disability that's Endemic to the British Isles (but probably not the Celtic cultural group)
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Europe is the only continent without a desert...
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Accona Desert - a semi-Desert in Southern Italy
Bardenas Reales - a semi-desert in Navarra, Spain (455 km?)
B??dowska Desert ? a desert located in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (32 km?)
Deliblatska Pe??ara - a desert located in Vojvodina, Serbia (300 km?)
Highlands of Iceland ? the interior plateau of Iceland; not a desert by climate, but effectively one because precipitation penetrates the volcanic soil so quickly that it is unavailable to plants
Monegros Desert - a semi-desert in Arag?n, Spain
Oleshky Sands - a desert located in Ukraine near Askania-Nova biosphere reserve (15 km in diameter)
Oltenian Sahara ? a desert spanning approximately 80.000 hectares or 800 km? in the Romanian historical province of Oltenia
Piscinas - a desert located in South-West Sardinia, Italy (5 km?)
Stranja Sahara - a desert in southeastern Bulgaria near the city of Burgas. It is about 80,000 hectares, sometimes estimated to about 850 km sqaured. It is near the borders of Turkey and northwestern Greece.
Tabernas Desert ? a desert in Almer?a, Spain (280 km?)
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oh shut up, dont question me... :dontcare:
go fix those 500 internal server errors :P
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The German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt was sunk during the 1942 Battle of the Barents Sea when she mistook the British light cruiser Sheffield for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper.
Silly destroyer!
On 7 November 1943, 2nd Lt. William E. Roach of 358th Squadron/355th Fighter Group was escorting B-17s of the 8th Air Force's 1st and 3rd Air Divisions. Becoming disoriented in poor weather, with fuel running low and after watching the squadron leader crash land, Roach began looking for a suitable airfield for an emergency landing. He spotted a field and landed, followed a vehicle to a parking place and shut down. Only then did Roach realize the people surrounding the P-47 were Germans. Lt. Roach spent the remainder of the war at Stalag Luft I and had provided the Luftwaffe with its first intact P-47.
Even silly-er pilot!
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Holy....carp (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914)
13.14 BILLION lightyears away!
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it takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth...
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You can get from any article on Wikipedia to "Philosophy" by following the first non-italics, un-parenthesised link on a page.
I've tried about a dozen varied start points, and the longest chain I have so far is 18 for "Jeremy Paxman" now from Stargate, at 24 steps. I've yet to find one that doesn't work. Though I did almost get in an infinite loop with that sequence around various Greek articles.
In fact, most seem to take 16 steps.
EDIT: "Mobile Technology" gets stuck in an infinite loop. The first I've found out of dozens that doesn't work.
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APPARENTLY... consuming mass quantities of alcohol at one time CAN cause any conjuncture of the following:
drowsiness
loss of balance
impaired judgement
random marriages
unexplained pregnancy
repetition
random hot women appearing where ugly ones once stood
low tire pressure
random mood swings
empty refrigerators
drained bank accounts
loss of pants
bloodshot eyes
poor circulation
random vomiting
repetition
acquisition of random strippers/prostitutes
3 am phone calls
adultery
repetition
fake accent generation
fender damage
insomnia
mud but
unexplained credit card bills
random acts of senseless violence
and nausea
and i think liver damage fits in there somewhere.
Interesting fact: this is the dumbest post ever :evil:
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Dumb posts and messages also fits in there somewhere!
EDIT
Whatcha looking at me for? :idk:
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I can still type, bit i can't stand.
Oui, I are drunked.
Like: being merrily drunk
No like: finding out what you've posted when drunk :/
Dumb posts and messages also fits in there somewhere!
Whatcha looking at me for? :idk:
oh nothing.... nothing at all :angel
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oh nothing.... nothing at all :angel
:hurr:
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by 3000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt...
they knew how to rock the party even then - cheers to them! :D :drink2: :drink3: :drink:
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I graduate this fall... oh how useful and pointless is that fact? :P
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oh how pointless is that fact? :P
much like your life and existence
haha - zing!
*ducks the revolver*
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don't anger the spamula :P
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
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much like your life and existence
haha - zing!
*ducks the revolver*
Yes Alex, I'll take JimmyB76 FTW please. :funny
Anyway, In 1807, Washington Irving attached the moniker ?Gotham? to New York City in a satire publication called Salmagundi. Salmagundi, by the way, is defined as a dish of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, and seasoning.
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Yes Alex, I'll take JimmyB76 FTW please. :funny
Anyway, In 1807, Washington Irving attached the moniker ?Gotham? to New York City in a satire publication called Salmagundi. Salmagundi, by the way, is defined as a dish of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, and seasoning.
sounds like it looks like vomit :/
Additionally, I made a bit of a boo boo today :hithead:
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Cartoon Network announced on Tuesday that its remake of the Thundercats animated series will premiere in the United States on July 29 at 8:00 p.m. The series will then run on Friday nights at its regular time of 8:30 p.m.
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APPARENTLY... consuming mass quantities of alcohol at one time CAN cause any conjuncture of the following:
drowsiness
loss of balance
impaired judgement
random marriages
unexplained pregnancy
repetition
random hot women appearing where ugly ones once stood
low tire pressure
random mood swings
empty refrigerators
drained bank accounts
loss of pants
bloodshot eyes
poor circulation
random vomiting
repetition
acquisition of random strippers/prostitutes
3 am phone calls
adultery
repetition
fake accent generation
fender damage
insomnia
mud but
unexplained credit card bills
random acts of senseless violence
and nausea
and i think liver damage fits in there somewhere.
Interesting fact: this is the dumbest post ever :evil:
Cookies for you.
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Fact: Golf spelled backwards is flog.
Possible fact: When it comes to almost any sporting event, never bet on the white guy.
Fact: If you don't shower or bathe for at least a week, you will probably smell.
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Fact: If you accidentally spell ABBA backwards, you would have still spelled it right.
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the average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog...
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Did You Know?
The Boeing 747 first flew before we landed a man on the moon (by several months.)
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Fact: Chuck Norris had a role in Star Wars......he was the force.
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ok guys please try not to post spammy facts, please try and post actual genuine facts :P
in the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust...
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in the state of Rhode Island, it is illegal to throw pickle juice on a trolley...
in the state of Washington, all lollipops are banned...
in the state of Indiana, baths are not to be taken between the months of October and March...
in San Fransisco, California, you cannot pick up and throw used confetti...
in North Carolina, the law forbids dogs and cats to fight...
in Arkansas, a man can legally beat his wife once a month...
in Los Angeles, California, a man can legally beat his wife with a leather strap so long as the strap is less than 2 inches wide...
or, if the woman gives her husband permission, he can use any size strap he wants...
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The warship Mars, sunk in 1564, has been found 10Nm outside the Swedish island ?land. It had 107 guns and a crew of 800(!). It was one of the largest warships in the 16th century.. As a comparison the well known Vasa had a 445 men crew and 64 guns. Mary Rose had a crew of 415..
So this is a really large ship that has been found, it would be really cool if it could be salvaged as Mary Rose and Vasa!
http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/3638/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_%28ship%29
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In Florida...it's illegal to knock up a porcupine
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In Florida...it's illegal to knock up a porcupine
It ought to be. Any man mad enough to do that deserves to be locked up!
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The skin over the elbow is called the wenus.
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in the state of Indiana, baths are not to be taken between the months of October and March...
Indiana must be one smelly place.
in North Carolina, the law forbids dogs and cats to fight...
Okay, seeing cops trying to break up fights between dogs and cats would be something to see.
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The average CEO's salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker's salary. In Japan, it is 11 times greater; in France, 15 times; in Canada, 20; in South Africa, 21, and in Britain, 22.
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The average CEO's salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker's salary. In Japan, it is 11 times greater; in France, 15 times; in Canada, 20; in South Africa, 21, and in Britain, 22.
That's sick. Another...half the country has 2.5% of the wealth.
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That's sick. Another...half the country has 2.5% of the wealth.
Welcome to capitalism my friend, the thing we live and die for.
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Welcome to capitalism my friend, the thing we live and die for.
Honestly I'd rather not live! :D JK that's very sick tho
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in the city of tampa, it is illegal to walk your giraffe after the hours of 7pm.
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in the city of tampa, it is illegal to walk your giraffe after the hours of 7pm.
But officer, my giraffe needed to take a dump! :funny
Did you know that a can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds?
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In the state of NC All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart.
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The Forth Bridge, crossing the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, Scotland will finally be finished being painting in December after more than 100 years.
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Yeah, took them long enough to find a paint that lasts more than a year in salt-air.
They still have to paint it every 10 years though (Was first painted in the 'long-term' stuff in 2001).
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1930's - War plan red is commisioned to prepare for a confict between the US and the Britsh empire. The plan was to cut Canada off and then take over the emipires colonys, bringing the UK to the negotiating table and securing the US as a world power. Never happened oddly enough.
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the United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat...
yay marlboros!
*cough cough*
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and to go with eclipse's post; since the US is moving away from tobacco, the tobacco companies are concentrating their efforts on South-East Asia.
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Although used as a major plot device in H.G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds"; there has never been a ship named HMS Thunder Child.
If I can find out how to start a petition, I'd like to see if I could rectify that mistake!
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Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
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i tend to get mreo side work done whhen drunk..... also my typing sufferws.
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After WWI, amazingly, there were 52 villages in England who suffered no casualties from the war. After WWII, this number was down to just 14.
Ironically, one of these rare villages is called Upper Slaughter.
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After watching the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie "Dirty Harry" again for the first time in years, I realized that Andrew Robinson (Garak) played the part of the "Scorpio Killer" lol. :dontcare:
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After watching the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie "Dirty Harry" again for the first time in years, I realized that Andrew Robinson (Garak) played the part of the "Scorpio Killer" lol. :dontcare:
And Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat) was the hitchhiker who turned into the alien assassin in The Last Starfighter.
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And Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat) was the hitchhiker who turned into the alien assassin in The Last Starfighter.
And Alaimo was the head of security on Mars in Total Recall. ;)
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throw in the original Hellraiser.
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44 years ago today, tribbles were introduced to the world in "The Trouble with Tribbles".
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Did you know that the baddie in Die Hard 2 played sloan in DS9 and that Colm Meany played a pilot in said movie but was killed by the baddie in the plane crash.
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44 years ago today, tribbles were introduced to the world in "The Trouble with Tribbles".
And you can buy electronic ones now from roddenbery.com, just be glad thayre not real or wede have a serious problem :D
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Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas in 1836.
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Although used as a major plot device in H.G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds"; there has never been a ship named HMS Thunder Child.
If I can find out how to start a petition, I'd like to see if I could rectify that mistake!
The Royal Navy should seriously name one of its future aircraft carriers Thunder Child. The current names are Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, not what I would call imaginative naming there. :facepalm:
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine made it debut 19 years ago today. ;)
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The Royal Navy should seriously name one of its future aircraft carriers Thunder Child. The current names are Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, not what I would call imaginative naming there. :facepalm:
Nah; to be honest, if I had to choose the name of a new Aircraft Carrier, I'd choose Ark Royal over Thunder Child. I think the Royal Navy have resisted naming a ship Thunder Child for fear of H.G. Wells being a prophet of some kind!
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TNG episode. "First Contact" premiered on this date in 1991.
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Is that the one where Lilith from Cheers/Frasier wanted Riker to do her?
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Is that the one where Lilith from Cheers/Frasier wanted Riker to do her?
That would be the one.
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Tip: If your ball point pen has stopped working it's probably just the ball that's seized up due to the ink drying up and jamming the ball.
Want to get it working again? Find yourself a good stiff rubber surface like the sole of a good walking boot and try writing on it with the dead pen. The ball should get enough traction on the rubber to force itself free of the dried ink pretty quickly.
I've just discovered this for myself and it feels goooood! :)
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William Shatner is 81 today.
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William Shatner is 81 today.
:yay:
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So, he outlived his hairpieces.. :funny
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So, he outlived his hairpieces.. :funny
:facepalm:
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:facepalm:
Oh c'mon, it was funny....
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Providence, Rhode Island Named America?s Top Burger City - Travel + Leisure Magazine (http://www.golocalprov.com/food/new-providence-named-americas-top-burger-city-travel-leisure/)
When it comes to burgers, Providence reigns supreme, according to Travel + Leisure.
The capital city has snagged the highest honor in the latest Travel + Leisure's America's Favorite Cities survey, naming it the #1 Burger City in America.
Classic and creative burgers
"The No. 1 burger city, Providence, may have it both ways, offering both classic and creative burgers, with an emphasis on locally sourced ingredients?within reason," according to T+L's Katrina Brown Hunt. T+L gives special love to Harry?s Bar and Burger, where "you can wash down your 100-percent-Hereford-beef sliders with spiked milkshakes, such as the Caramel Twinkie, made with ice cream, vanilla vodka, and snack cakes."
Providence moved up 2 spots from its #3 ranking last year. Meanwhile, this is not the first food honor for Providence in T+L's annual survey of thousands of its readers. "Pretty much everything tastes good in this New England city, with its reputation for creative, locavore chefs," says Hunt. "It ranked No. 2 for overall dining, as well as No. 2 for pizza and No. 5 for high-end cuisine." T+L recommends the New England Grass-Fed Burger at Local 121, the aforementioned Hereford sliders at Harry's, along with "50 beer options--proof of the city?s high rankings for microbrews."
Providence beat out #2 Philadelphia, #3 Chicago, #4 Houston, and #5 San Juan, PR, for the top slots in this year's poll. New York City ranked #9, and Portland, ME, just eked into the Top 20 at #19.
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Providence, Rhode Island Named Top Hipster City by Travel + Leisure Magazine (http://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/new-providence-named-top-hipster-city-by-travel-leisure/)
Providence nails another Top 10 nationwide today as Travel + Leisure names it among the Top 10 Cities for Hipsters in the United States.
The capital city, home to hipster hangouts like the Steelyard, AS220, and Olneyville Square is in fact the #6 Best City for Hipsters, according to latest ranking of America's largest cities released by the internationally renowned travel magazine. Seattle, WA crowned the list at #1, followed by Portland, OR (#2), San Francisco, CA (#3), New Orleans, LA (#4) and Portland, ME (#5). Providence was followed by Austin, TX at #7, and San Juan, PR, Philadelphia, PA, and Denver, CO at #8, #9, and #10. New York City ranked #12 and Boston #17.
What makes a city a hipster hangout?
The hip honor for Providence is the latest round of Travel + Leisure's America's Favorite City Survey, where readers ranked 35 metropolitan areas on culturally relevant features like live music, coffee bars, and independent boutiques. To zero in on the biggest hipster crowds, T+L says it factored in the results for the best microbrews and the most offbeat and tech-savvy locals.
"This academia-rich New England city has a concentrated mix of artists and nerds," writes T+L, "scoring high in the survey for its performance art and caf?s." T+L names AS220 as the "artsy nerve center" of the city, which the magazine says boasts of stimulating Rhode Island?s ?cultural mulch? through shows, a restaurant, a coffee bar, and a meeting space for the tech group Providence Geeks.
Defining today's hipster
Travel + Leisure admits this new ranking reflects its take on the debated term hipster, "which can inspire eye rolls or admiration," Katrina Brown Hunt writes. "Once used to describe counterculture types, hipster is now so prevalent it?s at a possible tipping point. Whatever your take, you generally know hipsters when you see them?most likely in funky, up-and-coming neighborhoods. A smirking attitude toward mainstream institutions means they tend to frequent cool, often idiosyncratic restaurants, shops, and bars?the same kinds of venues that appeal to travelers looking for what they can?t find at home. (Yelp.com now even has a search feature for ?hipster? ambience.)
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My hometown Worksop is the sole producer of OXO cubes!
(http://www.poundland.co.uk/images/377/original/oxo-beef---version-2.jpg)
Terrible isn't it...
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i :salute3: you Worksop. Keeping me in OXO for my shepherd's pies
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Oxo makes an awesome hot drink.
I would have gone bonkers without oxo cubes to put in my ration packs while on exercise back in my army days :D
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Forgive my Americaness, but what the blazes are those?
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Forgive my Americaness, but what the blazes are those?
Is a stock cube, makes like a gravy but its more of a flavouring for stews and soups. However if you Cpt Obvious then you drink them, though I can't see what was wrong with the hot chocolate inside the Rat packs. :P
Also Bovril tastes 10x better....
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But bovril/marmite is a pita. With an oxo cube it's just crumble one up inside a mug, pour hot water on top and stir for 10 seconds or so.
Also makes ration pack food muuuch more palatable.
The hot chocolate in the packs is ok, but it's one heck of a pita to get right. You can't just pour in the whole packet because you'll then end up with loads of dregs no matter how much you stir it and as you can't re seal the packet there isn't all that much you can do. Get it right and it's lovely but get it wrong and it's a nightmare!
Oh and btw the rat packs have now changed to some crappy "multi climate" thing where the chocolate is gone gone all gone and replaced with a fruit/nut mix.
I'll never have to worry about that though HAHAHAHAH :evil: lol
Oxo cubes are quite nice eaten as they are as well :)
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I get ya but I like the lumps so its a win/win either way for me, I had a few run ins with the multi climate packs but we have so many old style ones in stores that we haven't had the need to replace them. Us navy people don't go out in the field all that often. I loved the Yorkies you got in them though, you don't get those in the new ones. :(
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Providence is too cool for things like that lol :P
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and brits wonder why everybody calls their cooking crap! Drinkable Gravy? I hope it tastes better than the salty MSG crap we get :P
at least now I know what AYBS was talking about :P (the ep where the budget cuts are so bad they end up with trash can soup :P)
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........ going back ontopic ........
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Did you know that Lough Neagh, just north of where I live, is the largest lake in the UK and the island of Ireland?
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did you know that Cymru and Cymri (the welsh way of saying Wales and Welsh), are pronounced Cum-roo and Cum-ree! :evil:
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did you know that Cymru and Cymri (the welsh way of saying Wales and Welsh), are pronounced Cum-roo and Cum-ree! :evil:
Being a Welshman I would like to correct you there.
"Cymru" is both "Wales" and "Welsh" (when talking about the "Welsh people") This is pronounced "Come-ree"
"Cymraeg" is the name of the Welsh language in Welsh. Pronounced "Come-rai-g"
As far as I know there is no such word as "cymri" in use and neither does my mother. She ought to know being a former Welsh teacher ;)
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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
With the exception of Aegilops and a few other words of course.
Spoonfeed is the longest word with the letters in reverse alphabetical order.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word with alternating consonants and vowels.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-coined, non-technical undisputed word.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in a major dictionary, but is both technical, and coined, and was in fact coined specifically to be the longest word.
This (http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.php), at 189,819 letters long, is the longest word, but isn't in a dictionary, it technical and never actually used.
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[dwight]False. Aegilops is a Latin word, being the label of a genus in the scientific nomenclature of living creatures.[/dwight]
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[dwight]False. Aegilops is a Latin word, being the label of a genus in the scientific nomenclature of living creatures.[/dwight]
Irrelevant. It's in the dictionary, therefore it's a word in the English language.
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youre such a killjoy, limey lol :P
on average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year...
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youre such a killjoy, limey lol :P
on average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year...
Way to go morons. Sheesh, sometimes I'm ashamed to live on the same planet as some people. :facepalm:
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youre such a killjoy, limey lol :P
That's my purpose in life :P
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We don't need mass internet protests to keep our freedoms, just random acts of sane-ness from an otherwise slightly corrupt, bloated government for a state that doesn't exist! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18533268)
tl;dr - ACTA has been rejected by a committee in the European Parliament, which means it'll almost certainly be rejected by the general vote on it in July, which will pretty much kill the entire thing
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Way to go morons. Sheesh, sometimes I'm ashamed to live on the same planet as some people. :facepalm:
People. Morons. Yes, they are indeed carrots.
In other news Diablo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18532670) 3 has been "completed". Yaay. :rolleyes:
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DEATH TO CONSOLES!! (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/353860/pc-graphics-now-24-times-more-powerful-than-the-xbox-360/#)
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the problem with the bit involving console power...is that the consoles are STILL cheaper than the PC hardware :P
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Top of the range, yes. But nowadays, the equivalent hardware to what is in the console is just as cheap, if not cheaper, than the console itself.
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Bleh, the prices of pc components are likely inflated imo.
It's just a "gut feeling" and because it's only a "gut feeling" I don't have proof of that.
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We don't need mass internet protests to keep our freedoms, just random acts of sane-ness from an otherwise slightly corrupt, bloated government for a state that doesn't exist! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18533268)
tl;dr - ACTA has been rejected by a committee in the European Parliament, which means it'll almost certainly be rejected by the general vote on it in July, which will pretty much kill the entire thing
And its dead! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18704192)
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In Britain, we have railway lines that only have one train per week on them, unadvertised and often empty; because doing that is cheaper than closing the line down.
(Also it gives good flexibility for the future.)
The trains that run are nicknamed "Ghost Trains".
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Trains, such potential wasted.
I still hate riding on the damn things though.
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They are Parliamentary trains, been around since the Victorian era. It is often cheaper to run a train once a week over a line with no one on it than apply to have the line closed. Dr Beeching sort of made line closures a cardinal sin in the eyes of the public
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the states (at least here) has the reverse problem...it's cheaper to pull out the lines than run the trains. the various gap bridges are long gone from being able to carry any weight.
the program, here, is called 'rails to trails' unfortunately, a good deal of these revived 'trails' immediately get seized by the property owners whom they cross, who post them as private property.
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Public transport over here is so pointless outside of London. The prices are pretty much fixed to be slightly higher than it would cost to drive, to stations nowhere near where you want to be, at times nowhere near when you want to be there.
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the average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted...
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Space Invaders was also the first game to attract political controversy, when a 1981 political bill called the "Control of Space Invaders (and other Electronic Games) Bill" drafted by British Labour Party MP George Foulkes attempted to ban the game for its "addictive properties" and for causing "deviancy"; the bill was debated and only narrowly defeated in parliament by 114 votes to 94 votes.
:eek
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most cows give more milk when they listen to music...
:dance :dance :dance :dance :dance :dance :dance :dance :dance :dance
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NASDAQ stands for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations.
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How did this thread get locked? -Big Brutha from Anutha Mutha
Coffee was so scarce in Nazi Germany that coffee bombs were dropped by the Allies into occupied Europe. An effective morale/propaganda tool, no?
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Bain Capital donated $30,000 to Tim Kaine's senatorial campaign - whom is running against the party of their Big Brother...
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The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
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hey - i already posted that a long time ago :P
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hey - i already posted that a long time ago :P
I remember that one. It was ages ago.
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Yeah, not gonna read thru 108 pages of shit to see if something has been posted already, lol. :dontcare:
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Yeah, not gonna read thru 108 pages of shit to see if something has been posted already, lol. :dontcare:
Lazy :dontcare: :P (seriously though I can't blame you :S)
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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. :funny
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No naked flames around you then Trim! :P
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. :funny
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. :funny
You know...this makes a surprising amount of sense.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. :funny
too damn true :funny
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Would also explain why I find some actresses attractive until they open their mouths and prove that they're stupid/bland/annoying/terrible at their profession. Case in point: Kristen Stewart. Thought she looked pretty until I realized that she had no expression beyond a vacant stare. Damn shame too, cause I was thinking Snow White and the Huntsman would be pretty neat if not for her being the title character.
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not surprising... cheers! :drink2: :drink3: :drink:
Providence, Rhode Island named #10 Drunkest City in America (http://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/providences-best-worst-rankings/)
It's sobering news in the capital city, according to the latest assessment of America's Drunkest Cities (http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/12/28/25-drunkest-cities-2012-from-milwaukee-to-burlington-vermont.html#0a4c906c-4885-4f15-b035-df218a31bb19) by The Daily Beast.
Providence, which ranked #10, had the following to say for itself:
Avg. alcoholic drinks consumed by adults per month: 14.1
Percentage of population classified as binge drinkers: 17.6%
Percentage of population classified as heavy drinkers: 5.7%
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RI would only be on #136 if it wasn't for you! :P
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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats. :idk:
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"Cat" and "Mourn".
Oxymoron anyone?
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The London Underground is 150 years old today. It was the first underground railway system ever. Later, it became the first electric underground railway system in the world as well.
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On this day in 1985, Leonard Nimoy received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. :thumbsup:
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According to National Geographic, Redheads will be extinct by 2060
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According to National Geographic, Redheads will be extinct by 2060
:(
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The warmest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is -12.3oC
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Malaysia is 7.8oC
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My mom is from Malaysia.
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The Swedish language uses the same word for marriage and poison. Gift (pronounced like ?yift?)
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Pretty ironic to be honest :)
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The Swedish language uses the same word for marriage and poison.
I'm divorced so yeah, I'd say that's pretty damned accutate. :funny
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^ lol
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/851335792d2f5e7d26bc4e09c91315cc/tumblr_mhk7kenkTZ1rokwrho1_500.png)
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Ugh... :roll
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/851335792d2f5e7d26bc4e09c91315cc/tumblr_mhk7kenkTZ1rokwrho1_500.png)
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzpVNdBoS3JKpG8swTMXwAq68tprw9viTcQdWEwGx36-1juqAi)
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Actually...it's true if you think about it.
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Indeed and there is nothing wrong about G4 MLP xD (AXE and destroy the other Generations at your will) xD
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It's not the show that I dislike. It's the wrong audience that follows it.. :facepalm: that show is meant for girls that are under 10 yrs old. not for 20-something guys. Hell, I admit that I watched the original show when I was a kid, and it was miles better than the hyperactive ADD ripoff this one is.
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don't even try to convince him of anything regarding MLP. he's still tainted by the uber crappy dub and sub work that Finns have had to put up with for years. don't try anything. his mind's made up, firm as concrete (used anywhere but the US Highway system :P)
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Talk about a shitty way to die, pun intended............
James Knox Polk, the 11th U.S. President, died of chronic diarrhea. :dontcare:
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Later this month, a British-built satellite, STRaND-1, will be launched. The nanosatellite will (for part of its mission) be entirely controlled by a Nexus One. It's also testing out 2 pioneering propulsion technologies; a warp drive and pulsed plasma thrusters. One of the other experiments it'll be doing is to see if, as Ridley Scott would have us believe, "in space, no-one can hear you scream".
A follow-up satellite is being planned that uses a Kinect to dock automatically.
Suck on that NASA!
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Talk about a shitty way to die, pun intended............
James Knox Polk, the 11th U.S. President, died of chronic diarrhea. :dontcare:
I thought it was Cholera....
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Later this month, a British-built satellite, STRaND-1, will be launched. The nanosatellite will (for part of its mission) be entirely controlled by a Nexus One. It's also testing out 2 pioneering propulsion technologies; a warp drive and pulsed plasma thrusters. One of the other experiments it'll be doing is to see if, as Ridley Scott would have us believe, "in space, no-one can hear you scream".
A follow-up satellite is being planned that uses a Kinect to dock automatically.
Suck on that NASA!
A British built and launched satellite called Prospero X1 is still up there and still transmitting after almost 50 years in orbit.
Not a bad run eh?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
To say that the UK Space Industry is peanuts compared to that in the US...we do alright!
Shame about Beagle 2 though :(
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
To say that the UK Space Industry is peanuts compared to that in the US...we do alright!
Shame about Beagle 2 though :(
The most amazing part about that is the engine. It's a normal rocket engine, but, while in atmosphere, it can use the oxygen from the air to burn, rather than having to carry its own supply!
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The top of the Empire State building was built to anchor blimps.
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Scientists think that the red hair genes came from the Neandertals.
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Hawaii has been declared as the least stressful state in which to reside...
meanwhile, Rhode Island (my state) is 2nd most stressed out place to live lol
gee, i couldnt imagine why... heh
LEAST STRESSED STATES
Hawaii 32.1%
Louisiana 37.6%
Mississippi 37.9%
Iowa 38.1%
Wyoming 38.6%
MOST STRESSED STATES
West Virginia 47.1%
Rhode Island 46.3%
Kentucky 44.8%
Utah 44.6%
Massachusetts 43.4%
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hmm where does Michigan rank?
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"In March 2001, Taco Bell announced a promotion to coincide with the re-entry of the Mir space station. They towed a large target out into the Pacific Ocean, announcing that if the target was hit by a falling piece of Mir, every person in the United States would be entitled to a free Taco Bell taco. The company bought a sizable insurance policy for this gamble. No piece of the station struck the target."
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Most modern music records are effected by a trend known as the loudness war through the use of excessive dynamic range compression and other processing techniques. The result is lower dynamics and fidelity.
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Rhode Island celebrates its 223rd b-day today...
although it is the smallest state, it is the 2nd most densely populated state behind New Jersey...
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. Imagine that. :funny
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The 25 Biggest Celebrities From Rhode Island (http://www.golocalprov.com/news/the-25-biggest-celebrities-from-rhode-island/)
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. Imagine that. :funny
If this is true and a good portion of the most trendiest NY bars have decided to boycott Russian Vodka bc of their views on homosexuals and other radical beliefs, we will be really hitting them hard, financially speaking of course.
Very interest!
Thanks for the fact.
Adam
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If an astronaut on the ISS were to start singing The Proclaimers - 500 Miles, by the time the song finished, they would have travelled almost exactly 1000 miles.
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FNV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%E2%80%93Noll%E2%80%93Vo_hash_function) is not only an Acronym for Fallout:New Vegas, but also for a widespread Hash Function.
-- I should implement WHAT?
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Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. :lostit:
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Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. :lostit:
From Wikipedia:
During bubble collapse, the inertia of the surrounding water causes high pressure and high temperature, reaching around 10,000 kelvins in the interior of the bubble
:eek
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Here is one :)
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch?s head instead.
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According to a study (http://www.incapsula.com/images/bot-traffic-report-2013.jpg), Bots are responsible for up to 61,5% of all internet traffic in 2013. But only 0.5% (of overall traffic causers) do :spam:
Still more than enough!
Edit: stupid me linked the picture, not the article. Here it is:
http://www.incapsula.com/the-incapsula-blog/item/820-bot-traffic-report-2013 (http://www.incapsula.com/the-incapsula-blog/item/820-bot-traffic-report-2013)
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According to a study (http://www.incapsula.com/images/bot-traffic-report-2013.jpg), Bots are responsible for up to 61,5% of all internet traffic in 2013. But only 0.5% (of overall traffic causers) do :spam:
Still more than enough!
Slashdot :P
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Red-headed Swedish women descended from Vikings are often very attractive. :drool:
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an arsole is an organoarsenic compound with the formula C4H4AsH. It also happens to look like an arsehole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole)
Btw, where did my "Nooooooo" thread go?
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an arsole is an organoarsenic compound with the formula C4H4AsH. It also happens to look like an arsehole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole)
Btw, where did my "Nooooooo" thread go?
Lol. I needed that laugh. Lol
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Apparently there are some infectious cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer) types.
A version carried by dogs seems to have been around for more than 11 thousand years!
original source: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/437 (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/437)
If you understand a bit of german and don't want to sign up at the science's site, there is an other news report here:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/natur/hundetumor-11-000-jahre-alt-und-quicklebendig-12767506.html (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/natur/hundetumor-11-000-jahre-alt-und-quicklebendig-12767506.html)
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it has been a long time since this thread has been posted in... :dontcare:
(fact)
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Jimmy can't help but resurrect old ass threads. (fact)
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God damn, I wondered where this thread went! Allow me, ahem....
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
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a quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove...
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a quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove...
Interesting
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There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Interesting
:smack :nono:
all posts must contain a useless fact, Spamula... :readme:
our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing...
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4 rules of working with Captain Cold...
- Make a plan
- Execute the plan
- Expect the plan to go off the rails...
- Throw away the plan
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1994 is as far away from 2017 as 2040 is.
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holy shit - i graduated high school in 1994 lol :funny
now i def feel old... le sigh...
a single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds...
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holy shit - i graduated high school in 1994 lol :funny
now i def feel old... le sigh...
a single cloud can weigh more than a million pounds...
Jesus... You graduated high school a year before I was born. You are old! :funny
I just downloaded 8 hours of metal from bandcamp, and I have in total 87.2GB of music, with 11,705 files, give or take a few hundred for misc non-audio files.
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Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking...
and i can attest to this... i dont cook things and stuff well at all... there usually tends to be a billow if smoke and/or a fire... i can cook toast and ramen noodles and macaroni n cheese, but all else is a disaster...
im good at ordering take-out tho lol
there are several dozen types of take-out in my section of Providence, RI (some delivery) to where i have most of their business numbers pretty much memorised...
and im very good at cleaning - someone else cook, ill do the whole clean-up... that seems fair :)
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Fucking slackers!
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop...
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One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
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heh yeah i do know that - only leaned that fact tho just very recently as i had a large chunk of bone yanked out of my left foot which kept me out of work for 4 months... i have a very cool looking scar from the base of big toe halfway down the rest of my foot :)
i could explain about it and i have pics if youd like to see... :)
(tho it is all on my facebook pics also lol )
Underground is the only word in the english language that starts with 'Und' and ends with 'Und'
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heh. now I know Jimmy's only 2 years younger than me! you still look like you're only 30, you lucky @$%& !
early christmas lights were as strong as regular household bulbs or more.
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Star Trek Voyager premiered 23 years ago today.
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Cigarette butts are the most littered item at the world, with an estimated 4.5 trillion littered annually.
Each butt can take 5 to 400 years to completely break down.
this is exactly why whenever i have a smoke outside at home or work or wherever (no smoking inside my house is my rule for the house and i refuse to smoke in anyone else's house or car), when i am done smoking a cigarette, i will put it out thoroughly on the ground and rthen put the butt into my pocket and wait until i get home and then throw it away in the trash...
there is nothing more ignorant, IMO, than someone who flicks cigarette butts on the ground with no care for the earth...
IMO if you want to have bad habits, fine - live your life enjoyingly... but fucking at least clean up after yourself for consideration to others...
not to mention how disgusting and trashy it looks in any area of a yard or a parking lot with butts all around the ground...
so fucking annoying people are like they dont care...
i need a smoke now, im all riled up...
lol :smoke
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Yeah I finally got off of Marlboro Reds after 25 years, went to the ecig vapor thing, it actually does work.
Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.
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Paying for and giving out candy on halloween as an adult is like paying for the free candy you got as a kid.
think about it... :wink: :)
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According to the Star Trek timeline, first contact occurs on my 93rd birthday.
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ffs is it just Trim and me alive here or what?
LAME! lol
Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking...
my fear of cooking is because i tend to burn things and cause fires... yay frozen pizza! :D
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According to the Star Trek timeline, first contact occurs on my 93rd birthday.
I would be 74 by April 5th, 2063. Assuming cigarettes don't kill me by then lol.
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HA! finally, someone in here is OLDER than I am! don't worry, Trim, I'll bring a spare oxygen hose or two for you and Jimmy :P (i'll be just short of 90)
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According to the Star Trek timeline, first contact occurs on my 93rd birthday.
Got you beat by a year, lol :)
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Assuming cigarettes don't kill me by then lol.
same here!
tho i generally only smoke cigs at work to break up the day... or if having a few beers or with a cup of coffee in the morning...
but i never smoke in my house (garage is ok tho), a pack can last me like 3 or 4 days...
still unhealthy tho , i know i know.... :P
over 40M people of Irish descent are in the United States, 8x more than the population of Ireland...
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LOL WOW COOL -.-
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.
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The King of Hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
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The official state drink of Rhode Island is coffee milk. Autocrat has made the syrup since the 1930s, which is added to milk to make the coffee milk. Its origins are unclear but may be a nod to home from our large Italian immigrant population.