Something interesting you learned recently

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  1. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Interesting point. I guess she is pretty bright after all. Not the reasons I'd be wanting to get married for though. At least she'll never be poor.
     
  2. Eric!

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    He didn’t lie about it either, definitely wasn’t messing around, LOL!
     
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  3. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member Lifetime Supporter

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    The hyoid (high-oid?) is a bone that supports your tongue.

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  4. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Words only have demonstrable meaning in specific contexts, and English appears to have two grammars, one vague and one explicit, with the evidence of quantum mechanics and fuzzy logic implying the explanation is that everything expresses particle-wave duality, including our words. Grammar emerges in the brain from the proximity of syntax and appears to be simultaneously acquired and intrinsic, meaning grammar appears to express out thoughts emerging from the syntax of our emotions. The implication is that the principle of identity eventually vanishes down the nearest convenient rabbit hole or toilet of your personal preference, located in the center of your brain in the axions or microtubles connecting all your neurons. They obey a modified version of Bayesian statistics vanishing into indeterminacy.

    Pretty straightforward actually. It means awareness has no meaning outside the context of space-time and vice versa, because a context without any significant content is a contradiction. Assuming 42 is it, then we ourselves must decide whether we are aware or just robots. Or, in other words, life requires both love and sense of humor, because the greater truth is humanly inconceivable without both. Awareness requires we ignore things, seeing requires we pay attention.
     
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  5. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    I'm not sure never being poor beats being married to Trump. You at first instance clearly thought not. VG perhaps would do the same as Melania :p
     
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  6. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/travel/amp/victor-vescovo-deepest-dive-pacific/index.html


    Kinda cool, minus the plastic
    Mariana Trench: Four new species found by diver Victor Vescovo, along with plastic - CBBC Newsround
     
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  7. McFuddy

    McFuddy Visitor

    Squid can change to a variety of different colors.

    Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish are the only known fish to do this.

    Squid are also colorblind.
     
  8. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Actually, the most bizarre news I've come across was at the last academic website I was conducting research at. A physicist showed up there who has created a theory of quantum mechanics he intends to use to convert Americans to Buddhism, so he can become the next president and save the world. He posted a Reddit page with his theory, which was so badly written the second paragraph alone had no less than 28 sentences. At one point I said, "You really don't hear a single word anyone else says do you?" and he completely ignored me. When I told him there was no point in continuing this "discussion" he went off again, so I told him "I hear and I obey". He said only a fool would say that and, of course, I replied, "I hear and I obey".
     
  9. this is fun

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    Kangaroos can’t fart
     
  10. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Anything larger than a cockroach has to be able to fart, or their metabolism would cause them to explode. Its one reason insects don't get any larger than they do, and you can even encourage insects to explode.
     
  11. lode

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    I've been wanting to work this fish into conversation for a bit now.

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    This fish will git into turf wars with other fish by opening it's mouth and 'kissing' other fish to show who has the bigger mouth and thus the better fish.

    The Sarcastic Fringehead.
     
  12. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Will Rogers famously complained to his manager that audiences would only laugh at his stupid jokes if they contained the truth, while every standup comedian since Socrates has frequently begged their audiences not to lynch them. The tradition actually dates to the original Athenian tradition of shouting out, "Strike if you must! But hear me first!" whenever they were given the floor to speak.
     
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    Kangaroos don't fart
     
  14. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    Walt Disney was adamantly against making sequels and remakes to his company's movies. He believed there's no point in continuing a story that was already told.

    Now, the Disney corporation is a sequel and remake factory.
     
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  15. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Kangaroos have ‘green’ farts. The bugs do it through a process known as fermentation. In many animals, this fermentation creates two gases, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. But in animals like cows and goats, other microbes called methanogens gobble up those substances and turn them into methane. Google

    In other words, their shit doesn't stink like the rest of us, and its impossible for them to cut a silent but deadly one.
     
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  16. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    A black hole's volume increases indefinitely.
     
  17. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    But its temperature and charge remain proportional, ensuring the principle of identity vanishes completely down the nearest available gravity well, and the event horizon resembles the original Big Bang, which was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right. The proportions resemble the Golden Ratio which has turned out to express a multidimensional multifractal, such as found in time crystals and other adiabatic quantum systems which can be over 125% efficient.
     
  18. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    i don't believe that you learned this recently.
     
  19. McFuddy

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    Most methane coming from cows is them burping, not farting.
     
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    I've been learning about kundalini yoga. It's really interesting. Hatha and vinyasa yoga are about aligning your mind and body to prepare yourself for meditation (not that many westerners really use it for that purpose) but kundalini yoga is more about movement and breath and meditation all combined into one in order to awaken your body's energy
    Kundal means circular, and is also used as a word for snake in sanskrit. The purpose of kundalini yoga is to awaken the snake inside you. Not your penis, pervs. Your spine
     

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