Schwillet ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 20:59:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And tuna are natural predators of lion, because they have had a taste of lion blood. They communicated and said "you know what? Lion tastes good. Let's go get some more lion", and they established a beachhead to aggressively hunt you and your family.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:29:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what's with that face? I've just noticed it today. and is it supposed to have a black rectangle instead of facial features in every line, except the first one where it's Lenny?
Moose are also known to swim across bays in Newfoundland, Canada. A FB friend of mine was once out kayaking and come up next to one. Moose don't give a fuck.
The moose in Alaska are a different.... Genus? I think is the correct word?
The moose around here (new England, Canada, etc) tend to be big squirrels. Typically docile and timid. In Alaska they're not. They will charge with a greater frequency and tend to be more aggressive.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why not?
GGWAG ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
they now prefer "grammercenaries". don't be culturally insensitive.
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 22:37:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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vellyr ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:05:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what definition of "whale" you're using, but it's not a scientific term. There's nothing wrong with including Odontoceti in "whales". The word "whale" in common English can refer to any member of Cetacea.
could also make an equally strong argument that the term "whale" comes from shortening their name, rather than referencing their scientific classification.
Sea horse isn't a horse, but when David Attenborough refers to them as horses (or steeds or something equally analogous and also scientifically wrong) in whichever underwater documentary i'm vaguely recalling, you know what he means.
See, the thing is: if one were to take a line, horizontal, from Seattle in east-west fashion, latitudinally, if-you-will, we'd find that the majority of the Canadian human population lives "below" or closer to the equator than that line - basically, south of Seattle.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:10:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how do you prove everyone in California is south of Seattle?
You responded to a joke, but I appreciate your effort
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:59:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A large portion of California's population actually live in a couple of the surrounding states but they'll be sure to tell you about how great California is and how everything is so much better there.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:53:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of californias water lives in the void
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:49:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Canada's pretty sparsely populated given its enormous land mass.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:10:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And most of the population is along the border with the U.S
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:32:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that has a lot to do with arable farmland and transportation infrastructure.
ploki122 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:57:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well... that and habitable climate. nobody wants to live with an average of -10C...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised actually. Canada's coldest major city is Winnipeg, and is actually pretty close to the US border. It's just that an enormous part of the country is under muskeg (which is basically impossible to build on), and Shield (just rock and trees which is also really hard to build on). The prairies extend pretty far north, and there were early plans to settle that region because the southern prairies are very dry. They chose the southern prairies instead because of irrigation projects, and they also didn't want the Americans to claim any of that land.
I live in Saskatchewan, and I've driven as far north as we have roads (dirt roads), which is still only about halfway up to the territories. Beyond that, northerners get around mainly by dog sled (in winter) or small planes.
If you want to get to Yellowknife by vehicle, you have to use Alberta, which has a paved road the entire way up, unlike in the shitty tundra of Northern Sask.
Today was pretty much the first cold day in Minneapolis, MN. I heard so many people complaining. All I could say was, "You know what time of year it is. Being cold was a choice you made this morning when you decided to go out into the world without the proper equipment."
ploki122 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:50:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Quebec... I still find that we have a pisspoor climate when we reach things like -40 with wind and Humidex mid-winter. And that's all accounting for the fact that we have a yearly average of like 5. You can be damn sure that I would GTFO if there were 8-10 months of winter.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It sure does! Also, it makes more sense to set up shop near the border if you're planning on conducting trade between canada and the U.S.no snse in paying to ship anything from the northern territories if it can be bought and sold just as easily in a city near the border.
blaghart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia's even worse in that regard.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:24:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, Canada's population density is about half that of Russia's. European Russia is comparatively dense in population. Canada's population is dense in some remote regions (southern Ontario, southern Quebec, lower mainland BC), then it's very sparse. The population map of Canada looks like a map of Chile flipped horizontally.
Pfft. NYC's public school system has more children in it (1.4 million) than many European countries' total population (eg: Estonia's population of 1.3 million)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe few countries. Most European countries are highly populated. France has almost double Canada's population
*Edit, also I didn't say population of NYC. You're comparing one country's total pop to another. I'm saying NYC's public schools has more KIDS in it than many European countries have PEOPLE.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bigger than Australia as well. This is why they are all immigrating to California. Increase in shark population is threatening their ecosystem because as we all know sharks eat Australians.
Both of those have a larger population than all of Australia.
OldWolf2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Checking list... there's only 100K people in all of NW Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. That's one large town / small city anywhere else. I never had any idea it was so unpopulated there.
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many cities have a bigger population than the entire country of Uruguay (3 million).
mrmdc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:51:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The population of the Yangtze river delta Shanghai and Suzhou (about 230km long 120km apart) has a larger population than the USA Canada.
Edit: sounded suspicious as soon as I actually read it. Checking to verify accuracy might still be true... Hard to define size of Delta and population therein.
Our insurrection is nearing completion. Drones Jim Carey and Seth Rogan have already captivated your hearts and minds while Birber wreaks havic upon your streets!
Edit: Here's Steve Perry's explanation of the lyrics:
Perry pleads poetic license, and ignorance, despite the fact that a quick glance at a map would have alerted him to the issue. "I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he says. "The syntax just sounded right. I fell in love with the line. It's only been in the last few years that I've learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."
madscandi ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:25:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or more likely; you will be shot before you get to Canada
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:12:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor, ON and Montreal, QC. That entire region is more south in latitude than Seattle is. Crazy isn't it? Actually people that live in the eastern part of the continent generally live in more southerly latitudes than people would think. It's just colder.
Another fun fact. Canada's most southerly point is on the same latitude as northern California.
Yup. If you started from the most southerly point in Canada and travelled straight west, you'd find yourself in Great Salt Lake, UT. If you travelled straight east, you'd find yourself in Turkey, near the ancient Roman ruins at Pompeiopolis.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I just spent a good ten minutes looking at Seattle on Google Maps, wondering where the Canada part was.
elmz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The southern tip of Norway is roughly the same latitude as York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay and Juneau, Alaska.
Also, finding places on that latitude in Canada that I've heard of is hard
wuu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:48:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And you drive south from Detroit into Windsor, ON.
If you're in Detroit and go directly south, the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:15:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the most southerly point of Canada is further south than the most northerly point of California.
dainhd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:43:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder I always see canadian license plates.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:55:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
haha well... they are probably going south to get cheaper gas, booze. I feel bad for you guys sometimes because the cheaper bad stuff attracts usually the worst people from here. I went to Bellingham once, and after seeing how BC drivers were there.... I was pretty embarrassed.
I used to live in Bellingham. I hated Costco because of you guys. Worst.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know what though, most of those guys are pretty new to Canada themselves, so I call not it! It is sad though... luckily I have Alberta plates, so I could just pretend I was American and no one would notice.
Pick234 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:01:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True enough, but take into account that cities like Vancouver are farther north than New York, but quite a bit warmer. Ocean currents play a pretty big role in climate.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:21:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah the population is pretty concentrated in the bigger cities. Outside of those cities you just have smaller towns and cities along the way. I mean... there's only one road connecting Ontario to western Canada.... that means there's only one highway connecting east to west.
Although that might be bacause it's faster to go into the states to go west, all the roads in Ontario weave back and forth so it takes forever to get anywhere.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One has to wonder, if it's the southernmost tip... why we call it "Middle Island"?
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please provide a source? I live in Calgary and I know that there is very little south of seattle in Alberta. Toronto is not our only city.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in southern Alberta as well. The majority of Canada's population doesn't though... they live out east between southern Ontario and southern Quebec.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't think that the majority of the population would be in very southern ontario though. What about B.C.? Or saskatchewan?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Southern Ontario to southern Quebec. So, including Montreal. That area has over half of Canada's population.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
here. It's a wiki source unfortunately, but still pretty accurate.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Calculated it out, just over 50%. I stand corrected. My apologies, and "holy shit" haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All good man, it's pretty mind boggling when you think about it.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No kidding. Well they can stay there and leave us rednecks to our beer and big trucks haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man, Victoria is south of Seattle and it's in the nearest province. Look up the latitude of Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sad part is that I live in one ofthose cities. And I've been to Seattle wtf.
I thought the traffic was getting bad when I drive that way. Can't we send them back to Canada?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, the low dollar will take care of that for you soon.
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No worries, I'm actually glad you asked. You're not alone!
Seattle's latitude is about 47 degrees N. Over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor (42 degrees N) and Montreal (45 degrees N). Therefore, over half of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.
It doesn't seem that way because all of western Canada has the 49th parallel as a border. But that isn't true for Ontario and Quebec.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That also means, btw, that some really "northern" cities in the US aren't really that "northern". Rome, for example, is more northerly than NY is. Most of England is more North than most Canadian cities (let alone American ones). Detroit is almost on the same latitude as the northern most part of California.
Sarke1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of Canada's population lives further south than Seattle.
FTFY. Just saying "South of" implies it's a direction.
They live east of Seattle, but further south than Seattle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Most North Americans obviously live further east than Seattle haha. However, it is true that in terms of latitude, most Canadians live further south than Seattle. It's one of those things you just don't think about in that context, which is why I included it as a favorite "Holy Shit" fact.
I also found out last year on a road trip that Calgary, Alberta, Canada is closer to Los Angeles, California than Houston is.
Blank747 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who lives in Washington, I approve this message.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha. Well, what I meant was most Canadians live between Windsor, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. That region of Canada is more south in latitude than Seattle.
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
goes to find a map Huh. Crazy.
R_K_M ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but most of europes population lives north of seattle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but why do so many Canadians live in portland?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, how the hell does that work? Does it mean that Canadians live outside of Canada?
ELI5 Please...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
haha no. Over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. That region is more south in latitutde than Seattle. Hence, more than half of all Canadians live south of Seattle.
Very few Canadians live in the states. Comparatively I think about the same amount of Americans live in Canada.
A baby prince from Khawarizam (Persia) was sold as a slave after the Mongols invaded their land and killed all his family. He arrived in Egypt and rose among the ranks until he became the king of Egypt, then he lead the army and served the Mongols their biggest defeat in their history (until then).
zcbtjwj ยท 124 points ยท Posted at 23:58:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so he kinda one-upped Joseph?
JSlicky ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say pretty even because after Joseph was sold by his brothers because they were salty, they came begging to him for food when he became the ruler. Became leader from nothing AND got to pull the biggest switcheroo of all time on his bros.
Ta11ow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:17:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Petty revenge against brothers < total victory over the Mongol horde.
JSlicky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Petty revenge/ became Pharaoh of Egypt, but both are amazing overall.
Yes, to be precise, the words "Algorithm" and "Logarithm" come from the name of the Muslim mathematician al-Khwarizmi, which means: "The one coming from Khawarizm".
Yes. Baibars is one of the most bad-asses of Muslim history. He succeeded in beating the asses of both Mongols and Crusaders several times. He was also a close friend and rival of Qutuz.
Some sources say that Qutuz was going to hand the throne of Egypt to Baibars anyway after defeating the Mongols, but Baibars was too impatient and assassinated him on their way back to Egypt.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, you have some inaccuracies in your story. First, there was the King Al-Saleh Ayyub, he was a descendant of Saladin, he died while the empire was fighting against the 7th Crusade and the threat of the Mongols was starting to form. His bad-ass wife Queen Shajarat Al-Durr hid his death and ruled the kingdom pretending that he is sick. Until, the armies defeated the Crusade and captured the king of France Louis IX. She married the Commander in Chief Aybak and installed him as the king. But later assassinated him and got assassinated as a result. This left the throne empty for Qutuz to take.
Now Qutuz and Baibars were rivals, yes. But they were not enemies. Each one was a leader of a Mameluk faction, it is as if one of them was leader of the Army and the other leader of the Marines.
If you are interested, there is a very famous novel about all of this, called (Oh my Islam), I recommend it greatly as it is a masterpiece of modern Arabic literature, this link has an English translation of the novel as an e-book.
The largest known star has a diameter greater than the orbit of Uranus around the sun.
[deleted] ยท 501 points ยท Posted at 17:23:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's up for debate as to which star is the largest so far, as tools to measure these things aren't quite that accurate yet, but I think you mean UY Scuti, which would go beyond Saturn's orbit at its largest calculation.
Or NML Cygni, which at its largest calculation would reach beyond Jupiter.
kalg ยท 532 points ยท Posted at 18:48:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a cool graphic for it. The Sun is in panel 3.
ebmoney ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 19:05:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Sincerely, thank you. That's incredible perspective, and incredibly hard to wrap my mind around.
oarsof6 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:50:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Try looking through The Scale of the Universe, which exponentially tracks the observable universe to a single string.
If you like this, I think you'll enjoy this video giving a visual representation of the mass of some black holes. It's insane.
https://youtu.be/QgNDao7m41M
This kind of images have always made me feel scared. I don't know how to explain it. The thought of something that is incredibly MUCH bigger than whatever I could possibly imagine, and knowing it exists... we're just nothing compared to the rest of the universe
They said "known". Of course it has to be up for debate. We do not know what is at our own ocean's deepest depths. There is no way-none- that we can even begin to guess at what the largest star in space is.
"known"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In a way, they found bigger stars.
Edit: I was wrong, well, yes they did find bigger stars, but they also measured VY Canis Majoris more accurately and found that it's not as large as they originally thought.
Leharen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about VY Canis Majoris?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it's third largest now, after the two I listed.
Edit: I was wrong, they measured VY Canis Majoris more accurately and found that it's not as large as they originally thought.
nakedjay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know man. He just thought something and typed it out, and it made me think something ("looks like he's shilling and trying his best to look like he's not") and I typed it out.
As mind blowing as that is, honestly, it blows my mind more knowing that we are able to know of its existence without having ever really left our own planet.
Mcquiz ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 16:24:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This doesn't sound so mindblowing until you realise how much of the Solar system is just space.
Oh. No big deal man. Plus on top of being a cool video. You also taught me something I was curious about reddit but not enough to look up. That if someone edits something I replied to I get a notification. So thanks
One star is denser than the other. So even if one star's volume is much larger, the difference in the amount of matter between the two might be a lot smaller than you would assume.
But to truly appreciate this you must have a sense of appreciation for the scale of the solar system. The distances involved are a holy shot moment in themselves.
first i thought you meant the distance between uranus and the sun and was like "meh". then i thought you meant it was the size of the ellipse uranus takes and i was impressed. then i realised you meant the whole length it travels around the sun. wow
Or if you line up dollar bills from the US National debt end to end they reach about half way from Neptune to Uranus. Also, space is 99.999968% empty space
This stuff is so amazing. We are dwarfed by our planet. Our planet is dwarfed by the sun. The sun is extremely dwarfed by that. Something so big. So massive. It's unbelievable
zaklco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the planets in the solar system would fit between the earth and the moon
Dasaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. I did the calcuation of that before and it's a lot smaller. Doing a quick google search:
According to Wikipedia VY Canis Majoris has diameter roughly 13.2 AU (1 AU = Distance from earth to Sun) so the radius is 6.6 AU. The distance from Sun to Jupiter about 5.2 AU, while Sun to Saturn about 9 AU.
It's diameter doesn't even come close to Uranus:
Uranus is an average distance of 19.2 AU
19.2 AU is the distance from the sun to Uranus. So the size of Uranus's orbit would be about double that: 38.4 AU.
VY Canis Majoris would fit inbetween the Sun and a little bit past Saturn. It falls short by 6 AU of Uranus's orbit radius so there's no way it's bigger than it's diameter.
This just blew my mind. I just went outside to look at saturn and trying to imagine all that empty space being one enormous star is insane. Honestly, I can hardly fathom this.
โA billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. โRobert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997โ
[deleted] ยท 170 points ยท Posted at 00:19:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Hiatal hernia with horrible GERD mixed in there. Can't have caffeinated or carbonated beverages, no fried foods, no heavy red sauced foods, no spicy foods, no chocolate. If I do then I basically wake up choking on stomach acid in the middle of the night. It sucks horribly. Like, I'd only wish this on the worst (extremely evil) people. But I'm healthier overall because of it so I got that going for me I guess.
Might be my favorite so far. Even though there are many really grwat facts in here. This one really seems to holy shit my brain. Big mumbers are crazy.
Nope. Gonna need to see the paper work on that one. I doubt they can make a billion Coca-colas a day.
IZ3820 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He thinks human life is a little more than 100,000 years old?
mehwoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:41 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly right, depending on your definition.
According to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
IZ3820 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:18:13 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Homo sapiens isn't "human life," the genus Homo is. Homo has been around for a rough million years.
mehwoot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:41 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a technical distinction that deliberately differs from how the majority of people would interpret the sentence. He clearly means modern humans and in that respect he is correct.
IZ3820 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:35 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't. It's only "clearly" what he meant when you know the time period.
mehwoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:28 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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The_Hof ยท 1212 points ยท Posted at 15:09:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is seen on the companyโs aircraft. The airline said that after Sundayโs ceremony the plane successfully completed a flight to Hong Kong.
"Attention passengers, the captain would like to remind you that the no smoking sign is on and to tell him he's being a good boy and... holy shit, he's eating his own poop!"
Nice! Just stole some content from the comment above mine :)
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shoulda put a picture of No Russian as the minigame. Too soon? For those that don't know, No Russian was a mission in CoD:MW2 where you basically staged a terrorist attack on a US airport and gunned down innocent civilians.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russians are orthodox. The water the priest is sprinkling on the guns is considered "blessed" by God via the priest, and is usually used to "spiritually cleanse" the church attendants or even babies during baptism and couples soon to be married.
However, in Russia, priests spiritually bless war tools, apparently.
Source: family is orthodox.
waigl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not really a dress. I was picturing some Spetsnaz type of Russian man in a fairy outfit and a wand that squirts out water waving it on a submarine or fighter jet.
Nalivai ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:18:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They sprinkle water on a fucking spacecrafts!
Always gets me: rocket science, goddamn spacecrafts, and some primitive cultic shit
As a northern Mexican I have sacrificed a few myself, I just rubbed oil, butter and spices and slow roast them for several hours, while me.and the tribe chug a few beers, once its ready, we keep chugging down beers along with the sacrifice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
im glad i read this after taking nepals airline.
landing in nepal at night is kind of fucked because there are no lights when you land, they just tell you youre landing and then all the sudden you hit the ground
I thought this said "The river runs red", referencing Vladimir from LoL, thought that was odd to include, but I guess it'd still have been semi-relevant considering the Putin conversation.
Elranzer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:39:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Finland
More people live in Dallas than in Finland.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:40:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Dallas metro area is such a sprawly shit-hole. It is not a city. It is a mere suburban waste-land of horrid highways and strip malls.
37 independent nation states across the globe has a higher population density than that pathetic excuse of a city. The entire country of Vietnam, a country big enough that the U.S. Army got lost in its jungles in the 60s and 70s have a higher population density than Dallas.
We should stop calling suburbs suburbs, and just describe them as Dallas.
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Dallas metro area is such a sprawly shit-hole. It is not a city. It is a mere suburban waste-land of horrid highways and strip malls.
BeastDen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm looking at a map right now and there's no stretch of the imagination under which this is true.
Okay I take that back. If you go by a stupidly convoluted path you *could * get to N Korea from Norway by only passing through Russia, but going that route makes no sense at all
Kite- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That state is called "People's Republic of Korea".
pruwyben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Finland and North Korea both border on Russia, but I think there are other countries that would definitely be considered between the two, such as China.
Desnt this mean that in winter, because there is a land border between Alaska and far east Russia, there is a time you can get into NK in a car from America, passing only two borders?
HTLX2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eastern Sweden*
Squigler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's actually no country between Finland and North Korea if you go by the sea.
jkman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:00:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Theres 4 at most. China, Russia, Mongolia, and maybe kazakhstan depending on where you draw the line. If you said there is only 1 country connecting finland and North Korea, then yes, it would be Russia.
Nobody said anything about drawing a straight line (at least in American English I don't think "between" implies that, it implies the "connected"' variant you state).
jkman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Between could have a few different meanings. I guess it just depends on the context then.
Except Kaliningrad, the part of Russia that borders Poland, is an exclave, surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, and doesn't connect with the rest of Russia. So one would need to cross at least one other country (either Lithuania, Belarus, or Ukraine) to get from Poland to North Korea.
AND it was the 27th and final letter of the alphabet, so when school children were memorizing the alphabet, they would finish with "...X, Y, Z, and, per se, 'and'" so the phrase "and per se and" got distorted into "Ampersand"
[deleted] ยท 228 points ยท Posted at 23:42:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DesDubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
keplar ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:54:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is true. The first Latin-English dictionary made wrote words out by digraphs, which was fine except for when words only had one letter. In those cases it simply put the letter, followed by "per se, (the letter again)" meaning "(the letter), in and of itself" followed by its meaning. The entry for "I" for example, was "I, per se I..." and the entry for & was "&, per se &..." - and per se and - ampersand.
Purgid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this not much higher up the list?! Holy shit!
hejado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's freaky.
jessej37 ยท 1327 points ยท Posted at 20:57:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The longest piece of English literature ever written is over 4,000,000 words long, was written by a single person, and is a super smash bros fan fiction.
I think that this is the most current version of the story but I'm not 100% sure. It's 221 chapters and is still in progress. While looking for the link I came across a few interesting facts about the story. It's being written by a high school age male who started writing it while trying to learn English and just never stopped writing. It's over 8.5 times the length of the entire Lord of the Rings series, is currently at 221 chapters, and recommends what songs you should listen to while reading.
Nobody can get past the first two parts so we can't tell
hylian122 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:50:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just skipped to the last chapter and someone was coming back from a poorly worded vacation or something, but I didn't read long enough to find out who.
It's still impressive, don't get me wrong. I mean, he's been writing it for 7+ years now, and does occasionally go in and rewrite sections. I hope he's not in high school anymore, but it's got to be daunting even for him to rewrite FOUR MILLION WORDS. Yeah, it's bad, but it's still "Holy shit, some kid wrote 4,047,350 words of SSB fanfic!" I mean, that's nearly as much as the entire 15 books of The Wheel of Time. Fair play to him, eh?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:15:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found it to be much better on the second read, by which time I was accustomed to the writer's unique style and the large cast of characters. 3rd reading, perhaps somewhat less so, as although you notice a lot of clever details that you might have missed the first or second time, some of the plot holes become very distracting. That being said, the work is not really about the over-arching narrative, it is a series of self contained episodes, with the author introducing diverse themes and characters from one episode to the next. It is also a highly meta-fictional and at times satirical work, and fully understanding it is difficult without a strong knowledge of the literature it makes reference to, most notably the Pokemon universe and early 21st century Nintendo.
A little late, but yes, I read the first few chapters. It's about some kid whose parents are never around and he gets a Lucario (In the Prequel.. Yes this thing is a SEQUEL) And the Subspace army or some shit invades all their games and Master hand and Crazy hand pop up and tell them they gotta go into all the games and save the Smashers from the Subspace army.
At least that's what it was during the Earthbound section of the story. I stopped reading at the start of the Metroid section. I might get around to reading the rest of it one day.
Did he predict Cloud, or was Sakurai inspired by his favorite SSB fanfic?
Aprikoat ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:09:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like, my immortal bad or..?
jm419 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:21:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I think that stands alone
DrQuint ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:50:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My immortal actually had plenty of fics of equal quality.
Honestly, these mashup fics are too common and mundane by now. It's when someone writes something like Tails Gets Trolled, something still as stupid but with clear moments of pure brilliance to them, that I truly get impressed.
Huck Finn, Shakespeare, the Awakening (?), etc. Basically I hated anything that was written with really weird grammar. Huck was probably the worst and I swear I could not understand half the words in that book.
Ah, that makes sense. I enjoyed Huck Finn, but all my family is from Missouri so the accents didn't throw me off at all. Not a huge Shakespeare fan, but I'd rather have that than this slog of a fanfic. Didn't have the (maybe) pleasure of reading The Awakening, though, so I can't speak to that. My issues mainly come from books that drone on and on without anything actually happening. You know, the ones where a few chapters in you start wondering if they were paid by the word? Les Misรฉrables is probably the worst for this, IMO.
That's interesting. I don't remember too clearly but I thought Les was decent in plot compared to a lot of other books. Not anything I would read for fun but it's also not as empty as something like Gatsby. It was a pretty easy read but I still thought Gatsby just had the silliest plot in the world.
Well, I love the overall plot of Les Mis, but I just struggled my way through it. It seemed like there were dozens of pages of just descriptive filler between any scenes that were actually interesting. I had a lot of life upheaval going on that year, though, so that may have had something to do with it. I don't know that I'll try again anytime soon, mind you.
And yeah, I'm still not sure how Gatsby became a Great Novel. It's all a bit ridiculous and everyone feels really two-dimensional.
Compared to that My Little Pony/ Fallout fanfiction that's also longer than LOTD, but isn't nearly as terrible, if, you know, you can get past the concept.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ongoing for 7+ years, starting in high school? I bet it's absolutely fascinating for someone in that field!
[deleted] ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 01:49:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can see it now. In hundreds of years.
Students I trust you read the assigned chapters of the epic poem "The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest" by Aura Channeler Chris. Today we'll be discussing some values of the ancient society known as Planet Earth by taking a look at Chris and his loyal companion Lucario.
[deleted] ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 00:46:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you might have misused the word "literature"
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 01:40:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I see no obvious typos or bad grammar in the first chapter - although it does contain a defensive note from the author that his original character is not a Mary Sue.
My longest is the Hard Reset Trilogy (saga? epic? I don't know anymore) clocking in at about 300,000 across three main chapters, an alternate ending, a side story, and an alternate universe written by a different author.
I'm ashamed to admit that I once read a 500,000 word fanfic in one go... It wasn't even that good. Was just desperate to find something good to read after drawing from the bottom of the well.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:10:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But can we have a link? My curiosity is killing me.
zilas11 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:24:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dwrlewis ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 00:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit...4,000,000 words. Throughout my entire university course, my combined essay writings over the period of three years should add to around 150,000. They dedicated themselves to a fanfiction equivalent to nearly 27 years of university essays...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we only counting individual books? The Wheel of Time is 4.3M words according to this random site from Google. It probably would have been longer if Robert Jordan hadn't died toward the end.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:09 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if we aren't counting individual books, then there's a whole shitload of ghostwritten pulpy fiction series, you can't compete with those.
It's being written by a high school age male who started writing it while trying to learn English
...I've never felt like such a lazy fuck. This guy's DOING something, like really doing it. People might criticize, but fuck it, dude's learning and shit.
l_2_the_n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
... and how many 8x11 pages would that be, printed on paper in 10 pt. Times New Roman? /r/someonedothemath
querceton ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 18:32:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're going to kill someone what's wrong with doing it by guillotine over the electric chair or something ?
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 18:40:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying that that matters.
I just find it interesting, because in school we were taught that guillotines were so antiquated and had not been used in eons. When, in reality, the were used up until the decade of my birth.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:14:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guillotine is less humane to the people watching and doing.
Why? Because a bit of blood is somehow worse than watching someone be fried by electricity? And (correct me if I'm wrong) wouldn't the guillotine be a quicker death?
anti-kit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:28:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i guess you could argue its not about how you die, but the style of execution, you are pretty much had your head dangling to the side and looking at the basket in which you know your head is gonna land in, idk, personally if i got to choose guillotine in a death sentence i would, its prob the least painful death you could have. people have said even a lethal injection is still painful.
Stopping your heart with potassium is pretty painful since it's essentially a heart attack. That's why they give a barbiturate and paralytic agent beforehand. The barbiturate to induce a unconsciousness and the paralytic agent to prevent you from screaming if the barb doesn't work.
anti-kit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh, i didnt know that, i guess lethal injection is the best way to go then.
Oh....I was trying to imply lethal injection is an extremely inhuman way of killing somebody since there's no way to tell whether the person dying isn't feeling pain or just completely unable to scream in agony because of the drugs.
anti-kit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:14 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OH.... i read that wrong... not so sure if lethal injection is a good way to go anymore :/
Gh0st1y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I'd prefer the guillotine.
cambiro ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Count Dooku was present at the last execution.
404_Dude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:25:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Immortal Jellyfish. "It is the only known case of anย animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual." It basically has access to the fountain of youth.
ehkodiak ยท 262 points ยท Posted at 19:22:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I've reverted to an immature stage after reaching sexual maturity :P
qngff ยท 4646 points ยท Posted at 12:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In the late 1930's during some Russian civil war, there was a group of Czechoslovakians trapped in Russia who needed to get back home. However, battle lines were drawn directly over the path home West and neither side liked them. So they decided to go East instead since the world is round. They eventually managed to get a train somewhere along the way. The soldiers on guard tried to stop them but they had a train. Guns don't stop trains. Once they it to the Pacific Ocean they got a boat and sailed to the States. From there they trekked across America, sailed to Europe, and headed straight back to Czehoslovakia. This took about 1.5 years.
Edit: Thanks to /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov for fact checking me. Amazing how they did it isn't it.
misadelph ยท 891 points ยท Posted at 14:05:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
late 1910s, but close enough. And they didn't just flee on a train from Russians shooting at them. There were a lot of them and their revolt brought down Bolshevik power across the entire Siberia and they for some time controlled the entire Trans-Siberian railroad, or something like that.
Edit: Oops, I thought you asked "why" didn't the Army go and help them get out.
juandh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:12:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's exactly what it did though sortofreallyitwasaboutfightingcommiesofcourse
Kniis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:29:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be made in to a movie!
Curudril ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A Czech here (Czechoslovakia divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 FYI), we are very proud of our legionaries (that's how we call these soldiers, they were basically defectors who fought against Austria). At first, they fought for Russia but after Bolsheviks took the power in Russia some misunderstandings appeared and the legionaries had to escape somehow so they basically highjacked trains and gained control over the Trans-Siberian railroad to go east because they couldn't go west, obviously. Bolsheviks actually decided to murder the Russian royal family ASAP because they feared the legionaries could try to free them. It took them between 1 - 2 years to get back to Europe using the trains. Their paths diverged in Vladivostok where some of them chose to go to the USA, some chose to go by ships through Indian Ocean, Australia etc. Many legionaries fought for the UK and France as well. Their bravery was one of the main reasons Czechoslovakia was considered a winner of the WW1.
He's off by about twenty years (late 1910s, not 1930s), but he has the gist of it. It was far more than just a train though. This was a pretty large military force that controlled a vast region of Russia for a short period. The Czechoslovak Legion is one of my favorite topics! I wrote a bit about it on /r/AskHistorians waaaay back. Here you go:
Founding the Legion
Back in 1914, when war broke out, tens of thousands of Czech and Slovak expatriates lived in the Russian Empire. Their homelands were under the control of Austria-Hungary, and generally speaking, the Czechs and Slovaks weren't all that happy about this. With the declaration of war, many who were still within the Hapsburg's empire were drafted to fight for rulers who they had little love for. The expatriates, however, threw their lot in with the Entente. While Russia was the most notable location for this (and the one we'll be focusing on) there were also tens of thousands who served on the Western Front and in Italy. These were mostly ex-pats living in France, and ethnic Czechs and Slovaks from the Austro-Hungarian Army POWs captured by Italy.
But back to Russia. Sensing that this was their chance to establish a national homeland, the ex-pat community in Russia petitioned the Czar to form the Druzhina, a small fighting unit generally translated as retinue, but literally meaning fellowship. It was small, less than 800 men (although many more living in Russia would soon follow), and they were deployed to the front against the Austo-Hungarians, with an eye towards their propaganda value to encourage defections within the Czech and Slovak conscripts. And it worked! Thousands risked crossing over the lines to surrender themselves, and they were happy to then join their compatriots fighting under the Russian banner. And many who had not surrendered specifically for that purpose were nevertheless easy to recruit from POW camps. The size of the unit kept growing, first to a Regiment, then a Brigade, until finally it was an entire Corps numbering some 40,000, a mix of former POWs and enthusiastic ex-pats.
The Legion was an important component of the future Czechslovak state that was being envisioned by the Entente powers and the expat leadership under Thomas Masaryk and the Czech National Council, but while the Czech-Slovaks had something to fight for, the Russian peasant conscripts... not so much. With the Russian Revolution in early 1917, their situation got a bit precarious. Under the Kerensky government, they still had political support certainly, but the will to fight was getting sapped from the (no longer) Imperial Russian Army. They continued to be one of the most committed fighting units on the Eastern Front, but the events of November 7th threw a wrench in their plans. The Czech-Slovak leadership - both the CNC and the Legion in Russia (A term coined for them by the CNC, not what they called themselves) - made it clear that they wished to take no side in the ensuing Civil War, and simply to extricate the Legion from Russia and bring them to the Western Front to continue the fight. They had fully endorsed the Entente powers however, who promised to assist in their evacuation.
The Long Trek East
The immediate turmoil of Russia following the Bolshevik takeover placed the Legion in limbo. Fighting against the Central Powers had essentially ceased, and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March left them isolated from any sort of support. A small number were able to quickly make their way to Arkhangelsk to be evacuated by the Allied Intervention Force that had occupied the arctic port. The majority though, hoping to get out of Russia, they made the decision to trek over the entire Asian continent via the Trans-Siberian Railroad and evacuate at Vladivostok, where the Allies had also landed troops. To get there though they had to fight. Such a trip would require massive transportation capacity and control of the rails, which no one was willing to share with them. The Germans, who had advanced into Ukraine and were allied with Ukrainian nationalists attempting to take control of the region, were threatening some of the rail junctions that they needed control of in order to start moving east. The Reds, who didn't trust them anyways, were being pressured by the Germans to disarm them and prevent the massive influx of troops that they represented, resulting in open hostilities beginning in late May. Some Czechs had recently accosted a train car full of Austro-Hungarian prisoners on their way to be repatriated and lynched one of the Hungarians on board who had been hurling insults at the Czech-Sovaks, known as the Chelyabinsk Incident. This was used as a pretense to try and fully disarm the Legion, who refused to comply. While having some nominal goals in common with the White forces, there was never any real trust between the two.
Soon, the Legion was spread out along the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They couldn't all move at once of course, but rather had to break into many smaller units in order to control the numerous junctions necessary to complete their journey through hostile territory. Advance elements reached Vladivostok relatively quickly, establishing a base of operations there to support their compatriots who remained further west, building up enough rolling stock to allow them to make the journey (for more info specifically on their awesome armored train, check this previous post of mine). By September, 1918, the Legion controlled 6,000 miles of track stretched from Vladivostok all the way west to the Volga, and a massive collection of 11,000 rail cars to effect their journey (and had continued to grow, to nearly 70,000 people), but being able to now evacuate everything to the east was not going to be easy.
As, at least in theory, part of the Entente (technically they were considered part of the French Army) who was now not only fighting the Central Powers but also gotten themselves involved in the Russian Civil War, the Legion was asked to delay their evacuation, and instead to bolster their forces on the western terminus of their control and tie up the German/Austro-Hungarian forces in the region, as well as to continue fighting the Reds there. They assisted in setting up the KOMUCH in the Volga region, a socialist state that stood against the Bolshevik, but it was short lived and soon collapsed, with the Legion falling back to the Urals. Come the end of the year, the situation of the Legion again became precarious. Although the Entente remained committed to assisting in their withdrawal, the importance of the mission had become minor in the face of the whole end of World War One thing.
Homeward Bound!
Also around that time, Admiral Kolchak had become the nominal leader (Supreme Ruler of all the Russias,) of the White Forces, as head of the Provisional government (although the Whites were quite fractured). He wasn't exactly the leader of the Legion though. They were loosely allied at best, both fighting the Reds, but not always trusting each other. Through 1919, the Legion - and the Whites - were essentially conducting a slow, fighting withdrawal as the Red forces pushed east, until finally in October the Legion was given the green-light to simply pack things up and make a full break for home, as the Entente powers holding Vladivostok were preparing to evacuate and break off their support for the Whites.
As the Legion was preparing to leave for good. Kolchak's government collapsed with the capture of Omsk, his capital. As he traveled through Legion controlled territory, he was arrested by them on the orders of the Entente powers. In late January, to ease their evacuation, the Czech Legion agreed to surrender Kolchak to the Bolshevik aligned forces in control of Irkutsk, as well as to hand over a large amount of gold bullion that they had managed to take control of. After handing over the former White leader and much of the gold, the Legion was given safe passage out of region. Kolchak was executed a few weeks later, and within a month the Legion had managed to move their entire force out of Irkutsk unmolested. From there, getting to Vladivostok was rather simple, and soon ship after ship started carrying them home. It took until September 2nd, 1920 for all of them to leave the Russian soil, with the total number evacuated pegged at 67,730, including not only the soldiers but also wives, children, and hangers-on. About 4,000 of their number were left behind in the ground.
Upon reaching their new Czechoslovakian state, the Legion quickly became a core component of the new county's military. Their number were perhaps some of the most fiercely patriotic citizens of their homeland, and it is estimated that 13,000 of the former Legionnaires died during World War II either as part of the resistance movement or in German Concentration camps. Veterans would also be generally mistreated by the Soviet backed government that took power after the war, as their history of anti-Communism did little credit to them in the eyes of the state. As for the gold, there are rumors about just how much they held onto, but I don't know if any are confirmed.
Sources
The Czech Legion 1914-1920 by David Bullock
The Czechoslovak Legion by George F. Kennan Russian Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 1957), and Part II from Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1958), pp. 11-28 (If you want a summary longer than mine and have JSTOR access, I recommend this)
The Russian Civil War 1918-1922 by David Bullock
Edit: Added links.
N8-Toe ยท 282 points ยท Posted at 14:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for this well worded and cited response to the question!
I'm a former student military historian with extensive knowledge of the First World War on the Western front, as well as many battlefield tours, and this was the first time I'd ever heard of the Czech Legion (for shame.) I admit the Russian Civil War has always been a massive gap in my reading and gets glossed over by many Western historians.
I was muttering 'fuuuuuuck' as I read this. This story is amazing, and could do so very well in novel or long-form television show format.
Band of Brothers is the highest grossing HBO series in terms of dvd sales and syndication. Too bad the Czech republic doesn't have that sort of audience potential... this story is way more epic.
Imagine starting series 1 as war breaks out... series 2 in the trenches 14-16, series 3 1917 and series 4 Russian Civil War, Series 5 the retreat and final season the return home. There could be a spinoff for the veterans in WW2 and another under Soviet rule. We need the makers of the Wire with Steve McQueen directing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would absolutely love a Band of Brothers style TV show set around the first world war.
Had a prof last year actually who's grandfather was a high-ranking member of the Czechoslovak Legion (on the Slovak end of things). Interesting story he had too: served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Balkans, then the eastern front, captured and joined the legion, came back was certified as "pure Aryan" when that all happened (saw the document, very interesting) worked as a diplomat for Czechoslovakia, I believe did some spying for the west, and fled the Red Army for Canada. Even better is the prof has somewhat followed that path, working for CSIS (Canada's CIA/NSA), and lived in Russia for some time when communism collapsed.
That was a great read, so thanks for that. A question; I had at one point stumbled across the existence of Baron Von Ungern (the Mad Baron, or the Bloody White Baron), and I am wondering what his involvement was in this situation, if any? It seems they were in the same places around the same time, if my memory serves correctly.
By strange coincidence, I quite literally finished reading James Palmer's "The Bloody White Baron" two days ago! Thumbing back , it seems that units loyal to Ungern did work in tandem with the Czechs in mid-1918. Semenov's Special Manchurian Division were badly chewed up in a series of attacks on Bolshevik held positions to attempt to help them out in July, and then later in August, they worked together to push the Reds out of the Transbaikal region with considerably more success. you should be able to access the passage here via Google books. Pages 88-89 are the extent of it.
I'll just go take the book off my shelf! One of my alltime favorite used book store impulse buys. It's been at least half a decade since I read the book though, and apparently my retention to detail isn't on the same level as yours.
Thanks! If you like it, allow me to do a quick shameless plug for my User Profile in /r/AskHistorians! I love to write about things, and you can find a bunch more there!
Arstemis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome response; thanks a lot. I'm something of an amateur historian (I minored in it in college and now teach Russian history), and this oft-forgotten part of history is one of my passions. I immediately thought of this photo, from the Russian declaration of war in 1914. The furthest-back banner says "Freedom for Carpathian Rus'," which definitely applies to the Slovaks, if not the Czechs.
I would be interested in talking with you more about the Russian Imperial Army, if you have the time or inclination.
Interesting. Thanks for the elaborate responce.
I feel like I've heard a very similar story to qngff's about a Belgian motorised division that was sent at the beginning of WWI to help the Russians, but that got caught in the civil war. They ended up travelling to Vladivostok, took a ferry to the US and even joined in end-of-war celebrations in the US.
Am I mixing things up or is that a whole other story?
Edit: Wikipedia link ; so I guess it is a different story
Different story. Both the British and the Belgians send armored car detachments to Russia though, since the nature of the war was much better suited for their use on the Eastern front than the Western front.
Isord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds absolutely incredible and I'd like to read more. Would you recommend the David Bullock books for the lay person? I'd also like to read more about the allied troops in Russia during the civil war, if the second of his books covers that topic as well.
I have a copy of a great book called ANZACs in Archangel where the author travels to Russia and writes about the history of the Aussies who joined up to fight the Bolsheviks. There was no official involvement from our government, but they attached themselves to British units. Since I found out about the allies in Russia I've been fascinated by it, it isn't one of the conflicts you learn about at school.
Bullock's books are pretty easy for the layreader. Kennan's articles are much better though, IMO. Part I, Part II. I don't remember what the cut-off is, but since they date from 1957, I think you might be able to read them online for free, with no need for institutional access. Might require making a free account, but that takes only a few minutes at most.
As for the Allied Intervention, generally, any book on the Civil War should devote at least a bit to that, but if you want a focus on that specifically, "Savage Wars of Peace" by Max Boot devotes a chapter to it, although mostly just the American experience.
By train, although many actually crossed in Canada after disembarking in Vacouver. But not all of them did the overland route. Some did the whole journey by boat though, through the Panama Canal (I assume), docking in Norfolk, VA before continuing onwards. Their exploits had been well publicized though, and in the case of those on the trains, they were in some cases fรชted by locals in the towns that they passed through.
misaak8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know of any books base on this? My father is a huge history buff, and loves reading historical fiction or history in the style of storytelling. I would love to find a book about this for Christmas.
Bullock's book is a brief one looking at it from a very basic perspectice. "The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922" by Joan Mcguire Mohr covers it more in-depth. That might be the one you want.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hi! When you talk about the Legion obeying orders, who were they being taken from? It was from the entente- which one? And why? Did they owe them any allegiance, really? I'm sorry if you answered that in your post; I may have misread.
The Entente Powers (aka the Allied Powers of WWI). Technically, the Czech Legion was considered part of the French Army, I believe due to agreement made between the French and the Czech National Council
Yeah, its been awhile since I did any reading on the Legion (wrote this over a year ago) so I'd need to go back and check on the specifics of how the system of overall command worked in practice, but they definitely were in contact with the Entente.
Just for fun, can you think of any comparable parallels in history? A more or less rogue group operating towards their own agenda but still obeying the chain of command from one of the major players in a large scale war?
Well, the Polish Home Army during World War II is an interesting case. They were aligned with the Polish Government in Exile which was based on London, and allied against Nazi Germany, which obviously was occupying Poland.
But, if you recall, the USSR invaded Poland in 1939 too! So the Home Army (AK) hardly liked the Soviets any more than the Germans! The result was at best an uneasy truce between the AK, which was the largest Polish resistance org, and the much smaller Communist backed resistance groups, occasionally breaking into fights between each other! When the Soviets began entering Poland in 1944, it was a rather precarious situation, and there is plenty of reason to believe that at least in part the decision of the Red Army to halt before Warsaw and not aid the Uprising there was to allow the AK to wear itself out against the Germans and not be able to prevent Soviet domination (See Here for more on this). And regardless, that was certainly the practical effect, and when the Soviets liberated Poland, the AK was ordered to be disbanded. Not all of them did though, of course, and continued to fight their (new) occupiers into the 1950s, although obviously with no real success in the end.
So not an exact parallel, but I do see some similarities.
Another one I thought of would be the Mexican Revolution. This post I wrote up covers a very specific part, the "Ten Tragic Days", but the conflict as a whole is filled to the brim with tentative alliances and tons of backstabbing!
The Zapatistas and Villistas especially fit your bill, being the more radical of the revolutionary groups. They basically were fighting whoever was in power, at times allied with moderate groups, only to turn on their erstwhile allies when they proved not to be reform minded enough for their liking! Good stuff!
Glad to be of service. I'm blanking on any other analogous situations, but I do like writing about weird stuff, and keep a compendium of 'em updated here!
nickik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:36 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. The Polish Story is such a sad one. I have been reading Alan Brooks War Diaries and he often talks to the polish commanders. You can feel that would really like to help them, but he can do nothing for them.
chcampb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some of the boats dropped them off on the west coast of the US or Canada, after which they took the train across North America to take boats over the Atlantic for Europe. Others took boats the whole way, but either way, their end goal was Europe, and the new Czechoslovakian state.
They didn't go all at once. It took the better part of a year for them all to evacuate from Vladivostok. Some traveled across the US or Canada by train, others went by boat the whole way to Europe.
The "Far Eastern Republic" and Japan's occupation of Siberia were ways in which the Allied powers helped the Czechoslovak Legion to escape, it did happen.
aykontakt ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:14:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And a banana for size.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are all wrong. It was the '70s, the group was called the Warriors and they weren't taking a train to Czechoslovakia they were going to Coney Island. Sheesh!
OK_Soda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why did they go that far? Why not just go east until they escaped the problem area, then go south and around that way?
qngff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody really liked the Czechs in that area and Africa was pretty much out of the question.
Holy shit! Talk about dedication. One way is blocked, so just take the really looooong way around...the world.
idma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WW2 has a ton of amazing stories like this. Even my uncle has an amazing story of swimming from China to Taiwan to avoid the draft from China. The fact that he doesn't know how to swim properly makes this even more crazy. But when you are faced with only one option and you got nothing else better to do you might as well do it, or die
i've heard a lot of stories similar to this from taxi drivers in tw where they claimed to float on their backs while keeping their rice bowls on their front but im pretty skeptical, the strait is 110 miles across and it took a team of relay swimmers in wetsuits, with a boat to guide them, 5 days to cross by swimming
Decyde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still probably had a better trip than if they flew United.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to some Japanese sailors that washed up on the west coast of the US before westward expansion...early 1800s I think. The Indians in the Washington area took them to a French fort in what's now Canada. No one had heard of Japan and there was no ship route back, so they French assumed they were Chinese and sent them to London. They were sent to China the long way and I think most of them made it to Japan. One I think just stayed in China.
I'm reminded of the Koreans who got drafted into the Japanese army, fought the Russians and were captured, were forced to fight the Germans and were captured, and were forced to fight the Americans on D-Day and were captured by some very confused Americans.
During the first world war Belgium got forced into a trench war where it couldn't use it's super modern armored cars (car+steel plate+machine gun). So they paid the British and the Americans to put them on a boat around to world to Russia. When they were almost at the Russian front the revolution broke out and they had to return the same way they came.
It's really weird that so few belgians know this because it has an entire page in the Artis Historia history of Belgium which a lot of old people still have lying around.
That sounds more stupid than anything else to me. Why travel around the world and across the Pacific when they could have just gone around? I mean we live in a 3d world we can move more than two directions.
When I have time I'm gonna look this up cause that just sounds off to me.
THUMB5UP ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
munky9002 ยท 4942 points ยท Posted at 11:23:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There a number of people who were in Hiroshima and survived the nuclear blast and went to nagasaki and survived the second nuclear blast a few days later.
I'm actually hoping for somewhere in central U.S. or Canada. I know Obsidian wants to do New Orleans if they get to make another game.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 95% sure it won't take place out of North America, at least. We could easily see somewhere on the border with Canada, or in Baja if they make another one out West.
Canada is actually part of the U.S. in the Fallout universe actually, but yeah a game there would most likely take place on the border. I'm hoping for either Midwest U.S./Canada or New York for Fallout 5. (So fucking weird to be thinking about that, 4 was but a myth not too long ago) I'd love a DLC or something outside the U.S. though. I'm kinda disappointed NV didn't have a foray into Mexico, that would have been so cool.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know it was annexed, but I always got the impression they wanted to keep it in the continental US. Then again, with it being 200 years after the bombs, territories get redrawn and battled for, so I could see it.
I'd love a proper foray into Mexico, especially if they throw in a few more cowboy touches. Red Dead Redemption with vaults and power armor, really.
I've actually only played a little bit of it because I personally don't like the game style very much. It's not particularly my cup of tea. It just seemed appropriate.
There was probably someone who lived in Hiroshima, left to go to Nagasaki, heard Hiroshima got nuked went "phew, dodged a nuke there!" stayed in Nagasaki, got nuked and died.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:32:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, they really must have believed they were dying in the apocalypse. Imagine all the people who have died never knowing if everything was going to okay.
Ctotheg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Wow there are about 160 double A-bomb victims.
Japanese source:
[1] ๅบๅณถใป้ทๅดใง๏ผๅบฆ่ขซ็ใ็ด๏ผ๏ผ๏ผไบบใๅบๅณถ็ฅๅฟต้คจใ่ชฟๆป [160 Double A-bomb Survivors Found, Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims says.]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 2005-08-01. ๅบๅณถใ้ทๅดใธใฎๅ็ๆไธๅพใไธกๅธใง๏ผๅบฆ่ขซ็ใใๅฏ่ฝๆงใฎใใไบบใๅฐใชใใจใ็ด๏ผ๏ผ๏ผไบบใซใฎใผใใใจใใๅฝ็ซๅบๅณถๅ็ๆญปๆฒก่ ่ฟฝๆผๅนณๅ็ฅๅฟต้คจ๏ผๅบๅณถๅธ๏ผใฎ่ชฟๆปใงๆใใใซใชใฃใใ
I even heard there were some people who didn't survive Hiroshima and then had their bodies brought to Nagasaki for an open casket and were destroyed by the 2nd blast.
mohrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were also many that died in the Hiroshima blast and did not die in the Nagasaki blast.
JMAAB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The key is to be in a box I gather.
Kepgnar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this term "a number" really bothers me. Anytime you're talking about anything, there's always "a number" even if it's none! You saying "I've seen this happen a number of times" DOESN'T REALLY MEAN ANYTHING! YOU COULD'VE SEEN IT ZERO TIMES, WHICH IS A NUMBER.
I know people usually use it in place of several, but still. Come on.
I often do Number 1 with other people in public rest rooms. But I always do Number 2, alone. So I'd say 2 is the lonliest number. On the other hand, you CAN text while doing Number 2 so...
Toofpic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, man, you will be surprised that all those bigmac guys can't do shit on their own and just take other's music. Check out three dog night, and listen to some classic rock in general, you won't regret.
joho0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sad fact - the guy who sang that (Cory Wells from Three Dog Night) died not too long ago. I've talked to him a few times (I'm closer with the rest of the band) and he seemed like a nice, but reserved guy.
according to the wikipedia, there were ~165 in 2006 when a documentary was produced (Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know when you're a fan of a sports team and they're losing their season so you jump on a winning team's bandwagon and then they start losing too, and you think you're cursed?
Imagine being that guy trying to pick your third destination after Nagasaki.
He was explaining the explosion to a friend, "it's was a blinding white light, then a shock wave that destroyed everything, the light looked JUST LIKE THAT ONE! GET DOWN"
NoShaDow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of them dragged himself to work after surviving hiroshima only to get to nagasaki and survive that one, and I thought I was having a rough week at work.
the one guy who lived to 93 years old after being hit with two atomic bombs.....
feb914 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's what German national football team feeling about. terorists wanted to bomb them in Paris but turned away, terrorists wanted to bomb them in Hamburg but prevented.
There is really one that is famous; Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He worked for Mitsubishi and was in Hiroshima on August 6th for a business meeting when the city was bombed. He survived and went back home to Nagasaki the next day and was there when it was bombed on August 9th. The second blast of radiation must have balanced out the cellular mutation from the first because he ended living to the age of 93 and only passed in 2010.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A number of people? If I recall there was only one, Tsutomu_Yamaguchi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It just hit me how fuckin insane it is to drop a nuke on two major cities full of civilians. I mean it had to be done to end the war and save our own skins, but god damn what a fuckin move.
rexound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have to wonder the panic of the second time they got bombed, not just for their own safety. they might induce that every city will get bombed eventually.
my old history professor interviewed and translated poems written by a double survivor..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many of those people survived the blast, but many of those same people also had their stem cell populations completely destroyed. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldnt know about stem cells.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is the city of Kokura who would have been bombed if Hiroshima would have been cloudy on August 6th. On August 9th it was supposed to be the target. Since it was cloudy in Kokura Nagasaki got nuked.
I have heard this as well, but I think it was only one person IIRC
munky9002 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Only 1 person has been publicly recognized and confirmed by the government. Though not a huge amount of people did that move because there are other cities to go because hiroshima and nagasaki arent exactly neighbours.
After Hiroshima was destroyed, tens of thousands of people fled the city. At least some of them would have ended up in any nearby city such as Nagasaki. Not only is it not a "holy shit" fact that this happened, it's almost statistically impossible for it not to have happened.
daboog ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:46:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm sure they died very soon afterwards, nothing can survive that much radiation.
Christopher Lee, the actor who played Saruman in LOTR and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels, was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was the step-cousin of James Bond writer Ian Fleming, was a Flight Lieutenant for the British Royal Airforce during WW2 and killed multiple Nazis, climbed Mt. Vesuvius three days before it erupted, tripped over a live bomb and survived, AND released a symphonic death metal album at the age of 88.
Fun fact: The factoids used in the first commercial featuring "The Most Interesting Man in the World" were all things that Ernest Hemingway actually did.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:43:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More fun facts: the definition of factoid actually refer to things that sound like true things but are actually false or inconclusive.
IIRC the role was too physically demanding for Lee, so they gave him Saruman instead. He was often consulted upon Tolkien's lore as well.
Boseidon ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 20:03:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He may have been the inspiration for James Bond. Also, he was at the last public guillotine execution in public. ALSO ALSO, he was one of very few people on the planet who could rightfully bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire
VonPosen ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:21:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you elaborate on the coat of arms please?
Boseidon ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:15:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Carandinis, Lee's maternal ancestors, were given the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Cinemareview notes: "Cardinal Consalvi was Papal Secretary of State at the time of Napoleon and is buried at the Pantheon in Rome next to the painter Raphael. His painting, by Lawrence, hangs in Windsor Castle.
Straight from the Wikipedia
Ih8Hondas ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:46:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a show about him on the military channel a while back. Fleming had to water his character down to make Bond more believable.
qman1963 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:42:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That dude is a total badass. But wikipedia mentioned him informing on the attack on Pearl harbor. What's the deal with that? Why have I never heard of this? That's huge.
I'd never heard about it either til I watched that documentary on him. The US may have ignored it because at the time the administration was looking for an excuse to enter the war, but public opinion was largely against it.
Last public guillotine execution was in 1939. According to wiki, the audience's behavior was so bad during it they banned all public executions from then on. They did it in private until the 70s.
jurwell ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:39:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any information on the audience's behaviour? Was it down to protestation and revulsion at the protest, or were they bloodthirsty, disrespectful and uncouth?
Apparently a fair number tried to collect blood with handkerchiefs to use as souvenirs. Not sure what else but that does seem rather bad, overall. I can only imagine the mad dash to soak up blood.
jurwell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is also the most British sounding thing in all existence.
kyew ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:26:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if this is a real thing, but I'm going to avoid looking it up so I can go on believing it is.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:06:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Looked it up, it's another name for the British "Special Operations Executive", also known as Churchill's Private Army. So it's real.
Also, when playing Saruman in the Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson was giving him instructions on the sound that should be made when a man gets stabbed in the back. Sir Christopher, having witnessed this event several times in his life, corrected Peter Jackson, and told him what it actually sounds like when a man is stabbed in the back. They went with Sir Christopher's suggestion.
His album wasn't dark enough to be death metal, and there were three of them + Christmas carols that he recorded. And he played Dracula, and Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.
I know you're talking about the 1944 eruption, but I choose to believe Christopher Lee was two thousand years old, and had climbed Vesuvius three days before Pompeii was destroyed.
He was also a legendary bullshitter. He exaggerated and made stuff up on the fly during interviews just to fuck with the journalists who then didn't bother checking the facts. Some of that stuff was true or a version of the truth, the rest he made up.
He actually released multiple metal albums but of my head it wasn't symphonic death. He worked with Rhapsody so that's (symphonic) power metal and some albums were as Charlemagne (on mobile so I probably made a typo there) which is heavy metal. It is quite good as well. Damn, Sir Christopher Lee was a boss. Maybe the inky celebrity I actually mourned.
that's quite interesting to me, since my family tree goes all the way back to Robert E. Lee... the Lee family was my grandma's grandma and since then our name changed. but I guess that would make me distantly related to him maybe XD?
My understanding was he was in the SAS. There's a story where Peter Jackson was counseling Lee on the sounds to make when being stabbed in the back by Wormtongue and Christopher Lee told him, "That's not the noise a man makes when you stab a man in the back."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That the high school that's being changed to Gregg Popovich High School?
According to Stuff You Missed In History Class, he was part of Churchill's elite secret service called the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
galacian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I am also related to these people, I was excited when I found out that Christopher Lee was distant family because he was a total badass. To be fair, the Lee family is notoriously prolific, they even included a song about it in the musical 1776
SquidCap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also served as voluntary in Finland, he never went to battle or did anything useful really, just hang around.. In hindsight he was most likely a spy..
His wife's father didn't like him and made him get the blessing of the king of Sweden before he could marry her because he didn't think he would be able to. He did.
tgraefj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also has a few metal christmas albums. Little Drummer Boy is pretty metal.
If you'd ever seen the music video with Christopher Lee where the guy is singing about the Saxons then you probably wouldn't call it symphonic death metal... It's one of the cringiest things I've ever seen.
And was the only actor in the LOTR trilogy that J.R.R. Tolkien himself gave his blessing to, though Tolkien had apparently wanted Lee to play the part of Gandalf in the film versions of his books.
hejado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plus, he probably is a descendant of Genghis Khan.
phynn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when filming LOTR his reaction to being stabbed was supposed to very theatrical. Instead he just went silent and slowly died like all the air had been knocked from his lungs (the version we see in the films). When they cut and asked why he chose to act that way he pointed out that he had experienced people being stabbed to death in his time in the military, a true badass.
He didn't release a death metal album... Sorryto be nitpicky, but Lee 'only' released some cringey, ultra-cheesy Power/Symphonic metal albums about the Middle Ages or Christmas carols (yeah...) that were pretty mediocre.
Not saying it's not impressive, but it's not like the guy was growling/blast beating his way through his 80s. The music was pretty easy-listening, and so cheesy it's difficult to listen to.
Keinichn ยท 2177 points ยท Posted at 13:43:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
You are the most recent result part of a chain of reproduction that has never been broken since the beginning of life.
If you're male and have no siblings sisters, you represent the termination of a billion year chain of women birthing each other.
Edit, for those saying you still pass on your genes by having kids: I'm not talking about passing on genes; I'm talking about physical birth. Women emerge from one another like matryoshka dolls, and each man marks the termination at the final node upon which he sits.
If he has a sister who bears children, the chain continues by nudging around him and carrying on. If he has a maternal aunt who bears children, he's a stray leg. So on and so forth, all the way back. It's a tree, but each branch and twig terminates with a man. We're buds.
jaypenn3 ยท 254 points ยท Posted at 18:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not for looks, with Youk married to Brady's sister
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So there's a matrilineal chain going all the way back. But there's also a patrilineal chain going all the way back. In other words, it's not interesting that you could just pick all the women in your genealogy (a chain of women birthing women) when you could just as easily pick all the men in your genealogy.
The real point is that you're the first virgin in the whole scheme.
Exactly. What the previous poster said was true by the arbitrary definition they chose, it's not some deep and meaningful statement about men. Annoying that that's how they framed it.
I wasn't referring to humans in a recognizable form; I was basing it off of sexual reproduction beginning ~1.2 BYA. That is, the earliest species that produced offspring via what might resonably be called 'birth.'
This is also only partially true. If my father had no sisters he would have been the termination but the chain continued when he knocked up my mother. If i have no sisters i can continue the chain if i knock up a girl.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And instead of women, you should go with females.
Edit:Because of billion years
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it....
What if my grandfather had no sisters, but he had daughters. One of them is my mom, who gives birth to me, and let's say I have no sisters.
That doesn't mean I'd represent the termination of a billion year chain. Just the single generation...right?
So, this can't always be true. Am I missing something here?
I mean the end of that particular line that runs down the many-branched tree. Like, if you start at a man and go back, it's females giving birth to each other the whole way.
Even if a man with no sisters fathers a daughter, that's still a break in his chain of women giving birth to each other. His daughter would be in the birth chain of her mother; she would be continuing that other line, rather than his. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about passing on your genes--just the chain of people physically giving birth to each other.
Oh I get it, you're talking about how everyone has a mother and if you go up a level there's always a mother but if there's no female child then that line of mothers stops. Gotcha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alternatively, if you're female and have no brothers, you have broken your father's (insert late number of years) chain of men who had sons.
Thxxk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What am I missing here? Why can't a woman birth a man who sires a woman? There would never be a chain to begin with.
dharma28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, and mitochondria are passed on by the mother, so men's mitochondria evolved all this way just to end
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.
semiloki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you also represent the termination of an unbroken line of mitochondria as you can only inherit those from your mother.
Lundix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the same vain, something like 0.5% of men (in the world!) carry Genghis Khan's Y chromosome. Meaning that they are in a direct all-male line from him.
Also, there are some things that are only passed on from mother to child, never from the father, such as mitochondria and Judaism. Anyone man without sisters is the end of a long line.
CrossFeet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Plus there are traits passed along only from father to child, so any woman without brothers represents the end of another line. Though in both cases it's more probably the end of a short line branching off from a much longer one, considering the likelihood of cousins etc.
imbiat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
don't call us buds, pal
jmwbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, pal.
_merpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how that works, too. In a way, it's a corruption of the egg via data imperfect data injection (even if necessary). I guess this has always been it's definition, but it's weird how the concept of a father works
TankSwan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well me being a Male only child I see myself as the final form, The ultimate genetic code of the node as you called it.
No, since the beginning of the chain. Completely unnecessary for the beginning of our chain to have been the first instance of life on Earth. Life could have started, and died out completely only for the processes involved in starting life to happen later on.
โLike every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.โ
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as you know.
amphoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it's true for every living thing though so I have no idea why people get so amazed by this
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there's no way to know that. There might have been primitive life forms that were synthesized after the first life forms, and the first life forms might have formed a chain that no longer exists, making us part of a chain of reproduction that is newer than life.
Also, different chains of life forms might have existed simultaneously, then later joined in a single chain, which would cause our chain of reproduction to have started at the union of the two chains, not at the beginning of life.
There might be also life in outer space that is older than life on earth, and that does not make part of our chain.
acm2033 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To put current space travel in perspective, if the earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennisball and it would be 24 feet away.
Since the last Apollo mission, no human has been further than an inch from the surface of the basketball.
When I was younger, I always pictured shuttle astronauts as being able to see the whole earth out the window. The truth is that no human has seen that sight in over 40 years.
Also in the same vein, it actually takes light 6 seconds ~8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel to Earth from the Sun. Which means if the Sun suddenly disappeared, we wouldn't know about it until 6 seconds 8 minutes later.
Soooo humans are as wide as a cunt hair is long or humans are as wide as a cunt hair is wide? Because that really could change thingsโฆ especially depending on the personโฆ
I heard that all of the other planets in our solar system could fit between the earth and our moon. So according to your basketball to tennis ball ratio example, what other objects could represent the rest of the planets?
Damn. Imagine an ant walking an entire kilometer.... now realize that Paul fucking Bunyon would ride that ant if it were scaled properly... that's a mind blowing distance to send someone round trip through the void.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:05:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, most of my time on Reddit the past couple days has been spent arguing about how many potatoes a person can eat in a day if they have no other food.
Also the youngest astronaut who walked on the Moon is Charles Duke who is now 80 years old, there might be a time again where no living humans have ever been to the Moon.
You would think that's it but actually there were plans to go back to the moon and eventually build a station there as well as a much larger space station than the ISS. But Nixon slashed NASA's budget for a new reusable rocket and that's how we ended up with the Space Shuttle. If NASA had been able to be funded properly the space shuttles would have been much more well built and been able to fly a lot more missions. Alternatively if we had stuck to the Saturn V we'd have been able to put much larger payloads into space and built the ISS much more quickly. It's a super fascinating subject!!
I'd argue the destination is less important than the journey - building, maintaining, and enhancing the technologies and infrastructure surrounding frequent trips to the moon holds significant value towards the long term existence of our species.
We should also be working towards establishing Lagrange point stations as infrastructure for future exploration.
We will need to get off of this rock at some point, whether we will be ready or not depends on if we feel there's value to it now.
We'd only just begun to interact with the Moon when our exploration ended. To be clear, I don't think the Moon should be our only manned exploration priority (Mars is an obvious other point of interest) but saying "there's no point" is like saying, after the early (15th / 16th c.) explorations of North America that there was no point in heading back. It's an entire other world just floating out there -- one that, at some point, we'll hopefully colonize but, at the very least, have a better exploration understanding of both for the benefit of knowledge and exploration in and of themselves and because efforts to interact with the Moon in a more extended, permanent fashion would be a huge spur to technological development.
chequilla ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 18:23:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Comparing ridiculously dangerous rocks and dust on the Moon to the massive untapped resources of North America is extremely disingenuous.
I don't think they're equivalents -- we won't be harvesting corn or cutting lumber on the moon anytime soon. But I don't think it's disingenuous -- they both represented / represent untapped potential and a natural target for man's outward expansion and mental curiosity. Like I said in my first comment, exploration of the moon would be a huge boon to our knowledge and our thirst for outward expansion and also to technological development. Over the course of the entire Apollo program, we've spent a grand total of approximately two weeks on the lunar surface. That seems like it's only scratching the surface. The moon is the nearest large solar body to us and our only satellite -- it's out there and we should spend some more time checking it out (along with other manned targets in our Solar System -- Mars in particular).
MrF33 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The resource potential of the Americas was apparent instantly.
Helium-3 is pretty much the only known potentially useful resource on the Moon.
The primary reasons for the discovery of the Americas were not self aggrandizing exploration, but economic.
There's a reason that we haven't developed Antarctica.
Right and I'm not trying to advocate exploration of the moon purely or even primarily on a resource basis, though there would be some of that. There's a reason we haven't turned Antarctica into a series of oil fields and suburbs. But there's equally a reason there are dozens of active research stations (and a big town) and a fairly large scientific community down there. We've failed to do the latter part of the equation with respect to the Moon. Antarctica is a "final frontier" (on terrestrial Earth) but at least it's a frontier. The moon can't even be a frontier for us right now -- we left it before we properly got started.
lod001 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:25:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Columbus first came to the Americas in 1492; the Spanish spent the 1500's conquering the warm climate areas of the Americas; the French explored the Canadian regions in the 1500's but failed to get permanent settlements until the the 1600's; the British established themselves successfully in the 1600's. The process of settling the Americas took a while with years between some of the expeditions in the early years. Even when there was abundant water, food, and actual people already living there that were able to help, people would die and settlements would be abandoned! So we didn't leave the moon before we got started...we are just going at a pace similar to historical conquests!
Hm, I wonder what was the longest period of time that there was not a permanent or semi-permanent European settlement in the Americas once they were discovered.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's entirely worth doing it, for the reasons I've outlined above -- we inspire, we explore, we stir technological development, we gain scientific and other knowledge, we gain experience for farther off manned efforts, we colonize (great insurance), we improve our engineering capacity, we engage in international collaboration etc. There are a million reasons to be off the face of this planet absent an immediate financial imperative. (Directly contrary to your example, the majority of development in Antarctica is not for financial reasons -- it's often quite costly to operate in Antarctica. Rather, it's done for some of the very same reasons I just listed, e.g., to expand knowledge, to sate the internal, eternal human drive to explore, to pursue scientific projects (a subset of knowledge, but important enough I separate it out). Are there some financial incentives? Sure. And there might be too with the moon, e.g., He-3. But that needn't drive our expansion there.)
As far as whether we can afford it -- we absolutely can, both as a nation (the U.S.) and as a global community. It's a question of priorities, but so is all budgetary decision-making. My view is that space exploration has become inappropriately de-emphasized in the post-Apollo decades and that it should be a higher priority. NASA's budget right now represents only approximately .5% of the total federal budget -- it's lowest share ever (it's been steadily shrinking since the early-90s after a period of ramp-up to get the Shuttle Program going); there's room to grow.
There is also water ice on the moon which could be electrolytically broken into O2 and H2 for rocket refueling.
MrF33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have no doubt that in the future the Moon will be used as a primary launch site or even manufacturing site for interplanetary or even interstellar human travel.
But right now there is nothing beyond "natural human exploratory drive" that is a reason for manned deep space travel.
It's too expensive, it's too dangerous, and the rewards simply aren't tangible enough to make it a realistic goal of current societies.
I strongly disagree with you. It's not expensive when set against the long-term trajectory of human interest; it may be dangerous but "risk is part of our business"; and, as I've stated in several posts now, there are ample rewards to the sort of exploration being discussed, from encouraging technological innovation to expanding our manufacturing prowess in space applications to increasing scientific knowledge to inspiring future generations of humans to venture forth into space &c. Every dollar we spend toward this and other manned exploration goals seems eminently worthwhile to me -- across the whole spectrum, from blue-sky research down to applied missions down to scientific outreach here on Earth. I hope we as a species prove you wrong in relatively short order.
MrF33 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:31:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
from encouraging technological innovation to expanding our manufacturing prowess in space applications to increasing scientific knowledge to inspiring future generations of humans to venture forth into space &c.
These are not tangible or guaranteed rewards, they are projected advantages, but not something that a company or government can put on their budgets as a positive. Any investment in R&D could be given the same assumption, but everything else needs to have a tangible end game. What's the end game? What did we actually get from going to the moon that we couldn't have gotten from investing that money in other endeavors?
eminently worthwhile to me
To you, but you are not the one funding it. We're talking about increases in funding by orders of magnitude to accomplish what you're projecting in any kind of reasonable timeline.
The real benefits of deep space exploration are lower than any other kind of "exploration" humans are currently doing.
I hope we as a species prove you wrong in relatively short order.
I hate to break it to you, but we won't. We as a species are greedy and scared, until there's a race to win, missile technology to develop, or resources to exploit, serious investment is not going to happen.
I'm being real here - give me one reason that a publicly traded company would invest in deep space exploration that's not otherwise funded by the government, and why you think the amount their investors would possibly be willing to invest would result in serious, timely improvements?
In response to the last paragraph that you added: publicly traded companies will be (already are) venturing into the sort of LEO / supply run / satellite launch fields that NASA has had to tend to in previous decades. It's happening. That's the whole point of the reason you need a hybrid public-private approach to thinks like spaceflight. You use NASA to push the boundaries and pursue the flagship programs (one of the reasons I'm so critical of the deviation post-Apollo to the shuttle -- it wasn't boundary pushing it was stagnating) and you use private industry for the relatively "safer," more revenue /profit predictable activities. In another generation, that will be servicing colonies and routine innersolar supply runs as NASA pushes the extrasolar edge.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm well aware, but re-hashing old technology is not deep space exploration.
Again, explain to me why you think that Boeing is going to invest in a lunar colony.
You're not following (maybe my failure to explain my point sufficiently) -- they (private companies) won't nor should it be expected of them -- you don't want or expect Boeing to be doing lunar colonization or blue sky propulsion technology research, at least on their own sans government incentivization through a contract base. That's the job of the public mass project -- the colony, the new drive, the Mars mission. Private industry will lag a generation behind (a sort of tick-tock cycle) as they're completely sensible to do until the profit motivation appears. The point is we've lost leadership this generation (or at least the generation past) on the public mass project component of this equation.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The point is we've lost leadership this generation (or at least the generation past) on the public mass project component of this equation.
You know why?
Because there are no tangible benefits to it.
How are you going to convince people that they should be investing in space exploration when they're struggling to deal with shit on Earth?
Until there is a genuine motivator for humanity to seriously invest in space travel/exploration/exploitation it's simply never going to happen at the pace you're expecting.
Where's the competition? Where's the motivation? Why should people care at all? It's not about how much you, the space and science enthusiast, cares, it's about how much your mom cares, how much that lady from work who has never thought about travel to mars cares.
It's about motivating the people who aren't interested.
You're never going to be able to motivate the majority of people by saying "The exploratory human spirit must live on!!!!".
That's bullshit that people don't want to hear.
So there are two ways of getting people involved in space travel again.
Make their lives depend on it.
Make it financially worth their time.
Until one of these two criteria are met, the growth rate will continue to be at current levels.
Look, it's clear we disagree. It's clear I think you're on the wrong side of history. And it's clear (I think) you think I'm equally on the wrong side. Know that I'll be working hard to prove you wrong and that there are more like me. That's all I can say. I appreciate the discussion regardless. Have a nice day.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god.
If all you care about is technological advancement, then start a war, it's done more than space exploration ever has.
I know that we will be making strides in space exploration, but you need to be realistic about your timelines and motivations.
Until we, as a species, have a tangible motivation beyond our own self aggrandizement to invest in deep space exploration the investment and growth will continue to be slow.
I'm just not that patient! I don't want to be "realistic" if it means being earth-bound, set to a slow-trod upward to the stars. I want to make the "unrealistic" happen. We've taken a break from history since 1972 and it's time to change that.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But why? There are no resources to exploit, and the cost/risk of setting up shop there is so high as-is. Would be the biggest waste of time and money ever.
'Colony on the moon!' sounds cool until you realize we spent trillions on literally nothing.
We will want to go on to colonize other planets that are much much farther away. It would be prudent to have some expertise with managing a colony that is on another celestial body without being billions of km away.
Until we got a lot faster traveling through space, we aren't colonizing shit. And I doubt our 'experience' from now will be worth very much to scientists a century or two down the road.
Speed isn't a major hurdle to our ability to colonize the inner Solar system (e.g., the moon and Mars). The moon is accessible within a matter of days with our current propulsion technology level (so it could improve); Mars is accessible within a matter of months, same caveat. Obviously it would be even better if we could be like, vis-a-vis Mars, "we'll have you there in an hour!" But the time delay isn't among the worst impediments and could be easily managed through good logistics planning. Frankly, we need to put more work into things like radiation shielding / planning -- that's a much higher priority concern (though one we can tackle).
Camoral ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's like asking a person why they go to the gym if they don't plan on setting a personal best. You'll never hit your goals if you don't have experience.
MrF33 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:50:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not the same thing, we're not talking about getting buff.
We're talking about trillions of dollars in exploration for the sake of exploration.
The practical return on investment just isn't high enough yet to create a real drive for expansion.
Camoral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So we wait until what, exactly, to start pursuing the most important developments that make or break us as a species?
MrF33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one is saying stop moving forward.
I'm just saying that expecting 1960's levels of progress is unrealistic.
So we wait until what, exactly, to start pursuing the most important developments that make or break us as a species?
Until the situation arises for us, as a species, to actually invest in it with all our being.
You know, like catastrophic war.
There's no need to act like not getting to mars in the next 20 years is going to doom humanity to a slow, pitiful death alone on this rock.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, except that gym membership in your analogy would cost $5,000,000.
There's certainly something to be gained by continued exploration and operation on the moon. It's just prohibitively expensive, and no one's come up with a cost-analysis that determines it to be a wise move.
I disagree. The budget for science is small enough that it shouldn't be pissed away on joy rides. In '72 they'd already run out of reasons to go to the moon - the technology available didn't lend itself to a moon base or mining and moon dust/rocks are not that interesting - and it hasn't been until very recently the cost and technology has creeped towards the viability of the next step (base/mining).
They should have pursued the plan that von Braun was trying to push ahead, both in the scientific community and in the public imagination, which would have involved both manning the moon on a permanent basis and manned exploration of Mars. The technology was there or at least it could have been there if a similar level of effort and ingenuity had been applied for the next step exploration as had been applied to Apollo. The Space Shuttle was a huge waste of resources in relative terms -- I know it's a controversial opinion but I put it out there. We spent the subsequent four decades futzing around in LEO (something that should have been addressed through private industry rather than NASA flagship work) when we should have been expanding outward. Hopefully we've reached a pivot point now and we don't spend the next four decades doing the same thing.
To say that the technology was there in the 70's to create a viable base on the moon is like saying the technology was there to create a reusable vehicle capable of leaving orbit. It might have been theoretically possible, but it might also fail as the latter did. But I personally think it was the right priority. Lowering the cost (both financial and resource wise) of space exploration was, is and will continue to be paramount. And any base on the moon built in the 70's would have been scrapped long ago. There's a reason why ISS isn't an expansion of Mir. The technology is thoroughly obsolete.
Priorities, they'll always be subjective and sometimes they won't agree with your opinions.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Space Shuttle was a huge waste of resources in relative terms -- I know it's a controversial opinion but I put it out there.
No, it's pretty agreed upon that the STS was a lot less than it could have been.
But anyone alive today has found out there is water on Mars and most people alive 10-15 years from now will likely experience people on Mars. So that's "holy shit awesome" isn't it?
If it's any consolation, now that the shuttle program has been retired and the ISS is "finished" it's more likely that we'll go back to the moon in the near future.
It's a giant lifeless rock. We know enough about it with the tools available to use which doesn't really require manning a dangerous mission. Simply put, the moon is pretty boring in the sense of space exploration.
They call themselves the greatest generation. Yeah they spent all their money and are too shitless scared to fix it for us so we are doing it, but it's shitty because they won't help when they say they want to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
splad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever, I have an ultra-HD color panoramic photograph taken from the surface of mars as the desktop background on my personal computer.
Not really. I'm 18 and the moon is cool and shit. But I've lived when we've but a fucking robot on Mars. And I've seen pictures of the sunrise on MARS that a ROBOT took and sent back to us. That's pretty fucking cool. Space isn't less exciting now just because astronauts aren't walking around on foreign planets.
I mean at a 19 year old I like to think I have a high chance to see someone successfully make it to Mars. To me that would be a moment I cry over that will be the most amazing thing I can say I have lived through and ever will live through
Sophobe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But now mars is dominated by alien robots
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:44:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's just...wrong? There's always war going on.
Also I think you forgot the gulf war, extending your age to at least 25
Considering that fact that we've had people living in an artificial satellite i don't think its that disappointing. I think there are a lot of things that we can do in space that will be extremely beneficially for us but putting men on the moon just to put men on the moon isn't one of them.
Can you explain why that's disappointing? It cost so much money to go there, and we know exactly what is on the moon. What is there to gain from being there? I'm sure if it was beneficial in anyway they would've been going.
It's one of the things that makes my blood boil about modern politicians. In the current political climate, there is no possible way that we could accomplish such things. It makes me understand that America has peaked, and it is probably all downhill from here. I feel badly for future generations. Learn to speak Chinese.
Wowtrain ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:18:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, we can learn so much more from unmanned missions.
la2arbeam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's nothing new to be learned. I don't see "wasting money on lunar trips" as disappointing, unless that trip is to establish a space station from which we'll launch other ships
TVLL ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really.
The moon landings got pretty boring after awhile.
moonyeti ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:21:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
41 here, I grew up in the afterglow of all of that awesomeness. Let's get some dudes back on space rocks before I die!
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was little my parents gave me a book about astronauts. I couldn't read much of it but I loved looking at the pictures of the moon landings. So, I just thought that astronauts went to the moon all the time. I was shocked to learn they had stopped a long time ago.
It seems like people are just starting to take a Mars trip seriously. We can definitely get to Mars. The issue is getting back. The launch window is 26 months part, so whoever goes to mars needs to live there for 2 years on the first try. Thats a LOT of food and supplies to bring. Water, oxygen, etc. If you want to rely on growing food, or extracting water and oxygen, then you are relying on that working perfectly for 2 years. So far no one has proven they can do that.
So yeah its all possible but its WAY harder than going to the moon and I think most people don't really understand how much harder it is.
shmeebz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On the flip side, anyone younger than 43 will most likely live to see a Mars landing.
Really? I genuinely thought we were constructing some sort of self sustaining occupancy up there? This is actually depressing to this out. The space station is impressive, but the fact no one has visited the moon in so long is upsetting
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:26:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you living under a rock?
djn808 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have what he's having, please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance with a side of obliviousness? Make that two, please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because it doesn't exist and all the adults are messing with us!
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And to those of a conspiratorial bent, nobody has ever been on the moon ever.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:25:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think of it as "In 65 years, we went from people legitimately debating if manned flight was possible, to putting a man on the moon". The day before the Wright brother's first flight, there were still people with 'proof' that what they were attempting was not possible.
We had manned heavier than air flight 15 years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. It just wasn't powered flight. Look up Samuel Langley and John J Montgomery.
I've heard from several family members in the medical field that war is the fastest accelerator for medical advances, (and then I'd assume for the technology to compensate for those advances).
"X-rays help detect metal in bodies so it can be removed?!!"
Other guy: "Guess we'll just have to start using glass shards in landmines and bombs. They'll never see that on an x-ray."
This is what I was going to say, but I would have said 66 years. Because you know 1969-1903=66
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but the definition of "flew" has changed dramatically since then. The Wright's were not even the first to fall in style. I believe the 16 or 1700s were the first "flying machines" in way of little helicopter type things and they just went up and down.
Along the same technological tract though. We wouldn't have the shuttle without the plane.
Would a better comparison be the SR-71 blackbird?
jdovew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did someone say SR-71 Blackbird?!?!!
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.
Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.
We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."
It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.
I think I read this on a standardized test in middle school.
radon_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what I just read, but it made me exceedingly happy...
jdovew ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:12:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Someone new read it! Here's another one:
As a former SR-71 pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that SR-71 fly?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the aircraft's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to give, as the jet would always give you a little more speed if you wanted it to.
It was common to see 35 miles a minute. Because we flew a programmed Mach number on most missions, and never wanted to harm the plane in any way, we never let it run out to any limits of temperature or speed. Thus, each SR-71 pilot had his own individual โhighโ speed that he saw at some point on some mission. I saw mine over Libya when Khadafy fired two missiles my way, and max power was in order. Letโs just say that the plane truly loved speed and effortlessly took us to Mach numbers we hadnโt previously seen.
So it was with great surprise, when at the end of one of my presentations, someone asked, โwhat was the slowest you ever flew the Blackbird?โ This was a first. After giving it some thought, I was reminded of a story that I had never shared before, and relayed the following.
I was flying the SR-71 out of RAF Mildenhall, England , with my back-seater, Walt Watson; we were returning from a mission over Europe and the Iron Curtain when we received a radio transmission from home base. As we scooted across Denmark in three minutes, we learned that a small RAF base in the English countryside had requested an SR-71 fly-past. The air cadet commander there was a former Blackbird pilot, and thought it would be a motivating moment for the young lads to see the mighty SR-71 perform a low approach. No problem, we were happy to do it. After a quick aerial refueling over the North Sea , we proceeded to find the small airfield.
Walter had a myriad of sophisticated navigation equipment in the back seat, and began to vector me toward the field. Descending to subsonic speeds, we found ourselves over a densely wooded area in a slight haze. Like most former WWII British airfields, the one we were looking for had a small tower and little surrounding infrastructure. Walter told me we were close and that I should be able to see the field, but I saw nothing.
Nothing but trees as far as I could see in the haze. We got a little lower, and I pulled the throttles back from 325 knots we were at. With the gear up, anything under 275 was just uncomfortable. Walt said we were practically over the fieldโyet; there was nothing in my windscreen. I banked the jet and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that looked like a field. Meanwhile, below, the cadet commander had taken the cadets up on the catwalk of the tower in order to get a prime view of the fly-past. It was a quiet, still day with no wind and partial gray overcast.
Walter continued to give me indications that the field should be below us but in the overcast and haze, I couldn't see it.. The longer we continued to peer out the window and circle, the slower we got. With our power back, the awaiting cadets heard nothing. I must have had good instructors in my flying career, as something told me I better cross-check the gauges. As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren't really flying, but were falling in a slight bank. Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was) the aircraft fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower.
Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing titanium in their face as the plane leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass. Quickly reaching the field boundary, we proceeded back to Mildenhall without incident. We didn't say a word for those next 14 minutes.
After landing, our commander greeted us, and we were both certain he was reaching for our wings. Instead, he heartily shook our hands and said the commander had told him it was the greatest SR-71 fly-past he had ever seen, especially how we had surprised them with such a precise maneuver that could only be described as breathtaking. He said that some of the cadetโs hats were blown off and the sight of the plan form of the plane in full afterburner dropping right in front of them was unbelievable. Walt and I both understood the concept of โbreathtakingโ very well that morning, and sheepishly replied that they were just excited to see our low approach.
As we retired to the equipment room to change from space suits to flight suits, we just sat there-we hadn't spoken a word since โthe pass.โ Finally, Walter looked at me and said, โOne hundred fifty-six knots. What did you see?โ Trying to find my voice, I stammered, โOne hundred fifty-two.โ We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, โDonโt ever do that to me again!โ And I never did.
A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall Officerโs club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about an SR-71 fly-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat of the jet singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his head and said, โIt was probably just a routine low approach; they're pretty impressive in that plane.โ Impressive indeed.
Little did I realize after relaying this experience to my audience that day that it would become one of the most popular and most requested stories. Itโs ironic that people are interested in how slow the worldโs fastest jet can fly. Regardless of your speed, however, itโs always a good idea to keep that cross-check upโฆand keep your Mach up, too.
Stay hopeful for the future -- just because we didn't achieve as much as we would have liked in the last few decades doesn't mean we won't do so in the ensuing decades. Exploration of Europa, Enceladus, Titan, exploration and colonization of the Moon, Mars; improvements to our propulsion technologies; vast arrays of triumphant manned stations pirouetting through the darkness in the orbital embrace of far off worlds; the ship, its grey-white proud prow hull glinting in the sun, on its side, in bold letters, a word passed down through the generations now, finally now, after so much time, so much waiting, within its destined home: "Enterprise." It could happen if we work toward it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
69 years actually.
The first moon landing was 1969. The Wrights started experimenting with glider design in the late 1890s, went to Kitty Hawk to test their first manned gliders in 1900, and flew their first airplane in December 1903.
We've launched a space station the size of a football field, landed an suv sized nuclear powered rover on Mars, sent probes past every planet in the solar system and a few out of it, landed on Titan, landed on a comet, brought pieces of a comet back to Earth, and launched telescopes that can see almost back to the beginning of time.
Humans haven't abandoned space exploration at all.
The psychological difference is more about "FIRST". 6 people are in space right now, but all I see are articles about the new "drones" and self-driving cars. http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
It isn't just the psychological difference, it is the technical difference. It is far more challenging and expensive to send humans and associated support equipment anywhere.
No matter how many times I hear this I can't fathom it. It's like Charles Babbage getting an iPhone for his 75th birthday, the rate of development just astounding.
It's so cool to think that there are people who, in the span of one lifetime, saw the world when human flight wasn't possible, and the world after a man walked on the moon.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really a glider, it was powered and heavier than air.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really a glider, it was powered and heavier than air.
ProfShea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mote in god's eye.
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
65 years after that and we still can't make it back.
Also, whether or not the Wright brothers were the first to invent flight is highly debated. There were others doing similar things at the same time, and who was first depends on your definition of what an airplane is.
This might be a stupid question, but are there really that many parallels between flight and rockets? To my completely uneducated mind I feel like they're two fundamentally different sciences, no?
That said, considering how much more sophisticated the latter is... That IS pretty fucking impressive.
capilot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:30:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the Wright brothers lived long enough to pilot a jet.
Nithryok ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:46:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tin foil hat or so they say...
rtwoctwo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:49:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the brothers lived long enough to see an airplane drop the atomic bomb.
Then simply click on your username on Reddit, go to the comments tab, and hit the new OVERWRITE button at the top.
Divexz ยท 3325 points ยท Posted at 14:11:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alright let's take a look. For the sake of simplicity let's say that the average video is about 30 minutes. The average file size of a 30 minute HD video is about 1.2 gigs from what I could find which is .0012 TB. Now we simply do some math. 1,587.5TB/.0012TB = 1,322,916.67 or 1,322,917 videos.
How long would it take to watch all of it? Well if we multiply 1,322,916.67 by 30 minutes we get 39,687,500.1 minutes. Divide that by 60 to find how many hours which yields us 661,458.335 hours worth of porn. Which is 27,560.764 days. Which is 75.508 years worth of porn.
TheDaw ยท 4200 points ยท Posted at 14:50:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on, we can take this further. So, 1 frame of an 8k video will have about 33177600 pixels in it, and assuming each pixel is 3 bytes, you'll find that there are 99532800 bytes, or about 99 MB per frame. So, multiply that times 60 for the frames per second, then 60 again for the minute, and finally by 30 for the 30 minutes, and you get APPROXIMATELY 10.749542 TB. That's just video.
Now I am getting a bit more lazy for the sound since it's so small compared to the 10 TB, but 30 minutes of 24 bit, 96KHz, Stereo sound (the best I could find) is on average about 1.0368 GB, which will give you a final answer of about 10.750578 TB per video.
Now we do the same math presented in the original comment, 1,587.5TB/10.750578TB, and you could watch 147.666478956, or for rounding's sake, 147 videos at this scale. This porn would take you a much more manageable 73 hours, 49 minutes, and 58 seconds with the 2/3rds of a video, or 73 hours and 30 minutes to watch all that.
emilh2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:18:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ever heard of video compression? Also, I guess most computers/programs won't be able to render 100 mb of information per frame.
That's like, all the porn. All of the porn on the Internet. Jk, the internees porn reserves are probably more like 200+ years long
Halafax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't recall my biology that well, but I think there are only 4 combinations of DNA from mother or father (and 16 combinations based on both parents).
So that means all that data is really just 4 movies (with minor variations for copy defects) sent hundreds of thousands times each.
morthaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming the average time per porn session is 15 minutes as descriped here, we get 39,687,500.1/15 =2,645,833 sessions. Further assuming 90% of the sessions end with orgasms we get 3,780,134,385 TB of Data from the first Round.
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to find that average number but I couldn't find it. So thank you for that.Although, it says 15 minutes per session so I'm assuming they skip parts of a porno across multiple pornos
SA_Swiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is 75.508 years of continuous porn. Try factoring in sleeping, eating and working...
Here you are with gold and 526 upvotes after doing a fair amount of math. Yet the guy who responded with 'exactly 12 porn' is also guilded and has 2211 upvotes.
I love Reddit.
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life
Kiacha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All that work, and you get out-upvoted by the answer "exactly 12 porn" by 1767 votes and counting.
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maths is under appreciated but I did get gold
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the maths.
ldn6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If we combine our maths together we can determine the value of 1 porn. source if 1,587.5 TB = 12 porn and 1,587.5 TB = 75.508 years, then by the transitive property 12 porn = 75.508 years. Now we simply solve for the value of 1 porn which is equal to 6.292
In Conclusion: 1 porn = 6.292 years
for example my age is equal to 6.543 pornos give or take
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming you're watching HD and roughly estimating 1 hour of HD video = 1G (which is rough but close). That's around 1587000 hours of porn. Or, 66125 days, or just shy of 181 years and 2 months.
Jusr press ctrl+alt+delete -> task manager. Find pregnancy.exe or fetus.exe (either will work) and right-click -> abort program. If you are unable to do this for whatever reason, like not being authorized, just force a shutdown or damage the pc, with a little luck the program might get corrupted.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:30:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why download it when I can make more by RAMming my cock into the side of my PC?
KotorFTW ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:48:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Guys, DO NOT try this unless you have at least 1,587.5 TB of free hard drive space. Otherwise your computer will go into a sperm overload and you will need to explain it to your parents
Bladelink ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 16:29:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a matter of knowing how many base pairs there are in each gamete, then figuring out how many bits you need to store all the data that those pairs represent.
Delioth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:00:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, since there are 4 bases... exactly 2 bits/base. This means a byte holds 4 bases- you only need to record one side since you can infer the other.
Google says that human genome has ~3 billion (109 ) base pairs. This translates to 6 x 109 bits to hold these- but a sperm is only half of that, so 3 x 109 bits for a sperm's data. Divide by 8 to get bytes instead of bits: 30 x 108 / 8 = 3.75 x 108 (375,000,000). From here, it's just dividing by 210 (1024): 366,210 KB; 357.628 MB.
I've determined OP's math is wrong unless someone can find the error in my math. It's just a little under ten times the amount he gave.
Each 'section' of DNA is one of four possible bases : A, C, G or T. These encode information. These four can be represented by two binary bits, for example:
A = 00
C = 01
G = 10
D = 11
For example a quick Google says the human genome has 3.2 billion base pairs and so is equivalent to 6.4 billion bits.
1 byte (B) = 8 bits (b) and 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes. So we get 800 MB of information per genome.
However this is different to what is cold the 'coding DNA' which is significantly shorter and is probably what the OP was talking about.
4 Base Pairs, 2 combinations. Adenine and thymine (A and T). Cytosine and Guanine (C and G). Each pair is assigned a 1 or a 0 and it works like binary.
Human DNA has 4 types of base pair. You can essentially have base 4 math and logic with those. Biologists know how many pairs are in human DNA, and that can be counted as memory. And each sperm cell has 50% of the amount of DNA as a human. At some point, someone measured the sperm density of ejaculate for the purposes of creating a syrup. From there they found out the memory of a wank.
I think the human genome, once mapped, is that size?
Prae_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:40:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
we know how many pair of nucleotide (A, T, C or G) there is in the DNA. Each one of these can be represented by two bits (00, 01, 10, 11). A human sperm cell contains 3.2 billions pb, so that's 6.4 billions bits, i.e roughly 800MB...
Of those 800MB, a lot are highly repetitive thing that are hardly "information" (telomeres are long string of A, for exemples). So you can probably reduce this number to get closer to the 37.5MB figure. With a minimum of data compression, you can probably also eliminate unnecessary bytes.
Tito1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Using compression you wouldn't get near the TB OP is citing.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes so each spermatozoide could be described by referring to only 46 sequences in the lookup table. 46 sequences can be identified by 6 bits so every spermatozoide could be described with only 138 bits.
(This is based on my limited understanding of genetics and ignoring mutations)
Prae_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm looking at a single sperm cell, here, that's why i'm trying to bring it down to 37.5MB. A "normal ejaculation" contains millions of sperm cells, so that's why the total data transfer is a lot more than 37.5MB.
Human have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but sperm cells have only half of it (since the goal is to fuse it with half the DNA of the mother). I really don't understand why you say that a sequence can be identified with only 6 bits... The Y chromosome is 50 millions pb long. That a full 50 millions letters long of DNA, and needs 100 millions bits to be perfectly transcribed into bits.
Now there's numbers of way you can reduce this number. As I said, lot of stuff is repetitive, mostly because it has a structural function rather than an informative function. So scientist can make some shortcuts, getting the 800MB worth of data down to 4MB.
Tito1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about a basic compression scheme using a lookup table. Each spermatozoide is constructed using 23 out of 46 sequences, so you could refer to those sequences with 6 identifiers bits in the lookup table, or 138 bits per spermatozoide
It's a compression algorithm to compress the entire load, not a single spermatozoid.
Prae_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh, I see. But that's a bit cheating, because the data stil have to be stored somewhere. Also, even if human don't differ from one another a lot, there's still differences from people to people. So there's a least your lookup table and the list of each singular difference and their location on the genome.
DNA is just ons and offs. Basically if I made giant ass text document and put ABCDDADBCBBBBDBCBABDCBABDCBDBACBDbABCBDBABDBCBDCABBBADBABADBDBCBDBDABCBDBABCDBABADBACBCAADBCBCBADBABDCDBDBCABCBDBDABDBDBBD
That would be your dna except way bigger. To be fair 37.5mb of text would be fucking massive.
No. No. No. The data transfer itself is actually quite small. It is just Highly Redundant.
Regardless of how you slice it, there will never be more data than the hosts complete DNA. So the real question is, how much data is a complete human DNA?
Something doesn't work out here. I don't know where the information about the 37.5MB sperm comes from, but the human genome has 3,234.83 Mega-base-pairs, each base-pair encodes 2 bit of information (not because it is a pair, but because it can come in 4 variants) which would make 6469.66 Mbit which makes 808.7075 MByte. And half of these needs to come with the sperm of which according to my biology class only one is used.
No way. Each of those sperms is its own unique blend of the parent's genome and represents blue prints for a totally different child. Saying its no more than the original genome is like saying no digital data is more than a 1 and a 0. Or that a a song is no more than the set of notes used to compose it.
If handled separately, yes, there is 1.5 TB, but a great deal of the data is redundant in at least 2 forms:
1.) the natural error correction schemes native to our DNA
2.) the repeated gene content that makes the supermarket genetically ours
Hustiu47 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, jizzus!
domemvs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
RAID 1 in perfection!
thewhat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the most interesting aspect of this is that it means that a human is formed by less than 100MB of DNA information. I could store a small town's entire population on my USB stick.
user1492 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But that's a LOT of redundancy and could be greatly compressed!
Animoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In a similar vein, I was told that our short term processing/memory (or whatever it is called) equates to about 8 BYTES. That is why we need things like gaps between numbers on credit cards
Yeah, but only one sperm completes the data transfer IF impregnation occurs. So you pretty much throw out a hard drive worth of biological data everytime you ejaculate. Fascinating.
Isn't that like having a 2TB hardrive and just physically moving it from say one shelf to another...I guess its a data transfer...sorta. Just not that as impressive in those terms.
psbwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But couldn't that be compressed into something much smaller?
NickSkye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why people on /r/nofap are so much smarter right?
But most of it is redundant. Each pair of sperm cells are made from arrangements of the same DNA, so what you really need is just a couple bytes for where the crossing over and mutation points are.
BCSteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's so misleading though, and practically meaningless.
First off, a single sperm would be around 750 MB. For a diploid cell, it's:
6ร109 base pairs x 1 byte/4 base pairs = 1.5ร109 bytes โ 1.5 GB
Divide that in half for a haploid genome, and you get 750 MB. (Note that this is just the information encoded in the raw sequence of the DNA. The information encoded in the methylation patterns, histone methylations and acetylations, chromatin structure, etc., is (as far as I know) not really quantifiable, but it's HUMONGOUS.) And since a diploid genome is just two copies, you could compress it down into not much more space than a haploid genome. So let's call it 750 MB.
Secondly, and the bigger point, is that all the data in a single ejaculation is repetitive. Since every single sperm has some subset of that initial 750 MB, the actual amount of information transferred never exceeds 750 MB. It's akin to sending someone millions of copies of the same exact file. Sure, it might be a humongous amount of "data", but it's not a humongous amount of information. If you had 1500 TB worth of unique files, that'd be impressive. Having 1500 TB of the same file repeated over and over again is far less so.
Or, knowing that humans are 99.5% similar to each other, by using a reference genome you could compress it even further. You just need to record where it differs from the reference. And that gets you down to somewhere around 5 to 10 MB.
This is why you want to use a TCP connection; to avoid sending the same data twice. Of course, this assumes that the receiver isn't having a problem producing ACKs.
The_DHC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So a bukake is a DDOS attack?
Forence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's really a lot more than that. DNA is way more complicated than most laymen realize. FYI, if you just count the bases you're only measuring the data in its compressed form.
Edit: it is insanely compressed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh? The human genome is about 3000 mililon base pairs. Each encode two bit (One of two pairs plus two directions), so 6Gbit, 750Mb. A sperm carries half of it, 375 Mb. I guess I should be missing and order of magnitude, but I don't see where. I also remember when it was first sequenced and seem to remember it was a bit under a gig, at the time a shitload of data but not completely impossibly much, like you'd probably have a few times that in HD space but forget juggling it in ram. That's a poor measurment though because five-ten years earlier that could have been 37.5Mb..
sdiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username
Sledz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I not surprised a dude named "SuperPenis69" is the one that commented this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you could run a SAN De-Dupe on that and still fit it on a thumb drive.
You're way low. The human genome is roughly 3.2 gigabases. A sperm has half that. However each base pair can be one of 4 states, meaning it respresents 2 bits worth of data, cancelling out the halving.
So each sperm has 3.2 gigabits of info or 400 megabytes. Therefore the answer is actually about 10 times greater.
So, what you're saying is we need to find a way to encrypt information using human sperm?
jmwbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, all that DNA in the 1,587.5 TB is just the 37.5MB repeated a bunch of times, so it's really just pretty darn inefficiently stored and can be compressed into 37.5MB and change
Depends on how you define information but 37.5mb is way too small. A sperm genome would have 3 billion base pairs. So let's say 2 bits can code for each type of base pair, e.g. 01=AT, 10=TA, 11=GC, and 00=CG. That's 6Mbit=750MB. So more like ~1.5PB per load. Half that if you want to count GC/CG as the same thing.
Now if you want a real holy shit fact, check this out. You have about 70 Trillion cells in your body. Each of your cells has 6 billion bp of DNA in it, which would stretch to about one meter if unraveled from the chromosome. So the DNA in your body, if stretched out and stitched together, could stretch to 70 Billion kilometers. Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977 and has reached beyond our solar system, is only 20 Billion km away.
[deleted] ยท 593 points ยท Posted at 17:13:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pineapples take 1 1/2 to 3 years to grow.
[deleted] ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 18:25:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They also only produce 1 pineapple per plant.
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 19:52:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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jorgomli ยท 100 points ยท Posted at 21:32:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of climate do you live in? I feel like they would never live here in arctic/Tropical Ohio.
bckling23 ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 22:36:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About three summers ago in Maryland, my dad threw pineapple waste into our garden patch. Later that summer we had a pineapple plant growing. The winters in MD aren't Ohio levels of cold, but they're cold enough to kill a pineapple plant. So we uprooted the plant and brought it inside each winter. It finally started a pineapple two months ago.
The_Sven ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 19:28:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup! However, Sarah Palin did say "There are places in Alaska where you can see Russia" in response to being asked about her foreign policy experience. Basically saying "Yeah I've looked at Russia before. I should be good."
jamesno26 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:41:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live next to the Russian Embassy in DC. Like, I could have reached out my window and touched their fence. So considering the Russian embassy is technically on Russian soil - I'm thinking my spot as Kanye's VP in 2020 is a sure thing.
aequor48 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh.
Kgoetzel ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 18:53:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't be surprised see her Para Salin to Russia
itimedout ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:23:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you'll show yourself out then?
Kgoetzel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:34:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
efads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Debatable. Unlike north and south, there's no easternmost or westernmost point on Earth. Technically, every point is both east and west of every other point.
Edit: spelling
dohrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is not debatable.If you fly west enough, you will hit eastern coordinates.
efads ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Think about it this way:
If you fly north enough, you'll eventually reach a point (the North Pole) where every direction is south. That's the northernmost point on Earth.
If you fly west enough, you'll always be going west, no matter how many times you circle the globe. There is no point where once you reach it, you can't go west any further.
But here's a real holy shit fact: Alaska is both the easternmost and the westernmost state. The Aleutian Islands cross whichever meridian is the divider.
madruzz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:14:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As u/Akuba101 says, it's west of Bangladesh which used to be part of bengal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't really surprising at all though. All 'East Bengal' means is the eastern part of Bengal. It makes no reference to how West or East Bengal as a whole is.
It checks out. The western-most edge of South America lines up roughly with Florida. Chile is father east, since it's beneath the northwest lobe of the continent.
rvnnt09 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:04:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well goddamn, i need to look at more maps then i assumed south america was more or less directly below the u.s
zapsquad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
is that like a common misconception? i look at maps all the time but when i checked that fact i was shocked. south america is really far east
dwkdnvr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
70 deg 40' W for Santiago vs 71 deg 03' W for Boston. (according to wikipedia)
Yeah, I recently flew to Santiago from the US west coast and when I got my plane route I thought, "oh man, they are first taking me way over to Atlanta!" then I realized it was just on the way.
Next you're gonna tell me that Reno, NV is west of LA.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That only works if you suggest where it is further West than Santiago Chile. The planet is spherical so I can go West eternally whereas you cannot go North/South eternally.
This fucked me up when those Chilean miners were stuck. I live in Newfoundland, Canada, specifically St. John's which is the most eastern point in North America. I always knew that qualifier, "North America" but didn't really think much about it. I looked up the time zones when they were being rescued out of curiosity and it was LATER in the day there! No one in my house believed me. I didn't believe me for a minute but I checked multiple websites and sure enough; they're further east than us.
Mainer here, can confirm. Maine has a surprisingly large Somalian population. However, this has caused some problems in cities like Portland and Lewiston due to a combination of unwillingness by some to assimilate and the fact that many Mainers have very little experience with anything remotely foreign (besides Canadians). For example, my cousin's husband was hired to install some cabinets in the home of Somalian immigrants. He came back a few months later to work on something else and found that the family had converted the cabinets into a small chicken coop. In their kitchen.
And used to be attached to Africa. Boston and Casablanca were neighbors.
Arctica23 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cairo is further north than Miami.
[deleted] ยท 589 points ยท Posted at 13:49:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While we're at it. London is farther north than the entire continental US. and the entire UK almost perfectly fill the latitudes in between Washington State, and Alaska.
ldn6 ยท 431 points ยท Posted at 16:01:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London is farther north than any major Canadian city apart from Edmonton, yet its winters are warmer than all of them, including Vancouver.
Quads/dirt bikes/trucks/various other off-road vehicles and regular camping/fishing/hunting. Also, I have never shoveled snow. Although, im a pussy in the cold.
I don't know how many miles of trails we have in the state for ATV, dirt bike and jeeps n such. Also, ditches are trails most of the year. Lakes abound, and there's camping galore, partly cuz of the lakes.
Plowing snow is just another excuse to ride the wheeler.
We have minimal bugs. Roaches and crickets mostly. We do have brown recluses (although rare). Black Widows are common, but the stay I. Webs and I tend to leave them there, unless it's a common area for me or my dog, they eat pests and stay in web. That's about all we have.
Winter is cold to me, but probably very mild to you. Summer is ok. Hot, not humid. I wear long sleeve shirts, pants and steel toe boots with tall socks all summer. Pants and boots are mandatory, the rest is preference. I know how to handle extreme heat. Its not bad at all. Summer with out a/c in my black car didn't even bother me.
There is TONS of riding within 1 hour of my house. Way, WAY MORE, within 3 hours. Many different types of riding too.
To each their own. I do wanna ride a snowmobile though. Seems fun.
It is a blast. And, they make electric gear to keep you warm, basically an electric blanket, in the shape of overalls and a coat, plug right into the snowmobile.
Also, maybe because we don't have anything poisonous/venomous around here, the idea of black widows isn't appealing.
It's mainly just like me and my close group of friends who are super into hockey all wish we were from Canada. We just like gettina' cube a Molson and givn'r on the weekends yahknow.
Yeah that's what people have been telling me, I've been at work and it's hot as fuck here regardless so I have no idea. It's supposed to be a really mild winter though, so there's that.
I know that feeling... I live at the same latitude as Madrid, but we get -20 and snow all the time in the winter while it's like fucking California over there.
no_en ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another Minnesotan here. It's 32 degrees F. Not freezing at all and for a November in Minnesota it's pretty much a fucking heat wave. I might have to actually start using a jacket.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:36:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dubanx ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 17:37:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the gulf stream that keeps Western Europe warm.
It warms the british isle and also the west coast of Norway. From what i understand, their winters arent as bad as North Dakotas, despite being ridiculously farther north.
Hello fellow Nutmegger! The warm weather is great for me and everyone I know. Unfortunately, I grow venus flytraps, and they don't like it nearly as much. As long as it lasts I'll be happy though.
madscandi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The winters in the North of Scandinavia are much worse than North Dakota, don't worry
Yeah. I just noted that last year was rather warm. Then again though, in Kiruna it's mostly nighttime in March, which it isn't elsewhere. I'd expect it to be a lot colder if not for the gulf stream.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cruisin' through the Gulf Stream....whooooooo, oooooh, ooooh ohhh.
I grew up in Vancouver and then lived in Toronto. I now live in London. I tell my coworkers that this is the farthest north I've ever lived. They didn't believe me until I showed them a map.
Khazok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, island climate for ya
TajunJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! Prince George is major!
...
In our hearts...
Saiing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The island of Hokkaido, Japan is level with the Mediterranean coast of southern France, but in the winter the sea freezes on the east side and they get small icebergs.
The warmer climate is due in part to the influence of the gulf stream. It doesn't have as big of an impact on the east coast of Canada because the warming is offset by the cooling from the Labrador current
Mcquiz ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While we're at it the Shetland Islands which are part of Scotland are further north than Nanortalik, a town in Greenland. In Canada the town of Whitehorse is at a similar latitude.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:11:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one always seriously weirded me out. It's freakish how much that current next to England warms it up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As someone from Portland, ME I always find it crazy when it's like -10f in the winter here, and London is still +30-40f but they're much farther north. If global warming messes up the gulf stream like they say it could though, much of Europe's going to get really cold.
sbvt1313 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You may also find it crazy to know that Maine is larger than all the other New England states combined.
As a non-american, I am frequently confused about why Alaska isn't considered part of the continental United States. It is, after all, part of the North American continent.
The term 'contiguous' seems more appropriate to describe the 48 states that all have a land border with at least one other.
Basically, because it isn't physically attached to the main 48 States.
bgal81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because we haven't Manifest Destinyed Canada.
Yet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I blame airlines. The term Continental US is really only ever used in conjunction with explaining the limitations of a free vacation, or discounted air fair, and basically to exclude Alaska and Hawaii because of the cost of flying to them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This the word we use. Continental is the forty nine states that are not Hawaii.
Technically Alaska is continental US it's still the same continent, just with a Canada in the way, Alaska is the feather in the USAs hat, alternatively Alaska is Americas macaroni
Worth noting that Canada also almost perfectly fill the latitudes in between Washington State, and Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not trying to exclude Canada! it's just interesting that the UK is almost exactly the same length as the coastline of British Columbia! I'm sorry I worded with very American references. =P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but to be fair there's a massive difference in weather between Kent and Stornaway
My geography is decent, but apparently my spatial relations arent, at least where the globe is concerned. I had someone from Scotland stay with me recently, and I was surprised to see how much further north Glasgow is than Maine. No wonder it's so damned cold and dark there.
blay12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right? I was talking to a friend at work who worked in the UK for a year or two, and he was talking about how during the winter the sun wouldn't rise until he was at work, and it would set over an hour before he left most days - I looked it up, and in December in London the sun doesn't rise until after 8am and sets before 4pm. I mean, winter days are short in DC, but thats about 2 hours of sunlight less than our shortest day!
No doubt. Now look at how much farther north Glasgow is than London.
Teive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, the provinces of Canada PERFECTLY fill the latitudes in between Washington State and Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but they also extend far north of that, almost to the north pole. the UK is exactly the same size, without being larger or smaller
Teive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, the extend far to the north of that. Quebec might have some overhang but BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all fit. (The northern areas are not called provinces for some reason)
Scotland main population location is around the same latitude as Fort Severn, Canada.
A lot of people think us much further south. It certainly explains our very long summer days.
Haha. I do the same. Clock in for work, load up bing bot, start it. Go get coffee, come back and it's usually done. Close it and don't touch Bing until tomorrow.
Usually about once a month I get a $5 amazon card. Takes 19 days at 25 points (pc search and mobile both from bot) to reach the 475 needed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I recommend downloading User Agent Switcher on Chrome Store, set to Android KitKat mode after done with PC search, then type 20 in the same text box as the PC search one
Brodoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is it worth it?
wighty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a rather small amount, most people made money off it by having like 20+ accounts and using search bots. Sadly, the current rewards program is nothing like the Live Search Club (renamed to Bing Club IIRC before it was discontinued).
This seriously confuses me, I have a friend that has gotten multiple gift cards from using bing, why would they care if you used it or not seems like a terrible business choice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's gotten me to use Bing purely.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't trust that ... I'm still waiting for bill gates to give me 5,000 for sharing that facebook picture.
Yep! You get a point for every two searches. They don't have to be UNIQUE searches, however. Know how I search for things? Click on Bing bookmark>search:"Google.com">search for item. A few extra clicks, but I will soon earn a $5 Amazon card.
searches give you one point, capped at a certain amount per day (I think 30). once you get 500 points or so you can exchange then for a variety of gift cards. I always choose burger king because (for some reason) League of Legends accepts that as payment for buying skins.
I think every day you can do up to 15 desktop searches, 10 mobile searches, and 5 extra things to click that autosearch trending topics.
Bing is actually really good for porn. I'm not convinced that it isn't just because Google is really good at blocking porn, but Bing is really good for porn.
HenkieVV ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:02:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever somebody brings up Bing on here, there's usually somebody who points out Bing is good for porn. I'm not sure, I've never tried, I'm just repeating what the hivemind tells me.
People still are in the anit-Bing circle jerk? I mean, it's not like I have over 1000 Bing points or anything...
stenseng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People use Bing for porn?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember bing searching gardevoir on a school computer to settle some sort of dispute between my friends (I forget what it was,) and the first thing to pop up is a picture of gardevoir getting fucked by mewtwo. That was a fun day in computer science class.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in northern Germany (53 degrees north) and the climate is, interestingly enough, much warmer than the Canadian places on the same latitude- thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing warm water and air from Africa.
This really makes me wonder, what was the initial start of Rome?
I imagine just one person thinking it was a nice spot and settling in, and other people slowly joining in to a small village and eventually into a major city.
FireTyme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit indeed, had to actually chek because i did not believe you :P, i always thought it was far up north because every movie depicts it like a frosty place or something.
The most western part of Virginia is west of the most western part of West Virginia.
tl;dr: Virginia is west of West Virginia.
NGU-Ben ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:35:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Damn that's weird. Then why does it snow in NYC but not in Rome? Both are near the sea but that doesn't seem to matter for NYC. An uneducated guess would have me saying that NYC is closer to the ice caps than Rome.
Cessno ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:44:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It more has to do with ocean currents and wind patterns. Storms move east to west in New York so snow can develop over the land before moving over the warmer water of the Atlantic. If the weather moved west to east thing would be different. That's as far as I understand
As a Pennsylvanian, I can vouch for this. We ship all our winter storms straight to New England. I'm unfamiliar with Mediterranean weather patterns, but I know ours comes mostly from the length of the East Coast and the sheer size of Canada/Upper Midwest.
Ohioan. We ship you guys what we have left over from Chicago.
ldn6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:05:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Importantly, Rome and New York are in different climate zones (Mediterranean vs. humid subtropical/continental), but also that having a landmass to the west means that variances in seasonality are significantly more pronounced. Without the moderating effects of a larger, warmer body of water to the west, land heats and cools more rapidly, in turn producing greater differences between summer and winter temperatures.
Europe has the Gulf Stream. It's a constant current of warm water that flows from (IIRC) the Caribbean to the west coasts of Europe, including the Meditterranean.
Warm water ultimately means warmer air as heat dissipates in the air, so a point in Europe will be measurably warmer than a point on the East Coast at the same latitude.
At least, I think that's basically how it works. Can anyone let me know if I got my facts wrong?
NGU-Ben ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It snows in Rome! Not every year, and it only lasts a couple of weeks, but it does. And at the first 10 cm of snow romans go crazy and stop everything. Source: I'm from central Italy, every snowy winter the news have to make a long account about everything stopped in Rome for just some flour on the street.
Point Pelee National Park, a small piece of Canadaโs giant landmass, juts out into Lake Erie. The southernmost point of Point Pelee National Park is south of the 42nd parallel (42ยฐ N line of latitude). The 42nd parallel is also the northern Californian border!
Timthos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, Chicago is further south than Rome (just barely).
I blame the way we learn history here in the 'States. I had essentially built two completely separate maps for history in school, Europe and North America. Even in the age of colonialism, there wasn't a need to know more than "so and so left Spain and landed in Mexico." I know where both of those places are on my mental maps, so it makes perfect sense.
In the process of doing this, I somehow conceived of Rome as the center of its world, while NYC was in the northeastern corner of its. Since this poor model didn't actually cause me any problems in school, there was nothing to correct it until the fact was presented literally, as I did above.
At that time, it was a "holy shit" fact for me. Around the same time, I heard many of the things people have added in reply: Reno is west of LA, El Paso is closer to San Diego than to it's own state capital, France is the size of Texas, etc.
To be honest, until this thread I didn't realize Maine was closer to Africa than Florida. However, the guy who said that said it was the closest part of the US to Africa... that's only the continental US. Puerto Rico is closer to Senegal than Maine to Morocco.
Dexaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The city of Windsor, Ontario is south of Detroit, Michigan
I'm surprised how upvoted this is. I've never pictured Rome to be a warm climate. Haven't any of you fools seen Gladiator? They experience all four seasons there.
next you're gonna tell me that Bali, Indonesia is the closest major city to Perth, Western Australia. And that it takes almost the same time to fly from Perth, WA to Bali as from Perth, WA to Melbourne, VIC
The length of time from the beginning of dinosaurs to the end of dinosaurs is less than the length of time from the beginning of the Land Before Time franchise to when they stop selling straight to DVD sequels.
Schwarzy1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:37:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The dinosaurs were only around for 19 years? huh.
dupelize ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just because they haven't released one in a little while does not mean that we are safe. It will happen again when we least expect it.
Also, looking at names on the Wikipedia page for the franchise has made me wonder how some of those people have any pride left. I mean, some of them have been involved in the sequels since 1994. The paychecks can't be that good.
As /u/FookenIrishMan said, it's from Firefly. In the scene, Wash, the pilot of the ship, is playing with some toy dinosaurs, a t-rex and a stegosaurus. This is why the quote is relevant.
Fun story: once at Comic Con my little brother (who was like 7 or 8 at the time) went dressed as Wash, and attended an Alan Tudyk panel. Part of his costume was two little plastic dinosaurs he was carrying around, a T Rex and a Stegosaurus. My little brother got in line to ask Alan a question, but they were wrapping up long before he got to the end. However, they must have seen that there was a little kid in line, because they ended up bringing him up for the last question.
All my little brother wanted to ask him was if he could do the King Candy voice from Wreck It Ralph. Alan said sure and invited my little brother on stage. He then asks for the Stegosaurus and starts doing this scene in the King Candy voice, "Yes... yes this is a fertile land and we shall thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it... This Land!" And then my little brother jumps in on queue "I think we should call it your grave!" They did the whole scene (with my brother helping Alan remember his lines) and then Alan signed the dinosaurs for him, haha. Alan Tudyk is an awesome guy.
Haha, well I apparently haven't used reddit on my phone in a few days because I didn't realize how old this thread was. I do have a video, though the one my family took isn't super great since we were kind of far back. Took me a bit to find, but here it is (also, I was misremembering, this was a little bit more recent - my brother is 10 in this video).
Or just say something like "Dinosaurs were around for some 65 million years. We've only been around for less than 10,000." I'm probably wrong, but it sounds nicer.
This has got to be the most quoted/copied thing in all of reddit. I've seen someone say it at least every month since the first time i lurked reddit in 2011. Same with the cleopatra moon landings thing. GAH
For how many years did dinosaurs exist? And how long go ahead did the last dinosaurs exist?
mkdz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dinosaurs were around for ~135 million years. Many different species came about and died during that time. They've only been dead for ~65 million years.
Trig functions are intimately connected to the exponential function because one is the real part and one is the imaginary part. The exponential function is quite possibly the most useful function there is, for many reasons.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:57:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was expecting a Calculus joke, though. It's like setting up a joke about one race and then giving a punchline for another race. Any race can be used in a human joke.
this is the first fact that made me say "what the shit."
I had to look it up, I didn't believe it.
keplar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, when Harvard opened, you could pay the tuition in wampum, which was legal currency in Massachusetts at the time.
walruz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, Oxford didn't teach calculus when it opened. Cos it hadn't been invented yet. Then Oxford kept on not teaching calculus for another 500 years. Then Harvard opened.
Ukleon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say about castles in the UK being older than Machu Picchu, but yours is was better. I live near Oxford and didn't even know that. Thanks!
Yeah, it blew my mind when I first found out. When Oxford was founded, the Crusades had not yet begun. When Ghengis Khan was born, Oxford was already almost 200 years old.
Instead of Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones should've just gone to Oxford and found some ancient stuff there instead. Sounds like it'd make for a much better movie
Here's another one: the amount of time between the founding of Oxford and present day is twice as long as the amount of time between the birth of the prophet Muhammad and the founding of Oxford. Oxford is two-thirds as old as Islam.
Fun fact! That's actually almost 60 years after the Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan brewery was formed. To this day, they still produce beer under the "Weihenstephaner" label which can be bought all over the world.
BTW Weihenstephaner Heffe-Weisse is a fucking amazing beer, especially if you're into wheat brews.
I'd say *founded but I like the idea of someone just stumbling across the university
rawchess ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's at least slightly misleading. 1096 is the earliest known instance of higher education at Oxford, but the University as an institution wasn't formally recognized until the early 1200s.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't founded that early.
There is evidence that people who knew stuff would teach other people about it. But actual scholars didn't show up in Oxford before late in the 12th century. And it wasn't founded (i.e. chartered) before the middle of the 13th century.
Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlรกn in 1325.
But nowhere near as old as their temples. The Aztecs were the progeny of the Incas, which were the progeny of the Olmecs, which were the progeny of no one knows what they were called (so call them the OG); only that they did exist. The OG's were the big time builders and current thought has them in the 12000-15000 years ago range.
legotech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew studied at The University of Bologna, which was founded in 1088.
Astronomer here! The fastest pulsar we know of rotates about 700 times a second. This means the equator of the pulsar is rotating at about a quarter the speed of light.
For those who are wondering how this can happen btw, a pulsar is a subclass of neutron stars, which are the remnants of stars that went supernova but weren't big enough to become black holes. It's a core made up of tightly packed neutrons that's the size of a city- estimated under 16km for this one- which rotates really fast. They emit a beam of radiation- no one's quite sure how- and as it rotates we see this beam sweep by.
Most pulsars spin "only" a few times a second or every few seconds, but it's estimated that this particular pulsar got so fast because it has a companion star that's giving it more material, which gives it an extra "kick."
tombue ยท 1272 points ยท Posted at 14:38:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like you. Every time I read
Astronomer here!
I look at your name and am happy, because I'll learn something interesting. Thank you.
drh29 ยท 1058 points ยท Posted at 16:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan 2: Unidan in SPACE
[deleted] ยท 187 points ยท Posted at 18:31:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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jamesno26 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:43:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a neutron star, not a pulsar.
brielem ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 21:13:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well here we go again... Admins, keep your banhammer ready.
Btw, if you missed it I did an AMA a few days back in which I answered a few hundred questions (tried to answer everyone who didn't just repost something already at the top, and some people are still posting to it). You know, in case you want an overload of astronomy stuff.
Good. And the whole vote manipulation thing. That just wasn't cool.
Just keep telling us awesome facts and be awesome while you're doing it and you'll do great :).
Thanks for adding a little bit of awesome to reddits comment section.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who's Unidan and how are jackdaws involved?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan used to be an insanely popular redditor from a while ago who was always positive, kind, and helpful when people asked scientific questions (mostly biology questions, I think). I'm not too informed on the jackdaws thing, but it relates to how he was banned. Unidan got into an argument with someone (probably over jackdaws) and it was around that time it was discovered he had been upvoting himself with throwaway accounts in order to have his opinion seen over everyone else's, which is against the rules.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Despite what most believe, I really don't say that before every comment. Case in point, I had two popular comments yesterday about astronomy that garnered 3k+ karma, only one had that opener.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:24:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I do want to overload on astronomy stuff.
tombue ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:51:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool! I haven't seen it, but I'll definitely check it out tomorrow, thanks again.
Scarfz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey would it be like, be theoretically possible to accelerate something up to the speed of light if you attached a very long rigid stick into the pulsar?
tombue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not her, but I've read something about it.
It's not possible. There's a force acting on the stick and it'd would be so strong at one point, that it'd break every material we know of. It's a neat idea but physics thought about that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Overloads of astronomy are always welcome. :D I loved that info about...what was it called...magnitars? The pulsars with magnetic pulls so powerful they'd shred you to pieces if you got too close.
How would one go about diving into the world of Astronomy? I've always had a strong interest in space but as a business/computing university student it's not something on my radar. I'd love to learn more as a hobby, but I have no idea how feasible it is, or where to start.
There is very likely an amateur astronomy club in your area filled with nerds doing just that. See if you can find one! They're usually really nice, enthusiastic people.
Once when I started on a new chat website (back when those were a thing) I chose the name andromeda_galexy thinking it sounded smart and sexy. But rather than having guys fall all over me, all anybody would say to me was tho tell me I misspelled galaxy.
I'm a physics 1 student right now, and I have a question:
Is the star spinning so fast because angular momentum is conserved, and the decreasing radius of the collapsing star is causing the moment of inertia to decrease, which causes velocity to increase?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:31:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This is blowing my mind. So does anything interesting happen as this pulsar keep spinning faster and faster? Sorry, I'm an astrophysicist illiterate :)
I read somewhere that gravity of a neutron star is so strong that if you got up on a table on the surface of a neutron star and jumped, by the time you hit the ground you would be traveling millions of km per hour. Please, do not try this at home.
KwisatzX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some quick calculations using the numbers given for this pulsar, using the upper estimate for its radius (which will reduce the speed of the result) yields an acceleration due to gravity of around 1.2 x 1012 m/s2.
Using this figure, and assuming a normally-sized table of height around 0.75m (just under 30 inches), if you jumped off a table, you'd be traveling around 1.3 x 106 m/s when you hit the surface. That's about 4.7 million km/h.
Like how if you spin around a ice cream fast enough, eventualy it will splatter all around the car and your parents will get mad at you.(I didnt know that would happend, I was 10!)
Gravity. A neutron star is about as dense as an atomic nucleus, or aroud 4x1017 kg/m3 . Ice cream is around 540 kg/m3 and has no where near enough gravity to keep itself together in a small scoop.
chetlin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's interesting though is that unless I did math wrong, a person standing at the equator would fly off, that's how fast this is spinning. I got a gravitational force of about 1 ร 1014 N and apparent centrifugal force of about 2 ร 1015 N. Of course the pieces are not massive enough to fly off and these forces would rip a person apart.
This is so compact there's no way the material would become less dense and fly off. Neutron stars are so compact their surface features are literally described by atom thicknesses.
Does that have some bizarre relativistic effects, with the outer portion of the star experiencing time at a noticeably different rate than the nearby core?
I don't know why, I usually enjoy astronomy facts, but all this thinking of packed neutrons, ultrafast pulsars, failed black holes, and the existence of black holes and the empty, empty space just made me scared. Quick, tell me something happy!
All the elements above hydrogen and helium were forged in the center of stars via fusion. So the atoms that make you you were formed billions of years ago inside a star, and you are literally made of starstuff. :)
Nowhere near it. Instead, it will shed off its outer layers and leave behind a planetary nebula, with a white dwarf in the middle.
khendron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first question that pops into my mind is that if we don't know why pulsars emit a beam a radiation, how do we know that there is not more than 1 beam being emitted (which would skew our measurements)?
Well technically it has two, one going out of each pole. The magnetism of the pulsar is definitely at play here, so you can't have multiple magnetic dipoles especially in this kind of structure.
Wrenware ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They emit a beam of radiation- no one's quite sure how - and as it rotates we see this beam sweep by.
Sometimes I worry that most of the universe appears to be made up of rocks and various things that give off vast quantities of radiation in strange and frightening ways.
Then I remember that some of the rocks are also radioactive.
I know that those stars are RIDICULOUSLY dense, and that something like a teaspoon of matter would weigh a couple of tons on earth.
But spinning at that speed, how does the centripetal force not expel most of that matter out into space? Or has that already happened and this is what's remaining?
Okay, how can it be rotating that fast and not sling off all of its mass into space? Is the star's gravity just THAT strong? If it weren't rotating would it collapse into a black hole?
I didn't know that we don't know why a "beam" of radiation forms. That's true...why wouldn't it just be an equal blast from the entire surface area? Is the beam coming from the equator? The poles? Is it like a spotlight or a continual burst from the entire equator?
Humankeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but weren't big enough to become black holes
Thought size didn't have anything to do with a black hole, and instead it was mass/density.
he largest recorded starquake was detected on December 27, 2004 from the ultracompact stellar corpse (magnetar) SGR 1806-20, which created a quake equivalent to a 22.88 or 32 on the Richter Scale. The quake, which occurred 50,000 light years from Earth, released gamma rays equivalent to 1036 kW in intensity. Had it occurred within a distance of 10 light years from Earth, the quake would have possibly triggered a mass extinction.
What would happen if the surface was traveling closer to the speed of light? Could you have something dense enough to become a black hole but still held apart by its spin?
Could you explain more about how it's able to rotate that fast? You said it's getting material donated by a companion star, but I guess I don't understand the mechanics of it well enough to know what you mean by that.
You know how a figure skater with her hands out spins slowly, but when she pulls her arms in she then spins very fast? The same happens when a star collapses into a neutron star- the star and its mass is turning at a certain speed, but suddenly it's smushed into this tiny space. So to conserve its momentum, it spins faster.
Ah. I was overthinking it way too much, I think. So there's no issue with spinning at .25c, only if it starts to travel at that speed? (I have a physics background, but it's not much of one; limited to what a mechanical or electrical engineer would need to know.)
Joris914 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I once read on Wikipedia that a "teaspoon of neutron star" would weigh over 5.5 trillion kilograms. :D
icegoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it's estimated that this particular pulsar got so fast because it has a companion star that's giving it more material, which gives it an extra "kick."
How can the pulsar be increasing it's rotation speed by accumulating more mass from a companion star? That's seems like it would be decreasing the angular momentum.
interesting! i've been researching neutron stars lately so i can better explain my tattoo of the pulsar map from the pioneer plaque. i was under the impression that the pulsing was the hydrogen spin-flip and resulting wavelength being detected. can you go more into the beam of radiation?
tossspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool! This sounds like when an ice skater spins and pulls her arms in and because angular momentum is conserved and some of the mass is moved closer to the centre rotational velocity increases... to a quarter the speed of light... I feel like I have said something clever, please be clever please be clever!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, if we don't know how the energy beam is emitted, is it possible that the pulsar has several "ports", for lack of a better term, that are emitting the beams? Meaning it's not spinning at 700hz, but maybe only 100, but we get 7 beams from each rotation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget about the exotic unknown states of matter that likely exist within pulsars.
Phrenzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Question: What is the difference in gravity between the equator and the poles of that star?
Eman5805 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind buggery is imagining if that thing grew a neutron fist or something and hit a black hole that appeared next to me. Would that like...destroy a chunk of the galaxy or something?
You seem like the kind of guy that would have an answer for this (silly) question.
What would happen if you were to throw, say, a baseball at that pulsar? What about something a bit larger like... I don't know, a blue whale? Or a planet?
TheFeshy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason, millisecond pulsars bring home the power of the universe for me more than black holes. I guess it's just that if you crush a galaxy of suns together, you expect the result to be stupidly powerful. And it is; but maybe not in a way I can imagine it.
But what if you just take one star? One star, massing more than our solar system, and crush it down to just before it slips past all known physics into a singularity. Then you spin it. Fast. Fast enough that it rotates a dozen times every time you blink. Even though it still weighs more than everything within a light year of me, combined.
Somehow that feels just on the verge of being relatable, even though that level of energy really isn't. But it's certainly awe-inspiring.
Alright you're an astronomer so I'll ask you what I asked higher up, would the habitat zone be larger if it's star is larger? Like, would we be more likely to find life in solar system's where the star is much larger than our own?
maxk1236 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A teaspoon of a neutron star has the same mass as Everest or something right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pulsars are composed of super condensed matter, correct?
Is there anyway to know how much volume a spoonful of Pulsar-stuff would take up uncondensed?
k0uch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Curious, what keeps the pulsar together?
Is its gravity that immense, are there electromagnetic forces at play, or something else?
SteevyT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At that rate, how non-spherical is that star?
Also, any other weirdness thst we know of happen because of that extreme surface speed?
If New York city was its own country, the nypd would be the 20th most well funded army on earth. I'm gonna find a source in this I'll be back in a minute.
It's a 'Holy shit 'Murica is fucking awesome' fact.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:23:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is what I meant. I really wish all the people complaining about our treatment of terrorists and such and such had to go live over in Syria for a couple months. They'd be crying to come back home within hours.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:40:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the strongest Air Force in the world? US Navy.
Sorry, sailor here. Always have to add that to fuck with 'em.
You guys would be the only real competition unless we have to fly over mainland Russia or China.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I'd say the forward projection from carriers would probably be the best in those situations. That said, I can't really name any USAF bases OCONUS like I can naval stations, so I'm just talking out of my ass here.
According to this website that is not true. Add up the top ten countries below the USA and you reach beyond 14,000 aircraft. The USA fields just short of 14k.
Essentially anything preceding the earliest Devonian (~400 million years ago) trees are older than trees. Sharks and fish in general predate trees. Arthropods such as scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and millipedes are also remarkably old. The mollusk phylum is another example, and includes the precursors to the modern Nautilus group, orthocone-nautiloids.
Anything older than the Ordovician-Silurian (440 mya) boundary is older than land plants. Sponges and jellyfish are two of the most ancient lineages still alive today, dating back to 600 and 500 mya respectively.
I've only known of evolution as a fact for about four years now (grew up very conservative/religious). The more I learn the more my mind is completely blown by how complex and fantastic biological history is. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction for more inquiry. It can still all be a little overwhelming. :)
I find it incredibly interesting! I wish more people were open to learning about these things. Whenever I mention it, some people give me weird looks about my certainty on the topic, lol.
To be fair, while the phenomenon of evolution is as factual as a theory can get, using geological evidence to track evolution gets a little messy. There are huge gaps in the timescale that keep us from being absolutely certain in regards to the progression of life and the geologic history of Earth. At a certain point, the lack of information leads to conjectures about the deep past.
Read that at the Smithsonian, blew my damn mind and now it's my party fact
Datum000 ยท 1638 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Supernovas are bright.
XKCD put it as such:
Supernovas are so bright that if one went off and we observed it at the same distance as the sun it from the earth, that if you pushed your eyeball against a hydrogen bomb (that were to detonate) it would be 9 orders of magnitude dimmer than that super nova.
Nice_Dude ยท 1616 points ยท Posted at 18:13:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having never seen a hydrogen bomb, I have no frame of reference for this analogy. 2/10 would not repeat at Thanksgiving dinner
If you are a mile outside the blast radius, turn your back to the bomb, close your eyes, then put your hands over your eyes...you'd be able to see the bones in your hands during detonation.
Wow fuck I'm in public alone and can't stop laughing at this nonsense.
GleeUnit ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 20:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Supernovas are so bright that if one went off and we observed it at the same distance as the sun it from the earth, that if you pushed your eyeball against a hydrogen bomb (that were to detonate) allowed your racist, ultra-conservative uncle to get up a full head of steam about how much Obama is ruining the country at Thanksgiving dinner, it would be 9 orders of magnitude dimmer more comfortable to be around than that super nova.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:18:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having never seen a hydrogen bomb, I have no frame of reference for this analogy. 2/10 would not repeat at Thanksgiving dinner
A hydrogen bomb is 30 times brighter than your cousin johnny who applied himself, and going to graduate from medical school next year, it's a shame you never listen to your dear mother and when are you going to get married and give me a grandchild already?
A better visualization would be how bright they are in the sky. It's not uncommon for super novae to be brighter than an entire galaxy. To put that into perspective, that means the one explosion puts out more energy than an entire galaxy of stars combined.
Still nothing compares to a gamma ray burst though. In 2004 there was a burst ~50,000 light years away that was powerful enough to fry a bunch of satellites and ionize the upper atmosphere on earth.
bardeg ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:28:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the star Betelgeuse ever does supernova in our lifetime, for 2 solid weeks there will be a light in the sky equivalent to a full moon. Only problem is, it could have already happened, or it could happen 10,000 years from now. Sadly, "soon" in space time encompasses a lot of time.
Lereas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that close enough to hurt us?
bardeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe so. Betelgeuse is over 600 light years away, and even though it would be the largest supernova humanity has ever seen, I haven't read anything saying it would cause harm to Earth. Just a big bright spot in the sky for a couple weeks.
Datum000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap that would be amazing. Really hope I'm alive to see that or a comet or something celestially significant
You're thinking of it as a color. A full moon is basically white. Let's say the sun is also white (I don't know if it technically is or isn't). The sun is brighter than a full moon, but it's not necessarily whiter. It's just brighter.
Now if a camera was looking at the supernova vs the Hydrogen Bomb, it would see white because the pixels would be maxed out, and because of how a camera works white is the max (255,255,255) . Unless you had a fancy camera with filters and stuff that would be able to see really bright stuff like an atom bomb 1/tenmillionths of a second after detonation
Xerxero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But if the hydrogen bomb already max out how can the neutrino max it out even more? At some point all your values will hit the max of what is possible to register with the camera or other equipment.
Both will max out a regular camera because cameras are meant to try to capture what the human eye sees as close as possible. Typically a camera has 256 shades of gray, from pure black to "pure white", which is the max. Anything outside this range will either clamp to pure black or white. Cameras also have different ranges for which they assign 0-255 to. Some cameras can see very well with almost no light [Youtube - Sony Alpha A7s sample video - moonlight], while your phone's camera would probably show pure black in these same conditions.
We know the supernova brighter because there are essentially brightness sensors which have a much wider range than a camera. They have much more than 256 levels of light, and their "max out" level is much brighter than the supernova. But because this is a supernova and we can't send sensors there, astronomers have to use what they know about other stars to extrapolate how bright a supernova would be.
Well we would be inside of a giant nuclear reaction so yeah that makes sense. Unless you mean that distance from the surface of the star that is going super nova, then it also makes sense because relatively speaking that's like standing right next to it.
I've never understood how something could be brighter than something else. I get that it can be but I don't understand the mechanics. How is something brighter than pure white?
Datum000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't mean energetically, not color. By bike light is brighter than my phone's light, but both are about the same color.
Driesens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's pretty obvious. Supernovas are bright enough to be seen on Earth, even though they happen millions of lightyears away. A hydrogen bomb detonating at that distance wouldn't be bright enough to show up at all.
ginfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So instant flash incineration, then.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Q: Will it make you blind even when closing your eyes?
Datum000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't guarantee anything about your health when exposed to either of those.
If a supernova went off within 100 light years of Earth, all life on this planet would be wiped out by the gamma radiation. The fortunate part of this is that there isn't any star (that we know of) that can go supernova within 100 light years.
qngff ยท 2370 points ยท Posted at 12:44:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No that was Joseph from the Bible so he could store grain
Source: Ben Carson
IvyMike ยท 2136 points ยท Posted at 16:30:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nowhere in the bible does it state that Joseph was not a wooly mammoth.
[deleted] ยท 746 points ยท Posted at 17:32:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did have that really awesome coat.
esmo88 ยท 818 points ยท Posted at 17:33:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technicolorly, yes.
MDLouis ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite Bible story was always the one about Joseph, the Gay Mammoth.
ehkodiak ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 19:17:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, what you're saying is Joseph was a woolly mammoth, that was flamboyantly gay, thus had the best coat? Meh, not the weirdest plot twist in the bible
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:37:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why the Ice Age happened! Joseph the flaming gay mammoth melted the ice!
If I remember correctly, I believe it was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ocre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and ruset and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue
I was in that show!!! Potifer was counting sheckles, when he heard a mighty rumpus clattering above him. Suddenly he knew tjat riches wouldnt buy him what he wanted if she didnt love him!
But it DOES say he had a coat of many colors, where wooly mammoths were all one color, so if he WAS a mammoth, he was some kind of weird mutant mammoth.
AND, it says that his brothers took off his coat and showed it to their father, which means Joseph was a skinned weird mutant mammoth. That sounds pretty traumatic, so it might explain why he thought pyramids with little internal space would be a good place to store grain.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
bp92009 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, most workers on the Pyramids were farmers in the dry seasons (when nothing grew). It was basically a way for the government to keep them occupied, as well as making an awesome tombstone as a result.
Joseph did store grain (in the biblical story), but it wasn't in pyramids.
2059FF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you know what I like even more than grain? This new wooly mammoth here. In fact, I'm more proud of those 7 pyramids that I had to get installed to hold 2000 wooly mammoths. Because it wasn't that long ago that I was in a little pyramid, with only 7 wooly mammoths in my wooly mammoth account, and 7 pyramids in my pyramid account.
I've been laughing at the absurdity that someone would think Joseph is said to have done this in the Bible, and I just realised that some people might be considering it absurd because of its historical inaccuracy.
skullturf ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:49:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, Steve Buscemi built the pyramids on 9/11. Then Trent Reznor saw them and said "Johnny Cash did such a great job building those pyramids that I consider them Johnny's pyramids now."
The pyramids are where cavemen kept their grains and Purina Mammoth Chow.
Sookye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No-one can prove that they aren't still living inside them. And living under them; my theory is that pyramids are really mammothhills, and like anthills, most of the population is underground.
Kitkat69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: if this is true then it's my new favorite holy shit fact. But I'm pretty sure the Egyptian pyramids are only like 5,000 years old and wooly mammoths went extinct 12,000 years ago.
Noivis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:11:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, whenever I hear someone referencing "Woolly Mammoths" I cannot help but giggle at the name. It just intuitively sounds like the woolly isn't something biologically distinctive, but rather just an endearing adjective, like "cuddly doggies existed at the same time England won a world cup" or something.
Also, "mammoth" just means "big" or, in this case "big thing." So Wooly Mammoths might as well be called "Fuzzy Big Things."
I can no longer take the term "Wooly Mammoth" seriously anymore.
blaghart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:18:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go Fast Boats, Lighters, Stealy Wheelie Auto-mobiley...you know for all humans are clever clods we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things.
I have the "don't ask; don't tell" approach when it comes to Juggalos. Sure you can have a heart of gold but I'm still going to think less of you if you're down with the clown.
I dunno... the odds of me having two white hands was significantly higher than any other combination. Something about genetics...
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:02:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The order that the cards are in are only significant to us. The actual odds of getting any hand are the same as getting any other hand.
Yeah, but that misses the point.
The odds of a specific deck of cards appearing in a specific order is a permutation of 52 cards taken 52 at a time.
The odds of a specific hand of cards appearing is a combination of 52 cards taken 5 at a time.
The odds of a deck of cards appearing in a certain order is 8*1067
The odds of five cards being drawn out of a deck is 2.5*106
Basically, the odds of drawing a specific hand is on the order of one in a million. Basically, if 1% of the US population drew one hand per day, the odds are that set of cards would be drawn almost every day.
By contrast, the odds are that between now and the end of time, a deck of cards will never be shuffled in one specific order.
Wait but given any possibility that isn't equal to zero being repeated an infinite amount of times...isn't it guaranteed to happen at some point? Because infinite trials so logistically it has to?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:47:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The probability of an occurrence APPROACHES 1 as the trials approach infinity.
As a practical matter though, there are a finite number of times a deck of cards will be shuffled on Earth.
I mean, there is a probability that putting a kettle of water on the stove will cause the water to freeze. There is a probability that atoms in the environment will randomly assemble themselves into your perfect soul mate as you watch. The probability is so low though that it is effectively zero.
Khronosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While theoretically true, we don't have infinite trials if we assume the universe has a finite life.
Assuming a 5 card deal, there are 2,598,960 (52 choose 5) possible hands. Getting the same hand twice in a row has equivalent odds to getting one specific 5 hand because the first hand just determines what the second hand needs to be.
Using the math from the birthday paradox, we can determine how many perfectly random shuffles need to be made to have a better than 50% chance of getting the same hand twice in a row:
0.5 = (1-P(same hand))^n
0.5 = (1-(1/2598960))^n
0.5 = (1-3.84769292e-7)^n
0.5 = (0.99999961523)^n
ln(0.5) = n * ln(0.99999961523)
n = ln(0.5)/ln(0.99999961523)
n = 1801458.1367
Rounding up, we require 1,801,459 perfectly random second shuffles to have a better than average (50%) chance of repeating a hand.
That may seem like a pretty large number, but to put it in perspective, if 1,801,459 played 2 rounds of 5 card draw in a game of poker this year, there's a better than average chance that at least one got the hand twice in a row.
And 2 rounds seems like a short game of poker. Let's try with 10 rounds per person per year. With 10 rounds, there are 9 opportunities for a person to get the same hand twice in a row. We only need 200,163 people to play 10 rounds of poker in a row to have a better than average chance of one of them getting the same hand twice in a row.
When you take into account that tens of millions of people got to Las Vegas every year, it that doesn't seem to unlikely.
That when you assume that people's birthdays are randomly distributed (usually excluding February 29 because it's a lot rarer) it only takes a group of 23 people to have a 50% chance of any 2 of them sharing a birthday.
Note that it's not any one person sharing a birthday with another (I can't say that there's a 50% chance of someone sharing a birthday with me at that point).
The math works like this, assuming P(A) is that two people in your group share a birthday, and P(B) is that there IS NOT a shared birthday:
1 = P(A)+P(B) //They are mutually exclusive, if A is true, B must be false and vice versa
//P(n) referes to the chance that n people do not share a birthday
P(1) = 1 = 365/365 //If there's one person, the cannot possibly share a birthday with someone else
P(2) = 364/365 //Given person 1's bday, person's 2 bday will only fall on the same day 1/365 times.
P(3) = 363/365 //You can see where this is going by now, because we've eliminiated P1's bday and P2's vbday there are 363 "slots" left
//Actually this is a perfect Pigeonhole Principal problem
//Since P(1), P(2)... can be considered Independent Events we can say P(B) = P(1)xP(2)x...xP(n-1)xP(n)
//If we let n=23
P(B) = (1/365)^23 * (365x364x363x...x343) ~=.4927
P(A) = 1-P(B) ~= .5073
P(A) ~= 50.73% > 50%
The (1/365)23 comes from the common denominator being pulled out of all of them.
To 100% guarantee 2 people in a group share a birthday, you need 367 (365+leap day+1 to double up), but to have a 99.9% chance? Only 70 people.
Probability and Statistics are weird.
khafra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:54 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there's 47! ways the rest of the deck can be ordered, with a given poker hand.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming poker (or another 5 card game), the odds of only you receiving exactly the same hand twice in a row are 1 in C(52,5), which is 52x51x50x49x48/(5x4x3x2) = 1 in 2,598,960. Not a small number, but not inconceivable. Considering there are 7 billion people in the world, if everybody plays two hands of cards per day, this will happen 3 thousand times.
This is why I love probability theory - it tells us that with enough trials, even extremely unlikely events (1 in a billion, for example) are almost certain to occur. Our puny brains aren't particularly good at processing very large or very small numbers, which is why some people can't understand evolution. How can such unlikely things happen by dumb luck? Well, with enough one in a billion probability events, a few are going to occur. With enough of these occurring, a few will be advantageous. With enough advantageous mutations, a few will survive and duplicate. The extremely unlikely becomes reality.
Because the chances of a set of 5 specific cards in the deck being dealt the same (not in order) is 5/52 * 4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48. This is just 5 cards in the entire deck and doesn't care about order. The entire deck being in the exact same order is 1/(52!)
91Caleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i recognize that euchre involves a much smaller deck, but i once played 6/7 hands (5 in a row, one off then on again) where the same card was flipped up as the card for suit
edit: probably more unlikely me and my friend hit b2b straight flushes in poker
We had a card shuffler and a paranoid dealer that shuffled them a few times by hand. Basically it should have been impossible.
Wacko___ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:50 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! Your Paranoid dealer had good reason to be in that case. Automatic shufflers are the worst possible shuffling technique. That kind of thing happens to us a lot. We have a lazy and a bit handicap friend. When we play Poker Omaha style and itโs is round to deal we can almost always see the last set of hand again on the table. To a point where I some time build my decision on that knowledge.
wentimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You probably didn't receive them in the same order though meaning it was a different configuration of that hand so even though in poker it's the same hand it didn't come to you in the same order. This isn't important for standard 5-card poker but it is for hold'em.
paulvs88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:44:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The number of different ways a deck of cards can be organized is a pretty simple equation. There are 52 options the first card can be, since one card is taken, there are 51 cards for the next one, and so on. This is called a factorial, and is written as 52 x 51 x 50 x 49... Or as 52!.
So how big is 52!? About 8x1067, or an 8 followed by 67 zeroes (in words this is 80 unvigintillion) how big is that? If every different way a deck of cards could be organized into a giant pile, the pile would be 19 times the size of the milky way galaxy.
Now imagine that we have the entire population of the world playing poker with this giant pile of decks. There are 7.2x109 (7.2 billion) people on earth. Let's say that they're playing five people to a table, every table would need to play 5.55x1058 (55.5 octodecillion) hands to get through the pile.
Say they can play 1 hand every minute, without stopping, taking a new deck from the pile for every hand, and disposing of the old one. they would need to play for 1.06x1054 (1.06 septendecillion) years to empty the pile. This is approximately 7.7x1043 (77 tredecillion) times the estimated age of the universe.
At this point, I've run out of ways to make the smaller, but I hope I've helped you understand this a bit.
TL;DR: decks of cards have scary amounts of entropy, yo.
Edit: I got ninja'd while doing my math... Whoops. Sorry for the redundancy... Part 2 here! I did calculations relating to actually shuffling the cards.
ecbuffalo ยท 283 points ยท Posted at 14:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait to bring up this fact the next time I am playing drinking card games and then proceed to butcher the facts you listed but be close enough to seem smart.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:47:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"See...Cleopatra's pyramids and the dinosaurus rex...well...hic...they shuffled a deck of poker cards and, and...basically you have the same birthday as Cleopatra because of math science."
Yeah, I've tried this before. People usually respond in 1 of 2 ways. They either don't believe you, no matter how much you explain it, or they don't care.
DeemDNB ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Okay so say you're shuffling cards once every second. And you take a step every, uhhh... Million years. Wait. Billion years? Something like that. And uhhhh... oh, and every time you take a step you take a drop out of the... Ocean... And once the oceans empty you make a page? And then once the page crushes the sun you've only gone through 3000 shuffles. I think. Wait. Did I deal you twice?"
Shuffle a deck of cards every second (pretty fast).
Take one step every billion years, and each time you make it around the earth, take one drop out of the Pacific ocean, and each time you drain the Pacific Ocean, place a page of paper on the ground.
Now the Universe would be in heat death by the time you'd taken a swimming pool out of the Pacific but anyways, moving on:
When that stack of paper, created by draining the pacific ocean by taking one drop after circumnavigating the Earth via one step every billion years (while shuffling every second), by the time that stack of paper reaches the Sun, you've gone through about 1/3,000 of the possibilities.
EDIT2: Another fun one. While shuffling every second:
Every billion years deal yourself a 5-card poker hand. Each time you get a royal flush, buy yourself a lottery ticket. A royal flush occurs in one out of every 649,740 hands. If that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. Keep going and when youโve filled up the canyon with sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mt. Everest. Now empty the canyon and start all over again. When youโve levelled Mt. Everest, look at the timer, you still have 5.364e67 seconds remaining.
But if you fold the paper in half 42 times you can reach the moon with one sheet! Then you would only need 3 sheets and 3 drops of water. That means there are significantly less ways to shuffle a deck. Take that Las Vegas!
Reives92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking gold...
zupernam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if that's a reference to something, but it's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper that many times.
the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume
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The last 12 digits of Graham's number are ...262464195387.
Sacamato ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:57:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are some imprecise numbers in his post (like how long is a step, or how much water is in a drop?), but the way I calculate it, you'd actually have to stack papers to the moon 159,629 times just to get to 1/3 of the possibilities. But being off by 6 orders of magnitude isn't such a big deal when we're dealing with 67 orders of magnitude.
Yes I posted to the link where I saw it. The papers have to reach the Sun, not the Moon, and you have to get to the sun a thousand times to get 1/3rd of the way.
I mean, I'm sure you could spare a billion years to build another Pacific Basin somewhere. Maybe scrape out the bottom of the Atlantic, make it deeper.
The website did it by putting 52 factorial seconds on a timer and counting down the seconds, which is the equivalent of shuffling one unique deck arrangement every second.
If you were actually shuffling it would take way longer because you'd get repeat arrangements.
smjpilot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
to drain the Pacific Ocean, you would have to drain ALL the oceans, as the water would level out from all around the world. Or do you set up dams first so that you only remove water from the Pacific?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have to build the dams by picking up one grain of sand every time OP's mom got banged.
One of my university lectures once told me those not citing sources for evidence and making shit up was only acceptable to do if you wrote for buzzfeed or ran for office.
So what about if you're shuffling the decks? How long until you get a double?
I'll be using a Taylor series approximation to approach the problem. The equation is p โ 1 - e(-s2/(2d)) where p is the target percentage, s is the number of shuffles, and d is the number of possible decks. In order to find the number of shuffles it would take in order to have a p% of having a repeat all I need to do is solve for p
So, let's set up a scale. instead of playing poker, the 7.2x107 (7.2 billion) people of the world have gotten bored of interacting together, and will now shuffle decks independently. If they each shuffle at one deck per minute, let's find how many times we will surpass the age of the universe before we have the above chances of getting an order that's not new.
01% chance - 2.4x109 (2.4 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
25% chance - 1.3x1010 (13 billion) times the estimated age of the universe. (This one is interesting because the estimation for the age of the universe I'm using is 1.4x1010 years. this means that for each year in the age of the universe, earth would need to shuffle for roughly the age of the universe. (age of the universe)2 if you will.)
50% chance - 2x1010 (20 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
99% chance - 5.2x1010 (52 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
The amount of time it would take earth to shuffle into every option systematically would be 1.5x1044 times the estimated age of the universe, so it will take 3.4x1034 times longer to systematically go through all of the options than to have a 99% chance of there being a duplicate.
These numbers are still huge, so let's teach every mammal on the planet (about 1012 of them) to shuffle decks of cards at the same rate as humans.
01% chance - 18,000 times the age of the universe.
25% chance - 94,000 times the age of the universe.
50% chance - 150,000 times the age of the universe.
99% chance - 370,000 times the age of the universe.
let's shrink the chances we're going for, 1% is a lot at this scale, we'll compare how long it would take to have a chance of a double to some rare things:
chance to be struck by lighting in your lifetime: 1/12000 or 8.3x10-3% (0.0083%)
8.3x10-3% chance - 16,0000 times the age of the universe.
chance to win the powerball in one try: 1/175,000,000 or 5.7x10-7% (0.00000057%)
5.7x10-7% chance - 690 times the age of the universe
chance of a meteor landing on your 1,000 square foot house: 1/5.5x1012 or 1.8x10-11%
1.8x10-11% chance - 10.3 billion years (about 3/4 the age of the universe)
chance of all of these happening to one person once: 8.5x10-24% (8.5 chances out of 100 septillion)
8.5x10-24% chance - 7040 years.
Wrapup: So if every mammal on earth shuffles a deck of cards once per minute, for 7040 years, the chances that one of the decks was a duplicate is the same as the chances of you being struck by lightning, winning the powerball, AND having a meteor land on your house.
TL;DR: I just spent 3 hours doing math, you can take the time to read some of this. A deck of cards is a very random thing, use this power wisely.
Thanks, man! I had a lot of fun doing it. I probably won't do another for a while, and I'm trying to think as to where I should leave it when I do... you have any ideas?
Instead of factorialized 52 then a question mark ending the sentence, I like to read this as you just asking really excitedly how big the number 52 is.
I took an advanced math course... thing... in middle school. We would show up about half an hour before classes started one day a week, get snacks, and do fun math things.
Well one day our math teacher was home sick, so instead of cancelling, she had her friend the English teacher teach for us that day. We went over factorials that day, and she would very emphatically say every factorialed number. We didn't get much done that day.
Equa1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:04:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say your math is way off! But as it turns out, alien blue just isn't displaying any exponents.
My thought was "well, uh... 52? Why the excitement?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understand the math, it all makes sense that way, but I still just can't actually fathom it. Big numbers are so strange. You did such a good job explaining it and it's still just so hard to believe.
I don't blame you, they're hard. I play a lot of idle clicker games, so I see big huge numbers all the time and have a better sense of scale for them than most people.
Nomad45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your math is probably correct, but you're looking at the problem wrong. What you proved is it's impossible to get every single variation of the deck. The original problem was two people getting the same deck, which is much more likely to happen. If you want an example, here's the birthday problem, which basically says that if you have 23 people in a room, it's likely (over 50% chance) that two of them share a birthday.
Basically what I'm saying is you don't need 8x1067 people in a room with random decks, to have 2 of the same decks. The number of people needed to do this is much less. And with your example, it wouldn't take nearly as long to get two of the same deck, as it would to get every single possible deck. Granted, these numbers are still so high that it will probably never happen.
Tarantio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is possible to calculate birthday problem odds with very large numbers, but I keep breaking wolfram when I try it with these ones.
The equation for working it out yourself would involve taking the factorial of 8x1067, and also raising it to the power of the prospective number of shuffles you want to calculate the odds for.
There's probably a way to approximate it, but I don't think any normal calculator will be able to pull it off.
I go to an engineering college, I can use MATHLAB while on my IT shift tonight or something.
Tarantio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. If you're looking for a number of shuffles to calculate, my favorite example is the number you'd get if everyone who ever lived shuffled a deck of cards once a second for the entire age of the universe.
That's a good point, I should do this math later. My main goal here was more for the sheer scale than a statistical answer though.
Anybody that wants in on that math when I get it should leave a reply here or something, I'm not sure of the best way to get that out to the people interested. Suggestions welcome.
I do my best! A TL;DR should never be more than two sentences long (usually no more than one) and really only needs to convey generals, but I like to have fun with them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One joker brings it up to 53! or 4.3x1069 (4.3 duovigintillion)
two jokers is 54! or 2.3x1071 (230 duovigintillion)
four jokers is 56! or 7.1x1074 (710 tresvigintillion)
Things get interesting once you make it so that you can't tell the jokers apart:
two jokers is 54!/2! or 1.2x1071 (120 duovigintillion)
four jokers is 56!/4! or 3x1073 (30 tesvigintillion)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are about 1040 exoplanets that could sustain life. If they all had populations similar to earth's then the final time would be 7700 years. Huh, wish I'd used that one.
Having said this.. it is TECHNICALLY possible to shuffle a deck of cards in the same order by a single person. it is just, as pointed out, SUPER SUPER unlikely.. to say the least.
Just because I happened to have been reading about encryption yesterday, can you calculate how many bits of encryption this would be? I'm not sure because it isn't a constant charset of 52 (since each card can only be used once), but it seems like it should be close to 256 bit encryption level.
It's pretty cool. The reason I thought of it is because a password with only lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers would have a charset size of 62, in the same ballpark as the cards. Then if the password was 29 characters long, it would be around 128 bit, which already is basically uncrackable.
And this one is a math equation where the "64" is the bits and the 4 billion is how many combinations are tried per second. The result is then how long it would take to crack. So with a computer trying 4 billion combinations per second, it would take 146 years to crack a 64 bit password.
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Just so you can all picture the number.
dupelize ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This does assume that the cards are perfectly shuffled. If you do a quick shuffle of a new deck of cards I bet that formation is significantly more likely to repeat.
It might be a fun (for somebody else to do) experiment to see how much a single round of shuffling randomizes the deck and then use that to estimate how likely it is to have the exact same starting deck if you are lazy with a new deck of cards.
I didn't quite do that, but I did account for actually shuffling the random decks here
DenSem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that take into account the impossible combinations of the shuffle? i.e. the top card is not going to end up anywhere near the bottom of the deck in a normal shuffle. At most, it would end up about halfway down.
It assumes a perfectly random shuffle. Actually, one better than that, it's every possible combination. So you could go through systematically and build them yourself if you wanted to ruin your life.
DenSem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha. I was picturing a typical "Riffle Shuffle".
Yeah, that would be the next step to this. I'm gonna take a crack at it tonight with a modified version of the birthday problem. The above just details a pile of every possible permutation of a deck of cards.
But is it possible that a combination of the deck HAS repeated itself in history due to luck?? Or does all this math render luck impossible? I just don't GET IT!
It's fairly likely that if you open a new deck of cards, and "shuffle" it by cutting the deck once, that that permutation has been seen before. As well as most of the combinations if you do a single riffle shuffle. But if the deck is randomized well enough (7 rifles should be enough) then the chances are infinitesimal. I should be posting a follow up later tonight where I run the numbers in a format similar to the birthday problem, which will yield answers closer to what you are looking for.
TL;DR: luck still exists, but only gets you so far.
What's even more interesting to me is how many shuffles it would take to actually get all N combinations. I would imagine that its exponentially larger, considering a great deal would be duplicate patterns.
here's where I did the math around actually shuffling these, instead of just pulling from a pile.
To answer your question though, it would take 8.3*106 times the age of the universe (to twenty decimal places anyway, I didn't feel like rewriting my equation as a limit)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then you get to 0 cards left and it fucks it up.
52x51x50x49...x2x1x0=0
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if you are a shitty shuffler? I agree with the probability, but I wouldn't say "never".
I might look into the math for this at some point. The point still stands that if you shuffle a deck of cards even just competently, there's a lot of randomness there.
How would people not understand this? It was a huge fucking deal all over the world. Even in the U.S., which has significantly less interest in soccer than the rest of the planet
Ah, that would represent what would happen if every card could be any card from the deck. so you could have a deck of just kings of spades. or one that has no hearts and extra clubs and diamonds. It's an interesting number by it's own right, but not the one needed here.
Every episode I am reminded of the soul crushing fact that the following series will not be hosted by Fry anymore.
I don't know if Toksvig will ever live up to that standard.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Nihht ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:42:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Without formatting this doesn't seem quite so remarkable.
But 52! is a very large number: larger than
8 x 1067.
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Well, someone shuffling a deck of cards once per second since the beginning of the universe (believed to be about 14 billion years ago) would not have shuffled the deck more than 1018 times.
I think he meant 8x1067 . at least, that's the number I used in my calculations. Reddit does fun things to symbols sometimes, and then they go on vacation.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm bad at maths..
Is 14 billion years * ~31,550,000 seconds per year a bigger number than the amount of possible card decks?
The is always the best reaction on Reddit. - "Nope. No way. BS... Edit: TIL"
OMGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
To be fair, there are more orders than could be assembled in 1000 years or whatever the timeline is for this factoid. However, since all new decks come in the same order, the odds of the same order occurring from a single shuffle is actually quite high, at least compared to the way this fact is presented, which says it's impossible.
If you had 1000 decks of cards all in their default order, and cut/shuffled all of them once each, it is almost a certainty that 2 of them will result in the same order. It's even possible for 250 decks to have the same order, if it's a single person doing all the shuffling and they have a certain aptitude with cards.
[deleted] ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 14:25:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your shuffle. Every deck of cards comes out of the original box the same way. If people are like me and do a few bridges, that order has probably happened before. Now if every card was actually put in a random order, ya it probably hasn't happened before.
thevdude ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:23:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I was just thinking about an article I had read before today where someone simulated shuffles and had nice graphics to show when a deck was actually well shuffled, I'll see if I can find it.
EDIT: Man, I really want to find this. The person who put the page together had a program set up to show the new order of the cards as colors (it started as a gradient from one end to the other, and after shuffling was obviously mixed up)
grim2121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why casinos do some crazy shuffles when using a new deck.
ArkEneru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the original comment assumes that every time a deck of cards is shuffled, the order of the cards is randomized, which is definitely not the case.
kkehoe5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:36:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. Also most people tend to split the deck pretty close to in half. So we have the same starting order and pretty consistent splitting and shuffling of the deck. Not hard to imagine that just because the possibility of endless combinations exists, that number tends to be much much lower.
The only issue I have with this premise is that a new deck of cards comes pre arranged, so the amount of new decks shuffled once for the first time and ended up the same must have statistically happened once by now.
d_cas ยท 515 points ยท Posted at 18:45:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
King George V, Tsar Nicholas, and Kaiser Wilhelm (the three major world leaders of WW1) were all first cousins. They were all grand children of Queen Victoria and often spent their summers together growing up.
Let's say Person A and Person B share great-grandparents. They would be second cousins. Now, let's say Person C is either the parent or child of Person B. One generation removed. Persons A and C would be second cousins, once removed.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:15:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
IS WWI NOT HISTORYRR?R????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
ART THOU PLAYETH, SIRE? THY JOKETH GOEST OO'ER MY HEAD.
Chevy Chase played drums in the band known as "Bad Rock Group" and later as "Leather Canary" with future Steely Dan members Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, while attending Bard College in '68 & '69.
aykontakt ยท 3287 points ยท Posted at 15:35:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I usually put the key in my anus and then scan the parking lot with my mouth open while clenching my buttcheeks. I once parked my car in China by mistake and the clicker picked it up. (I live in the US).
This is probably one of the few instances where going ass to mouth is okay.
Keinichn ยท 580 points ยท Posted at 13:42:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I doubted this at first. Definitely works. I use it all the time to find my car in a parking lot. My girlfriend was skeptical at first. Then I stood in one spot, hit my button a few times, nothing. Put it to my head and hit the button, car honks. You can't explain that.
Keinichn ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 15:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was a joke. Saying you can't explain something that's easily explainable. I just left off the first half. "Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
_Blurgh_ ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:02:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in all seriousness my dad got cancer of the neck somewhere near the tonsils (i was young and dint remember exacts) he was ok but it would have gone into his brain directly and killed him within a month
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neat.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It works because we are all actually androids who believe we are humans.
There's less signal interference from competing frequencies the higher you go. It's not the action of putting it to your head, but the action of having raised it higher than you normally would. Next time just hold it up in the air. You'll achieve the same result and you won't look like you're trying to engage your mutant power.
Tarantio ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:18:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Former valet with a bachelor's in physics here.
Raising the remote as high as you can gives you the longest range. I can't confirm or deny whether competing frequencies have anything to do with it, but height will help because a higher percentage of the radio signal will make it to the car. Some of them will bounce off the ground and back up to the receiver.
Plumber who listened to the episode of "Skeptic's Guide to the Universe" that covered it here.
I was just paraphrasing my recollection of their explanation from a year or two ago. Pretty sure they mentioned competing frequencies but it's been a long time. Bottom line though is, yes, height is the key.
Apparently one of the explanations for the myth is that the water in your head amplifies the signal. First of all, pretty sure water is more known for its refractive properties. Second of all, why would someone think a signal passing through a solid object would somehow be stronger than one with no obstacles? People are weird.
You are correct, there is no purpose for opening your mouth. It works because your brain is made of water. I wanted to get piperluck's answer so I could poke fun at him for looking funny for no reason.
Sorry piperluck, all light hearted fun of course.
PS. stop opening your mouth when you snipe unlock your car. You just look silly.
chiefos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I just kind of put it against my skull. Side of the head is generally easiest.
my dad loves this trick. but walking around the parking lot while he can't find his truck with his hand and keys under his chin is pretty embarrassing.
_Relaxed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have to open your mouth. It works if you put it against your forehead.
This is a very interesting fact that I learned from a former Army EOD technician. He told us that in Afghanistan if you see someone doing this they are probably trying to put a few extra feet between themselves and the IED that will go off when they click that button.
You can also sends the signal through cell phones. I didn't believe it, but I drove to a parking lot, called my brother and had him unlock it with the spare keys at home a few miles away. It worked for our ford explorer but not for the VW Passat we owned at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
a1988eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gotta try this
Pencil_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you call a friend who doesn't have the key they can hold their phone next to the car and if you press the unlock button next to the receiver of the phone you can unlock your car from anywhere. Not very useful but still
Or just hold it to your head close to your brain. Water extends the signal.
T0mmyGun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned this from a car alarm installer when I was 15 years old in 2000 and no one has ever believed me that this works and I do it all the time. Thank you for a source.
tossspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact! If you unlock your car at such a distance you are an idiot and you deserve to get all of your stuff stolen by thieves and or magpies
I don't think this works for the reason people think it does.
It's all about the direction of the fob. When you are pointing your fob at a car normally, you're holding it at shoulder or less-than shoulder height. The fob is usually parallel to the ground.
When you hold the fob under your chin, you are holding the fob higher than usual. You are also likely to hold the fob perpendicular to the ground, rather than parallel like you normally would.
We eliminated a few guards at my job site by installing flashing lights. If the lights are flashing, you can't bring your horse onto the track. The lights are operated by a modified Viper remote. Well on guy suggested this and now everyone uses this to activate the lights.
krkr8m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I put it against my forehead just over an eye and look at the car with that eye forward. It actually works great, though it probably causes cancer in the State of California.
Your skull is a big dish antenna filled with water and can enhance and focus the radio signal.
isn't it mostly scientists over there? Because if so that would make sense.
packetguy ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 00:33:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, One would imagine the average is a masters degree.
rawchess ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:02:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Masters? These are mostly researchers who spend their entire lives in academia. I'd be very surprised to find a scientist stationed at Antarctica without a doctorate of some sort.
No, but they have teams of scientists, most of them, i assume, have master degrees in many scientific fields.
ChiAyeAye ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 18:19:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A little late to this but Laos is the most bombed country in the world. During The Vietnam War pilots were instructed to drop their "leftover or undeliverable" bomb cargo on their return, which just so happened to be Laos. Laos was not in the war. The US denied this activity for years and only recently has admitted all the bombings were planned to cut Viet Cong supply trails.
Thousands of people since then are still being killed/maimed by the UXO's in the mainly rural country. The only way to identify where the cluster bombs are is for a special team to painstakingly walk every square inch of the country with detectors.
tldr: Laos has been bombed more than Germany and Japan combined for a war they were never in.
Also, the United States has a whole lot of Laotian Hmong people living here that fled their country. So, we bombed the shit out of them and yet they still want to live with us.
When I was in Laos, I didn't speak to anyone who said they hated the US as a whole, just that they hate what war does, what it can do, and what it keeps doing. They hated the bombs and they people that authorized the practice.
All these people that hate the US and then you have these people that don't hate the US despite lots of reasons to. I live in a state that has a very high Hmong population. They can farm some really awesome food. They are so different than a lot of the other populations that have moved here from other countries.
Never had a laap. I'm from Minnesota. We have the second highest Hmong population in the US. I've worked with quite a few of them. Everyone of them that I've worked with has been awesome.
To be honest it's not that bad once you understand the situation. The north Vietnam forces (the enemy) were using Laos as a supply highway. The US forces were not allowed to center Laos for political reasons. So basically the US was fighting an enemy with a safe house the size of a country running the complete length of the battle field. Basically a huge exposed flank. Bombing was the only way the US could do anything. At one point US ground forces moved into Laos and made lots of progress in capturing supplies but then were told to pull back for politics.
All around it was a dumb situation and the US should of told the politics to fuck off and entered Laos instead of fighting a war where the US is confined to political boundaries but the enemy isn't.
ChiAyeAye ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:27:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ok, maybe you should try being a poor farmer, or child making a fire for his family's dinner and lose an arm, or an eye, or a leg because "it's not that bad" over there.
There are literally, like the actually definition of literally, millions of bombs still buried in the ground in Laos. Did you just skip over that part? Children sometimes think they are toys. The heat from a cooking fire on the ground causes them to burst. A farmer's shovel can set them off.
I'm not talking about the bombs that were targeted, I'm talking about the MILLIONS of cluster bombs dropped on civilians for for goddamn reason because the pilots either missed or couldn't hit their mark in Vietnam.
edit* Maybe this video will help put in perspective the extreme bombing that happening in Laos. The red cluster bombs dropped each contain multiple, fist sized bombs, many of which flew miles away from where they were dropped.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:55:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So with your logic the Germans during WWII were acting ethically sound by torpedoing neutral merchant ships in the Atlantic?
After all the Germans were sinking neutral ships that acted as a supply highway for the forces of the Soviet Union and Great Britain (the enemy).
mehwoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:20 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The only way to identify where the cluster bombs are is for a special team to painstakingly walk every square inch of the country with detectors.
Well, there are 2 declassified military databases with information about where the bombs were dropped, but they aren't necessarily as accurate as you would like.
But yes there were more bombs dropped in the Vietnam war than during WWII.
Yes, they know "approximate" dropping locations but the things about cluster bombs is that they break up in the air and have a habit of spreading miles from the precise location. Have you ever walked every inch of an acre, it's painstaking.
ploki122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's safe to assume that the amount of poop someone produces follows somewhat of a normal/gaussian distribution. So by that logic that was clearly the best unimformed guess he could've made.
I'd argue however that elderly people eat less and thus poop less and that the average is probably closer to 400g.
QWOPtain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've monitored the pope's bowel movements. I measure each and every one.
Do you have a source for that? I was just reading about the disposal of human waste in ancient Rome -- it's an interesting paper -- from the journal Past Imperfect and that paper suggests that average daily human waste generation is approximately fifty grams per person per day -- 1/8th of the figure you're quoting. I remember when I read it I thought, offhandedly, "that seems low -- but maybe it's not when you take into account factors like age (you're considering waste generation from everything from infants to healthy adults to the elderly) and diet and frequency." On the other hand, the figure you're quoting seems quite high when considered as a daily average -- though perhaps it's correct for certain subpopulations, e.g., adult males in developed countries that are high meat consumers.
Edit: Encyclopedia Britannica seems to suggest that an average human adult generates between 100 - 250 grams of fecal matter per day -- again, still much lower than the figure that you're quoting, even at the upper-end of that range.
A rule of thumb is everything between 3 times a day and once every 3 days is normal. 4-6 times a day is a little high, you should at least tell your doctor about it at your next visit.
/r/shittingadvice is also a great subreddit for these kinds of things.
I think this comment needs come clarification. An adult having only one bowel movement every three days on a regular basis is not normal and would recommend, at a minimum, dietary alteration. If you mean that, during periods of mild constipation, you are "okay" to go up to three days before you're able to have a bowel movement, then I agree, that's fine; it sometimes happens. But, again, if, on a routine basis, you're only having a bowel movement once every 72 hours, you should strongly consider altering your diet.
I know this is inaccurate but how fucking cool would it have been if an 18yr old Neil Armstrong, just getting his career going, had met Orville Wright nearing the end of his life and had some kind of 'passing the torch' pep talk?!
thedeejus ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 21:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
like 5 cools
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 21:52:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thats equal to about 12 porns
Wibbies ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:14:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you imagine how the Wright brothers must have felt seeing their invention be used as machines of war?
dakboy ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:21:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They sold their aircraft directly to the US military, and licensed the design to multiple European militaries, only 6 years after their first powered flight. They were probably OK with it.
That is not true. Saturn's density is less than water, yes. But it cannot float on Earth's Oceans because there is too little for Saturn to float on. Saturn will just suck up the planet.
The crop scientist Norman Borlaug is often credited with saving more lives than any other person in history. He developed types of wheat that would produce high yields for farmers in famine-stricken developing nations. His work expanded the global food supply enough to feed an additional billion people.
Prior to that, the title of "most effective humanitarian" was often applied to Herbert Hoover, of all people. After WWI he was in charge of an aid program that fed about 15 million people per day in devastated parts of Europe. Dude should have quit while he was ahead; now he's only remembered as a shitty president.
Anyway, the reason this is my go-to tidbit is that both were born in my home state of Iowa.
vizard0 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:00:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about Fritz Haber? Invented the method to derive Nitrogen from air in a usable form. Which allows for artificial fertilizer to exist. Which allows an extra 3 billion people to live on the earth. I won't say that they all would have starved. But without artificial fertilizer, the green revolution probably would not have happened.
Oh, he was also the father of Germany's chemical warfare program in WWI.
He's a prominent new wave artist. He even had a cameo on the Mighty Boosh. He still tours, but he was more mainstream during the big new wave movement of the late-'70s/ early-'80s.
O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Ice Cube's son) was 23 when he portrayed his 18 year old father in Straight Outta Compton (Ice Cube's age when he wrote Boyz N tha Hood).
[deleted] ยท 4100 points ยท Posted at 16:40:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm always too late to these things to get any traction, but i feel like this one should be at the top every time:
When the United States tested the Atom Bomb for the first time, the scientists could not prove that detonating the bomb would not set the entire atmosphere on fire. But they went through with the test anyway.
Good, I have a...package that needs to be delivered. Due to some...unexpected road hazards...I can't deliver it myself. Can you take care of this for me?
Seems obvious, but that's a highly controversial philosophical stance. People want to think they're something special, and don't like thinking they're a meat machine.
Dubhuir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yes, but everything is controversial in philosophy. If we dismiss all the silly dualism stuff, we're left with about five different formulations of the same conclusion, which is your meat machine. I think that's far more impressive and beautiful than a ghost in a meat suit.
plus if you wanna be philosophical/logical, the ghost would just be a ghost machine in a meat suit because you can't be causa sui and if you aren't responsible for your own existence where there is cause and effect you aren't responsible at all, so the ghost may as well be a robot in some sense as it has to be perpetuated by causes to even make sense. Right...? Heck even being bound by systems such as thoughts and emotions means you have to be a machine, if you weren't machine like you couldn't have systems, couldn't even exist really.
not only is there no ghost in the machine, if there was the ghost would have to be a machine in some way too! maybe im just complicating something which already makes sense and accomplishes the same point though
Dubhuir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not so if the ghost in question was created by an uncaused cause like God! Of course this is only pushing back the problem and raising further, far more complicated questions but again, that's a lot of philosophy. Descartes interestingly thought the soul interacted with all the messy physical business via the pineal gland, presumably since no one had a clue what it was for.
In any case, to quote Terry Pratchett, 'I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel'.
JackPoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alx1775 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard Richard Hamming tell this story. The physicists working for him weren't sure, so he did the math himself and was satisfied that the atmosphere wouldn't burn up.
You are a robot. Just bio electric as opposed to silicon-based.
janyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, not in the same way. There's no way to tell whether a being you observe is a very advanced robot or not simply because there's no agreed upon definition of a "very advanced robot".
There is, however, an agreed upon observation of the atmosphere being on fire.
no_en ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:11:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, technically you kind of are. Most of the stuff in the body gets controlled by electricity and the brain is kind of like a cpu. So you are a robot.
If you were worried about a 3 in a million chance I'd tell you to fuck off.
Edit: I'm tired of getting downvoted down below so I'll put it here.
If you read the wiki article on the Manhattan Project and the discussion on what the physicists thought you will see that this was not a concern at all by the time they detonated the bomb.
Teller brought up the possibility of a run away atmospheric reaction, and Bethe quickly did calculations that it was not a concern. Teller's own calculations confirmed this.
None of the physicists in charge of the project thought there was a possibility of igniting the atmosphere, just like no actual physicists thought that the LHC would create a black hole that would destroy the world.
And sorry WadeK, you are wrong. The actual odds are not incredibly slim, they are zero that type of reaction is not possible with that bomb in an atmospheric test. The scientists and politicians involved made a very informed decision with the data they had. Fish024 is just making stuff up.
WadeK ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean.. it's a three in a million chance that all life on earth will end in firey pain. Sure, the odds are incredibly slim.... but they're not zero and the consequences are pretty damn dire.
Firehed ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But on the plus side, nobody will be around to complain!
gullale ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:05:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The people in submarines would. For a while, at least.
But it borders upon astronomical. That's just a scientist's way or expressing uncertainty certainly.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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WadeK ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:33:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't know it was 0 in a million at the time, they knew it was 3 in a million. I don't know why you're so angry about this, or desperate to call someone a liar or whatever, but I think it's at least pause-worthy to think about the destruction of humanity being only a 3 in a million chance. Even if it's still worth it to proceed.
The chance of the destruction og humanity wasn't 3 in a million, they calculated it to be 3 in a million. Just be they calculated it to be 3 in a million doesn' mean the true chances were 3 in a million.
And the other scientists thought it couldn't happen. Just because someone calculated something doesn't mean their calculations were right
WadeK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:59:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right... but the chance that this coin I'm flipping lands on tails is 50/50. I mean... it just landed on heads. So the true chance that it landed on tails was zero. But I didn't know that before the flip, so I still have the possibility of tails in my mind.
That analogy is not applicable here... The actual probability for the coin flip is 50/50. If I have you a coin and some physics equations you might calculate it out to be 40/60 or something. You're arguing that the 40/60 value has actual meaning. It doesn't because it was not calculated correctly.
WadeK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinking more in how you should take things into account. If you honestly believe through all your research and experience that the coin flip is 50/50, then it doesn't matter if the actual probability is 40/60 because of data you don't have (or if someone switched the coin with a double headed one without your knowledge). You should still plan and prepare to land on tails because the probability is not zero - to your knowledge. Hindsight has no bearing on actions as they're taken.
Sure, and they calculated that 999,997 times they'd be ok but the physicists who did the calculations thought that even that calculation was too liberal because they realized how difficult fusion reactions are at atmospheric densities.
PolyUre ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:56:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
World had 2,35 billion people in 1945. 3 : 1 000 000 odds gives expected value of 7050 people killed. Reasonable risk, considering the amount of soldiers dying every day.
mdk_777 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:22:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are talking about the average number of people killed from a single test. For example if I let you flip a coin, and would give you $100,000 if you got heads, and $0 if you got tails, then the average amount of money you would get from flipping the coin is $50,000, however in reality it's still an all or nothing situation.
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's called expected value. If you win the lottery you get say $10M, but your odds of winning are like 1 in 15 million, so the expected value of one ticket is less than a buck.
I was pointing out that the expected value of immolating the whole globe should probably account for more than just the people killed, I guess I just worded it poorly.
mmo115 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:33:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really work like that
PolyUre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What doesn't? Risk analysis?
mmo115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do I really need to explain why an expected value doesn't hold any value in determining the risk here? If a failure is observed life on earth ceases to exist.. come on man... this joke sums up your argument:
A physicist, mathematician, and engineer go to target practice.
The engineer is up first and hits 5 inches to the right of the bullseye. The physicist says, "No no no, you forgot to account for the curvature of the Earth and the wind." The physicist does his calculations, but misses 5 inches to the left of center. The mathematician yells: "BULLSEYE! Great job guys!!"
zupernam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how statistics works. The average doesn't matter. All that matters is the yes/no.
PolyUre ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:23:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with your analysis, but you would also need to take into account all the future generations that will be/will not be born if you do/do not use the bomb.
zupernam ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:29:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The expected value doesn't matter. All that matters is the yes/no.
It's illogical to believe that a nuclear reaction would not stop.
And I don't think any of the scientists had doubts, it's just something that is fun to talk about after the fact, while having cocktails.
DreNoob ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:08:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
President: "So then the scientist says 'But wait, this might set the entire atmosphere on fire!' I respond with 5 more Jameson shots and press the damn button"
MattyFTM ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:45:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's like when people talk about how the Large Hadron Collider could open up a black hole and swallow the planet. Sure. It could. Opening my refrigerator door could open up a time portal to the year 3000, but none of the science involved suggests that it will.
I also -could- phase through my bed, since solids are still mostly empty space. doesn't mean actually possible. just it could happen given a realistically impossible set q of conditions
Laust17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:08:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Eh fuck it"
Temjin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like there are an infinite number of things they could not prove and in general you cannot prove about most activities. But that statement is virtually meaningless.
Is there some authority that suggests this was a real scientific concern and the government looked into the issue and determined there was like a 50% chance of it happening.
For example, there is a propulsion device that NASA has been testing and they get a small amount of thrust without traditional fuel or a model for explaining why. Since they don't know the mechanism of thrust, they can't guarantee it won't travel backwards in time, but the chances are pretty low so I think its fine to just go ahead and keep experimenting.
I know right im reading though this comment and its reply's and im astounded my the amount of nonfactual bullshit being flung in every direction. Like im flabergasted at the stupidity... Like you cant tell if the LHC will make a black hole..... Life fuck you can. This is bassic shit that scientists knew would not happen.
compugasm ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 17:17:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It does set on fire. But just like lighting a match doesn't explode the earth, neither does an atom bomb.
The idea wasnt that our atmosphere is combustible and the heat of the bomb would trigger a global firestorm, but that the nature of the bomb, the fission of atoms, could spark a chain reaction as it kept on going using our atmosphere as extra material to be fissioned.
But none of the scientists were concerned with that. Nothing in the atmosphere is fissile and the projected temperatures and pressures for fusion were far greater than what the bomb could produce.
This "fact" is bullshit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah I've never thought about this, but were they worried about fusion of nitrogen and oxygen, or fission of them?
Either way, modern knowledge would suggest that's VERY unlikely, no? No ridiculous pressure OR temperatures (Nukes are hot, but not fusion hot). How much of nuclear fusion did we understand in the 40s.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:27:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...could spark a chain reaction as it kept on going using our atmosphere as extra material to be fissioned.
Which makes absolutely no sense, as splitting the gases found in the atmosphere requires energy. So if the atmosphere is "ignited", that would reduce the power of the blast, not increase it. There isn't really any energy in the atmosphere to be released.
Oh. But... hmm.... odd they would think that. I mean, after going through all that trouble to get fissionable material.
JaiMoh ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:30:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many reactions that produce energy still require an input of energy to get the reaction to start in the first place. The concern was that the bomb would provide enough energy to start that reaction in the atmosphere.
compugasm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:34:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
My dumb self thinks the bomb does start the reaction of air. But since it's a gas, it's not dense enough to be maintained. Maybe my knowledge is hindsight.
JaiMoh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:38:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That could be it, actually; your answer sounds plausible to me. I have no idea how it actually works in this scenario, I just know a bit of thermo.
If the atmosphere burnt, then why wouldn't the ground be vaporized as well? It must be due to density.
JaiMoh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Following the logic of density though: the ground is more dense than the air, so it should be more likely to chain react than the air even!
So it means that it's not just density of atoms that matters, but also that the atoms have "enough energy" that the initial energy of the bomb allows them to also undergo fission. And that's not the case on a large scale for either the air or the ground.
It isn't that is isn't dense enough, it is that the atmosphere doesn't contain the right isotopes to undergo fusion at any reasonable temperature/pressure.
I think the fireball is literally just heat, a side effect of the blast. Rather like lightning in that regard, I suppose... hm.
Actually, now I can think of a reaction that I imagine takes place on at least some level with the air in a nuclear explosion: the creation of ozone (3 O2 => 2 O3). That reaction requires so much energy that typically only lightning can do it. I imagine that a nuke has that much power as well.
Right. Some of the atmosphere burns off. But it's not dense enough to sustain the reaction. That's the whole point of having fissionable material in the first place. You need uranium/plutonium to sustain the chain reaction. Otherwise, you could just detonate an empty container of air. Then that blast travel to the ground and vaporize the entire earth. And the deeper the radiation went, the more the earth would explode due to density. But, we can see that doesn't happen.
I guess the idea was that the Uranium was the spark that sets off the reaction.
And then it could potentially burn the elements in our atmosphere.
Using the match analogy again, it's not that you cant burn flammable materials, but just that the match is easier to lit up.
Then you can just throw it in a forest and burn it all down.
That said, afaik, this concern was fringe, and most of the Manhattan Project scientists didnt see it as too likely. Something like 1% we burn Earth to cinder or something... >_>
Well, detonating something like a nuclear bomb wouldn't really be like throwing a match into a forest. More like throwing it onto the sidewalk. Anything immediately next to it might be a bit singed, but really, the match is going to burn out and leave everything else unaffected.
Although, matches typically aren't radioactive, so there's that part. But igniting the atmosphere? Not really much that could happen.
Is this theoretically possible at all? Sustained fission using only the atmosphere? I thought only extremely heavy radioactive elements held that property.
It was a rather fringe possibility, I guess since it was the first one, anything was possible, so they even considered this one, but found it quite unlikely.
But I guess better safe than sorry, many new inventions were not expected to be able to do X, and surprise surprise, they could.
Not really, it is in the same level as the LHC black hole misinformation that was going around when it first turned on. A lot of people don't understand the physics going on.
So is this. The scientists did calculations and the calculated chance was 3 in a million. Many of the physicists thought it was even lower than that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Either way, war's over. Job done.
girl-lee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, maybe 9 or 10, my step dad told me if we went to war with Iraq again Saddam Hussein would probably detonate bombs that would burn all the oxygen in the atmosphere and everyone would die. This literally kept me awake worrying for a long time. Then we went to war with Iraq again. I was a mess for weeks.
Think about it though, would it really have been that bad if it did set the atmosphere on fire? Not really. We all basically would have died instantly, so there would be no pain, we would all be dead, so there would be no grief, nobody would know they were going to die, so there would be no regret of a life not well lived, nor would there be any fear of a death they didn't know was coming. It would have actually been beautiful in a poetic macabre sort of way.
a3wagner ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:55:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then there wouldn't have been funny cat videos years later.
The physicist/mathematician who was responsible for checking if it COULD set the atmosphere on fire was very stressed when it came to checking his work and his numbers. A friend of his responded something like
That was like one guy with fringe worries about the bomb that most of the other scientists disagreed with. They even ran a bunch of math calculations and came to the conclusion that it was extremely improbable. So, I mean sure it wasn't proven until they tested the thing, but you also can't prove that my coffee farts won't also light the atmosphere ablaze yet you can calculate whether or not it's probable.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is similar to the starting-up-the-large-hadron-collider-will-create-an-earth-swallowing-black-hole thing.
There is a non-zero possibility of this, but it's so vanishingly unlikely that there was no sense worrying about it.
It's not like it was a realistic possibility and the scientists just said "Oh, what the heck, let's see what happens"
axaxaxas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:22 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think /u/restricteddata would probably have something informative to say about this.
When you think about what it must have taken as a driving force to cause them to make the decision to go ahead with the test anyways. It must have been something along the lines of...well Russia is going to do it one way or another so we might as well be first. That's just seems like to big of a risk for just plain stupidity or not caring.
It's because it's not a real risk. Kind of like, I can't prove that sleeping in tomorrow won't cause the moon to implode, but logic says it won't with very high certainty.
Before firing up the Large Hadron Collider, the scientists could not prove that the collision would not create a black hole.
Before hitting a flint rock to another rock, the neanderthal scientists could prove neither that the spark would not set the atmosphere on fire, nor that the collision would not create a black hole, but they did it anyway.
Before farting while suffering from food poisoning, the scientists could not prove it wasn't more than a fart. They didn't go through with the test, because there are some risks that just aren't worth it.
So, basically the way an atomic bomb works is by using a very focused explosion to start a fission reaction. When this happens, an atom from the fissionable material (commonly Uranium-235) splits apart, and the pieces smash in to more uranium, which itself breaks, and so on. This chain reaction continues, with each subsequent splitting releasing more and more energy. If I had to guess, I would say that the potential for fiery-death-explosion came from the scientists not being certain that this chain reaction would continue beyond the uranium present in the bomb, and begin using the molecules that make up the atmosphere to propogate the reaction.
Well, it doesn't have any isotopes that are unstable enough to produce a fission reaction (like uranium does), but technically any atom can be split if you apply enough energy. I think, at the time, the scientists were not sure if the power produced by the bomb would be enough to cause a fission reaction with the molecules in the air.
That's definitely the case (as far as I know) but I was going for more of a layman explanation, and I figured a lot of people don't know what an endothermic reaction is. Thank you for the clarification, though!
That would suck though if it did work. An alien race could simply detonate a nuclear weapon in our atmosphere and blow it away. The Earth would shortly be reduced to a cinder crisp by its own sun.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I had to guess, I would say that the potential for fiery-death-explosion came from the scientists not being certain that this chain reaction would continue beyond the uranium present in the bomb, and begin using the molecules that make up the atmosphere to propogate the reaction.
But this doesn't make any sense. Fission of oxygen and nitrogen requires energy. If it happens, it will extinguish the blast. Considering their areas of expertise, the scientists would have known this. The whole story is the kind of thing a journalist would come up with, and which people who don't know much about physics would spread.
They didn't think that it would happen. They just couldn't prove that it wouldn't happen.
-o__0- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that's mostly a myth, isn't it? From what I understand, some guy proposed that that might happen but it was considered a fringe idea. Like how some people today say the LHC is going to create a black hole that'll swallow the earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And they used US Marines in many nuclear tests, because hey, they could be sworn to secrecy.
Many of them had deformed children as a result, and many of them had terrible radiation related medical issues. They are still fighting with the VA for care.
Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere because of a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei.[note 1] Bethe calculated that it could not happen,[30] and a report co-authored by Teller showed that "no self-propagating chain of nuclear reactions is likely to be started."[31] In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who "didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington" and was "never laid to rest".
It was entertained, but once the calculation were done they realized there was absolutely no chance of a fusion or fission chain reaction with the atmosphere.
According to Snopes, Enrico Fermi was waiting for the first test to begin, and he bet $1 (and paid in advance) that New Mexico would be destroyed by the blast. No sources for anyone who actually believed this.
I remember a story regarding this (from memory so I may be wrong on a few details, also I'm not even sure if it's true).
Anyway apparently Richard Feynman did some the mathematics behind trying to see if the atom bomb would indeed ignite the atmosphere and once he finished he asked one of his colleagues to check for any errors in his working. When the colleague realised what he was checking he (understandably) freaked out a bit and went yogis friend and told him he was worried because if he got it wrong he would be partly responsible for the extinction of life on planet earth. His friend comforted him with the fact that if he was wrong it wouldn't matter too much as no one would blame him.
Did you know that during the Cold War, the US nuclear detonation code was just 00000000?
Who needs a card with a memory shaping alloy and a highly elaborate plan to trick your genetically engineered brother into unarming a set of nuclear bombs when you can just sit on the keypad?
It shouldn't be top every time, because its not actually true...
kholto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair it is not like you can prove anything in science ever, so that sentence is rather meaningless.
So it is more correct to say, I think, that there was some small theoretical detail suggesting it might be possible but overall it was extremely unlikely.
A bit like when CERN included in a report that some theory suggested the LHC particle accelerator could cause a black hole. They knew it wouldn't because the same particle impacts happen in the atmosphere all the time, but some of the theory pointed at it so they had to mention it.
This is so sensationalized. they calculated a statistically insignificant probability and went through with it knowing it was, in essence, impossible
tehftw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the scientists could not prove that detonating the bomb would not set the entire atmosphere on fire
This sounds like one of those "7/11 was a part time job, wake up sheeple" movies with yellow subtitles. I mean, really? "Could not prove"? Burden of proof is on the affirming one.
What is even amazing (to me) is that the Manhattan Project employed over 130,000 people and cost roughly $25 Billion in today's money...and it was all based on nothing but theory and nobody knew if it would actually work.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have started to see strange things, and cannot tell whether they are my thoughts or reality. Perhaps I should sleep and return to my quest later.
thomti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:18 on January 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Forgotten Log 26: I have been thinking of the reason why it is so hard to get to the end. This tunnel is not a normal tunnel. This tunnel must go to a place of paradise. I must journey to this place, I must find paradise.
In math, x! (where x is a non-negative integer) is called a factorial and equates to:
x * (x-1) * (x-2) * ... * 2 * 1.
This quickly results in a very large number. The commenter wrote "Pharrel Williams is only 42!"
42! roughly equals to 1.41*1051 , which is a ridicolously large number
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*sigh* goddammit take the upvote
Kissmyvj ยท 231 points ยท Posted at 12:23:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black don't crack
[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 17:02:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
so what you're saying is that Kennedy dying was somehow a catalyst to our population doubling...
quintinn ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 16:37:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The man got around, but he didn't live to see his 3.5 billion children being born.
kyew ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we still talking about Kennedy, or Genghis Khan?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man, if they had a kid, it'd be the greatest leader of all time.
rphillip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wore suits, sometimes. Been inside of more than half of mankind. Let us down but shit, how could we mind? He was a handsome devil, but the kind of devil you like.
Kennedy was killed by our future species to double the population by this time today in order to ensure we would have enough man power/foot soldiers for the intergalactic wars that start in 2040.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't around to make sure his bastards were aborted. The thousands of women who were carrying his lovechildren went on to give birth, thanks to our good friends Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati.
Sounds like Kennedy's death initiated a massive planetary orgy, or in other words, every single person on the planet during Kennedy's term enacted in mitosis, after his assassination.
When I was born, there were about 5 billion people alive. Now, there's close to 8. I'm only in my early 30s, so we're definitely in the exponential population explosion phase.
To put it another way, if you add the population now to the population when Kennedy was president, you'll get a number three times as big as the population when Kennedy was president.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In alternate terms the number of inhabitants of the 3rd rock from the sun was precicely halved compared to current figures during the reign of president Kennedy.
Birdyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wat?
jakielim ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:07:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I knew Kennedy was quite a womanizer but not that much.
Majop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hurley21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:30 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! My favourite wtf fact. I dunno how people dont freak out about this. It took humans sooooo long to get to where we are. Weve had a lot of time to reproduce. Seems fair that after all these years humans have made it to 8 billion. BUT in the year 1970, there was only 4 billion people on earth. Weve doubled in 45 years. Fucking crazy. They arent called baby boomers for nothin.
When Kennedy was president the population of the world was half of what it is now.
However, both sentences are grammatically acceptable because English is the language of fuck you, you worthless piece of human garbage.
bcGrimm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( ยฐ อสอกยฐ)โญโฉโฎ
The_Yar ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Population now of the world compared to the time of the presidency would be the latter half of the former if that presidency were Kennedy's.
Bahamute ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that yours isn't grammatically correct /u/dabarassak's is.
The_Yar ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is as well.
Bahamute ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't think it is. "Population now of the world..." Just doesn't sound right.
However, I cannot point to the grammatical rule it breaks. Unfortunately, as a native speaker, I never learned formal sentence structure analysis. so my idea of grammatically correct is based solely on how it sounds.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:05:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Impressive, but pretty useless in a war scenario. It's so strong that the plane throwing it can barely get far enough from the detonation point to survive.
I wouldn't exactly call that useless. Especially at the time of its construction. That thing was powerful enough to wipe out a small state. Not only that, but the design tested was designed to hold twice the tested payload.
I would say it's less useable now. We didn't have much for defense from nuclear attacks besides shooting down the planes. Now we have the ability to shoot the warhead right out of the sky. The ability to take out a massive military compound and close to 20000 square miles with it at the possible risk of losing the pilot wouldn't be off the table of a country losing a war. That and the original test proved it could be delivered without incident.
Tsar bomb weighted 27 tons, while the biggest ICBM ever built has a maximum payload weight of less that 9 tons.
And then there's the question of which target would you want to destroy with 50 megatons that wouldn't be already disintegrated with "just" 10 megatons.
And there's no theoretical limit on how many times you can repeat the fission - fusion - fission process. This means that there's no upper limit on how powerful a hydrogen bomb can be built.
"This is equivalent to about 1,350โ1,570 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in World War II"
BobXCIV ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:15:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of US units and notations don't make sense, but I think the Comma as a thousands divider and a period as a decimal divider makes the most sense. It makes use of the punctuation in a similar way to its use in language. There's only one period in a sentence, and the comma separates and organizes within the sentence.
fiddle05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 2204.62 lbs? Pretty specific.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you say "About" doesn't that make any decimal point irrelevant?
Kismonos ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 16:32:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are too close to your device's screen
Birdyer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1956 a 5MB hard drive costs 35,000$ and weighs 2204,62lbs.
I'd go with a slightly more expensive brand name but here's one for $13.95.
Always go to newegg or a real PC store (Micro Center etc.), CVS by me charges $40 for the same 4gb SD card I can get at Micro Center for $3.49 because they know their average customer doesn't know any better and they can get away with it.
People still pay money for flash drives? I'm pretty sure all of mine have just sort of appeared...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember I didn't buy a flash drive until like 2011 because when they first came out, they were too damn expensive. I didn't understand how so many people could suddenly afford these $100 things and treat them so casually. I had just never gone back to check the damn price.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
$40 for my shitty 512 MB. Still use it all the time.
2004 I paid $50 for a 56 mb flash drive. 2006 my roommate bought an 1gb flash drive for $100 on a black friday sale. by 2009 I got a 1gb for free for a promotional thing and bought a 4 gb for $16.
The industrial revolution could have easily happened in a communist country. I dont know why you think capitalism spawned it, it started in the UK which has never been particularly capitalist.
Hold on I think we're way off base if we're saying the UK "has never been particularly capitalist."
It began to develop into its modern form during the Early Modern period in the Protestant countries of North-Western Europe, especially the Netherlands and England.
I mean it's not like it was as capitalist as the US. I never said we weren't capitalist, that is why I careful chose my words to say 'particularly capitalist'. Also has been socialist a few times in the last century, only has been capitalist since the election before last, the mid 90s to 2010 we were socialist 'with a small s.'
This is neither hear nor there as you're focusing on a small comment I made and not addressing the fact that my point was the industrial revolution could have happened in a communist country
There were plenty of people alive in 1969, when we landed on the moon, who could say "I remember when the Wright brothers first flew a plane at Kitty Hawk."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It would be interesting to see if technology is actually improving faster since the industrial revolution, or if it's just that the Industrial Revolution made technology cheaper and more easily available, making it seem like it moved faster
c0796 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And insane how much is held back. You still fly roughly the same speed on similar type of jet today as you would have 40 years ago when travelling. That shit's by design but given the advancements in technology this one stands out to me every time I smell kerosene by an airport. Oh, and how long ago was the first electric car built? That Tesla car' range is saddening considering how far tech has come.
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's insane how much history Egypt already had by Cleopatra's time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It feels pretty indifferent, though I would like to try that shop's coffee and see if it's any good, and so I can tell people I had a latte at the oldest coffee shop in Europe.
He was actually a member of the FDNY for about 4 years during the 70's and 80's and returned to help look for survivors with the rest of the guys who survived from his firehouse.
macphile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's just always existed. Like, no one in history ever remembers it being built. It was just there, with each civilization believing it to be a product of the previous one. In fact, I'm inclined to wonder whether its faculty have aged at all...
(The internet tells me it's actually from the 10th century. Close enough.)
It's weird, she could look at her society and say "This has been here for thousands of years" and look back on their recorded history of some of that, but my country has been here for just over three centuries. Total. The country that ruled us before we declared independence is just about 1000 years old.
Raknarg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so fucking triggered you shitlord
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:47:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All things considered, fat people should USE more soap.
Zardif ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fit people work out often getting sweaty and dirty. I'm fat but not enough that I sweat all that much, So I shower once a day. My fit friend will shower twice a day 3 out of 7 days when he works out. I don't think my extra soap will out do his extra 3 showers worth of extra soap.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ever been to a Magic the Gathering tournament? Smells like sour dish rag spent the night in a gym locker under wet socks then hitched a ride to the tournament in a hobos armpit.
Actually, what you mean is "all other things being equal, fat people use more soap."
If you want to sound all fancy-pantsy, you could say "ceteris paribus, fat people use more soap." Then, everybody overeducated enough to know latin will think you're a git, but will be unable to fault you on your logic.
And as we learned in fight club, they can be used to make more soap.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 16:39:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd this cause bedsit only when they just verify cuz they have to buy want to lol. But if ya got 2 many roles on ya belly will.... Sux 4 u lol. I distrust need me not only being such Kirk drink just for pleasure. Fucking portray!!
RRettig ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:24:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that and now I am literally retarded. Thanks.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
~ummm, AWKWARD. Hav u per chance maybe once over thought then bout getting reading glasses??? Srry cant help u, maybe u Ned an ANT 2 read 4 u. XD XD ~
[deleted] ยท 293 points ยท Posted at 16:53:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you make $30,000 usd a year you are in the top 1% in the world.
*Edit: It's actually an income of $34,000 a year. Just straight income. Article
imarki360 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 23:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That can't be right... 7bil * .01 = 70 million.
Around 50% of US population makes over 30k/yr, which is over 150 million people. >$30k/yr puts you in the top 5% most likely though
yeah its if you make 30k have no debts. Debt is a real bitch
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:58:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand how that works. Income is one measurement of prosperity, wealth is another. Income is a flow (per year), wealth is a stock (net income over many years).
So when they say that an income of $30,000 and a net debt of zero puts you in the top 1%...what are they actually saying? Top 1% of what? Income? Wealth? Some arbitrary combination?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:11:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earnings.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But what does that mean? Debt is not earnings. Paying off your debt and/or making interested payments will affect your earnings, but you can't determine what that affect will be by sorting people into one group with zero debt and one group with > 0 debt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are in the top 1% of earners in the world or total income if you prefer. Does not take into account debt, cost of living or anything else. Looked it up and the number is actually $34,000.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy I was replying to said it included debt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah he was trying to read more into it than there is. It is an interesting number but not particularly useful as any kind of indication of prosperity which may have been his point.
your looking at it wrong. consider the majority of the statistic from third world countries where accounting for different amounts of debts in the western still has no merit against the daily earnings of a worm farmer.
About 45% of Americans that are over 15 and have an income earn over $30k according to wikipedia. Only around 63% of Americans over the age of 15 are in the work force. Once you drop out the children and unemployed its really around 15% of Americans earn $30K+. That makes it around 45 million Americans in the top 1%, which still sounds wrong but much closer.
Edit: Ignore my math, you can just sum the number of individuals on that chart on Wikipedia and get ~95 million. The $30K+ making you a 1%er is clearly off.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:36:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I make a good amount more than that and feel poor
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:28:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This brings up a interesting dilemma for those 30k earners in the US who want the wealth of the top 1% distributed down to them.
Would the same principle they are standing on to demand the US 1% redistribute its wealth to them not apply to the rest of the worlds 99% in relation to their own 1%??
If such principle did really exist, then the only proper course of action would be for them to give away most of their money to starving kids in Haiti and Honduras and the like. They are, in fact, the 1%. It just wouldnt be fair for them to hold such a concentration of wealth, regardless of if others have even more than them.
mootmeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I guess that's why countries have borders. There's a sense that a country has an obligation to it's citizens. But a country doesn't have an obligation to the world's citizens.
Bing10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've said exactly this to Americans who have done the "were the 99%" stuff. It's hypocrisy, thinly veiled with arbitrary borders.
klethra ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
But do those kids in Honduras have to pay 10k a year for a roof over their heads? I could make a shelter outside, but then Id be arrested. Can't work without an address either.
In terms of net worth, yes, but that can be misleading to say that an Indian farmer whos life savings is 10$ is in a higher wealth bracket than an American businessman who just went bankrupt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Donald Trump once pointed to a homeless man on the street as he rolled past in his limousine, and pointed out that the homeless man was worth $100 million more than him at the moment, since he was so far in the hole. There's a lot of relativity when it comes to wealth.
Koupers ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:02:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woot! In the top 1% and below the poverty line, yeah!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The article I read was from 2012. Good chance that data was a few years old when they calculated it. The rich could have got richer, they tend to do that. Also could be a difference in estimations. Economics is only sort of a science. I don't know enough to say that your site is wrong.
saokku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
PPP?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:00:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read the entire article before spouting nonsense. It says you have to make base salary of $134k a year to make the global top 1%.
You have to be pretty high up in management to get that as your base salary.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:20:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go read it again cunt and work on your reading comprehension while you're at it. Anyone individual who makes over 34000 after taxes is in the 1%. For a family of four to make the 1% the calculation is 34000 ร 4 + the deducted taxes = 136000.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:44:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK...so the question of OP is: "What fucking amazing fact do you know that will blow everyone's mind?"
Right? We can agree on that, no?
And, then, you respond:
"If a toddler or grade school pupil pull in $34k a year they are considered the top 1% of the planet in term of income?"
To be puzzled by this fact means that you are either very, very, very, very, bad at math; or that you are the inbred son of old money that never made it to Uni...
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 21:20:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Is this satire? I really don't get it and as a result I won't dismiss it but at the same time I'm not compelled to do any research. ELI5, what is Kool AD getting at with this video?
resay5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:38:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the same..
tinwooki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're not racist, we love white people; Ford trucks, apple pies, bald eagles! / Yeah, cheetos, doritos, fritos, pringles, kraft singles, slim jim, sierra mist
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This was our song as we drove across the country.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can see that being a really endearing and a really annoying memory. Good job!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was pretty great. We drove through the middle of nowhere (Nebraska, E-W through South Dakota, etc.), so by the third day we were just desperate for anything to break the monotony.
Yep, we had one near my campus back in College. We called it the "KenTacoHut" and it was open until 2am. Many alcohol-fueled (and maybe some Green Leaf) nights I found myself there. Good stuff.
There's this place in Clearfield, PA that has KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. I am sure it is not the only of its kind, but the locals call it Kentaco Hut.
Happily they stopped being retared in Brazil (Coca-Cola is MUCH more popular in Brazil, despite Pepsi having a large amount of Brazillian shareholders, so Pepsi recently finally gave up and let Pizza Hut to sell Coca-Cola... seemly it worked, since I am seeing a rise in amount of Pizza Hut restaurants)
KamuiT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember finding this out around the time Star Wars Episode 1 was released. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC all did a cross-promotional thing where you collected "coins" or Pogs or whatever to try to win prizes.
smjpilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I think about it, KCF and PizzaHut do have a lot of similar advertising campaigns. It's always a meal deal, and someone bringing it home for the family, who always have one son and one daughter. AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE PEPSI AS THEIR DRINK!
Darwin73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why those are the only places that serve Pepsi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget Sabra.
PJDubsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that explains some things
Lehk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Taco Bell
after the franchise wars, every restaurant is a taco bell.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and A&W...wherever the fuck they are cuz i ain't ever seen one
oh and long john silvers
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Long John Silver's and...one other I can't remember. That's how they can do the combination restaurants and it doesn't screw up profits, because it's all going to the same place. (I used to work at a Taco Bell/KFC)
Called "Tricon Global" for a while before "Yum!", then they added other companies (A&W, Long John Silver's) and got bad press for exploitative labor practices (see: Coalition of Immokalee Workers), both leading toward the name change
YUM! Brands is a spin off of PepsiCo. Which is why they still use Pepsi products, and Doritos (Lays and Quaker Oats are also owned by PepsiCo)... From what I found after a quick search Pepsi still has the controlling shares in YUM! Brands too, which means Pepsi effectively owns/controls them.
fishfur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I call it the "shit hole". Like an anus, but with the word shit.
Between the late-1970s and the mid-1990s, PepsiCo expanded via acquisition of businesses outside of its core focus of packaged food and beverage brands; however it exited these non-core business lines largely in 1997, selling some, and spinning off others into a new company named Tricon Global Restaurants, which later became known as Yum! Brand, Inc.
Hi Liz. I'm Josh. I lived in Louisville for 20 years, from baby to 20 years old and moved away 5 years ago. I've never heard anyone call it the bucket, however that makes me laugh. I know a few Liz's from Louisville. We might know each other. Don't look at my post history.
Yum! started out as Tricon Global Restaurants, which was a subsidiary of PepsiCo until the spin-off in 1997. Tricon owned Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC. It is no longer directly under Pepsi Co. They are related, but one is not owned by the other.
And yet when you try to explain this to a stoned teenager they think you can just "make it happen". No dude, this is Taco Bell, and if you want Coca-Cola, I need to make a goddamn multi-quadrillion dollar deal happen, so here's a dr.pepper and enjoy your incoming diarrhea. NEXT
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm old enough to remember when you could have both.
Screw YUM brands. SCREW. THEM.
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Baja blast is where its at son
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ew. Dr. Pepper (Pibb?) is obviously the next best choice.
edit: Thanks to the one other guy who knows what good soda is.
kindall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For a while (might still be true) there were KFC franchises that had contracts with Coke that predated their acquisition by Pepsi. At these locations it was possible to get Coke products but not Pepsi products, until their Coke contracts ran out anyway.
There are a few places where these sorts of franchises are setup with restrictions that only allow them to serve sodas from the other major cola company. Usually these are at stadiums, malls, or some college campuses that have contracts in place.
It's kind of weird, drinking a Pepsi at mcdonalds, or something. Kind of reshapes the whole meal.
This is also why I never believe anything I read on Reddit.
(Did you know that federal law protects any restaurant that donates food from liability if that food makes people sick? Ask a redditor why restaurants don't donate food and they will go on a rant about liability and lawyers and getting sued for making people sick.
The hivemind has an IQ of about 50.)
Zero36 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a test? Can I believe you? Can I believe anyone? Ahhhh!!!!
On October 6, 1997, PepsiCo spun off its restaurant business into a new, and separate, company called Tricon Global Restaurants (now known as Yum!) for a one time purchase price of $4.5 billion. PepsiCo used this money to purchase shares in the new company so it did own stock in the company and there was a partnership to supply products to the company, but it was no longer under PepsiCo's control or umbrella of subsidiaries.
Halafax ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:11:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Yum! Brands, Inc., or Yum! and formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American fast food company. A Fortune 500 corporation, Yum operates the licensed brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet worldwide. Prior to 2011, Yum! also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants."
I learned about Yum! because of a weird little burger place that opened (and then rapidly closed) near me back in the late 80's. Hot 'n Now, it was called. It opened with no fan-fair or advertising, then closed just as quietly.
I looked into it, because I thought that was weird. Who opens a restaurant just to kill it? It turned out that the chain was purchased expressly to apply pressure to the established burger chains to carry Pepsi products. I don't think Yum! had any interest in it being a going concern. Which taught me that corporate logic is very alien.
amrasmin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:51:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are owned by YUM brands arent they?
kosif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
kosif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought they were owned by Yum!
Doebino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They actually own Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut.
That's why you usually see them all combined into a KFC/Pizza Hut and KFC/Taco Bell
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow I just checked and it was bought in 1997. This goes exactly with the time period I began thinking about how shitty it had become.
As a child I loved it but the one in my town closed down so I didn't get to have it for 2 years. Then we had it as a family and made everyone sick around 1998. From there it had never been as good as before. The regular crispy sandwich is decent but the rest falls flat. Even the regular chicken buckets are no longer as good.
They own YUM! Brands? I thought that dissolved in 1997. When I worked for them they were under contract to only use Pepsi products but were traded as YUM! (formally Tricon) publicly not PepsiCo.
Cyrius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They don't own Yum Brands. Dumabsses keep repeating information that's 20 years out of date.
Actually the Yum brand spun off from PepsiCo but because of a lifetime(?) contract with Pepsi they will only serve Pepsi products with the exception that the A&W restaurants can serve Root beer and Dr. Pepper.
Dr. Pepper is owned by Snapple.
This is wrong and has over 1000 upvotes, makes me suspicious of the other facts in this thread
kindall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't actually true anymore. PepsiCo spun off their restaurant division in 1997 into a separate company called Tricon Global. It is now called Yum! Brands and is a publicly-traded company. Pepsi doesn't own a significant stake in the company today, but I believe they still have a long-term beverage supply contract.
In the early 1970s, KFC was sold to the spirits distributor Heublein, who were taken over by the R.J. Reynolds food and tobacco conglomerate, who sold the chain to PepsiCo. The chain continued to expand overseas however, and in 1987 KFC became the first Western restaurant chain to open in China. The chain has since expanded rapidly in China, which is now the company's single largest market. PepsiCo spun off its restaurants division as Tricon Global Restaurants, which later changed its name to Yum! Brands.
So is Frito Lay...so those Doritos shelled Taco Locos, and Taco Bell and Pizza Hut flavored Doritos are making more sense now, huh?
It's only a matter of time before Grandma's brand cookies (also a Frito Lay product) make an appearance at KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fast food chains are huge sellers of soda, and soda is basically their one and only profitable product. It only makes sense that a lot of them become arms of a soda giant. They're basically branch offices for Coke and Pepsi either way.
In college I worked for a carpet company. One week we did work at a large regional coca cola facility. I grabbed taco bell for lunch and came back to eat it. They physically escorted me off the grounds and told me to return once I was finished my lunch.
reseph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:39:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good. Coke is nasty. Pepsi has this fine sharp taste to it.
Keinichn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:39:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also owned by the same folks that own Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Have a restaurant around here we call the Taco-Chicken-Hut because it's all three in one building with the same employees and order counter.
If the space between the sub-atomic particles (protons, neutrons and electrons) was removed so that the particles were all packed together tightly, the entire population of the Earth would fit into an area approximately the size if a sugar cube
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:32:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except OPs mom, they would need a second sugar cube
If the earth collapsed into a black hole it would be about the size of a peanut, so that's pretty close. (You couldn't pack the mass into a smaller space than a black hole)
But the event horizon is just a convention, a theoretical line. A black hole, while having a definite mass, doesn't have a definite size as far as I know, they're infinitely small.
It's not a convention, it separates the inside of the black hole (where nothing can escape from) from the outside. It's definitely a physically meaningful thing to talk about.
Sorry if I seemed rude, I was in a hurry and writing from mobile...
What I was trying to say is that what we call "size" of a black hole is not the same as the size of any conventional object. And that's because a black hole shrinks space around it, and it's size is actually infinitely small, even if we define another concept as size, for practicity.
But well, I suppose it's more a semantics thing.
mehwoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:36 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, by convention, we use size to refer to the radius of the event horizon, but it isn't the same thing as what most normal people would consider size to mean. It's overloading the meaning of the term "size" to be useful for black holes because by the classical definition of the word size they don't have one.
In 1933 J.P. Morgan conspired to overthrow the U.S. government and set up a fascist government. Gen. Smedley Butler was asked to lead the revolt but instead told U.S. Congress who confirmed that at least some of his testimony was true. Nobody was prosecuted.
If you were to take a picture of the universe, where our solar system showed up as a single pixel, it would be 14.66 x 1016 pixels wide.
If you just wanted to display the width of that photo (not the whole photo, just a 1080 pixel-thick strip) on a series of bezelless 32' 1080p TV's, you'd need over 76,000,000,000,000 of them stretching ~31,000,000,000 miles, about a third of the distance from the earth to the sun.
Everyone knows the universe is pretty big, but very few people actually know how monstrously huge it actually is.
umer901 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And that's just the observable universe...
dezeiram ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:44:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's so much that "very few people know". It's more of the fact that the size is just impossible to truly grasp. Yeah you can think about all the numerical values and think "Holy shit the universe is huge" but it's impossible to properly picture how big it really is, no metaphors or comparisons. Just how big the universe is.
14.66 times 10 to the power of 16. The little up arrow doesn't show up on my end, though possibly due to me being on mobile.
VrIgHtEr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so you have a length in pixels... the length of 1080 pixels depends on the size of the screen. So I'd save some distance by using 5" 1080p phone screens
Linked713 ยท 1016 points ยท Posted at 14:46:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Hey boss, I will be late this morning I became traffic.
Shower Thought Edit: Are Traffic cones humans that became traffic and couldn't get out and then adapted themselves? Someone update the Darwin evolution chart!
Urgullibl ยท 951 points ยท Posted at 19:30:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The problem with this statement is that it's attributing all traffic problems to just the volume of cars. While that's a factor, there are still a lot of traffic problems that are ripple effects from individual drivers doing extra-stupid things.
joshg8 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:56:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The other problem with it is that it's not a fact, just a philosophical perspective and argument about semantics.
Like riding too close and constant braking. There was a study done with Cars driving in a circle, they would get too close, then brake. This causes a rippling effect then the cars eventually created a stand still or something
Yep, there's a video of it on YouTube. When the traffic density gets above a certain threshold, standing waves start to develop. And actually they're not "standing", they propagate backwards at, IIRC, a particular constant speed. The wave is caused by drivers not leaving enough buffer space in front of their car; the lag inherent in trying to match the driver in front of you causes a ripple effect that eventually results in stop and go traffic. I've personally stopped standing waves before by leaving a very long buffer in front of my car and keeping a steady speed rather than speeding up and slowing down like the person in front of me. It's hard to stay disciplined about doing that though, and of course people keep cutting in front thinking they're going to get where they're going faster. I've also read that if some relatively small percentage of cars, like 20%, are equipped with adaptive cruise control, that's enough to keep the standing wave phenomena from happening, because adaptive cruise control doesn't have an ego and so doesn't try to stay right on the ass of the person ahead of it.
No but it's about context. If you drive like a moron during busy ours, you are going to have a more profound affect on those around you. It's not an absolutist argument we are having here.
Yeah it's really more that when you're stuck in traffic, you are also contributing to the traffic of the other individual people who comprise your traffic and vice versa.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:13:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Surely you're both?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:32:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, actually, lately I've started to notice that there's really never congestion - ie there's not too many cars on the road. Someone is first in the fucking line. It's very obvious on non-curvy stretches of road where you can see the fucking asshole who is in the passing lane without passing, literally creating rush hour.
Cycling LPT: Platoons form on most urban streets with a grid and stoplight system, so you can often have significant stretches of the road to yourself between platoons.
Haha, I always refer to those as the "all-tourist idiot peloton," since the regular commuter cyclists in my city ride fast enough to time the stoplights.
Oh, I do the same on my ride to work. It's a 35 mph zone for 2 miles with a bunch of stoplights, but the average traffic speed with those lights (especially on the way home going toward downtown) is only 18-20 mph, right about my average speed. If I'm going faster than 23 mph I usually have to stop at a light, but 19-20 means I come up to the light right as it turns green, so I'm really not holding up anybody (it is two lanes each way, but sometimes people can't find an opening to change lanes in rush hour).
Not me. I'm trying to get somewhere. These other assholes are driving 10 under the speed limit like they're mosying back to the retirement home to die.
I disagree with this one. I mean, yes, literally, we all constitute traffic.
But next time you're in slow traffic on the highway, wait until you have an upcoming turn or crest a hill and can see ahead. In my experience, about 2/3 of the time, it's because these two damn idiots are both going exactly 55mph next to each other in both lanes.
So in that case, I'm not traffic. I'm stuck behind two jerks.
globox85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I'm not in traffic, Skyler. I am the traffic. A guy gets in a traffic jam on his home from work and you think that of me? No. I am the one who honks!
I don't think people realize the word traffic just means the movement of something, like the movement of vehicles on a roadway. So even if you are driving 1 car on a completely otherwise empty road, you are still traffic. The better word to use is congestion.
Let's say i go to work Monday at 8am. There aren't a lot of cars so i get to the office at 845
Tuesday i go and it's about the same. I get too work at 850.
Wednesday i go and my commute takes over an hour, so i don't get to work until 915. Assuming i left at the same time, drove the same route, and my commute was extended solely because of extra volume on the road, those people are traffic.
There are more stars in the universe then there are grains of sand on this planet. There are more atoms in a single grain of sand then there are stars in the universe.
The second half is not true. The number of atoms in a grain of sand is on the order of 1020 whereas the number of stars in the visible universe is 1023 -1026 .
Pandipoop ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 18:03:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is a very rough estimate because I don't feel like doing the math, but a mol of a substance has ~1023 particles and for silicon dioxide it would weigh ~60 grams.
A piece of sand is about 1 miligram, but SiO2 has three atoms in it. Once you do the math you get somewhere around 1020 atoms per sand grain.
If you want a way to visualize this, imagine a drop of water being represented by the size of our planet. The size of a water molecule would be about the size of a cherry on that scale, and that's three atoms.
Moudy90 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:36:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually have a little game/quiz I like to go through with people. I call it which is bigger, so these size comparisons are pretty well ingrained into my head. In case you're wondering, it takes about ten droplets of water before we have roughly the same number of atoms of water as there are stars in the observable universe. I usually present that information as "which is bigger, the number of atoms in a glass of water, or the stars? Shot glass or stars? A thimble full of water or the stars?" It's always the water.
This is just theoretical, its not physically possible but..
Take the fact that you have 100 billion neurons in your brain. And every neuron has roughly 2000 possible connections... Your brain has more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe.
Now obviously this is not possible because neurons can only connect with other neurons in close proximity, but it's still a cool fact.
iTrolling ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Thank you! I couldn't even get my mind around that one. The Universe is also larger than the observable Universe (duh), so there was no way it could hold true.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in the universe then there are grains of sand on this planet. There are more atoms in a single fat grain of sand then there are stars in the universe.
I don't believe so, but it depends very heavily on the size of the sand grains.
For a 1 mm diameter sand grain you get a mass of about 1 mg. 1020 mg is 1014 kg of sand. This is around 0.000000001% the mass of Earth. I'd venture there is probably more sand than that on earth.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:52:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:04:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1023 -1026
So, -3 ?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:39:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's your problem, bud? You looking for a fight...
I think he is referring to the fact arrays start at 0
Orbitir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what have whole numbers got to do with anything?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Orbitir ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Whole numbers start from 0
Is that a standard? Never heard of it defined this way before. 'Whole numbers' is just colloquial and a somewhat dumbed-down way of saying the integers to me
Natural numbers start from 1.
Guessing you're not French then.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Orbitir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I simply disagree with your assertion that atoms must be neutral. An atom that loses a single electron does not cease to be an atom. I concede the definition gets a little fuzzier when you're talking about protons and alpha particles because of their lack of electrons, but an ionized oxygen atom is still an oxygen atom.
I was on my way already, but yes, it may have pushed me over the edge. Before the Internet came along, there was limited exposure to the spelling and grammatical foibles of others, now our evolving disregard for the correct use of language is on display everyday. To be fair, I'm not saying that language cannot change over time, it is the correct current usage that we all agree upon that makes it a language. For me it's more than the misuse of then and than or the fall of the great dictionaries to net-speak, it represents the disintegration of the great linguistic tie that binds us together in our respective societies.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's an estimation, but it sounds really funny that it's estimated about 1023 - 1026. It's a huge fucking difference. Yeah, I get it, but it's still funny to look at.
More synapses in the brain (1.5*1014 ) than stars in the milky way (4*1011 ) .
However there are 1.7*1011 Galaxies out there, so the number of stars in the visible universe is still bigger than the number of synapses in the brains of all of humanity.
AG9090 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps the sand has more atoms than stars in the observable universe, I have the necessary knowledge dispute that, but there's no way there are more atoms than stars in the entire freaking universe, which is as we understand, infinite.
i heard
there are more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on earth. there are more stars in the galaxy than galaxy in the universe and more atoms in a grain of sand than stars in the universe
Every time I hear that something has more atoms than there are stars in the universe I wonder if that's really true. I mean, isn't the universe supposed to be infinitely big? And can't we only see a relatively small percentage of that infinitely large space? Would it be more accurate to say that a single grain of sand has more atoms in it than there are stars in the visible universe?
Yeah I remember when I was a kid finding out that some ants tasted like lemon, but you'd have to squish them before you put them in your mouth or they'd bite you on the tongue.
I had a friend on my block when I was like 11 or 12 who would eat ants sometimes and he told they had a citrus-y flavor. They weren't the big ones if I remember right, just small and black.
The bigger black carpenter ants taste like lemon lime Gatorade. I tried them when I was in jr. high because our biology teacher told us they taste like that. Spot on description of the taste and not that bad actually
No, they taste like what they are. Any chef will you that foods/ingredients don't taste like other foods/ingredients but the actual thing it is. That's how you fine tune dishes to what you really were looking for.
Wilf55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this is something that the hacker 4chan would say to make people eat worms...
Qender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mcwilg ยท 1226 points ยท Posted at 11:53:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tim Allen, aka, Buzzlight Year / Home Improvements was a drug runner, got caught and for a reduction in his sentence got another 30 odd people arrested lol
didn't you see the 'lol' at the end of his post? lol
mpbems ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 12:48:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During one week in November (21 years ago) he starred in the highest grossing film, the top rated television series, and was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
buckus69 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 16:03:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And his book is really good too. The best part is that his real last name is Dick, so he will call restaurants and reserve a table and when they host/hostess calls them, he/she has to say "Dick, party of four" out loud.
And when he stopped in to his hometown bookstore that holiday season to special order a book we all pretended we didn't know who he was even though his mug was smiling at us from the top of the NY Times Bestseller rack. We placed the order for Mr. Timothy Dick and sent him on his way. He seemed completely flummoxed.
If you met some middle aged to elderly person who claims they spent fifteen years in prison because of the dude from the Santa Claus, you would think them pretty odd, tbf.
Similarly, Mark Wahlberg was a fucking asshole as a kid.
From his wiki:
During his youth, Wahlberg was in trouble 20โ25 times with the Boston Police Department. By age 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. At 15, civil action was filed against him for his involvement in two separate incidents of harassing African-American children (the first were siblings, and the second incident was a group of black school children on a field trip), by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. At 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious while calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit". That same day Wahlberg also attacked a second Vietnamese man named Hoa "Johnny" Trinh, punching him in the face. He believed he had left his victim permanently blind in one eye. Trinh was interviewed in December 2014 by the Daily Mail, who revealed that he had already lost that eye during the Vietnam War, and did not know the identity of his assailant prior to being contacted by the media. According to court documents regarding these crimes, when Wahlberg was arrested later that night and returned to the scene of the first assault, he stated to police officers: "You don't have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the motherfucker who's head I split open." Investigators also noted that he "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'."
RRettig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When he was younger that show home improvment came on and it got to to the part where tim allen goes"AAUGH!" and he got so excited he ran down the stairs and hit his head because he wasn't used to his own height and he has been a little slow since then.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So he did the right thing in the end? Good on him.
shoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight Year. This character is really watered down.
He also is a hardcore republican. Not knocking his political views. Just saying hardcore republicans tend to be the ones who have the idea that drugs are bad and harsh prison terms should be given for them.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:49:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mcwilg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol So would you if it was gonna be life or 2 year in jail lol
rugtoad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:28:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's funny how hard people talk about "snitching" when they aren't sitting across the aisle from an overzealous prosecutor in an election year.
Everyone has a price. Most folks sing for a lot less than a lifetime sentence, too.
gcanyon ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 14:49:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We don't know what "matter" is. "matter does not have a universal definition, nor is it a fundamental concept in physics today" wikipedia As far as we know, all mass derives from energy, not whatever "matter" is, if it exists at all.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 17:18:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Matter exists it just isn't will defined. Life isn't well defined but we can say that squirrels are able to move around at their own accord and rocks need an external force.
Edit: ok life is well-defined but I still stand by my position that matter, while not rigorously defined, is still a thing.
The whole "viruses aren't alive" thing always legitimately pissed me off. The technicalities by which they are disqualified from "life" always seemed really arbitrary. Then again, I'm not a biologist. But I really think if your definition of "life" excludes viruses then you need a better definition.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As an aspiring biologist, it's not that weird at all. They need another host to even be able to live. And that's just one part. They reproduce, but have no metabolism. It's hard.
Retroviruses have the capacity to integrate, a provirus is when the retrovirus is integrated.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:00 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, exactly. I'm not a good biology student...
gcanyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one is denying that matter is a thing (I don't think). It's just that if it is a thing, we don't have a firm grasp of what it is or does, apart from the effects of the energy tied up in it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as we know, all mass derives from energy, not whatever "matter" is, if it exists at all.
We know what matter is because we defined it. Whtat you should say is that we're still learning the exact nature of mas and energy.
gcanyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:16:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I understand it the exact opposite is true. We understand mass and energy pretty well, as described by m = E/c2 That's the point: as far as we know, all mass derives from energy, through Einstein's equation.
You are misunderstanding that sentence. We know very well what "matter" is comprised of.
The gist of the sentence is that some people define matter as particles with mass, or collections of particles with mass while other sources include all elementary particles in their definition.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The particles derive their mass, as far as we know, from the energy within them. There is, as far as I understand it, no consequence we can point to yet that derives from "matter" rather than energy. If there is, I look forward to hearing what it is.
Sure there is. A system would be completely different if it consisted of 10 GeV of protons and electrons vs 10 GeV of photons. One is a plasma the other is just light.
Matter is more of conceptualization of physical things that can be "touched", and you're just misusing definitions.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I should have added: is the difference in some way attributable to "matter?"
charge surprisingly isn't fundamental, spin etc. is fundamental and results in charge. whats even weirder is that these fundamental properties can come together in different ways to result in what we call charge, and even vastly different combinations produce a similar range of equal and opposite charges. energy is some measurement of these fundamental properties, and results in charge, its difficult to say if energy doesn't have charge because it is the result of how that energy is produced/measured.
I agree with what you are saying and this is the root of the definition problem. Particles, which are generally considered matter are excitations of those particle fields so it all comes down to different types of energy.
Still, a useful definition of matter is that it is comprised of particles and interacting particles with mass.
gcanyon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:31:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"conceptualization of physical things" is circular reasoning. And in this context what does "touched" even mean?
The matter we can see in a galaxy is not enough to keep the galaxy from flying apart. Therefore, it must be dark matter. And the expansion of the universe must be dark energy.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
gcanyon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:29:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as we know the mass comes from energy, not "matter," whatever that is. And taking up space doesn't count I don't think, since, for one example, ice takes up more space than water does, without there being more matter.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't say taking up space was a correlating measurement.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then what does taking up space mean in this context? At a macro level, things take up space because of electron repulsion. But at a smaller scale there's plenty of empty-ish space within "matter". I'm not seeing how taking up space is useful in this context.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because of how much space your mom takes up.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Take your up vote, but that still doesn't explain matter.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know. The definition is "anything that has mass and takes up space" and the definition of mass is "an amount of matter." It's always been problematic. There's never been a clear way to grasp it or put it in words.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The definition of mass is definitely not an amount of matter. In the video he describes how a hydrogen atom weighs less than a separate proton and electron, and an oxygen molecule weighs less than twice the mass of an oxygen atom.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It fucked me up when I found out California has more population than all of Canada. For comparison Canada has 35 million while California has 38 million. I also read earlier that India has over 1 billion people (that's like 27 Canada) and I cant comprehend any of this.
California also has more people than Australia. I was more shocked by the Canada comparison though. I also think it's crazy that the economy of CA, if it were counted as its own country, has the 8th highest GDP in the world. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#Economy
insite ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:31:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
China has 1.3 billion people. The US has 0.3 billion people.
India has approx 3 times the population of USA in a land size one third that of USA. Basically, the population density of India is 10 times as that of USA.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And wait until they have more people than China. 2022 is only a few short years away.
Totally agreed. It wasn't a main-post.
It was response to the post which said 'holy shit' by comparing the population densities of Canada & California. Mine tried to say there is 'holier shitter' fact than that . :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Zentopian ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 15:42:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
During a city-wide blackout, there were several distress calls to 911 about strange lights in the sky.
They were stars.
EDIT: According to a quick Google Search, it was '94 LA, apparently.
[deleted] ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 18:54:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I work at the Kennedy Space Center. We had 2 launches recently (in the last 3 months) that went off at about 5am. What happens is the plume is high enough in the air that it's exposed to sunlight while the rest of the area is still in darkness. What results is this awesome moving shape.
I saw this awesome facebook thread with thousands of comments. Most claiming that it was a secret government coverup or UFOs. There were a few KSC employees explaining exactly what this was but the ignorant masses would shut that person down and call them dumb.
The people are standing where it's still night, but close to sunrise. The rocket goes high enough that it's in sunlight, so it gets lit up like a cloud during the day, but is seen in the night sky.
That's essentially a space flight version of alpenglow!
Shmurfy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:25:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't just lights, the milky way appears almost like a cloud of some sort when there is no other light, people thought there was some kind of gas descending on the city
DRiiFTYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then wouldn't that be YESTERDAY I learned.
Sharaghe ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:07:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 Great-Grandparents etc.
When you go back to the 14th century you would have 1.000.000.000 realtives, but the population to that time was about 500.000.000
You are spreading out all the relatives in a timeline as opposed to them being alive all at once.
Sharaghe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It simply means, that your related to everyone twice (when you go back to the 14th century)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:45 on November 25, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because somewhere in there it doesn't double. Say one set of your great grandparents may have had a son and daughter. If the son married the daughter of another set of your great grandparents, and the daughter married the son of another set of your great grandparents, you would only have six great grandparents.
Ha... There was a thing going around Facebook like "this is the first time a month has had 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in 34 years" or some dumb shit. Opened a calendar, it happens like 3 times a year. Calendar things are much more common than people think they are.
Even more important, there are exactly 14 calendars out there.
Proof - Every day falls on exactly one of 7 days. They are determined by the previous day. Hence, every calendar is determined by the day Jan 1 falls on. The only variation is a leap year, in which it shuffles the dates down one from Feb 29 onwards. Hence, there are 2 sets of 7, or 14 calendars.
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't fundamentally change a calendar. That second doesn't get allocated to a new day, and it's that day for a short second. It's allocated to Feb 28 etc. So that doesn't change this. Sorry.
havek23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's how counting works.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People born in December will always have a birthday in December.
hehyih ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This works two ways, I've always heard it as, "women can't touch their elbows behind their back", they try and just end up sticking their boobs out
teh_maxh ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 18:40:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it's in front, there's three options. Do it at chest level, in which case the breasts do get pushed together but are covered by the arms; do it at face level, and the breasts don't get pushed together; or kick the guy in the gametes for being a douche.
Not a woman, so I can't confirm, but I cannot actually do this one. Can anyone touch elbows behind his/her back?
Edit: I see the merit in this, yes, but I was curious if anyone could. It seems like something you should be able to do (like putting them together in front)
Whoa. I can't do it either (male). When I read Coffee's comment I assumed the female would put their elbows together and realize it was a prank. I wonder how many times a lady tried this and never realized it was a prank because it was true.
jbhall36 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 19:11:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's absolutely possible when sitting in an arm chair. Keeps your hands anchored,furthering the stretch. Had a lot of fun teasing boys when I was in middle school with this.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it gets shy guys to flex by making them try to put their hand on their shoulder. It's slightly easier for women to do it because their bicps don't in the way as much.
Is this supposed to be a joke? It's completely untrue. What is true, however, is that women can bend and place their foreheads against a wall and lift a chair that's beneath them, but men cannot.
Hi! Most stars we see with our naked eye are less than a thousand light years away. That's insignificant if you're a star that lives millions or billions of years.
You got me thinking. If they never released their grip, I wonder how much weight would be pulling the folks on land from the bodies sinking into the ocean.. But wait, they'd be pulled from both sides right? Who would get their arms ripped off?! I need answers people.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who would get their arms ripped off?!
The weakest link. Or more likely, no one. They'd fall into the water, but would float. Within minutes people far out at sea would drown or get eaten by sharks or something, and wouldn't be able to hold on to each other anymore, so the middle of the chain would be gone and there would gradually be less weight to worry about.
Rombolio ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:41:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---Brent Gretzky
Ferelar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Metachondria
nomonkez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Scott
fitbrah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:04:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This went meta quick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it meta? Whats the joke?
aipom45 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:10:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone on reddit said there isn't a thing I learned in school that Judge Judy has said or something similar and a reply said the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
-Judge Judy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:22:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A cool fact about the Mitochondrion...during reproduction, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that is passed from parent to child is 100% MATERNAL DNA. Yep. So go give your mother a hug for your metabolism.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:26:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
...and apparently the reason mDNA is separate is because mitochondria used to be a separate organism. They began living inside other cells way back in the day and developed a symbiosis. Not a biologist but I thought this was cool when I took bio in high school.
Edit: there are actually multiple theories on this. Endosymbiosis is the most popular. See wikipedia.
Never spent a lesson on current events, instead I studied the old American west
tjfraz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought is was midichlorians?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I could be jumbling up the facts a bit because I'm too lazy, but I believe that mitochondra were once a seaparate organism that evolved to have a symbiotic relationship with our cells. Now they just hang out there being awesome. Someone please correct me, that doesn't sounds right.
An actual interesting fact about mitochondria is that there are theories that suggest that some of the first cells ever alive on earth were just single mitochondrion with a circle of DNA in them that acted like the nucleus. That means we all came from single mitochondrion!
havek23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And mitochondria used to be single-celled organisms of their own until they were incorporated into living cells to help fuel them. That's why your mitochondrial DNA is different than in the rest of your cells.
well back in the old days in much of europe the water in many lakes and streams was not fit to drink, because of all the shit from animals and people, so they made beer because the process would purify it, and the ones who were very active in perfecting that process were the monks, so maybe beer is holy water
We're talking about Jersey right now. Jersey, Jersey, Jersey.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be a cool band name.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:13 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Madagascar is more interesting I'd say, because you look at the map and think "This island is obviously a part of the African continent" but it's not, it's a piece of India that floated away.
K3R3G3 ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 19:16:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm way too late, as always, but...
A 0.1 millimeter dot is halfway between the Planck length and the width of the observable universe.
Logarithmically. In the same way that 100 is "halfway between" 10 and 1000.
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed.
kri5 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? Source? Because... Fuck
K3R3G3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:17:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Using chale19's numbers...
Planck length: 1.6 x 10-35 m
Width of the observable universe: 8.8 x 1026 m
And 0.1mm = 1x10-4 m
So, the Planck length exponent is -35 which is 31 orders of magnitude beneath the -4 exponent of 0.1mm (-4 - 31 = -35). The -4 exponent is 30 orders of magnitude below the exponent of 26 for the observable universe (-4 + 30 = 26), which goes to about 31 when you factor in the 8.8, which is almost 10, resulting in one more added to the exponent. Therefore, it's the halfway point. 62 orders of magnitude between Planck and observable universe, 62/2 = 31. So 0.1mm is in the middle. A little dotting of an "i" with your pen or on your computer screen.
chale19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:05:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Planck length: 1.6 x 10-35 m
Width of the observable universe: 8.8 x 1026 m
Making a difference of roughly 61 orders of magnitude.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:35:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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K3R3G3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's my preferred size for the Pilot G2.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:37:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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K3R3G3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. They're not smooth...they'll basically rip your paper. Then the bigger one...1.0 or 1.2...it's just too big and clumsy. 0.7mm is the way.
If you lined up everything on earth by size with a subatomic particle being at one and and the entire planet on the other end, you know what falls in the middle?
A dust mite.
Edit: I am totally okay with this being my most upvoted comment by miles.
Ogden-TO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get this, because the little things make up the big things. There are many subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, &c. inside e.g., an elephant. So in my estimation, for every big thing there are trillions or more of little things. I would guess the middle would most likely be a subatomic particle.
Especially those dang drop bears. Those things ain't of this world, I tell ya!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About sixty years after bunch of Fenians took a boat from America to Australia to bust their comrades out of prison.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:00 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, they didn't. It was basically a guy culling emu populations with a machine gun until he ran out of bullets. They officially declared a war because machine guns are illegal to use outside of wars.
It's like saying "I'm not touching you" when you're poking someone with a pencil, you're not actually touching them if you want to be pedantic about it, and you're also an asshole
I'm not a scientist, but isn't EVERYTHING (maybe) a force/energy once you scale down enough? Just repulsion or pulling, or some other fucking weird one?
Cymen90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be because your idea of touching does not exist.
Particles don't take up physical space, only the fields they generate do and interact with each other.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Things don't take up space as you imagine them to. The idea that most of an atom is empty space is misleading because all of an atom is "empty space". Particles have position but all their volume comes from the fields the produce. So if you consider electrons' electric field repelling each other on two objects as not touching then nothing can ever touch anything else because the only way particles can interact with each other is through fields.
A particle colliding with another particle is just an interaction of their fields, just different ones than electromagnetic ones, such as the strong or weak nuclear force.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It's just an illusion. If you bang your head against a wall for eternity eventually the atoms will line up so your head will go through the wall and you will be wearing a wall necklace around your neck.
Which makes far more sense, if we define touching the other way, not only did my fingers never touch my touch screen while typing this, but the atoms that make up my finger have never touched each other
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've thought about this before. In scifi shows where you get teleported or somehow whole-body-acted on, how they define where "you" start and where the ground/air ends at the atomic level?
Is a Nitrogen atom that happens to be really close to you at the time of teleportation considered part of you? Are skin cells sloughing off not?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Developmental biologist think of humans as over-complicated donuts.
BFQueb ยท 433 points ยท Posted at 13:04:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to her lawyer.
shmeebz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:02:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if this fact has ever been brought up in court.
BFQueb ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:14:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your body is ripped apart atom by atom followed by everything in the universe, but it takes forever because time stops working and the only guy who can fix it is out to lunch and technically his lunch is now forever. So, thanks a lot dude.
Duman_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering we have been able to smash the nuclei of atoms together. Yes! If you press really, really hard
Maybe I'm just not reading this one right, because it doesn't make sense to me either. Also, how do we leave oils or fingerprints on things we "touch"?
He's being silly, really, but his basic idea is that atoms are mostly empty space, and when you press down on a table or whatever you are just putting the electron fields of your atoms really close to the electron fields of other atoms.
The electrons and protons and shit aren't actually in physical contact with one another, they're technically separated by a tiny, tiny amount of space.
So that sexual harassment charge will be dropped right?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this is really dumb. As u/GeorgeDeanIsACunt rightly points out "touch" is the term we use to describe the feeling of the repulsive force of atoms. That's not semantics, that's basic common sense.
If I'm not mistaken, it is possible to touch stuff.
I'll try and find it, but I remember reading somewhere that something to do with you emitting radiation and it entering other peoples atoms would "touch" them.
I hate this fact because when my little brother heard about it, he would touch me and when I told him to stop he would say "I'm not touching you" because I grew up in a 90's sitcom.
Fang88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Futhermore, the mass of atoms themselves are an illusion:
The quarks that makes up proton and neutron of an atom have only 1/2000 of the mass of the atom that they make up. The mass of an atom is mostly just the potential energy of it's subatomic particles. This means if you were to rip apart the subatomic particles of an atom, it's mass would almost completely disappear.
E=MC2 doesn't mean that energy can be converted into mass. It means that energy is mass.
This isn't actually true. The magnetic fields of atoms absolutely do touch. Fields are real, not just magic bullshit. They are part of the atom. Saying that atoms don't touch is like saying that you've never touched another person because you haven't grabbed their spinal cord.
GodofCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Going directly north from Stamford, Connecticut, you might hit a place called Pound Ridge, New York. South takes you across the water into Long Island. East takes you to NYC and going directly west, you would hit part of the tip of Long Island
Going off on a tangent here, but you started it... The sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, which is a town of <5,000 people in Kent, England. It originally meant "a trading place on sand". Also Hawaii was originally named the Sandwich Islands, by Captain James Cook, after the same dude.
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was the Earl of Sandwich.
Deligion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. "Die See" refers to the sea. "Meer" is just another word for it.
I live in germany for 27 years now...i think i know how this language works, thank you ;-)
Edit: Try learning german articles like "Der, Die, Das" they get confusing and not all of them make sense but they are important to understand this language.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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tombue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right now it's raining like hell and windy as fuck. But that is actually Aachen all year long. Christmas decorations are kinda awkward around here since most people fall on the all or nothing scale and it usually goes like...brightest house ever with 40 santa clauses coming out of the windows, then 4 houses without decorations, then a lonely star, 4 houses without and another lightfest.
Though christmas market is great if you like to drink because everyone is drunk.
Unfortunately, the Christmas market has not started yet, i think it starts tomorrow? Definitely sometime this weekend
Also, the weather was pretty good the last one to two weeks, definitely not normal november weather. On the other hand, we had like a 2 hours of (light) snow in mid october, so nothing is normal this year
Actually when i speak english i always mimic an english accent and i have no idea why and can't stop myself. But iff you feel betta i cahn spek thatt to!!!
English sand, from Proto-Germanic *sandam (cognates: Old Norse sandr, Old Frisian sond, Middle Dutch sant, Dutch zand, German Sand), from PIE *bhs-amadho- (cognates: Greek psammos "sand;" Latin sabulum "coarse sand," source of Italian sabbia, French sable), suffixed form of root *bhes- "to rub."
Echilon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:32 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sabulum... That must be where the word 'sablรฉ' comes from. It's a type of crumbly (sandy?) cookie.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:35:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the second time I've seen this piece of ludicrous misinformation in this thread. Is this some oh-so-meta joke that I'm not getting or do you mouthbreathers actually believe this dimwittery?
This is so far from being true that I hope you're joking but in case you're not...
"Sand" comes from the proto-Germanic word "sandam" which itself comes from the proto-indo-European "bhs-amadho" where the root "bhes" meant "to rub".
For starters most of the world's sand is in deserts, so not between sea and land, and more importantly two seconds of critical thinking would tell you that we probably didn't wait until we had the modern English words "sea" and "land" before we decided to name that grainy yellow stuff that went in between them.
So next time you hear about the etymology of a word and it seems really neat and cute, 99% of the time it is a made up origin. The process by which words are created and change over time is really fucking complicated and often entirely arbitrary.
ab00 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a matter of time until they develop a tablet for dogs.
It's the cat im more worried about, he'd probably start ordering bulk deliveries of cat food on my credit card
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Delivery man: Delivery for /u/ab00! /u/ab00: I don't recall ordering anything.
Delivery man: Where do you want your 200 lbs of cat nip? /u/ab00: MITTENS!!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs can't look up using just their eyes maybe? They can tilt their head up but idk if they can look upward without moving their head. Could be what he means (please note; I'm guessing based off OP's statement)
dfn85 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:22:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What this is supposed to mean, is that because of the placement of the skull on the spine of quadrupedal animals, they can't tilt their head up to look straight up if they're standing on all 4 feet. They have to sit down, in order to be able to tilt their head up.
pdmcmahon ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 16:22:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Al says so.
whohw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:08:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was he arguing that it was loaded, or just that it was real and still functional? I feel like I remember him loading the shell when he pulls it down, rather than it already being loaded.
All I seem to be doing in this thread is disproving supposed origins of words...
Anyway we actually have no idea where "slang" comes from. It might be related to Norwegian "slengenamn" meaning "nickname", or "slengja kjeften" meaning "to verbally abuse", but the date of when "slang" first appeared (1756) doesn't really match up with those as we weren't borrowing a lot of Norwegian words in the 18th Century.
So yeah, the only thing we do know is it is definitely not a contraction of "short language". A lot of slang terms are longer than the original word anyway, just look at Cockney rhyming slang, e.g. "Apples and pears" = "upstairs. Slang serves a social function far more than an efficiency function.
garhole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's of dubious origin but it's almost definitely not related to English.
The most common belief among etymologists seems to be that it is from a Scandinavian source, such as Norwegian slengenamn "nickname," slengja kjeften "to abuse with words," literally "to sling the jaw," related to Old Norse slyngva "to sling".
But definitely not "shortened language".
Delision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a lot of sense
infez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The length of my intestines is not bullshit! It's human shit.
Mcquiz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cut open a small animal and then you shall believe. I just cut one marten open today(I'm a biology major, chill). It was a pretty small specimen but it's intestines were about a meter long.
ashley_n ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:08:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of Britain's smallest towns, Berwick-upon-Tweed, was officially at war with Russia for over a century. This town lies on the border between England and Scotland, and over many centuries changed hands between the two. So it was often known as "England, Scotland and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed". When the declaration of the Crimean War against Russia was signed by Queen Victoria in 1853, she signed it with "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British Dominions". When the Treaty of Paris was signed to conclude the war, "Berwick-upon-Tweed" was left out. This lay undiscovered until 1966 when war was formally ended between Berwick and Russia. The Mayor of Berwick said in the declaration of peace "Please tell the Russian people through your newspaper that they can sleep peacefully in their beds."
The BBC programme Nationwide investigated this story in the 1970s, and found that while Berwick was not mentioned in the Treaty of Paris, it was not mentioned in the declaration of war either. The question remained as to whether Berwick had ever been at war with Russia in the first place. The true situation is that since the Wales and Berwick Act 1746 had already made it clear that all references to England included Berwick, the town had no special status at either the start or end of the war. The grain of truth in this legend could be that some important documents from the 17th century did mention Berwick separately, but this became unnecessary after 1746.
Mr_Locke ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 17:15:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
99.9999999999996% of a hydrogen atom is empty space. Even heavy elements are over 99% empty space. So that means that the entire universe is over 99% empty space.
Arcola56 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 18:03:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
facts like these are very misleading. While it's technically true, it's not representative of reality. Electrons are more wave-like in nature and occupy all parts of the atom at the same time. In fact, the wavelength of the electron is partly what defines the quantum nature of orbitals.
Not really related but you seem to know about such things.
I had really shitty teachers in H.S. and I was confused because they always said an Atom is the smallest particle there is! Yet the atom was made up of neutrons, protons and electrons. So wouldn't the particles that make up an atom be smaller than an atom? thus making them the smallest particle? can you explain that for me because it has always bugged me. And on top of that, what are the individual parts made out of? I'm going out on a explain it like im 5 so I can try to sort of understand it. Salamat.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well an atom is the smallest particle of an element. The smallest amount of gold you can have is one atom of gold. If you divide up the subatomic particles, you don't have gold anymore, because gold is defined by its atomic structure.
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, as it turns out, even the components of atoms are made of even smaller things. Electrons are fundamental particles, but neutrons and protons are not. They are made of "quarks" which are even smaller particles that convey properties such as mass and charge.
You seem knowledgeable about this material. Where does the one-electron universe postulate fit into this?
Brightt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's very hard to explain if you don't know a bunch of background on elementary particle physics, but I'll try.
Basically, in Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), elementary processes can be schematically represented by Feynman graphs. Certain fundamental particles, like electrons can't 'change' during such processes due to a bunch of conservation rules (in the case of an electron, conservation of lepton number).
Some professor somewhere probably got high some time and started thinking about QED. He got the idea that you could technically arrange all elementary processes in the universe so that they would be governed by 1 electron, and it would be technically correct in the QED sense. So he concluded that all electrons are identical because they are all the same electron.
This is basically just a funny twist on the mystery of why all electrons are identical.
(Source: master student physics, but my class on elementary particles was a while ago, so not sure my explanation is 100% correct.)
Kattib ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still not quite right, the one electron hypothesis is more to do with positrons being time reversed electrons. So really one could consider all electrons and positrons to be a single electron moving backwards and forwards in time interacting with itself. This is the one electron hypothesis. However the indistinguishabllility of electrons and positrons is critical to this.
Still further than I was a few hours ago. Thanks to both of you. :)
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I never had formal education on this postulate, but I can tell you that electrons are fundamental particles and by definition must have the same charge and mass. Beyond this, I do not know enough to comment further on the nature of fundamental particles.
I doubt it's a formal thing anyway, it's just another one of those stories involving Feynman really, but it is something I am genuinely interested in and curious about.
I was hoping to discover a bit more information on the topic but it looks like I'll have to settle for getting downvoted instead....
Arcola56 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol welcome to Reddit. But really at a certain fundamental level the explanation must be that that's the way it is.
There was a point where people believed we had learned everything there was to learn and yet we kept going. I'd say we're nowhere near beating the game yet.
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps not, but my point was that eventually there will come a time when we discover the fundamental constants of the universe. That may be due to us being vastly intelligent or we may run into a physical limitation of instruments to measure what we need. Either way, we are left with no other explanation other than, that's just the nature of the universe. That's the way it must be.
Greater than 99% of the universe was already empty space (depending on your definition of empty space and the universe).
It's an awful long way from here to the next closest star.
Fang88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:52:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Futhermore, the mass of atoms themselves are an illusion:
The quarks that makes up proton and neutron of an atom have only 1/2000 of the mass of the atom that they make up. The mass of an atom is mostly just the potential energy of it's subatomic particles. This means if you were to rip apart the subatomic particles of an atom, it's mass would almost completely disappear.
E=MC2 doesn't mean that energy can be converted into mass. It means that energy is mass.
I imagine what they're actually told is to clean liquid spills with water and solid matter spills with sand, and the rule makers hope that people will be sensible if they spill simple water or sand and just mop/sweep that stuff up.
No, this is just made up. You use sand to put out fires. No guidelines will require anything beyond paper towels, or something similar, to clean up a pure water spill.
Even then, when liquids spill you want to dike them or use a proper absorbent.
bp92009 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the lab safety guides were written by the water and sand companies
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 12:04:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 3 people in the UK will get cancer at some point
ou_wo ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 14:39:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So if I move do I get better odds?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Move to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and make sure you isolate yourself from any people so you don't catch anything. I hear this almost completely removes the risk of cancer. Avoiding eating fish helps too, and bathing in sunscreen.
I hate this statement. It's not deep, nor is it mind blowing. Something that names things named a thing and then much later realized that that name was referring to itself.
go ahead and read the Gen I pokedex. does not use water
Bahamute ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:57:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Starting with Yellow it says water instead of foam. Plus you can clearly see that the water gun animation is water. I'm going to guess the foam was a mistranslation.
Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum ect. are all special versions of the others. red and blue came out a year before yellow
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am aware that it came out later. That does not change the fact that yellow is still a first generation Pokรฉmon game. It only had the original 151 Pokรฉmon.
Ninja edit: when you trade missingno to gold/silver/crystal, it is a remoraid
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Missingno is a glitch and doesn't count, and I included Mew.
Neolife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on Red/Blue or Yellow.
RB: Powerfully sprays foam from its mouth.
Y: Shoots water at prey while in water.
Also, Pokedex entries are pretty ridiculous at times. Wartortle supposedly lives 10,000 years. Kadabra is the result of a boy with ESP suddenly becoming a Pokemon. Magcargo is ~2 times hotter than the sun, but can exist on Earth.
Foam or water debate aside, they are both acting as projectiles.
Bewgajew ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 13:23:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, the rest of the evolution line has nothing to do with squirrels. If you look at the word "blastoise", it's "blast" (water blast) and toise (relating to the tortoise family), so for them to start off relating the Pokemon to a squirrel and then just killing off that part of the name would not make sense. "Squirt" and "turtle" are more likely to be the meaning of its name.
Flacvest ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:14:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's because it evolved; evolution pushed the squirtle to be more like a turtle and less like a squirrel. That's how evolution works.
If the environment favored squirrels over turtles then you would have a squirrel-hybrid instead of a turtle one.
It's definitely squirt, not squirrel. Evolutionary lines typically have a theme to their names. Squirrel has nothing to do with anything, except that it happens to have a fancy tail. Squirt ties into the theme of war and blast that the other names have. Also, squirtle's main feature is that it can spray water. In other words, it can squirt water.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Look it up. It's a combo of squirt and turtle. Not squirrel.
The human liver can be split, half can be donated to someone needing a transplant, and both lobes will regenerate into full sized fully functioning livers. I'm proof of this like many others, my aunt gave me her right lobe so I could see 20.
Because of her I got to see 20, and now I'm 25. I live in Alaska and I'm engaged to an incredible guy. We're getting married in October. We have two kitties. I lost my cat allergy after the transplant. Docs are unsure why that happened but some guess it's the immunosuppressive medications. Others think it's because my aunt isn't allergic. Who knows, I'm just glad to get to have my own kitty now! ๐
Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Saturn, holden, opel, GMC, Vauxhall, Saab, and maybe some others I'm forgetting are or were all General Motors. The funniest part is that most of those brands shared parts or even cars amongst each other enough that they really were pretty general.
The remaining brands of GM are more or less interchangeable still.
amaxen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:31:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
South Korea's economy is so large relative to North Korea's that the 4-5% growth it gets every year more than exceeds North Korea's economy. TL;DR, South Korea adds more than a North Korea's entire economy to its own economy every year.
If this keeps up, with compounding, A South Korean Junior High Cheerleading squad will have more budget available to it than the North Korean army in 20 years.
"15 The Lord answered him, โYou hypocrites! Doesnโt each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?โ
"17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing, and that he didn't poop."
Could you imagine that, just walking through the shit hole desert and you see the son of God pinching a loaf? Then later that week you see this guy raise Lazarus from the dead and you're like "that dude takes the biggest shits..."
Always wondered, Jesus never sinned. Going through puberty/adulthood and having wet dreams, I bet one of those atleast had that hot girl from the temple he liked in it. Thus = lust.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You better delete that before you get your XBox taken away again.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed on before him. And his mother was a supporter of truth. They both used to eat food. Look how We make clear to them the signs; then look how they are deluded."
[The Qur'an - Chapter 5 - Verse 75]
Anything that eats, has to defecate... It's beyond me how they can justify worshiping the creation. He was a HUMMMAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Majop ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 15:17:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like this fact from A short history of nearly everything:
Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate
and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result-eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly-in you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:07:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because you're looking from hindsight. Many potential alive people have never been born because their potential ancestors got smashed. It's not impressive.
Not surprisingly those who were never born or were born but are now dead cannot tell us their part of the story. It's not really a mystery of the Universe.
By some scholars regarded as cognate with Lithuanian lupti, Old Church Slavonic lupiti to peel, strip off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a branch on a tree in my backyard that broke, but was still hanging in the tree. When autumn came, all of the leaves in the tree fell off except for the leaves on the broken branch. That was when I realized that the leaves don't fall, they are pushed.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 15:14:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This blew my mind when I first heard it and in some since it does a good job at illustrating the nature or man. About a year before president Lincoln's assassination John Wilkes Booth's eldest brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's eldest son.
It has to do with how the thickness of the paper grows exponentially when you fold it. On the first fold, the paper is now twice as thick. The second time, 4 times as thick. The third, 8 times as thick. This can be modeled with one of those bullshit equations we never use after math class (2x).
So if you take the thickness of the paper multiplied by 245 (folded in half 45 times), you will have the distance from here to the moon (roughly).
And of course the area of the paper surface has the inverse effect (2-x).
Which means that by the time the "thickness" of the paper reaches the moon, the "width" of the paper is only about 40nm (5000x smaller than a human hair).
I'm... not sure that I can. Unless it was unclear that the original comment didn't specify the nature of the folds, and thus an accordion folded paper would qualify.
I just folded a piece of paper in half 45 times. It took about 45 seconds and in the end the paper was still the same size. To make things easier I used the same crease each time.
Sauce is punch 245 into a calculator and you get a mind-bogglingly huge number. Multiply that number by the thickness of paper and you get how thick the folded paper would be.
Also something that should be added to the initial statement is if it were possible to fold a piece of paper in half 45 times...
it's only possible to fold a regular 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper in half about 7 or 8 times IIRC
Similar Trick: Kids ask your parents for an allowance for a month paid out as 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the next day, 4 cents the day after that, then 8 cents, and so on for 30 days. Unless your dad is Warren Buffett, your parents would be bankrupt in a few weeks
Not only that. If we take the standard width of a paper, .1mm, and have that doubled 45 times (.1mm(245)), we get 3.51844e12 mm or 3,518,440 km The average distance between the earth and moon is 372,517 km. This means it could make a round trip to the moon from earth 4.7 times. Now, the object would also be immeasurably thin, at .1mm/(245) or 2.8422e-15. In comparison this is the size a relatively scaled atom would be to me if I were the size of an atom, but 10 times smaller than that.
Edit: Error raising to the 44th instead of the 45th and formatting. The point still remains...
Yes, you are correct. I've done it like that in the past but was sick of trying to format it correctly on mobile and decided everyone would assume that it was implied. I guess I should be more thorough with all the pieces though..
Edit: After reading it again I messed it up completely on the first bit. I'll fix it now.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Evil-Imp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
Truan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not. consider folding the paper in times 8 times, how thick it is already. You're doubling that more and more, but to a point whre it's impossible to fold anymore.
Neutron stars, which sometimes result from a supernova, are simply balls of neutrons with absolutely no empty space in between them. Typical matter is almost entirely empty space (imagine a football stadium is an atom; an ant in the middle would be the nucleus). The fact that neutron stars lack this emptiness gives them a density around 800 billion kilograms per milliliter at their core. Despite only being about 20km across, they can weigh twice as much as our sun.
JSKlunk ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 12:46:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The time period between the construction of Stonehenge and the Roman arrival in Britain is longer than the time period between the Roman arrival in Britain and the current day.
Delta10P ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:55:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The time at which the romans got to britain is closer to the present than to when stonehenge was made.
BradC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every top-level comment in this thread needs that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This was some of the worst phrasing I have ever had the misfortune to read.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BUT ALIENS BUILT IT
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tb8592 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dirk Nowitzki will pass shaq this season as the 6th highest scoring basketball player in history. Literally no one believes me when I try to tell them this stat.
God... The world of possibilities this opens for me...
Hearsch ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 15:43:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What gives the raspberry it's taste is a molecule called :Ethyl formate
Or it happens that Ethyl formate is also one of the molecule that compose the space of the milky way. So technically, the Milky way taste like raspberry !
I watched a Tom and Jerry episode when I was a kid where all these kittens were trying to escape the house and Tom was supposed to be looking after them. I don't really remember what happened, but at some point they went to like the center of the milky way and were in kitty heaven because there was fucking free-flowing milk everywhere. I'll have you know there were no raspberries in that scene so.. QED.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of molecules that are only stable in exotic conditions, like very low temperature, high magnetic fields, or high pressure.
The milky way absolutely has every single molecule that we know if somewhere in it, because we, and everything we can really measure with much certainty on the atomic scale are in the milky way.
No, because there are plenty of molecules that we've theorized or know are possible that we haven't made.
Not to mention you can make polymers of arbitrary length that would be different molecules and we haven't even come close to making them all. This doesn't even touch on co-polymers.
That you are one creature on one planet in one solar system in one star cluster in one arm of one galaxy of one galactic cluster in the universe. So in the grand scheme of things nothing you can or will ever do will matter, so in short you wanna eat a whole cake go for it!
I know this is kind of a joke but I always hate when I hear stuff like this. All that matters to me is my consciousness and my perception of the world around me. And that applies to everyone in existence. Our own perception is our universe in a way. Everything that happens to you and affects you is infinitely important because your own existence is all you know.
EZ19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our curiosity and drive to explore the possibly infinite cosmos and leave our one planet doesn't make us small, it makes us grand. We're the only thing we know of with such potential.
You used a bunch of words and concepts, invented by humanity, to describe the grandeur of humanity. Hate to break it to you, but a desire to exist elsewhere in this completely meaningless occurrence of space-time doesn't make us special snowflakes with purpose and meaning. This "potential" you speak of may lead us to colonize many star-systems, galaxies, clusters, etc. But at the end of all of this, when the last organism breathes the last breath, and the universe expands off into infinite black nothingness, no one will exist to give a fuck about how cool humans were.
Not true, if this would apply to every person it would apply to every lifeform which would mean life will never achieve anything even given unlimited time which is highly unlikely.
Historically, the word 'minute' comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part". This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: parte minutae secundae) and this is where the word 'second' comes from.
(Wikipedia)
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 15:03:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I know what it is. It's just that there was an askreddit thread about things you didn't know and someone there said he/she thought FTFY means Fuck That Fuck You.
Somewhat related: the kilogram is the only SI unit with a number prefix. This is because they originally used the grave, which was equal to the kilogram. Then they decided the grave was too big, so they took 1/1000 of it and called it a gramme. Later they realised the gramme was too small, so they took 1000 grammes, stuck them together, and called it a kilogramme (kilo meaning one thousand)
The duration of one second is defined as the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
What this precisely means, I have absolutely no clue.
Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame also does the voice of The Joker (Batman Animated Series), Ozai (The Last Airbender), and Skips (Regular Show) among others.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:50:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's a really prolific voice actor! Even though Harrison Ford is still immensely successful and Carrie Fischer had her golden time in the 80s, I'd argue that Hamill, even though you never see his face, is the only one of the main cast that has had consistent, regular work since Return of the Jedi.
Having lived in Maine all my life there's been many occasions where planes land in Bangor or Portland for emergencies because we're the first airports in the USA. Can be a little funny when they land in the winter and its -15 and snowing. Bangor was also a space shuttle emergency landing site. Just some fun facts lol
Maine is not the Eastern most state, believe it or not Alaska is because it crosses the international date line 180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.
Edit. Fixed my mistake, it is the 180th meridian, not the international date line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
No it doesn't. The International Date Line has a huge kink in it just so none of Alaska is over it.
What Alaska does is cross the 180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.
V1per41 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is, but it's also the northern most. Most people (Americans at least) think of Africa being much further south that it is and would probabaly guess that Florida is the closest state.
Since Maine is over 1,000mi from Florida, and the most northern state on the Atlantic, most people are very surprised by this fact.
Alaska is the northernmost state. Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state have considerable land mass north of the northernmost point of Maine.
V1per41 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"the most northern state on the Atlantic"
Last I checked, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state were not on the Atlantic.
The Apollo moon vehicle burned 960,000 gallons of fuel in two and a half minutes to move a six mi!llion pound vehicle from a dead start to 6500 mph-one hundred and twenty million horsepower.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that 6 million pounds include the weight of all that fuel?
F0oker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You need fuel to lift, but fuel weighs, so you need more fuel to lift that fuel, and more fuel to lift that... Most rockets are just fuel to lift the fuel to send the tiny bit at the top 300Kms up. That's why stuff like the EM drive if possible would change (almost) everything about space travel.
The phrase "be there or be square" comes from that fact that if you aren't there, you won't be around.
lancakes ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:15:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was just because square was slang for uncool. Like if someone was a lame nerd they were a square. So if you were inviting someone to something, you would say "be there or be square", like if you don't come to the drive in or the diner or the sock hop you're a loser.
This is not where this phrase comes from, that is not true.
insite ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:18:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex was more related to a more chicken than a Triceratops. T rex. lived closer to us in time than to a Stegosaurus. T. rex likely never saw grass. Stegosaurus likely never saw flowers. Feathers evolved before flight in birds. Dinosaurs came to be the dominant land animal group because of a mass extinction.
The way I'm reading it is that there's more bones in a human's skeleton than there are skeletons in a human body. But there's only 1 skeleton in a human.
NASA's funding is equivalent to about 0.5% of the federal budget.
If you took half of one percent of funding away from defense (20%), bringing it down to 19.5% of the national budget. or half of one percent from social security (24%), bringing it down to 23.5%, and gave that to NASA you would effectively double their operating capacity.
This is especially crazy when you look at how much the United States actually has in the way of defense. The second largest air force in the world is the United States Navy. We own more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined, by a pretty good margin if I'm not mistaken. According to this Wikipedia article we spend the most on defense, and by such a wide margin that if the next 9 countries on the list decided to form one country we would still outspend that new mega country. Also, here is that list of the top ten countries in terms of defense spending.
United States
China
Saudi Arabia
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Japan
India
Germany
South Korea
ssaa6oo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY: Top 10 coutries in terms of defense spendings.
Frodor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the United States currently has 19 aircraft carriers. The rest of the world has 19 put together. France, IIRC, has the second most, with 4. China and Russia each have one.
Also, our smallest carriers are still larger than most country's carriers. Our largest carriers, the 10 Nimitz-class carriers, are all over 100,000 tons, whereas the closest foreign competitor is the Chinese Liaoning at 59,000 tons.
And we are still constructing more. We have three carriers currently under construction and 16 more planned.
I was just trying pick a more agreed upon government program so it didn't just sound like a liberal bashing defense spending, even though that is kind of what it turned out to be. And, I was going to mention welfare originally but that was actually a smaller portion of the federal budget than I thought it was
That is such a lie. It's because the leaders like money, power, and that sweet, sweet oil.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's how they can afford free health care. If we cut back on defense spending they would most likely have to increase theirs, cutting into that health care budget they brag about..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can I just ask why you think the EU would need to increase its defence budget if the US cut theirs? There are three counties from the EU in the top ten for defence spending as it is.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because those countries join the U.S. for almost all of our adventures.. Without us they would have to pick up the tab
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That really doesn't explain anything.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It means you guys are dependent on american muscle to solve everything fit you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, you still haven't explained anything relevant. You're just spouting nonsense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's to explain.. The money we spend on defense could help us fund healthcare.. Most of Europe doesn't need to spend much on defense because they have America to rush to their rescue.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you just repeating what Fox news tells you to repeat?
'The US has the highest health spending in the world - equivalent to 17.9% of its gross domestic product (GDP)'.
The fact is you can blame it on 'having to defend the Euros' all you want. The fact of the matter is the US healthcare system is incredibly flawed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. is also responsible for creating most of the new drugs in the world that everyone else uses.
But I'm sure the democrats will come up with a plan to lower costs.. Oh wait, costs have went up after Obama care.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, people like Martin Shkreli who purchased the rights to Daraprim and then marked up the price from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. But that's capitalism for you. But go ahead and blame the fact Americans aren't getting fair healthcare on having to defend the poor Europeans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, first off, you Brits are capitalist in everything but healthcare.
Second, before Obama care that problem wouldn't have happened because insurance companies would've refused to pay that much, forcing then to lower the price back down..
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:47 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that problem wouldn't have happened
Yes, it would. Health care system was a disaster before Obama as well.
US citizens learn to stitch their own wounds to avoid hospital bills. Medical bills are the most common reason for bankruptcy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:39 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And it's gotten worse. Now they can't refuse treatment no matter how much it costs, so they are jacking up the prices.. The medical industry has been reporting higher profits then they already were (which was allot before).
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:51 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are jacking up the prices because they can get away with it.
I have no idea how did the American citizens get brainwashed with the whole "we have no free healthcare because our military protects the world" meme.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:37 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Healthcare is a big part of the economy. Free healthcare will not be passed regardless of which political party is in power.. Life if America is probably still cheaper and better then most of Europe overall anyway.
I didn't say our military protected the world. But it does serve the economic interest of us and our allies
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:50 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Massive healthcare spending, and yet insane amounts of people dying from preventable diseases, horrendous mental care (cheaper to close the asylums and dump mental patients onto streets), et cetera, et cetera.
Free healthcare will not be passed regardless of which political party is in power.
No shit, given the opinions of an average american on the topic (i.e. they are fucking idiotic)
Life if America is probably still cheaper and better then most of Europe overall anyway.
Your country is effectively a giant parasite.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:27 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let me guess?? Your not even american yet somehow your afucking expert on our country?
Let me guess, you watched a Netflix documentary and now your an expert?? Middle class here typically has new cars, nice 2000 sq foot houses, cheap food. Unless your from Germany I'm guessing your country is shit in comparison
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:16 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you sell your country as the best so hard, and then it turns out that you're just... the not worst.
True, but these statistics raise the question: Who are we trying to outspend here?
I know that we aren't just fighting another country and this money goes to fighting terrorism and upkeeping all our military bases and to maintaining presents in different countries, but it just seems excessive
Atlanta, Texas is closer to Atlanta, Georgia (a city 3 1/2 states away) than it is to El Paso, Texas.
Montanx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:45:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quick whats the age of consent across the entire US? 18 right? WRONG. The age is actually 16 or 17 in far more states than it is 18. Like 30 or more, not just backwater alabama or whatever you were thinking.
Also, most other western nations set it at or around 16.
Koupers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Age of consent is as open as it sounds however. In some states it'll be 16 but there'll be a rule about an appropriate age gap. 16 is just the age at which someone is capable of providing consent.
Electrons act as both waves and matter but the change in state is caused by the simple act of trying to "observe" the electrons going through the double slit.
Double Slit Experiment.
nvolker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a lot less impressive when you realize that the only way to "observe" subatomic particles is to interact with them in some way.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've been wondering about this. Electrons have some small amount of mass. Therefore, they attract other particles via gravity and are attracted to all other particles. Aren't all particles with mass constantly "observing" each other?
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be clear, this means all integers, not just the integers between 1 and 2. More simply, there are more real numbers than there are integers.
nvolker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be clear, this means all integers, not just the integers between 1 and 2
Correct. I suppose my wording there was a bit ambiguous.
More simply, there are more real numbers than there are integers.
This is also true, but it's not the statement that I was originally trying to make. The set of all integers being smaller than the set of all real numbers is a lot less "holy shit" than the set of all integers being smaller than the set of all real numbers between 1 and 2.
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even more wow factor: There are more reals in any interval, no matter how small, than the entire set of rationals.
In only 39 % percent of Americans who were alive in the year 1983 are still alive today.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've been looking for a source or way to calculate what % of people my age have died. IOW, how many people my age have I outlived? I'm 39 and feeling mortal.
I looked up actuarial statistics myself - I'm 44 and wondering if shit's about to go sideways.
Good news, everybody! People don't really start dropping like flies until they hit 65. :)
jmwbb ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:57:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can take all the planets in the solar system and lay themside by side (excluding Earth) and they'll fit nicely between the Earth and the moon. I believe this only works when the moon is at its furthest. In addition, when I say "you can", I don't mean you can go lasso Jupiter into the Earth's sphere of influence. I mean that if you could, it'd fit. Along with all the other planets. Before everything collapsed. If that wasn't obvious.
It's as much a fact as most of the stuff in this thread. It's also a pretty big philosophical revelation that I don't think many people make or accept easily. You are not the sum of your actions, but you also are not your thoughts. The things you think and say to yourself do not necessarily define you at any given point. In other words, "I think therefore I am" is kind of bullshit.
If you want implicit proof, we all accept the existence of unstable mental states, crimes of passion and impulsive actions. Those things are valid because despite the person acting of their own accord, they are not themselves. They garner some degree of less responsibility, despite being a decision made with the same mental faculties they always have.
I believe what OP begins to discuss is the idea that consciousness is not static, or that the existence that you experience is ever changing. You are a different person than the person who read the previous sentence. It's, more or less, accepted as being a reasonably accurate assessment of consciousness. We don't quite have the tools to demonstrate it, but it seems to fit well enough. However, the condemnation of Descartes' most famous sentence is ridiculous. Cogito ergo sum, or "I think, therefore I am," is the simplification of a logical proof for the existence of the self. It's valid, and it's sound, and it cannot be so easily dismissed by calling it bullshit.
LimeZ201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm.. That's intriguing. If it hasn't been done before, I might want to do a full analysis of the theory. Assuming I actually make it through the decade of school and all that. Though I've always viewed that quote to mean "I have sentient thought, therefore I do exist". May be a naive conclusion but I've held that since I was 10.
That's pretty spot on, actually. To keep it simple, Descartes reasoned that the number of things that you can be absolutely sure of, without any doubt at all, can be counted on one hand. One of those things is your own existence. The very fact that you are contemplating your own existence, is evidence for your existence.
If you're interested in this idea, which is one of the most fundamental logical proofs you can discuss, I can highly recommend reading through some Descartes
This is especially mind blowing when you really think about it and realize the voice doesn't sound like you. I remember reading somewhere that your brain uses memories of sounds to put together the thoughts in your head and they're rarely of your own voice.
bbturtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't the point I'm making. I'm just saying that it isn't really life-ending.
cbelaski ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:03:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
technically, 90% of humans have some type of herpes. what you are referring to is HSV 1 and HSV 2 (oral and genital herpes), but if you look at the whole family of herpesviruses (herpesviridae), then you also have to include varicella zoster (chicken-pox and shingles), epstein-barr (mono), and a few other less common types. there are 8 types of herpes that cause disease in humans, and over 130 total types across all aminals
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I has HSV1 and my doctor told me almost everyone does.
I've never had an outbreak or even cold sore. From what I understand it's not dangerous; I'm pretty sure I contracted it through unprotected sex with about a dozen different women over the years. Worth it.
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hsv 1 is oral right? I remember hearing that almost everyone has it, just that most people rarely or never show symptoms of it during their life, so they don't even know.
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your ownโpopulated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited crazinessโan epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that youโll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Yes you would. You would be spun off into space because you would continue to travel in the direction you were traveling in when gravity stopped. Think spinning a yoyo around your head. Let go of the string. Bub bye yoyo. Gravity acts like the string. No gravity, bub bye Nihht.
Nihht ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:11:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In which case floating into space is far from the best word.
So the earth is about 7900 miles in diameter. As gravity stops you continue in a straight line at 1000mph. Not perpendicular to earth's rotation. Tangentially. So you would move away from the surface apparently slowly at first but as the rotation carries the point you were standing on around the circumference you would appear to accelerate.
As to the speed of floating, you are whizzing around the centre of the earth at 1000mph. Does it feel like it? No? That's because everything else around you is also whizzing around the centre of the earth at 1000mph. So everything that is not firmly anchored to the ground is also floating off into space with you. Relative speed will influence your perception of floating.
And again, no acceleration, so no feeling of being pushed. You would just noticed the ground going away.
Centrifugal force aside, with no gravity anything which pushes against is going to send you off. Cushions are just springs. No gravity, spring expands, off you go. Even your legs are constantly pushing against gravity.
Also with no gravity the earth itself is going to fly apart so we've got that to distract us.
Kall45 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This just made me imagine a weapon which nullifies earths gravity and we all slowly and terrifyingly float away into space.
You would be going a hell of a lot faster than that. Gravity has completely stopped existing, so every galaxy instantly broke apart. We would be flying at more than 500,000 miles an hour since that is our angular velocity around the Milky Way. And that's not even factoring in the movement of the Milky Way (1.3 million mph)
Ok wait. Lets pretend that the earth stays together and you're in a building that is strong enough to stay attached to the earth as it spins. You would end up being trapped but pushed against the ceiling/walls due to centripetal force. How strong would that force be? Would you just end up standing on the ceiling or wall, or would you be flattened?
You believe in gravitism? You don't see two rocks drawn to each other by gravity, do you? Gravitism was made up by "scientists" so they could get their jobs funded. There is zero evidence for gravity.
Something that trips me up is if Earth's gravity suddenly stopped, we would not be looking up to the sky but rather down into the void (as we fall into it).
Seriou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit bro
mrseanjc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this a holy shit fact?..
Qender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also ropes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is in space
We are on Earth
Therefore, we are in space
crazy08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity wouldn't hold you to earth to pick up the speed though. Earth would just spin below you at an insane speed.... until you get swatted by a mountain range or something else tall.
qngff ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Sandra Bullock!
Naggins ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Isn't this blindingly obvious?
dgran73 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:19:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are the only evolved creature on Earth that has advanced cognitive ability*. From an evolutionary standpoint you have to conclude that being "smart" isn't really important because there are millions of genetically successful life forms.
Don't get hung about how whether dolphins or any other life form exhibits intelligence or whether theirs is simply cryptic to us, it is rather evident that human intelligence is many orders of magnitude more advanced and that is the point here.
Some would argue dolphins are just as advanced as us and the only reason we look at them as being primitive are because we live under the Lucifer Experiment and dolphins do not.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explaining is hard. It's not my own personal belief either.
Basically, one way of looking at the concept is to start with that because God is infallible, everything happens because he wants it to. Thus he created Lucifer. He let Lucifer do what he wanted.
So, the Lucifer Experiment says that Lucifer opposed God and choose to view reality different than God. The world of technology is reality as viewed by Lucifer. A world in God's view is extra dimensional.
There are stories that dolphins choose to reject Lucifer's view and thus live free.
The whole stories, theories, etc are pretty nuts. There is a YouTube video you can easily find narrated by a blue ... Something ... Which goes into crazy detail about Atlantis, Mars, Lucifer Experiment, etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wat
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:14:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying humans are smarter than other animals? Not exactly a holy shit fact
dgran73 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:22:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm saying that it is an eye opening fact that intelligence isn't necessarily a useful evolutionary trait. We presume that it is, but if you look around you see that many more life forms with lower levels of intelligence are successful.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh okay I get what you're saying. I never really thought about how people might not understand this
Mishmoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Disputable at best. Self-sufficient organisms rarely reach similar population levels, or mastery of their environment. (E.G Dolphins, Wolves, Deer), while non-self-sufficient organisms are too bizarre to really categorize as individual living 'beings'.
You can survive in nature with any number of traits. But none have allowed a species to thrive in the way that intelligence has.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:36:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Icrytoo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:26:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Locusts are grasshoppers that have begun to swarm. Grasshoppers start as harmless grasshoppers and usually stay grasshoppers until they die. But sometimes (due to weather conditions, food supply, population, and other conditionsn- all it takes a very small change in brain chemicals) they begin to swarm and undergo a metamorphosis into big-ass locusts. Not all grasshopper species btw. So all locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.
There was roughly 60 million people displaced by war and conflict in 2014 according to the United Nations High Council for Refugees. That's approximately the population of Italy.
I suspect the national park service (or whoever) won't say exactly where, to prevent some moron from going up there and killing it so he can post a video on YouTube "I kill the world's oldest thing!"
I drove from Los Angeles to Houston non stop. 12 Hours in and you are in Texas but still had another 12 hours till I was in Houston. That drive sucked. Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso.
Since there are billions of bacteria on your digestive track, your cells are only the 10% of the living things within the limits of your body, so technically, you are just 10% human. (I'm a med student).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trillions.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:08:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Acceleration due to gravity is about 90% of the sea-level value on the ISS. They're just constantly falling and missing the Earth, so they're in free-fall. That's what an orbit is.
I have never personally known a world without Internet.
_NW_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember not having color TV.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:12:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The distance between the southernmost city in Canada (Windsor Ontario) and the northernmost settlement in Canada (Canadian Forces Station Alert) is 4,522 kilometres.
The distance between Windsor and Caracas is a mere 3,859 kilometres.
The government has never taken taxes out of anyone's checks...even though 90% of the people think they do. Your employer actually does..makes interest off of that money...and doesn't turn it over to the IRS until the deadline of Jan. 30th of the following year.
but all you have to do is talk to your employer. When you elect to have money taken out..it doesn't go to the gov. your job keeps it..and they are not required to fork it over until the following year. Jan. 30th. that's why it's called.."withholding"..your job is withholding FOR the gov. There is no real obligation to participate in this if you prepay what you project to owe..or if you only elect your job to do this task for you for 4-6 months out of the year.
Coplius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:27:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you lay on the ground and look up into the night sky,the only thing keeping you from being flung into the universe is the force of earth's gravity.
Only one of the first three directors of the six Star Wars films is still alive.
Sputniki ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:59:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That time is relative. We all view it from a linear, absolute perspective, but time is in fact malleable, and relative to a host of factors. The potential consequences of learning how to manipulate it are absolutely astounding.
That one single E-2C Hawkeye over the state of Alaska can detect and track every moving object in a circle roughly between Prudhoe Bay, the tip of the Kenai Peninsula, Nome, and a bit east of the Canadian border.
Stationed where I-64 crosses from VA to WV, it can see every moving object between NYC and Huntsville, Alabama, Toronto, Ontario and Savannah, GA.
Chrisrus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:54:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
There is a brain parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) that controls general trends in individual personalities and therefore the course of history.
Almost everyone has it but it causes no disease until your immune system fails.
It makes people more adventurous and open to new ideas like moving somewhere far away so it can expand its territory by getting it into the brain of a sewer rat when you poop far away. Then it makes the rat get eaten by a cat, make the cozy up to humans, and you catch it from cat poop.
Soldier here: On the top of each flagpole there is a brass ball. This is historically called a "truck", and inside the truck is a match, a 45 cal. bullet, and a razor blade. These items were for the following reasons: If the post was being overrun (presumably by the French, the Indians, or the British) then the garrison commander was supposed to take the flag down, and using the razor blade cut the stars out of it, slice the stripes horizontally, and use the match to burn the remains. That way the flag could never be captured and denigrated by the enemy. Although most flags still retain the "truck" the contents of them is probably a historical anecdote, although... Oh, and the bullet was for the last man standing to kill himself.
By virtue of its location less than two miles from the border with New Brunswick, Canada, the summit of Mars Hill is the first place in the United States to see the sun rise for nearly half the year, from March 25 to September 18. The first 50-star flag to see the sun in the U.S. was raised on July 4, 1960 at 4:33 A.M. Fifty national guardsmen gave it a 50-gun salute.
Animal agriculture causes more damage to the environment than transportation, but most green organizations don't say much about it because of either blatant corruption (when asked whether or not the meat industry donates to green organizations they refuse to comment on it) or fear that nothing will happen if they do.
Bay1Bri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've never been clear about this, because in my understanding, the things organisms do is just rearrange the molecules that are already in the environment. The carbon in CO2 is already in the carbon cycle, in other words it doesn't increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in any permanent way. But burning fossil fuel is adding to the amount of carbon in the environment because the carbon in CO2 that results from burning fossil fuels has been sequestered out of the environment for millions of years.
I know that livestock produce a lot of methane, but TBH i don't know much about methane as a greenhouse gas, it's production, life-cycle etc. If I'm missing something here I would love an explanation.
I should clarify, man made climate change is absolutely real, but I feel like anything trying to blame it on the meat industry instead of the fossil fuel industry can probably be traced directly to the Koch Brothers.
Ahallbom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:12:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The grain fed meat industry is partially to blame mostly because of fossil fuels. The ammounts of fuel, machinery, and fertilizer needed are huge. This is true for industrial agriculture in general, but feeding people meat instead of grains means more land must be put under cultivation. Meat can be a relatively environmentally benign product, but not the kind of meat we are producing en masse.
Lol what the fuck are you talking about? Worldwatch, FAO, the humane society, these are all in the pocket of Koch? Are you joking?
According to various scientific studies the meat industry creates between 14.5% to 51% of all annual GHG emissions. Transportation accounts for 13% to 18%.
Working for the Audubon Society, I can tell you for a fact that the Koch Brothers are behind some of the anti-wind turbine studies making exaggerated claims of the amount of birds killed by wind turbines.
Methane from cattle is human-created as well, and the industry outputs CO2 as well as methane. Cattle produces 37 percent of all man made methane, and methane is 33 times more effective at trapping heat than CO2 is.
Protip: There is literally nothing you can tell me that I haven't already heard regarding going vegan, and I have yet to find an argument compelling enough to convince me to stop eating animals.
But feel free to keep on trying.
Because even if we ended, magically, overnight every factory farm and fast food joint, our world is still fucked because of fossil fuels.
So I'm damn well going to enjoy a steak while everything burns down around me.
Because there is literally nothing we can do about it now, it's too late.
And there will be no place for my great-grandchildren to call home.
And whether or not I give up one of the few things that makes my life enjoyable means not a single jot in the entire equation of human consumption.
I really recommend reading the PDF linked, which will answer at least some of your questions here. The first few pages deal with what I think you're getting at wrt organism's CO2 impact: FAO argues that much of the CO2 from livestock is offset by photosynthesis, though that study disagrees. One must also consider that animal agriculture is the largest driving force of deforestation, which means that while they're raising their CO2 output in clearing this land, they're making it harder for photosynthesis to work.
The PDF has a large part about methane as well, which begins on pg. 13.
Methane. According to the FAO, 37 percent of human- induced methane comes from livestock. Although methane warms the atmosphere much more strongly than does CO2, its half-life in the atmosphere is only about 8 years, versus at least 100 years for CO2. As a result, a significant reduction in livestock raised worldwide would reduce GHGs relatively quickly compared with measures involving renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Also wrt methane, according to NASA methane is 33 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2 is, which means that it's much, much worse for the environment in the short-termโthat also means the removal of it would mean we'd see a change way more quickly than we would if we stopped outputting CO2. (This 33 figure is up from what was originally thought to be only 20 times more effective, so you'll probably find some resources with that old information.)
If you're interested in learning more about this stuff in an easy to understand manner I really recommend Cowspiracy on Netflix Instant. Most of it's data is on point but some of it isn't, so after you watch it I recommend reading this to get the whole story. That article will explain where some of the numbers come from, and how some of them might not be exactly true. Also note that that article is over a year old, so some of the data it deals with may have changed as well.
The 51% figure in particular is debatable, though I think it's generally sound which is why I link to it most oftenโit comes from an FAO study (as the PDF will point out) that found animal agriculture to account for 14.5% of all GHG emissions, but to arrive at the 51% figure they've readjusted and updated some calculations because some data and some understanding of that data has changed since the 14.5% (FAO) study. Other studies have found the figure to be 18% and 25%. However the (again, generally) undisputed fact is that animal agriculture definitely accounts for more than transportationโtransportation is generally said to account for around 13%. Whatever the exact numbers are, animal agriculture is something we can generally do without, at least to the extent that it's at today, and it's something we need to take a very critical look at.
Well, this ones only been on reddit a month, and you seem pretty reddit savvy, and you are aggressively vegan.
I can't imagine this all being a coincidence from a month ago when you decided to visit that reddit site and show all the carnivores how they are screwing up the world simply by existing.
You are either amusingly naive or acting so for some reason.
Your user account is just a month and a half old.
You post a lot in /r/vegan, and in what you must assume is an intellectual and sardonic manner.
And your username is highly specific to some of the posts you submit (including this one).
So yah, a specially crafted alt to attach all of the outrage reddit has against sources of human-caused global warming to your favorite pet project which is apparently not eating delicious animals.
I'm kind of interested why you would respond to every single one of my comments I'm pretty much the same manner. I'll answer them all here.
Your rhetoric is weak and your ideals are untenable in a practical world. Your sanctimonious attitude is obvious in nearly every sentence you type. I suggest you temper your approach.
There is a woman who survived the commercial plane she was on exploding at 30,000 feet. She landed on an extremely steep incline (70 degrees) high up in the Andes in the winter so there was like 9 feet of snow. She broke like all her bones (exaggeration) but she did survive.
Several people have survived insane falls like this. Although when you consider than they hit terminal velocity long before hitting the ground, it means that surviving a 3,000 foot fall and a 30,000 foot fall aren't really that different.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:55 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you have a heck of a lot more time to think about it though. Just imagine..
If you are female, you are part of an unbroken line of women who have also succeeded in giving birth to another female going back to a time before your earliest human ancestor.
I'm really late to the party but I think it's important to say that they are more slaves in the world today than there have ever been in the history of humanity and that some of these people are being used by companies you buy and use in your home like Kraft and Nestle.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:34:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a favorite of mine. Jerry cans are called such because the Germans unique fuel can design in world war 2 was often seen as superior to the fuel cans the British used. So British troops in North Africa would often capture and use German fuel cans. Allied war slang would often refer to the Germans as "Jerrys" and so the name "Jerry can" was coined.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:00:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there are 5.8x1054 calories in a cubic lightyear of butter.
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from the earth to the moon.
You can only actually fold a piece of paper 7 times, but I think what makes this astounding is the degree to which the human mind doesn't readily grasp or visualize exponential increase.
Actually there is. The number of atoms laid end to end in order to reach the moon would be approximately 1.922*1018. Cellulose molecules have 21 atoms, so the number you would need in order to reach the moon would be fewer than that number. Meanwhile, the number of molecules of cellulose in a piece of paper is approximately 1.07โ1022. IOW, a sheet of paper has in cellulose molecules over three orders of magnitude the number of atoms you would have to lay end to end to reach the moon.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see where /u/muffledvoice is going with this. If you fold a paper once, it's 2 sheets thick. Then 4 sheets, then 8. The 42nd fold would be 242 pages thick (about 4.39x1012).
Only being able to fold a paper 7 times is a myth.
regarding the economy and why Americans have so much purchasing power globally.
Big guns that can kill you from half the world away also help.
Our Navy has at least three times more active Carrier Groups (the current standard Naval formation) at a higher combat strength at any one time than any other nation has in their entire navy, and that's not including our reserves, submarines, and other Battlegroup formations. We could engage any nation on the planet and, if casualties were in a 1:1 ratio, we would still be at combat effectiveness while the other nation would be utterly destroyed, and virtually no navy is as technologically powerful or as skilled as the US navy is, so casualties would be even higher than that.
Gunboat diplomacy works pretty well in opening a lot of doors that dollars won't.
TheHaak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
siulnoep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Wage theft"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Working without pay.
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
even if he is salaried, they owe him money for the overtime worked
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My old boss was salaried, does at least 70 hours a week, but instead of overtime pay he gets to take more days off to make up for the extra days hes worked. Then they swamp him with work and he doesnt get to take time off. If you knew how hard and often he worked you would be astounded, particularly for about 40k a year
bp92009 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a fan of the idea that's floating around to simply make salaried positions that make less than 70,000 a year get mandatory overtime for over 40 hours of work in week. If you are making over 70k/yr, that seems to me a decent starting point where there's actual growth in the field, but under that? simply wage theft.
Ideally yes, but a lot of salaried positions are exempt.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which, if you ask me, is the only reason to make someone salaried, so you don't have to pay them overtime.
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not as many as you would think. there are a lot of rules that go into who is exempt and who isn't. a lot of employers will tell you your position is exempt from overtime even if it isn't, you actually have to look at the rules and see if overtime is owed to you.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:21:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fax machine was patented in the same year that the pony express began operations. More concerning is the fact that some documentation is still required to be submitted via fax instead of email or snail mail.
DiZeez ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it is amazing to me as well, but it is actually significantly safer to send legal documents or protected health information via fax. The problem is that the email leaves copies in places you can't control during transit. If it is encrypted you are safer, but the only thing dangerous about a fax is sending it to the wrong number.
ASKL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fax's are secure (dedicated phone lines) where email is not, hence the reason why medical offices and insurance companies use fax machines.
Some of the Aleutian Islands cross the 180ยฐ meridian of longitude, so they're actually in the far eastern hemisphere, and technically east of nearly everything, mainland U.S. included.
TheGarp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the most part it really doesn't matter... Just flushing the toilet sends untold billions/trillions of fecal matter molecules into the air.
And onto your toothbrush.
Literally EVERYWHERE humans are has shit coating it on a microscopic level.
Which is why I find germophobes hilarious. I keep trying to get them to do skin cultures...
edit: yes I understand the dangers of concentration, but come on if you are worried about the amount that makes it through 2 layers of 2ply, then you should be more worried about the amount of other people's shit that gets deposited on the things that go into your mouth.
I don't think you understand how particle diffusion in gas works.
Unless you have a hermetically sealed toilet seat it doesn't really matter if you close the lid (other than water spray of course).
Also, it doesn't matter because whenever you smile in public your teeth are immediately coated with hundreds of thousands of random people's fecal particles.
If you move 10,000 miles away from something and then you move another 10,000 miles away, youre not 20,000 miles away, youre only 12,500 miles away the exact furthest point you can be from something on Earth.
Our brains process so little visually that if you were having a brief conversation with a guy and he traded places mid-way through the conversation with another guy who looked nothing like him and wore different clothes, you probably wouldn't notice. It's called change blindness. They did an experiment just like this and 75% of people didn't notice the change.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:20:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Queen Elizabeth II has been queen for more than a quarter of the time that the US has existed.
elister ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
satanist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:49:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are eight light minutes away from our sun.
Spearka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On Earth earthquakes happen when the crust undergoes a sudden process where the crust either slips or grinds along tectonic plates.
A lesser known fact is that this can happen to Neutron stars too; a starquake happens in a similar way where the hyperdense crust that is literally MADE of iron nuclei slips by a few millimetres in the space of a few milliseconds.
This happened to SGR 1806-20, giving a starquake of 32 on the RICHTER scale... yes... 32, by comparison the most powerful recorded earthquake was 9.5 In Chile but because the Richter scale is LOGARITHMIC it means that the SGR 1806-20 starquake is....
100000000000000000000000 times more powerful. But that's still not it.
We know this happened because in addition to the quake it throws up a gigantic solar flare that is more like an explosion than a flare; when we actually detected it it was actually a gigantic blast wave that shook the magnetic field with gamma and X-rays. Whoops! almost forgot, SGR 1806-20 is 50'000 light years away (aka on the other side of the damn galaxy). if it were even closer, say, 3ly the blast would have completely stripped the Ozone layer and would have also sterilised the surface of the entire planet.
More men have walked on the moon than scored against Mariano Rivera in the playoffs
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more molecules of air in a single breath of air than there are breaths of air on the planet.
asifbaig ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Googolplex is an insanely large number.
It's 10googol where googol is 10100. So a googolplex is 1010100 or 1010000....continue...till...100...zeros.
How big is that?
The observable universe contains about 1080 atoms. If every single atom represented a zero, you'd still not have enough zeroes to represent the total number of zeroes in a googolplex. Since you'd need 1 googol of zeros (10100 ), you'd need to multiply the universe by 1020...
...to represent not the googolplex number itself, only how many zeroes it contains.
In case that last line confused you, consider that:
102 is 100. The number of zeroes in it is 2 but its actual value is 100 (98 more than 2).
1015 is 1,000,000,000,000,000. The number of zeroes is 15 but the actual value is 1,000,000,000,000,000 (999,999,999,999,985 greater than 15).
A googolplex (10googol) is 1 followed by 10100 (1 googol) zeroes. The number of zeroes is 1 googol but its actual value is.....you get the idea.
So as I said, googolplex is an insanely large number.
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And the "Holy Shit!" moment for me when someone made me realize that...
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...the distance from 1 to infinity and googolplex to infinity is approximately the same.
HaleNo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:30:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We all live on a giant rock that just floats in space, that we are in the grand scheme of this we're just a speck in a universe that for all when know is just a speck in something larger.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pale Blue Dot man, it's rugged.
Jedekai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:42:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The LD-50 of latrotoxin is so minute, a pinhead amount in a 1L saline bag will kill five people in a line.
The diameter of the observable universe is around 92 billion light years. We don't know how big the unobservable universe is since its so far away the light cant never reach us. It may be infinite.
Photons going through a lens refract via interference with other photons upon spontaneous re-emission, but even so a single photon will still refract through the lens when no other photons are present. One explanation is that the lone photon interferes with photons in other universes in order for refraction to occur.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that the US military budget is 665 billion dollars
b3ta_max ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When wasps sting you they are actually injecting their larvae into your skin. Luckily our body isn't a suitable host for them so they die and float around your body until they break down or get flushed out.
If you line up every planet in the solar system from end to end, it would fit between Earth and Luna.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That depends where Luna is standing. If she walks closer, they might not all fit then.
zero_dgz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London is not at the same latitude as New York. It is at the same latitude as St. Anthony, Newfoundland. It's farther north than all of the USA, including Minnesota and all the other places that turn into a frozen wasteland in the winter.
If you try to consider infinity in terms of actual numbers, there are as many rational numbers from zero to infinity as there are irrational numbers between zero and one.
Edited out of respect for the English language
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not true. For any interval, no matter how small, there are more irrational numbers in that interval than the set of all rational numbers.
anooblol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:47:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to explain, look up measure theory. But here's a similar scenario:
Take a square dart board. What's the probability of hitting the left half? Well the left half takes up 1/2 the area. So it's a 50% chance to hit the left half. So the percentage of area is equivalent to the chance you'll hit it. Now what about hitting the diagonal of the board. It exists, but has no area. So there's 0% chance you'll hit it. So even though the diagonal is a subset of the points on the board you're not going to hit it.
When I say there's a 100% chance to hit a irrational number, theoretically it's possible to miss... But statistics say otherwise.
Look up measure theory or the lebesgue integral for more in depth explanations.
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are way more irrational numbers than rational numbers. So many more that there is 0% chance of hitting a rational number.
Both Danny Carey and Josh Freese worked on the Man of Steel soundtracks
CLXIX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:00:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No kidding. Im a big tool fan , I had no idea
b3ta_max ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:14:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The star 'VY Canis Majoris' is so big that a passenger airplane traveling along the surface at an average cruising speed of 900km/h would take over 1,100 years to complete one circuit.
At the height of production during WWII, a new B-17 bomber rolled off the assembly line every 63 minutes. America.
leftofzen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:52:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a dying star/s and scattered across the universe in it's supernova/e.
This matter eventually coalesced under gravity to form the Sun, Earth, and everything else in the Solar System, and eventually life on Earth, and ultimately you.
The James Bond movies are American produced films.
Dabrybry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you started counting 1 second at a time as soon as you were born, you'd only be hitting 1 billion by the time you were 30 years old. To count to 1 trillion, you would be 30,000 years old.
Edit: words
Edit: Even crazier stuff: 1 trillion = 30,000 years worth of seconds. One light year = 6.7 TRILLION miles!
Even traveling at 1 mile/second, it would take you ~290,000 years to traverse one pathetic light year. The universe is big, and we're very slow :(
Ohio is the only state that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:42:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Logarithms need to be used in order to fit a scale model of the solar system in a textbook.
frogbug ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The speed at which the universe is expanding and some galaxies that are moving away from us are moving faster than the speed of light. No one really knows exactly how but many think dark energy plays a part in this odd but fascinating phenomenon.
The speed of light is the speed of causality, space-time doesn't care about a speed limit, it can expand or contract as fast or slow as it would like to.
The_M4G ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:02:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists cannot measure the true size of the Pacific garbage patch and almost none of it is recyclable.
If you took all of the atoms that make up every living human being and removed the empty space between the electrons and the nucleus, you could fit the entire population of humans on the face of a quarter.
The air on planes use to be much cleaner when they allowed smoking. When they banned smoking they stopped filtering the air.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dad works at a tech company. The other day he came home and told me he'd been in a meeting where the execs were talking about buying some top-of-the-line smartphones, tablets, and laptops, straight from the manufacturers, which they would then add their software too. The cost of these high-end devices? $10 per phone, $16 per tablet, and $60 per laptop. For tech equivalent to what Apple sells for $400, $800, and $1300.
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 then there are atoms on Earth. 52 factorial, so it comes out to about 8.0658175e+67 possible combinations.
cbelt3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Over 1,000 nuclear weapons have been tested on our planet. No mutant apocalypse. Sorry , Hollywood.
CyFus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mutant cancer apocalypse
Fakezaga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:44:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many people do you suppose tigers have killed in the last 200 years or so? Take a moment to think about it.
2,000? 20,000? 100,000??
373,000!! Mostly in the Sundarbans region of India which has a high concentration of tigers and people. There is some speculation that tigers there have developed a taste for people because flooding each year sends hundreds of bodies floating downstream which make for easy tiger snacks.
The largest known black hole is 26 times wider than the solar system, by volume it is 17500 times more voluminous. As to the brightness*, it is 25 thousand times brighter ... than the entire Milky Way. As to how many stars are in it, well its quite a lot. This video is illustrative of the size of the black hole at the center of the Phoenix cluster, it's half as massive.
* As the matter is sucked towards the black hole it becomes incredibly dense and fuses, thus while feeding black holes are extremely bright.
part of bill gate's residency was designed on a mac
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all the planets in the solar system between the earth and moon. The solar system is WAYYY bigger than you think. Google "If the Moon was One pixel". It's an accurate model of the solar system with a The Moon:One pixel Scale. I'm on mobile so I don't have the link. You do a ton of scrolling.
The Woolly Mammoth and the Great Pyramids existed at the same time.
Most of the mammoths died 10,000 years ago, but there was a small group that lived on an island off the coast of Russia until 1650 BC.
That's 3600 years ago.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fritz Haber, attempting to develop a way for Germany to produce more bombs for its military, accidentally saved billions of lives. He and Karl Bosch invented the process for producing nitrogen fertilizer/explosives that is now responsible for half of the nitrogen in your body.
He also pioneered chemical warfare during WWI.
He also invented Zyklon-A, an insecticide that was then reformulated and used to murder his family.
brkdncr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest nuclear accident in the US wasn't 3-mile island. It was in a town right next to Los Angeles.
Ultrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:37:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that sun will consume earth some day made me go holy shit.
ACDChook ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:05:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fuel pumps in the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket produced 55000 horsepower EACH.
Graham's number is so large that it's actually incomprehensible.
Let me give you an example.
The Planck volume is the theoretical smallest size anything can exist in. It is about 10-105 m3.
The observable universe is about 93 billion light years across, and has a volume on the order of 1080 m3.
So you can fit around 10185 of the smallest possible thing into the observable Universe.
This isn't even close to Graham's number, let alone the FIRST LEVEL of Graham's number, which is G1. Graham's number is G64.
To compute for G1, we must first learn the Knuth's up arrow notation.
3x3x3 = 3 โ 3 which is equal to 27.
3 โโ 3 = 3โ(3โ3) which is 327 or roughly 37,625,597,484,987 That's 3 Raised to fucking 7 trillion, and we're not even close to G1.
3โโโ3 = 3โโ3 (3โโ3). 3โโ3 is equal to 37,625,597,484,987. so 3โโโ3 = 3โโ7,625,597,484,987. This number is so big, it might even surpass yo mama's weight.
G1 is 3โโโโ3 which is 3โโโ(3โโโ3).
You want to know G2? G2 is 3 (G1 arrows) 3. That's right. G1 is so large, yet it is shit compared to G2.
G3 is 3โโโ....G2โโ 3.
Continue up to 64 times. G64 is Graham's number.
tomonome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that we have butts now, one of our ancestor species had to have died because they didn't have butts.
There is a movie about the Pope and Toilets, which literally involves holy shit (depending on your beliefs).
acro-bat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:48:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is three times bigger than North America. Mexico is larger than Alaska. The map you were taught global geography on in school (the Mercator map) is wrong.
The second you were born, you were probably the youngest person on the Earth.
celebez ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
umm, at one point in your life you were the youngest person on earth
Slimjawb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know this thread is dead but I keep missing my chance to post this so fuck it, here it goes:
The perfume Chanel No. 5 contains ground-up beak from the giant squid. Before any physical specimens had been seen or caught, Chanel acquired the beaks from the stomachs of whales that were caught by whalers.
There are more stars in the universe than every grain of sand on every beach on earth.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If someone would have started to shuffle a deck of 52 cards once per second since the beginning of the universe, he would not have the same deck of cards twice until this day
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well that is not true. Unless he is shuffling the deck the exact same way everytime the outcome is random and so you could say odds are it would have taken this long it possibly could have been the same day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah mr. partycannon, that's right.
simply stated:
(amount of possible combinations in a deck of 52 cards) > (seconds since the beginning of the known universe)
Every time you remember something, you are not actually remembering the original event but the last time you remembered that original event. Of course, that probably wasn't the original event either. In fact, the only time you remember the original event is the first time.
The iron in your mom's favorite seasoned cast iron skillet killed a star.
Stars can only fuse up to iron, at which point they begin to run out of fuel. They eventually explode in a glorious supernova that forges the heavier elements.
If a car passed the start line of a quarter-mile dragstrip going 200mph and a top-fuel dragster started from a stop at that exact moment, the top-fuel dragster will still finish first!
This was one of the best parts of the Martian. When the director asks Sean Bean essentially "At some point, don't we just let the one guy die?" and the look of outrage on Sean Bean's face where he's like, "It's guys like you that keep getting guys like me killed. Fuck no we don't let him die!"
Hell ill do ya one better, all this hype around fallout 4, lots of ppl just getting into the series dont kno Liam Neesons plays your dad in Fallout 3. Liam neesons is my shiiiiiiiiiiiii....evaporates
walruz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:58:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a woman gives birth under water, the baby can live its entire life without once coming up for air.
zudomo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:35:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting Fact: For some reason my sister and I thought the Koopa's were ducks. I'm sure it was an association because Mario came with Duck Hunt, but we didnt' realize we were wrong until our late 20's.
We also called Donkey Kong in Super Mario Kart "Moley". We thought he was a mole. lol
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:21:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't happen to live in a house with lead based paint, did you?
newfunk ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 13:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jeff
kiddos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:32:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...holy shit.
Pootanged ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population. Human greed sux!
Siadry42 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 15:22:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if you realise that you only need to make 16 500$ usd to be part of the top 10%...
Villyer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:45:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a source on this? This is more of a holy shit fact to me than OP's.
Siadry42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, my economy teacher told me that. But give me a minite and I can find some things for you (I'm on mobile right now).
Edit: Well, the sources don't really agree... The article that /u/Villyer found says that you need 12K a year to be part of the 10%. At the same time this calculator thingy declares that you need around 13 750$ a year while this one says you only need 16 500$ if you live alone (It seems to have the same source as my teacher).
While none of these are really great sources, I assume y'all get the image that you Americans and us Canadians shouldn't really talk about the rich folk of this planet like the're pieces of defecation... I probably could find netter sources, but I need to go to the pharmacy (another proof that we trully are Bloody rich compared to other places around the globe).
Villyer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:03:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found this article that claims the top 1% of the world is $34,000. While it sounds like a biased article, that's still a surprising amount. I'm guessing your economy teacher may have even rounded up for that figure.
That's not a good thing. 90% of the world have less.
Siadry42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree with you. He was just talking like he wasn't part of the 10%.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:53:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Siadry42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:59:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
We're talking about the world's population, not just the us.
Edit: For the US, you'd need 113 799$ if you believe the super reliable source of the Financial Samurai.
And no the rich are still getting richer, especially if yoi invest, compounding interest basically guarantees that, and strong arguments could be made that inequality isn't decreasing because of benevolent wealth redistribution but rather advances in technology, and the general growing of the global economy
I definitely don't believe him. That's over an amp just for one search? If someone totaled up the usage, that would probably exceed all current human power generation.
Edit: 3.5 billion searches per day x 1000mAh/search x 120v/amp = 40,509 watts/second processing. 105PW per month? Anybody care to double check me? Very likely I missed something in the equation.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, I may be doing this wrong as well, but THIS gives the storage of an lithium ion AA battery as 3.1Whrs.
And THIS gives the global consumption of electricity as 20PWhrs per year.
3.5 billion searches/day x 365 day/year x 3.1Whrs/search would give 3.96*1012 Whrs/year, or 0.00396PWhrs/year.
I could also be wrong with my math, but I don't think this is an unreasonable number to assume that google searches consume. I am not sure where you got your conversions, and I felt it was easier to leave things in terms of Whrs.
Argh mobile ate my reply. So, I got the mAh to Wh conversion wrong. Your calculations are correct. Wh for AA batteries tho vary +/- 3-4Wh.
I think I can demonstrate that this is simply too much power.
Servers involved in search handle multiple requests concurrently. Potentially thousands of requests per second. Let's ignore this and say a server uses 100% of its power to handle a single request. Let's say a single search utilizes ten whole servers each operating at 500Wh input.
10 servers x 500Wh = 5000Wh
That's 2.7Wh for two seconds of processing time. Less than but close to the AA battery. Comes out to 0.98GWh per year for a server cluster the size of Google.
Given the reality is those ten machines are handling a loooot more than one request at a time, the cost per request is chopped to a mere fraction of a fraction of that 2.7Wh.
Even if I am off the mark for number of servers involved in a single search and/or the power draw of the equipment the end result tells me this power claim is not accurate.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So Here is another source that puts the math back in my ballcourt, claiming an average search uses 0.3Whrs. (btw I'm claiming +/- an order of magnituted "in my ballpark" ;-) )
Here is the infographic itself from google that the other source uses.
I think the top down approach you are using simply can't be accurate, although I'm not sure why. Maybe the timescale is off? Over what timescale does your 500Wh data come from?
Again, my original source is regarding the nano-scale energy it takes to switch a single transistor on a chip, scaled up, so its likely they lost or found a factor of 10 along the way. The fact that it gets so close to matching Googles own estimates is impressive based on its ground up approace. The efficiency you mentioned is important on a larger scale, but irrelevant to the processor transistors individually, as "parallel" processing is still processing that must be done. Going faster does not mean going more efficiently. I still think my "fact" is accurate.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, source was an internal meeting at the largest semiconductor tool manufacturer, discussing projections and road maps for the computers over the next fifteen years. This data point was highlighted to emphasize that efficiency is going to be critical if we expect to maintain moores law.
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 11:29:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure thing, but we all know that in the motors a redox reaction was going on (redox is when something burns) that means that once the fuel was exposed, it was lit by the redox reaction inside the motor (the motor could've been broken, I think it was, considering the facts about damage etc.).
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
7/11 was a part time job
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:44:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But Rush is sooo great. Their first album is a rip off of Led Zeppelin I, and caress of steel is mostly shitty, but 2112 on to moving pictures are completely amazing.
He's a great bass player, but Neil Peart writes almost all the lyrics. Not liking Geddy's voice is a criticism i can respect. I personally love it, but can understand how someone wouldnt.
In a vacuum chamber you can drop a 1 lb iron ball and a 1 lb burlap sack full of feathers at the same time from the same height and they will both hit the earth simultaneously (there are video examples of this somewhere online).
Cats will eat earwax. Ewwwww. More of an observation than a fact. You're still gonna test it, aren't you? You're gonna pick your ear and feed it to your cat, you sick fuck!
Source: Tried it once, and so will you.
theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
novags500 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:16:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Some Native americans had a third gender. It was men who lived as women. They were considered gay and they weren't discriminated against. Also, in some native American cultures they would have the young boys perform oral sex on the warriors in the group and they would have to swallow. It wasn't considered sexual, they thought it made the young boys stronger and better warriors.
Ehh... The third gender was a thing. It was a role in their society. Some were born warriors, shamans or that. I've never heard of native Americans doing the oral thing but it's still a ritual in many African tribes.
That's fine that you don't believe me. Read the question. It is suppose to be a fact that would make you think "holy shit, that's hard to believe." The thing is, like I said earlier, I have a degree from an actual university in anthropology and I also worked on a prehistoric Native American site with the University of South Alabama archeology lab for a year and a half. By you saying that you don't believe me just shows that I answered the question accurately.
You're right, you are just a guy on the internet. But having a conversation and arguing is what this website is about. Don't get upset when someone backs up what they say when you call "bullshit." With that said, and Im just wondering, what knowledge do you have that I don't that contradicts what I am saying?
96% of people contain the gene that codes for proteins that can be misfolded into prions, proteins that basically eat away at your brain, Mad Cow Disease being the most well known example. Also, the median age of death for some of these prion-related diseases, such as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is 28 years old.
GRat9717 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the next 100 years six billion people will die.
insite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are currently over seven billion on the planet, and many have yet to die that will die in the next hundred years. Yes, six billion will die, as will many, many more.
D_Trox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid I thought it was amazing that liquid water and water vapor (clouds) are exactly the same thing. The hydrogen/oxygen positions shift and expand. It's just as heavy, but it's lighter than air because it expands to take up more space. Simple, but to a young mind that was super cool.
Genlsis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By 2020 there will be more transistors than cells on planet earth.
Right now I can only think of this one: 4 of 5 members of a band died in a nightclub fire on halloween this year. Shortly before the fire started they played their new song "The day we die". Really sad.
Edit: The band was named " Goodbye to gravity" in case anyone likes to know.
fyrenang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did the other 2 die? I looked it up and only saw that 2 guitarists had died...
paulvs88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't live near a Starbucks.
mainguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At the centre of every galaxy is a huge motherfukin supermassive black hole (about a billion suns worth) just sucking all of that beautiful star matter, complex life and artistry slowly up.
You can drink a pint of beer in a London pub that's older than the USA (the pub, not the beer)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A severely disproportionate amount of presidents and Nobel prize winners have been left handed, in comparison to the rest of the United States. Depending on which scientist you ask the answer is either "coincidence" or that left handed people, due to living in a world designed for right handed people, learn to adapt and thrive in a world not suited for them.
Animal Agriculture is the #1 contributor to climate change at 51%, more than the entire transportation industry when looking at total carbon footprint (#1 source of deforestation & freshwater depletion, too) and is the most easily reversible if we stop breeding & eating animals.
While a fluff, a blessing, and even a unicornucopia are sometimes accepted, the correct collective noun for unicorns is a fondle.
Source: am a unicorn.
When the oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of people on Earth. Every single one of them.
Megaprr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How close we came to nuclear war. I heard about one story where a nuclear bomb fell by accident and 4/5 fail-safes needed to set off the bomb were active.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyes can swivel in their sockets in a weird way...
Look in a mirror - nod your head "yes" while looking into your eyes - your eyeballs swivel back and forth in their sockets (around the X-axis). Now shake your head "no" - your eyes swivel in their sockets from side to side (around the Y-axis)
Now tip your head from side to side like a dog does when it's confused. Your eyeballs will actually swivel slightly to stay level (around the Z-axis).
Eww.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone who read the last fact, played along with the movements described above. MAGIC
jeepdave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only 5% of the worlds data is transferred via satellite. 95% utilizes submarine cables, or just ya know, normal cables.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My list changes frequently, but I really like this one:
Current troop levels of the USA in Iraq: < 1,500
Current troop levels of the USA in Germany: > 50,000
maatc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematically, there are 5,9 popes per quare mile in the Vatican.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
maatc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well the area of the Vatican is much smaller than a square mile. So if you take the amount of Popes (1) living in that small area, you'd have to multiply it by 5,9 to get a square mile.
So while of course there is only one pope in the Vatican, the amount in a sq mile by math logic would be 5,9.
The same number of people (6) have committed suicide from the Monument to the Fire of London, as were officially killed by the Fire of London.
T_Henson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Black Brant Scare. In 1995 Norway launched a rocket for the purpose of studying Aurora Borealis. It popped up on Russia's radars and they thought the US was launching a nuclear attack. The "nuclear suitcase" was brought to Yeltsin marking the first and last time any nuclear keys have ever been activated.
We were literally moments from having nuclear weapons launched at us because someone forgot to pass along the message that Norway likes the pretty lights.
i wouldn't say they give it a way...i am positive it's factored into their menu prices. so in reality if you don't use the ketchup you aren't getting your full money's worth!
yes this is true. to a handful of people that isn't a big deal. but think, if 50% of the people who go to mcdonlads don't get ketchup, and i dunno how many people eat at mcdonalds a day (a quick google says upwards of 68 million world wide), that is a nice sum of money they are saving in ketchup! 340,000 to $680,000 a day from people who are paying that extra penny or two on their meal but not taking any ketchup
00blar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Little late but...
If you spent 1 million dollars per DAY starting at the beginning of human history (5000 years total for simplicity) you still would not have out spent the US National Debt. Not even close! Only 1.83 trillion.
So if we're to stop borrowing and remove interest, it would take nearly 50,000 years to pay off by spending 1 million per day.
this is true. but it is less mind blowing when you think of it in relation to the amount of money the government spends
1 million is about .00003% of the US budget. when you multiple it by 365 days it comes to .012%. which is about the equivalent of you making payments on a $200,000 mortgage of 6 cents a day, or $22 a year. or if you make the median wage in the US (50,500), it's about $5.67 out of your annual gross income
On July 4, 1826, John Adams, the second president, and Thomas Jefferson, the third president, both died, exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams' last words were "Jefferson lives."
sameth1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The second largest country (Canada) could go on an arctic anschluss spree, annexing Greenland, Alaska, Norway, Finland and Sweden but we still wouldn't be larger than Russia.
There are more possible Connections in the Human Brain than Atoms in the Universe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is ice and Iceland is green
Jeffp88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Panama Canal travels generally west to east when going from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In case anybody isn't noticing the direction, let me help. The Gulf end of the Canal is further west than the Pacific end.
GrymEdm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a type of star called a magnetar, which is a neutron star (a star core just short of a collapsing into a black hole) with a magnetic field that is up to a quadrillion times stronger than the sun's. The crust of the star is under intense pressure and is also tightly bound to the magnetic field. If the crust shifts as little as 1 cm (called a starquake), the magnetic field can release a burst of energy that is as powerful as the sun's total energy output for 250,000 years. In 2004, we were hit by a massive blast of x-rays that blinded x-ray telescopes in orbit, compressed the magnetic field of the earth, and ionized our upper atmosphere. The source was a magnetar 50,000 light years away from us (which is halfway across the galaxy). So a drop of ~1cm on that magnetar nearly sterilized earth from across the galaxy. Source for info is this video by Crash Course Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMvUL8HFlM
80% of German military casualties were on the Eastern Front. The Soviets managed to beat the Germans almost entirely on their own. D-Day wasn't the difference between defeating Nazi Germany or not, but rather between a Communist or Democratic Western Europe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a giant mass called the Great Attractor that is within our observable universe but we can't see it for some reason, and our entire supercluster is slowly being pulled toward it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a black hole which has the mass of 12 billion suns, or about 12,000,000,000,000 earths.
Symotix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America ,to outdo over country's in providing for their troops, built a icecream parlor on a US navy ship in the 50's
Einstein's relativity predicts that our universe is not continuous at sizes of 10-41 meters. In other words, there are very small holes in our universe that are not a part of our universe whatsoever.
The liver is called the liver because you need it to live.
brotoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
secreting organ of the body, Old English lifer, from Proto-Germanic *librn (cognates: Old Norse lifr, Old Frisian livere, Middle Dutch levere, Dutch lever, Old High German lebara, German Leber "liver"), perhaps from PIE *leip- "to stick adhere; fat." Formerly believed to be the body's blood-producing organ; in medieval times it rivaled the heart as the supposed seat of love and passion, hence lily-livered. Liver-spots, once thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the organ, is attested from 1730.
We are about halfway in size between the smallest subatomic particle and the average star.
brotoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on the scale you use. If we use a linear scale, that which most people intuitively use, we're nowhere near halfway! On a scale of meters, people are 1-2m. The smallest particle is practically 0m, and the largest star is some billions of meters. This makes us under a billionth of the way between the smallest particle and the largest star.
From the late paleolitic era until the Middle Ages and a bit into the Renaissance, everyone was always mildly drunk.
Bad water supply often made people rely on beer and wine for hydration. Strong wine was also often diluted into water, so that the alcohol would kill most patogens in it and make it drinkable.
It's possible for an asteroid or comet to strike the earth with energy equivalent to several thousand times the power of the atomic bomb that struck Hiroshima.
ojzoh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have 10x more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Everyone is full of shit...literally. This fact while not 100% semanticly accurate causes pause to question most things. This is my favorite 'Holy Shit' thought.
Yes this is true. Not my favorite just the only one I could think of. Although, it is funny to tell students in my bio class this little tidbit and watch their expression.
The scene in Fury at the very end, the whole last stand moment, was based on the feats of one man: Audie Murphy.
They had to add people to make it more realistic. Sometimes the truth is more unbelievable.
Our closest large Galaxy neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, is currently hurtling straight towards us at 600 000 km/h (373 000 mph). It will take three billion years for it to reach the Milky Way and us.
BatPidge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During the filming of Alien, only Ridley Scott and John Hurt knew what was going to happen in the chestbuster scene, so the actors reactions are that of a genuine 'What on Nostromo has burst out of John Hurt's chest?!'
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In order to witness the last public execution in England (26 May 1868), many spectators traveled on the newly constructed London Underground Train.
Oh and when Emperor Musa of Mali went on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th Century, he brought so much gold with him that it destabilised the economy of the nations that he passed through. This allowed European merchants to purchase valuables from these nations at very low prices. This new found wealth in Europe kick-started the Renaissance.
LWMR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:43 on December 1, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This new found wealth in Europe kick-started the Renaissance.
The noise you hear in a thunder is actually a lightning warming the molecules in the air so that they exceed the speed of sound, thus resulting a sonic blast 2153252436 times.
Actually it's a truth, because I believe it. Admittedly I did not interview every poster and ask their definition of a fact, which would allow me to call my original statement a fact. But going on the evidence presented, it's beyond a reasonable doubt ;P
The time span from us the when Jesus was alive is shorter than the time span from his life to when the pyramids were built. In other words, Jesus is closer in time to us than he was to the building of the pyramids.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The earth has several other natural satellites which can be classed as moons. None of them are as big as 'The Moon' or even big enough to see with the naked eye. Our second moon is known as 'Cruithne' but there are arguments for several other moons, and some even propose that there are hundred or maybes thousands of moons orbiting the Earth at any one time.
If that doesn't sit well with you, you can take the other side of the argument. That the Earth in fact has no moons, and that 'The Moon' actually has cause to be classed as a planet.
JimDixon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:40:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It has been incorrectly called "Earth's second moon".[2][5] Cruithne does not orbit Earth and at times it is on the other side of the Sun.[6]
Claims of the existence of other moons of Earthโthat is, of one or more natural satellites other than the Moon that orbit Earthโhave existed for some time. Several candidates have been proposed, but none has been confirmed.[1]
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, Cruithne does not always orbit Earth. However, it is considered to be a temporary moon for the time that it does. As are the many other natural satellites that may become linked with Earth.
I wouldn't take Wikipedia as gospel. While there is a lot of credible information there, I would say it is showing a one sided view of the debate.
But it does state;
It was discovered that small bodies can be temporarily captured, as shown by 2006 RH120, which was in Earth orbit in 2006โ2007.
Thereby supporting the idea of temporary moons. To further support one of my original statements, it can be taken to mean that Earth has more than one moon at any given time.
SAC0001 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:09:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as intensely creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101. The result was The Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring Doc Brown and Marty McFly, characters from the Back to the Future film trilogy.[9] In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization," Doc Brown urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.[7]"
You're right, because it isn't except in the elementary school abstraction of subjective experience that /r/iam14andverysmart pseudophysicists love to trot out. The behaviors of subatomic particles showed us that several decades ago.
If ISIS is adhering 100% to their Quranic verses, then does that not mean they are the true version of Islam? The Islam as it was meant to be portrayed, originally as in the 8th century?
It is a matter of fact that Islam required 100% submission to the will of Allah. To provide any less is to not be a real Muslim.
And when you have a PhD in Islamic Studies, as well as having been a preacher for at least a decade, it's pretty obvious one knows what they are practicing.
You know who has this? Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the Caliph leader of ISIS.
You know who he was inspired by? Sayyid Qutb, the original Scholar advocating to offensive Jihad.
Qutbism principles include:
Adherence to Sharia as sacred law accessible to humans, without which Islam cannot exist
Adherence to Sharia as a complete way of life that will bring not only justice, but peace, personal serenity, scientific discovery, complete freedom from servitude, and other benefits
Avoidance of Western and non-Islamic "evil and corruption," including socialism , nationalism and consumerist capitalism.
Vigilance against Western and Jewish conspiracies against Islam
A two-pronged attack of 1) preaching to convert and 2) jihad to forcibly eliminate the "structures" of Jahiliyya
The importance of offensive Jihad to eliminate Jahiliyya not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the earth
If this sounds familiar, it's because many of the prolific terrorist groups (and some nations) follow this extreme ideology.
Sounds familiar, in terms of terrorist tactics.
Qutbist followers include Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri (OLB's mentor), and Anwar al-Awlaki. Qutb also influenced the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian Liberation Front (responsible for the Munich Olympics massacre). Hardly one group, and hardly located in one small region.
Jihad, in the proper sense, is no longer about a personal struggle (for the individual interpretation), but is now about global offensives. It has now returned to its roots - spreading the religion by the sword.
We also need to understand that religion should not be taken as seriously as Islam is. It is also a political system in addition to a religion, and is simply incompatible with the Western world.
Critical thinking about Allah's commands is not allowed, and the penalty for apostasy is death. It is a political and religious ideology fuelled by oppression, and by oppressing others.
It's main goal is to spread the idea of the Caliphate. They just disagree on how best to do it. But in their silence, there is complicit approval of such terrorist tactics (as seen in Paris multiple times over the last year).
Because of the Quran, extremist muslims want to kill you. Because of the Quran, moderate muslims want extremist muslims to kill you.
Moderates are supposed to show hardline stances, by the very decree of their ideology.
Do you know why ISIS agents attacked Charlie Hebdo? Because their enemy is not the West, it's other (moderate) Muslims. By attacking a newspaper known for insulting their prophet, they knew that moderate Muslims would be implicitly approving it, essentially victim-blaming the cartoonists for their drawings. After all, it is blasphemy in Islam to insult the Prophet, regardless of the tactics used to silence the cartoonists.. Do you know what happened when Charlie Hebdo insulted athletes, politicians, Christians, and Jews?
They all sued, because that is how things are done in a Western society. Those groups all lost, because freedom to publish is an inherent privilege of society, but at least they went through the proper Western channels to change it. ISIS knew that such attacks would garner more support for their cause, as the hate train would overwhelm moderate Muslims to becoming more radicalized (essentially convincing them to act on their beliefs rather than instilling new ones in them). Win-Win, as they'd be more in tune with how Islam was originally planned, and how it was meant to be observed.
Christianity changed from the historical evidence of hostile takeovers between kings, from the restructuring of the Church under Henry VIII, from the consistent abridged adaptations of the Bible by Kings, from the widespread gospel of the missionaries advocating for their own brand of religion. At this point, Christian scripture to prove any point ever is considered useless, as it is now fundamentally un-Christian to be a diehard Christian. It is no longer acceptable to follow Christianity as it was originally written, because over a millenia, it has become watered down to the point where it's all about spreading the gospel of Christ through love and understanding.
Islam never underwent that reformation. It never underwent hostile takeovers between Muslim kings, it never underwent re-structuring of the faith, it never underwent multiple changes of the Quran, the gospel nowadays is still the same as it was in the 7th century - the original word of Allah, the original word of Muhammed, 100% submission of wills.
It may be hard to believe, but if you are not a bonafide muslim (even a convert), you will always be the heretic, the infidel, and less than human to them. The majority of the Quranic verses are dedicated to controlling non-Muslims - telling them what to do, how to dress, etc. oddly enough, even if you're a bonafide Muslim, you might not be the bonafide Muslim acceptable in the country - there is far more intra-sectarian religious violence committed by different Islamic faiths than against the West. Sunni vs Shia, it's a debate as old as Islam.
Keep in mind that France is one of 18 countries that experienced Islamic terror in just the past week. I wonder why.
People quip "World domination, same old dream", except that it has absolutely everything to do with Islam, as per the First Pillar of Islam, the Shadaha (literally the first acceptance of Islam by a follower):
Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."
This passage sanctions the slaughter (rendered "merciless" and "horrible murder" in other translations) against three groups: Hypocrites (Muslims who refuse to "fight in the way of Allah" (3:167) and hence don't act as Muslims should), those with "diseased hearts" (which include Jews and Christians 5:51-52), and "alarmists" or "agitators who include those who merely speak out against Islam, according to Muhammad's biographers.
It is worth noting that the victims are to be sought out by Muslims, which is what today's terrorists do. If this passage is meant merely to apply to the city of Medina, then it is unclear why it is included in Allah's eternal word to Muslim generations.
There's a reason Islam means "to submit". Its followers are only after one thing (religiously and politically) - a global Caliphate.
It's almost like people are forgetting the 750 year reign of the Ottoman Empire.
mainsoda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it did. You spoke the truth and the news wants nothing to do with that.
furancis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gg propaganda
0utlook ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:51:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad? Is that you?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:18:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Back in the 80's NATO had this plan that if a war ever broke out with Russia that all NATO infantry would take this super-ecstasy pill that let you stay awake and fight for 7 days in a row. If at the end of those 7 days Russia was winning... we're going nuclear. Also everyone who took that pill would die after the 7 days cause HOLY SHIT that's a lot of drugs.
Source: Army Reservist at the time told me so
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like 110% certain. T'was the Cold War as well Skepsis-tical person
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you can source this, I'm calling complete BS.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok it probably would not have been EVERY infantryman, but my source came from within the Reserves. No declassified documents here ok.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not being a dick, but I'd imagine that this is a pretty huge load of shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do not have an answer for you. Feel free to extrapolate. However it would mean Russia would not be taking land in Eastern Europe and possibly farther.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He may have been fucking with you.. Yep, pretty sure he was fucking with you
go to the fridge and grab a magnetand use it to pick up anything magnetic then I want you to think about what you just did you grabbed a magnet probably the size of a fingernail and is powerful enough to out muscle Earth's gravity
sorry about my lack of punctuation I have severe trigger finger on my thumbs and don't want to type
If you were to stack all of the elephants that ever existed on top of one another and measure it, you would be committing a heinous act of murder of countless elephants
The smallest measurement human's can see with current technology (and probably any technology ever, considering for us to see something smaller, it would require so much energy that a black hole would form) is a planck length. That is the smallest observable thing. The largest observable thing is of course the observable universe. Now, the crazy thing is, is that the number of planck lengths that it would take to get from one end of a human brain cell to another, it the exact same number of human brain cells that it would take to lay across the entire observable universe. So, in a sense, humans are the center of the universe.
clinkyec ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That last sentence just doesn't make any sense.
MrTrevT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late to this party, but i'll tell my fact.
Havent done much research on this, however my college professor told me this.
Apparently back during the cuban missile crisis in 62, there was apparently soviet spies that infiltrated the pentagon and were building an atomic bomb in the basements of the Pentagon.
If you lined up every other planet in the solar system between the Earth and the Moon, gravity would pull them all together and we would have 8-9 fewer planets.
Ok. I'm still right. The extinction of the mammoths was between the pyramids and Cleopatra.
BlooFlea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ K
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of Christopher Reeves is Christopher Walken.
JT_5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Babies aren't dishwasher safe
GGWAG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Richard Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, hired G. Gordon Liddy and another man to murder journalist Jack Anderson. Liddy testified to this in court, went into detail about the murder plans in his book, and has never denied or retracted any part of it.
Reddd69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A 2x4 piece of lumber is not 2 inches by 4 inches. It is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Lumber Standards changed, how the lumber was referenced however, did not.
To be fair, this statistic is very controversial. There are many studies out there doing the same thing and many are getting different results. The 1 in 5 is not the end all be all on how many women are sexually assaulted and the truth is we currently don't know. But as someone who is very close to someone who has been affected by this, it's definitely an issue that needs focused on.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:59:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worldly speaking, 1 in 4 women ll be abused b4 18, and 1 in 6 men
Maybe they think I'm trying to point out that more than 1/5 women are abused or something which wasn't my point.
For a long time even, I had no idea any of my family members had had it happen to them, until recently even. I was just sharing what I thought was shocking.
Eight words into your comment and you don't sound so sure anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 5 women claim they have been sexually assaulted.
kewday96 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 10:44:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the darkest shade of holy shit.
Crossy_ ยท -29 points ยท Posted at 11:13:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Who the fuck would down vote this?
It is because of the way people try hide this shit is why the number is so high. You all need to realize that this shit ruins people's lives and the people around them.
Let me put this shit in perspective for you ignorant fucks. that means 1 in 5 women have serious trust issues. 1 in 5 woman suffer form night terrors for months after the incident. 1 in 5 women can't stand the touch of another person because of 1 persons actions. And you want to know the worst part? A lot of these people will get away with what they have done.
/u/TerraChronSHOULD HAVE THE MOST UP VOTED POST HERE BECAUSE THIS FACT IS BEYOND HOLY SHIT.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not even a real statistic you fucking twat
Crossy_ ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 12:39:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well last I check in Australia is was 1 in 7. 1 in 5 sounded right for around the world. My point still stands though.
I downvoted you because Bold text does not make me recognise your opinion more.
Also, yeah true. But the question from OP was not posted to incite a women's rights debate. READ THE TITLE OF THE POST. If you would like to voice your concerns and take part in a constructive debate about this, I will gladly point you towards the appropriate subs.
Crossy_ ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 11:47:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not looking to start a discussion. I'm just sick of this shit going unnoticed. Trust me when I say I'm no SJW....
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 11:52:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Crossy_ ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 12:01:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just gonna stop here, I've only got 32 comment karma left....
That 1 in 6 people have genial herpes, substantially higher than I thought it would be.
Bay1Bri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What I find disturbing related to this is I've seen seeral people (including ones before that AMA) that tell people herpes is no big deal. Sure, it isn't ebola, but jesus don't act like it's not an issue.
tonofun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In dyno graphs showing an engines power (bhp) and torque (lbft) outputs, the two graph lines will always touch/cross each other at 5252 rpms...
If you put 1 penny on the 1st square of a chess board then 2 on the 2nd square then 4 on the 3rd square and keep doing that to all 64 squares, then you would have more money than the entire worlds money supply on your chess board.
banjoesq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth's atmosphere is proportionally thinner than the skin of an apple.
That humans exist on this lovely world as the result of an unknowable number of happy accidents. If any of a trillion trillion different little things happened differently or not at all throughout the history of the universe, we wouldn't be here upvoting NDT memes.
I learned yesterday that railroad car wheels turn a train because the wheels are coned in that the outside of the wheel has a greater diameter than the inside. This is also what keeps trains on the track.
Proof
If you wanted to write out every digit in a googolplex, you would have to pack the entire observable universe with sand, and on each grain of sand write 10 billion zeros. There would have to be a one in there somewhere.
For starters, their population is just tiny. That alone makes the expected occurrence lower, even if rates are the same. If you're trying to compare it to humans, we are exposed to all sorts of caustic chemicals and conditions which make us far more prone to cancer.
ironpete ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:52:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK.If your interested google elephants and cancer and you'll get a bunch of articles on the subject.
I'm not. If you want to provide a source, fine. But I'm not in the business of doing your research for you.
ironpete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You brought up a "holy shit" fact that I had never thought about before reading an article a couple of weeks ago-the more cells you have the more likely you are to get cancer. I thought you might be interested in research being done as to why elephants don't have a higher incidence of the disease and suggested googling the subject since there are a dozen or so articles from difference sources for you to pick from. Since I already read one of them your comment about you doing my research for me made no sense.
Most pulsars spin "only" a few times a second or every few seconds, but it's estimated that this particular pulsar got so fast because it has a companion star that's giving it more material, which gives it an extra "kick."
The largest creature to have ever lived on this planet is living in our time. The blue whale is the boss.
Like all life it evolved in the sea, then walked on the land and developed lungs to breath air, then after the dinosaurs died it got tired of all the other mammals and went back into the sea to become the biggest badass ever.
If your mum only had sons, she is the last of an unbroken family line of females going back beyond the dawn of humanity. Right back until the moment gendered organisms emerged.
Scipion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The closer you get to the speed of light the slower time goes for you. Thus a photon is absorbed the instant it is created and experiences no passage of time. They exist apart from time itself.
If you got all the viruses in all the world's oceans and lined them up end to end, the resulting chain would be a long as the Milky Way is wide (that's 100,000 light years!).
ecorich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Prosecutors laid out why his child porn conviction is so heinous ... there was an enormous amount of child porn in the various devices of Fogle and Russell Taylor, including 5.6 terabytes of data. There were 16 smart phones, 6 laptops, 22 DVDs, 159,634 text messages, 3,394 videos and 47,623 pictures.
Martin Luther, key perpetrator of the Reformation of the Church and it's split into Catholicism and Protestantism, allegedly claimed to have battled the devil by defecating in his face.
If that isn't a holy shit fact I don't know what is
mattsoca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are better odds of you being crushed to death by a vending machine than you winning the mega millions jackpot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If all of the atoms in our body were condensed so there would be no space between other atoms and also no space between the particles in the atom, all of humanity would fit into the size of a sugar cube
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:18 on December 1, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Demographically speaking, the person least likely to suffer heart disease is a Chinese woman living in China. (About 2%) However, you take that same Chinese woman and relocate her to the United States, and her risk of heart disease goes up to that of anyone else living here. (Around 30%)
GISP ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could be the last person to die EVER. As research in immortality is slowly progressing forward.
By the few and the rich. It's currently just a curiosity indulged by those who can afford doing the research and if it results in anything, the general public won't get it for a very long time. Also, do we really want to live forever?
I can only imagine the stagnation and boredom the human race would devolve into. If everyone could live forever, children would have to be kept at a very minimum and the youth is the portion of our society that brings about change and new perspectives. But I wouldn't be opposed to adding a few decades to my life, a few millennia and I'd kill myself out of boredom though.
Jib96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Immortality prevents aging, not me stabbing your throat
oneeff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A Roman woman, Pero, who secretlyย breastfeedsย her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. She is found out by a jailer, but her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her father's release.
If we were to somehow tax the "1%" for 100% of their money, we would get a little more than a trillion dollars. That revenue would still not be enough to support Medicaid for 3 years. Meanwhile Bernie wants to spend approximately infinity dollars on free everything.
But why do they keep producing money when it will only be taken from them?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
because they still make much much more money than most people, even with big taxes. The rich didn't stop getting rich when they were taxed 90% under Dwight D. Eisenhower
Actually, when the Federal government had these usurious tax rates they also had multitudes of levels. Somewhere in the 12-14 different brackets. This was due to their desire to social engineer their constituency; you do what I say and put your money where I lead you and you can lower your taxable income. Under Carter it reached the point of fuck you and Reagan was elected. He shit canned all the loop holes, lowered the tax rate and cut the levels down to 3-4. The max tax rate under him was around 35%, but you paid your due. He won reelection the second time around 49 States to 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
kknaso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that the zipper on male pants isn't actually made to hang out "the snake" it's in fact made to just get in and out of the pants with less struggle.
The statement was worded for more dramatic impact, no need to be patronizing. The point is anatomically modern humans have been around for 200,000 years and behaviorally modern humans have been around for around 40,000 years
Try not to be condescending next time, it really paints you in a poor light.
We are in fact nearing the end of habitability of Earth (on a relative scale).
The sun is steadily getting more luminous over time, which interrupts the process of recycling carbon into the atmosphere. Without this, carbon dioxide levels will fall, and all life that relies on carbon dioxide (and oxygen) will cease to exist, which is all of multicellular life that has ever existed.
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We have about about 800 million years until the oxygen runs out.
This means we're currently in the last third of the time this planet will be habitable.
No, at least in some manner, all known life relies on carbon dioxide to exist. Nothing, not even microscopic life can stay alive forever without it.
In fact, that's why the discovery of liquid water on Mars is such a big deal. There are species on earth right now that could live and even reproduce on Mars if it has liquid water at least some of the time. They have always went to a lot of trouble to keep contaminations off the probes we send there for concern that microbes might survive the trip and be able to survive on Mars.
That's a crazy thought too eh? That we could accidentally contaminate Mars.
dylanna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Their jaws are basically ossified cartilage, fortified with calcium salts. Here:
The jaw's surface (in comparison to the shark's vertebrae and gill arches) needs extra support due to its heavy exposure to physical stress and its need for strength. It has a layer of tiny hexagonal plates called "tesserae", which are crystal blocks of calcium salts arranged as a mosaic. This gives these areas much of the same strength found in the bony tissue found in other animals. (wikipedia)
jacubus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
,If I interpret it correctly...
According to Einstein's theory of relativity, there is no pulling in nature.
If you consider a truck pulling a trailer, its actually the leading edge of the ball hitch attached to the truck that is pushing the leading edge anterior of the cup attached to the trailer.
Technically that is the case with all objects orbiting the sun. It's also misleading because people might think the point is out in space, it isn't. Even though everything orbits a shared center of mass, that center is still inside the sun.
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once all of the ice melts in the north and south poles, ocean levels will rise so high that we will no longer have Florida as a state; it will all be underwater.
Scary part is that there's a very good chance of that happening in the future.
If every planet in our solar system was place side by side touching one another, they would fit between the earth and the moon.
Junjawe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone soon will invent a piece of software that will be able to consistently make money in the stock market and that software will make its way on the internet where it will be pirated and will become available to almost anyone who wants it
Not a "fun fact," but just a surprising and horrifying truth about society:
Approximately 5% of rapes in America end with the perpetrator going to jail.
(This has to do mainly with people being too afraid to report, police not investigating properly, and people generally not knowing the facts about rape/trauma. To someone who doesn't know, someone in trauma can look like someone who is lying and apathetic to the situation.)
The alternative is to not think at all. As a result you become fully aware of everything around you and begin to act on intuition. Not to say that sometimes planning is not important. My point is, people spend too much time in their heads.
Vojta7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yet nobody can see it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the amount of money spent on the syrian conflict by coalition forces so far could have paid for 2,000 trips to mars and back. (aboard india's most recent successful mars orbiter. )
the first US attack involving aircraft carriers and f22s and cruise missles alone would've covered fully 500 of those trips)
yeah. keep telling me its too expensive and theres no voter interest...
1 million seconds in 11 days. 1 billion seconds in 32 years.
JJGBM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A billion seconds is over 31 years. It really puts into perspective how much a billion dollars is, or how a human cell reads/replicates its DNA (over 3 billion bps) in about 8 hours.
Setting aside the central tendency aspect of a middle value (i.e. median), the fact that the distribution is heavily concentrated near the center in what is more or less a bell curve means that the difference between the median and average level of intelligence is apt to be negligible.
In other words, the median correlates strongly with the average in this case, as roughly (actually almost exactly) the same group that sits below the median level also sits below the average.
According to various intelligence agencies 15-25% of the Muslim population actively participate in terrorist activities. That's close to 300 million people who think it is ok to murder innocent people for no other reason than their religious beliefs.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:52:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more stars in our galaxy than atoms in the universe
This makes no sense. If each of those stars were made up of just one atom (they're not) and then there was just one more star outside our galaxy. Ohhhhhh idk like in any of the other galaxies. Then that would mean there was more atoms in our universe than stars in our galaxy. Now please tell me you just wrote this wrong somehow.
Unless I'm missing something, that is easily proven to be false. Even if there were only one galaxy in the universe, and every star system had exactly one atom, the number would still be equal. However, the are numerous galaxies in the observable universe (who knows beyond) and every single star, let alone star system, is made of multiple atoms.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that whole death thing is a bitch. Though there are theories that state that while an observable death occurs to an individual. in view of others. The individual may actually "survive" and continue on with their lives.
poseitom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:07:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that whenever you shuffle a deck of cards, it is quite likely that you are making history?
A deck of 52 cards can be ordered in 52! = 52 x 51 x 50 x...x 2 x 1 ways. This is because there are 52 ways to choose the first card, 51 ways to choose the 2nd, 50 ways to choose the 3rd, etc. But 52! is a very large number: larger than
8 x 1067.
How big is this number? Well, someone shuffling a deck of cards once per second since the beginning of the universe (believed to be about 14 billion years ago) would not have shuffled the deck more than 1018 times.
But you have a 50% chance of owning a Sexually Transmitted Infection.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He doesn't own a house or a car.. Let the man own something, damnit!
Jib96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, know how to play it safe. Protection is actually used incorrectly in a large number of cases. Whe used correctly a condom protects you 99% of the time, but if you use it wrong it drops to 0% of the time
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the entire universe were scaled to the size of a 1mm dot, the difference in size between that dot and the actual size of the universe would be the same as between the dot...and Planck length, our smallest conceivable measurement.
This is not correct. One might attempt a proof like this. However it makes a basic mistake when dealing with infinities.
It assumes that one can get from 1-A = A to 1 = 2A by adding A to both sides(1-A +A= A+A). Adding A to -A equals A as does A + A and one is left with 1-A = A and therefore this step in the proof is incorrect.
The rest of the proof uses similar incorrect methods.
The Pyramids were older to the Romans than the Romans are old to us.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:08:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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polot38 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are incorrect. Two sets are considered to have to same number of elements if you can find a mapping of one set onto the other such that each element of the first set is mapped to exactly one element of the second set, and vice versa, essentially "pairing off" elements of each set. This mapping, in your case, is simply mapping x to 10x; every number in the set 0 through 1 is mapped to 10 times itself.
There are, however, examples of infinite sets where they don't have the same number of elements. For example, the number of integers is less than the number of reals, as there is no such bijection. In fact, the number of real numbers between 0 and 1 is greater than the number of integers from 0 to infinity.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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polot38 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that isn't what more numbers mean. You have no idea what you are talking about; I gave you what is literally the definition of cardinality, a.k.a. size, a.k.a. what "more numbers" means.
YnotX ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more combinations of a deck of cards (52!) than there are atoms on earth
kazborat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the farthest North, East and West state.
A better way to put this is: Every time you shuffle a deck of cards to the point that it is completely random (7 shuffles is standard), it is the first time in the history of the universe that a deck of cards has ever been in that particular order.
spdrv89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
90 percent of your body is compromised of other stuff like bacteria and microorganisms.
If you take a duck that plays the guitar and breed it with a beaver that plays the keyboard, the offspring is a duck-billed platypus that plays the keytar.
Corridor only has one "o" between the D and R. When i realized that it wasn't Corridoor, i had to take a few minutes to reevaluate everything i had done in my life.
There is a prevailing theory hypothesis that Earth once shared its orbit with a slightly smaller planet named Theia. Ultimately the two planets collided, vaporizing Theia and leaving its debris in orbit around earth and eventually amassing into our moon.
Alaska is the Eastern, Northern and Western most state. It is the the Eastern most because it crosses the international date line 180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.
Edit. Fixed my mistake, it is the 180th meridian, not the international date line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres. I remember the fact, but got the reason it was true wrong.
mtb1443 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At what point does it cross the dateline? The date line does a western jaunt to avoid the Aleutian Islands it appears.
OK, it doesn't cross the international date line, it crosses the 180 meridian (separating the Eastern and Western hemisphere). My fact was correct (Alaska is the Eastern most state, but my reason why it is the Eastern most state was wrong).
Denalix ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
America has 500 Thousand more prisoners than china, even with chinas population being 5 times that of the U.S. America has by far the highest rate of incarceration than any nation on earth.
EDIT:500 thousand
ae121584 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:34:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America's population (imprisoned and otherwise) is only about 320 million. Seems unlike we're all currently being incarcerated 1.5 times. Even if that was just a mistype, here are 2 important facts. 1) The US is very open with public records. China, not so much. 2) it takes a LOT of work to snuff someone in America, vs throw them in jail. PRC kills people rather than imprison them all the time.
Not that you're wrong in your greater point, the systems are just completely different t and comparisons aren't so easy to make.
Denalix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Valid points i haven't considered.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
500 million? Are you sure about this? The U.S. population is a little over 300 million
Denalix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Changed it lol 500 thousand ๐
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
;)
Dr0ug ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
James Joseph (Jim) Parsons, sheldon cooper in the Big Bang theory, is now 42 years old.
That CAVES are called CAVES because a CAVE is a short/small CAVERN so CAVE is LITERALLY short for CAVERN
_-Oh-_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit isn't holy.
relaxok ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: made-up facts
BeCurry ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:06:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE WAS A CLEOPATEA IN THE PEERAMIDS WHEN TIME HAD ALREADY EVENLY DIVIDED THE TWO OF THEM FROM PRESENT SCIENCE HUUUURRRR DUUUUURRRRR
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
kwark_uk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's fan fiction. A world in which Einstein built atomic weapons in, I guess, the 30s and the United States was so eager to test them that rather than just using the desert they convinced Japan to invade, then spent 4 years at war with Japan (for plausible deniability) and then used them. Then they made up the Manhattan Project and all the people who worked there to give them an explanation for where the bombs came from so that nobody would blame Einstein. Oppenheimer was actually played by two dwarfs wearing a lab coat, one on the shoulders of the other. His less famous brother, also called Oppenheimer, was actually the same two dwarfs but with the other one on top. That's why the two brothers have never been photographed in the same room.
You really think the American just let it happen? If they knew what was going to happen you would think that they would have swapped out some of the boats at least.
A holocaust based on retribution is absurd. Germans were fanatic record keepers. It's pretty clear that retribution had nothing to do with ethnic cleansing.
There was this little thing called world war one, it did a pretty good job of setting the stage for the events of world war two.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can only say this to you, that unless you were able to know what was in the mind of the actual person or rather the people involved that perpetuated these atrocities all we have are theories. This thread was for serious facts that made you say "Holy Shit". Not theories that make some people think you subscribe to the tin foil hat club and are a paying member. You put yourself out there as saying these were actual facts not conspiracy theories and then get all up in arms and calling people out for responding to these theories and questioning the validity of your "facts". I am in no way able to presume to know what these people were thinking when they did what they did, all I can do is have empathy for those involved and hurt by these horrors. There are things that will remain unknown and others that will always be speculated about, but I dear sir or madam will never claim to know something as fact that is inexplicable by anyone other than the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.
The tv show 'The Biggest Loser' is titled so as it is referring to the winner of the show; whom has lost the most weight and is deemed as 'The Biggest Loser (of weight).
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FormalChicken ยท 2599 points ยท Posted at 17:48:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Killer whales are natural predators of moose.
In Alaska the moose swim across from one island to the next and the whales attack them.
Edit: as pointed out they're not whales you pedantic shits.
IAmMoosekiller ยท 1376 points ยท Posted at 22:30:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I should change my name to Killer Whale...?
mooselovesyou ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 02:03:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But I... oh.
Need_vagina_pix_nao ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:47:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or cunt muffin. The world needs more cunt muffins.
iwannabenamedbatman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:01:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that when the pussy is overflowing on the sides of the panties like a vagina muffin top?
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:20:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not sure if this would be attractive or unattractive
Need_vagina_pix_nao ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:20:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some people pay extra for that. Or so I've heard.
Iced____0ut ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:58:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why not both?
DeucesCracked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
allow me to assure you it is not.
iwannabenamedbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:04 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As I girl not attracted to girls I can't help you on that issue. But according to my guy friends it's pretty hot
__KODY__ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:21:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget the cream filling.
iwannabenamedbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:07 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One does not simply forget the filling
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's called a moose knuckle ironically enough.
iwannabenamedbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:10 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was just another name for camel toe. You learn stuff every day I guess
Neuroticmuffin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone said my name?
Need_vagina_pix_nao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless someone has a cray-cray fetish, no. We usually call those "ex-wives".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd eat that...
Need_vagina_pix_nao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/Innie
JoshH21 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:55:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My man!
colossaldong ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right here!
theniceguytroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slow down!
BlakusDingus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:43:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
R/beetlejuicing
scittymitten ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:54:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly relevant username.
Dankestmemelord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Name checks out - on both counts
Inteli_Gent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or Chiller Whale.
thetripleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THis guy has waited forever for this moment. And we all saw it.
tknames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
You should post this to /r/beetlejuicing
Edit: finally learned how to spelle.
franksymptoms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Alaska, more people are killed by moose than by polar bears.
IAmMoosekiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:31 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, I run them over... Hence the username. Never met a polar bear though.
ThePurpleNinjaTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you like fat chicks?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Orca*
DonaldTrumpsBallsack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:18 on December 31, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Canadians...
Schwillet ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 20:59:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And tuna are natural predators of lion, because they have had a taste of lion blood. They communicated and said "you know what? Lion tastes good. Let's go get some more lion", and they established a beachhead to aggressively hunt you and your family.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:29:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But I'm not a lion.
future203 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not for days at a time. But an hour to an hour forty five is no problem
Lateusvir ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 22:27:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Killer whales are sharks that somehow ended up being born whales.
FormalChicken ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:54:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks in a dolphins body called whales.
issr ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:22:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Panda shark
MichaelH345 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:12:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now they have a taste for Moose. Next they're gonna develop a breathing apparatus out of kelp, find out where they live, and stalk them.
ThirdFloorGreg ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:14:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They already have a breathing apparatus. It's called "lungs."
kevinthediltz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, I got the reference.
namesflory ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 21:23:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Killer Whales are predators of almost everything except 13 year old boys.
Please no "weird face" replies..
JoshH21 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:55:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
13 year old boys are my territory
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:54:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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najodleglejszy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what's with that face? I've just noticed it today. and is it supposed to have a black rectangle instead of facial features in every line, except the first one where it's Lenny?
KarthusWins ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:16:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a centipede.
beetlejuuce ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Centilenny
TetonCharles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:49:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Including Great White Sharks.
ipkiss_stanleyipkiss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone saw the Netflix movie!
OhTheHueManatee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:25:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/p5wokQJxwhE
Need_vagina_pix_nao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My god... that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen!
underthingy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But why was there a minute of static white text on a black background at the end?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:57:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wish this was on film.
HawaiianKillerWhale ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:58:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard this is also a natural occurrence in Hawaii.
FeastOnCarolina ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:51:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cause there's so many moose in Hawai'i.
ScruffyTheFurless ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:49:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Moose are also known to swim across bays in Newfoundland, Canada. A FB friend of mine was once out kayaking and come up next to one. Moose don't give a fuck.
FormalChicken ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:57:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The moose in Alaska are a different.... Genus? I think is the correct word?
The moose around here (new England, Canada, etc) tend to be big squirrels. Typically docile and timid. In Alaska they're not. They will charge with a greater frequency and tend to be more aggressive.
Dont approach an Alaskan moose.
pantyclause ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoah. Ok. I did not Moose can swim!
kempsishere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kickass
sseidl88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want to see a video of this
RandomMooseNoises ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OOOGGGGAAAHHHHHHHH! OOOooooo... :(
stephenhg2009 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well actually they are more of an opportunistic predator to the moose.
cdurgin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
killer whales are actually dolphins, not whales
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But dolphins are toothed whales
ZOMGitsKENNY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
killers whales are dolphins. dolphins are whales. all belonging to the order cetacea.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
loadedlen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for making me look up "pedantic"
Dusk_v731 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wish there were videos of this..
Somebody_not_you ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted for the edit "you pedantic shits"
Olakola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't we call them orcas?
stanleyfarnsworth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Orca aren't whales?
ashwch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:50 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A moose once bit my sister...
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whales are good at rugby too.
deadnotstupid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Morfilod am byth!
Mae hwn yn ddoniol os chi'n siarad Cymraeg.
milkymaniac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:07:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, killer whales are not actually whales.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why not?
GGWAG ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
they now prefer "grammercenaries". don't be culturally insensitive.
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 22:37:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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vellyr ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:05:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what definition of "whale" you're using, but it's not a scientific term. There's nothing wrong with including Odontoceti in "whales". The word "whale" in common English can refer to any member of Cetacea.
Pidgey_OP ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:12:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
could also make an equally strong argument that the term "whale" comes from shortening their name, rather than referencing their scientific classification.
Sea horse isn't a horse, but when David Attenborough refers to them as horses (or steeds or something equally analogous and also scientifically wrong) in whichever underwater documentary i'm vaguely recalling, you know what he means.
Some people just want to be pedantic :/
Do_your_homework ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is however something wrong with putting Odontoceti in Wales.
vellyr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about England?
JonZ1618 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The real question, though, is are you using secret accounts to upvote your own comments?
Arguing about animal minutiae and 5 already? Quite the red flag, if you ask me...
Mahimah ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 22:36:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
is that really plural for moose? Mooses? Meese?
OhTheHueManatee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:24:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The plural of Moose is just Moose which I think is really reckless considering how dangerous Moose are.
[deleted] ยท 2817 points ยท Posted at 15:25:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.
BartMaster1234 ยท 1298 points ยท Posted at 18:37:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The state of California has a bigger population (38.43 Million) than the entire country of Canada. (35.16 Million)
a3wagner ยท 2809 points ยท Posted at 20:15:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of California's population also lives south of Seattle.
[deleted] ยท 350 points ยท Posted at 21:48:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, TIL!
chickenbonephone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:49:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
See, the thing is: if one were to take a line, horizontal, from Seattle in east-west fashion, latitudinally, if-you-will, we'd find that the majority of the Canadian human population lives "below" or closer to the equator than that line - basically, south of Seattle.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:10:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how do you prove everyone in California is south of Seattle?
You responded to a joke, but I appreciate your effort
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:59:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Until Amazon hires enough of them.
badadviceforyou244 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A large portion of California's population actually live in a couple of the surrounding states but they'll be sure to tell you about how great California is and how everything is so much better there.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:53:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of californias water lives in the void
StaffSergeantDignam ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:18:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
California...is....Canada?
correon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:39:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canada with worse government, better avocados, and more assholes.
Also fewer Timbits, fewer snowflakes, and less maple syrup.
Otherwise, exactly same.
Warpato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canada no tiene latinas, me no gusta.
correon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pero sรญ.
Warpato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pero necessita mรกs 1.2%, California tiene 32.3%
correon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ay caramba?
apileofcake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Less water, too
correon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's water?
SOURCE: am Californian, do not understand.
bargu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:58:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of central and South America population lives south of Seattle too.
DevmasterJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wait..
GeneralHoneyBadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, this one is hard to argue with.
SecondBreakfast1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Illuminati confirmed
Billybilly_B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah
HTLX2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Therefore most of California IS canada.
blooper2112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you Lacey from Pootie Tang
Murgen17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you're not wrong.
cuzhejustgotdunkedon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/notinteresting
SpacemanBob10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The rest are super high and, like, hella north of Seattle right now bro
Avogadro101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the majority of California's population lives in prison.
a3wagner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't refute what I said.
gaslacktus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not as much as we'd like.
haby112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...is there a minority that lives north of Seattle?
insomniac20k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not to an Australian
bl80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is factual. Verified source : drunk at a bar ...
drunken_monkeys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong!
ebob9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
California: Like Canada but a bit warmer and angrier.
MojoLester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck...
doomsdaymelody ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of Canadians are more friendly than the majority of Californians.
Edit DAMN YOU REFLEXIVE APOSTROPHE
SenorVajay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:55:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:49:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Canada's pretty sparsely populated given its enormous land mass.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:10:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And most of the population is along the border with the U.S
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:32:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that has a lot to do with arable farmland and transportation infrastructure.
ploki122 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:57:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well... that and habitable climate. nobody wants to live with an average of -10C...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised actually. Canada's coldest major city is Winnipeg, and is actually pretty close to the US border. It's just that an enormous part of the country is under muskeg (which is basically impossible to build on), and Shield (just rock and trees which is also really hard to build on). The prairies extend pretty far north, and there were early plans to settle that region because the southern prairies are very dry. They chose the southern prairies instead because of irrigation projects, and they also didn't want the Americans to claim any of that land.
MaximaFuryRigor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:11:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Saskatchewan, and I've driven as far north as we have roads (dirt roads), which is still only about halfway up to the territories. Beyond that, northerners get around mainly by dog sled (in winter) or small planes.
If you want to get to Yellowknife by vehicle, you have to use Alberta, which has a paved road the entire way up, unlike in the shitty tundra of Northern Sask.
Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:58:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Says you..
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:43:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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drfattyphd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Today was pretty much the first cold day in Minneapolis, MN. I heard so many people complaining. All I could say was, "You know what time of year it is. Being cold was a choice you made this morning when you decided to go out into the world without the proper equipment."
ploki122 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:50:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Quebec... I still find that we have a pisspoor climate when we reach things like -40 with wind and Humidex mid-winter. And that's all accounting for the fact that we have a yearly average of like 5. You can be damn sure that I would GTFO if there were 8-10 months of winter.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It sure does! Also, it makes more sense to set up shop near the border if you're planning on conducting trade between canada and the U.S.no snse in paying to ship anything from the northern territories if it can be bought and sold just as easily in a city near the border.
blaghart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia's even worse in that regard.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:24:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, Canada's population density is about half that of Russia's. European Russia is comparatively dense in population. Canada's population is dense in some remote regions (southern Ontario, southern Quebec, lower mainland BC), then it's very sparse. The population map of Canada looks like a map of Chile flipped horizontally.
Stingray88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Los Angeles county has a higher population than 43 out of 50 US States.
Khourieat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:38:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft. NYC's public school system has more children in it (1.4 million) than many European countries' total population (eg: Estonia's population of 1.3 million)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe few countries. Most European countries are highly populated. France has almost double Canada's population
Khourieat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:52:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like about 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Europe#Population_by_country
Not bad for a city's public school system :D
*Edit, also I didn't say population of NYC. You're comparing one country's total pop to another. I'm saying NYC's public schools has more KIDS in it than many European countries have PEOPLE.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understood what you were saying.. I'm no idiot.
fernandotakai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck my state has more people than Canada.
Deaf_Pickle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:29:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Compare that to the city of Tokyo :D
Strkszone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bigger than Australia as well. This is why they are all immigrating to California. Increase in shark population is threatening their ecosystem because as we all know sharks eat Australians.
quickstop_rstvideo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is also .5% of the earth's population but eats almost 25% of the Kraft Macaroni and cheese, or Kraft Dinner as they call it.
NerdENerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Australia is about 3/4 the size of the USA and only has about 22 million people. About half of them live in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
green_meklar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Tokyo has more people than any one canadian province.
radix4801 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are 6 US State Capitols west of Los Angeles.
vickipaperclips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canada's southernmost point (Point Pelee) has a latitude further south than the northern California border.
LegSpinner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Population of metropolitan Mumbai: 20 Million.
Gavin_Freedom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Both of those have a larger population than all of Australia.
OldWolf2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Checking list... there's only 100K people in all of NW Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. That's one large town / small city anywhere else. I never had any idea it was so unpopulated there.
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many cities have a bigger population than the entire country of Uruguay (3 million).
Not_A_Hyperbole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pew Die Pie has more subscribers than the entire population of Canada. (40 million)
Wehrboo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Tokyo greater area (~40mil) has more population than Canada
KillThemInJarsYo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Driving through southern Ontario you really get a feel for how sparsely populated Canada can be.
scootarded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During the 80s Los Angeles had the fourth largest Canadian population of any city in N. America. NYC was up there too.
ext23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the state of california has nearly twice the population of all of australia.
fafe123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the state of Californa has a lot more people than all of Australia (23.13 Million).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
PewDiePie has more subs than all of the inhabitants of Canada.
Atario ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Metro Tokyo area has more people than Canada.
clykyclyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't the greater Tokyo area have more that Canada?
RGS123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mumbai has a higher population than Greece
cybridlines ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tokyo (suburbs included) has 37.2 million people as of 2007, probably more than the state of California by now
jackinab0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The state of Uttar Pradesh in India has roughly the same population as USA
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:02:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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teen_burger_combo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:44:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like 75% of Canada's population lives near 100 miles of the USA border.
originaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is true
originaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't true
mrmdc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:51:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The population of
the Yangtze river deltaShanghai and Suzhou (about230km long120km apart) has a larger population thanthe USACanada.Edit:
sounded suspicious as soon as I actually read it. Checking to verify accuracymight still be true... Hard to define size of Delta and population therein.daedric_david ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 17:26:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamn aliens need to get outta my country
captaincanada88 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 17:41:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We'll bring beer?
daedric_david ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:37:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll allow it
SpeedyStaravia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Out means out.
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:15:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's fuck them all to death.
daedric_david ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:19:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meh sounds like alot of work.
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:28:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If Mr Garrison can do it, anyone can!
pitchingataint ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you bro! Let's crush some puss!
ChunksOWisdom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:29:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
relevant username
pitchingataint ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. But it's also a reference to last night's South Park episode.
iebarnett51 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:57:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our insurrection is nearing completion. Drones Jim Carey and Seth Rogan have already captivated your hearts and minds while Birber wreaks havic upon your streets!
NORTH. STRONG. FREE.
daedric_david ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We knew all along, we're just too busy eating burgers and shooting guns to care.
thorhyphenaxe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:02:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THEY TOOK ER JERRRBS
informationmissing ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They live in canada, dude. That's why they're called the Canadian population. He should have said Residents.
An_Insane_Stork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woosh
awesomerest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of alien populations also live south of Seattle.
PM_ME_GIRLSWITHBANGS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We need to build a wall
informationmissing ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't think you get it. They live in canada.
kindall ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 19:23:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you are in downtown Detroit, you can get to Canada by going south.
SuperArff ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:57:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what always bugs me about the song "Don't Stop Believing", South Detroit is Windsor god dammit.
conduit_seller ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:47:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. South Detroit is the southern portion of Detroit. In the same way that East Philadelphia is not Camden, NJ.
SuperArff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
No, the southern part of Detroit is Downtown or places like Dearborn which aren't ever called South Detroit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Detroit
Edit: Here's Steve Perry's explanation of the lyrics:
Perry pleads poetic license, and ignorance, despite the fact that a quick glance at a map would have alerted him to the issue. "I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he says. "The syntax just sounded right. I fell in love with the line. It's only been in the last few years that I've learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."
madscandi ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:25:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or more likely; you will be shot before you get to Canada
PaddleBoatEnthusiast ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:12:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You've never been anywhere near Detroit, have you?
madscandi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:09:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As you can see, I'm still alive
staypositiveasshole ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:58:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whaaaaaaat?
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:12:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor, ON and Montreal, QC. That entire region is more south in latitude than Seattle is. Crazy isn't it? Actually people that live in the eastern part of the continent generally live in more southerly latitudes than people would think. It's just colder.
Another fun fact. Canada's most southerly point is on the same latitude as northern California.
EmansTheBeau ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:51:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, just fuck off now.
mrsgarrison ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:18:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People never believe me that Portland, OR is further north than Portland, Maine.
EmansTheBeau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I believe y'all. I just don't need to learn that I live further south than people who pay to fucking spray snow on their propriety.
theartfulcodger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. If you started from the most southerly point in Canada and travelled straight west, you'd find yourself in Great Salt Lake, UT. If you travelled straight east, you'd find yourself in Turkey, near the ancient Roman ruins at Pompeiopolis.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I just spent a good ten minutes looking at Seattle on Google Maps, wondering where the Canada part was.
elmz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The southern tip of Norway is roughly the same latitude as York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay and Juneau, Alaska.
Also, finding places on that latitude in Canada that I've heard of is hard
wuu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:48:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And you drive south from Detroit into Windsor, ON.
Geekmonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:48:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THE MAJORITY OF CANADA'S POPULATION LIVES SOUTH OF SEATTLE.
staypositiveasshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GOODBYE, AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW
sinister_kid89 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:30:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're in Detroit and go directly south, the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:15:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the most southerly point of Canada is further south than the most northerly point of California.
dainhd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:43:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder I always see canadian license plates.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:55:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
haha well... they are probably going south to get cheaper gas, booze. I feel bad for you guys sometimes because the cheaper bad stuff attracts usually the worst people from here. I went to Bellingham once, and after seeing how BC drivers were there.... I was pretty embarrassed.
Redbulldildo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:50:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they won't be going down there for cheaper stuff for a while.
stupid shitty dollar.
worlds-okayest-mum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live in Bellingham. I hated Costco because of you guys. Worst.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know what though, most of those guys are pretty new to Canada themselves, so I call not it! It is sad though... luckily I have Alberta plates, so I could just pretend I was American and no one would notice.
Pick234 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL south park Colorado = south of Seattle.
the_honest_liar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, shits cold.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:01:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True enough, but take into account that cities like Vancouver are farther north than New York, but quite a bit warmer. Ocean currents play a pretty big role in climate.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:21:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah the population is pretty concentrated in the bigger cities. Outside of those cities you just have smaller towns and cities along the way. I mean... there's only one road connecting Ontario to western Canada.... that means there's only one highway connecting east to west.
Redbulldildo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Although that might be bacause it's faster to go into the states to go west, all the roads in Ontario weave back and forth so it takes forever to get anywhere.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:53:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Part of Canada is farther south than part of Nevada
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Seatle is south of London.
Rabro ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:47:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
alright Canada, where's the poutaine? gimme gimme!
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:13:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*Poutine.
Rabro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
woOops!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:21:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it can be a hit down there. Let's start a food truck, change the name to Canadian Cheese Fries, and sell them in front of clubs and pubs.
Rabro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh sweet jesus yes. except I don't think that I would have the self discipline not go to motorboat/eat/devour all those fries.
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Poutain de merde!!
MaximaFuryRigor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*Putain de merde!
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Merci very much.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One has to wonder, if it's the southernmost tip... why we call it "Middle Island"?
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please provide a source? I live in Calgary and I know that there is very little south of seattle in Alberta. Toronto is not our only city.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in southern Alberta as well. The majority of Canada's population doesn't though... they live out east between southern Ontario and southern Quebec.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't think that the majority of the population would be in very southern ontario though. What about B.C.? Or saskatchewan?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Southern Ontario to southern Quebec. So, including Montreal. That area has over half of Canada's population.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
here. It's a wiki source unfortunately, but still pretty accurate.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Calculated it out, just over 50%. I stand corrected. My apologies, and "holy shit" haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All good man, it's pretty mind boggling when you think about it.
Rottwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No kidding. Well they can stay there and leave us rednecks to our beer and big trucks haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man, Victoria is south of Seattle and it's in the nearest province. Look up the latitude of Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sad part is that I live in one ofthose cities. And I've been to Seattle wtf.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
KokaRandy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHERE MY COUNTRY GONE?!
inphx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Live in Phoenix and it's snowbird season.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My apologies in advance.
suchafunnyusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY SHIT
SovietBozo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the traffic was getting bad when I drive that way. Can't we send them back to Canada?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, the low dollar will take care of that for you soon.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No worries, I'm actually glad you asked. You're not alone!
Seattle's latitude is about 47 degrees N. Over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor (42 degrees N) and Montreal (45 degrees N). Therefore, over half of Canada's population lives south of Seattle.
It doesn't seem that way because all of western Canada has the 49th parallel as a border. But that isn't true for Ontario and Quebec.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That also means, btw, that some really "northern" cities in the US aren't really that "northern". Rome, for example, is more northerly than NY is. Most of England is more North than most Canadian cities (let alone American ones). Detroit is almost on the same latitude as the northern most part of California.
Sarke1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. Just saying "South of" implies it's a direction.
They live east of Seattle, but further south than Seattle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Most North Americans obviously live further east than Seattle haha. However, it is true that in terms of latitude, most Canadians live further south than Seattle. It's one of those things you just don't think about in that context, which is why I included it as a favorite "Holy Shit" fact.
I also found out last year on a road trip that Calgary, Alberta, Canada is closer to Los Angeles, California than Houston is.
Blank747 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not me โบ
somewhereinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but thirteen US states lie north of Canada's most southern (latitude) point.
jet-setting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because they all live in arizona
theideanator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of Canada's land is north of Seattle!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
TroubleEntendre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't blame them; Seattle kinda sucks, and I try to stay south of it, too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Canada moved to the U.S.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, you could say Canada's oldest settlements have just always been south of Seattle. IN a way... some of the US moved north of Canada.
~ check out latitude of southern Ontario
zosobaggins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also the southernmost point of Canada is further south than the northern border of California!
chroner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was a huge holy shit moment for me when I really looked at a map one day and I'm Canadian
FavresPenisPic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure ts like 90% of our population lives withing 100km of the US boarder.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
100 miles* That's because most of our population lives between Windsor and Montreal.
geek_loser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The southern most state is Hawai'i.
assandtitties18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who lives in Washington, I approve this message.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha. Well, what I meant was most Canadians live between Windsor, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. That region of Canada is more south in latitude than Seattle.
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
goes to find a map Huh. Crazy.
R_K_M ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but most of europes population lives north of seattle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but why do so many Canadians live in portland?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We all love Portlandia
MomentArm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:24 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a cool fact and responses to your comment here have made me realize how many people both suck at geography and apparently can't read a map.
Covert_Ruffian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, how the hell does that work? Does it mean that Canadians live outside of Canada? ELI5 Please...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
haha no. Over half of Canada's population lives between Windsor, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. That region is more south in latitutde than Seattle. Hence, more than half of all Canadians live south of Seattle.
Very few Canadians live in the states. Comparatively I think about the same amount of Americans live in Canada.
blacktiger226 ยท 1361 points ยท Posted at 16:02:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Qutuz.
A baby prince from Khawarizam (Persia) was sold as a slave after the Mongols invaded their land and killed all his family. He arrived in Egypt and rose among the ranks until he became the king of Egypt, then he lead the army and served the Mongols their biggest defeat in their history (until then).
zcbtjwj ยท 124 points ยท Posted at 23:58:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so he kinda one-upped Joseph?
JSlicky ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say pretty even because after Joseph was sold by his brothers because they were salty, they came begging to him for food when he became the ruler. Became leader from nothing AND got to pull the biggest switcheroo of all time on his bros.
Ta11ow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:17:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Petty revenge against brothers < total victory over the Mongol horde.
JSlicky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Petty revenge/ became Pharaoh of Egypt, but both are amazing overall.
AmorDeCosmos97 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 01:08:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean Joseph the Christian who built the Pyramids of Giza to store grain?
Far_Ken_Oath ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:23:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Who said he built the pyramids?
NoMouseLaptop ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 01:28:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ben Carson.
OldWolf2 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:05:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
related fact: this is the source of the word algorithm
blacktiger226 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:17:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, to be precise, the words "Algorithm" and "Logarithm" come from the name of the Muslim mathematician al-Khwarizmi, which means: "The one coming from Khawarizm".
His wiki is also worth reading.
HEpennypackerNH ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 19:34:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and then the sonofabitch emailed me to ask me about very exciting opportunity for business
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:03:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thats one bad ass baby
Raszagal ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:33:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it worked because no one expected that from a baby
compugasm ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:30:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Real life Darth Vader.
rj20876 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 22:39:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, Vader would be turning around, killing the Egyptians, and becoming number 2 to the Khan.
TrueMrSkeltal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:40:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Side note, I think it's worth noting that the Mongol Empire(s) were so vast and powerful that they threatened part of Africa. Africa of all places.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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blacktiger226 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:17:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Baibars is one of the most bad-asses of Muslim history. He succeeded in beating the asses of both Mongols and Crusaders several times. He was also a close friend and rival of Qutuz.
Some sources say that Qutuz was going to hand the throne of Egypt to Baibars anyway after defeating the Mongols, but Baibars was too impatient and assassinated him on their way back to Egypt.
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blacktiger226 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you have some inaccuracies in your story. First, there was the King Al-Saleh Ayyub, he was a descendant of Saladin, he died while the empire was fighting against the 7th Crusade and the threat of the Mongols was starting to form. His bad-ass wife Queen Shajarat Al-Durr hid his death and ruled the kingdom pretending that he is sick. Until, the armies defeated the Crusade and captured the king of France Louis IX. She married the Commander in Chief Aybak and installed him as the king. But later assassinated him and got assassinated as a result. This left the throne empty for Qutuz to take.
Now Qutuz and Baibars were rivals, yes. But they were not enemies. Each one was a leader of a Mameluk faction, it is as if one of them was leader of the Army and the other leader of the Marines.
If you are interested, there is a very famous novel about all of this, called (Oh my Islam), I recommend it greatly as it is a masterpiece of modern Arabic literature, this link has an English translation of the novel as an e-book.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/translation-by-diana-bayoumi/oh-my-islam/ebook/product-17524458.html
runningwithsharpie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just read his wiki. Bad asssery confirmed
__KODY__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's some Count of Monte Cristo shit right there.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would totally watch a 3-hour long movie about him with sweeping mountain panoramas and epic battle scenes.
soullessgingerfck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That baby's name?
Conan
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is so cool I liked Qutuz's page on facebook.
RobertDaniels1 ยท 4796 points ยท Posted at 12:09:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest known star has a diameter greater than the orbit of Uranus around the sun.
[deleted] ยท 501 points ยท Posted at 17:23:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's up for debate as to which star is the largest so far, as tools to measure these things aren't quite that accurate yet, but I think you mean UY Scuti, which would go beyond Saturn's orbit at its largest calculation.
Or NML Cygni, which at its largest calculation would reach beyond Jupiter.
kalg ยท 532 points ยท Posted at 18:48:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a cool graphic for it. The Sun is in panel 3.
ebmoney ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 19:05:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Sincerely, thank you. That's incredible perspective, and incredibly hard to wrap my mind around.
oarsof6 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 21:50:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Try looking through The Scale of the Universe, which exponentially tracks the observable universe to a single string.
brokenplasticshards ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:43:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's really cool. Here is a better version of it, from NASA, and better resolution.
ItsAFuckingCrocodile ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:47:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fuckin minecraft world...
Radek_Of_Boktor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. The AM Radio wavelength is way bigger than I thought it was.
ShenaniganNinja ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:38:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you like this, I think you'll enjoy this video giving a visual representation of the mass of some black holes. It's insane. https://youtu.be/QgNDao7m41M
leadingthenet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:05 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:25:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, one of those stars is called ''big dog''
CunderscoreF ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:54:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah seeing as how my brain can't even understand the true size of our sun. I'm pretty sure graphics like this are what cause aneurisms.
ladyoflate ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:30:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel literally and truly sick to my stomach from trying to think about it.
ImmortalImitator ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a math teacher, this confused me for a bit.
Traumfahrer ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:34:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Confused me aswell. You'd think this wouldn't happen for a scientific info graphic like this.
Hold_onto_yer_butts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:00:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN
TFTC20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brian Regan is such an under-appreciated man.
Freddie_Hg16 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:45:53 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There.... There's a star named Betelgeuse? If you say it's name 3 times does a supernova occur where you are?
shark2pus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:50:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm correct Mars isn't that small relative to the Earth
kalg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:56:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It seems about right. Here's an image from NASA. A better one here.
Docaroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well by diameter yes but volumetrically it is... There is a large drop in volume for what appears to be a small drop in diameter.
Iauol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even. That's just so BIG. WHAT THE HELL.
Imagine humans moved to the biggest one. Like what the hell
AndydaAlpaca ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:33:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is, I do believe, what she said.
Iauol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was waiting for that. I wrote it that way for the joke. Finally
SuicideByStar_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely have to at night.
Zandrick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:05:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The < and > are backwards and that's annoying, cool graphic otherwise.
Groveybear ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:27:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure they're just arrows..
jyrous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch, my reddit hasn't crashed that hard in a while, but thx for this
noodlefist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Those are some damn good lookin' oranges.
zandburger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that's cool
heyimthecatlady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of images have always made me feel scared. I don't know how to explain it. The thought of something that is incredibly MUCH bigger than whatever I could possibly imagine, and knowing it exists... we're just nothing compared to the rest of the universe
Pettycash80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is Betelgeuse beetle-Juice? Orion's top right shoulder?
Snarfler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Picture so big my iPhone won't open it.
charleez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fucking Christ. Cannot get my head around that.
Changoleo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! That's a great layout. I've been fascinated with this gif for a while now, but it kinda loses it's credibility by the end.
its2ez4me24get ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Their use of the > symbol bothers me.
1nsaneMfB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I lost my sense of scope as soon as I saw the little blue Sirius dot on pane 4.
KingToasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Space is way too big.
charleez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Giant balls of burning gas in space are also way too big.
SanguisFluens ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where's OP's mom on this graphic?
happydish ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:25:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This video is a couple years out of date, but gives you a good idea of scale https://youtu.be/OaA4KIPjghQ
Shugbug1986 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Would sun's like these have larger Goldilocks zones?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good question, I don't know if they would or not. I'm not in any way qualified to answer that question. I'm just an enthusiast.
Shugbug1986 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah alright. I asked the astronomer lower in the thread, maybe he'll know!
WutangCND ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The size of the universe literally makes my head hurt trying to make sense of it. IT JUST DOESNT MAKE SENSE!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
UY Scuti-booty
gladuknowall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They said "known". Of course it has to be up for debate. We do not know what is at our own ocean's deepest depths. There is no way-none- that we can even begin to guess at what the largest star in space is. "known"
Syndesmosis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is still incredible, considering that Jupiter is 1 billion miles away from Earth.
elyisgreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canis Majoris got knocked down?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In a way, they found bigger stars.
Edit: I was wrong, well, yes they did find bigger stars, but they also measured VY Canis Majoris more accurately and found that it's not as large as they originally thought.
Leharen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about VY Canis Majoris?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it's third largest now, after the two I listed.
Edit: I was wrong, they measured VY Canis Majoris more accurately and found that it's not as large as they originally thought.
nakedjay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a recent Hubble image of UY Scuti
emptyshark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's still terrifying.
mrgofuckyourselfs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I though VY Cannis Majoris was the largest star
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:32:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got the reference, for what it's worth.
cj121300 ยท 4759 points ยท Posted at 12:28:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still smaller than OP's mom's anus
OPs_Mom_and_Dad ยท 4795 points ยท Posted at 17:03:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:(
QutatogWrotack ยท 127 points ยท Posted at 19:06:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't listen to him OP's mom. You're a very nice lady.
Toogoodtotroll ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 19:41:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You desperatly need sex, don't you?
A_favorite_rug ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're redditors. We thirst for it more then a man lost in a desert for a week without water.
budgie15 ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 20:28:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why would a man lost in a desert for a week without water thirst for sex?
Toogoodtotroll ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 20:32:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because sex.
LoL4Life ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:48:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burning Man?
sjm6bd ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:52:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They've got penicillin for that now
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burning Man.
I_AM_ICEFROG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:29:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about? Don't we all fuck 55DDD supermodels every night?!
sjm6bd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You banging Tess Holiday? Bc 55 DDD is a biiiig girl
SheepSheepy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:18:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
55 is the circumference of the chest below the boobs in bra terms.
To put it in perspective, the most common band size of redditors is 30-32.
I_AM_ICEFROG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thatsthejoke.boobm
You could have at least provided fap material to support your argument!
xERIKTH3REDx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was hoping this thread would be about astronomy
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well. I said that in space.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like dropping a pencil down a mineshaft
Azcarate98 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:41:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
iebarnett51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Out of this world!
L1ttl3J1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And so roomy!!
railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
With a very nice anus
chiefbroom62 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 18:11:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't this be on /r/beetlejuicing?
ReverseSolipsist ยท -28 points ยท Posted at 18:17:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shouldn't this be on /r/shillingASubredditTryingToActNatural?
chiefbroom62 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:29:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, I'm not really sure if that was supposed to be insulting or not. Is this a reddit elitist joke?
ReverseSolipsist ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 18:37:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know man. He just thought something and typed it out, and it made me think something ("looks like he's shilling and trying his best to look like he's not") and I typed it out.
It's not any deeper than that.
Why_Did_It_Stop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:55:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ooooh shit deal with it ๐
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the hood in the hood in the hood
mr_suppaman_not_here ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burn?
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/DontNameASubWithALongNameOrYouGetThis
LongBeachfortyfive ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:15:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok buddy, at least your dad's still nice and tight!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But who gives a shit about the milkman these days?
Floyddit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it burn, mommy?
FosterTheFool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're not angry with you, just disappointed.
Terrible_Ty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I literally love to see when you post comments, even when they are in response to hurtful things like this, they never fail to make me laugh.
LoneWolf67510 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There you are!
Schneid13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:35:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry Mr. And Mrs. OP, I'm sure Uranus is swell!
dmt267 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Highest comment score I've ever seen for just a smiley WTF
rex2oo9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My username is not relevant :(
AYJackson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is Dad frowning?
simbordski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/beetlejuicing
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So...you guys free later tonight?
leroyyrogers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sure OP's dad is sad about that?
infez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
GunBrothersGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, just means your dad has huge girth.
McBenjalam5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So many upvotes and you're still sad?
Durdel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow i love reddit.
Dante_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Figures they'd have a joint account...
porgy_tirebiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be sad! OP's dad is hung like a red supergiant!
Fretboard_panic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do people make throwaway accounts with relevant usernames just to get upvotes or gold?
cattaclysmic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At least Dad has something to be proud of I guess...
NAMASTE_BITCHES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cheer up, OPs_Mom_and_Dad. Medical science is making great strides in anal reconstruction surgery.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, are you the mom or the dad?
EarthwormOverworld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you kids say these hurtful things.
Csimensis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seems legit.
TmickyD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That moment when you get burned so hard you get compensated for the damages...
ThatOneLegion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this not a throwaway?
willfulda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:03 on November 25, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/retiredusername
Yiaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
name checks out
RomanCessna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Redditor for 83 days, username checks out.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:29:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
SJC-K ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 18:25:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha that user name!!!!!!!
ProfessorStephenHawk ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:34:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Star TRekt
lbmouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Urektum
DA_BLING ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:17:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
quickconclusion ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:11:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
me too thanks
LuciferianAntichrist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, from the divine asshole.
nidenikolev ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
Anonymous472 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:52:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ftfy
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:24:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...Damn near killed him!
I'll see myself out...
idma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Zing
jaunsolo29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
OozhassnyDevotchka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this science? I can't tell.
ElBravo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
aayyy
Hattless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That could be true if it prolapsed and went inside out. Then the only thing not in is is what's 'in' it.
D0UFEELLUCKY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DING DING.
que_pedo_wey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---> /r/shittyaskreddit
indigoreality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not after I'm done with her
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sik bern
djtothemoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
imprezafan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit!
GeneralHoneyBadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damnnnn shots fired!
tuckeran1999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit!
TheFeshy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's like throwing a hot dog into that deep void between stars.
Alan_Smithee_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like throwing a hotdog down a hallway, except with poop.
asleeplessmalice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best one.
ANAL_PROLAPSE_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:08 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
SuperCrusader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ADAM!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I say god damn.
Coffee-Anon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God damn. I haven't heard a funny, original "Uranus" joke or "your mom" joke since grade school. Thank you sir.
ArsenalOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about the rest of her?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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annoyingone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:24:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Galactus is born...
Kylekins47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
shots fired
Ninjahkin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:39:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's no moon...it's your mother's butt hole.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Have an upvote you hilarious bastard
Ducie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:53:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aaayyyy
working878787 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:55:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Urprolapse in the Andromeda galaxy
PM_ME_YOUR_TEXTBOOKS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:05:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rekt.
illuminates ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:11:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
snap YES!
stinkpantsslim ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:26:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
really? you just had to do that cj121300?
cj121300 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:30:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't have to. I wanted to. So I did it.
Trelifaxx1640 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:34:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Smaller yet than OP's
Tomyoker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shots fired!!!!
ColorlessCanine ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:57:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Especially after you were done with it, amirite
xkillxcausticx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:05:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ayyyyyyy
tmolesky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:09:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
best comment ever
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:11:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goatse
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:42:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
eRekt.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 14:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BURNNNNN
Billz2me ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There will only be 8 planets left after I destroy Uranus.
stakoverflo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:17:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As mind blowing as that is, honestly, it blows my mind more knowing that we are able to know of its existence without having ever really left our own planet.
Mcquiz ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 16:24:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This doesn't sound so mindblowing until you realise how much of the Solar system is just space.
Narcissistic_nobody ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 18:03:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, that's why they call it space
Geekmonster ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:11:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You think space is big? Try pressing tab.
Skyrimnuggets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go home.
Mcquiz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Captain Smartass.
jnicho15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But we are still in a 'dense' area. It's really quite amazing.
yungtrike ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is fucking insane.
tuigger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's nothing compared to the largest black holes. Check out this video; that shit will blow your mind.
THUMB5UP ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
e1ioan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:24:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Just to put that in perspective, watch THIS video, traveling at the speed of light away from the sun. Wait until Uranus.
Edit: I forgot that stops at Jupiter. Thanks /u/purple_monkey58 for reminding me.
Jupiter to Saturn is another ~36 minutes.
Saturn to Uranus is another ~80 minutes.
So, you would have had to watch the screen for another 1 hour and 56 minutes after Jupiter to get to Uranus.
purple_monkey58 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:58:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It stopped after Jupiter
e1ioan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:10:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jupiter to Saturn is another ~36 minutes.
Saturn to Uranus is another ~80 minutes.
So, you would have had to watch the screen for another 1 hour and 56 minutes to get to Uranus.
purple_monkey58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you said to wait. And it never came
e1ioan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, you can stop waiting now :-) I forgot that stops at Jupiter, it was long ago when I last watched that video.
purple_monkey58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. No big deal man. Plus on top of being a cool video. You also taught me something I was curious about reddit but not enough to look up. That if someone edits something I replied to I get a notification. So thanks
xXdeathstar101Xx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:00:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then you have to realize how big our solar system really is.
Sir_Doughnut ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:23:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bit unfair, as it's nothing like our sun, and more of a matter of definition.
Qwertyllama ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:16:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
explain?
Sir_Doughnut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:21:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average gas density of these huge stars is about 10mg / m3, whereas for the sun that's 103 kg / m3, so 5 orders of magnitude less.
The_FanATic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that like 7 orders of magnitude less?
Milligram Centigram Decigram Gram Decagram Hectogram Kilogram
And 103 = 1000 so really we can say that the huge stars are 10mg/m3 and the Sun is 1,000,000,000mg/m3.
So yeah, more than 5, right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
_WarShrike_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And for a general idea of how thick that is, Air here on Earth at 1 ATM just over 1 kg/m3
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5, please.
Qwertyllama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:33:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One star is denser than the other. So even if one star's volume is much larger, the difference in the amount of matter between the two might be a lot smaller than you would assume.
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
fakehalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy would be an even more crazy thing to think about. Super big and super dense.
aykontakt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:49:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's mostly hot air though.
RepairmanmanMANNN ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:34:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
99% hot gas
smegoodle ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:39:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1% evil
swigglediddle ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:28:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seaweed. 50% Sea, 50% Weed
Dramatic_Kiwi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:39:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And 100% reason to Remember the Name.
bearsnchairs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:45:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plasma. it is too hot to be a neutral gas.
RepairmanmanMANNN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SpongeBob quote
TrillianSC2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But to truly appreciate this you must have a sense of appreciation for the scale of the solar system. The distances involved are a holy shot moment in themselves.
This helps
-MaJiC- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is insanely huge. I don't think most people comprehend how far away Uranus even is. I know I have a difficult time with it
deckhandcalypso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As awesome as this is, I'm also left feeling midly uncomfortable. Is that a subreddit? r/mildlyuncomfortable ? Should be.
Childs_Play ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that sounds insane and i dont even have a good context for the size of that. i just know that the distance from my school to my home is far as fuck.
cheetah__heels ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:32:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is...terrifying.
neongreen3395 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While forgetting what thread I was in I thought about what you just said and all I could think was "holy shit no way"... Nice
hardkorg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was bigger than our entire solar system.
RagingNerdaholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oblig. Pluto has not completed a single revolution around the sun since it was discovered.
LoveTheBriefcase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
first i thought you meant the distance between uranus and the sun and was like "meh". then i thought you meant it was the size of the ellipse uranus takes and i was impressed. then i realised you meant the whole length it travels around the sun. wow
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The astronomer who named Uranus called it Myanus. Fact.
finnfinnfinnfinnfinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that big?
mateoismo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind... Blown.
WhatWasWhatAbout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The. What.
crapfapnap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Circumference?
guchmatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
uy scuti?
ManofMaple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you line up dollar bills from the US National debt end to end they reach about half way from Neptune to Uranus. Also, space is 99.999968% empty space
deckhandcalypso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As awesome as this is, I'm also left feeling midly uncomfortable. Is that a subreddit? r/mildlyuncomfortable ? Should be.
Nareeng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much greater?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a yo-mama joke
lordpsymon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
VY Canis Majoris?
markevens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the largest known black hole has an event horizon over 5 times the diameter of the solar system.
flyersfan314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what? Link?
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
mikeybmikey11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky way is the size of the orbit of Neptune!
igame2much ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only one that really made me say holy shit.
pavetheatmosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is even more unbelievable if you even have a little bit of a grasp on the scale and distances in the solar system
Goat_Legged_Fellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
jetsetter023 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This literally made me say "Holy shit" out loud. Not remembering that I had clicked on a post about holy shit facts. Good job sir.
Colonel_bigcock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
โน๏ธ
Nimtolien712 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
computerpoor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well since my anus is technically riding around the sun on the Earth. . .
throw-away_catch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This stuff is so amazing. We are dwarfed by our planet. Our planet is dwarfed by the sun. The sun is extremely dwarfed by that. Something so big. So massive. It's unbelievable
hamfraigaar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The smallest star has a drinking problem and is desperately trying to stay relevant
Pidgey_OP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you say:
are you talking Uranus distance from the Sun at Ap (radius of orbit) or are we talking distance from Pe to Ap (diameter of orbit)?
ThreeHourRiverMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'd say that meets this requirement. Where is it?
xXDigital_DecayXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Believable.
thedeftone2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
TheSliceman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like there is a yo-momma joke somewhere in here, but I just cant find it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ayy lamao?
Indie_uk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only time I've ever seen a post like this without "Except OP's Mom's Uranus" as the top reply
Ronan3463 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Space never ceases to amaze me
duncanthrax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, just how big is Uranus anyway? = )
acm2033 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's amazing, because Uranus is twice as far from the sun as Saturn... which is twice as far again from the sun as Jupiter....
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
zaklco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the planets in the solar system would fit between the earth and the moon
Dasaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. I did the calcuation of that before and it's a lot smaller. Doing a quick google search:
It's diameter doesn't even come close to Uranus:
19.2 AU is the distance from the sun to Uranus. So the size of Uranus's orbit would be about double that: 38.4 AU.
VY Canis Majoris would fit inbetween the Sun and a little bit past Saturn. It falls short by 6 AU of Uranus's orbit radius so there's no way it's bigger than it's diameter.
howdoyoudance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This just blew my mind. I just went outside to look at saturn and trying to imagine all that empty space being one enormous star is insane. Honestly, I can hardly fathom this.
Rufinatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yours or mine?
wishboone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I non-verbally mouthed "what. the. fuck."
Not even an English speaker.
Helomyname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pfff, maybe uranus
Always_One_Upped ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My brain just broke trying to comprehend that size.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually smaller than I imagined them to be.
ozher ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which Hollywood star? Lololol
I'll see myself out
McLovin804 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:56:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rosey O'Donnell
Nickd3000 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:38:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe Uranus.
MarieMarion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:04:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... Holy shit.
ChicagoFaucet ยท 1887 points ยท Posted at 20:39:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
โA billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. โRobert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997โ
[deleted] ยท 170 points ยท Posted at 00:19:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, he Drapered the shit out of that shit.
Ebonic_Plague ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:26:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then he Drapered the shit out of some scotch then Drapered OP's mom
EinherjarofOdin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:03:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He drapered her in the mouth.
bucki_fan ยท 242 points ยท Posted at 00:12:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of the dozen times I've seen this question this year, this is the first one to truly shock me.
Wow we are a bunch of fat-asses
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 01:27:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well there is like 8 billion of us.
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not in 1997 though
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:08:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
5.68 bill in 1997 according to Google, so slightly less than 1/5 of people (assuming 1 coke/person/day) on the planet were drinking coke.
hokie_high ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or they just happened to sell a billion Cokes the previous day, which weren't all drank in one day.
Kayhoov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cha-ching
spore ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:41:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What can I say? I like Coke for breakfast
nofocusing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself. I can't drink soda....I miss it. :(
ThatGuyWhoTrollz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Diabetes?
nofocusing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Hiatal hernia with horrible GERD mixed in there. Can't have caffeinated or carbonated beverages, no fried foods, no heavy red sauced foods, no spicy foods, no chocolate. If I do then I basically wake up choking on stomach acid in the middle of the night. It sucks horribly. Like, I'd only wish this on the worst (extremely evil) people. But I'm healthier overall because of it so I got that going for me I guess.
ThatGuyWhoTrollz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:18 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, well that's no good.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 04:08:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself...i don't drink soda...im also pretty ripped
whalemango ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:39:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He must have waited until just the right moment to say that.
"Sorry, could you repeat that? What happened a billion seconds ago?"
"Well, now it's a billion and seven seconds ago, so nevermind. You've gone and ruined it."
FlaconPunch ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Beatles changed music for 10 continuous years so not really
whalemango ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:39:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You must be fun at parties.
Dannovision ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:51:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Might be my favorite so far. Even though there are many really grwat facts in here. This one really seems to holy shit my brain. Big mumbers are crazy.
corrosive_substrate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That guy drinks entirely too much Coca-Cola.
Voxel_Brony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:41 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit Cola Georg
RedAccount1330 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:23:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Gonna need to see the paper work on that one. I doubt they can make a billion Coca-colas a day.
IZ3820 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He thinks human life is a little more than 100,000 years old?
mehwoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:41 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly right, depending on your definition.
IZ3820 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:18:13 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Homo sapiens isn't "human life," the genus Homo is. Homo has been around for a rough million years.
mehwoot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:41 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a technical distinction that deliberately differs from how the majority of people would interpret the sentence. He clearly means modern humans and in that respect he is correct.
IZ3820 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:35 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't. It's only "clearly" what he meant when you know the time period.
mehwoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:28 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
First line:
99% of the time when someone uses the term "human" they mean "modern human".
IZ3820 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:12 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But when someone says "human life", they usually arent referring to modern humans.
lexoheight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that Coca-Colas consumed or manufactured?
Skooning ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:56:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
ScientificMeth0d ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:24:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And now I'm headed to the store to buy more Coke.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
psykadelikpanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that freaks me out most about this is how long its been since he said that. I feel like our consumption has only gone up since 1997
ifonlythiswasnothot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some countries doesn't have clean water. It's almost gets unrealistic that how unequal the privileges are and life isn't at all fair.
suggests_going_naked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:34 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just ask google "1000000000 seconds in years" and I get "31.7097919838 years".
CoolGuy54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:41 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's about one coke a week for every single person on earth.... Huh, I guess that's about right...
Clausewitz1996 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo.
Really?
RawrYoFace ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
False. "Modern" humans have only been around for the last 100 000-250 000 years. (Heavily debated)
edit: fucked up and am wrong, I read years. Downvote the piss out of me.
trg0819 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...which is about 114,000 years
RawrYoFace ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:53:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it my brain read years. Ill take my downvotes and leave.
xana452 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's... so sad.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 00:13:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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ThickSantorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like /r/conspiracy.
Oh, wait... they're the same thing.
[deleted] ยท 2638 points ยท Posted at 11:14:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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The_Hof ยท 1212 points ยท Posted at 15:09:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, it worked!
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 970 points ยท Posted at 15:20:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because they stopped using goats as pilots.
HoneyBadger115 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:05:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goats make bad pilots. You should use dogs instead!
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:00:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Attention passengers, the captain would like to remind you that the no smoking sign is on and to tell him he's being a good boy and... holy shit, he's eating his own poop!"
Thorolf_Kveldulfsson ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking ridiculous that they didn't think of this. I mean dogs have been to space -- what have goats ever done?
HoneyBadger115 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:43:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scream and pretend to die....
hablomuchoingles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:11:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They make good religious sacrifices though.
HoneyBadger115 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Um excuse me but you have heard of our great human god Talos?
Sundeiru ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe that's why they sacrificed the goats in the first place.
ChronicBitRot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, that's HOW they sacrificed the goats in the first place.
RedSweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once the plane was on the ground. In flight, bad results.
puptake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...because all the goats were dead.
Soccermom233 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Inflight sacrifice light is on
zekoman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:50:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only because of an unfortunate serious of deaths
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They had to stop fucking them first tho
Kelsion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:52:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
can confirm, i was on that plane and scared shitless after i landed at the airport and read the news, we had no idea when we were waiting to take off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They probably didn't use Hong Kongs most difficult runway to land.
akashb1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
USERNAME CHECKS OUT!
I never thought I'd be able to say this
Edit: Mine, that is.
aykontakt ยท 201 points ยท Posted at 15:25:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Russia men in dresses sprinkle water on military weapons to make them kill better in the name of their god.
Link
britishball ยท 396 points ยท Posted at 15:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Item name: Russian army AK
Item class: ranged
Base damage: 100
Item effects: +20 holy damage, X2 damage against capitalists and kebabs.
Calamity701 ยท 231 points ยท Posted at 16:34:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bard Class in PVP Raid https://i.imgur.com/3EsS0kk.jpg
Wizzard in mass PVP https://i.imgur.com/bdoyF5v.jpg
High level cleric in PVP Zone https://i.imgur.com/9CqG1s0.jpg
PVP players enjoying a minigame while queueing for the next battle https://i.imgur.com/EAW71MT.jpg
GeneralJabroni ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:08:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love this. There should be a subreddit for this, like /r/MMOIRL or something.
britishball ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:28:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Try /r/outside
Sebws ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just created it! I'll start working on it when im done at work.
AerThreepwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can I be a mod? But I don't want to actually do anything.
Sebws ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Help me get some content in there and you'll be a mod before you know it :D
AerThreepwood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:52:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly missed the second part of that.
Sebws ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was worth a try. We're clearly both too lazy.
GeneralJabroni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice! Just stole some content from the comment above mine :)
R34R34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shoulda put a picture of No Russian as the minigame. Too soon? For those that don't know, No Russian was a mission in CoD:MW2 where you basically staged a terrorist attack on a US airport and gunned down innocent civilians.
Pickle_Ops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
TheAlmetto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/outside/top/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
w/e
HaoBianTai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's called a Kalishnikov!
hakuna_tamata ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
- 10% chance to hit
itz4mna ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:15:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure Russia worships the same god as the West.
syanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:30:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Almighty Dollar?
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not much different than Christians, really.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russians are orthodox. The water the priest is sprinkling on the guns is considered "blessed" by God via the priest, and is usually used to "spiritually cleanse" the church attendants or even babies during baptism and couples soon to be married.
However, in Russia, priests spiritually bless war tools, apparently.
Source: family is orthodox.
waigl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's what Americans do with their guns:
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/ar-15-crusader-u-s-gun-maker-devises-isis-proof-weapon/
(Very tasteless, IMHO.)
ZeroInfinity101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
boringOrgy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not really a dress. I was picturing some Spetsnaz type of Russian man in a fairy outfit and a wand that squirts out water waving it on a submarine or fighter jet.
Nalivai ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:18:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They sprinkle water on a fucking spacecrafts! Always gets me: rocket science, goddamn spacecrafts, and some primitive cultic shit
ItsComrade ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:29:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We made a nice containment subreddit for you, right this way friend /r/atheism
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:32:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like business was baaaaaaaad
aggravated_owl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The safety commission had the wool pulled over their eyes.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did it work?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned from Viktor Navorski that you need to be certain about translations. Maybe it's not "goat".
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You've goat to be kidding me.
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
InterimFatGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As it turns out, all they needed to do was give their flight computer more RAM.
Rvrsurfer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is Lukla airport (Hillary/Norge) http://youtu.be/NKED_3FA7c4 in Nepal. I flew in here. I would have sacrificed a herd of them fuckers.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Nate1492 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you actually get nipple PMs?
_PM_ME_YOUR_NIPPLES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the U.S. the president(s) will invoke God on a daily basis to help their country.
audacesfortunajuvat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And yet the Cubs haven't won a World Series (it's not the roster, Theo!)
Huitzilopostlian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a northern Mexican I have sacrificed a few myself, I just rubbed oil, butter and spices and slow roast them for several hours, while me.and the tribe chug a few beers, once its ready, we keep chugging down beers along with the sacrifice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
im glad i read this after taking nepals airline.
landing in nepal at night is kind of fucked because there are no lights when you land, they just tell you youre landing and then all the sudden you hit the ground
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Changoleo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Well done. My initial thought was "That's more like a WTF fact.", then it dawned on me that that may be holiest shit in the thread.
*edit: After scrolling down a bit, I came across quite a bit of holy shit. Holy practices are holy shit inducing.
jwario ยท 3468 points ยท Posted at 14:02:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's only one country between Finland and North Korea
aykontakt ยท 3681 points ยท Posted at 16:16:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putinland.
[deleted] ยท 2589 points ยท Posted at 17:06:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worst.....amusement park.....ever
TheOffTopicBuffalo ยท 1226 points ยท Posted at 18:43:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want to get off Vladimirs wild ride
Khorlik ยท 223 points ยท Posted at 20:02:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
T H E R I D E N E V E R E N D S
RogueRaven17 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:52:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pass the krokodil, this place sucks!
AndydaAlpaca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:37:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never
tom_0334 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a story about a man named Stanley.
pikaluva13 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:39:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this said "The river runs red", referencing Vladimir from LoL, thought that was odd to include, but I guess it'd still have been semi-relevant considering the Putin conversation.
AbsintheEnema ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:59:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gulag for u
18Feeler ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:52:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nyet
zGoldenGiraffe ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:42:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want to get off on Vladimir's wild ride.
UnknownUser404 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:01:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something, something shirtless on a grizzly.
HelloGoodbye63 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:24:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something Something Putin on a Ritz
Glycerine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me to!
CornHusker752 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:36:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Get out of Stalin's house of horror as fast as you can
iop90- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only God can left you off
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, Crimea river.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Vladamir Kojima
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds dirty.
TrollJegus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ONLY THE DEAD CAN KNOW PEACE FROM THIS RIDE.
termanader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slow down, life is Russian right passed you.
reatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Rollercoaster Tycoon.
scotchycaldwell ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:05:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on who you ask.
http://www.centralmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/376509_Russia-Putin.JPEG-0b4a8.jpg
Derf_Jagged ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:31:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At least they serve alcohol
manamachine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:52:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean this one? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/vladimir-putin-opens-russian-military-disneyland-patriot-park
SilasTheVirous ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:07:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Poutineland?
1AmBobby ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:29:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Best.... amusement park.... ever
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Came here for this.
StealthNL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:04:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how simple it is to convey an image, voice and tone through text. That in itself was a holy shit moment for me.
Jarl_Ballsack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*best
mapbc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good name for a brothel though.
rennaps4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Once went and was grabbed by the balshevics.
RRettig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hear they have tigers wandering around instead of ice cream stands, and instead of rides you just eat potatoes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They don't sell T-shirts apparently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You only get out what you Putin.
Pariswhenitdrizzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the review Stevie
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget Stalin World.
Uugedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Idk I hear they have tanks I can play in
RedHerringxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr Bones Wild Ride
atomsapple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing but security guards and animals.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No I believe that title belongs to www.holylandexperience.com.
LBJSmellsNice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone hang been to Franz Josef Land
Raccooninmyceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You pay to have a bag pulled over your head and get tossed in the back of a van
putinland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I take much offense to that, Putinland has many rides of the fun variety
Tyktak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Abusement park.
fendertweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
eh, the vodka slide is pretty cool
k__e__n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it's probably better than its predecessors Leninland and Stalinland...
whalemango ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
These workers? They're not Russian workers. They have no Russian uniforms. They are merely volunteers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Poutineland, however...
derp_08 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At least it ain't gay.
TakesTheWrongSideGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:02:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bet you wouldn't say that to his face.
djdanlib ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:55:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putinland, eh? Over here in the States, we have Poutineland to the north. And it is the more delicious of the two lands.
jujubean14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putlandia
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pootisland
TardisDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I hear the Goulag is a must see attraction.
InEnduringGrowStrong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hum, I could get behind PoutineLand
fendertweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putinlandia
F4rsight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Blyatona
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putangina
potatoslasher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cuka blad nahui
joeyadams ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Put in land.
uhmerikin ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TheWinterKing ยท 296 points ยท Posted at 17:37:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or between Norway and North Korea
JimTheAlmighty ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:08:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one is more fun.
Dookie_boy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:22:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why so
JimTheAlmighty ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:33:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's further.
MrKjeksy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:29:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One small geographical line bordering Norway to Russia.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alphabetically
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:44:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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OnyxPhoenix ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:53:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If water boarders count*
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:31:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Maritime boundaries, or "water borders" don't reach further out than 230 miles...so no, it doesn't count.
EDIT: Hang on, of course /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit is right, I first read it as he thought North Korea and the U.S. shared maritime borders...
netflixandchili ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:18:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about the Diomede Islands? One is owned by the US and the other by Russia, and they're only a few miles apart
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burned on a technicality!
mahalik_07 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 18:08:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Eurozone shares a border with Brazil.
rasputine ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:22:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a 55 minute ferry ride from Canada to France.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What no there is not
rasputine ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:05:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, there is. From Fortune, Newfoundland, Canada, to Saint-Pierre (or Longlade), St. Pierre et Miquelon, France.
bluecanaryflood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:32:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be damned.
fire1299 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Netherlands shares a border with France.
Danster21 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:18:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America shares a border with Canada
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:32:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked this one up.
It's true.
suplexcomplex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America is the only country that borders Canada, the 2nd largest country in the world.
KeybladeSpirit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:15:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America, USA, and the United States are all the same country.
jhs172 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the Caribbean. It's a lot less interesting if you leave that out.
Foulcrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pack it up guys, it turns out Belgium is totally unnecessary, tomorrow will be a tough day for the map-drawing offices...
jhs172 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:02:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It seems you are unaware of St. Martin.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because of French Guiana?
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 17:21:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's only 1 country between
FinlandEast Sweden and North KoreaUlyssesSKrunk ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 18:31:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, can't believe people still think Finland is real.
treefitty350 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still think what is real?
Elranzer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:39:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More people live in Dallas than in Finland.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:40:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Dallas metro area is such a sprawly shit-hole. It is not a city. It is a mere suburban waste-land of horrid highways and strip malls.
37 independent nation states across the globe has a higher population density than that pathetic excuse of a city. The entire country of Vietnam, a country big enough that the U.S. Army got lost in its jungles in the 60s and 70s have a higher population density than Dallas.
We should stop calling suburbs suburbs, and just describe them as Dallas.
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Have visited Dallas.
potatoslasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so?
bluecanaryflood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:31:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More people live in Dallas than where?
sockeplast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was called Finland even when it was part of Sweden
Pettz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:21:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
same with norway
Coolmikefromcanada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's only 1 country between
FinlandEast Swedennorth east Denmark and North Korea[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:08:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ONE MORE FOR THE MOTHERLAND
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now the rest of the world just has to check where Finland is.
bogmansaha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! We need a country between Finland and North Korea! What should we put there?
"PUT-IN-LAND"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
die_liebe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:48:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tumangang.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:13:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Open a freaking map
Raider1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And I bet they are only worried about one of their neighbours.
thetinymoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The same one between Norway and Japan right?
PaintDrinkingPete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...and I thought the drive through Kansas took forever!
frostburner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
explain
MichaelSilverV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia is humongous big.
frostburner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But wouldn't China be in the way?
foerboerb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Russia and North Korea share a tiny border south of Vladiwostok at the Pacific.
Connelly90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also works with Norway.
SinewaveZB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and the longest straight line you can sail goes from one end of canada to the other
blaghart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are no countries between the US and North Korea.
iebarnett51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY.
Temjin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Norway extends farther north, south and east of Finland. It's also very close to being farther west.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Jewels_Vern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
And Pakistan has more population.
BeastDen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm looking at a map right now and there's no stretch of the imagination under which this is true.
Okay I take that back. If you go by a stupidly convoluted path you *could * get to N Korea from Norway by only passing through Russia, but going that route makes no sense at all
Dash_O_Cunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
Kite- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That state is called "People's Republic of Korea".
pruwyben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Finland and North Korea both border on Russia, but I think there are other countries that would definitely be considered between the two, such as China.
Shadowak47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Putins banking on them keeping his pathetic buffer state around
AfroKing23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's only 1 that separates Finland from the U.S.
TheApprentus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Desnt this mean that in winter, because there is a land border between Alaska and far east Russia, there is a time you can get into NK in a car from America, passing only two borders?
HTLX2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eastern Sweden*
Squigler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or Norway and North Korea. Zing!
Edit: old news. I'm slow.
LordDVanity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But...Finland doesn't exist?
SquidCap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is only one country between USA and Finland. One country between Finland and South Africa.. and Australia and Chile and India and China..
Noisy_Plastic_Bird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Norway also borders russia and is even further west
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sometimes we forget about how small the buffer nation between those two conflicting super powers really is.
NotHisGo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and within about 150 years of each other two short men from Western Europe thought they could conquer it.
MetalMiketh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It depends which way you go.
pici_bors ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:39 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we drawing straight lines?
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's actually no country between Finland and North Korea if you go by the sea.
jkman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:00:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Theres 4 at most. China, Russia, Mongolia, and maybe kazakhstan depending on where you draw the line. If you said there is only 1 country connecting finland and North Korea, then yes, it would be Russia.
CapWasRight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:20:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody said anything about drawing a straight line (at least in American English I don't think "between" implies that, it implies the "connected"' variant you state).
jkman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Between could have a few different meanings. I guess it just depends on the context then.
Sign_me_the_fuck_up ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:13:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also only one country between Poland and North Korea.
kaisermatias ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:19:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except Kaliningrad, the part of Russia that borders Poland, is an exclave, surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, and doesn't connect with the rest of Russia. So one would need to cross at least one other country (either Lithuania, Belarus, or Ukraine) to get from Poland to North Korea.
ice_blue_222 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is that surprising? Everybody's knows Russia is huge.
NefariousNeezy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:27:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LOL Finland doesn't even exist.
W1ULH ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:17:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or the US and Best Korea
TavorWhore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:59:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
as the bird flies, it is more like 3-4.
plokijuhujiko ยท 922 points ยท Posted at 16:50:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The ampersand ( & ), is a combination of the letters 'e' and 't'... so it spells 'et', which is just Latin for 'and'.
Coffee-Anon ยท 473 points ยท Posted at 21:06:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AND it was the 27th and final letter of the alphabet, so when school children were memorizing the alphabet, they would finish with "...X, Y, Z, and, per se, 'and'" so the phrase "and per se and" got distorted into "Ampersand"
[deleted] ยท 228 points ยท Posted at 23:42:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Catdaddypanther97 ยท 120 points ยท Posted at 01:35:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its actually fucking true. Cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand#History
PWNZ0R_P373R ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:15:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's wikipedia. IT MUST BE TRUE.
But actually I love wikipedia.
redditmortis ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen books from the sixties that gave that origin story.
encryptedinformation ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:48:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a book. IT MUST BE TRUE.
But actually I love books.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:23:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen scrolls from the 600's that gave that origin story.
PWNZ0R_P373R ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:25:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not denying wikipedia. Sorry if that was implied. Wikpedia is love, wikipedia is life.
johncheswick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The long con.
DesDubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
keplar ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:54:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is true. The first Latin-English dictionary made wrote words out by digraphs, which was fine except for when words only had one letter. In those cases it simply put the letter, followed by "per se, (the letter again)" meaning "(the letter), in and of itself" followed by its meaning. The entry for "I" for example, was "I, per se I..." and the entry for & was "&, per se &..." - and per se and - ampersand.
cashnprizes ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:38:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if the reasoning is true, but this is the extended version of the word ampersand.
Similarly, the @ symbol is called an "ampersat".
Gh0st1y ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:42:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No its called the angry mouth symbol
cashnprizes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Amperangrymouth
Big_Cow ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:32:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
H, I, J, K, ELEMENO P
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:13:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? When? Why?
Thxxk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:53:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
if you sing the rhyme, it forces you to spell out "and" because the ending wouldnt fit in the rhyme meter otherwise
plokijuhujiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you done schooled me on my schoolin'.
Whats_Up4444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"W, X Y & Z
dicemath ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 22:25:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this is also why etc. was sometimes spelled &c.
slaterous ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:41:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's insane
professional_here ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:09:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get how it is a combination of e and t...
JimDixon ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:20:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you have the fonts Trebuchet MS or Caladea installed on your computer, look at the ampersand in those fonts. They make it obvious.
KnavishFawn ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:28:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i am irrationally angered and shocked by this
Quiteso ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:49:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure you're not irrationally angered & shocked?
KnavishFawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:09 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure of anything anymore
JimDixon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:18:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are some fonts that make this obvious:
Trebuchet MS
Caladea
plokijuhujiko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a graphic designer, I always give a shout to anyone who mentions Trebuchet. It's an under-appreciated font, in my opinion.
So... SHOUT!
hellojocelyn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:18:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
woah.
cidrei ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Merriam-Webster video covering this.
crysco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know why, but I find it insanely attractive the way she speaks and moves her mouth.
1nsaneMfB ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:44:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you look closely, the ampersand looks like a little stick figure dragging his ass across the floor like a dog.
coltrain423 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Et all...
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Purgid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this not much higher up the list?! Holy shit!
hejado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's freaky.
jessej37 ยท 1327 points ยท Posted at 20:57:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The longest piece of English literature ever written is over 4,000,000 words long, was written by a single person, and is a super smash bros fan fiction.
Edit: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary-s-Worlds-Conquest
I think that this is the most current version of the story but I'm not 100% sure. It's 221 chapters and is still in progress. While looking for the link I came across a few interesting facts about the story. It's being written by a high school age male who started writing it while trying to learn English and just never stopped writing. It's over 8.5 times the length of the entire Lord of the Rings series, is currently at 221 chapters, and recommends what songs you should listen to while reading.
sickhippie ยท 855 points ยท Posted at 22:49:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And it's really, really, really bad.
Uglycannibal ยท 216 points ยท Posted at 23:22:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Has anybody gone all the way through? Maybe it gets good.
mortiphago ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 00:22:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the first million words are just an intro
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:50:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You won't believe what happened after word 2049282!
Theworstmaker ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 00:22:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody can get past the first two parts so we can't tell
hylian122 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:50:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just skipped to the last chapter and someone was coming back from a poorly worded vacation or something, but I didn't read long enough to find out who.
sickhippie ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:39:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought of The Phantom Tollbooth for some reason.
JoshH21 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:13:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was high school age and learning English
sickhippie ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:34:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's still impressive, don't get me wrong. I mean, he's been writing it for 7+ years now, and does occasionally go in and rewrite sections. I hope he's not in high school anymore, but it's got to be daunting even for him to rewrite FOUR MILLION WORDS. Yeah, it's bad, but it's still "Holy shit, some kid wrote 4,047,350 words of SSB fanfic!" I mean, that's nearly as much as the entire 15 books of The Wheel of Time. Fair play to him, eh?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:15:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found it to be much better on the second read, by which time I was accustomed to the writer's unique style and the large cast of characters. 3rd reading, perhaps somewhat less so, as although you notice a lot of clever details that you might have missed the first or second time, some of the plot holes become very distracting. That being said, the work is not really about the over-arching narrative, it is a series of self contained episodes, with the author introducing diverse themes and characters from one episode to the next. It is also a highly meta-fictional and at times satirical work, and fully understanding it is difficult without a strong knowledge of the literature it makes reference to, most notably the Pokemon universe and early 21st century Nintendo.
_im_that_guy_ ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:09:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to choose to believe that you're talking out of your ass and that you haven't read the whole thing 2+ times.
sickhippie ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:19:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/smpVmsO.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A+++
jayhawk_dvd ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 23:13:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Way to crush my dreams.
Axes_of_Evilness ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:57:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's the premise though?
TheRPiGuy ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:15:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alternative retelling of the events of the Subspace Emissary from Super Smash Bros. Brawl single player, I believe.
IamYourTarget ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:53:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
With Final Fantasy characters involved.
Blastoise_FTW ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:59:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not even close.
runean ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 01:24:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you... Versed in the content?
Blastoise_FTW ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:25:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
A little late, but yes, I read the first few chapters. It's about some kid whose parents are never around and he gets a Lucario (In the Prequel.. Yes this thing is a SEQUEL) And the Subspace army or some shit invades all their games and Master hand and Crazy hand pop up and tell them they gotta go into all the games and save the Smashers from the Subspace army.
At least that's what it was during the Earthbound section of the story. I stopped reading at the start of the Metroid section. I might get around to reading the rest of it one day.
sickhippie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From the intro: "Basically, this is an "if" version of what would've happened if the Smashers never defeated Tabuu the second time they fought him."
metalflygon08 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:48:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But he predicted Cloud!
Monster-_- ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:13:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did he predict Cloud, or was Sakurai inspired by his favorite SSB fanfic?
Aprikoat ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:09:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like, my immortal bad or..?
jm419 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:21:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I think that stands alone
DrQuint ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:50:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My immortal actually had plenty of fics of equal quality.
Honestly, these mashup fics are too common and mundane by now. It's when someone writes something like Tails Gets Trolled, something still as stupid but with clear moments of pure brilliance to them, that I truly get impressed.
456818281828 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
its honestly only pretty bad
sickhippie ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:40:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, it's not like Vogon Poetry bad, but good lord it's not good.
LeagueOfVideo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was okay. I would much rather read that than some of the things I have had to read in AP english.
sickhippie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Such as....? I'm really curious, because other than Anna Karenina most of the stuff I read in AP English was pretty good.
456818281828 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:09 on December 27, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
came here to say anna karenina
LeagueOfVideo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:13:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huck Finn, Shakespeare, the Awakening (?), etc. Basically I hated anything that was written with really weird grammar. Huck was probably the worst and I swear I could not understand half the words in that book.
sickhippie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:32:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that makes sense. I enjoyed Huck Finn, but all my family is from Missouri so the accents didn't throw me off at all. Not a huge Shakespeare fan, but I'd rather have that than this slog of a fanfic. Didn't have the (maybe) pleasure of reading The Awakening, though, so I can't speak to that. My issues mainly come from books that drone on and on without anything actually happening. You know, the ones where a few chapters in you start wondering if they were paid by the word? Les Misรฉrables is probably the worst for this, IMO.
LeagueOfVideo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting. I don't remember too clearly but I thought Les was decent in plot compared to a lot of other books. Not anything I would read for fun but it's also not as empty as something like Gatsby. It was a pretty easy read but I still thought Gatsby just had the silliest plot in the world.
sickhippie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I love the overall plot of Les Mis, but I just struggled my way through it. It seemed like there were dozens of pages of just descriptive filler between any scenes that were actually interesting. I had a lot of life upheaval going on that year, though, so that may have had something to do with it. I don't know that I'll try again anytime soon, mind you.
And yeah, I'm still not sure how Gatsby became a Great Novel. It's all a bit ridiculous and everyone feels really two-dimensional.
wraith_legion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:44 on December 3, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, it's not a pop-up book.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:53:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It sort of reeks of autism.
Illogical_Blox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is worse...
Insanecondor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Compared to that My Little Pony/ Fallout fanfiction that's also longer than LOTD, but isn't nearly as terrible, if, you know, you can get past the concept.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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sickhippie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ongoing for 7+ years, starting in high school? I bet it's absolutely fascinating for someone in that field!
[deleted] ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 01:49:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can see it now. In hundreds of years.
Students I trust you read the assigned chapters of the epic poem "The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest" by Aura Channeler Chris. Today we'll be discussing some values of the ancient society known as Planet Earth by taking a look at Chris and his loyal companion Lucario.
[deleted] ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 00:46:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you might have misused the word "literature"
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 01:40:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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whos_to_know ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Subduction ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:46:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brought to you by Adderall.
OuroborosSC2 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:35:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But is it good?
keatonatron ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:47:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No.
[deleted] ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 00:56:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If someone could write good stories, would they waste 4 million words on a SSB fanfiction?
railmaniac ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:52:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see no obvious typos or bad grammar in the first chapter - although it does contain a defensive note from the author that his original character is not a Mary Sue.
pikaluva13 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't read it, but I'll guess that it's better written than 50 Shades of Grey (which I also didn't read).
HatzHeartsIcecream ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:46:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And here I was thinking mlp fanfic writers were the epitome of that special brand of stone cold fandom do or die nerdgasm heroics.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:22:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The top 8 are all over a million words and the longest is over 2 million. In total that website has over 1 billion word of fanfiction.
HatzHeartsIcecream ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:30:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And I really don't want to put too much thought into how much of them I've read.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:32:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've done the math and I figure I've read around 2.5-3 million words of fanfiction myself.
HatzHeartsIcecream ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:34:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is the last quarter of The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest turning out to be? ))))
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:37:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha. The longest individual fic that I've read was around 250,000 words.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
My longest is the Hard Reset Trilogy (saga? epic? I don't know anymore) clocking in at about 300,000 across three main chapters, an alternate ending, a side story, and an alternate universe written by a different author.
The_Entire_Eurozone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm ashamed to admit that I once read a 500,000 word fanfic in one go... It wasn't even that good. Was just desperate to find something good to read after drawing from the bottom of the well.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:10:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But can we have a link? My curiosity is killing me.
zilas11 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:24:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary-s-Worlds-Conquest
dwrlewis ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 00:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit...4,000,000 words. Throughout my entire university course, my combined essay writings over the period of three years should add to around 150,000. They dedicated themselves to a fanfiction equivalent to nearly 27 years of university essays...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy. Shit.
I_am_become_Reddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we only counting individual books? The Wheel of Time is 4.3M words according to this random site from Google. It probably would have been longer if Robert Jordan hadn't died toward the end.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:09 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if we aren't counting individual books, then there's a whole shitload of ghostwritten pulpy fiction series, you can't compete with those.
Cobbleking32486 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:07:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what is it?
shawric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a lot of words.
greymalken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Link?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
SirJaycub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think ill wait for the movie.
Adiost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How long would be a tldr?
Pangolin007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god this is terrible. Er... no offense. Good on him for trying. it's so bad
Ucantalas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...I've never felt like such a lazy fuck. This guy's DOING something, like really doing it. People might criticize, but fuck it, dude's learning and shit.
l_2_the_n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
... and how many 8x11 pages would that be, printed on paper in 10 pt. Times New Roman? /r/someonedothemath
Edit: Approximately 4,000 pages. 1000 words per page
pvpmasters2013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well...this was unexpected
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:17 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I were to write a generator that just strings random words together, would that be considered literature?
AxelHarver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:24 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, and I thought Worm was massive.
Pikablew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:22 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Au contraire, the longest piece of English literature is probably Marienbad My Love. More than 17,000,000 words.
http://www.marienbadmylove.com/
jessej37 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:53 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I stand corrected.
khafra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:59 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worm is only about half the length, but it's really good.
Bagatell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TLDR
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:27:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
InterspaceAlien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fox is op
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:10:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first line of the longest English literature ever written.
[deleted] ยท 436 points ยท Posted at 18:09:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.
markovitch1928 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:31:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Think they have just started again
RandomMandarin ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 01:02:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because of the new Star Wars.
querceton ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 18:32:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're going to kill someone what's wrong with doing it by guillotine over the electric chair or something ?
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 18:40:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying that that matters.
I just find it interesting, because in school we were taught that guillotines were so antiquated and had not been used in eons. When, in reality, the were used up until the decade of my birth.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:14:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guillotine is less humane to the people watching and doing.
Like-A-Cuban ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:42:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why? Because a bit of blood is somehow worse than watching someone be fried by electricity? And (correct me if I'm wrong) wouldn't the guillotine be a quicker death?
anti-kit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:28:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i guess you could argue its not about how you die, but the style of execution, you are pretty much had your head dangling to the side and looking at the basket in which you know your head is gonna land in, idk, personally if i got to choose guillotine in a death sentence i would, its prob the least painful death you could have. people have said even a lethal injection is still painful.
bishop252 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:14:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stopping your heart with potassium is pretty painful since it's essentially a heart attack. That's why they give a barbiturate and paralytic agent beforehand. The barbiturate to induce a unconsciousness and the paralytic agent to prevent you from screaming if the barb doesn't work.
anti-kit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh, i didnt know that, i guess lethal injection is the best way to go then.
bishop252 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh....I was trying to imply lethal injection is an extremely inhuman way of killing somebody since there's no way to tell whether the person dying isn't feeling pain or just completely unable to scream in agony because of the drugs.
anti-kit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:14 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OH.... i read that wrong... not so sure if lethal injection is a good way to go anymore :/
Gh0st1y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I'd prefer the guillotine.
cambiro ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Count Dooku was present at the last execution.
404_Dude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:25:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/200/do-decapitated-heads-briefly-remain-conscious
Benny_Andretti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
shout out to Charles Sanson
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was just called Star Wars. The A New Hope part wasn't added to the title until after the last French guillotine execution.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:01:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. Thank you for clarifying that.
TheodoreP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm writing a speech about the death penalty for school. This is going in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome!
SnenetianVares ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What.
Lord_Skellig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America is still executing people today.
Duskav3ng3r117 ยท 989 points ยท Posted at 15:40:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Immortal Jellyfish. "It is the only known case of anย animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual." It basically has access to the fountain of youth.
ehkodiak ยท 262 points ยท Posted at 19:22:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I've reverted to an immature stage after reaching sexual maturity :P
najodleglejszy ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 22:07:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no, you just never left it. so you were both mature and immature at the same time. like Schrรถdinger's cat, but with less cyanide and more dick jokes.
Demilitarizer ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:24:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The joke is in his hand
egus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:57:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same. Am mentally 14 year old boy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is the immoral jellyfish, not as interesting.
EvilCheesecake ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:20:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I guess next you're going to hold up a spork?
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 18:54:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This should be a lot higher because that's flat out incredible.
GeneralMalaiseRB ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 18:50:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sucks that such a miraculous characteristic is wasted on stupid jellyfish.
Akredlm ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 19:24:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm here on behalf of the jellyfish community to say that we're offended
GeneralMalaiseRB ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:25:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Truth hurts. Everyone knows jellyfish are lazy.
TyrionWins ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:16:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jellyfish lives matter!
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:31:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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cravf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:19:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not with that attitude.
UltimateToa ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:25:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like something important having this characteristic would make a pretty large impact on the ecosystem
calicosiside ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:52:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most things don't die of old age, normally they starve or get killed. It wouldnt have that huge of an impact
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
kinda makes sense tho, they do have ab extremely basic body system (I dont remember what term should be used)
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:07:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you learn about this creature from Octonauts? I learned about it from Octonauts.
MightyLabooshe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did, and so did my son.
Arxl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to be a kid again. Adulthood sucks.
Vispen24671 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, eternity as a jellyfish? Worst re-incarnation ever.
KinkySexMaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about lobsters?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Portuguese man o'war isn't a jellyfish but a colony of zooids incapable of independent survival.
edit: Just found out that not all turkeys have fathers! Apparently they are capable of parthenogenesis (virgin birth)
samjp270 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
'Murica!
JackPoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, I'm pretty sexually immature.
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like the genes would degrade over time, though. DNA-copying isn't perfect. Hell, our own genomes change as age.
Still amazing, though.
chrisonabike22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:29:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless they've solved the telomerase problem, like our germ line cells
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I smell a study.
hell_in_a_shell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean the hydra?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can be pretty immature at times.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Humans might revert to a colonial stage if Trump gets elected.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except for ops mom
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just learned about this on Grumpcade.
tmrxwoot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:12:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me irl
Thatguyfromhouse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:51:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DAE telomeres?
qngff ยท 4646 points ยท Posted at 12:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In the late 1930's during some Russian civil war, there was a group of Czechoslovakians trapped in Russia who needed to get back home. However, battle lines were drawn directly over the path home West and neither side liked them. So they decided to go East instead since the world is round. They eventually managed to get a train somewhere along the way. The soldiers on guard tried to stop them but they had a train. Guns don't stop trains. Once they it to the Pacific Ocean they got a boat and sailed to the States. From there they trekked across America, sailed to Europe, and headed straight back to Czehoslovakia. This took about 1.5 years.
Edit: Thanks to /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov for fact checking me. Amazing how they did it isn't it.
misadelph ยท 891 points ยท Posted at 14:05:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
late 1910s, but close enough. And they didn't just flee on a train from Russians shooting at them. There were a lot of them and their revolt brought down Bolshevik power across the entire Siberia and they for some time controlled the entire Trans-Siberian railroad, or something like that.
Chiromaniac ยท 617 points ยท Posted at 17:28:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hear that railroad has sick orchestra.
SuperWoody64 ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 18:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And lots of Christmas Canons
Woodstock46 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A railroad with an orchestra and canons? Sweet!
WellThey ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:27:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and filled with Christmas!!! ALL ABOARD THE CHRISTMAS ORCHESTRA CANON TRAIN!! CHOO CHOO
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:49:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A red orchestra
whomad1215 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:59:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And a pretty fantastic light show.
symbolweaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the food they serve is not very good. So the band often gets diarrhea.
TheTimeNotTheMiles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:47:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I recall correctly- didn't the US Army go and help them get the hell out?
RapedByPlushies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_Siberia
nofaprecommender ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's not what the US Army does.
Edit: Oops, I thought you asked "why" didn't the Army go and help them get out.
juandh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:12:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's exactly what it did though sort of really it was about fighting commies of course
Kniis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:29:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be made in to a movie!
Curudril ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A Czech here (Czechoslovakia divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 FYI), we are very proud of our legionaries (that's how we call these soldiers, they were basically defectors who fought against Austria). At first, they fought for Russia but after Bolsheviks took the power in Russia some misunderstandings appeared and the legionaries had to escape somehow so they basically highjacked trains and gained control over the Trans-Siberian railroad to go east because they couldn't go west, obviously. Bolsheviks actually decided to murder the Russian royal family ASAP because they feared the legionaries could try to free them. It took them between 1 - 2 years to get back to Europe using the trains. Their paths diverged in Vladivostok where some of them chose to go to the USA, some chose to go by ships through Indian Ocean, Australia etc. Many legionaries fought for the UK and France as well. Their bravery was one of the main reasons Czechoslovakia was considered a winner of the WW1.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 968 points ยท Posted at 13:51:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'll need some proof
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2762 points ยท Posted at 14:08:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
He's off by about twenty years (late 1910s, not 1930s), but he has the gist of it. It was far more than just a train though. This was a pretty large military force that controlled a vast region of Russia for a short period. The Czechoslovak Legion is one of my favorite topics! I wrote a bit about it on /r/AskHistorians waaaay back. Here you go:
Founding the Legion
Back in 1914, when war broke out, tens of thousands of Czech and Slovak expatriates lived in the Russian Empire. Their homelands were under the control of Austria-Hungary, and generally speaking, the Czechs and Slovaks weren't all that happy about this. With the declaration of war, many who were still within the Hapsburg's empire were drafted to fight for rulers who they had little love for. The expatriates, however, threw their lot in with the Entente. While Russia was the most notable location for this (and the one we'll be focusing on) there were also tens of thousands who served on the Western Front and in Italy. These were mostly ex-pats living in France, and ethnic Czechs and Slovaks from the Austro-Hungarian Army POWs captured by Italy.
But back to Russia. Sensing that this was their chance to establish a national homeland, the ex-pat community in Russia petitioned the Czar to form the Druzhina, a small fighting unit generally translated as retinue, but literally meaning fellowship. It was small, less than 800 men (although many more living in Russia would soon follow), and they were deployed to the front against the Austo-Hungarians, with an eye towards their propaganda value to encourage defections within the Czech and Slovak conscripts. And it worked! Thousands risked crossing over the lines to surrender themselves, and they were happy to then join their compatriots fighting under the Russian banner. And many who had not surrendered specifically for that purpose were nevertheless easy to recruit from POW camps. The size of the unit kept growing, first to a Regiment, then a Brigade, until finally it was an entire Corps numbering some 40,000, a mix of former POWs and enthusiastic ex-pats.
The Legion was an important component of the future Czechslovak state that was being envisioned by the Entente powers and the expat leadership under Thomas Masaryk and the Czech National Council, but while the Czech-Slovaks had something to fight for, the Russian peasant conscripts... not so much. With the Russian Revolution in early 1917, their situation got a bit precarious. Under the Kerensky government, they still had political support certainly, but the will to fight was getting sapped from the (no longer) Imperial Russian Army. They continued to be one of the most committed fighting units on the Eastern Front, but the events of November 7th threw a wrench in their plans. The Czech-Slovak leadership - both the CNC and the Legion in Russia (A term coined for them by the CNC, not what they called themselves) - made it clear that they wished to take no side in the ensuing Civil War, and simply to extricate the Legion from Russia and bring them to the Western Front to continue the fight. They had fully endorsed the Entente powers however, who promised to assist in their evacuation.
The Long Trek East
The immediate turmoil of Russia following the Bolshevik takeover placed the Legion in limbo. Fighting against the Central Powers had essentially ceased, and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March left them isolated from any sort of support. A small number were able to quickly make their way to Arkhangelsk to be evacuated by the Allied Intervention Force that had occupied the arctic port. The majority though, hoping to get out of Russia, they made the decision to trek over the entire Asian continent via the Trans-Siberian Railroad and evacuate at Vladivostok, where the Allies had also landed troops. To get there though they had to fight. Such a trip would require massive transportation capacity and control of the rails, which no one was willing to share with them. The Germans, who had advanced into Ukraine and were allied with Ukrainian nationalists attempting to take control of the region, were threatening some of the rail junctions that they needed control of in order to start moving east. The Reds, who didn't trust them anyways, were being pressured by the Germans to disarm them and prevent the massive influx of troops that they represented, resulting in open hostilities beginning in late May. Some Czechs had recently accosted a train car full of Austro-Hungarian prisoners on their way to be repatriated and lynched one of the Hungarians on board who had been hurling insults at the Czech-Sovaks, known as the Chelyabinsk Incident. This was used as a pretense to try and fully disarm the Legion, who refused to comply. While having some nominal goals in common with the White forces, there was never any real trust between the two.
Soon, the Legion was spread out along the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They couldn't all move at once of course, but rather had to break into many smaller units in order to control the numerous junctions necessary to complete their journey through hostile territory. Advance elements reached Vladivostok relatively quickly, establishing a base of operations there to support their compatriots who remained further west, building up enough rolling stock to allow them to make the journey (for more info specifically on their awesome armored train, check this previous post of mine). By September, 1918, the Legion controlled 6,000 miles of track stretched from Vladivostok all the way west to the Volga, and a massive collection of 11,000 rail cars to effect their journey (and had continued to grow, to nearly 70,000 people), but being able to now evacuate everything to the east was not going to be easy.
As, at least in theory, part of the Entente (technically they were considered part of the French Army) who was now not only fighting the Central Powers but also gotten themselves involved in the Russian Civil War, the Legion was asked to delay their evacuation, and instead to bolster their forces on the western terminus of their control and tie up the German/Austro-Hungarian forces in the region, as well as to continue fighting the Reds there. They assisted in setting up the KOMUCH in the Volga region, a socialist state that stood against the Bolshevik, but it was short lived and soon collapsed, with the Legion falling back to the Urals. Come the end of the year, the situation of the Legion again became precarious. Although the Entente remained committed to assisting in their withdrawal, the importance of the mission had become minor in the face of the whole end of World War One thing.
Homeward Bound!
Also around that time, Admiral Kolchak had become the nominal leader (Supreme Ruler of all the Russias,) of the White Forces, as head of the Provisional government (although the Whites were quite fractured). He wasn't exactly the leader of the Legion though. They were loosely allied at best, both fighting the Reds, but not always trusting each other. Through 1919, the Legion - and the Whites - were essentially conducting a slow, fighting withdrawal as the Red forces pushed east, until finally in October the Legion was given the green-light to simply pack things up and make a full break for home, as the Entente powers holding Vladivostok were preparing to evacuate and break off their support for the Whites.
As the Legion was preparing to leave for good. Kolchak's government collapsed with the capture of Omsk, his capital. As he traveled through Legion controlled territory, he was arrested by them on the orders of the Entente powers. In late January, to ease their evacuation, the Czech Legion agreed to surrender Kolchak to the Bolshevik aligned forces in control of Irkutsk, as well as to hand over a large amount of gold bullion that they had managed to take control of. After handing over the former White leader and much of the gold, the Legion was given safe passage out of region. Kolchak was executed a few weeks later, and within a month the Legion had managed to move their entire force out of Irkutsk unmolested. From there, getting to Vladivostok was rather simple, and soon ship after ship started carrying them home. It took until September 2nd, 1920 for all of them to leave the Russian soil, with the total number evacuated pegged at 67,730, including not only the soldiers but also wives, children, and hangers-on. About 4,000 of their number were left behind in the ground.
Upon reaching their new Czechoslovakian state, the Legion quickly became a core component of the new county's military. Their number were perhaps some of the most fiercely patriotic citizens of their homeland, and it is estimated that 13,000 of the former Legionnaires died during World War II either as part of the resistance movement or in German Concentration camps. Veterans would also be generally mistreated by the Soviet backed government that took power after the war, as their history of anti-Communism did little credit to them in the eyes of the state. As for the gold, there are rumors about just how much they held onto, but I don't know if any are confirmed.
Sources
The Czech Legion 1914-1920 by David Bullock
The Czechoslovak Legion by George F. Kennan Russian Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 1957), and Part II from Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1958), pp. 11-28 (If you want a summary longer than mine and have JSTOR access, I recommend this)
The Russian Civil War 1918-1922 by David Bullock
Edit: Added links.
N8-Toe ยท 282 points ยท Posted at 14:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for this well worded and cited response to the question!
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:40:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to spread the word!
TheKakistocrat ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:41:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a former student military historian with extensive knowledge of the First World War on the Western front, as well as many battlefield tours, and this was the first time I'd ever heard of the Czech Legion (for shame.) I admit the Russian Civil War has always been a massive gap in my reading and gets glossed over by many Western historians.
I was muttering 'fuuuuuuck' as I read this. This story is amazing, and could do so very well in novel or long-form television show format.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 17:49:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HBO ARE YOU LISTENING!?
TheKakistocrat ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:28:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Band of Brothers is the highest grossing HBO series in terms of dvd sales and syndication. Too bad the Czech republic doesn't have that sort of audience potential... this story is way more epic.
Imagine starting series 1 as war breaks out... series 2 in the trenches 14-16, series 3 1917 and series 4 Russian Civil War, Series 5 the retreat and final season the return home. There could be a spinoff for the veterans in WW2 and another under Soviet rule. We need the makers of the Wire with Steve McQueen directing.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would absolutely love a Band of Brothers style TV show set around the first world war.
ThundercuntIII ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:15:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sound like you already work for this hypothetical show
W00DERS0N ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:30:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Um, did no one here watch Dr. Zhivago?
hitbyacar1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For more, check out /r/AskHistorians!
GandalfTheWhey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is fantastic!
boydorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think calling it a question might be a bit generous.. But agreed, that was a good read!
PearlClaw ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 16:31:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you think you are, /r/askhistorians? Get out of here with your quality commentary. This is askreddit. Shitposting is mandatory.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 16:32:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry. My bad. I should know better.
PearlClaw ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though, fantastic comment. It's a fascinating historical period that I know very little about. Thanks for being so thorough.
klawehtgod ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry.
Did you know Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11?
kaisermatias ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Had a prof last year actually who's grandfather was a high-ranking member of the Czechoslovak Legion (on the Slovak end of things). Interesting story he had too: served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the Balkans, then the eastern front, captured and joined the legion, came back was certified as "pure Aryan" when that all happened (saw the document, very interesting) worked as a diplomat for Czechoslovakia, I believe did some spying for the west, and fled the Red Army for Canada. Even better is the prof has somewhat followed that path, working for CSIS (Canada's CIA/NSA), and lived in Russia for some time when communism collapsed.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing!
GhostShark ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was a great read, so thanks for that. A question; I had at one point stumbled across the existence of Baron Von Ungern (the Mad Baron, or the Bloody White Baron), and I am wondering what his involvement was in this situation, if any? It seems they were in the same places around the same time, if my memory serves correctly.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By strange coincidence, I quite literally finished reading James Palmer's "The Bloody White Baron" two days ago! Thumbing back , it seems that units loyal to Ungern did work in tandem with the Czechs in mid-1918. Semenov's Special Manchurian Division were badly chewed up in a series of attacks on Bolshevik held positions to attempt to help them out in July, and then later in August, they worked together to push the Reds out of the Transbaikal region with considerably more success. you should be able to access the passage here via Google books. Pages 88-89 are the extent of it.
GhostShark ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:59:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just go take the book off my shelf! One of my alltime favorite used book store impulse buys. It's been at least half a decade since I read the book though, and apparently my retention to detail isn't on the same level as yours.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was a pretty fun little book. Would definitely recommend it to anyone reading though this.
lurkeydurkey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:14:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Terrific response, thanks.
wind_stars_fireflies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:19:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was just reading about these guys in a book on Russian history. Thank you very much for the expanded info!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:43:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:46:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! If you like it, allow me to do a quick shameless plug for my User Profile in /r/AskHistorians! I love to write about things, and you can find a bunch more there!
Arstemis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow
walkerforsec ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome response; thanks a lot. I'm something of an amateur historian (I minored in it in college and now teach Russian history), and this oft-forgotten part of history is one of my passions. I immediately thought of this photo, from the Russian declaration of war in 1914. The furthest-back banner says "Freedom for Carpathian Rus'," which definitely applies to the Slovaks, if not the Czechs.
I would be interested in talking with you more about the Russian Imperial Army, if you have the time or inclination.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, TBH Red Army is more my thing, but happy to chat as I've certainly read my fair share on the WWI era Ruskies too!
_Lelantos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:52:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Thanks for the elaborate responce. I feel like I've heard a very similar story to qngff's about a Belgian motorised division that was sent at the beginning of WWI to help the Russians, but that got caught in the civil war. They ended up travelling to Vladivostok, took a ferry to the US and even joined in end-of-war celebrations in the US. Am I mixing things up or is that a whole other story?
Edit: Wikipedia link ; so I guess it is a different story
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Different story. Both the British and the Belgians send armored car detachments to Russia though, since the nature of the war was much better suited for their use on the Eastern front than the Western front.
HandsomeTar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:35:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Modern day Anabasis
Isord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds absolutely incredible and I'd like to read more. Would you recommend the David Bullock books for the lay person? I'd also like to read more about the allied troops in Russia during the civil war, if the second of his books covers that topic as well.
Professor_Hoover ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:24:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a copy of a great book called ANZACs in Archangel where the author travels to Russia and writes about the history of the Aussies who joined up to fight the Bolsheviks. There was no official involvement from our government, but they attached themselves to British units. Since I found out about the allies in Russia I've been fascinated by it, it isn't one of the conflicts you learn about at school.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullock's books are pretty easy for the layreader. Kennan's articles are much better though, IMO. Part I, Part II. I don't remember what the cut-off is, but since they date from 1957, I think you might be able to read them online for free, with no need for institutional access. Might require making a free account, but that takes only a few minutes at most.
As for the Allied Intervention, generally, any book on the Civil War should devote at least a bit to that, but if you want a focus on that specifically, "Savage Wars of Peace" by Max Boot devotes a chapter to it, although mostly just the American experience.
KelseyTheGreat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good post, and great username.
Schneid13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:43:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! That's an amazing read!
curly1022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm intrigued. Might have to look for this book!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be a movie.
RedBullWings17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
how did they get across America, 70,000 foreign soldiers and their families arriving in boats in San Fran wouldn't go unnoticed
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:02:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By train, although many actually crossed in Canada after disembarking in Vacouver. But not all of them did the overland route. Some did the whole journey by boat though, through the Panama Canal (I assume), docking in Norfolk, VA before continuing onwards. Their exploits had been well publicized though, and in the case of those on the trains, they were in some cases fรชted by locals in the towns that they passed through.
misaak8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WOO! ROAD TRIP!
which_king_of_angmar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a book by China Mieville called the Iron Council that has a similar story, I wonder if he took this as inspiration for it.
Thatasscannotbereal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by Stephen Speilberg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know of any books base on this? My father is a huge history buff, and loves reading historical fiction or history in the style of storytelling. I would love to find a book about this for Christmas.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullock's book is a brief one looking at it from a very basic perspectice. "The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922" by Joan Mcguire Mohr covers it more in-depth. That might be the one you want.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
koketsoTheLoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bless whoever read this...
heveabrasilien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have any video link introducing this subject in YouTube? I can't find any.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't watched it, but there seems to be a documentary called "Accidental Army", which I found this preview for.
cqm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hmm so they didn't get to the pacific ocean and trek across America because "the world is round"?
Greenerguns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hi! When you talk about the Legion obeying orders, who were they being taken from? It was from the entente- which one? And why? Did they owe them any allegiance, really? I'm sorry if you answered that in your post; I may have misread.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Entente Powers (aka the Allied Powers of WWI). Technically, the Czech Legion was considered part of the French Army, I believe due to agreement made between the French and the Czech National Council
Greenerguns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that is kind of odd. Thank you!
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, its been awhile since I did any reading on the Legion (wrote this over a year ago) so I'd need to go back and check on the specifics of how the system of overall command worked in practice, but they definitely were in contact with the Entente.
Greenerguns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just for fun, can you think of any comparable parallels in history? A more or less rogue group operating towards their own agenda but still obeying the chain of command from one of the major players in a large scale war?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the Polish Home Army during World War II is an interesting case. They were aligned with the Polish Government in Exile which was based on London, and allied against Nazi Germany, which obviously was occupying Poland.
But, if you recall, the USSR invaded Poland in 1939 too! So the Home Army (AK) hardly liked the Soviets any more than the Germans! The result was at best an uneasy truce between the AK, which was the largest Polish resistance org, and the much smaller Communist backed resistance groups, occasionally breaking into fights between each other! When the Soviets began entering Poland in 1944, it was a rather precarious situation, and there is plenty of reason to believe that at least in part the decision of the Red Army to halt before Warsaw and not aid the Uprising there was to allow the AK to wear itself out against the Germans and not be able to prevent Soviet domination (See Here for more on this). And regardless, that was certainly the practical effect, and when the Soviets liberated Poland, the AK was ordered to be disbanded. Not all of them did though, of course, and continued to fight their (new) occupiers into the 1950s, although obviously with no real success in the end.
So not an exact parallel, but I do see some similarities.
Greenerguns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No that's perfect! Thanks man!
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another one I thought of would be the Mexican Revolution. This post I wrote up covers a very specific part, the "Ten Tragic Days", but the conflict as a whole is filled to the brim with tentative alliances and tons of backstabbing!
The Zapatistas and Villistas especially fit your bill, being the more radical of the revolutionary groups. They basically were fighting whoever was in power, at times allied with moderate groups, only to turn on their erstwhile allies when they proved not to be reform minded enough for their liking! Good stuff!
Greenerguns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow you're killing me this stuff is so interesting thank you!!
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to be of service. I'm blanking on any other analogous situations, but I do like writing about weird stuff, and keep a compendium of 'em updated here!
nickik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:36 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. The Polish Story is such a sad one. I have been reading Alan Brooks War Diaries and he often talks to the polish commanders. You can feel that would really like to help them, but he can do nothing for them.
chcampb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy Czechs out!
AHSfutbol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So where did the boats take them after leaving Russia?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:58:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some of the boats dropped them off on the west coast of the US or Canada, after which they took the train across North America to take boats over the Atlantic for Europe. Others took boats the whole way, but either way, their end goal was Europe, and the new Czechoslovakian state.
porkswords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did they really go trekking across America to sail across the Atlantic?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I don't know if "trekking" is the right word for "took the train", but yes, many of them made it to Europe via the US or Canada.
porkswords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
xavyre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was this their own choice or did they not have enough ships or time or some other reason to get out of Russia?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By in the ground, I mean they were dead and buried. Sorry if that wasn't clear!
BlackClaw24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your username is perfect for this.
audacesfortunajuvat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I liked Snowpiercer well enough, but I feel like $40 million spent on this would be solid gold.
earthtoannie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is your name based on the general Zhukov?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, that one!
BreaksFull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Marshall always delivers!
Willdude46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This Czechs out
EverythingBurned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoted, based solely on the number of words.
jdog667jkt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating!
3g0D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How did they get from vladivostok all the way home? Moving 70 000 across the Americas doesn't feel like an easy task.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't go all at once. It took the better part of a year for them all to evacuate from Vladivostok. Some traveled across the US or Canada by train, others went by boat the whole way to Europe.
Semlohwerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a nice story, but everyone knows the world is flat.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit... you got me. I made this all up. If only I'd been sure to keep my facts straight!
TheUnimportant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm gonna need a tl;dr, I only have a fifteen minute break.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:47:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Uh... Czechs had an awesome train and kicked commie ass?
TheUnimportant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Skeltal
Luigithebeast805 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a skimmed version of this?
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:33:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TLDR
Luigithebeast805 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol
Aksi_Gu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This was fascinating, thanks!
mossbergman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:22:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is what real refugees look like.
ALudicrousDisplay ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 13:54:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion
MrMeltJr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:28:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I simply can't believe that guns don't stop trains.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
German Guns can't stop Czech Trains
varianlogic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The "Far Eastern Republic" and Japan's occupation of Siberia were ways in which the Allied powers helped the Czechoslovak Legion to escape, it did happen.
aykontakt ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:14:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And a banana for size.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice meme!
2GabbasHey ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:06:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are all wrong. It was the '70s, the group was called the Warriors and they weren't taking a train to Czechoslovakia they were going to Coney Island. Sheesh!
OK_Soda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why did they go that far? Why not just go east until they escaped the problem area, then go south and around that way?
qngff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody really liked the Czechs in that area and Africa was pretty much out of the question.
cliffordtaco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The world is round? I'm calling BS!
Zdoconnor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Guns don't stop trains" Interesting...
LovablePWNER ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:05:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's was the holy shit fact for me
maggotbrownie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:14:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite of the Russian civil wars
nirnaeth-arnoediad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! That means Czech looked better than New York!
KarateJons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! Talk about dedication. One way is blocked, so just take the really looooong way around...the world.
idma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WW2 has a ton of amazing stories like this. Even my uncle has an amazing story of swimming from China to Taiwan to avoid the draft from China. The fact that he doesn't know how to swim properly makes this even more crazy. But when you are faced with only one option and you got nothing else better to do you might as well do it, or die
raukolith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i've heard a lot of stories similar to this from taxi drivers in tw where they claimed to float on their backs while keeping their rice bowls on their front but im pretty skeptical, the strait is 110 miles across and it took a team of relay swimmers in wetsuits, with a boat to guide them, 5 days to cross by swimming
Decyde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still probably had a better trip than if they flew United.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I beg to differ: https://what-if.xkcd.com/18/
THUMB5UP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:18:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
aykontakt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holly shit. There was "some Russian civil war" in 1930ties?
drtickleshits14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck?!
Man-Among-Gods ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So they just took the long way home? Awesome story. I would love to see how similar stories would pan out at different times in history.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be made into a movie soon: Around the world in 540 days
LUClEN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's hilarious how that was seen as the easier path
PlasticGirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to some Japanese sailors that washed up on the west coast of the US before westward expansion...early 1800s I think. The Indians in the Washington area took them to a French fort in what's now Canada. No one had heard of Japan and there was no ship route back, so they French assumed they were Chinese and sent them to London. They were sent to China the long way and I think most of them made it to Japan. One I think just stayed in China.
YUNGSTAXX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My great grandfather was in that force, but instead of going all the way back to Czechoslovakia, he just stayed in Japan!
rg44_at_the_office ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I had to read that sentence 4 times over before I figured out what you were trying to say.
heywhateverguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He killed six Czechoslovakians! He was an interior decorator!
The_Original_Gronkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know you're in trouble when two sides are having a war, and both of them hate you.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
CABuendia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reminded of the Koreans who got drafted into the Japanese army, fought the Russians and were captured, were forced to fight the Germans and were captured, and were forced to fight the Americans on D-Day and were captured by some very confused Americans.
rubberbunnies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They should make a movie about their story! Wow!
mrjosemeehan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what US public education will get you.
qngff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Private education but half-remembered. My fault not the schools.
iridisss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is some Odysseus shit.
czechchequechecker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Czechoslovaks, alot of people make that mistake (myself included, and I'm from that country).
qngff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Czechoslovakia is no longer a country.
czechchequechecker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't say?
Alex7302 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd read that novel.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what? This is real? I totally thought this was going to be some fake fairy tale story.
carlitos828 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know the story of a man who travel the world in less time than those people. 80 days I believe.
timpi3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During the first world war Belgium got forced into a trench war where it couldn't use it's super modern armored cars (car+steel plate+machine gun). So they paid the British and the Americans to put them on a boat around to world to Russia. When they were almost at the Russian front the revolution broke out and they had to return the same way they came.
It's really weird that so few belgians know this because it has an entire page in the Artis Historia history of Belgium which a lot of old people still have lying around.
Gigantkranion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds more stupid than anything else to me. Why travel around the world and across the Pacific when they could have just gone around? I mean we live in a 3d world we can move more than two directions.
When I have time I'm gonna look this up cause that just sounds off to me.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:38:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
THUMB5UP ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
munky9002 ยท 4942 points ยท Posted at 11:23:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There a number of people who were in Hiroshima and survived the nuclear blast and went to nagasaki and survived the second nuclear blast a few days later.
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 3696 points ยท Posted at 12:38:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alternatively there's a number of people who survived the Hiroshima blast only to be killed by the Nagasaki blast.
patarack ยท 5081 points ยท Posted at 14:33:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also there was a guy who was killed in Hiroshima but survived the blast in Nagasaki just days later
SaltyBrotatoChip ยท 3885 points ยท Posted at 14:51:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about being killed in Hiroshima to dispute it.
ITrainWithDyroneTonk ยท 1479 points ยท Posted at 15:15:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just play more Fallout, it will all become clear.
[deleted] ยท 727 points ยท Posted at 16:39:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn smoothskins.
D_K_Schrute ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:03:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wanna ride my rocket 69
SWOLAGE ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want you in my wig wam
_paul_132 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:40:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dont want to set the woooorld on fiiiiiire
Diesel_Is_A_Dog ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:16:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I just want to start a flame in your hearrrrttt."
PixelBlaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He keeps hackinโ and whackinโ and smackinโ
Lord_of_the_Canals ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Check your privilege smooth skin.
bluscoutnoob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I support ghoul rights.
UhOhSpaghettios1963 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
quiet no-nose
teenagesadist ยท 660 points ยท Posted at 16:57:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hurf_mcdurf ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:07:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout 4 is secretly A Hideo Kojima Gameโข.
BlUeSapia ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:45:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
STANDING
hurf_mcdurf ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:49:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh boy, here it comes...
PrbablyNotEvil ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:49:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On the edge...
Delision ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Patrolling Hiroshima almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
qaxx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's pronounced nucular.
TavorWhore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
instructions unclear. stuck in video game
kbobdc3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Vault 112.
poko610 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Get out.
FemtoG ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:18:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nu-ku-lar.
It's pronounced
nu-ku-lar.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:39:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see that you are trying to make a pun here and it would be a great one except it's pronounced nukeUlar not new-cleee-R
qaxx ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:44:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's pronounced nucular.
DA_BLING ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:16:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which one?
ITrainWithDyroneTonk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:26:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All of them.
Razzman70 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:10:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Agonzy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Old clear? Or...
rg44_at_the_office ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
~ resurrect [player.ID]
ihatethelivingdead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Need more radaway
porcubot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Become a Scientologist, it will all become clear
Woymalep_Yay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
touchdown
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spoilers
findingemotive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He quicksaved right before the Hiroshima blast?
OprahNoodlemantra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout 5 should be in Japan.
ITrainWithDyroneTonk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:30:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout 5
shouldwill be in Japan.FTFY
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm predicting somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Faiakishi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:18:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm actually hoping for somewhere in central U.S. or Canada. I know Obsidian wants to do New Orleans if they get to make another game.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 95% sure it won't take place out of North America, at least. We could easily see somewhere on the border with Canada, or in Baja if they make another one out West.
Faiakishi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canada is actually part of the U.S. in the Fallout universe actually, but yeah a game there would most likely take place on the border. I'm hoping for either Midwest U.S./Canada or New York for Fallout 5. (So fucking weird to be thinking about that, 4 was but a myth not too long ago) I'd love a DLC or something outside the U.S. though. I'm kinda disappointed NV didn't have a foray into Mexico, that would have been so cool.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know it was annexed, but I always got the impression they wanted to keep it in the continental US. Then again, with it being 200 years after the bombs, territories get redrawn and battled for, so I could see it.
I'd love a proper foray into Mexico, especially if they throw in a few more cowboy touches. Red Dead Redemption with vaults and power armor, really.
SuperCrusader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London?
rg44_at_the_office ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout: New Hiroshima
EmiIeHeskey ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 17:24:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout 4 sucks
ITrainWithDyroneTonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually only played a little bit of it because I personally don't like the game style very much. It's not particularly my cup of tea. It just seemed appropriate.
EinherjarofOdin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Says the guy with EmileHeskey as his name...
levels_jerry_levels ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:38:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard the smoke went up into the sky to make stars
skjenolc ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:05:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, he got vaporized in Hiroshima, but the Nagasaki blast shot him up into the sky where he turned into stars.
takeme2infinity ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:02:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Has that always sunny quote always been famous?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:04:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bro, the smoke from the bar goes into the sky to make stars. Just face it.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:24:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well he didn't die in the Nagasaki blast, so he survived it.
I, too, survived both blasts.
thebakedpenguin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know enough about it either but I got a buddy I can call up who's an expert in the field of dying in Hiroshima.
Dynamaxion ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:23:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Radiation does strange things.
Insane_Artist ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Nagasaki survived the blast in Hiroshima, but then died to itself just days later.
la2arbeam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:35:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for the AlWays Sunny reference
MechanicalTurkish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All we know is that he's called the Stig.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some got killed in both, but got killed again by a giant fire breathing Lizard.
WaLizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll call in my expert to get a better idea about death.
The_Original_Gronkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's physics.
70MPG_onthishog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the Hiroshima smoke went up into the sky and turned into stars.
FrOzenOrange1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a buddy who's an expert in being killed in Hiroshima, let me give him a call.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if anyone died in Hiroshima, only to be revived and sent to Nagasaki where they died again.
venterol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lemme call a buddy who's an expert in nuclear fallout mortality.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let me call my expert
Black_Hipster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let me get my buddy, he's an expert in being killed in Hiroshima
Redebo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you're the guy who was killed in Nagasaki?
Dragon___ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ever heard of ghouls from Fallout?
HothSleddingChamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is precisely why it's a "holy shit" fact.
Majestic_Beard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He left the earth leaving behind the nice smokey smell we all know and love.
The__Korean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are people who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm one of the examples as living proof.
Soccermom233 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:27 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I only play a Hiroshima victim on t.v.
willfulda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:29 on November 25, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's definitely how stars are formed
Leocollier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Probably died well after the blast from radiation or burn wounds
SaveOurSweetWorld ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 15:48:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then there's the people who really got screwed over and died in Hiroshima, then again in Nagasaki.
I_hate_Jake_and_Zach ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:43:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This reads like a hilarious Monty Python Sketch.
cacahuate_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
[Deleted]
Arancaytar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you do that? Can you die twice?!
2OQuestions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just ask all those people at Chernobyl who died 3 times! Click here to find out HOW!
suggests_going_naked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate it when that happens.
PATXS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:55:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lucky fucker.
criticalbuzz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:10:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is also a subset of people who were unaffected by Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
PizzaRebel ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:11:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's nothing. There is a guy who survived the Nagasaki blast only to die a few days earlier in the Hiromshina explosion. Bad luck!
Perry_Henis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit
mangalsuvarnan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, I knew this joke was coming, but I LOLed hard anyway. Why on earth is that? Almost like a set up and pay off tv show skit.
workreddit2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
eh, Dave died in Nagasaki, and then died again in Hiroshima a few days before. What a wonderful world
Yiaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was also a guy who was killed in Hiroshima and the was killed in Nagasaki just days later.
nsto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that exactly what the parent comment is saying?
Edit: I am a dipshit
THE_CAT_WILL_SEE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dead people hate him!
lhamil64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then to finish it off, someone was killed by both.
bigdickpuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's from the Wolverine movie right?
OoSPOOKY-GHOSToO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time is a flat circle
Boom_harvey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He is now chairman of the DNC in Chicago!
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit, people die when they're killed! That's how it's supposed to be!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found the logician.
Dark_Rain_Cloud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This just gets better.
Slanderous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about the unlucky guy who was killed Hiroshima only to be killed a second time in Nagasaki just days later
rendezook99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also there was a guy who survived the Nagasaki blast but was killed in Hiroshima just days earlier
rendezook99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also there was a guy who survived the Nagasaki blast but was killed in Hiroshima just days earlier
obiworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time traveler who survived Nagasaki that wanted to try his luck in Hiroshima?
qwaezrxtcyvubinomp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you so I'll ask him. Edit: yes he did!
orenica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Several people also died in the Hiroshima blast, only to die in the Nagasaki blast as well.
I_am_fed_up_of_SAP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reg Shoe?
Bonykhan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:28:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So he became a ghoul then?
AgentElman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:02:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a doctor who survived the blast in Nagasaki but was killed in Hiroshima a few days earlier.
KeBron11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:33:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ghouls?
mrmdc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard about the guy who died from the blast in Hiroshima but didn't die in the blast in Nagasaki days later. But this, I did not know.
KingMinish ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Freakin ghouls.
Mintaka7 ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 14:19:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:)
...
:(
SOwED ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:38:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nonoNOyesnohaha
Mintaka7 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:52:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Very specific chain of reactions.
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was probably someone who lived in Hiroshima, left to go to Nagasaki, heard Hiroshima got nuked went "phew, dodged a nuke there!" stayed in Nagasaki, got nuked and died.
ScroteMcGoate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about the guy from Nagasaki who went to Hiroshima and missed both blasts?
AarBearRAWR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many people died in Hiroshima but survived Nagasaki?
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:32:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, they really must have believed they were dying in the apocalypse. Imagine all the people who have died never knowing if everything was going to okay.
lizzymonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't that the goal?
Born2dodishes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:(
redditttuser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's sad. :(
Ctotheg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Wow there are about 160 double A-bomb victims.
Japanese source: [1] ๅบๅณถใป้ทๅดใง๏ผๅบฆ่ขซ็ใ็ด๏ผ๏ผ๏ผไบบใๅบๅณถ็ฅๅฟต้คจใ่ชฟๆป [160 Double A-bomb Survivors Found, Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims says.]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 2005-08-01. ๅบๅณถใ้ทๅดใธใฎๅ็ๆไธๅพใไธกๅธใง๏ผๅบฆ่ขซ็ใใๅฏ่ฝๆงใฎใใไบบใๅฐใชใใจใ็ด๏ผ๏ผ๏ผไบบใซใฎใผใใใจใใๅฝ็ซๅบๅณถๅ็ๆญปๆฒก่ ่ฟฝๆผๅนณๅ็ฅๅฟต้คจ๏ผๅบๅณถๅธ๏ผใฎ่ชฟๆปใงๆใใใซใชใฃใใ
Hollowsong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I even heard there were some people who didn't survive Hiroshima and then had their bodies brought to Nagasaki for an open casket and were destroyed by the 2nd blast.
lolthrowthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks
mohrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were also many that died in the Hiroshima blast and did not die in the Nagasaki blast.
JMAAB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The key is to be in a box I gather.
Kepgnar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this term "a number" really bothers me. Anytime you're talking about anything, there's always "a number" even if it's none! You saying "I've seen this happen a number of times" DOESN'T REALLY MEAN ANYTHING! YOU COULD'VE SEEN IT ZERO TIMES, WHICH IS A NUMBER.
I know people usually use it in place of several, but still. Come on.
guitarguy109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean there is such a thing as "common use". Just stick to the generally accepted meaning.
Kepgnar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit guitarguy, I've been told that a number of times!
tombue ยท 1025 points ยท Posted at 14:25:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to the Guinnes World Records Book, it's only one person.
the22ndquincy ยท 2235 points ยท Posted at 15:48:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One is a number.
Whind_Soull ยท 1165 points ยท Posted at 16:06:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the loneliest number.
Caves_Caves ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 16:10:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you've ever seen
AdamBombTV ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 16:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as bad as 1
[deleted] ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 17:00:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But the loneliest number is the number 1.
cvef ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 17:41:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, is this really what the lyric is?? All my life I've been singing "It's the loneliest number since the number 1"I think I need to get my hearing checked...Edit: nevermind. I was actually right after all. Thanks a lot for scaring me buddy!
PolkaDotsandPenguins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:24:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just no good anymore, since you went awayyyyy
averagejoereddit50 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I often do Number 1 with other people in public rest rooms. But I always do Number 2, alone. So I'd say 2 is the lonliest number. On the other hand, you CAN text while doing Number 2 so...
TheRealCaptainMe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:02:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ayy lmao
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:53 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:08 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:23 on March 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Garys_Suburban ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:36:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Surprised to see a P-Mac reference on reddit
CornbreadAndBeans ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:53:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
P-mac?
Toofpic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, man, you will be surprised that all those bigmac guys can't do shit on their own and just take other's music. Check out three dog night, and listen to some classic rock in general, you won't regret.
joho0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(Harry_Nilsson_song)
faceintheblue ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:19:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the loneliest number since the number one.
Toogoodtotroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But 2 beavers are better than 1
stellacampus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:41:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Would it freak you out if I mentioned that it's "that you'll ever do"?
JustAVihannes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:41:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, seven is.
impingainteasy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:19:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay Magata.
JustAVihannes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yaaass I knew someone would get it c:
whohw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah, 7 8 9 and is a registered 6 offender.
hendrix67 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you ever did see?
Chaos773 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Visit one.
sunbandit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, two can be as bad as one..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Especially when everyone you know is killed by nuclear hellfire
NickSkye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one
addictive_sapian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as bad as 1...but 7 is the meanest
blue_strat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one.
Eric12345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why sad Keanu is always "the one".
altxatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two is the loneliest number since the number one.
PM_your_boobs_girls_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But is it a prime number?
vicarious1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one
Enigmaticize ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sad fact - the guy who sang that (Cory Wells from Three Dog Night) died not too long ago. I've talked to him a few times (I'm closer with the rest of the band) and he seemed like a nice, but reserved guy.
JennifersBodyIssues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Twooooo can be as bad as one.
benwubbleyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Victory is such a lonely word...
NoOne0507 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's also the empty product :(
Lord_of_the_Canals ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Twoooo can be as bad as one!
OverwatchTracer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I think that award goes to 7.
shal5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, Seven is.
ShitBoy_StinkerBomb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you'll ever do
neanderthal42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one
patiofurnature ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one.
Stabmaster_Arson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one.. it's the loneliest number since the number one.
cassmtz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ya but two can be as bad as one.
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you prefer wau
Yo_Munny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you'll ever do.
boinzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two is just as bad as one.
railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Although when it comes to nuclear bombs it's still a pretty crowded number
lurker12378 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one
Alex_The_Redditor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is say that "mine is the loneliest of numbers".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The loneliest number that you'll ever do
OldEars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as sad as 1
KingJuanIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong, all prime numbers are solitary, and one isn't prime.
One isn't solitary, it has friends.
pigeongal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, that got sad fast.
Nosrac88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you'll ever know.
Sipuli69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
L-One-ly
DarkMoon000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you could argue that 0 is the loneliest number, so lonely in fact that it can't even talk to itself.
AkaParazIT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:53:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure about that, do you have a source?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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AkaParazIT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ehm.... this is not a source of what I asked...
Derinda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go ask Zero about being the loneliest number.
meatboitantan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:20:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two can be as bad as one, IMO.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:13:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Zero is also a number.
โA number of women have expressed interest in having sex with me. That number is 0โ. -I forget who said that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"What Is Nothing?"
DA_BLING ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:16:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is two!
ras344 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is three a number?
SADMANCAN ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:35:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the loneliest number
romanticheart ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I love the phrase 'a number of people' because it's meaningless. A number of Victoria's Secret models want to have sex with me. That number is zero."
Refects ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The loneliest number
CrudelyAnimated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fact-check check checks out.
Starbucks__Lovers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's also the loneliest number.
amoebaslice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So then it should have said, "There is a number of person..."
FUCITADEL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You got me there.
Joba_Fett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Batman is a scientist.
DCarrier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:57 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is zero. Which means "A number of people..." is always true.
OPs_Mom_and_Dad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:02:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should be a lawyer.
bdransf1 ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 17:15:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs
At the end it says they suspect 165 people experienced both attacks, and gives some names. He's the only guy recognized by the Japanese govt though...
suggests_going_naked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the government doesn't want to pay welfare, it's some bullshit.
PM_LARGE_TITS_PLS ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:56:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
according to the wikipedia, there were ~165 in 2006 when a documentary was produced (Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
There's even a name for them - nijลซ hibakusha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha
SouthernMiss1995 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:36:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One is a number
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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alexmikli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and covers.
JoeyLucier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of an odd record
dickralph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Very sneaky, but he did say "a number" singular
Duff_McLaunchpad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair he did say "There a number". That number was 1.
Forbidxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was number one
satanshark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And he died in 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122291007
Edit: a link
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it just one person who was alive at that time though?
Pun_In_Ten_Did ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, oh I saw this movie... his name is Logan, right?
tombue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What movie?
Pun_In_Ten_Did ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry. Was a stretch. There is a scene in The Wolverine movie where he (Logan) recounts his time in Nagasaki during the bombing.
jam1garner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is the record?!
StabbyPants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
was his name Raven?
gattersuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
world record for the most nuclear bombs survived? can't see anyone trying to challenge for that one
Siggycakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus what record is that? "Most nukes survived by one person?"
7734128 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that guy claimed he was not the only one though.
kenester_g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was #1
TheStorMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He claimed to have met other people who had the same experience.
quantumlizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CEEEENAAA!!!
qngff ยท 372 points ยท Posted at 12:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They must have said "Holy Shit" too.
Real-Adolf-Hitler ยท 696 points ยท Posted at 12:58:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 595 points ยท Posted at 13:29:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 467 points ยท Posted at 13:40:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:32:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sum Ting Wong?
SelfAwareLitterBox ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:58:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wi Tu Lo
rob_matt ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:05:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ho Lee Fuk
GTI-Mk6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bang ding ow
UnoDosTreCool ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing tang ow
Lonestar_1 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:17:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haw Li Phak
tangoewhisky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dangit, Bobbeh!
MrMeltJr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:26 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was not kawaii
ArturiusVandelayus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/nIIb4DGCKcM
FuzzyBlubber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ho Lee Fuk
Wi To Lo
Bang Ding Ow
Bassmaster6610 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wi tu lo
tatertot255 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
vaelux ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
U wan sum fuk?
NinjaRobotPilot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
waste-case-canadian ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sir if i had gold, it would now be yours
preasefanks ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:25:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Prease
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SpecialGnu ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:52:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neva lacky!
Pandamana ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:04:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's no 'tu' syllable in Japanese. It would be Hori shitto.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, thanks! I forgot about that. "tu" is replaced with "tsu," right?
But I'll keep that one there. It seems to be collecting quite an upvote chain.
RegretDesi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:03:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ใใชใผใทใใ
KS_Gaming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why are Japanese people allowed to use smiley faces instead of letters and we aren't?
Zephandrypus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
csbsju_guyyy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:29:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Easy there Hitler
dishler712 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:22:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I never would have guessed Hitler to be racist.
IRONZOMBIEJESUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One might even say that you did Nazi...
Nevermind.
derpface360 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:09:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that you, Joseph Joestar?
Daagniel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ใใ
hearinghands ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just spit soup all over my computer, thanks.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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mtndewaddict ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wi Tu Lo
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know when you're a fan of a sports team and they're losing their season so you jump on a winning team's bandwagon and then they start losing too, and you think you're cursed?
Imagine being that guy trying to pick your third destination after Nagasaki.
hablomuchoingles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:06:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I'll go to the Nevada desert!
Stereo_Panic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
List your top 10 cities you'd like to see get what's coming to them and then call your travel agent!
leveldrummer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:58:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was explaining the explosion to a friend, "it's was a blinding white light, then a shock wave that destroyed everything, the light looked JUST LIKE THAT ONE! GET DOWN"
Cantfindafuckinusern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would get moving to a remote cave in the mountains if I had survived two nuclear blasts. I wouldn't trust the next city I went too.
StayHumbleStayLow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ใใผใชใทใใ
RapidCatLauncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... twice.
LifeguardLizard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:20:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Not again"
rexound ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:32:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Stabmaster_Arson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:05:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Ho Lee Fuk!!"
maltzy ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ho Lee Fuck
maninthedarkroom ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:37:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hory shit*
shogun21 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:10:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Radiolab did a great story on this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/223276-double-blasted/
The guy thought the bombs were following him.
NoShaDow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of them dragged himself to work after surviving hiroshima only to get to nagasaki and survive that one, and I thought I was having a rough week at work.
OrSpeeder ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was one guy, also he lived until his 90s, fucker damn hard to kill.
WeeferMadness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were a lot more than just 1.
mm2222 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source please?
GaryNOVA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit that's twice!! I WANT SOME BUTTS!!!!
CantChangeUsernames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Practice makes perfect.
Duke_of_Fruits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Goddamnit, not this shit again."
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DUDE! You have literally gone down almost every post to comment that!
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:22:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
rikjames90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
snackiesnoodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a really great Radiolab about one guy that this happened to, and he lived for a long time after
naggleroc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was born in 1980. The length of time I've been alive is the same length of time from the bombing of Hiroshima to when I was born.
Grintor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true. There was only one man who survived both blasts. Tsutomu Yamaguchi
jsellout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One is a number.
blindbutchie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...when it's not your turn...
crazykid01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the one guy who lived to 93 years old after being hit with two atomic bombs.....
feb914 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's what German national football team feeling about. terorists wanted to bomb them in Paris but turned away, terrorists wanted to bomb them in Hamburg but prevented.
theflyingbuttress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dear diary,
This has been a shitty week.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually there was only one person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
Cryoglobulin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is really one that is famous; Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He worked for Mitsubishi and was in Hiroshima on August 6th for a business meeting when the city was bombed. He survived and went back home to Nagasaki the next day and was there when it was bombed on August 9th. The second blast of radiation must have balanced out the cellular mutation from the first because he ended living to the age of 93 and only passed in 2010.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear blasts hate him!
Dont_like_my_comment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
K
SebLiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit indeed
Fredfredbug4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A number of people? If I recall there was only one, Tsutomu_Yamaguchi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It just hit me how fuckin insane it is to drop a nuke on two major cities full of civilians. I mean it had to be done to end the war and save our own skins, but god damn what a fuckin move.
rexound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They're ghouls now right?
Extra-Extra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
DaSkullCrusher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Crawl out through the fallout"
iseeemilyplay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone interested, Radiolab did an episode of this event, it's worth a listen.
Link: http://www.radiolab.org/story/223276-double-blasted/
zaphod777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy that survived then probably said:
"Today must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
guitarguy109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was only one guy that did that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit
sightlab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are no know victims who died in both blasts.
Jaberworky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have to wonder the panic of the second time they got bombed, not just for their own safety. they might induce that every city will get bombed eventually.
toomuchdavus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
my old history professor interviewed and translated poems written by a double survivor..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many of those people survived the blast, but many of those same people also had their stem cell populations completely destroyed. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldnt know about stem cells.
Not_A_Hyperbole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ghouls.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is the city of Kokura who would have been bombed if Hiroshima would have been cloudy on August 6th. On August 9th it was supposed to be the target. Since it was cloudy in Kokura Nagasaki got nuked.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
WeeferMadness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a pretty good book by Charles Pellegrino about just that.
SkyPork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I keep forgetting that the bombings were days apart.
cybertron3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina:
A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or
The detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
internetV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have heard this as well, but I think it was only one person IIRC
munky9002 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Only 1 person has been publicly recognized and confirmed by the government. Though not a huge amount of people did that move because there are other cities to go because hiroshima and nagasaki arent exactly neighbours.
Dan007121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats because they are cockroaches.
๐๏ธ Sippingin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If anyone is interested here's a wiki article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
rampaigeaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then I better crunch the numbers
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Fuing hew! No- agei!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind blown.
giraffevomitfacts ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:14:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
After Hiroshima was destroyed, tens of thousands of people fled the city. At least some of them would have ended up in any nearby city such as Nagasaki. Not only is it not a "holy shit" fact that this happened, it's almost statistically impossible for it not to have happened.
daboog ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:46:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm sure they died very soon afterwards, nothing can survive that much radiation.
cinnawaffls ยท 2307 points ยท Posted at 18:13:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Christopher Lee, the actor who played Saruman in LOTR and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels, was related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was the step-cousin of James Bond writer Ian Fleming, was a Flight Lieutenant for the British Royal Airforce during WW2 and killed multiple Nazis, climbed Mt. Vesuvius three days before it erupted, tripped over a live bomb and survived, AND released a symphonic death metal album at the age of 88.
His life was one giant "Holy shit".
RobertLoblawLawBlog ยท 275 points ยท Posted at 20:12:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Christopher Lee was the original "Most interesting man in the world"
Gyvon ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:26:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And he sure as shit didn't drink Dos Equis
johnnybiggles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was once Uno Equis. No man has ever had Uno Equis since Christopher Lee put his empty bottle down.
PhysicsFornicator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:07:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: The factoids used in the first commercial featuring "The Most Interesting Man in the World" were all things that Ernest Hemingway actually did.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:43:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More fun facts: the definition of factoid actually refer to things that sound like true things but are actually false or inconclusive.
Beer_in_an_esky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The actor in the Dos Equis commercials didn't do them; thus they are, indeed, factoids.
RobertLoblawLawBlog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:00 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this true? I love it!
Shoelucky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now it's Vladimir Poutin. That guy has done some shit.
darkcustom ยท 202 points ยท Posted at 19:49:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And personal friends with Tolkien.
PM_ME_VALYRIAN_STEEL ยท 126 points ยท Posted at 20:03:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tolkien said he could play Gandalf. Turns out he couldn't
RegularGoat ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:04:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC the role was too physically demanding for Lee, so they gave him Saruman instead. He was often consulted upon Tolkien's lore as well.
Boseidon ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 20:03:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He may have been the inspiration for James Bond. Also, he was at the last public guillotine execution in public. ALSO ALSO, he was one of very few people on the planet who could rightfully bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire
VonPosen ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:21:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you elaborate on the coat of arms please?
Boseidon ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 21:15:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Straight from the Wikipedia
Ih8Hondas ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:46:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. That was Dusko Popov.
There was a show about him on the military channel a while back. Fleming had to water his character down to make Bond more believable.
qman1963 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:42:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That dude is a total badass. But wikipedia mentioned him informing on the attack on Pearl harbor. What's the deal with that? Why have I never heard of this? That's huge.
Ih8Hondas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd never heard about it either til I watched that documentary on him. The US may have ignored it because at the time the administration was looking for an excuse to enter the war, but public opinion was largely against it.
theniceguytroll ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:23:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was he also in the department of redundancy department?
-Reddit_Account- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is... Is there a list of these people?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apart from the entire Habsburg family.
Kii_and_lock ยท 447 points ยท Posted at 19:17:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe he also witnessed the last public guillotine execution too.
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't that long ago though.
Kii_and_lock ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 20:18:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Last public guillotine execution was in 1939. According to wiki, the audience's behavior was so bad during it they banned all public executions from then on. They did it in private until the 70s.
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:25:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, sorry, I misread it as a pubic execution. Those happened until 1998.
DjGranoLa ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:09:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Death by snoo-snoo!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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BitchesLoveCoffee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:11:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DEATH BY SNUU SNUU
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That... that was the joke.
jurwell ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:39:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any information on the audience's behaviour? Was it down to protestation and revulsion at the protest, or were they bloodthirsty, disrespectful and uncouth?
Kii_and_lock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:56:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently a fair number tried to collect blood with handkerchiefs to use as souvenirs. Not sure what else but that does seem rather bad, overall. I can only imagine the mad dash to soak up blood.
jurwell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody hell that's morbid.
Csimensis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:01:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last one happened in the year Star Wars came out.
RequiemStorm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a crazy fact! Someone should totally post it in this thread! I bet it would do well and get quoted later on in the thread.
doctortofu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
See, that's why we can't have nic... wait, shit.
Veggiesticks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:19:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And a descendent of Charlemagne.
Rosstafarii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
practically everyone and his dog is related to Charlemagne
NightmareUS ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 19:03:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually he was in the SAS.
MorayCup ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 20:09:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Monkey_Knife_Fight ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 20:45:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is also the most British sounding thing in all existence.
kyew ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:26:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if this is a real thing, but I'm going to avoid looking it up so I can go on believing it is.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:06:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fielder57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is. Winston Churchhill championed it's creation during World War 2. They where responsible for Sabotage and Espionage operations.
luminousbeing9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They had a nickname: the "Baker Street Irregulars." Because they operated out of Baker Street, the renowned address of Sherlock Holmes.
uhyeahreally ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:20:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
apparently he somewhat played that side of it up/let people think mor ethan the reality. RAF part is safer ground.
NightmareUS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:29:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Regardless, he does look an insane amount like Robert E. Lee
tesseract4 ยท 246 points ยท Posted at 18:22:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, when playing Saruman in the Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson was giving him instructions on the sound that should be made when a man gets stabbed in the back. Sir Christopher, having witnessed this event several times in his life, corrected Peter Jackson, and told him what it actually sounds like when a man is stabbed in the back. They went with Sir Christopher's suggestion.
Dauntlessaquila ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 20:00:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Video here! "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back? Because I do."
tesseract4 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:37:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Exactly this. Thanks for linking the video. :)
wallysaruman ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was also the only cast member who knew Tolkien personally and was vetted by him to play a role (Gandalf).
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:52:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If someone could stop reminding me he's dead everyday that would be great. :(
Marx0r ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:00:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:(
dinotrex37 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:22:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe that he was also a descendant of Charlemagne.
chrisonabike22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:31:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me too!
aztec_prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No but his is by like nobility lines rather than statistical fact.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:34:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His album wasn't dark enough to be death metal, and there were three of them + Christmas carols that he recorded. And he played Dracula, and Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.
ThePrettyOne ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:18:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know you're talking about the 1944 eruption, but I choose to believe Christopher Lee was two thousand years old, and had climbed Vesuvius three days before Pompeii was destroyed.
StillwaterBlue ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:47:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was also a legendary bullshitter. He exaggerated and made stuff up on the fly during interviews just to fuck with the journalists who then didn't bother checking the facts. Some of that stuff was true or a version of the truth, the rest he made up.
beefstewforyou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also met JRR Tolken.
SecondBreakfast1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:54:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also volunteered in the finnish army in the winter war
Megaprr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be Sir Christopher Lee you lowly serf.
Ser_Rodrick_Cassel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but his metal album kinda sucks
SIOS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty fucking bad.
jaffacookie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did Tolkien not also give his blessing for him to play Gandalf in the movies?
One crazy/lucky dude.
Thundergrunge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He actually released multiple metal albums but of my head it wasn't symphonic death. He worked with Rhapsody so that's (symphonic) power metal and some albums were as Charlemagne (on mobile so I probably made a typo there) which is heavy metal. It is quite good as well. Damn, Sir Christopher Lee was a boss. Maybe the inky celebrity I actually mourned.
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The queen has a direct bloodline leading to Mohammed (pbuh)
vasheenomed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's quite interesting to me, since my family tree goes all the way back to Robert E. Lee... the Lee family was my grandma's grandma and since then our name changed. but I guess that would make me distantly related to him maybe XD?
NickReynders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot he died recently and this post reminded me. Makes me sad :'(
ShinyNewNickel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am also related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Does that mean Christopher Lee and I are related?
thesilentguy101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't he also told by Tolkien himself that he wanted him to play Gandalf if it were ever made into a movie?
CABuendia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My understanding was he was in the SAS. There's a story where Peter Jackson was counseling Lee on the sounds to make when being stabbed in the back by Wormtongue and Christopher Lee told him, "That's not the noise a man makes when you stab a man in the back."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That the high school that's being changed to Gregg Popovich High School?
nasty-nick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dooku is my favorite character in star wars. Why doesn't he get more love?
Thunder_up13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And was the only actor in the LOTR movies to have actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.
Teeveer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And he was the voice actor for Ansem in Kingdom Hearts!
Blacknarcissa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to Stuff You Missed In History Class, he was part of Churchill's elite secret service called the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
galacian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I am also related to these people, I was excited when I found out that Christopher Lee was distant family because he was a total badass. To be fair, the Lee family is notoriously prolific, they even included a song about it in the musical 1776
SquidCap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also served as voluntary in Finland, he never went to battle or did anything useful really, just hang around.. In hindsight he was most likely a spy..
Dannovision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Descendant of Charlemagne and Count Dracula as well.
Ih8Hondas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His wife's father didn't like him and made him get the blessing of the king of Sweden before he could marry her because he didn't think he would be able to. He did.
tgraefj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also has a few metal christmas albums. Little Drummer Boy is pretty metal.
kagurawinddemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of my lifeling dreams was to meet him. :(
SkrublordPrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it a Christmas death metal album?
Rain12913 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you'd ever seen the music video with Christopher Lee where the guy is singing about the Saxons then you probably wouldn't call it symphonic death metal... It's one of the cringiest things I've ever seen.
Mr_Green26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've tripped over a live bomb before.
rollntoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If he was in the airforce during ww2 how did he get a chance to climb vesuvious which erupted in 44
cinnawaffls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was on leave in Naples
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
carney620 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And was the only actor in the LOTR trilogy that J.R.R. Tolkien himself gave his blessing to, though Tolkien had apparently wanted Lee to play the part of Gandalf in the film versions of his books.
hejado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plus, he probably is a descendant of Genghis Khan.
phynn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot that his ancestor was Charlemagne.
popotheduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some say he's "A" in Pretty Little Liars. All we know is that he's called Chris Lee!
Fielder57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently when filming LOTR his reaction to being stabbed was supposed to very theatrical. Instead he just went silent and slowly died like all the air had been knocked from his lungs (the version we see in the films). When they cut and asked why he chose to act that way he pointed out that he had experienced people being stabbed to death in his time in the military, a true badass.
Pastignon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't release a death metal album... Sorryto be nitpicky, but Lee 'only' released some cringey, ultra-cheesy Power/Symphonic metal albums about the Middle Ages or Christmas carols (yeah...) that were pretty mediocre.
Not saying it's not impressive, but it's not like the guy was growling/blast beating his way through his 80s. The music was pretty easy-listening, and so cheesy it's difficult to listen to.
Keinichn ยท 2177 points ยท Posted at 13:43:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
You are
the most recent resultpart of a chain of reproduction that has never been broken since the beginning of life.Whind_Soull ยท 1787 points ยท Posted at 16:34:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you're male and have no
siblingssisters, you represent the termination of a billion year chain of women birthing each other.Edit, for those saying you still pass on your genes by having kids: I'm not talking about passing on genes; I'm talking about physical birth. Women emerge from one another like matryoshka dolls, and each man marks the termination at the final node upon which he sits.
If he has a sister who bears children, the chain continues by nudging around him and carrying on. If he has a maternal aunt who bears children, he's a stray leg. So on and so forth, all the way back. It's a tree, but each branch and twig terminates with a man. We're buds.
jaypenn3 ยท 254 points ยท Posted at 18:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
Not_A_Hyperbole ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Toasty
DoNotForgetMe ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 18:11:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow China is fucked
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They've got plenty of chains to spare.
Nickmi ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:40:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have the power! Muwahahaha
StopReadingMyUser ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:01:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR POWER?!
fapfapfapfapfapfap...
LuitenantDan ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:50:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm male and have two brothers. Do we win?
Koras ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 18:04:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that means your family lost
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:11:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But your last name won
blaghart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's side of the family is the same way. My dad has two brothers, I have two brothers on my dad's side. My line is a destroyer of female lineage.
Not_A_Facehugger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have 4 brothers so I still beat you.
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it means your mum is the last mohican
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:04:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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fougare ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:28:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But... my mom has sisters who have daughters and they have daughters, my mom's "branch" will die off but the overall maternal line continues right?
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:17:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much. Mitochrondrial Eve for further reading.
BaconLondoner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh! Mitochondria! I know this! Uhh, something about cells!
freeschooler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure. Your grandmother's line persists, your mother's line ends.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:55:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, the mighty Tom Brady line has a chance!
The Manning line, however, is SOL unless Archie gets busy soon.
RatherBeSkiing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Not for looks, with Youk married to Brady's sister
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So there's a matrilineal chain going all the way back. But there's also a patrilineal chain going all the way back. In other words, it's not interesting that you could just pick all the women in your genealogy (a chain of women birthing women) when you could just as easily pick all the men in your genealogy.
The real point is that you're the first virgin in the whole scheme.
ZeroNihilist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. What the previous poster said was true by the arbitrary definition they chose, it's not some deep and meaningful statement about men. Annoying that that's how they framed it.
Prozzies_Knocking ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:50:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BILLION years? Closer to 200,000 years.
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 17:55:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except even before homo sapiens sapiens, males were still born from females.
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:57:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are no fish women
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:56:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Little Mermaid would suggest otherwise...
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is actually not a true story
sophrocynic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
C'mon, man, spoilers!
calicosiside ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:35:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are fish with eggs, they are women fish
TheHaddockMan ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 18:08:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? This is bullshit. Before the patriarchy, there were no imposed gender roles forcing certain people to do the child-bearing.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:42:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no homo
Whind_Soull ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't referring to humans in a recognizable form; I was basing it off of sexual reproduction beginning ~1.2 BYA. That is, the earliest species that produced offspring via what might resonably be called 'birth.'
chrisonabike22 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:12:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd go off of viviparous birth. Otherwise it's hatching
Whind_Soull ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough.
SonnyVabitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By the same logic, if a guy doesn't have a son, he's the first male on his family tree not to have a son since sexual reproduction began.
ReadySteady_GO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well written
Jesus-chan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
COMBO BREAKER!!!
reveille293 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I can now tell my mom I am special!
thodan110 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There will come a time when you are either ancestor to all living people or ancestor to none.
John02904 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is also only partially true. If my father had no sisters he would have been the termination but the chain continued when he knocked up my mother. If i have no sisters i can continue the chain if i knock up a girl.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And instead of women, you should go with females. Edit:Because of billion years
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it....
What if my grandfather had no sisters, but he had daughters. One of them is my mom, who gives birth to me, and let's say I have no sisters.
That doesn't mean I'd represent the termination of a billion year chain. Just the single generation...right?
So, this can't always be true. Am I missing something here?
Whind_Soull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean the end of that particular line that runs down the many-branched tree. Like, if you start at a man and go back, it's females giving birth to each other the whole way.
rg44_at_the_office ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're male, have no sisters, and your mother is either dead or too old to have more kids.
Otherwise there is still a chance that you get a younger sister, then the chain wasn't terminated.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which also signifies the death of the line of your mitochondrial DNA.
Cinemaphreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, I'm the oldest son of an oldest son of an oldest son... and I'm childless (as far as I know).
Dakaraim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what a waste of time
OnosToolan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have to be an only child? You just have to have all male siblings no? Like my mother had four sons. We all cancelled out the chain.
Damn_Dog_Inappropes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My maternal grandmother's line dies with me. :(
bushnipz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Youve inspired me. I can finally lay this fucked up gene pool in the dirt when i die and feel amazing about it.
daredevilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't that assume that all your ancestors are female? That only child man can have a daughter.
Whind_Soull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even if a man with no sisters fathers a daughter, that's still a break in his chain of women giving birth to each other. His daughter would be in the birth chain of her mother; she would be continuing that other line, rather than his. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about passing on your genes--just the chain of people physically giving birth to each other.
daredevilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I get it, you're talking about how everyone has a mother and if you go up a level there's always a mother but if there's no female child then that line of mothers stops. Gotcha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alternatively, if you're female and have no brothers, you have broken your father's (insert late number of years) chain of men who had sons.
Thxxk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What am I missing here? Why can't a woman birth a man who sires a woman? There would never be a chain to begin with.
dharma28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, and mitochondria are passed on by the mother, so men's mitochondria evolved all this way just to end
imacomputr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't call me bud, pal.
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, this sounds like some bene gesserit stuff right here.
luchinocappuccino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's nuts!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Despair thy charm; And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd.
semiloki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you also represent the termination of an unbroken line of mitochondria as you can only inherit those from your mother.
Lundix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the same vain, something like 0.5% of men (in the world!) carry Genghis Khan's Y chromosome. Meaning that they are in a direct all-male line from him.
SearosCarriams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, friend.
FatMutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have a bud I have a tree.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're buds? I'm sorry, but I'm not your buddy guy!
Nsena0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, guy.
chelonian_terrorpin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who you calling bud, friend?
The_Prophet_Muhammed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, dude
TheStorMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there are some things that are only passed on from mother to child, never from the father, such as mitochondria and Judaism. Anyone man without sisters is the end of a long line.
CrossFeet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Plus there are traits passed along only from father to child, so any woman without brothers represents the end of another line. Though in both cases it's more probably the end of a short line branching off from a much longer one, considering the likelihood of cousins etc.
imbiat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
don't call us buds, pal
jmwbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, pal.
_merpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So..ill have what he's having
railmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice going, asshole.
hiate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if I don't wanna be buds with you.
bros_pm_me_ur_asspix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sup bud
foomp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you're not my bud, bro.
Romeo92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, bud.
Hohepas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
b-b-billion? what
AnArmyOfWombats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We get our mitochondria, the "powerhouses" of our cells, from our mother. So, you're last of a long line of mitochondria as well.
ThereOnceWasAMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is my favorite one in this thread.
hejado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the origin of the word 'buddy'?
That would be totally awesome!
redditsoaddicting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It terminates with a woman if she doesn't give birth to anything.
MSTRGRPHX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.....
TimetravelingGuide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buds....someone give him his gold...
twinsizebed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa
czechchequechecker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are buddies
Spartanhero613 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how that works, too. In a way, it's a corruption of the egg via data imperfect data injection (even if necessary). I guess this has always been it's definition, but it's weird how the concept of a father works
TankSwan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well me being a Male only child I see myself as the final form, The ultimate genetic code of the node as you called it.
ArabRedditor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be me
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:59:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL human women have been around a billion years...
/r/shittyaskscience
damien665 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:19:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your bud, guy.
greybear91 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:48:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Until now...:(
MayDay1111 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:07:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So no pressure
-Mannequin- ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:54:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wanna break that chain.
memes_are_retarded ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fine by me!
Keinichn ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:07:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
As do I and my girlfriend. We are on the "no kids for us" bandwagon. DINK is an amazing life.
Xenocide321 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you die, can I be your dependent?
Zephyr104 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who you callin' a Dink?!
SA_Swiss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:04:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn is currently breaking that chain. One day some of today's generation will go to the doctor and ask him why his wife cannot get pregnant.
When the doctor explains that he shouldn't ejaculate on her chest or in her mouth his mind will be blown...
AgentElman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:07:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
if it is his mind that is blown he probably won't ejaculate on her chest or in her mouth
oscars_not_wild ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:58:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
unless you have kids?
CaptainObvious_1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And if you don't have kids, you personally break that chain.
Solid364 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why I don't have kids, so the little bastard doesn't steal this from me.
CenterCutBacon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1545/
MediocreAtJokes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:58:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It may surprise you to hear this, but I come from a long line of wives and mothers.
DFP_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Life that we know of, it's possible there were other life forms that couldn't propagate properly and died before our ancestors formed.
twofeetcia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:11:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you are an only child, or the youngest of your siblings.
Evil-Imp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And don't have any children of your own.
Bay1Bri ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:25:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your siblings are on a different chain.
Eiovas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
_^ This is my favorite one!
datorangeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, since the beginning of the chain. Completely unnecessary for the beginning of our chain to have been the first instance of life on Earth. Life could have started, and died out completely only for the processes involved in starting life to happen later on.
rogercopernicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My wife is an only child and we only have sons, so both the male and female line as been broken in 2 generations
shawnisboring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
โLike every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.โ
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
sleepyworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got a vasectomy and have never had kids. Haha, suck it, ancestors! All that work for nothing!
seamustheseagull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Literally the pinnacle of evolution on earth
GenLifeformAndDiskOS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
STOP PUTTING PRESSURE ON ME
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as you know.
amphoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it's true for every living thing though so I have no idea why people get so amazed by this
cambiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, there's no way to know that. There might have been primitive life forms that were synthesized after the first life forms, and the first life forms might have formed a chain that no longer exists, making us part of a chain of reproduction that is newer than life.
Also, different chains of life forms might have existed simultaneously, then later joined in a single chain, which would cause our chain of reproduction to have started at the union of the two chains, not at the beginning of life.
There might be also life in outer space that is older than life on earth, and that does not make part of our chain.
acm2033 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every human, ever, came out of a womb.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Siiw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Way to make a childless woman cry on a train.
guchmatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:34 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel alot of pressure right now :/
NinjaDude5186 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:16:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There may have been life before our strain of life that died off completely. Maybe the first life ever was incapable of reproduction.
Ninjahkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Excluding younger siblings, of course
Bay1Bri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Siblings are on a different chain.
Doomchicken7 ยท 3767 points ยท Posted at 12:07:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In 65 years we went from the Wright brothers' first glider to putting a man on the moon.
[deleted] ยท 2716 points ยท Posted at 16:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 938 points ยท Posted at 18:10:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To put current space travel in perspective, if the earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennisball and it would be 24 feet away.
Since the last Apollo mission, no human has been further than an inch from the surface of the basketball.
When I was younger, I always pictured shuttle astronauts as being able to see the whole earth out the window. The truth is that no human has seen that sight in over 40 years.
nickolaiatnite ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:46:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that you could fit every planet in a line between the earth and the moon
Problem119V-0800 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true!
nickolaiatnite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing about space. It's full of space :)
Drunken_Economist ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 22:50:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but they'd crash into each other
JoshH21 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:36:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure
Liebowitz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:54:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It actually takes light a full second to go from the Moon to the Earth.
lovesickremix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soooo.....the time it takes for me to say "one one thousand" light just hit the earth? Uber cool
RegularGoat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Also in the same vein, it actually takes light
6 seconds~8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel to Earth from the Sun. Which means if the Sun suddenly disappeared, we wouldn't know about it until6 seconds8 minutes later.Edit: Got my facts mixed, apologies.
soletsjustlaughagain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:04:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isnt it seven minutes?
Cyrius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
8.3 minutes, roughly.
WUN_WUN_SMASH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you realize you just implied the sun is only 6 times as far from the Earth as the moon is.
RegularGoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed. You know what they say, there's no faster way to find something out than posting the wrong answer on the internet.
AlifeofSimileS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, what's the hold up?
IAmTheToastGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Last time I checked it only took America to cross that distance
johnnybiggles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you fit 8 planets in 24 feet?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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relevant_python ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is very correct, but it's close!
tokyorockz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Things I want to be when I grow up:
Explore the OceansPlay video gamesbecome a fire truckgo to a different planetTurtles?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:56:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You want to be go to a different planet?
tokyorockz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes?
JoshH21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why not firetruck
tokyorockz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:12:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I realized that I'm a bit too underweight. I could become a police motor bike, but I like fires more.
xtxylophone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Motor bikes burn just as well as firetrucks, so don't lose hope!
ThegreatPee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:01:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm good with that. The moon scares the shit out of me.
NoRedditAtWork ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:25:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How/why?
neophage ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 20:27:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He has played Majora's Mask.
JoshH21 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:37:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The thought of being there alone, it's silent, pretty dark, spacesuits. That shit give me nightmares
NoRedditAtWork ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:05:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, that sounds pretty peaceful to me
JoshH21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Science fiction doesn't help. I'd rather be on earth with birds chirping and insects buzzing
NoRedditAtWork ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough. I just think I'd get a lot of thinking done out there. Probably split some time between both spots, ideally
Chris__2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:23:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/Py_IndUbcxc
Circa19ninety ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay on that scale, how big would a human be? That would make this way easier to understand.
schatzski ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 20:25:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About a cunt hair wide
Circa19ninety ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soooo humans are as wide as a cunt hair is long or humans are as wide as a cunt hair is wide? Because that really could change thingsโฆ especially depending on the personโฆ
iamanasshole4lyfe ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:35:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not using your brain.
schatzski ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm. Let's say wide. For solidarity
TankSwan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You've obviously never watched The Martian.
dashriprock3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard that all of the other planets in our solar system could fit between the earth and our moon. So according to your basketball to tennis ball ratio example, what other objects could represent the rest of the planets?
Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Back of the envelope math:
-Jupiter would be one of those inflatable human hamster balls
-Saturn would be a guy in one of those sumo suits, swinging a hula hoop that's 12 feet across.
-Neptune's a very large beach ball.
-So is Uranus
-Venus is a bit smaller than earth, let's say a kickball
-Mercury is a baseball
-Pluto is a golf ball. Over 50 miles away.
ca990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NASA should fuck with us and send a blind man up.
AlifeofSimileS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many feet to mars? And what kind of ball would mars be?
Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At its closest pass to Earth, Mars would be a large grapefruit about a kilometer away.
AlifeofSimileS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:35 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. Imagine an ant walking an entire kilometer.... now realize that Paul fucking Bunyon would ride that ant if it were scaled properly... that's a mind blowing distance to send someone round trip through the void.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:05:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, most of my time on Reddit the past couple days has been spent arguing about how many potatoes a person can eat in a day if they have no other food.
Dash_O_Cunt ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't the Chinese just put a man on the moon?
Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
Dash_O_Cunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:12:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh ok then my bad
Doe_Ray_EGON ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 18:20:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also the youngest astronaut who walked on the Moon is Charles Duke who is now 80 years old, there might be a time again where no living humans have ever been to the Moon.
ApathyLincoln ยท 2072 points ยท Posted at 17:37:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a "holy fuck, that's disappointing" fact.
RayFails ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 18:08:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I could be wrong, but isn't this because there's really no point to go back?
TheEthalea ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:29:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You would think that's it but actually there were plans to go back to the moon and eventually build a station there as well as a much larger space station than the ISS. But Nixon slashed NASA's budget for a new reusable rocket and that's how we ended up with the Space Shuttle. If NASA had been able to be funded properly the space shuttles would have been much more well built and been able to fly a lot more missions. Alternatively if we had stuck to the Saturn V we'd have been able to put much larger payloads into space and built the ISS much more quickly. It's a super fascinating subject!!
michaelshow ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:37:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd argue the destination is less important than the journey - building, maintaining, and enhancing the technologies and infrastructure surrounding frequent trips to the moon holds significant value towards the long term existence of our species.
We should also be working towards establishing Lagrange point stations as infrastructure for future exploration.
We will need to get off of this rock at some point, whether we will be ready or not depends on if we feel there's value to it now.
Lateusvir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:42:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it's the moon!
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:18:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
We'd only just begun to interact with the Moon when our exploration ended. To be clear, I don't think the Moon should be our only manned exploration priority (Mars is an obvious other point of interest) but saying "there's no point" is like saying, after the early (15th / 16th c.) explorations of North America that there was no point in heading back. It's an entire other world just floating out there -- one that, at some point, we'll hopefully colonize but, at the very least, have a better exploration understanding of both for the benefit of knowledge and exploration in and of themselves and because efforts to interact with the Moon in a more extended, permanent fashion would be a huge spur to technological development.
chequilla ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 18:23:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Comparing ridiculously dangerous rocks and dust on the Moon to the massive untapped resources of North America is extremely disingenuous.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't think they're equivalents -- we won't be harvesting corn or cutting lumber on the moon anytime soon. But I don't think it's disingenuous -- they both represented / represent untapped potential and a natural target for man's outward expansion and mental curiosity. Like I said in my first comment, exploration of the moon would be a huge boon to our knowledge and our thirst for outward expansion and also to technological development. Over the course of the entire Apollo program, we've spent a grand total of approximately two weeks on the lunar surface. That seems like it's only scratching the surface. The moon is the nearest large solar body to us and our only satellite -- it's out there and we should spend some more time checking it out (along with other manned targets in our Solar System -- Mars in particular).
MrF33 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The resource potential of the Americas was apparent instantly.
Helium-3 is pretty much the only known potentially useful resource on the Moon.
The primary reasons for the discovery of the Americas were not self aggrandizing exploration, but economic.
There's a reason that we haven't developed Antarctica.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:51:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right and I'm not trying to advocate exploration of the moon purely or even primarily on a resource basis, though there would be some of that. There's a reason we haven't turned Antarctica into a series of oil fields and suburbs. But there's equally a reason there are dozens of active research stations (and a big town) and a fairly large scientific community down there. We've failed to do the latter part of the equation with respect to the Moon. Antarctica is a "final frontier" (on terrestrial Earth) but at least it's a frontier. The moon can't even be a frontier for us right now -- we left it before we properly got started.
lod001 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:25:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Columbus first came to the Americas in 1492; the Spanish spent the 1500's conquering the warm climate areas of the Americas; the French explored the Canadian regions in the 1500's but failed to get permanent settlements until the the 1600's; the British established themselves successfully in the 1600's. The process of settling the Americas took a while with years between some of the expeditions in the early years. Even when there was abundant water, food, and actual people already living there that were able to help, people would die and settlements would be abandoned! So we didn't leave the moon before we got started...we are just going at a pace similar to historical conquests!
bitter_cynical_angry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hm, I wonder what was the longest period of time that there was not a permanent or semi-permanent European settlement in the Americas once they were discovered.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1777 to present.
bitter_cynical_angry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nicely done.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:27:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good point -- maybe I'm just being impatient! :) But maybe it takes people being impatient to get us out there!
MrF33 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:56:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of development in inhospitable places is done for finacial reasons.
Until there is something real to be gained from having regular missions to the moon the outrageous cost of doing so is not worth it.
Shit, we can barely afford to keep the ISS running, how much would it cost if it took 50x the energy to get supplies there?
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:01:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it's entirely worth doing it, for the reasons I've outlined above -- we inspire, we explore, we stir technological development, we gain scientific and other knowledge, we gain experience for farther off manned efforts, we colonize (great insurance), we improve our engineering capacity, we engage in international collaboration etc. There are a million reasons to be off the face of this planet absent an immediate financial imperative. (Directly contrary to your example, the majority of development in Antarctica is not for financial reasons -- it's often quite costly to operate in Antarctica. Rather, it's done for some of the very same reasons I just listed, e.g., to expand knowledge, to sate the internal, eternal human drive to explore, to pursue scientific projects (a subset of knowledge, but important enough I separate it out). Are there some financial incentives? Sure. And there might be too with the moon, e.g., He-3. But that needn't drive our expansion there.)
As far as whether we can afford it -- we absolutely can, both as a nation (the U.S.) and as a global community. It's a question of priorities, but so is all budgetary decision-making. My view is that space exploration has become inappropriately de-emphasized in the post-Apollo decades and that it should be a higher priority. NASA's budget right now represents only approximately .5% of the total federal budget -- it's lowest share ever (it's been steadily shrinking since the early-90s after a period of ramp-up to get the Shuttle Program going); there's room to grow.
somethingsomethingbe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:17:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The technology and knowledge you would begin to develop and then advance upon for sustaining life on the moon would be incredibly valuable resource.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is also water ice on the moon which could be electrolytically broken into O2 and H2 for rocket refueling.
MrF33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have no doubt that in the future the Moon will be used as a primary launch site or even manufacturing site for interplanetary or even interstellar human travel.
But right now there is nothing beyond "natural human exploratory drive" that is a reason for manned deep space travel.
It's too expensive, it's too dangerous, and the rewards simply aren't tangible enough to make it a realistic goal of current societies.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:23:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I strongly disagree with you. It's not expensive when set against the long-term trajectory of human interest; it may be dangerous but "risk is part of our business"; and, as I've stated in several posts now, there are ample rewards to the sort of exploration being discussed, from encouraging technological innovation to expanding our manufacturing prowess in space applications to increasing scientific knowledge to inspiring future generations of humans to venture forth into space &c. Every dollar we spend toward this and other manned exploration goals seems eminently worthwhile to me -- across the whole spectrum, from blue-sky research down to applied missions down to scientific outreach here on Earth. I hope we as a species prove you wrong in relatively short order.
MrF33 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:31:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
These are not tangible or guaranteed rewards, they are projected advantages, but not something that a company or government can put on their budgets as a positive. Any investment in R&D could be given the same assumption, but everything else needs to have a tangible end game. What's the end game? What did we actually get from going to the moon that we couldn't have gotten from investing that money in other endeavors?
To you, but you are not the one funding it. We're talking about increases in funding by orders of magnitude to accomplish what you're projecting in any kind of reasonable timeline.
The real benefits of deep space exploration are lower than any other kind of "exploration" humans are currently doing.
I hate to break it to you, but we won't. We as a species are greedy and scared, until there's a race to win, missile technology to develop, or resources to exploit, serious investment is not going to happen.
I'm being real here - give me one reason that a publicly traded company would invest in deep space exploration that's not otherwise funded by the government, and why you think the amount their investors would possibly be willing to invest would result in serious, timely improvements?
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In response to the last paragraph that you added: publicly traded companies will be (already are) venturing into the sort of LEO / supply run / satellite launch fields that NASA has had to tend to in previous decades. It's happening. That's the whole point of the reason you need a hybrid public-private approach to thinks like spaceflight. You use NASA to push the boundaries and pursue the flagship programs (one of the reasons I'm so critical of the deviation post-Apollo to the shuttle -- it wasn't boundary pushing it was stagnating) and you use private industry for the relatively "safer," more revenue /profit predictable activities. In another generation, that will be servicing colonies and routine innersolar supply runs as NASA pushes the extrasolar edge.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm well aware, but re-hashing old technology is not deep space exploration.
Again, explain to me why you think that Boeing is going to invest in a lunar colony.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:44:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not following (maybe my failure to explain my point sufficiently) -- they (private companies) won't nor should it be expected of them -- you don't want or expect Boeing to be doing lunar colonization or blue sky propulsion technology research, at least on their own sans government incentivization through a contract base. That's the job of the public mass project -- the colony, the new drive, the Mars mission. Private industry will lag a generation behind (a sort of tick-tock cycle) as they're completely sensible to do until the profit motivation appears. The point is we've lost leadership this generation (or at least the generation past) on the public mass project component of this equation.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know why?
Because there are no tangible benefits to it.
How are you going to convince people that they should be investing in space exploration when they're struggling to deal with shit on Earth?
Until there is a genuine motivator for humanity to seriously invest in space travel/exploration/exploitation it's simply never going to happen at the pace you're expecting.
Where's the competition? Where's the motivation? Why should people care at all? It's not about how much you, the space and science enthusiast, cares, it's about how much your mom cares, how much that lady from work who has never thought about travel to mars cares.
It's about motivating the people who aren't interested.
You're never going to be able to motivate the majority of people by saying "The exploratory human spirit must live on!!!!".
That's bullshit that people don't want to hear.
So there are two ways of getting people involved in space travel again.
Make their lives depend on it.
Make it financially worth their time.
Until one of these two criteria are met, the growth rate will continue to be at current levels.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Look, it's clear we disagree. It's clear I think you're on the wrong side of history. And it's clear (I think) you think I'm equally on the wrong side. Know that I'll be working hard to prove you wrong and that there are more like me. That's all I can say. I appreciate the discussion regardless. Have a nice day.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god.
If all you care about is technological advancement, then start a war, it's done more than space exploration ever has.
I know that we will be making strides in space exploration, but you need to be realistic about your timelines and motivations.
Until we, as a species, have a tangible motivation beyond our own self aggrandizement to invest in deep space exploration the investment and growth will continue to be slow.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm just not that patient! I don't want to be "realistic" if it means being earth-bound, set to a slow-trod upward to the stars. I want to make the "unrealistic" happen. We've taken a break from history since 1972 and it's time to change that.
MrF33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are three ways to make that happen.
War, money, luck.
The_Original_Gronkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, once Columbus discovered America, what was the point in returning?
StoleThisFromYou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:17:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can be, and are, wrong.
pleezusjeezus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much.
SSJ2-Gohan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. There's nothing else for us to do up there that hasn't been done already
elliotn46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh moon bases? I want a colony on the moon dammit.
bantha_poodoo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:14:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yea. It's kinda like going to Cedar Point and riding Topthrill Dragster.
ApathyLincoln ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:14:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We could be settled on the moon, given that we were there last nearly 50 years ago.
chequilla ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:21:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But why? There are no resources to exploit, and the cost/risk of setting up shop there is so high as-is. Would be the biggest waste of time and money ever.
'Colony on the moon!' sounds cool until you realize we spent trillions on literally nothing.
worksafe_Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He3
Source: I watched moon I actually have no idea.
ApathyLincoln ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We will want to go on to colonize other planets that are much much farther away. It would be prudent to have some expertise with managing a colony that is on another celestial body without being billions of km away.
Think of it as a doctor going for practicum.
chequilla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Until we got a lot faster traveling through space, we aren't colonizing shit. And I doubt our 'experience' from now will be worth very much to scientists a century or two down the road.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:13:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Speed isn't a major hurdle to our ability to colonize the inner Solar system (e.g., the moon and Mars). The moon is accessible within a matter of days with our current propulsion technology level (so it could improve); Mars is accessible within a matter of months, same caveat. Obviously it would be even better if we could be like, vis-a-vis Mars, "we'll have you there in an hour!" But the time delay isn't among the worst impediments and could be easily managed through good logistics planning. Frankly, we need to put more work into things like radiation shielding / planning -- that's a much higher priority concern (though one we can tackle).
Camoral ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's like asking a person why they go to the gym if they don't plan on setting a personal best. You'll never hit your goals if you don't have experience.
MrF33 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:50:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not the same thing, we're not talking about getting buff.
We're talking about trillions of dollars in exploration for the sake of exploration.
The practical return on investment just isn't high enough yet to create a real drive for expansion.
Camoral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So we wait until what, exactly, to start pursuing the most important developments that make or break us as a species?
MrF33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one is saying stop moving forward.
I'm just saying that expecting 1960's levels of progress is unrealistic.
Until the situation arises for us, as a species, to actually invest in it with all our being.
You know, like catastrophic war.
There's no need to act like not getting to mars in the next 20 years is going to doom humanity to a slow, pitiful death alone on this rock.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, except that gym membership in your analogy would cost $5,000,000.
There's certainly something to be gained by continued exploration and operation on the moon. It's just prohibitively expensive, and no one's come up with a cost-analysis that determines it to be a wise move.
michaelshow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's kind of a shame that species-level scientific advancement must be justified by cost-benefit-analysis.
As opposed to the F35 project, clocking in at 1.5 trillion or so which apparently was a wise move.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Literally everything should be justified by a cost-benefit analysis. Thus far in our advancement as a species, resources are stiflingly finite.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:30:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll go.
Blaaa5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah cause we taking Mars next!
friskfyr32 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:28:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. The budget for science is small enough that it shouldn't be pissed away on joy rides. In '72 they'd already run out of reasons to go to the moon - the technology available didn't lend itself to a moon base or mining and moon dust/rocks are not that interesting - and it hasn't been until very recently the cost and technology has creeped towards the viability of the next step (base/mining).
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:32:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They should have pursued the plan that von Braun was trying to push ahead, both in the scientific community and in the public imagination, which would have involved both manning the moon on a permanent basis and manned exploration of Mars. The technology was there or at least it could have been there if a similar level of effort and ingenuity had been applied for the next step exploration as had been applied to Apollo. The Space Shuttle was a huge waste of resources in relative terms -- I know it's a controversial opinion but I put it out there. We spent the subsequent four decades futzing around in LEO (something that should have been addressed through private industry rather than NASA flagship work) when we should have been expanding outward. Hopefully we've reached a pivot point now and we don't spend the next four decades doing the same thing.
friskfyr32 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To say that the technology was there in the 70's to create a viable base on the moon is like saying the technology was there to create a reusable vehicle capable of leaving orbit. It might have been theoretically possible, but it might also fail as the latter did. But I personally think it was the right priority. Lowering the cost (both financial and resource wise) of space exploration was, is and will continue to be paramount. And any base on the moon built in the 70's would have been scrapped long ago. There's a reason why ISS isn't an expansion of Mir. The technology is thoroughly obsolete.
Priorities, they'll always be subjective and sometimes they won't agree with your opinions.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's pretty agreed upon that the STS was a lot less than it could have been.
petermesmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:24:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://abstrusegoose.com/377
SalemWolf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But anyone alive today has found out there is water on Mars and most people alive 10-15 years from now will likely experience people on Mars. So that's "holy shit awesome" isn't it?
hyperbolical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember hearing about people on Mars within 10 years. That was 15 years ago.
Dracomister7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:05:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it's any consolation, now that the shuttle program has been retired and the ISS is "finished" it's more likely that we'll go back to the moon in the near future.
i_post_news ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a giant lifeless rock. We know enough about it with the tools available to use which doesn't really require manning a dangerous mission. Simply put, the moon is pretty boring in the sense of space exploration.
MAD_OR_NAW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They call themselves the greatest generation. Yeah they spent all their money and are too shitless scared to fix it for us so we are doing it, but it's shitty because they won't help when they say they want to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
splad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever, I have an ultra-HD color panoramic photograph taken from the surface of mars as the desktop background on my personal computer.
Traceyt715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. I'm 18 and the moon is cool and shit. But I've lived when we've but a fucking robot on Mars. And I've seen pictures of the sunrise on MARS that a ROBOT took and sent back to us. That's pretty fucking cool. Space isn't less exciting now just because astronauts aren't walking around on foreign planets.
KillermooseD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean at a 19 year old I like to think I have a high chance to see someone successfully make it to Mars. To me that would be a moment I cry over that will be the most amazing thing I can say I have lived through and ever will live through
Sophobe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But now mars is dominated by alien robots
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's just...wrong? There's always war going on.
Also I think you forgot the gulf war, extending your age to at least 25
beardedheathen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:12:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that fact that we've had people living in an artificial satellite i don't think its that disappointing. I think there are a lot of things that we can do in space that will be extremely beneficially for us but putting men on the moon just to put men on the moon isn't one of them.
gorampardos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:57:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But we've done more fascinating things since then. So it's not terribly disappointing.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:01:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They can't figure out how to moonitize it for profit and we already won the national pride contest.
kylefanny ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:12:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah... But rovers on Mars!
Spaceman500000 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:33:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
BeASimpleMan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:46:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain why that's disappointing? It cost so much money to go there, and we know exactly what is on the moon. What is there to gain from being there? I'm sure if it was beneficial in anyway they would've been going.
The_Original_Gronkie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:58:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's one of the things that makes my blood boil about modern politicians. In the current political climate, there is no possible way that we could accomplish such things. It makes me understand that America has peaked, and it is probably all downhill from here. I feel badly for future generations. Learn to speak Chinese.
Wowtrain ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:18:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, we can learn so much more from unmanned missions.
IsNotACleverMan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meh. Space is expensive and overrated.
la2arbeam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's nothing new to be learned. I don't see "wasting money on lunar trips" as disappointing, unless that trip is to establish a space station from which we'll launch other ships
TVLL ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really.
The moon landings got pretty boring after awhile.
moonyeti ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:21:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
41 here, I grew up in the afterglow of all of that awesomeness. Let's get some dudes back on space rocks before I die!
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually not true.
A mighty battle was fought on the moon in 1987. There's a terrible documentary about it called Superman IV.
Urgullibl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:33:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the youngest person to ever walk on the moon turned 80 this year.
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88Wolves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My boyfriend was alive. I wasn't. I'm a bit annoyed, too...
diadmer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one...that they told us about!
2OQuestions ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:02:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But we spent good money on bailing out banks...so we've got that going for us, I guess.
Santoron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's going to change fairly quickly. A number of countries and private enterprises have their sights on the moon.
TiffanyCassels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whelp, that's disheartening.
bluecanaryflood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And to anyone at all, no one but a couple lucky astronauts have been to the moon in their lifetime
HANKHILL-AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But a little robot made it's way to a comet
Sparkstalker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in that category by a mere eight days. Eight freaking days.
mnwinterite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun one. The Beatles broke up before we got to the moon.
goblingoodies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I was little my parents gave me a book about astronauts. I couldn't read much of it but I loved looking at the pictures of the moon landings. So, I just thought that astronauts went to the moon all the time. I was shocked to learn they had stopped a long time ago.
xxunrealxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait Holy fuck really?
Lyktan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What am I missing here? Christer Fuglesang was there in 2006? Or was he just in space?
Saudi-Prince ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah he just went into earth orbit.
maizenblue16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but at least we'll get to see people on Mars.
Saudi-Prince ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like people are just starting to take a Mars trip seriously. We can definitely get to Mars. The issue is getting back. The launch window is 26 months part, so whoever goes to mars needs to live there for 2 years on the first try. Thats a LOT of food and supplies to bring. Water, oxygen, etc. If you want to rely on growing food, or extracting water and oxygen, then you are relying on that working perfectly for 2 years. So far no one has proven they can do that.
So yeah its all possible but its WAY harder than going to the moon and I think most people don't really understand how much harder it is.
shmeebz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On the flip side, anyone younger than 43 will most likely live to see a Mars landing.
whythisname ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:52:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what you count as a "landing". We've been landing (mostly crashing) things on Mars since 1971 (USSR Mars 2). We may live to see a manned Mars landing as NASA is estimating at least 2030. Which would be great
Hounmlayn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I genuinely thought we were constructing some sort of self sustaining occupancy up there? This is actually depressing to this out. The space station is impressive, but the fact no one has visited the moon in so long is upsetting
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:26:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you living under a rock?
djn808 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have what he's having, please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance with a side of obliviousness? Make that two, please.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because it doesn't exist and all the adults are messing with us!
i_hate_the_eagles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that may be, but I saw Apollo 13 and that's all I need (I'm 23).
GirlsNightOnly ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean, besides Matt Damon.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And to those of a conspiratorial bent, nobody has ever been on the moon ever.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:25:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think of it as "In 65 years, we went from people legitimately debating if manned flight was possible, to putting a man on the moon". The day before the Wright brother's first flight, there were still people with 'proof' that what they were attempting was not possible.
scottmill ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Human flight hoaxers, man, we still don't believe manned flight is possible. Don't let the government lie to you! (/s)
DuckyFreeman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We had manned heavier than air flight 15 years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. It just wasn't powered flight. Look up Samuel Langley and John J Montgomery.
PaintDrinkingPete ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:31:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One has to wonder how much longer it would have taken if there had not been 2 "world wars" during that span.
As awful as war is, nothing seems to accelerate advancements in technology more than man's desire to crush his enemy.
The amount of money and coordination that went into the full scope of the Manhattan project, for example, completely boggles the mind.
2OQuestions ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:04:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard from several family members in the medical field that war is the fastest accelerator for medical advances, (and then I'd assume for the technology to compensate for those advances).
"X-rays help detect metal in bodies so it can be removed?!!"
Other guy: "Guess we'll just have to start using glass shards in landmines and bombs. They'll never see that on an x-ray."
bearsnchairs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:49:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
69 years. The Wright Brothers started experimenting with gliders in 1900. Their plane flew in 1903.
Fili_and_Kili ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:29:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I was going to say, but I would have said 66 years. Because you know 1969-1903=66
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but the definition of "flew" has changed dramatically since then. The Wright's were not even the first to fall in style. I believe the 16 or 1700s were the first "flying machines" in way of little helicopter type things and they just went up and down.
DuckyFreeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
John J Montgomery flew in 1884. He was doing airshow with 20 minute glider flights by the time the wright's were flying.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't find evidence of flights that long.
The Wright brothers aren't known for the first flight, plenty of people flew before. They are known for the first powered heavier than air flight.
DuckyFreeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Montgomery used a balloon to lift his tandem wing glider up to a high altitude, then would glide around for a bit.
JoeyLucier ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:23:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the Wright brothers was still alive when we broke the speed of sound in a plane.
SA_Swiss ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:06:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And it blew my mind to think that my grandparents experienced that...
thefrankyg ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:30:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This has alwaysbblown my mind. Just seems so impossible that we went from one end of the spectrum to the full effect of it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:15:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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thefrankyg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:23:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Along the same technological tract though. We wouldn't have the shuttle without the plane.
Would a better comparison be the SR-71 blackbird?
jdovew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did someone say SR-71 Blackbird?!?!!
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet.
I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.
Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace.
We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.
Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one."
It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.
RadioactiveCashew ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:06:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unsubscribe from SR-71 Blackbird facts
jdovew ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:16:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You make me sad :(
KuriGohan_Kamehameha ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:04:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think I read this on a standardized test in middle school.
radon_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what I just read, but it made me exceedingly happy...
jdovew ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:12:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Someone new read it! Here's another one:
As a former SR-71 pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that SR-71 fly?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the aircraft's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to give, as the jet would always give you a little more speed if you wanted it to.
It was common to see 35 miles a minute. Because we flew a programmed Mach number on most missions, and never wanted to harm the plane in any way, we never let it run out to any limits of temperature or speed. Thus, each SR-71 pilot had his own individual โhighโ speed that he saw at some point on some mission. I saw mine over Libya when Khadafy fired two missiles my way, and max power was in order. Letโs just say that the plane truly loved speed and effortlessly took us to Mach numbers we hadnโt previously seen.
So it was with great surprise, when at the end of one of my presentations, someone asked, โwhat was the slowest you ever flew the Blackbird?โ This was a first. After giving it some thought, I was reminded of a story that I had never shared before, and relayed the following.
I was flying the SR-71 out of RAF Mildenhall, England , with my back-seater, Walt Watson; we were returning from a mission over Europe and the Iron Curtain when we received a radio transmission from home base. As we scooted across Denmark in three minutes, we learned that a small RAF base in the English countryside had requested an SR-71 fly-past. The air cadet commander there was a former Blackbird pilot, and thought it would be a motivating moment for the young lads to see the mighty SR-71 perform a low approach. No problem, we were happy to do it. After a quick aerial refueling over the North Sea , we proceeded to find the small airfield.
Walter had a myriad of sophisticated navigation equipment in the back seat, and began to vector me toward the field. Descending to subsonic speeds, we found ourselves over a densely wooded area in a slight haze. Like most former WWII British airfields, the one we were looking for had a small tower and little surrounding infrastructure. Walter told me we were close and that I should be able to see the field, but I saw nothing.
Nothing but trees as far as I could see in the haze. We got a little lower, and I pulled the throttles back from 325 knots we were at. With the gear up, anything under 275 was just uncomfortable. Walt said we were practically over the fieldโyet; there was nothing in my windscreen. I banked the jet and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that looked like a field. Meanwhile, below, the cadet commander had taken the cadets up on the catwalk of the tower in order to get a prime view of the fly-past. It was a quiet, still day with no wind and partial gray overcast.
Walter continued to give me indications that the field should be below us but in the overcast and haze, I couldn't see it.. The longer we continued to peer out the window and circle, the slower we got. With our power back, the awaiting cadets heard nothing. I must have had good instructors in my flying career, as something told me I better cross-check the gauges. As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren't really flying, but were falling in a slight bank. Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was) the aircraft fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower.
Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing titanium in their face as the plane leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass. Quickly reaching the field boundary, we proceeded back to Mildenhall without incident. We didn't say a word for those next 14 minutes.
After landing, our commander greeted us, and we were both certain he was reaching for our wings. Instead, he heartily shook our hands and said the commander had told him it was the greatest SR-71 fly-past he had ever seen, especially how we had surprised them with such a precise maneuver that could only be described as breathtaking. He said that some of the cadetโs hats were blown off and the sight of the plan form of the plane in full afterburner dropping right in front of them was unbelievable. Walt and I both understood the concept of โbreathtakingโ very well that morning, and sheepishly replied that they were just excited to see our low approach.
As we retired to the equipment room to change from space suits to flight suits, we just sat there-we hadn't spoken a word since โthe pass.โ Finally, Walter looked at me and said, โOne hundred fifty-six knots. What did you see?โ Trying to find my voice, I stammered, โOne hundred fifty-two.โ We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, โDonโt ever do that to me again!โ And I never did. A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall Officerโs club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about an SR-71 fly-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat of the jet singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his head and said, โIt was probably just a routine low approach; they're pretty impressive in that plane.โ Impressive indeed.
Little did I realize after relaying this experience to my audience that day that it would become one of the most popular and most requested stories. Itโs ironic that people are interested in how slow the worldโs fastest jet can fly. Regardless of your speed, however, itโs always a good idea to keep that cross-check upโฆand keep your Mach up, too.
Accio_Nimbus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Orville Wright died when Neil Armstrong was 17.
WisconsnNymphomaniac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The discovery of nuclear fission occurred in 1938. The first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
Wolfsburg ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:17:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If we'd only kept up that pace, I could be writing this on Europa while goofing off from work. But here I am, goofing off on Earth. Again.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Stay hopeful for the future -- just because we didn't achieve as much as we would have liked in the last few decades doesn't mean we won't do so in the ensuing decades. Exploration of Europa, Enceladus, Titan, exploration and colonization of the Moon, Mars; improvements to our propulsion technologies; vast arrays of triumphant manned stations pirouetting through the darkness in the orbital embrace of far off worlds; the ship, its grey-white proud prow hull glinting in the sun, on its side, in bold letters, a word passed down through the generations now, finally now, after so much time, so much waiting, within its destined home: "Enterprise." It could happen if we work toward it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
69 years actually. The first moon landing was 1969. The Wrights started experimenting with glider design in the late 1890s, went to Kitty Hawk to test their first manned gliders in 1900, and flew their first airplane in December 1903.
stubbystallion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me excited for what we could do in 65 years NOW.
Cakebeforedeath ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:31:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And in the 46 years since...eh
bearsnchairs ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:47:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We've launched a space station the size of a football field, landed an suv sized nuclear powered rover on Mars, sent probes past every planet in the solar system and a few out of it, landed on Titan, landed on a comet, brought pieces of a comet back to Earth, and launched telescopes that can see almost back to the beginning of time.
Humans haven't abandoned space exploration at all.
DarkMoon000 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:11:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's fascinating how big the psychological difference is between sending a human being somewhere to sending robots somewhere.
ImIndignant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The psychological difference is more about "FIRST". 6 people are in space right now, but all I see are articles about the new "drones" and self-driving cars. http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't just the psychological difference, it is the technical difference. It is far more challenging and expensive to send humans and associated support equipment anywhere.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. And yet it is eminently worthwhile.
crazymanfish90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and after 200 years in fallout they made a city out of sheet metal and Christmas lights
JD_Blunderbuss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favourite Wright brothers/space flight fact:
The first Wright Brothers' flight could fit inside the external fuel tank of the space shuttle.
illyay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We went from Doom 1 to Halo 1 in less than 10 years. (The technological advancements in computers)
Doomchicken7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, Halo 1 to Halo 5 took 14 years and the BTB maps in Halo 5 look similar to Halo 1.
illyay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Better than it taking only 1 year between each Call of Duty game.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
NonTransferable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The golden age of radio, where families sat around listening to radio programs only lasted about 20 years. TV appeared and won that battle.
Dazz316 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And in 66 years we went from the wright brothers first glider to putting wheels on suitcases.
the2belo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neil Armstrong took a fragment of propeller and swatch of fabric from the original Wright Flyer with him on Apollo 11.
DoctorOctagonapus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My question is what the hell happened?
seamustheseagull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No matter how many times I hear this I can't fathom it. It's like Charles Babbage getting an iPhone for his 75th birthday, the rate of development just astounding.
JosieTheButcher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're the guy that writes harry potter fanfiction right?
Doomchicken7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
IllustriousMouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's so cool to think that there are people who, in the span of one lifetime, saw the world when human flight wasn't possible, and the world after a man walked on the moon.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really a glider, it was powered and heavier than air.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really a glider, it was powered and heavier than air.
ProfShea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mote in god's eye.
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
65 years after that and we still can't make it back.
metalflygon08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Orville got to watch his invention drop the atom bombs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which was 46 years ago.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
HoodedGryphon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My great grandfather went, in his lifetime, from the invention of the model T to men on the moon.
Ebonic_Plague ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 66 years we went from those stupid attempts at planes where the wings flap to the moon
UpiedYoutims ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no way richard wright has a brother? i love pink floyd
matthimself ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:44 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rhodes?
Extrasherman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd also like to add that your smart phone is more technologically advanced/powerful than the computers on board the Apollo missions.
RobertAPetersen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
An original model black and white GameBoy in 1989 was.
failingtolurk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:16:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Got dat alien technology dog.
NoseDragon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:01:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, whether or not the Wright brothers were the first to invent flight is highly debated. There were others doing similar things at the same time, and who was first depends on your definition of what an airplane is.
AppleRatty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:14:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Orville Wright lived to see planes drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(Bombings were in 1945, Orville died in 1948.)
stakoverflo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:19:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This might be a stupid question, but are there really that many parallels between flight and rockets? To my completely uneducated mind I feel like they're two fundamentally different sciences, no?
That said, considering how much more sophisticated the latter is... That IS pretty fucking impressive.
capilot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:30:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the Wright brothers lived long enough to pilot a jet.
Nithryok ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:46:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tin foil hat or so they say...
rtwoctwo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:49:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the brothers lived long enough to see an airplane drop the atomic bomb.
harrypoterhead ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why are these so often compared? the Wright brothers' were practicing flight. going to the moon is not flight.
[deleted] ยท 4409 points ยท Posted at 10:57:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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TheUniverseLoathesMe ยท 3705 points ยท Posted at 14:39:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's a lot of information to swallow
Scipio229 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 18:52:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice.
RoboDank ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:36:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
CARLOS!
i_will_touch_ur_nose ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice!
MouthPoop ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 21:30:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not for OP's mom.
SandstoneD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You magnificent bastard.
eclecticReader ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:25:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Give this man his gold.
montrealcowboyx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
spit take
AdmAkbar_2016 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don"t spit. Swallow.
call_911_to_diddle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:20:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spitters are quitters.
1nsaneMfB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't care if she spits or swallows, I just want her to follow through during orgasm. What she does with the cum after that is her problem
Nero_MD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, bravo!
300twostroker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Might need some swap for a load like that.
P5ychoRaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:15:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:/
clusterfucken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best thing I have ever read on the internet. Holy shit. I am still laughing. If i had gold I would give you all of it.
DisorderlyConduct ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:06:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You beat me to it
continous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Often instead I see people just spit it out in an instant.
Fatthom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit XD I just cried laughing XD XD
idc1710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there
fatbastick ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 18:34:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why your not getting more upvotes.. but that my good sir, is an amazing line..
Menism ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tips fedora
GoodApolloIV ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:59:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My good sir = down votes for being used too much. Tips fedora = up votes for being used even more. I find this amusing.
internetV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
my sole regret is that I have but one fedora to tip
xXmlgproscopeXx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:11:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know why you have negative upvotes
metallikoh ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 23:15:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Old. Very old
EinherjarofOdin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Would you say it's... too old ?
[deleted] ยท 2652 points ยท Posted at 11:19:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Divexz ยท 3325 points ยท Posted at 14:11:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alright let's take a look. For the sake of simplicity let's say that the average video is about 30 minutes. The average file size of a 30 minute HD video is about 1.2 gigs from what I could find which is .0012 TB. Now we simply do some math. 1,587.5TB/.0012TB = 1,322,916.67 or 1,322,917 videos.
How long would it take to watch all of it? Well if we multiply 1,322,916.67 by 30 minutes we get 39,687,500.1 minutes. Divide that by 60 to find how many hours which yields us 661,458.335 hours worth of porn. Which is 27,560.764 days. Which is 75.508 years worth of porn.
TheDaw ยท 4200 points ยท Posted at 14:50:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You ejaculate a lifetime
brickwall5 ยท 1921 points ยท Posted at 16:01:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, that's deep.
elephantofdoom ยท 1930 points ยท Posted at 16:34:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Balls deep.
Terrible_Ty ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 21:02:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love this website
rohtozi ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:02:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit in a nutshell
Terrible_Ty ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:05:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is balls deep in a nutshell?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:23:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds painful.
xXplainawesomeXx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:43:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Tehsyr ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:26:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shes still not gagging though and she has a bored look on her face, guys what else do i need to do here!
xGravemindx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:15:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quick! Everyone downvote him as he clearly doesn't want it to be his top comment!
elephantofdoom ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:26:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just leave the nutz hanging out.
Hejhoppgummisnopp ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
CREAMPIE
chazesiwile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This might be my favorite thread ever. Thank you.
70MPG_onthishog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think you're supposed to say balls, testicles okay?
kittymeowmixi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ball is life.
EMINEM_4Evah ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Literally
fondler_of_balls ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:39:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Put her ass to sleep?
Ballzd33p69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:04:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone call me?
PM_titties_pleeease ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:36:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A little heart beats
[That shits poetry]
inarizushisama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:33:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You earned it!
JayJJoker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:03:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
lordofscorpions ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in op's mom
mrmdc ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Better than mine... Mine is about a fictional man from Florida ejaculating on a fictional woman waiting for the bus
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DP, balls deep.
ginfish ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:00:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And just now, if God is a thing... He just went: "HAH! They finally got the joke!"
brickwall5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:04:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God always playing the long con.
loadedmind ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:48:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what you wish she said.
brickwall5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:( it's true.
NathCraft27 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:52:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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brickwall5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GOT EM!
ywdupls ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 16:05:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It all makes sense now
Torvaun ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:02:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you do it in the right place, you create a lifetime.
enlighteningbug ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:38:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like it could be really deep, but not quite.
MeddlinQ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:28:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...of porn
Koopa_Troop ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
Sheriff_DickButt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:49:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
for a moment, like thisssss
tsunami845 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technically you also ejaculate millions of lifetimes.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In HD.
I live life in 440 so Ill probably live for like 300 years.
Pernic10us ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Until 4K becomes the standard.
KhabaLox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:36:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've ejaculated three.
KaladinStorms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is literal as well as time descriptive.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the actual best fact in this thread.
zombifiednation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you should always wear a condom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can already see the next pro-life slogan.
Hyperman360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a great slogan for a brothel.
NinjaRobotPilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't wrap it, of course.
chipsharp0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or for our more Republican leaning friends, "You ejaculate a life."
the_fauve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Given one ejaculate can result in one life, makes sense.
attazach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, if you get a woman pregnant, yeah.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Might even say billions of them.
somewhereinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you had kids you wouldn't believe how true that is.
TheStorMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel really proud of everyone here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meta
AllStoriesAreTrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Likely the best comment reddit has ever had.
DreamYume ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nofap
cap10wow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:51:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
prowness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:34:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's r/nocontext material if I ever saw it.
Please refrain from posting this on the sub for a few days you greedy Karma Whores.
tanitup ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Words that have never been said to you
nicolone8 ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 14:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn thats alot of porn
CurlyNippleHairs ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 15:45:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Amateur
itz4mna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, what kind of savage doesn't watch their pornography in 8K resolution, 12.2 surround sound and at 60fps?
TheMaskedMeowth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on, we can take this further. So, 1 frame of an 8k video will have about 33177600 pixels in it, and assuming each pixel is 3 bytes, you'll find that there are 99532800 bytes, or about 99 MB per frame. So, multiply that times 60 for the frames per second, then 60 again for the minute, and finally by 30 for the 30 minutes, and you get APPROXIMATELY 10.749542 TB. That's just video.
Now I am getting a bit more lazy for the sound since it's so small compared to the 10 TB, but 30 minutes of 24 bit, 96KHz, Stereo sound (the best I could find) is on average about 1.0368 GB, which will give you a final answer of about 10.750578 TB per video.
Now we do the same math presented in the original comment, 1,587.5TB/10.750578TB, and you could watch 147.666478956, or for rounding's sake, 147 videos at this scale. This porn would take you a much more manageable 73 hours, 49 minutes, and 58 seconds with the 2/3rds of a video, or 73 hours and 30 minutes to watch all that.
emilh2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:18:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ever heard of video compression? Also, I guess most computers/programs won't be able to render 100 mb of information per frame.
Completejerry ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:11:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rotll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alot
porradavfr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To you maybe.
Sgt_Patman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's like, all the porn. All of the porn on the Internet. Jk, the internees porn reserves are probably more like 200+ years long
Halafax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't recall my biology that well, but I think there are only 4 combinations of DNA from mother or father (and 16 combinations based on both parents).
So that means all that data is really just 4 movies (with minor variations for copy defects) sent hundreds of thousands times each.
That doesn't cover RNA, but that shit is weird.
ravensashes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The crossing over of chromosomes will prevent the lack of diversity in the passed on genes. So it's a bit more than just four combinations.
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hyperbole-and-a-Half Rule 34?
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many Jizzabytes is that?
KillerOkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly one.
PersonX2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but it's all copies of the same 35mb clip
SmogBlock ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is /r/theydidthemath worthy.
jevans102 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:55:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm normally too lazy, but it's too good.
https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/3thcue/rdtm_nsfw_ish_udivexz_calculates_how_much_porn/
Thorolf_Kveldulfsson ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:21:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but who watches the whole thing? I just skip around for the good parts
Raider1987 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:59:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So what you are saying is there is enough room in one ejaculation to store roughly half of the porn may dad owns?
Dragonogon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, my little unborn babies swimming around in my balls are enough to hold about 75 years of porn?
Well, I know what I want my kids to do when I have any.
oopsielalala ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bow in the glory of this information.
rayrayheyhey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who watches 30 minutes of porn at a time?
_TheGreaterGood_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL 75.508 years worth of porn = exactly 12 porn
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:12:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which means 1 porn is 6.292 years
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:51:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much Viagra would I need to take to have a long enough lasting boner to jack off to all of this?
riffdex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My God, that's more than 283 Fogles
morthaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming the average time per porn session is 15 minutes as descriped here, we get 39,687,500.1/15 =2,645,833 sessions. Further assuming 90% of the sessions end with orgasms we get 3,780,134,385 TB of Data from the first Round.
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to find that average number but I couldn't find it. So thank you for that.Although, it says 15 minutes per session so I'm assuming they skip parts of a porno across multiple pornos
SA_Swiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is 75.508 years of continuous porn. Try factoring in sleeping, eating and working...
/r/Ididntdothemath
saloalv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/slightlyunsatisfying
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AKA my firstborn son's inheritance
ASSHOLE_BY_NATURE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can get behind this.
wulfguitar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's about the average life expectancy, too. Fascinating.
callddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus
OctagonalHumanist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/bestof
Talks_to_myself ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Typical Wed afternoon for me
twitch9873 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you just calculated how much porn is in 1 ejaculation
bawzzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The porn may be 30min long but I only need like 5min to do the deed and I'm out.
Good2Go5280 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When do I start?
sonlc360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just tell me if I can store porn in my sperm!
onetwo3four5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most porn isn't even HD, there's way more porn than 75 years
stillaredcirca1848 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And it's all open at once on separate tabs on my browser.
slowgoins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hope it's your day off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found my 'holy shit' fact
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one watches the full 30. I'll say maybe 10 minutes.
PrimoThePro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for doing fun math!
Pandipoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
digitalgoodtime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now just apply the tip to tip compression algorithm for optimal jerking:data transfer rate.
RyanK663 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the math.
rennaps4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've only got five more years of wanking to do then...
RoyalePrincessDi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This common core math is getting ridiculous
IxPhoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
hammer2309 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
K_sforDays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
Shayne55434 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here you are with gold and 526 upvotes after doing a fair amount of math. Yet the guy who responded with 'exactly 12 porn' is also guilded and has 2211 upvotes.
I love Reddit.
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life
Kiacha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All that work, and you get out-upvoted by the answer "exactly 12 porn" by 1767 votes and counting.
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maths is under appreciated but I did get gold
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the maths.
ldn6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is entirely too much science for this topic.
abedneg0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except it's all the same video over and over again.
FancyOctopii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but does that take into account skipping over the "acting" at the beginning?
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That requires more research
LickOnDeezNuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But what about resolution? 720? 1080? 1440? Lossless compression? Lossy?
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1080p
darkekniggit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just enough porn to get us from the Wright Brothers flight to the moon.
Invalid_Uzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something makes me think maths are your porn
hueythecat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.2g for 30 mins? How high res is your porn?
Divexz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:12:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1080p
OhSeeThat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
Humankeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Multiply that by the how quickly I can ejaculate/how many times I can ejaculate in a minute, and you have a number order magnitudes larger.
Karontu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
it_is_not_science ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it's mostly the same porns over and over...
Orc762 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidmath is leaking
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or.. a normal fap session on a lazy day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
reddit.com/r/theydidthemath
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's scarily close to the average life span of a male
RobertLoblawLawBlog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
fb3playhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the maths
nmejia1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Better start now.
5678bam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/hedidthemath
AceStudios10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
GradiusInfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
LanceGD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
semiautomatically ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but lets say i just watch 30% of those videos, only 22.652 years of porn for me.
TheOctophant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
SergentBubbles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermath
timawesomeness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardgraph
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
30 minutes?? Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!
ThaCarter13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
im somewhat disappointed that the guy who said "exactly 12 porn" has double your upvotes. :(
toothgrinder133 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the math.
dylanhoel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidmath
The4D6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone call /r/theydidthemath, somebody got loose again
DijkstraShortestPath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
lhamil64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It could be infinite, if you add the ejaculation from each video.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
cubictortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So 12 porn
geared4war ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if I only last two minutes?
ITiswhatITisforthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jared probably had quad monitor setup, so technically he could go through all those videos in 18.877 years.
WilliamGamache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
75 years during which, even more porn would be made...
Adm1ra1Blackjack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
theymakemewear_pants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NOICE
rgf5048 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To summarize, one ejaculation has 75 years worth of porn.
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah
tknames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
GoldenPenisOfDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
Iauol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What do i do with this wise information
MetathranSoldier ยท 4840 points ยท Posted at 11:33:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
exactly 12 porn
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MrKamranzzz ยท 533 points ยท Posted at 13:54:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
np
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 14:25:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
MrKamranzzz ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 15:27:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually am. He stole my gold :(
Coolstorylucas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:00:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rip
TossTheDog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...in peace
screen317 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:22:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...es
manlightning ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rip in piecees :(
NativeNotFrench ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
GimmeDatMeth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:26:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously the math was done
willsueforfood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:09:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
p=np confirmed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cum again.
kingwilly123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He said: "exactly 12 porn".
DragonDDark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome
TheMiddleNut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
amoebaslice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait a minute...you didn't even do anything.
Dtruth333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait a second...
rex2oo9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*your whale cum
aintnos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted
MrKamranzzz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:27:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But I am
doubledongbot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank Mr. Skeltal. Hard drives full of good protein will be yours.
OozhassnyDevotchka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank Mr. Skeltal.
OozhassnyDevotchka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What will you do with this knowledge?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Take a guess
SuperCrusader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr.Skeltal
Dex22er ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:52:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Transferred at roughly 30 speed
chux4w ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:56:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
12 porn for one ejaculation? Damn bro, you're desensitised.
robomry ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:48:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I laughed out loud in class at this
FakeOrcaRape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:35:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pfft oonly if you round
Skaahr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So one porn is equal to 132.3 TB of memory?
Hidoni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
joshuammeyer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd argue that using "how much" requests qualitative or inexact answer, where "how many" requests a quantitative answer.
CasnoGaming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where did this meme originate?
MetathranSoldier ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
here
rotll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I smoked 3 marijuana, and I came up with 17 porn. Not sure where the discrepancy is, though...
struttersix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This made my day, thank you.
bogidyboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 porn please
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ, how long are your porn videos? 50 hours each?
MetathranSoldier ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:39:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes a man gotta porn...
eternal_wait ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Half porn if you ask... A friend of mine...
OK_Soda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just checked my hard drive and it's only about 1.5 porns actually.
rhymes_with_chicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
whoa, that's a lot of porn.
2OQuestions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or 24.5 Jeremies (measured in MegaRons)
Ukleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or 0.76 eFukt porn
aleph_zarro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Metric or imperial?
Tiberius5115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
12.432 porn, source: am porn
TheOctophant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
we should make this an official measurement
AChanceRay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a lotta porn!
Divexz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If we combine our maths together we can determine the value of 1 porn. source if 1,587.5 TB = 12 porn and 1,587.5 TB = 75.508 years, then by the transitive property 12 porn = 75.508 years. Now we simply solve for the value of 1 porn which is equal to 6.292
In Conclusion: 1 porn = 6.292 years
for example my age is equal to 6.543 pornos give or take
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ill take 4 then.
CabbageSlut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
MaximaFuryRigor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would only be a correct answer if the question was "How many porn is that?"
issr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It goes past 11
Esc_ape_artist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
We need a Reddit conversion table.
1587.5 TB = 12 porn 1 porn = 132.39 TB 1 rare pepe = ? $3.50 = your mother Reddit silver = ?
unoriginalsin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, one fogle?
Skutter_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're the real MVP
MizaLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, best I can do is 4.
Hohepas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 porn = 132.291666666667 TB?
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
frickinsweetdude ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 21:10:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 283.5 Fogles
JaktheAce ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing I think of is original...
Amorine ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:26:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon.
Kalapuya ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:16:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, beat me to it.
abottomful ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:18:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still less than Jared's hard drive
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:00:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:02:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 283x Jared Fogle's collection.
NoTheOtherChris ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:30:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
about half of Jared Fogle's collection
TwoTurtleLoves ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About Fogle collection size
SirGallade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:18:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quite a bit more than Jarod Fogle's stash
hclear ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 283 Jareds
Tinfoilpain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About the same as 1 Magma.
jimmy011087 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 300 years of HD footage
IPlayRaunchyMusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two floppy disks
working878787 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.21 gigaloads
NickSkye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Enough to plant a jungle
not_safe_for_you ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One money shot.
APackOfMongi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So many
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on how long it takes to find the right clip.
Viscous_Crescendo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"How much sexual information did you download onto our she-bot?"
"Porn. Thousands of porn."
"Dear god."
(source: Home Movies, episode "Curses")
andrewsmd87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming you're watching HD and roughly estimating 1 hour of HD video = 1G (which is rough but close). That's around 1587000 hours of porn. Or, 66125 days, or just shy of 181 years and 2 months.
scottmill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One, usually.
Merk1b2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
363 Jareds
Hollowsong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly LESS than the amount of porn they found on Jared Fogle...
CrunkaScrooge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slightly less than what Jared had at time of conviction
RossTempleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many Jared Fogles?
collinjames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 283.48 times more than Jared had
EmergencyVolunteer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jared Fogles? Apparently a little over 15 years....
KeenanAllnIvryWayans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its the amount CP that Jared had collected.
alientrooper94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
69
edjw7585 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 900 Disney episodes. Give or take.
swellguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gives new meaning to the term 'download'
Useful-ldiot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Based on what I know, the answer also needs to be answered in Disneys.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 1/5 of Jared fogles child porn.
LostInTheAttic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ask Jared
samwheat90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly the same amount found on Jared Fogel's computer.
doobiesnboobies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Less than Jared's collection
tronpalmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 12 Disney shows.
enigma2g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 Jareds worth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 300 Fogles worth.
[deleted] ยท 271 points ยท Posted at 12:15:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How did they even figure that out?
[deleted] ยท 2118 points ยท Posted at 12:40:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This is actually pretty easy and you can even do it at home (u probably want to do it alone). All u need is a dick something to wank to and a pc.
Grab ur dick
Wank
Cum into pc
Check the data ur pc just got and there u go.
edit: i see some of you guys are having trouble shooting the cum into the usb port. If you cant do it you can always just blow it into the disk drive.
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 823 points ยท Posted at 12:54:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just tried this and I think my computer isn
Terven ยท 658 points ยท Posted at 13:14:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r u ok
mrlowe98 ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 13:23:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
RIP in piece,
karmisson ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:52:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pizza, rip in piece
Hippie farts, rip in peace
Peter's Hip Bar, Rippin' Pete's
postingstuff ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:59:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
mntwins7 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:21:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pizza, rip in piece
Hippie farts, rip in peace
Peter's Hip Bar, Rippin' Pete's
BenLindsay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
f
pm_me_nudes_or_feet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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RancidLemons ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:46:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Terven ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:47:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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SP_SpecTre ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:07:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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jaypenn3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:15:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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TsMAmp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:20:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Y
pm_me_nudes_or_feet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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SublimeStory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:12:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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jonny24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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B0NESAWisRRREADY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:49:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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nman68 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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MiniatureBadger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We did it, Reddit!
screen317 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:23:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
!
netlurd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I
ApathyLincoln ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would feel bad for him, but it seems he is a cunt.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:55:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
blink once for yes, blink twice for no
Thegamer211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
his computer ded
LachlantehGreat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:29:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you download more ram?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
F
Darthbobman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:42:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cum-puter
A_Prostitute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your computer is pregnant
profeDB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have to shoot directly into the USB port. Try again.
kula_shakur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
its fine they are barren
[deleted] ยท 497 points ยท Posted at 13:15:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Asshole! Now my computers pregnant and keeps saying it has a virus.
Flotze ยท 205 points ยท Posted at 13:21:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Charlie Sheen?
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:12:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No this is Patrick.
happyfinesadrepeat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:42:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
BigStereotype ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My god this has been a solid Reddit day
WolfSpartan1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:13:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My brother went and got tested yesterday, because he heard that one out of two and a half men have HIV.
sublimesting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice joke Dad! How's Uncle Dave?
W00DERS0N ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow.
ApathyLincoln ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:49:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aladeen
imthe1nonlyD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's not just sure, he's HIV positive.
eatmydonuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oooo topical
robbarratheon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon?
ocean365 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too..... Soon? Does he even care since he let everyone know?
PhycopathRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Charlie screen :D
I_Am_Rainbow- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon
Alonminatti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon!
Gockel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not pregnant, but there's definitely something growing inside.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your pc might be on her period.
Nardo318 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hit ESC to abort.
illuminates ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit... I thought I had it bad. My computer just made me breakfast and wants to know what we're doing the rest of the day.
blahs44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it has a fenus. Try getting some pills to make your fenus grow better.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't download a sperm.
__LordNibbler__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's gonna miscarry
Rip
daredevilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its just AI being born
NoifenF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You must not have installed a the correct driver.
kloudykat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, better it than you.
Tokentaclops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jusr press ctrl+alt+delete -> task manager. Find pregnancy.exe or fetus.exe (either will work) and right-click -> abort program. If you are unable to do this for whatever reason, like not being authorized, just force a shutdown or damage the pc, with a little luck the program might get corrupted.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:30:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I accidentally the whole hard drive
Wombinatar ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:12:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
make sure you download some more RAM first
Sgt_Patman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:59:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why download it when I can make more by RAMming my cock into the side of my PC?
KotorFTW ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:48:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Guys, DO NOT try this unless you have at least 1,587.5 TB of free hard drive space. Otherwise your computer will go into a sperm overload and you will need to explain it to your parents
aggron306 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:11:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
now the usb port is all crusty
Hugo_Hackenbush ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:38:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because you tried to put the sperm in upside down. Take it out and try it the other way.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
was waiting for this joke
Mesha8 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyaskscience
sage1700 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyaskscience
Hujoppi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is this, r/shittyaskscience ?
jorellh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shuttle shoebox
i_solve_riddles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can I use this technique to increase my RAM?
INVICTU5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just grab your dick and double click for porn porn porn!
LetMeStopURightThere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I couldn't get it into the usb port at first but it turns out I just had my sperm upside down
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn you Comcast data cap!
_Sublime_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions clear. Dick stuck in disk drive.
thatswhatshesaidxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do I do this on a mac?
DickTayta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seems legit.
Shredder77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, dick caught in CPU fan, dead hard drives everywhere.
Narf_Poit_Wrestling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
had to try 3 times to insert my dick on the usb port
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in USB slot. No, wait....
tehbrony5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I accidentally my computer. Is that bad?
_nea102_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hard or floppy?
6502C64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Extra points - cum into a serial port, all 9 holes
Hally89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. Trouble shooting.
Oriolez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What should I do if I got my computer pregnant?
ubitchyou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:47:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sir, made my day
Bladelink ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 16:29:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a matter of knowing how many base pairs there are in each gamete, then figuring out how many bits you need to store all the data that those pairs represent.
Delioth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:00:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, since there are 4 bases... exactly 2 bits/base. This means a byte holds 4 bases- you only need to record one side since you can infer the other.
Google says that human genome has ~3 billion (109 ) base pairs. This translates to 6 x 109 bits to hold these- but a sperm is only half of that, so 3 x 109 bits for a sperm's data. Divide by 8 to get bytes instead of bits: 30 x 108 / 8 = 3.75 x 108 (375,000,000). From here, it's just dividing by 210 (1024): 366,210 KB; 357.628 MB.
I've determined OP's math is wrong unless someone can find the error in my math. It's just a little under ten times the amount he gave.
XtremeGoose ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:38:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Each 'section' of DNA is one of four possible bases : A, C, G or T. These encode information. These four can be represented by two binary bits, for example:
For example a quick Google says the human genome has 3.2 billion base pairs and so is equivalent to 6.4 billion bits.
1 byte (B) = 8 bits (b) and 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes. So we get 800 MB of information per genome.
However this is different to what is cold the 'coding DNA' which is significantly shorter and is probably what the OP was talking about.
TheFantasticDangler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
4 Base Pairs, 2 combinations. Adenine and thymine (A and T). Cytosine and Guanine (C and G). Each pair is assigned a 1 or a 0 and it works like binary.
inconspicuous_male ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:38:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Human DNA has 4 types of base pair. You can essentially have base 4 math and logic with those. Biologists know how many pairs are in human DNA, and that can be counted as memory. And each sperm cell has 50% of the amount of DNA as a human. At some point, someone measured the sperm density of ejaculate for the purposes of creating a syrup. From there they found out the memory of a wank.
RedditConsciousness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the human genome, once mapped, is that size?
Prae_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:40:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
we know how many pair of nucleotide (A, T, C or G) there is in the DNA. Each one of these can be represented by two bits (00, 01, 10, 11). A human sperm cell contains 3.2 billions pb, so that's 6.4 billions bits, i.e roughly 800MB...
Of those 800MB, a lot are highly repetitive thing that are hardly "information" (telomeres are long string of A, for exemples). So you can probably reduce this number to get closer to the 37.5MB figure. With a minimum of data compression, you can probably also eliminate unnecessary bytes.
Tito1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Using compression you wouldn't get near the TB OP is citing.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes so each spermatozoide could be described by referring to only 46 sequences in the lookup table. 46 sequences can be identified by 6 bits so every spermatozoide could be described with only 138 bits.
(This is based on my limited understanding of genetics and ignoring mutations)
Prae_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm looking at a single sperm cell, here, that's why i'm trying to bring it down to 37.5MB. A "normal ejaculation" contains millions of sperm cells, so that's why the total data transfer is a lot more than 37.5MB.
Human have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but sperm cells have only half of it (since the goal is to fuse it with half the DNA of the mother). I really don't understand why you say that a sequence can be identified with only 6 bits... The Y chromosome is 50 millions pb long. That a full 50 millions letters long of DNA, and needs 100 millions bits to be perfectly transcribed into bits.
Now there's numbers of way you can reduce this number. As I said, lot of stuff is repetitive, mostly because it has a structural function rather than an informative function. So scientist can make some shortcuts, getting the 800MB worth of data down to 4MB.
Tito1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about a basic compression scheme using a lookup table. Each spermatozoide is constructed using 23 out of 46 sequences, so you could refer to those sequences with 6 identifiers bits in the lookup table, or 138 bits per spermatozoide
It's a compression algorithm to compress the entire load, not a single spermatozoid.
Prae_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh, I see. But that's a bit cheating, because the data stil have to be stored somewhere. Also, even if human don't differ from one another a lot, there's still differences from people to people. So there's a least your lookup table and the list of each singular difference and their location on the genome.
rayverine11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would also like an answer to this. Would be great to know
Lawsoffire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can store information on DNA.
that's actually the whole point of DNA.
AggressionSsb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DNA is just ons and offs. Basically if I made giant ass text document and put ABCDDADBCBBBBDBCBABDCBABDCBDBACBDbABCBDBABDBCBDCABBBADBABADBDBCBDBDABCBDBABCDBABADBACBCAADBCBCBADBABDCDBDBCABCBDBDABDBDBBD
That would be your dna except way bigger. To be fair 37.5mb of text would be fucking massive.
Elliotastic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:47:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe just represent the genes as plaintext and go off that?
WHEATIESSSS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:05:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's first grade spongebob!
Lola_got_a_Lazerface ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:18:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
u can taste it like with an hdd
Geekmonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:07:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They ran a packet trace on your mum.
User-Unavailable ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 15:54:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. No. No. The data transfer itself is actually quite small. It is just Highly Redundant.
Regardless of how you slice it, there will never be more data than the hosts complete DNA. So the real question is, how much data is a complete human DNA?
DarkMoon000 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:47:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit the complete DNA of a human onto a CD; it's a little less than 900MB.
pr0gr3ss0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a sperm is 37.5MB and contains half of your chromosomes, wouldn't that mean you just double that for 75MB total?
DarkMoon000 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:59:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something doesn't work out here. I don't know where the information about the 37.5MB sperm comes from, but the human genome has 3,234.83 Mega-base-pairs, each base-pair encodes 2 bit of information (not because it is a pair, but because it can come in 4 variants) which would make 6469.66 Mbit which makes 808.7075 MByte. And half of these needs to come with the sperm of which according to my biology class only one is used.
So the sperm needs to transport 404MB.
hakuna_tamata ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Error: sperm not found
miezmiezmiez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That might be my new favorite 'holy shit' fact.
indigo121 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No way. Each of those sperms is its own unique blend of the parent's genome and represents blue prints for a totally different child. Saying its no more than the original genome is like saying no digital data is more than a 1 and a 0. Or that a a song is no more than the set of notes used to compose it.
MortemLuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
exactly 9 data.
frakking_you ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:33:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Data != information
If handled separately, yes, there is 1.5 TB, but a great deal of the data is redundant in at least 2 forms:
1.) the natural error correction schemes native to our DNA
2.) the repeated gene content that makes the supermarket genetically ours
Hustiu47 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, jizzus!
domemvs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
RAID 1 in perfection!
thewhat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the most interesting aspect of this is that it means that a human is formed by less than 100MB of DNA information. I could store a small town's entire population on my USB stick.
user1492 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I have sex at 400 Tbps?
intoxicated_potato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read this on pornhub somewhere a long time ago. They used to (they still might) have sex facts at the bottom of the page each day.
THUMB5UP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
Thadude1984 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a quick data transfer.
Weft_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Come on man. We live in 2015, we can use the term Petabyte and not feel bad about it.
1.56 PB
Sander071 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:52:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's an incredible upload speed.
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next on buzzfeed: Can we download on to our sperm?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised this never actually happened...
anti_vaxxer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But that's a LOT of redundancy and could be greatly compressed!
Animoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In a similar vein, I was told that our short term processing/memory (or whatever it is called) equates to about 8 BYTES. That is why we need things like gaps between numbers on credit cards
demosthenes384322 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
lambda188 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the real "holy shit" fact here is that the information it takes to make a person takes up only 37.5MB.
Or would that be only half of the information? Either way that's not a lot of data for something so complicated.
MythicalMagicMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but only one sperm completes the data transfer IF impregnation occurs. So you pretty much throw out a hard drive worth of biological data everytime you ejaculate. Fascinating.
merelyadoptedthedark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I too, watch Qi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So a woman's reproductive cell is a great firewall
pughie2599 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is a lot of information to swallow
Cunhabear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How exactly does one convert DNA level to megabytes?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so roughly 1.5 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes)
ProfDoctorMrSaibot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much data of one sperm is identical or at least very similar to the others though? You'd have a bucketload of unnessecary or redundant data.
zehydra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on how you encode the genetic information.
maxfortitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the brain is a storage device capable of saving somewhere around 2.5 Petabytes.
MonsieurMersault ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or in my case a data loss
Brodoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didnt help my keyboard though
DickButtDavid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username?
PriestlyAxis77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, my cum cabinet can hold so much info?
PaulsRedditUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if you have a mac? iSperm probably has more, right?
somenamehere1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that like having a 2TB hardrive and just physically moving it from say one shelf to another...I guess its a data transfer...sorta. Just not that as impressive in those terms.
psbwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But couldn't that be compressed into something much smaller?
NickSkye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why people on /r/nofap are so much smarter right?
fisheramike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
DrFilbert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But most of it is redundant. Each pair of sperm cells are made from arrangements of the same DNA, so what you really need is just a couple bytes for where the crossing over and mutation points are.
BCSteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's so misleading though, and practically meaningless.
First off, a single sperm would be around 750 MB. For a diploid cell, it's:
6ร109 base pairs x 1 byte/4 base pairs = 1.5ร109 bytes โ 1.5 GB
Divide that in half for a haploid genome, and you get 750 MB. (Note that this is just the information encoded in the raw sequence of the DNA. The information encoded in the methylation patterns, histone methylations and acetylations, chromatin structure, etc., is (as far as I know) not really quantifiable, but it's HUMONGOUS.) And since a diploid genome is just two copies, you could compress it down into not much more space than a haploid genome. So let's call it 750 MB.
Secondly, and the bigger point, is that all the data in a single ejaculation is repetitive. Since every single sperm has some subset of that initial 750 MB, the actual amount of information transferred never exceeds 750 MB. It's akin to sending someone millions of copies of the same exact file. Sure, it might be a humongous amount of "data", but it's not a humongous amount of information. If you had 1500 TB worth of unique files, that'd be impressive. Having 1500 TB of the same file repeated over and over again is far less so.
Or, knowing that humans are 99.5% similar to each other, by using a reference genome you could compress it even further. You just need to record where it differs from the reference. And that gets you down to somewhere around 5 to 10 MB.
BlopBleepBloop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why you want to use a TCP connection; to avoid sending the same data twice. Of course, this assumes that the receiver isn't having a problem producing ACKs.
TIL A vagina utilizes UDP.
CanadiangirlEH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So my vagina is basically a data-bank. cooool
Zero_Millennium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I trust this is accurate because of your username.
drdeadringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a huge flash drive.
The_DHC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So a bukake is a DDOS attack?
Forence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's really a lot more than that. DNA is way more complicated than most laymen realize. FYI, if you just count the bases you're only measuring the data in its compressed form. Edit: it is insanely compressed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BRB defragmenting
Scipio229 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a tube sock under my bed that doubles as an Amazon server.
Jetpack-Guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something something floppy disc.
LocoRocoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks /u/SuperPenis69
_StatesTheObvious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.5875 Petabytes since that's what's next up on the scale. Let's just call it 1.6 Petabytes.
I_Am_THE_BRAIN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bukakke must be like a fucking peta-byte.....
anoelr1963 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
plus every sperm is sacred
LarrySDonald ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh? The human genome is about 3000 mililon base pairs. Each encode two bit (One of two pairs plus two directions), so 6Gbit, 750Mb. A sperm carries half of it, 375 Mb. I guess I should be missing and order of magnitude, but I don't see where. I also remember when it was first sequenced and seem to remember it was a bit under a gig, at the time a shitload of data but not completely impossibly much, like you'd probably have a few times that in HD space but forget juggling it in ram. That's a poor measurment though because five-ten years earlier that could have been 37.5Mb..
sdiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username
Sledz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I not surprised a dude named "SuperPenis69" is the one that commented this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you could run a SAN De-Dupe on that and still fit it on a thumb drive.
zdabest98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How did they even figure that out???
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad I'm on Comcast, my premature data transfer is throttled for her enjoyment.
fackyuo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.5 petabytes :D
MadGoalie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Talk about a hard drive...
Kitkat69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't we use sperm hard drives in our computers?
TiffanyCassels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just asked my SO to yell "I'm going to upload so much data into you!" the next time he cums.
I'm 50/50 on whether I actually want that to happen or not...
Nivian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a lot of information to swallow.
i_hope_i_remember ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want my Internet speed that fast.
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
_Guinness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So 1.5 petabytes. Which means every ejaculation is ROUGHLY an entire data center rack full of high density storage.
SmellsOfTeenBullshit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean there is 37.5MB of entropy for the genetics of a human being?
Ser_Rodrick_Cassel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the crazy part is that 37.5MB is not even that much. does that mean there is a finite number of possible unique humans?
Blue10022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing that is a Petabyte. Could have pushed Jared farther if it were a Pedobyte.
toonytoon180 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That also means we all started out as less than a GB, but GTA V is 60.
monkeyofthesea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you ejaculate into a sock does that make it a flash drive?
scotscott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm proud to know that I came from something the size of a Windows 98 installation
plazzman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So about half of Jared Fogles cp collection.
how_to_be ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username...
cubictortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
DanHeidel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're way low. The human genome is roughly 3.2 gigabases. A sperm has half that. However each base pair can be one of 4 states, meaning it respresents 2 bits worth of data, cancelling out the halving.
So each sperm has 3.2 gigabits of info or 400 megabytes. Therefore the answer is actually about 10 times greater.
TetonCharles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Are you sure that's TB, and not PB?
Edit: It looks more like 9,375 TB
37.5MB times 250 million
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The best thumb drive out there couldn't even contain that.
BobbyRC28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found the Brit that watches QI
Amar_D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I find it hard to quantify genetic data in a digital storage format
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Wrong numbers.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10954/does-the-dna-of-one-sperm-contain-37-5-mb-of-information
It's more like 5gb, or compressed, 4mb per sperm.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Zip it
100metreDaschund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have had a vasectomy meaning my semen is blank media.
Or dependent on where it lands its can be considered "wiped"
Clipper9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder some women are so smart.
Not_A_Hyperbole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, what you're saying is we need to find a way to encrypt information using human sperm?
jmwbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, all that DNA in the 1,587.5 TB is just the 37.5MB repeated a bunch of times, so it's really just pretty darn inefficiently stored and can be compressed into 37.5MB and change
iKickComputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So... scientifically, that means I should ejaculate into my USB slot to download more RAM?
Armedandmustached ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much is that in Fogles?
Edit: Didn't read below.....
grantflashdance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on how you define information but 37.5mb is way too small. A sperm genome would have 3 billion base pairs. So let's say 2 bits can code for each type of base pair, e.g. 01=AT, 10=TA, 11=GC, and 00=CG. That's 6Mbit=750MB. So more like ~1.5PB per load. Half that if you want to count GC/CG as the same thing.
Now if you want a real holy shit fact, check this out. You have about 70 Trillion cells in your body. Each of your cells has 6 billion bp of DNA in it, which would stretch to about one meter if unraveled from the chromosome. So the DNA in your body, if stretched out and stitched together, could stretch to 70 Billion kilometers. Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977 and has reached beyond our solar system, is only 20 Billion km away.
[deleted] ยท 593 points ยท Posted at 17:13:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pineapples take 1 1/2 to 3 years to grow.
[deleted] ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 18:25:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They also only produce 1 pineapple per plant.
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 19:52:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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jorgomli ยท 100 points ยท Posted at 21:32:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of climate do you live in? I feel like they would never live here in arctic/Tropical Ohio.
bckling23 ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 22:36:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
|arctic/Tropical Ohio
This couldn't be more accurate.
take_a__CHANCE ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:03:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source: am ohioan
ScientificMeth0d ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:17:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Im sorry for your loss
The_Entire_Eurozone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We manage... biggest threat is the occasional hurricane from Lake Erie, and the Melon head people in Southern Ohio.
nixmix182 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:27 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Ohio is like Russian roulette of weather.
v12a12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To do quoted text, did you just use a "|"?
You use a
>
and then you type to get
> Mates!
and that shows up as
bckling23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:38:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I assumed since it appears as a line, it would be done with a line. It appears I was wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Opened my windows two days ago, huddling under blankets now.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:49:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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ssbmfgcia ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:10:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They must get plenty of water then.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:22:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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adawkin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:23:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird to read this sentence after spoting your username first.
craigknoblauch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About three summers ago in Maryland, my dad threw pineapple waste into our garden patch. Later that summer we had a pineapple plant growing. The winters in MD aren't Ohio levels of cold, but they're cold enough to kill a pineapple plant. So we uprooted the plant and brought it inside each winter. It finally started a pineapple two months ago.
rachelpinson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Greenhouses
SirGourneyWeaver ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yea they are.
lost_kelpie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Everyone gets a pineapple upside down cake and the top of the pineapple planted in a pot from me for their birthdays.
secopree ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I assume, based on your username, that you use said pineapples for some nice butt fucking?
Awlsl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there a post a while back on how to grow a pineapple from a store bought pineapple. No matter where you live.
TavorWhore ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:35:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that isn't true. I have a bush growing now that has two
Toss_out_username ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine currently has 3 growing, super weird
pubnuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If they only produced one pineapple per plant, how did we end up with multiple pineapples?
CacheBlasters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think they meant "at a time", however fruit usually have more than one seed in them. Dunno about pineapples
GetTheeBehindMeSatan ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:51:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When the squirrels don't get 'em.
Fuck you, squirrel! I wanted that pineapple!
shoopdahoop22 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:19:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'M COMING FOR YOU DIRTY DAN
thtrf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:29:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Asparagus takes 2-3 years to grow
bassticle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why they're so expensive
handcuffedhousewife ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:51:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are fairly easy to grow and the plants can last a couple of decades with some maintenance
falsekoala ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:08:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered how the pineapple industry is viable. That's a long ass time to sell something for 4-5 bucks...Or less if you're not in Canada.
Cyrius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cheap land.
Eltotsira ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
lovetoujours ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as Philippines
3316chica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All my pineapples just appear on the table by my bed. I don't know how they get there.
pvpmasters2013 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spongebob has to wait at least 1.5 years just for his house to regrow...talk about crappy insurance!
OrangesInPyjamas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, seriously?
PokeFire78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And we take them for such granted.
blackpuppy9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor was growing pineapples, she recently died so I don't think anyone will ever harvast them.
belinck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean, ananas?
ifonlythiswasnothot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just curious that why aren't pineapple expensive?
AtomicSpidy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could grow 2-4 babies in that time!
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HIS SCORE IS 420, KEEP IT THERE
annoyingstranger ยท 4330 points ยท Posted at 10:43:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
New York City is farther south than Rome
Keinichn ยท 3385 points ยท Posted at 13:37:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're gonna tell me Maine is the closest state to Africa.
annoyingstranger ยท 1467 points ยท Posted at 13:49:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I'll be damned. It sure is.
DA_BLING ยท 1036 points ยท Posted at 16:18:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the closest state to russia
[deleted] ยท 1323 points ยท Posted at 17:22:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that you can see Russia from certain houses in Alaska?
Charles_Grodin ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 18:24:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands
AmorphousGenitalia ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:32:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a much more interesting article than I expected... Also Big Diomedes is 21 Hours ahead of Little Diomedes... wow
Anyntay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had a student teacher that lives there now. Quite am interesting place to hear about.
muirnoire ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:41:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is farther West than Hawaii.
Deadeye00 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:03:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and farther East
makenical_apti2d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is actually the farthest north, east, and western state in the U.S.
XxsquirrelxX ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 17:30:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard Sarah Palin has one of those houses!
rg44_at_the_office ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 19:12:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And for my Holy Shit Fact; Sarah Palin never actually said "I can see Russia from my house."
It was originally (and only) said by Tina Fey doing a Sarah Palin impression.
XxsquirrelxX ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 19:16:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit... Tina Fey can see Russia from her house?!
TavorWhore ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 20:02:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no Tina Fey can see Russia from Sarah Palin's house
JordanSM ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:49:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But Sarah Palin can't.
larvalgeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you think she wears glasses?
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Confirmed: Sarah Palin is blind.
TavorWhore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:01:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok, I think she has shown that there is a lot she doesn't see
CharSmar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:42:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia Fey can see Sarah Alaska from house's Palin.
HiDDENk00l ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tina
The_Sven ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 19:28:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup! However, Sarah Palin did say "There are places in Alaska where you can see Russia" in response to being asked about her foreign policy experience. Basically saying "Yeah I've looked at Russia before. I should be good."
jamesno26 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:41:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is true, I'll give that to her.
Drunken_Economist ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:52:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well more saying "The state I was governor of basically borders Russia. It's at least something"
birdflewby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I used to live next to the Russian Embassy in DC. Like, I could have reached out my window and touched their fence. So considering the Russian embassy is technically on Russian soil - I'm thinking my spot as Kanye's VP in 2020 is a sure thing.
aequor48 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh.
Kgoetzel ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 18:53:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't be surprised see her Para Salin to Russia
itimedout ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:23:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you'll show yourself out then?
Kgoetzel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:34:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Already out the door
SickleWings ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:10:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐ง๐ซ
WookinForNub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was awful.
LupusLycas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:47:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you live on the Diomede islands, that is.
tyrannustyrannus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can see Canada from my house
13Foxtrot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Would be cool if there was like a large city on that side. However it's little remote villages covered in ice and snow almost year round.
Tarentino8o8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rare maymay
dpatt711 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And if they get any closer I'll shoot.
Yuyumon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
entertainment factor of US politics hasnt died down since. shocking, but amusing at same time
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Such as those on Little Diomede Island.
romulusnr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most of them are on Little Diomede Island except one is in Wasilla.
ThunderDonging ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One specific, special house full of specifically special people
TheGuyWithThePie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I live in the same town Palin used to live.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you Japan invaded Alaska?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up Sarah
Bourne2bwild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hawaii is even south to Texas
Arkeministern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The ones with binoculars in them?
Zerotan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also from various moose-sniping helicopters.
SimplyCapital ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well only from the front porch, really.
helimx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True. Source:I've been to little diamede island.
porgy_tirebiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin's?
Aholeunited ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When why the joke
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And some even say she can still see Russia to this day. They call her Palin.
Slizzard_73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny she didn't actually say that.
SaraPalinsMethDealer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the meth...
DidiMissTheKilling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
somewhereinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah?
arkanemusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah! I didn't know people in alaska had the internet.
fannyj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, Sarah Palin's house.
benz8574 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:01:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin lives in one of them.
Prune_the_hedges ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go home, Sarah, you're drunk.
KaseTheAce ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically, Sarah Palin's house.
Dan007121 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:15:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin said that... I don't know if I believe it....
dustinjt ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:11:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Alaska is the furthest U.S. state to the East.
rushingkar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone live on those Aleutian islands out there?
10tennis10 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:51:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mainly natives and Coast Guard, but yes.
efads ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Debatable. Unlike north and south, there's no easternmost or westernmost point on Earth. Technically, every point is both east and west of every other point.
Edit: spelling
dohrk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is not debatable.If you fly west enough, you will hit eastern coordinates.
efads ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Think about it this way:
If you fly north enough, you'll eventually reach a point (the North Pole) where every direction is south. That's the northernmost point on Earth.
If you fly west enough, you'll always be going west, no matter how many times you circle the globe. There is no point where once you reach it, you can't go west any further.
parafeeble ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:25:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
spudzilla ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:03:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well duh, anyone without a brain can see Putin's head from Anchorage.
SeattleIsCool ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like a geography expert to confirm this.
newbatthis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:04:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Geography expert here. Actually he is wrong.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Certainly makes you an expert in foreign policy I hear.
DudeManScott ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tahoe is west of LA, bullshit Snapple!
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This looks like a decent spot to drop this fact: Finland and North Korea are separated by just one country.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:23:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The next closest state to Hawaii is Alaska.
GotHamm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's also the most Northern, Western, and Eastern state.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Minnesota is north of parts of Canada.
ghastrimsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I can see Russia from my house!"
openupmyheartagain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A good 2 miles
sjhock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A great 2 miles.
zanderkerbal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But here's a real holy shit fact: Alaska is both the easternmost and the westernmost state. The Aleutian Islands cross whichever meridian is the divider.
falcoperegrinus82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sarah Palin taught us that one.
Zouea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the most Eastern state in the US.
breakwater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is also the northern most, Western most and technically also the eastern most state.
siennamydog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that Alaska is the farthest north, west, and east of all the states?
dajuwilson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the Easternmost state in the Union, and the only one in the Eastern Hemisphere.
MorleyDotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is also the most eastern US state.
rendezook99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
isaac161000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska used to be called Russia.
Mousetraper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're going to tell me Alaska is the furthest state to the North, South, and West in the United States?
XxsquirrelxX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hawaii is the closest state to the Pacific Ocean.
randyrectem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hawaii is tied for being closest to the pacific ocean with multiple states
Fryes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The eastern border of Hawaii is the closest eastern border to the Pacific Ocean?
Enzown ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:37:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More impressive is that Alaska is also the eastern-most state in the US.
RYouNotEntertained ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe it's the eastern-most, western-most and northern-most state all at the same time.
Left__blank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Guess Canada is closer as well then. Crazy!
OrbisTerre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At least until Puerto Rico becomes 51.
[deleted] ยท 941 points ยท Posted at 15:11:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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dannerc ยท 206 points ยท Posted at 15:51:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stop wrinkling my brain!
Naf5000 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The wrinkles make you smarter!
Actually, they do, but you can't grow new ones by learning things.
Nickmi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:33:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That also wrinkles my brain!
Naf5000 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's because the wrinkles give your brain more surface area for... Uh... Things-I-don't-remember-the-name-of particles to pass through.
Science.
Nickmi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:55:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Community reference.
SpearDminT ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:43:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Troy: That's wrinkling my brain...
TV Troy: That's wrinkling my brain...
Troy: THAT'S WRINKLING MY BRAIN
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S ALREADY WRINKLED DAMMIT!
MSTTheFallen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. the irons are coming to fix it
Dowisetrepla ยท 125 points ยท Posted at 16:29:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles!
Orange_Kid ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:27:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So are 6 of the 50 state capitals.
Temjin ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 21:07:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're just accepting Alaska and Hawaii as bonafide states now?
Orange_Kid ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 21:44:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.
gruntled_spaghetti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are only 49 stars on that flag!
Vincenzo99 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that Pittsburgh is further east than Miami
jebascho ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that Virginia extends father west than West Virginia.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that my mom is divorcing my dad!
doubledongbot ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 16:47:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next your gonna tell me that the farthest point south in Canada is farther south than the northern most point in California.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:22:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
California is just one of 25 states that fall north of Canada.
BlakesUsername ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:59:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're gonna tell me the furthest southern point of the US is over a thousand miles south of florida
halfmanhalfotaku ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:07:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
.... huh?
doubledongbot ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:16:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Middle Island, Ontario 41 degrees, 40 minutes, 53 seconds North latitude. Farthest north point in Canada is 42 degrees North latitude.
theBEARdjew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
now your just being a dickhole
Lazy_Osprey ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:20:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you start in Detroit and go south you may end up in Canada.
theBEARdjew ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
see this is far less confusing.
MasterFubar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're gonna tell me that if you go South in a straight line from Detroit the first foreign country you'll visit is Canada.
doubledongbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This requires a trip all the way around the world, right?
Sylente ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, just crossing a bridge.
source: from Detroit, north of Canada.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that the farthest point south in Canada is farther south than Boston, MA.
treefitty350 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's really not mind blowing at all though
madruzz ยท 252 points ยท Posted at 15:58:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then you'll tell me that West Bengal is on the eastern part of India. Are we not doing non American examples?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:25:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The great American states of Rome, Chile, and Africa.
Akuba101 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But that's not surprising because it's west of Bangladesh?
kyew ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 21:19:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not surprising because it's impressive enough for an American to be able to find India.
bitcleargas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:00:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Non... America...
I don't get it?
There are places that America is not?
altxatu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now you're gone tell me the Nile flows North.
zuppaiaia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why do they call it west then????
madruzz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:14:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As u/Akuba101 says, it's west of Bangladesh which used to be part of bengal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't really surprising at all though. All 'East Bengal' means is the eastern part of Bengal. It makes no reference to how West or East Bengal as a whole is.
arguablytrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?? I'm pretty sure there's no country named West Bagel. Merica! /s
crazindndude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is silly, the scales are completely off. It's like saying London's West End is east of the US East Coast.
Duh, it's on the west end of London not Earth.
rvnnt09 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:54:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? No way that's true
Whind_Soull ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:09:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It checks out. The western-most edge of South America lines up roughly with Florida. Chile is father east, since it's beneath the northwest lobe of the continent.
rvnnt09 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:04:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well goddamn, i need to look at more maps then i assumed south america was more or less directly below the u.s
zapsquad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
is that like a common misconception? i look at maps all the time but when i checked that fact i was shocked. south america is really far east
dwkdnvr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
70 deg 40' W for Santiago vs 71 deg 03' W for Boston. (according to wikipedia)
eyeclaudius ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:07:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
rugtoad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:19:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that if you travel south from downtown Detroit, you'll end up in Canada.
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't stop believin'
SuperWoody64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:09:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're going to tell me that Alaska is the eastern-most of the united states.
PressureChief ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but then someone will say there are parts of Florida further west than parts of Chicago . . .
PressureChief ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then someone will chime in with the ol' "Parts of Texas are closer to Chicago than other parts of Texas." Utter rubbish, I tell ya.
LetMeStopURightThere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you live in Stratford, TX, you're closer to Minneapolis than you are to Brownsville, TX
CapWasRight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, Santiago is on the equivalent of Atlantic time, so I dunno why this one's actually surprising even without a map...
SNPsaurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I recently flew to Santiago from the US west coast and when I got my plane route I thought, "oh man, they are first taking me way over to Atlanta!" then I realized it was just on the way.
BigStereotype ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the shit.
vicarious1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you telling me you made a TIME MACHINE .. out of a DeLorean???
allothernamestaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're gonna tell me that Reno, NV is west of LA.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That only works if you suggest where it is further West than Santiago Chile. The planet is spherical so I can go West eternally whereas you cannot go North/South eternally.
swim_swim_swim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait WHAT
MDLouis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NEXT you're gonna tell me that Wyoming is the closest state to North Korea!
marma182 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And, London is further north than Moscow!
W00DERS0N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was definitely thrown for a loop when I realized Atlanta is west of Detroit.
zwirlo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Iraq is more north than Mt. Everest
kyew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Close, but I was going to tell you that all of Mexico is further west than South America excluding the Galapagos Islands if you're feeling pedantic
benk4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The you're gonna tell me that Alaska is the easternmost state.
SanguisFluens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait that one has to be bullshit.
superherocostume ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This fucked me up when those Chilean miners were stuck. I live in Newfoundland, Canada, specifically St. John's which is the most eastern point in North America. I always knew that qualifier, "North America" but didn't really think much about it. I looked up the time zones when they were being rescued out of curiosity and it was LATER in the day there! No one in my house believed me. I didn't believe me for a minute but I checked multiple websites and sure enough; they're further east than us.
WanderingBison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Texas and I was so confused when my flight to Santiago stopped in Florida before I looked at a map... :). It's craY
_--__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are 2 hours ahead of EST (and no daylight savings)...
hepzebeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind blown.
somerville_joel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:29 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Jacksonville FL is further west than the entirety of mainland South America.
guardsanswer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh Santiago. Discovered by the Germans in 1904 which of course means 'a whale's vagina'
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:00:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I see or hear Boston I immediately think about Fallout.
I need to stop playing.
tripwire1 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:23:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that you can fly east in a straight line from Washington state to Africa without passing over any other US states
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Same also goes for Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota.
mrcdubbin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:22:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's considered a straight line because of curvature right? And maybe the rotation of the Earth?
mkdz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:33:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because of the curvature of the earth
smjpilot ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:08:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
East-ish
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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igotthisone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:00:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's not a line, that's a curve!
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/Geocentrism
Th3_Produc3r ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:45:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, or Detroit is north of Canada..
bfaithr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:19:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or Detroit is east of Atlanta
senatorskeletor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's amazing is how clear this looks on a map. I thought I would need to find a globe and some measuring tape, but it turns out to be quite clear.
pkreed71 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, live in Maine.
Elranzer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you're going thru the Panama Canal, from the Atlantic side to the Pacific side, you're going West to East.
Tristan_the_Manley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mainer here, can confirm. Maine has a surprisingly large Somalian population. However, this has caused some problems in cities like Portland and Lewiston due to a combination of unwillingness by some to assimilate and the fact that many Mainers have very little experience with anything remotely foreign (besides Canadians). For example, my cousin's husband was hired to install some cabinets in the home of Somalian immigrants. He came back a few months later to work on something else and found that the family had converted the cabinets into a small chicken coop. In their kitchen.
NotThatEasily ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Alaska stretches the furthest east? Pish-posh, sir, I say good day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Maine and did not know this, I feel ashamed.
msmith1994 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How?
Cyanide_Dolphin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go north
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next you're gonna tell me Maine to closer to Morocco than Morocco is closer to Madagascar.
valley_pete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I never knew that lol, this website rules and you just blew me away with that excellent holy shit fact.
explodeder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that Reno is further west than Los Angeles...
knightjohannes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the Eastern most point in Maine is "West Quoddy Head".
But I still miss the rains down in Africa.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god Karen
bucket888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:56:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yay Google Earth (I'm not sure what that link will do to mobile users)
If you zoom out it shows actual weather, actual day/night, actual stars, and the actual goddamned moon.
edit: also you can go to the moon and mars. 'Cause fuck yeah
purpleefilthh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's racist :d
wildebeestsandangels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And used to be attached to Africa. Boston and Casablanca were neighbors.
Arctica23 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cairo is further north than Miami.
[deleted] ยท 589 points ยท Posted at 13:49:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While we're at it. London is farther north than the entire continental US. and the entire UK almost perfectly fill the latitudes in between Washington State, and Alaska.
ldn6 ยท 431 points ยท Posted at 16:01:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London is farther north than any major Canadian city apart from Edmonton, yet its winters are warmer than all of them, including Vancouver.
dlchristians ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 18:23:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Minnesotan aka South Canadian checking in - this fact upsets me. It's fucking freezing here.
chetlin ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 19:07:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Later on in winter when dealing with arctic conditions, remember that Minneapolis is at the same latitude as the French Riviera.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:02:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a North Dakotan, fuck all of you guys. You're all making us Midwesterners jealous.
Notagtipsy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Come to So Cal. I'm outside wearing jeans and a T-shirt. I could be wearing shorts, but I'm not particularly fond of them.
notRYAN702 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And that temperatures in Canada and Minnesota are stupid cold. Why do people suffer that?
mnmachinist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snowmobiles and icefishing
notRYAN702 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:15:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quads/dirt bikes/trucks/various other off-road vehicles and regular camping/fishing/hunting. Also, I have never shoveled snow. Although, im a pussy in the cold.
mnmachinist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know how many miles of trails we have in the state for ATV, dirt bike and jeeps n such. Also, ditches are trails most of the year. Lakes abound, and there's camping galore, partly cuz of the lakes.
Plowing snow is just another excuse to ride the wheeler.
The mosquito's suck though.
notRYAN702 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We have minimal bugs. Roaches and crickets mostly. We do have brown recluses (although rare). Black Widows are common, but the stay I. Webs and I tend to leave them there, unless it's a common area for me or my dog, they eat pests and stay in web. That's about all we have.
Winter is cold to me, but probably very mild to you. Summer is ok. Hot, not humid. I wear long sleeve shirts, pants and steel toe boots with tall socks all summer. Pants and boots are mandatory, the rest is preference. I know how to handle extreme heat. Its not bad at all. Summer with out a/c in my black car didn't even bother me.
There is TONS of riding within 1 hour of my house. Way, WAY MORE, within 3 hours. Many different types of riding too.
To each their own. I do wanna ride a snowmobile though. Seems fun.
mnmachinist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is a blast. And, they make electric gear to keep you warm, basically an electric blanket, in the shape of overalls and a coat, plug right into the snowmobile.
Also, maybe because we don't have anything poisonous/venomous around here, the idea of black widows isn't appealing.
Where are you from?
peterpiperpicks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hockey
boredatworkorhome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that cold. .. Maybe way up north but it was just 60. Summer is gorgeous and hot. Best fall of any state.
IAmTheToastGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We melt in warm temperatures
grilsrgood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's gotta love there otherwise no Fargo
W00DERS0N ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:35:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dat Gulf Stream, doe.
Timothy_Claypole ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:40:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We run aircraft engines to keep warm in the winter.
SirSpaffsalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got the joke even if no one else did.
TaterPooh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got it
Red_AtNight ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:28:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're farther north than the most populated part of Canada.
You may be South Canadian, but you're also North Toronto
Hoosegowclaim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snowing where I live in MN.
jrichar31 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Super baked question, may be stupid. Do you really think that way aboot yourselves bud? Vancouverite checking.
dlchristians ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, kind of, not really.
It's mainly just like me and my close group of friends who are super into hockey all wish we were from Canada. We just like gettina' cube a Molson and givn'r on the weekends yahknow.
jrichar31 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:21 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha well that ain't so bad. What aboot joinin us for a game up here once in a while buds.
Faiakishi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey don't complain, it's been really warm this year! I still have yet to switch from my sandals to shoes.
GeluNumber1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It actually got ridiculously cold today. But it was unseasonably warm for a while.
Faiakishi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's what people have been telling me, I've been at work and it's hot as fuck here regardless so I have no idea. It's supposed to be a really mild winter though, so there's that.
GeluNumber1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want a mild winter... I want to go ice fishing sooner than later.
klethra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. Our mild winters are great for ice fishing.
bigdickpuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's no way for a Christian to speak.
SuperArff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know that feeling... I live at the same latitude as Madrid, but we get -20 and snow all the time in the winter while it's like fucking California over there.
no_en ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another Minnesotan here. It's 32 degrees F. Not freezing at all and for a November in Minnesota it's pretty much a fucking heat wave. I might have to actually start using a jacket.
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:36:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dubanx ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 17:37:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the gulf stream that keeps Western Europe warm.
_Born_To_Be_Mild_ ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 17:54:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I โค the gulf stream
RandolfSchneider ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:25:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant username.
Zeppelinman1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:19:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It warms the british isle and also the west coast of Norway. From what i understand, their winters arent as bad as North Dakotas, despite being ridiculously farther north.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:27:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Heck, the winters in Scandinavia aren't as bad as Connecticut's and we aren't even known for having bad winters.
W00DERS0N ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fellow Nutmegger! Are you not enjoying this complete lack of sub-40 weather we're having?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hello fellow Nutmegger! The warm weather is great for me and everyone I know. Unfortunately, I grow venus flytraps, and they don't like it nearly as much. As long as it lasts I'll be happy though.
madscandi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The winters in the North of Scandinavia are much worse than North Dakota, don't worry
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not last year it wasn't. 1 degree C in Kiruna in the middle of the night in March. I think it's usually much worse than that though.
madscandi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's one day. Kiruna averages -12 in March.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was most of last year, apparently. -12 still isn't all that cold.
madscandi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As an average it is pretty damn cold in March. Grand Forks averages -1 in March.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I just noted that last year was rather warm. Then again though, in Kiruna it's mostly nighttime in March, which it isn't elsewhere. I'd expect it to be a lot colder if not for the gulf stream.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cruisin' through the Gulf Stream....whooooooo, oooooh, ooooh ohhh.
Wet dream.
JimmyBoombox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean gulf stream.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Calagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo ... :(
Urgullibl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:27:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank Mr. Gulfstream
Hikarikano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gulf Stream is the best bro
Das_Mojo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As an Edmontonian. Fuck them for that.
benwubbleyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This makes the least sense
Extra-Extra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Atleast we get a summer
liquidpig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in Vancouver and then lived in Toronto. I now live in London. I tell my coworkers that this is the farthest north I've ever lived. They didn't believe me until I showed them a map.
Khazok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, island climate for ya
TajunJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! Prince George is major!
...
In our hearts...
Saiing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The island of Hokkaido, Japan is level with the Mediterranean coast of southern France, but in the winter the sea freezes on the east side and they get small icebergs.
Argh_ImaPirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dat Gulfstream tho.
Indie_uk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spot the foreigner that's never been to London... shit is cold yo
ldn6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in London.
Indie_uk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I expect you just expect me to believe that with no proof Mr.... er... LDN.... that could be... erm..
Csimensis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's the gulf steam for you.
garethashenden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having just moved from England to New England I'm not looking forward to winter.
Personal_User ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Due to the gulf stream.
acm2033 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
(Trade winds)
Technoslave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some people consider Edmonton a major Canadian city. ;-)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For now.
emzmurcko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How come?
ScruffyTheFurless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The warmer climate is due in part to the influence of the gulf stream. It doesn't have as big of an impact on the east coast of Canada because the warming is offset by the cooling from the Labrador current
hazzyjosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dat gulf stream
Mcquiz ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While we're at it the Shetland Islands which are part of Scotland are further north than Nanortalik, a town in Greenland. In Canada the town of Whitehorse is at a similar latitude.
ItsOK_ImHereNow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:38:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If only we had some kind of name for that area...
varianlogic ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:14:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Unconquered territories"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:11:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one always seriously weirded me out. It's freakish how much that current next to England warms it up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As someone from Portland, ME I always find it crazy when it's like -10f in the winter here, and London is still +30-40f but they're much farther north. If global warming messes up the gulf stream like they say it could though, much of Europe's going to get really cold.
sbvt1313 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You may also find it crazy to know that Maine is larger than all the other New England states combined.
Cunningstun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:09:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff.
stephanbecker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:26:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a non-american, I am frequently confused about why Alaska isn't considered part of the continental United States. It is, after all, part of the North American continent.
The term 'contiguous' seems more appropriate to describe the 48 states that all have a land border with at least one other.
quadropheniac ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:00:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Contiguous" is a hard word to remember and we don't sweat the details.
aggravated_owl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:14:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, because it isn't physically attached to the main 48 States.
bgal81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because we haven't Manifest Destinyed Canada.
Yet.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I blame airlines. The term Continental US is really only ever used in conjunction with explaining the limitations of a free vacation, or discounted air fair, and basically to exclude Alaska and Hawaii because of the cost of flying to them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This the word we use. Continental is the forty nine states that are not Hawaii.
g-g-g-g-ghost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technically Alaska is continental US it's still the same continent, just with a Canada in the way, Alaska is the feather in the USAs hat, alternatively Alaska is Americas macaroni
jungl3j1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While we're at it, El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Texarkana, Texas.
winterisoverrated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worth noting that Canada also almost perfectly fill the latitudes in between Washington State, and Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not trying to exclude Canada! it's just interesting that the UK is almost exactly the same length as the coastline of British Columbia! I'm sorry I worded with very American references. =P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but to be fair there's a massive difference in weather between Kent and Stornaway
on_the_nightshift ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My geography is decent, but apparently my spatial relations arent, at least where the globe is concerned. I had someone from Scotland stay with me recently, and I was surprised to see how much further north Glasgow is than Maine. No wonder it's so damned cold and dark there.
blay12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right? I was talking to a friend at work who worked in the UK for a year or two, and he was talking about how during the winter the sun wouldn't rise until he was at work, and it would set over an hour before he left most days - I looked it up, and in December in London the sun doesn't rise until after 8am and sets before 4pm. I mean, winter days are short in DC, but thats about 2 hours of sunlight less than our shortest day!
on_the_nightshift ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No doubt. Now look at how much farther north Glasgow is than London.
Teive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough, the provinces of Canada PERFECTLY fill the latitudes in between Washington State and Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
but they also extend far north of that, almost to the north pole. the UK is exactly the same size, without being larger or smaller
Teive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, the extend far to the north of that. Quebec might have some overhang but BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all fit. (The northern areas are not called provinces for some reason)
alaskazues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
contiguous. Alaska is continental, just not contiguous with the rest
SyanticRaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scotland main population location is around the same latitude as Fort Severn, Canada. A lot of people think us much further south. It certainly explains our very long summer days.
AmorDeCosmos97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, that's British Columbia, Canada. Way less people with funny accents, though.
[deleted] ยท 649 points ยท Posted at 11:59:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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HenkieVV ยท 1566 points ยท Posted at 12:28:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. People use Bing for anything besides porn?
pinkkittenfur ยท 1136 points ยท Posted at 13:01:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People use Bing?
Wombinatar ยท 556 points ยท Posted at 13:11:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing?
JurassicBasset ยท 867 points ยท Posted at 13:23:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People?
csbsju_guyyy ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 13:28:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing?
TurnForeverUandMe ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 13:45:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?!
OXOXOOXOOOXOOOOO ยท 90 points ยท Posted at 14:31:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chanandler Bong?!
i_am_witty ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:15:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
MRS Chanandler Bong
mathdhruv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:16:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's Ms. Chanandler Bong.
i_am_witty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's actually MISS Chanandler Bong https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejRk40vHdhE
mathdhruv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They say it like 'Mizz', which is 'Ms.' not 'Miss'
i_am_witty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Agree to disagree to avoid the nuclear fallout ๐
mathdhruv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could ask /r/howyoudoin...
Batterup714 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Professional Transponster.
ArsenalOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, it's Miss Chanandler Bong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Monica Bang?
Yo-effing-lo ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 14:32:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's Ms.Chanandler Bong.
WiseWordsFromBrett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is a TV Guide anyway?
corruptcake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OH. MY. GOD.
grumpydan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHOOPAH
randombacon98 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:41:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ms. Chanandler Bong????
pm_me_ur_assets_girl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:51:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. My. God.
mt92 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:58:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's Gaelic for "thy turkey is done"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
zombietreefrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DONKEY!!
LordAnkou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Donkey!!
Vex_Offender ยท 275 points ยท Posted at 13:54:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline Bling?
TearsOfAClown27 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 15:36:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That can only mean dank memes
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:31:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline Miami?
Frustrable_Zero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline Porn?
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotporn Miami?
mlv555 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotlinebing
DA_BLING ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline?
Zephandrypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I swear that I cannot hear that line and the one after it, it sounds like foreign language to me. I've been speaking English all my life.
Molgera124 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ
tjfraz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You used to call me on my cell phone?
nova225566 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline Bing?
theperksofbeingme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And my axe!
Tinfoilpain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bueller?
sunbandit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BEES??
Yiaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
use?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:52:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:57:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
?
hablomuchoingles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mrs. Chanandler Bong?
asteriskblue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
ubitchyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's a bing?
TheRazorSlash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where am I?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
radarthreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
thisguyandrew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
e?
Aldaron13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soylent Green?
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
?
TheRedChair_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
NinjaRobotPilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SOYLENT GREEN IS BING!
Oglesbyje522 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Beople? Ping?
Chasegold19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
JohnnyFatWallet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit
altimate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He thinks he's people!
Reamofqtips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
TheNewGuyNickD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
70MPG_onthishog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
Zuomine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
KarmaKaroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
IICVX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Her?
Supmuch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
WizardOfKoz98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
masterofthefork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
?
Captain_smart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
TylerLivingston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
thesimen13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Donkey?
RaineStormInc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
use?
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
?
Phunky123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
DonHeffron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
ShhhNoTearsJustDream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
ThatOneLegion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:33 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
?
RedditBeeze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:06 on November 27, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
Dankestmemelord ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:44:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
whalefister ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:37:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
AgresticAgathist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:40:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
Bewgajew ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 13:24:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn?
colorio111 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:23:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Psycho Mantis?
Mintaka7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:19:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bong.
Wombinatar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:21:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can get behind this.
zero260asap ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:38:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fries are done!
brows141 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler Bing?
PM_Me_Randomly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:24:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa! Short message!
ILikeBigBunz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotline bing?
glenheartless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bong?
sundog12100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My toast is ready!
rennaps4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
cool_reddit_name_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ned Ryerson!
twoplustwoisyellow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing bong?
solaris79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ned?
tatillama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bong?
ChiefBigGay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's not Google?
Tmadred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's Miss Chanandler Bong.
IAmMoosekiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ms. Chanandler Bong?
helimx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-o was his name-o
dancingliondl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
Lashleighm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chanandler Bing
Dariath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porn.
PangLaoPo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bang?
sup_hawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
vodkagoesbadwhenopen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
crazyrockerchick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chandler?
hailthedragonmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Use?
StockAL3Xj ยท 124 points ยท Posted at 13:21:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoft actually pays you to use Bing.
Wombinatar ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 13:30:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whatttt? Gimmie that cash money!!
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 13:37:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing Rewards
I just use search bots...
Kittimm ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 15:36:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Google rewards me by giving me what I'm looking for.
It's a crazy, twisted system.
PhilxBefore ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:34:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually Google Rewards is a survey app that gives you PlayStore credits.
Wombinatar ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 13:38:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sigh
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:56:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
VPN?
Wombinatar ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:57:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lazy?
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
err....
Wombinatar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol just cant do it at work, VPN already setup at home for the Netflix . . . better pay me a lot to use that bing
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:02:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Won't even let you look at the godamn FAQ unless you're in the states...
cuatrodemayo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:21:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got banned for doing so. Now I'm doing it manually...extra couple minutes but still worth it.
Crash_cash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha. I do the same. Clock in for work, load up bing bot, start it. Go get coffee, come back and it's usually done. Close it and don't touch Bing until tomorrow.
Usually about once a month I get a $5 amazon card. Takes 19 days at 25 points (pc search and mobile both from bot) to reach the 475 needed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
Crash_cash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just use http://www.pogocheats.net/bing-rewards-bot/chrome/
porksoda11 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there an easy way to set these bots up? Do you have a link or something? I'm tired of doing this manually.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pogocheats.net/bing-rewards-bot
No download, just let search 30... Searches
I recommend downloading User Agent Switcher on Chrome Store, set to Android KitKat mode after done with PC search, then type 20 in the same text box as the PC search one
porksoda11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool thanks!
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget to log in to Bing rewards before you open the bot
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:23:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just send me your details to my accountant Adel Abekowambe at the republican bank of nigeria. He'll ensure you get your cash monies.
voteferpedro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Please let their mascot be a real elephant.
1337_IT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sent
Stfuimjustheretolurk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing rewards
Brodoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is it worth it?
wighty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a rather small amount, most people made money off it by having like 20+ accounts and using search bots. Sadly, the current rewards program is nothing like the Live Search Club (renamed to Bing Club IIRC before it was discontinued).
darkroom-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This seriously confuses me, I have a friend that has gotten multiple gift cards from using bing, why would they care if you used it or not seems like a terrible business choice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's gotten me to use Bing purely.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't trust that ... I'm still waiting for bill gates to give me 5,000 for sharing that facebook picture.
Phantom_Scarecrow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep! You get a point for every two searches. They don't have to be UNIQUE searches, however. Know how I search for things? Click on Bing bookmark>search:"Google.com">search for item. A few extra clicks, but I will soon earn a $5 Amazon card.
ChasterMief711 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm rolling in $5 burger King cards, baby.
KIKOMK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How does it work?
ChasterMief711 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
searches give you one point, capped at a certain amount per day (I think 30). once you get 500 points or so you can exchange then for a variety of gift cards. I always choose burger king because (for some reason) League of Legends accepts that as payment for buying skins.
I think every day you can do up to 15 desktop searches, 10 mobile searches, and 5 extra things to click that autosearch trending topics.
boxsterguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then they ban you.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:20:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing is amazing (far better than Google) for image/media searches. All...image/media searches....
eatmydonuts ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:05:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you aren't using Bing for porn, then you're doing it wrong.
That being said, I still go incognito before going to Bing, just to keep it out of my history.
b1oodshy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, for porn.
Neuermann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, sometimes a Google with bing. Mostly for porn.
dpatt711 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
grid view, live preview, filters out SFW. It's perfect.
secrettrapper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not using Bing for porn, you're not truly living.
adubbz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yah don't you ever just say to your friends, 'Just Bing it?'
yayayalt0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing is actually really good for porn. I'm not convinced that it isn't just because Google is really good at blocking porn, but Bing is really good for porn.
TheCocksmith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Considering how shitty Google search has become, yes
dylanna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most "holy shit" fact in this thread.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing beats Google for porn, I'll tell ya that.
grassyarse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Talk of "Holy Shit".
marcdreezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could that BE any more of a boring search engine?
pinkkittenfur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could I be wearing any more clothes?
marcdreezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this guy...he gets it.
SweetNeo85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A number of people use Bing.
pinkkittenfur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are literally tens of them.
dontgive_afuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I use bong
FinAdartse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spiderman used Bing and that reboot was cancelled after two attempts.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:05:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
brah, you don't just immediately remember all the urls by heart?
GreatEscortHaros ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They conditioned me with the damn points reward system.
ruhbluhbluh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:17:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, bing does beat out google in mapping tech, but no one knows that
I_hate_alot_a_lot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:35:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People use Bing for porn?
HenkieVV ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:02:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever somebody brings up Bing on here, there's usually somebody who points out Bing is good for porn. I'm not sure, I've never tried, I'm just repeating what the hivemind tells me.
I_hate_alot_a_lot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:08:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ohhhh.... gotchya....
I've never look at porn, so.....
SirSpaffsalot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mouse over video previews.
Undecided_Username_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you use bing for porn?
aggravated_owl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:15:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People say it doesn't have as many filters as Google. It gives a more direct search result.
irrelevantPseudonym ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like Bing's maps more than Google's
Thediepend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to yahoo this
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I get off to latitude
imadandylion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is bing used for porn? What's wrong with Google or just a porn site?
helmutkr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think I've found my favorite "holy shit" fact
Jewinajar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Should I be using bing for porn?
Tgs91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He never said that his search wasn't porn related
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you use bing for porn?
zehamberglar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you use bing for porn?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People use Bing for porn?
patrickkellyf3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People still are in the anit-Bing circle jerk? I mean, it's not like I have over 1000 Bing points or anything...
stenseng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People use Bing for porn?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember bing searching gardevoir on a school computer to settle some sort of dispute between my friends (I forget what it was,) and the first thing to pop up is a picture of gardevoir getting fucked by mewtwo. That was a fun day in computer science class.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I use bing for gifs sometimes.
joeyadams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plenty of people use Bing. But they come to me when they need me to Google something for them.
Moread ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:17:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
real people bing stuff all the time
blaghhhhhhghhhh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:08:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I use bing to search for Google if it means anything
MirRelevant ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:45:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I live in northern Germany (53 degrees north) and the climate is, interestingly enough, much warmer than the Canadian places on the same latitude- thanks to the Gulf Stream bringing warm water and air from Africa.
29100610478021 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Credibility lost
BeefSerious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If your lucky.
kieko ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:34:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bing is Googles retarded cousin.
Books_and_Cleverness ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:45:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Reno is further west than Los Angeles.
flockmann ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 13:42:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... and Rome was NOT built in a day
annoyingstranger ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 13:52:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, but it was started in one.
DA_BLING ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:19:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It could've been begun at night
annoyingstranger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There'd still be a date.
Koopa_Troop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, the sun never sets on the Roman Empire*.
*except when it does.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
can we stop with the "Ah"
annoyingstranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've considered your request, and... ah... it's just too refreshing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it's like i can see your fedora thru the internet
annoyingstranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
M'stranger.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
disappears in a plume of vape smoke
markevens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This really makes me wonder, what was the initial start of Rome?
I imagine just one person thinking it was a nice spot and settling in, and other people slowly joining in to a small village and eventually into a major city.
All this thousands and thousands of years ago.
Cakebeforedeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:11:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love this. Fucking EVERYTHING was started in one day
volatile_chemicals ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:51:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spain is as far north as New England.
RecoveredNotCured ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:29:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Detroit is directly North of Canada
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like to ask the question of "if you go directly south from Detroit, what is the fist foreign country you enter?"
RecoveredNotCured ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:52:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think that "Don't stop believing" by Journey is about someone moving to Canada
HailSatanLoveHaggis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:36:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me feel weird. Similarly when I found that my home city Edinburgh is on the same latitude as the south of Alaska and Siberia
Geekmonster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:00:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hold your skull together for this one... Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff are in a north-south straight line.
HailSatanLoveHaggis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Skull has split. Please send help.
Dynamaxion ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:49:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Los Angeles is farther from New York than Paris is from Moscow.
shokker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even Madrid and Moscow. 2464 miles from LA to NY, and 2143 from Madrid to Moscow.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
THUMB5UP ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:15:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
kavien ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:44:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Orange, TX (border of Texas & Louisiana) is closer to Tallahasse, Fl than it is to El Paso, Tx. El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than Orange.
smjpilot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I concur, Texas is fat!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:20:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Halifax, nova Scotia is closer to Venezuela than it is to Vancouver.
LIL_CRACKPIPE ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:47:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did anyone else kinda expect that
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it seems completely reasonable... it's like people have no idea where Europe is.
_prettyhatemachine_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
+1 for not saying "further"
FireTyme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit indeed, had to actually chek because i did not believe you :P, i always thought it was far up north because every movie depicts it like a frosty place or something.
soothslayer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The most western part of Virginia is west of the most western part of West Virginia.
tl;dr: Virginia is west of West Virginia.
NGU-Ben ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:35:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Damn that's weird. Then why does it snow in NYC but not in Rome? Both are near the sea but that doesn't seem to matter for NYC. An uneducated guess would have me saying that NYC is closer to the ice caps than Rome.
Cessno ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:44:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It more has to do with ocean currents and wind patterns. Storms move east to west in New York so snow can develop over the land before moving over the warmer water of the Atlantic. If the weather moved west to east thing would be different. That's as far as I understand
annoyingstranger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a Pennsylvanian, I can vouch for this. We ship all our winter storms straight to New England. I'm unfamiliar with Mediterranean weather patterns, but I know ours comes mostly from the length of the East Coast and the sheer size of Canada/Upper Midwest.
ManiacalV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ohioan. We ship you guys what we have left over from Chicago.
ldn6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:05:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Importantly, Rome and New York are in different climate zones (Mediterranean vs. humid subtropical/continental), but also that having a landmass to the west means that variances in seasonality are significantly more pronounced. Without the moderating effects of a larger, warmer body of water to the west, land heats and cools more rapidly, in turn producing greater differences between summer and winter temperatures.
zuppaiaia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget that basically Italy lies in the middle of a shallow, warm, protected by mountains sea.
SowetoNecklace ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:17:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Europe has the Gulf Stream. It's a constant current of warm water that flows from (IIRC) the Caribbean to the west coasts of Europe, including the Meditterranean.
Warm water ultimately means warmer air as heat dissipates in the air, so a point in Europe will be measurably warmer than a point on the East Coast at the same latitude.
At least, I think that's basically how it works. Can anyone let me know if I got my facts wrong?
NGU-Ben ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's probably it.
888mphour ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What everyone said plus it does snow in Rome.
NGU-Ben ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really...
zuppaiaia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It snows in Rome! Not every year, and it only lasts a couple of weeks, but it does. And at the first 10 cm of snow romans go crazy and stop everything. Source: I'm from central Italy, every snowy winter the news have to make a long account about everything stopped in Rome for just some flour on the street.
tactical_porco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't snow in Rome?
foerboerb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats because we take your warm water from the caribbean and heat our mediterranean/north sea with it. Cheers :)
NGU-Ben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not complaining! I'm from Malta!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Newcastle, England is on the same latitude as Moscow (near enough)
newtoshelbymt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Minneapolis (US) is North of Toronto (Canada).
turlian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Texas is bigger than France.
Komskies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
90% of the land mass of South America is East of New York City.
MVB1837 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure relatively Georgia is right around Morocco
kurtisbu12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is farther West than LA, California
failingtolurk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The northern part of California is further north than parts of Canada.
parallel_jay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The furthest southern point in Canada is farther south than the furthest northern point of the state of California.
BigStereotype ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... huh
logicallyillogical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is farther west the LA.
ice_blue_222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not by that much
Lamb_of_Jihad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the farthest state East, West, and North.
GreatBigPig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Related:
Point Pelee National Park, a small piece of Canadaโs giant landmass, juts out into Lake Erie. The southernmost point of Point Pelee National Park is south of the 42nd parallel (42ยฐ N line of latitude). The 42nd parallel is also the northern Californian border!
Timthos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, Chicago is further south than Rome (just barely).
Professor_Frink_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Reno is further west than LA
capilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is west of Los Angeles. Windsor, Ontario is due south of Detroit, MI.
Yiaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next your gonna tell me there's only one country between Norway and North Korea.
Huomenna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the Northernmost, Easternmost and westernmost state
JUUKO82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't checked but I think I read somewhere that London has milder temperatures (and maybe it rains less, too) than Rome
JimmyBoombox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno Nevada is farther west than LA California.
CerpinTaxt11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Florida is further west than all of South America.
BatBurgh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go south from Detroit. You hit Canada.
50eggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than LA, CA.
TVLL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is further west than LA or San Diego.
mintsponge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so why does Rome have such a better climate than NYC?
annoyingstranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm no meteorologist, but I'd say being on a peninsula in an inland sea is different from being on an island in an ocean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? I had to double and triple check the map.
musicmast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why/how's that holy shit? genuine question
annoyingstranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I blame the way we learn history here in the 'States. I had essentially built two completely separate maps for history in school, Europe and North America. Even in the age of colonialism, there wasn't a need to know more than "so and so left Spain and landed in Mexico." I know where both of those places are on my mental maps, so it makes perfect sense.
In the process of doing this, I somehow conceived of Rome as the center of its world, while NYC was in the northeastern corner of its. Since this poor model didn't actually cause me any problems in school, there was nothing to correct it until the fact was presented literally, as I did above.
At that time, it was a "holy shit" fact for me. Around the same time, I heard many of the things people have added in reply: Reno is west of LA, El Paso is closer to San Diego than to it's own state capital, France is the size of Texas, etc.
To be honest, until this thread I didn't realize Maine was closer to Africa than Florida. However, the guy who said that said it was the closest part of the US to Africa... that's only the continental US. Puerto Rico is closer to Senegal than Maine to Morocco.
Dexaan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The city of Windsor, Ontario is south of Detroit, Michigan
homeschooled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised how upvoted this is. I've never pictured Rome to be a warm climate. Haven't any of you fools seen Gladiator? They experience all four seasons there.
Groveybear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This thread is seriously making me question my geography skills..
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
potato0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is west of LA
GunBrothersGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles
Billybilly_B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ha. You'll probably tell me that Reno is West of LA, too, huh?
Sarke1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My version is that Miami is further south than Cairo. Way too warm for me.
i_can_verify_this ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean it's usually colder in rome than NYC?
ennead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno is farther west than Los Angeles.
giveer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Similarly, the most southern part of Canada is SOUTH of the most Northern tip of California.
sandman504 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
New Orleans is parallel to Cairo....maybe. I wouldn't know, you never told me that
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The southernmost point of Ontario is further south than the northernmost point of California.
Captain_smart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London is farther south than Berlin
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would have thought this anyway...
AdvocateForTulkas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... just spent awhile staring at my computer then into space thinking about this. So. Good job I guess. ._.
HattoriHanzo100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
next you're gonna tell me that Bali, Indonesia is the closest major city to Perth, Western Australia. And that it takes almost the same time to fly from Perth, WA to Bali as from Perth, WA to Melbourne, VIC
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
mootmeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who doesn't know this? It snows regularly in New York. Rarely in Rome.
annoyingstranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't that suggest New York is farther north?
mootmeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit, I read it backwards somehow. I totally got that wrong.
jjwhitty ยท 1973 points ยท Posted at 12:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
(In time) We are closer to the end of the dinosaurs than the end of the dinosaurs is to the beginning of the dinosaurs
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 743 points ยท Posted at 15:25:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The length of time from the beginning of dinosaurs to the end of dinosaurs is less than the length of time from the beginning of the Land Before Time franchise to when they stop selling straight to DVD sequels.
Schwarzy1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:37:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The dinosaurs were only around for 19 years? huh.
dupelize ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just because they haven't released one in a little while does not mean that we are safe. It will happen again when we least expect it.
AustrianReaper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:09:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think there's a trailer for one that's supposed to come out next year. Not sure though.
caligari87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:48:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave
Saints preserve us, it's a thing.
Also, looking at names on the Wikipedia page for the franchise has made me wonder how some of those people have any pride left. I mean, some of them have been involved in the sequels since 1994. The paychecks can't be that good.
SkeevyPete ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:08:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not Ducky though
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:38:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed, then I cried.
cayoloco ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:16:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why, did ducky die? I have only ever watched the first one and maybe #2 I can't remember, it would have been a very long time ago.
kingdweeb1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi
Yes. :(
cayoloco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that was extremely depressing. That's the first I've ever heard of that.
k1l2l3y ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:27:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who's going to tell him?
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spoilers :(
itsme0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really.
AnalTyrant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Insert comment about the actress that voiced Ducky in the original movie, and then we all get sad.
YawningFox ยท 1149 points ยท Posted at 13:51:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just say 'T-Rex lived closer to us now than to Stegosaurus' like everyone else :)
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 164 points ยท Posted at 16:40:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:56:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is that a quote from. Why do I know this group of words?
FookenIrishMan ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:29:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Firefly. One of the greatest shows of all time.
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As /u/FookenIrishMan said, it's from Firefly. In the scene, Wash, the pilot of the ship, is playing with some toy dinosaurs, a t-rex and a stegosaurus. This is why the quote is relevant.
doctordevice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:48:47 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun story: once at Comic Con my little brother (who was like 7 or 8 at the time) went dressed as Wash, and attended an Alan Tudyk panel. Part of his costume was two little plastic dinosaurs he was carrying around, a T Rex and a Stegosaurus. My little brother got in line to ask Alan a question, but they were wrapping up long before he got to the end. However, they must have seen that there was a little kid in line, because they ended up bringing him up for the last question.
All my little brother wanted to ask him was if he could do the King Candy voice from Wreck It Ralph. Alan said sure and invited my little brother on stage. He then asks for the Stegosaurus and starts doing this scene in the King Candy voice, "Yes... yes this is a fertile land and we shall thrive. We will rule over all this land and we will call it... This Land!" And then my little brother jumps in on queue "I think we should call it your grave!" They did the whole scene (with my brother helping Alan remember his lines) and then Alan signed the dinosaurs for him, haha. Alan Tudyk is an awesome guy.
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:05 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is beautiful. I wish you had gotten here earlier so this could have gotten the attention it deserves. Do you have a video?
doctordevice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:57:45 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, well I apparently haven't used reddit on my phone in a few days because I didn't realize how old this thread was. I do have a video, though the one my family took isn't super great since we were kind of far back. Took me a bit to find, but here it is (also, I was misremembering, this was a little bit more recent - my brother is 10 in this video).
Here's 2 videos and how I suggest you watch them:
This is the video my family took, I suggest watching for about the first 50 seconds.
Then switch to this video that someone else uploaded (that doesn't include the question), which starts about 50 seconds into the first one, but was shot from closer to the stage.
tothemaximusprime ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:25:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bahaa! Mine is an evil laugh!
FookenIrishMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like you.
buttchuck ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:33:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like his way better. It sounds dumb
itsactuallyobama ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:52:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What a Reddit amateur.
PaulsRedditUsername ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:39:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes he does, and the lazy bastard never rakes his leaves.
kermitcooper ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:59:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a book that says they lived together. And would occasionally get together to do a dance known as the "Rompus." So my book is lying?
Hellknightx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or just say something like "Dinosaurs were around for some 65 million years. We've only been around for less than 10,000." I'm probably wrong, but it sounds nicer.
Suiradnase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. I think they were around far longer.
GLOOTS_OF_PEACE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This has got to be the most quoted/copied thing in all of reddit. I've seen someone say it at least every month since the first time i lurked reddit in 2011. Same with the cleopatra moon landings thing. GAH
romulusnr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's my neighbor, in fact. Stegosaurus is down the street.
oliolioxonfree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
T-Rex loves to boogie!
ya_huxd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ross is that you?
medalleaf- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats what reddit wants you to do
piscano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And everyone's favorite sail lizard, Dimetrodon!
LIL_CRACKPIPE ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:56:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah asshole
colonspiders4u ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:00:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That fact figuratively blows my mind every time I hear it.
AgentElman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:03:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you are saying dinosaurs are really long?
newaccount ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:07:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Birds are dinosaurs.
Blaubarschmann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer to us than to the time when the great pyramides were built
skelebone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the time of dinosaurs were represented by a bucket full of water, the time of man and mammals is a few drops of water.
goldgibbon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For how many years did dinosaurs exist? And how long go ahead did the last dinosaurs exist?
mkdz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dinosaurs were around for ~135 million years. Many different species came about and died during that time. They've only been dead for ~65 million years.
goldgibbon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! This is good to know because I love dinosaurs! 135 million years is such a long time!
GroundhogExpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or to put it another way, dinosaurs ruled the world for longer than they haven't.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, what, like 3 car lengths?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing you mentioned "in time" . I would've had to check around for dinosaur butts.
Csimensis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
T. Rex was closer to having a wrestling match with John Cena than seeing a live stegosaurus.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
suplexcomplex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the definition of "dinosaur"
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Whylizlovesyou ยท 2396 points ยท Posted at 14:32:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford University is older than the civilization of the Aztecs.
Twons ยท 2195 points ยท Posted at 16:05:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, Harvard didn't teach calculus when it opened. Cos it hasn't been developed yet.
komilatte ยท 1094 points ยท Posted at 17:47:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there.
TKAAZ ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 20:43:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dats trig tho, doe
packetguy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:34:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you think Trigonometric functions are not used in calculus, you are gonna have a bad time learning calculus.
WillWorkForSugar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Trig functions are used mostly in relation to other trig functionsEDIT: I appreciate that you chose to educate me rather than just tell me that it's not quite true
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol, what's trig substitution? what's polar coordinates?
ImIndignant ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:53:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's capitalization? How do people form full sentences? What does "plural" mean and how should that apply to the words that I'm using?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
indignant indeed
AliceTaniyama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:09:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trig functions are intimately connected to the exponential function because one is the real part and one is the imaginary part. The exponential function is quite possibly the most useful function there is, for many reasons.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:57:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trig functions are used in calc too
james333100 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:02:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, they integrate really well into the concepts.
SuperWoody64 ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Get him to sine your calculator.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 18:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's not go off on a tangent.
ZachTheBrain ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:28:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's find a different angle.
probablyhrenrai ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:00:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's sinh up the belts on our big boy pants and get to it.
narf007 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:14:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm rooting for you
SillyOperator ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:33:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This pun thread isn't functioning.
nicholas818 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:39:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. I should just log out of reddit.
whose_got_the_stuff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be the natural thing to do
IPAs_and_rain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:24:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm deriving great joy from this
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:43:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll integrate myself into this conversation.
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You guys are just irrational
theniceguytroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
MATH PUN
WillWorkForSugar ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should tho
an8bitsuperhero ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think I can integrate another pun in to this thread.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How derivative.
blue_dreams ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Have you no limits?
Noobasdfjkl ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:06:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that... trig?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:57:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trig functions are used in calc too
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:01:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so you've said...
no_en ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:21:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trig is kinda down.
yodelocity ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:12:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's trig, not calculus.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:57:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trig functions are used in calc too
yodelocity ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:00:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any function can be used in calc.
juandh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:24:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any function can be used in a math joke.
redditsoaddicting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was expecting a Calculus joke, though. It's like setting up a joke about one race and then giving a punchline for another race. Any race can be used in a human joke.
yodelocity ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Remember kids, don't drink and derive.
Griphook21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:29:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't take this thread off on a tangent please
RegretDesi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That pun was a sin.
ldn6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or he's just British. 'Cos that's how we spell 'cause.
informationmissing ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:53:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's how Americans do too, when they're not spelling it right.
jaking2017 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But isn't that trig?
Teruiboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't go off on a tangent now
Ryl4nd99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oi, stop going off on a tangent
arkanemusic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Missing such a great oppurtunity to make a oun would be a sin.
AnonymousAgent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't until you did, clever girl.
falafelcakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can't just insert a word that is tangentially related and call it a successful pun. I find trigonometry jokes to be so derivative anyway.
EvilCheesecake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's trigonometry, not calculus.
Scuba_jim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a Sin to pun.
ifonlythiswasnothot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you cot the pun eh?
UpSimbaUp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a Sin! Get i... I'll leave
GunBrothersGaming ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:05:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's a Sin
skiman224 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:32:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No you didn't... cos is trig.
I_EAT_GUSHERS ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 19:42:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 500 years, Americans will find it fascinating that the US is older than computers.
Timothy_Claypole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is? Holy shit!
Solaris54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it's still around
BobXCIV ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:08:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a matter of fact, Newton wasn't even born yet when Harvard was founded.
DetroMental1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:00:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah
Babaganesha ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*had not
Bored_Office_Girl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:05:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there.....you didn't go to Harvard.
drvp1996 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, also because it originally taught just theology thanks to the Mathers
grosslyincandescant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
or some say cosm...
trueguitarist95 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Taking pre-calculus right now and I see what you did there.
pudgypenguin22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this is the first fact that made me say "what the shit." I had to look it up, I didn't believe it.
keplar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, when Harvard opened, you could pay the tuition in wampum, which was legal currency in Massachusetts at the time.
walruz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, Oxford didn't teach calculus when it opened. Cos it hadn't been invented yet. Then Oxford kept on not teaching calculus for another 500 years. Then Harvard opened.
theartfulcodger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nonsense. Cos was invented (along with the sine function) by Indian astronomers some time during the Gupta period: 320-550 AD. What do I win?
reatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sound like a Sine.
Aromir19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You did that on purpose.
littlerocky12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting but Harvard was started as a religious school so I doubt it would have had it anyway.
rmfs777 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:13:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cosine?
PM_ME_PAUL_BLART ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Calculus hasn't been developed yet?
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 19:16:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:09:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Arabs invented Algebra, not Calculus.
Although Algebra was very important in creating Calculus, since calculus is essentially meta-algebra.
c0ldbl00d ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:25:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Whylizlovesyou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:11:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly.
Ukleon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say about castles in the UK being older than Machu Picchu, but yours is was better. I live near Oxford and didn't even know that. Thanks!
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:35:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what?
Whind_Soull ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:43:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Oxford University was founded in 1096 AD. That's 30 years after the Battle of Hastings. It's one of the oldest institutions in the world.
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:45:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Whind_Soull ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 16:55:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it blew my mind when I first found out. When Oxford was founded, the Crusades had not yet begun. When Ghengis Khan was born, Oxford was already almost 200 years old.
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:07:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones should've just gone to Oxford and found some ancient stuff there instead. Sounds like it'd make for a much better movie
bobbertmiller ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:27:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is a really nice extension of that fact!
Whind_Soull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:36:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's another one: the amount of time between the founding of Oxford and present day is twice as long as the amount of time between the birth of the prophet Muhammad and the founding of Oxford. Oxford is two-thirds as old as Islam.
ThaBadfish ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:55:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact! That's actually almost 60 years after the Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan brewery was formed. To this day, they still produce beer under the "Weihenstephaner" label which can be bought all over the world.
BTW Weihenstephaner Heffe-Weisse is a fucking amazing beer, especially if you're into wheat brews.
Shalashashka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My fav beer.
commanderz5 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:05:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Al Azhar University in Egypt is the first and oldest, approximately 150+ years older than Oxford.
miezmiezmiez ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:57:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say *founded but I like the idea of someone just stumbling across the university
rawchess ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's at least slightly misleading. 1096 is the earliest known instance of higher education at Oxford, but the University as an institution wasn't formally recognized until the early 1200s.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't founded that early.
There is evidence that people who knew stuff would teach other people about it. But actual scholars didn't show up in Oxford before late in the 12th century. And it wasn't founded (i.e. chartered) before the middle of the 13th century.
Whylizlovesyou ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:04:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlรกn in 1325.
song_pond ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:55:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is now officially my favourite holy shit fact, and I'm gonna definitely tell everyone I know every chance I get.
EdwardTheVindictive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:58:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As well as the universities of Genoa, Montpellier and Orleans
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This one floored me.
jpop23mn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I figured you meant it started before the Aztecs ended.
JezzaN1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire; not the civilization.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, the Aztecs only lasted for like a couple hundred years. Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325, 175 years before Columbus showed up.
troyblefla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But nowhere near as old as their temples. The Aztecs were the progeny of the Incas, which were the progeny of the Olmecs, which were the progeny of no one knows what they were called (so call them the OG); only that they did exist. The OG's were the big time builders and current thought has them in the 12000-15000 years ago range.
legotech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My nephew studied at The University of Bologna, which was founded in 1088.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
LegendOfDylan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By at least 329 years, if my facts are correct
EDIT: I did math wrong
Traceyt715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa whoa whoa, what?
DeusExMockinYa ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly.
Friendlyvoices ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:37:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
AcceptDefaults ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 18:09:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter on 9/11. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3tf1yh/whats_your_favorite_holy_shit_fact/cx5oj9m
Andromeda321 ยท 3318 points ยท Posted at 13:40:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Astronomer here! The fastest pulsar we know of rotates about 700 times a second. This means the equator of the pulsar is rotating at about a quarter the speed of light.
For those who are wondering how this can happen btw, a pulsar is a subclass of neutron stars, which are the remnants of stars that went supernova but weren't big enough to become black holes. It's a core made up of tightly packed neutrons that's the size of a city- estimated under 16km for this one- which rotates really fast. They emit a beam of radiation- no one's quite sure how- and as it rotates we see this beam sweep by.
Most pulsars spin "only" a few times a second or every few seconds, but it's estimated that this particular pulsar got so fast because it has a companion star that's giving it more material, which gives it an extra "kick."
tombue ยท 1272 points ยท Posted at 14:38:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like you. Every time I read
I look at your name and am happy, because I'll learn something interesting. Thank you.
drh29 ยท 1058 points ยท Posted at 16:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan 2: Unidan in SPACE
[deleted] ยท 187 points ยท Posted at 18:31:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
jamesno26 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 20:43:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a neutron star, not a pulsar.
brielem ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 21:13:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well here we go again... Admins, keep your banhammer ready.
ProfessorMetallica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They're awesome!
issr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
they're really neat
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 20:02:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bidan.
jamesno26 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying /u/Andromeda321 is Joe Biden?
Andromeda321 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:46:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a weird thought to be called into a thread for...
kbobdc3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:22:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Electric boogaloo
DetroMental1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:57:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But Reddit doesn't hate /u/Andromeda, yet.
AriaTheTransgressor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yet...
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Give it time...
DoctorSalad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That user has had an account for 8 years and has never posted
Lord_of_the_Canals ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:08:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan 2: Unidain Harder, in SPACE FTFY
allankcrain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As I understand it, Unidan 2 was just Regular Unidan up voting his comments about crows.
Shadowkyzr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this like Emmanuelle in Space?
papaquanza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan 3: Scientist's Revenge
admiral_brunch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:03:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
udina
Andromeda321 ยท 595 points ยท Posted at 14:45:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
You are welcome!
Btw, if you missed it I did an AMA a few days back in which I answered a few hundred questions (tried to answer everyone who didn't just repost something already at the top, and some people are still posting to it). You know, in case you want an overload of astronomy stuff.
atrociousxcracka ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:36:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're doing great, just don't go down the path of Unidan
Andromeda321 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:50:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. I don't give a crap about jackdaws.
atrociousxcracka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:55:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good. And the whole vote manipulation thing. That just wasn't cool.
Just keep telling us awesome facts and be awesome while you're doing it and you'll do great :).
Thanks for adding a little bit of awesome to reddits comment section.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who's Unidan and how are jackdaws involved?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:41:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unidan used to be an insanely popular redditor from a while ago who was always positive, kind, and helpful when people asked scientific questions (mostly biology questions, I think). I'm not too informed on the jackdaws thing, but it relates to how he was banned. Unidan got into an argument with someone (probably over jackdaws) and it was around that time it was discovered he had been upvoting himself with throwaway accounts in order to have his opinion seen over everyone else's, which is against the rules.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Thanks/
A_favorite_rug ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:43:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And (s)he rose from the ashes!
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:48:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This was a fine AMA, but I was disappointed that every response did not start with "Astronomer here!".
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Despite what most believe, I really don't say that before every comment. Case in point, I had two popular comments yesterday about astronomy that garnered 3k+ karma, only one had that opener.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:24:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I do want to overload on astronomy stuff.
tombue ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:51:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool! I haven't seen it, but I'll definitely check it out tomorrow, thanks again.
ropshubop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:32:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Overloaded at work yesterday quite successfully. Very little work was done, but I learned a lot.
stargazingskydiver ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:49:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like I'm not leaving my room again today
MrMeltJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well there goes my morning.
zykezero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you plan to monetize the planet made of diamond?
What is the planet with the absolute weirdest structure?
Siberwulf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my God. My employer wants a word with you. I told him I'm not working anymore today.
chronologicalist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was fascinating. Thanks for all the great info!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Andromeda321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Poking around Wikipedia is a great start, honestly...
walkingcarpet23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did not miss it. I loved every second of it :)
Scarfz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey would it be like, be theoretically possible to accelerate something up to the speed of light if you attached a very long rigid stick into the pulsar?
tombue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not her, but I've read something about it.
It's not possible. There's a force acting on the stick and it'd would be so strong at one point, that it'd break every material we know of. It's a neat idea but physics thought about that.
Vigilantius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I do. Thank you.
StickySnacks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're awesome!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Overloads of astronomy are always welcome. :D I loved that info about...what was it called...magnitars? The pulsars with magnetic pulls so powerful they'd shred you to pieces if you got too close.
eXqLoukaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I hope it's alright to ask a question now?
How would one go about diving into the world of Astronomy? I've always had a strong interest in space but as a business/computing university student it's not something on my radar. I'd love to learn more as a hobby, but I have no idea how feasible it is, or where to start.
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is very likely an amateur astronomy club in your area filled with nerds doing just that. See if you can find one! They're usually really nice, enthusiastic people.
TheEpicEdge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are the reason I learned about my favorite thing in space: magnetars. Thank you!
swankpoppy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I DO want that!
Devadander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do
Pixiecrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does anybody not?
BravestCashew ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:49:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
careful, that's how unidan got us. TRUST NO ONE!
Bradm7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:22:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The new Unidan.
CapWasRight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As an astronomer myself, I generally have the same reaction. Her posts are always great.
IronOhki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have him tagged at "Astronomer here!"
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:47:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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IronOhki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:56:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It'd be funny if, outside of astronomy, he just went onto terrible subs and still started with that, regardless of context.
"Astronomer here! Them immigrants are ruining our country!"
Airbornemills ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, it was like a mini TED talk
franksymptoms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed! Andromeda321, you should start your own subreddit.I'd subscribe to it!
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It exists! /r/Andromeda321
franksymptoms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:54 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bookmarked! Thanks!
BTW my brother has an Obsession telescope...
zgrove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like a more interesting/ less annoying Unidan
PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once when I started on a new chat website (back when those were a thing) I chose the name andromeda_galexy thinking it sounded smart and sexy. But rather than having guys fall all over me, all anybody would say to me was tho tell me I misspelled galaxy.
recoverybelow ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Every time I see that opening I think "fuck it's the attention whore again"
sup3rdr01d ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:54:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a physics 1 student right now, and I have a question:
Is the star spinning so fast because angular momentum is conserved, and the decreasing radius of the collapsing star is causing the moment of inertia to decrease, which causes velocity to increase?
Andromeda321 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:46:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:31:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This is blowing my mind. So does anything interesting happen as this pulsar keep spinning faster and faster? Sorry, I'm an astrophysicist illiterate :)
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually pulsars slow their spin over time at a very predictable rate, and eventually stop pulsing altogether.
silmarilen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:02 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where does it's angular momentum go to then?
j_sunrise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the same thing as when you pull in your arms in a rotating chair? (Or the thing figure skaters do?)
sup3rdr01d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think so! My teacher used the figure skater as an example in class.
j_sunrise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We once did it with a chair in high-school physics class.
aykontakt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:30:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read somewhere that gravity of a neutron star is so strong that if you got up on a table on the surface of a neutron star and jumped, by the time you hit the ground you would be traveling millions of km per hour. Please, do not try this at home.
KwisatzX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sv_gravity 999999999999999
cromonolith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some quick calculations using the numbers given for this pulsar, using the upper estimate for its radius (which will reduce the speed of the result) yields an acceleration due to gravity of around 1.2 x 1012 m/s2.
Using this figure, and assuming a normally-sized table of height around 0.75m (just under 30 inches), if you jumped off a table, you'd be traveling around 1.3 x 106 m/s when you hit the surface. That's about 4.7 million km/h.
SpecialGnu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:02:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oi! I have a question!
Why isnt it slinging its own stuff, off the star?
Like how if you spin around a ice cream fast enough, eventualy it will splatter all around the car and your parents will get mad at you.(I didnt know that would happend, I was 10!)
bearsnchairs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:44:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity. A neutron star is about as dense as an atomic nucleus, or aroud 4x1017 kg/m3 . Ice cream is around 540 kg/m3 and has no where near enough gravity to keep itself together in a small scoop.
SpecialGnu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love how you know the density of ice cream.
Thanks for your response :)
chetlin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's interesting though is that unless I did math wrong, a person standing at the equator would fly off, that's how fast this is spinning. I got a gravitational force of about 1 ร 1014 N and apparent centrifugal force of about 2 ร 1015 N. Of course the pieces are not massive enough to fly off and these forces would rip a person apart.
Andromeda321 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:47:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is so compact there's no way the material would become less dense and fly off. Neutron stars are so compact their surface features are literally described by atom thicknesses.
SpecialGnu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah! Thank you for the response!
HonoraryCanadian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that have some bizarre relativistic effects, with the outer portion of the star experiencing time at a noticeably different rate than the nearby core?
Andromeda321 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:45:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically we're not sure because we can't actually see them.
DenSem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My question as well...How does the spin effect nearby objects?
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Entopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For reference, a 16km diameter neutron star spinning that fast means the equatorial speed is 35,168km/s, or 11% the speed of light!
DenSem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This one in particular is spinning at approximately 24% of the speed of light!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I thought 16km was the diameter which threw my numbers off.
zuppaiaia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:45:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why, I usually enjoy astronomy facts, but all this thinking of packed neutrons, ultrafast pulsars, failed black holes, and the existence of black holes and the empty, empty space just made me scared. Quick, tell me something happy!
Andromeda321 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:51:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the elements above hydrogen and helium were forged in the center of stars via fusion. So the atoms that make you you were formed billions of years ago inside a star, and you are literally made of starstuff. :)
zuppaiaia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, unknown starman!
Andromeda321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome! -starwoman
zuppaiaia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, of course! You're Andromeda after all!
EWSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I always love finding your astronomy facts! Every time I see 'Astronomer here!' I know it's going to be interesting!
Raider1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Space is nuts.
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
Krysys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're awesome on /r/space!
edit: and in general :)
RandomWeirdo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pulsars explained for laymen, they're pretty awesome
JoeyLucier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BAM! Kick it up a notch
GrayFox2510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, now I remember why I tagged you as "Killer Astronomy Knowledge Guy." Never cease to entertain me with your astronomy facts, please.
naughtydismutase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So 42000 rpm? Can I calculate how many g based on the rotor size?
Sorry. Been centrifuging stuff in the lab for too long.
Sambospudz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is our sun big enough to eventually turn into a black hole?
Andromeda321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nowhere near it. Instead, it will shed off its outer layers and leave behind a planetary nebula, with a white dwarf in the middle.
khendron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first question that pops into my mind is that if we don't know why pulsars emit a beam a radiation, how do we know that there is not more than 1 beam being emitted (which would skew our measurements)?
Andromeda321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well technically it has two, one going out of each pole. The magnetism of the pulsar is definitely at play here, so you can't have multiple magnetic dipoles especially in this kind of structure.
Wrenware ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I worry that most of the universe appears to be made up of rocks and various things that give off vast quantities of radiation in strange and frightening ways.
Then I remember that some of the rocks are also radioactive.
APartyInMyPants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know that those stars are RIDICULOUSLY dense, and that something like a teaspoon of matter would weigh a couple of tons on earth.
But spinning at that speed, how does the centripetal force not expel most of that matter out into space? Or has that already happened and this is what's remaining?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's basically too tightly packed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow... Just... wow. That's mindblowing.
I feel a sudden and irresistible urge to go look up space-science now. That's awesome.
stakoverflo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating and well explained for the layman like me.
bangarang710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hey I saw you on CC mad ama the other day! fancy seeing you here
XirallicBolts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, remembered reading that once but couldn't find it. It was on Cracked so searching sucked.
Mario_love ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
700 times a second is once every 14 milliseconds, right? So, if the object is moving that fast... would it be discernible by the human eye?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
Mario_love ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly would it look like to the human eye then? Just another star?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We aren't sure because no one has seen a neutron star in the optical.
AlphaAgain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When is the best time of year to see the Andromeda galaxy naked eye in NJ with horrible light pollution from NYC.
I try...and try and try.
I know where it. But it eludes me.
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt you're going to see it if you keep trying in a light polluted area, I'm afraid.
AlphaAgain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Am I correct in looking for it roughly lined up to the right of Casseopeia?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but it's very faint to your eye. Binoculars might help.
AlphaAgain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely have tried. Even tried to find at least the bright spot with the telescope. No bueno.
I suppose I'll actually have to find somewhere darker.
Thanks!
diadmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Helluva cosmic merry-go-round!
Sauctoritas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gaise the human eye can't see more than 30hz
ferlessleedr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, how can it be rotating that fast and not sling off all of its mass into space? Is the star's gravity just THAT strong? If it weren't rotating would it collapse into a black hole?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's basically too tightly packed.
rmhawesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any way to calculate how much energy is being expended by this?
razzlefrazzled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You lost me at fastest.
TriscuitCracker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that we don't know why a "beam" of radiation forms. That's true...why wouldn't it just be an equal blast from the entire surface area? Is the beam coming from the equator? The poles? Is it like a spotlight or a continual burst from the entire equator?
Humankeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thought size didn't have anything to do with a black hole, and instead it was mass/density.
vesomortex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also neat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_%28natural_phenomenon%29#Starquake
shindig369 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know that neutron stars are incredibly dense, but it seems amazing to me that it doesn't rip itself apart rotating at such a speed.
Shredder77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Appropriate name is appropriate! :)
postalrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What would happen if the surface was traveling closer to the speed of light? Could you have something dense enough to become a black hole but still held apart by its spin?
lifelongfreshman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could you explain more about how it's able to rotate that fast? You said it's getting material donated by a companion star, but I guess I don't understand the mechanics of it well enough to know what you mean by that.
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know how a figure skater with her hands out spins slowly, but when she pulls her arms in she then spins very fast? The same happens when a star collapses into a neutron star- the star and its mass is turning at a certain speed, but suddenly it's smushed into this tiny space. So to conserve its momentum, it spins faster.
lifelongfreshman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. I was overthinking it way too much, I think. So there's no issue with spinning at .25c, only if it starts to travel at that speed? (I have a physics background, but it's not much of one; limited to what a mechanical or electrical engineer would need to know.)
Joris914 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I once read on Wikipedia that a "teaspoon of neutron star" would weigh over 5.5 trillion kilograms. :D
MetalAxeToby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Arent neutron stars like big fat atoms?
Andromeda321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, because they're only neutrons.
icegoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How can the pulsar be increasing it's rotation speed by accumulating more mass from a companion star? That's seems like it would be decreasing the angular momentum.
lordpsymon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love astronomers. They're always so enthusiastic and excited about their work. I want to be an astronomer. Dream job right there.
dhad1dahc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what that would look like if we are in a relatively safe for orbit ignoring the beams of death radiation coming out of
moeburn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All I can think of is someone standing on the equator and saying this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Hhv3IrpCE
a_supertramp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
interesting! i've been researching neutron stars lately so i can better explain my tattoo of the pulsar map from the pioneer plaque. i was under the impression that the pulsing was the hydrogen spin-flip and resulting wavelength being detected. can you go more into the beam of radiation?
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
tossspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool! This sounds like when an ice skater spins and pulls her arms in and because angular momentum is conserved and some of the mass is moved closer to the centre rotational velocity increases... to a quarter the speed of light... I feel like I have said something clever, please be clever please be clever!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Got it, magic.
theramennoodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it related to synchotron radiation?
DuckyFreeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, if we don't know how the energy beam is emitted, is it possible that the pulsar has several "ports", for lack of a better term, that are emitting the beams? Meaning it's not spinning at 700hz, but maybe only 100, but we get 7 beams from each rotation.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget about the exotic unknown states of matter that likely exist within pulsars.
Phrenzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Question: What is the difference in gravity between the equator and the poles of that star?
Takeiitaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you said it gives it an extra "kick," I immediately imagined you describing pulsars as Willy Wonka.
Sideshowcomedy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't quit your comment history.
Eman5805 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind buggery is imagining if that thing grew a neutron fist or something and hit a black hole that appeared next to me. Would that like...destroy a chunk of the galaxy or something?
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if we could harness that power somehow... dude.
balfan123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Crazy that 700 times a second is still only 24% of the speed of light.
Butt_Patties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You seem like the kind of guy that would have an answer for this (silly) question.
What would happen if you were to throw, say, a baseball at that pulsar? What about something a bit larger like... I don't know, a blue whale? Or a planet?
TheFeshy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason, millisecond pulsars bring home the power of the universe for me more than black holes. I guess it's just that if you crush a galaxy of suns together, you expect the result to be stupidly powerful. And it is; but maybe not in a way I can imagine it.
But what if you just take one star? One star, massing more than our solar system, and crush it down to just before it slips past all known physics into a singularity. Then you spin it. Fast. Fast enough that it rotates a dozen times every time you blink. Even though it still weighs more than everything within a light year of me, combined.
Somehow that feels just on the verge of being relatable, even though that level of energy really isn't. But it's certainly awe-inspiring.
Shugbug1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alright you're an astronomer so I'll ask you what I asked higher up, would the habitat zone be larger if it's star is larger? Like, would we be more likely to find life in solar system's where the star is much larger than our own?
maxk1236 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A teaspoon of a neutron star has the same mass as Everest or something right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pulsars are composed of super condensed matter, correct? Is there anyway to know how much volume a spoonful of Pulsar-stuff would take up uncondensed?
k0uch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Curious, what keeps the pulsar together?
Is its gravity that immense, are there electromagnetic forces at play, or something else?
SteevyT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At that rate, how non-spherical is that star?
Also, any other weirdness thst we know of happen because of that extreme surface speed?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Leehams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Additionally, neutron star material is so dense, that 1 tablespoon of it weighs more than mt Everest.
OldeHickory ยท 266 points ยท Posted at 17:56:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The second largest air force in the world is the United States Navy.
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 18:21:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a Murica fact if I ever saw one
markovitch1928 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NYPD has more staff than the British Royal Air Force
grilsrgood ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:02:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If New York city was its own country, the nypd would be the 20th most well funded army on earth. I'm gonna find a source in this I'll be back in a minute.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/rnc/9573/
OldeHickory ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:03:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a 'Holy shit 'Murica is fucking awesome' fact.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:23:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is what I meant. I really wish all the people complaining about our treatment of terrorists and such and such had to go live over in Syria for a couple months. They'd be crying to come back home within hours.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:40:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the strongest Air Force in the world? US Navy.
Sorry, sailor here. Always have to add that to fuck with 'em.
OldeHickory ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:27:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You guys would be the only real competition unless we have to fly over mainland Russia or China.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I'd say the forward projection from carriers would probably be the best in those situations. That said, I can't really name any USAF bases OCONUS like I can naval stations, so I'm just talking out of my ass here.
IAmTheToastGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:46:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the air force has the best golfers
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And volleyball players.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:42:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your surface.
Like, surface above water.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:37:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The US also had more aircraft carriers than every other country combined.
BenAfleckIsAnOkActor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BUT TRUMP NEEDS TO REBUILD THE MILITARY BECAUSE OBAMA AND ISIS
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
reatter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
US Airforce + US Navy have outnumber all other air forces combined on the planet!
OldeHickory ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:18:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.globalfirepower.com/aircraft-total.asp
According to this website that is not true. Add up the top ten countries below the USA and you reach beyond 14,000 aircraft. The USA fields just short of 14k.
tunafister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:06 on December 14, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, so what is the first?
OldeHickory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:22 on December 14, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The United States Air Force. USAF
[deleted] ยท 133 points ยท Posted at 17:15:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks have been around for longer than trees.
DickTayta ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:28:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cats have been around for longer than people.
blechinger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:19:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fuck? Seriously? Source?
BlanceBlackula ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:35:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! Apparently so have jellyfish, Nautillus and horseshoe crabs
Asterite100 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:01:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Paleontology is the source.
Essentially anything preceding the earliest Devonian (~400 million years ago) trees are older than trees. Sharks and fish in general predate trees. Arthropods such as scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and millipedes are also remarkably old. The mollusk phylum is another example, and includes the precursors to the modern Nautilus group, orthocone-nautiloids.
Anything older than the Ordovician-Silurian (440 mya) boundary is older than land plants. Sponges and jellyfish are two of the most ancient lineages still alive today, dating back to 600 and 500 mya respectively.
blechinger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:06:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've only known of evolution as a fact for about four years now (grew up very conservative/religious). The more I learn the more my mind is completely blown by how complex and fantastic biological history is. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction for more inquiry. It can still all be a little overwhelming. :)
Asterite100 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I find it incredibly interesting! I wish more people were open to learning about these things. Whenever I mention it, some people give me weird looks about my certainty on the topic, lol.
To be fair, while the phenomenon of evolution is as factual as a theory can get, using geological evidence to track evolution gets a little messy. There are huge gaps in the timescale that keep us from being absolutely certain in regards to the progression of life and the geologic history of Earth. At a certain point, the lack of information leads to conjectures about the deep past.
DraketheDrakeist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:52:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They have also been around longer than grass.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
bees_BEES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read that at the Smithsonian, blew my damn mind and now it's my party fact
Datum000 ยท 1638 points ยท Posted at 15:22:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Supernovas are bright. XKCD put it as such:
Supernovas are so bright that if one went off and we observed it at the same distance as the sun it from the earth, that if you pushed your eyeball against a hydrogen bomb (that were to detonate) it would be 9 orders of magnitude dimmer than that super nova.
Nice_Dude ยท 1616 points ยท Posted at 18:13:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having never seen a hydrogen bomb, I have no frame of reference for this analogy. 2/10 would not repeat at Thanksgiving dinner
neocommenter ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 21:06:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you are a mile outside the blast radius, turn your back to the bomb, close your eyes, then put your hands over your eyes...you'd be able to see the bones in your hands during detonation.
botbullet0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:36:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit that's incredible
Echilon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:16 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Duck and cover...
StopReadingMyUser ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 19:03:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could still use it though!
"So did you know that this thanksgiving meal is like a hydrogen bomb 9 orders of magnitude explosive out my anus?"
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 19:47:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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StopReadingMyUser ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 21:23:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dafuq is this inconsistency between your double comments?
minastirith1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:07:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow fuck I'm in public alone and can't stop laughing at this nonsense.
GleeUnit ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 20:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Supernovas are so bright that if one went off and we observed it at the same distance as the sun it from the earth, that if you
pushed your eyeball against a hydrogen bomb (that were to detonate)allowed your racist, ultra-conservative uncle to get up a full head of steam about how much Obama is ruining the country at Thanksgiving dinner, it would be 9 orders of magnitudedimmermore comfortable to be around than that super nova.Better?
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:55:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically 1 LED
FUCITADEL ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:03:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just look at a halogen light, and then multiply that by like, a lot.
clusterfact ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:07:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quick, someone get one of the people who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
tenclubber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Those weren't H bombs.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:18:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A hydrogen bomb is 30 times brighter than your cousin johnny who applied himself, and going to graduate from medical school next year, it's a shame you never listen to your dear mother and when are you going to get married and give me a grandchild already?
imaghostmotherfucker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:15:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A better visualization would be how bright they are in the sky. It's not uncommon for super novae to be brighter than an entire galaxy. To put that into perspective, that means the one explosion puts out more energy than an entire galaxy of stars combined.
Still nothing compares to a gamma ray burst though. In 2004 there was a burst ~50,000 light years away that was powerful enough to fry a bunch of satellites and ionize the upper atmosphere on earth.
princesshashbrown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a little less than a supernova. Does that help?
Jman0123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol yeah he really could have just compared it to the sun
Spidrmunkee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Better figure it out your trivia tidbit soon then, you're running out of time. Maybe you should just bring pie instead.
Dr_Irrational_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's about as bright as opening a white webpage on your phone in the dark after you left the brightness all the way up.
ifonlythiswasnothot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice dude makes nice comments
PunCakess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
20/20 would see again
Nakedguyinlockerroom ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
6/10 with rice
Skutter_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:37:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3/10 with rice at thanksgiving dinner
[deleted] ยท 136 points ยท Posted at 18:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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dailydoseofdogfood ยท 480 points ยท Posted at 18:59:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself, smoothskin.
PureImbalance ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:46:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
damn always this fallout from other subs
chroner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the 4th time I've seen it today.
JezzaN1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
m-my spaceship
Omegaile ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a number of people who were in a supernova and survived the blast and survived the second hydrogen blast a few days later.
frogstar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They shielded themselves with h-bomb explosions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you were wearing sunglasses dumbass
TrueMrSkeltal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes on you.
bardeg ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:28:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the star Betelgeuse ever does supernova in our lifetime, for 2 solid weeks there will be a light in the sky equivalent to a full moon. Only problem is, it could have already happened, or it could happen 10,000 years from now. Sadly, "soon" in space time encompasses a lot of time.
Lereas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that close enough to hurt us?
bardeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe so. Betelgeuse is over 600 light years away, and even though it would be the largest supernova humanity has ever seen, I haven't read anything saying it would cause harm to Earth. Just a big bright spot in the sky for a couple weeks.
Datum000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap that would be amazing. Really hope I'm alive to see that or a comet or something celestially significant
sinestrostaint ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't. Religious nuts would cause riots. Wait a century or two for them to disappear.
giggleworm ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:42:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That explanation is uncharacteristically awkward for that guy.
fghjconner ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:09:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the original, about half way down
Datum000 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:59:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's cos I'm paraphrasing and he is skilled in the use of humorous visual aides
Tawhai ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:47:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's too many bright.
Source: Am scientician.
KaizenGamer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:35:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
is 9 orders of magnitude just 9X or is it X9?
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 18:41:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neither, it's X * 109
KaizenGamer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:43:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you could put your eyeball against an atomic blast or something something wow thats big
Datum000 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:19:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a billion but it takes longer to say so you sound smarterer!
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"9 orders of magnitude" registers with me immediately, I have to think about it for a minute when I hear 1 billion times something.
DoctaD47 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:42:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now what about a champagne supernova?
Mikav ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:26:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anyway, here's wonderwall.
AWildGopherAppeared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the sky??
AlphaAgain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying I shouldn't stare directly at it?
Datum000 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:18:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd recommend averting your eyes from any and all violent fusion reactions in the same light year as you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Life advice right there
Xerxero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok how do you even measure this. You couldn't see the difference between this two.
At some point you only see white. There is no whiter.
rushingkar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:35:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're thinking of it as a color. A full moon is basically white. Let's say the sun is also white (I don't know if it technically is or isn't). The sun is brighter than a full moon, but it's not necessarily whiter. It's just brighter.
Now if a camera was looking at the supernova vs the Hydrogen Bomb, it would see white because the pixels would be maxed out, and because of how a camera works white is the max (255,255,255) . Unless you had a fancy camera with filters and stuff that would be able to see really bright stuff like an atom bomb 1/tenmillionths of a second after detonation
Xerxero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But if the hydrogen bomb already max out how can the neutrino max it out even more? At some point all your values will hit the max of what is possible to register with the camera or other equipment.
rushingkar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Both will max out a regular camera because cameras are meant to try to capture what the human eye sees as close as possible. Typically a camera has 256 shades of gray, from pure black to "pure white", which is the max. Anything outside this range will either clamp to pure black or white. Cameras also have different ranges for which they assign 0-255 to. Some cameras can see very well with almost no light [Youtube - Sony Alpha A7s sample video - moonlight], while your phone's camera would probably show pure black in these same conditions.
We know the supernova brighter because there are essentially brightness sensors which have a much wider range than a camera. They have much more than 256 levels of light, and their "max out" level is much brighter than the supernova. But because this is a supernova and we can't send sensors there, astronomers have to use what they know about other stars to extrapolate how bright a supernova would be.
hyperbolical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at a supernova from really far away, it will still be really bright, but dim enough that you can measure it.
If you know how bright a supernova is from really far away, you can extrapolate how much brighter it would become as you move closer and closer.
llama_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
9 orders of magnitude, I feel like this would work well said as a line at the end of an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
MyFirstOtherAccount ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well we would be inside of a giant nuclear reaction so yeah that makes sense. Unless you mean that distance from the surface of the star that is going super nova, then it also makes sense because relatively speaking that's like standing right next to it.
feildpaint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the Redditor.
fran_the_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
god damn i love xkcd
crapauthor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know anything about supernovas, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova: it'll light up the night sky!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Welll, an eyeball's not that bright
medalleaf- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In english please
OzzyGeelv99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've never understood how something could be brighter than something else. I get that it can be but I don't understand the mechanics. How is something brighter than pure white?
Datum000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't mean energetically, not color. By bike light is brighter than my phone's light, but both are about the same color.
Driesens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's pretty obvious. Supernovas are bright enough to be seen on Earth, even though they happen millions of lightyears away. A hydrogen bomb detonating at that distance wouldn't be bright enough to show up at all.
ginfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So instant flash incineration, then.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Q: Will it make you blind even when closing your eyes?
Datum000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't guarantee anything about your health when exposed to either of those.
TheLastSparten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a supernova went off within 100 light years of Earth, all life on this planet would be wiped out by the gamma radiation. The fortunate part of this is that there isn't any star (that we know of) that can go supernova within 100 light years.
eau_de_Brute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a physical limit to "brightness"?
recoverybelow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like, KKk white
gaslacktus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So... What kind of ND filter would I need to photograph that at f/11, ISO 100 and 1/200th?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
xXPussy_BangerXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
9 orders of magnitude dimmer in what units? If the units are relatively small it's not as impressive.
reatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many people don't get 9 orders of magnitude = 1 billion seconds = the number of seconds in your life when you are about 30 years old.
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
esru ยท 2810 points ยท Posted at 11:22:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wooly Mammoths existed at the same that the pyramids were being built.
masterabater ยท 2030 points ยท Posted at 11:58:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard they actually built the pyramids
qngff ยท 2370 points ยท Posted at 12:44:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No that was Joseph from the Bible so he could store grain
Source: Ben Carson
IvyMike ยท 2136 points ยท Posted at 16:30:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nowhere in the bible does it state that Joseph was not a wooly mammoth.
[deleted] ยท 746 points ยท Posted at 17:32:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did have that really awesome coat.
esmo88 ยท 818 points ยท Posted at 17:33:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technicolorly, yes.
MDLouis ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 20:10:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite Bible story was always the one about Joseph, the Gay Mammoth.
ehkodiak ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 19:17:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, what you're saying is Joseph was a woolly mammoth, that was flamboyantly gay, thus had the best coat? Meh, not the weirdest plot twist in the bible
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:37:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why the Ice Age happened! Joseph the flaming gay mammoth melted the ice!
Hurricane12112 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:19:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I remember correctly, I believe it was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ocre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and ruset and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue
hihihi127 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was in that show!!! Potifer was counting sheckles, when he heard a mighty rumpus clattering above him. Suddenly he knew tjat riches wouldnt buy him what he wanted if she didnt love him!
jddaepicboss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:22 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean BLUUUE!!!
ncwarrior ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:47:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was, some would say, dreamy as well.
StopReadingMyUser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:00:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Coat of many dreamed up colors, got it.
Tony_Millhouse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard it was nightmarish.
VoiceOfRonHoward ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:55:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The best kind of yes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
he was a fabulous mammoth
VocePoetica ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snuffleupagus?
westminsterabby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think he had a wooly awesome coat.
Here_Is_My_Name ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You make a very compelling argument there.
Kylekins47 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:49:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
BadPasswordGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:33:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it DOES say he had a coat of many colors, where wooly mammoths were all one color, so if he WAS a mammoth, he was some kind of weird mutant mammoth.
AND, it says that his brothers took off his coat and showed it to their father, which means Joseph was a skinned weird mutant mammoth. That sounds pretty traumatic, so it might explain why he thought pyramids with little internal space would be a good place to store grain.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that was Esau
flameon247 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Calling /u/shittywatercolor
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus was a pray-lien and heaven is a starship.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know... You're not wrong.
upboats_toleleft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His brother Esau was pretty hairy, apparently.
jtrot91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Esau was Joseph's uncle, Jacob (Joseph's father) and Esau were twins.
TheUnfabulousKilljoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's see his birth certificate.
Dev_Time ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
JohnWH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That does explain the family's obsession with his coat
k__e__n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nor does it say that Jeremiah was a bullfrog (he totally is) but they missed a few details here and there...
Source: Jeremiah is a good friend of mine.
TheUnit472 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/nocontext
jarvisthedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are all about literal interpretations. Thus Joseph was a technicolored dream coat.
Metal_Badger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...
Well, you're not wrong.
wyfiman ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mount Rushmore was where the indians stored their corn before Jesus signed the Constitution.
oh_nice_marmot ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 16:08:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. You really gotta punctuate the craziness of the situation.
akeldama1984 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you become the top ranked? Do they have speed brain surgery competitions?
Epichp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:16:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd watch it
MagicScotsman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:33:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact about Christianity and the Pyramids.
No self respecting Christian (or Jew for that matter) who has done research will say that the Jews built the pyramids.
That thought came from cartoons because it said jews were slaves in Egypt and the makers thought it'd be interesting for them to build the pyramids.
TL;DR Jews didn't build the pyramids obviously, but some cartoons convinced a bunch of Christians that they did.
qngff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was the longest TL;DR for the shortest comment with a TL;DR ever
TL;DR: TL;DR was TL so I DR
aykontakt ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:49:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A pyramid weighs 7 million tons. It would cost five billion dollars to build today. That's a pretty poor ass grain storage structure design.
really_bitch_ ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:09:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty great for storing your corpse and all your cool afterlife shit.
rimarua ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta get yourself bling in the Duat.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow having slaves must have been really nice.
WhiteMagicalHat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:22:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They were built by paid laborers not slaves
bp92009 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, most workers on the Pyramids were farmers in the dry seasons (when nothing grew). It was basically a way for the government to keep them occupied, as well as making an awesome tombstone as a result.
ChancellorPalpameme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:03:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite amiibo.
Muniosi_returns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bad day?
hismikeness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:22:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The grain was for the mammoths?! Holy shit dude.
whiskytango74 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I determined last night it was for cat food storage rather than the popular misconception of grain.
SuperWoody64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They stored grain in Joseph?
natasharevolution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Joseph did store grain (in the biblical story), but it wasn't in pyramids.
2059FF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you know what I like even more than grain? This new wooly mammoth here. In fact, I'm more proud of those 7 pyramids that I had to get installed to hold 2000 wooly mammoths. Because it wasn't that long ago that I was in a little pyramid, with only 7 wooly mammoths in my wooly mammoth account, and 7 pyramids in my pyramid account.
it_is_not_science ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...to feed his mammoths
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, TIL!
JennifersBodyIssues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was his source Joseph: King of Dreams?
HircumSaeculorum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, no, the mammoths ate all the grain, so the Pharaohs just put bodies in there instead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can verify. Was there.
Source: Am Brian Williams
natasharevolution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've been laughing at the absurdity that someone would think Joseph is said to have done this in the Bible, and I just realised that some people might be considering it absurd because of its historical inaccuracy.
skullturf ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:49:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, Steve Buscemi built the pyramids on 9/11. Then Trent Reznor saw them and said "Johnny Cash did such a great job building those pyramids that I consider them Johnny's pyramids now."
herrmister ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:47:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned this in Aztec university from my professor Cleopatra the mammoth in Cambridge Massachusetts.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was that before or after he was on the cover of "cat fancy" magazine?
Zyrian150 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:29:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They're wicked smaht
Saudi-Prince ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its in the film 10,000 BC
subtle_nirvana92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brandon the Builder helped them
the_argonath ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, the goa'uld built them as landing pads.
Ripe_Tomato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the pyramids built the mammoths?
ThePancakeOverlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And if they were armed, they would still be around today.
MagicSPA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, they had an enormous tusk in front of them.
2GabbasHey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids are where cavemen kept their grains and Purina Mammoth Chow.
Sookye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No-one can prove that they aren't still living inside them. And living under them; my theory is that pyramids are really mammothhills, and like anthills, most of the population is underground.
Kitkat69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, that was the aliens.
sierramaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, those were the aliens, duh.
goldpeaktea314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's how they stored so much grain
hulksmashokayiwill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well they needed to put that grain somewhere.
hakuna_tamata ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I too watched 10,000 BC
Kaasboyzz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:39:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another fun fact: most people probably haven't seen how the word 'time' was missing in your comment
DineandRecline ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:33:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which pyramids?
Edit: if this is true then it's my new favorite holy shit fact. But I'm pretty sure the Egyptian pyramids are only like 5,000 years old and wooly mammoths went extinct 12,000 years ago.
streetsbehind28 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:02:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
try again. last ones went extinct 4,000 years ago.
DineandRecline ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:09:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm! TIL.
gordigor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:00:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
iirc, there was something about a small herd on some Russian island that were alive when the pyramids were being built.
DRDeMello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrangel Island.
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:27:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But was Cleopatra there?
Noivis ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:11:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, whenever I hear someone referencing "Woolly Mammoths" I cannot help but giggle at the name. It just intuitively sounds like the woolly isn't something biologically distinctive, but rather just an endearing adjective, like "cuddly doggies existed at the same time England won a world cup" or something.
probablyhrenrai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:56:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, "mammoth" just means "big" or, in this case "big thing." So Wooly Mammoths might as well be called "Fuzzy Big Things."
I can no longer take the term "Wooly Mammoth" seriously anymore.
blaghart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:18:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go Fast Boats, Lighters, Stealy Wheelie Auto-mobiley...you know for all humans are clever clods we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things.
Fili_and_Kili ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:30:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even more mind blowing is that Cleopatra lived closer to today's time then she did to when the pyramids were built.
Aroonroon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to ancient Romans as ancient Romans are to us.
joshiverson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you just blew my mind
TheDankestMofo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I saw 10,000 BC too.
enjumuneer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aaah, so the Mammoths are the ones that ate all the grain?
PhunnelCake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean people hunted them?
Secs13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are probably the ones who hunted them to extinction, with some help from shifting climate
crazykid01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and we might be able to recreate them using their DNA found in subarctic regions.....I just hope they do
Cinemaphreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This stopped being as unknown as it used to be after 10,000 BC came out.
Now, should I point out they weren't actually used to build the pyramids? Nah, let their high school teachers have fun doing it...
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, those Wooly Mammoths had to store their grains somewhere...
thorhyphenaxe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In that movie they actually did
TiffanyCassels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually one of my favourite "wtf" facts - happy to see it here.
CrabStarShip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mammoths built them to store their grain
MorleyDotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They exist now, just in frozen form.
accreddits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit that's how they moved those blocks. Duh.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
rainynight65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But not in the same place.
Cashrunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dad told me that why didn't the Egyptians just use mammoths to move the stones that made the pyramids. I stopped for a second and was dumbfounded.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm wondering why no one has seen yet this meta comment.
laststandman ยท 901 points ยท Posted at 16:07:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more juggalos than there are polar bears
jennythegreat ยท 453 points ยท Posted at 16:15:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me very sad.
MikeKM ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:41:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I propose we make an international law that juggalo concerts can only be held in polar bear territory.
laststandman ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoop Whoop :(
TDE_NoJoke ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:45:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's the sound of da police
laststandman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:47:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DJ KHALED!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GO BUY UR HOUSE A MOTHER
U GENIUS
laststandman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:35:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
YOU SMART!
YOU LOYAL!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DEE JAY KLARDED
TDE_NoJoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SAY MY NAME. SAY IT AGAIN.
TheTimeNotTheMiles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:07:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The good news is- there's a lot of Juggalos, and the polar populations have been getting much bigger- there were a lot fewer of them 30 years ago.
Argenteus_CG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:17:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
First time there being a lot of Juggalos has been good news.
e101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just like the film "idiocracy". It's only because they reproduce faster and more frequently.
kempsishere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:44:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Juggalos aren't that bad. It's the crazies the make the news. I had a juggalo coworker for 2 years. Kind of a shit head but he had a heart of gold.
12GAUGE_BUKKAKE ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:39:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have the "don't ask; don't tell" approach when it comes to Juggalos. Sure you can have a heart of gold but I'm still going to think less of you if you're down with the clown.
Hypranormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Coming and going
Obie_Trice_Kenobi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:02:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe in juggalos
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:09:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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laststandman ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:15:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man, I feel like Juggalos have a stronger sense of looking out for one another than polar bears do.
kyew ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:36:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True, but the bears have a stronger sense of being bears.
c3h8pro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a Juggalo eats a polar bears liver he dies, A polar bear will also die from eating a Juggalos liver as fay-go is toxic to bears.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more polar bears today than there was 50 years ago. Same with juggalos.
PoniardBlade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse me, but what is a Juggalo?
LUV2ChUM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are the fans of a music group called Insane Clown Posse.
ferlessleedr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:19:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Grudge match time, Juggalos vs Polar Bears
tommon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
now if only we could train the polar bears to live off a diet of juggalos.....
Pokergaming ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK
YourDadsBanana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what about polar bear juggalos?
kyew ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:41:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A bear in clown makeup? Ridiculous.
W1ULH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We need to fix that.
get riffle out
LITTLE-GUNTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have a riffle? What make is ot?
RoxasTheNobody ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, I only work here.
bafael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I propose we start a war between them
Qender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how many are both?
jerry_anastasio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying we should start hunting juggalos?
Bionicmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm sad.
Pickle_Ops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This says a lot about the current state of the world.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
hellzoids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly, the gap will only widen. Juggalos probably reproduce at a faster rate and their natural habitat isn't under threat.
krkr8m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but I bet all those polar bears could eat all those juggalos in one sitting.
I say we give it a go.
godbois ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can we solve this by feeding Juggalos to polar bears?
rooftophugs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as gigolos and became very confused.
pianobutter ยท 3379 points ยท Posted at 11:08:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you shuffle a deck of cards the resulting formation has probably never existed before and never will again.
DeanisBatman ยท 1866 points ยท Posted at 12:38:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And yet I have been dealt the exact same hand twice in a row after extensive shuffling.
guythewolf ยท 988 points ยท Posted at 13:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah but the odds of that happening are bigger!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:21:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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aDickBurningRadiator ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:33:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only in a specific order, just having the same cards in a hand is much more likely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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JamesE9327 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:42:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're comparing it to an entire deck of cards though, not just a hand. What makes the difference in terms of odds is the number of cards
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why exponentiation is called "power."
SJHillman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:06:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno... the odds of me having two white hands was significantly higher than any other combination. Something about genetics...
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:02:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but that misses the point.
The odds of a specific deck of cards appearing in a specific order is a permutation of 52 cards taken 52 at a time.
The odds of a specific hand of cards appearing is a combination of 52 cards taken 5 at a time.
The odds of a deck of cards appearing in a certain order is 8*1067
The odds of five cards being drawn out of a deck is 2.5*106
Basically, the odds of drawing a specific hand is on the order of one in a million. Basically, if 1% of the US population drew one hand per day, the odds are that set of cards would be drawn almost every day.
By contrast, the odds are that between now and the end of time, a deck of cards will never be shuffled in one specific order.
sheeparecountingme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait but given any possibility that isn't equal to zero being repeated an infinite amount of times...isn't it guaranteed to happen at some point? Because infinite trials so logistically it has to?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:47:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The probability of an occurrence APPROACHES 1 as the trials approach infinity.
As a practical matter though, there are a finite number of times a deck of cards will be shuffled on Earth.
I mean, there is a probability that putting a kettle of water on the stove will cause the water to freeze. There is a probability that atoms in the environment will randomly assemble themselves into your perfect soul mate as you watch. The probability is so low though that it is effectively zero.
Khronosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While theoretically true, we don't have infinite trials if we assume the universe has a finite life.
DeanisBatman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:40:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True.
z_42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
like, MUCH MUCH bigger
Nardo318 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:00:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1
TheMexicanPenguinII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2?
pm_me_nudes_or_feet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:25:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:05:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
14?
maxx118 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:48:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LIGHTS. GO DOWN. IT'S DARK.
jaxxon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:35:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
5
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
guythewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah thats what i meant..... time to edit
Tayloropolis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Four times bigger! Wait...
nathanb065 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is there an asterisk next to your timestamp?
Mechbowser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Never tell me the odds
DA_BLING ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said
vocispopulus ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 15:05:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The rest of the deck was probably stacked very differently, though.
thisdude415 ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 15:59:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're conflating two things.
The number of deck shuffles is 52! (factorial)
The number of hands, however, is quite smaller than this, since your "hand" isn't ordered, that is, ABC is the same hand as CAB and BCA.
It's basically the birthday paradox in a slightly different form.
I'm not good enough with the actual math to calculate the odds, but they're significantly more likely.
wiithepiiple ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:10:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The bigger difference is the hand is only 5 cards, while the deck is 52.
plebian62 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the math:
Assuming a 5 card deal, there are 2,598,960 (52 choose 5) possible hands. Getting the same hand twice in a row has equivalent odds to getting one specific 5 hand because the first hand just determines what the second hand needs to be.
Using the math from the birthday paradox, we can determine how many perfectly random shuffles need to be made to have a better than 50% chance of getting the same hand twice in a row:
Rounding up, we require 1,801,459 perfectly random second shuffles to have a better than average (50%) chance of repeating a hand.
That may seem like a pretty large number, but to put it in perspective, if 1,801,459 played 2 rounds of 5 card draw in a game of poker this year, there's a better than average chance that at least one got the hand twice in a row.
And 2 rounds seems like a short game of poker. Let's try with 10 rounds per person per year. With 10 rounds, there are 9 opportunities for a person to get the same hand twice in a row. We only need 200,163 people to play 10 rounds of poker in a row to have a better than average chance of one of them getting the same hand twice in a row.
When you take into account that tens of millions of people got to Las Vegas every year, it that doesn't seem to unlikely.
MrCoolioPants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's the birthday paradox?
PendragonDaGreat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:56:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That when you assume that people's birthdays are randomly distributed (usually excluding February 29 because it's a lot rarer) it only takes a group of 23 people to have a 50% chance of any 2 of them sharing a birthday.
Note that it's not any one person sharing a birthday with another (I can't say that there's a 50% chance of someone sharing a birthday with me at that point).
The math works like this, assuming P(A) is that two people in your group share a birthday, and P(B) is that there IS NOT a shared birthday:
The (1/365)23 comes from the common denominator being pulled out of all of them.
To 100% guarantee 2 people in a group share a birthday, you need 367 (365+leap day+1 to double up), but to have a 99.9% chance? Only 70 people.
Probability and Statistics are weird.
khafra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:54 on November 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there's 47! ways the rest of the deck can be ordered, with a given poker hand.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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thisdude415 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Read the whole thread.
AtheistAustralis ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:51:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming poker (or another 5 card game), the odds of only you receiving exactly the same hand twice in a row are 1 in C(52,5), which is 52x51x50x49x48/(5x4x3x2) = 1 in 2,598,960. Not a small number, but not inconceivable. Considering there are 7 billion people in the world, if everybody plays two hands of cards per day, this will happen 3 thousand times.
This is why I love probability theory - it tells us that with enough trials, even extremely unlikely events (1 in a billion, for example) are almost certain to occur. Our puny brains aren't particularly good at processing very large or very small numbers, which is why some people can't understand evolution. How can such unlikely things happen by dumb luck? Well, with enough one in a billion probability events, a few are going to occur. With enough of these occurring, a few will be advantageous. With enough advantageous mutations, a few will survive and duplicate. The extremely unlikely becomes reality.
CoffeeBreaksMatter ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:05:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You'd need to riffle shuffle a set of cards about 7 times to be truly random.
There is a whole video series on shuffling on the Numberphile YouTube channel if you're interested: https://youtu.be/AxJubaijQbI
timmy12688 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:22:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But the deck was likely different.
kogasapls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:39:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes it INCREDIBLY likely that the deck was not randomly shuffled.
President_Skoad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats! The odds of this happening are 1 in 1,758,276 if you are playing a game where you are dealt two cards. 1/(13262) = 1,758,276
If you are dealt five cards, then the odds are 1 in 4,099,374,736,625,376. 1/(13265) = 4,099,374,736,625,376
OFJehuty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And yet, I never see any of my good magic cards.
SwiggyBooty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotten all four Kings in a rown playing King's cup... we just decided I was the winner and quit
John02904 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. But the entire hand didnt play the same, everyone else didnt get the same cards
Yakowackkoanddot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:13:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's just the sequence of the first seven of cards. I think OP is talking about the whole deck.
g000dn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet anecdote bro, but how is that relevant?
JDempes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You need to shuffle more than 5 cards at a time
Level126 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
52 card hand?
1ZL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Getting the whole deck in the same order is less likely than getting the exact same hand eleven times in a row
DeanisBatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap! That certainly puts it in perspective.
Makeadodge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are a bad shuffler.
Salt_peanuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:00:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was it the same cards in the same order? That affects the odds significantly
DeanisBatman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:34:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember exactly, but I think they were in a different order but just the same cards.
RichJMoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because the chances of a set of 5 specific cards in the deck being dealt the same (not in order) is 5/52 * 4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48. This is just 5 cards in the entire deck and doesn't care about order. The entire deck being in the exact same order is 1/(52!)
91Caleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i recognize that euchre involves a much smaller deck, but i once played 6/7 hands (5 in a row, one off then on again) where the same card was flipped up as the card for suit
edit: probably more unlikely me and my friend hit b2b straight flushes in poker
DeucesCracked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
irrelevant, there are still more cards in the deck.
hippysmell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My "Holy Shit" fact. The universe likes to fuck with me often.
slyfoxy12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure someone wasn't cheating bro?
Wacko___ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That because people at your table donโt know how to shuffle.
DeanisBatman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:02:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We had a card shuffler and a paranoid dealer that shuffled them a few times by hand. Basically it should have been impossible.
Wacko___ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:50 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! Your Paranoid dealer had good reason to be in that case. Automatic shufflers are the worst possible shuffling technique. That kind of thing happens to us a lot. We have a lazy and a bit handicap friend. When we play Poker Omaha style and itโs is round to deal we can almost always see the last set of hand again on the table. To a point where I some time build my decision on that knowledge.
wentimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You probably didn't receive them in the same order though meaning it was a different configuration of that hand so even though in poker it's the same hand it didn't come to you in the same order. This isn't important for standard 5-card poker but it is for hold'em.
paulvs88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:44:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You got conned.
DeanisBatman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:53:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was a winning hand so they were exceptionally bad con artists. ^ ^
dOnee4 ยท 561 points ยท Posted at 11:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
wut? I highly doubt that
edit: Okay, you got me. TIL
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1064 points ยท Posted at 12:42:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The number of different ways a deck of cards can be organized is a pretty simple equation. There are 52 options the first card can be, since one card is taken, there are 51 cards for the next one, and so on. This is called a factorial, and is written as 52 x 51 x 50 x 49... Or as 52!.
So how big is 52!? About 8x1067, or an 8 followed by 67 zeroes (in words this is 80 unvigintillion) how big is that? If every different way a deck of cards could be organized into a giant pile, the pile would be 19 times the size of the milky way galaxy.
Now imagine that we have the entire population of the world playing poker with this giant pile of decks. There are 7.2x109 (7.2 billion) people on earth. Let's say that they're playing five people to a table, every table would need to play 5.55x1058 (55.5 octodecillion) hands to get through the pile.
Say they can play 1 hand every minute, without stopping, taking a new deck from the pile for every hand, and disposing of the old one. they would need to play for 1.06x1054 (1.06 septendecillion) years to empty the pile. This is approximately 7.7x1043 (77 tredecillion) times the estimated age of the universe.
At this point, I've run out of ways to make the smaller, but I hope I've helped you understand this a bit.
TL;DR: decks of cards have scary amounts of entropy, yo.
Edit: I got ninja'd while doing my math... Whoops. Sorry for the redundancy...
Part 2 here! I did calculations relating to actually shuffling the cards.
ecbuffalo ยท 283 points ยท Posted at 14:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait to bring up this fact the next time I am playing drinking card games and then proceed to butcher the facts you listed but be close enough to seem smart.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 18:47:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"See...Cleopatra's pyramids and the dinosaurus rex...well...hic...they shuffled a deck of poker cards and, and...basically you have the same birthday as Cleopatra because of math science."
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:55:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, minds will be blown either way.
pizzapie186 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:19:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've tried this before. People usually respond in 1 of 2 ways. They either don't believe you, no matter how much you explain it, or they don't care.
DeemDNB ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Okay so say you're shuffling cards once every second. And you take a step every, uhhh... Million years. Wait. Billion years? Something like that. And uhhhh... oh, and every time you take a step you take a drop out of the... Ocean... And once the oceans empty you make a page? And then once the page crushes the sun you've only gone through 3000 shuffles. I think. Wait. Did I deal you twice?"
A_Girl_OnTheInternet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If everyone on earth was playing a game of poker, and you stacked them on top of each other, they would reach to the end of the Milky Way!
geomela ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then the next guy says he can ejaculate a Western Digital Green drive.
MeowntainMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This.
Dynamaxion ยท 457 points ยท Posted at 15:47:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
One of my favorite ones was:
Shuffle a deck of cards every second (pretty fast).
Take one step every billion years, and each time you make it around the earth, take one drop out of the Pacific ocean, and each time you drain the Pacific Ocean, place a page of paper on the ground.
Now the Universe would be in heat death by the time you'd taken a swimming pool out of the Pacific but anyways, moving on:
When that stack of paper, created by draining the pacific ocean by taking one drop after circumnavigating the Earth via one step every billion years (while shuffling every second), by the time that stack of paper reaches the Sun, you've gone through about 1/3,000 of the possibilities.
Exponents be big yo.
EDIT: Link with math for proof.
EDIT2: Another fun one. While shuffling every second:
Adinsx5695 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 16:42:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But if you fold the paper in half 42 times you can reach the moon with one sheet! Then you would only need 3 sheets and 3 drops of water. That means there are significantly less ways to shuffle a deck. Take that Las Vegas!
Reives92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking gold...
zupernam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if that's a reference to something, but it's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper that many times.
50PercentCrazy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure you can. The paper you're using just isn't BIG enough :)
Deathbyceiling ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:12:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Aaaaayyyyylmao ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:31:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WTF
A billion years is like a lot
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:12:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's like really a lot.
Dynamaxion ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:13:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, and it takes a lot of steps to get across the earth, and a lot of drops to drain the Pacific, and a lot of paper to stack to the moon.
But a billion is a ridiculously tiny fraction of 52 factorial.
Aaaaayyyyylmao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm curious, how much is 52! compared to a googol?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:46:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
52! โ 8x1067
googol = 1x10100
Googol is approximately 1x1032 times bigger. Googol is stupid big. Of course, it pales in comparison to googolplex, which is 1x10googol, or 1010100.
i_said_no_already ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:01:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Graham laughs at your googolplex.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is honestly kind of frightening.
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which kind of makes you rethink your concept of infinity, since Graham's number is exactly equivalent to 1 on the scale of infinity.
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...
...what the actual fuck?
i_said_no_already ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:55 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah...pretty crazy. As to how they know the last 12 digits - see this comment for an explanation.
insanococo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:00:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone please math check this. I want it to be real!
jdovew ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:36:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is. These kinds of big number are quite literally incomprehensible.
WinkiiTinkii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My head hurts.
Sacamato ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:57:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are some imprecise numbers in his post (like how long is a step, or how much water is in a drop?), but the way I calculate it, you'd actually have to stack papers to the moon 159,629 times just to get to 1/3 of the possibilities. But being off by 6 orders of magnitude isn't such a big deal when we're dealing with 67 orders of magnitude.
Spreadsheet
Please feel free to check my shit.
Dynamaxion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:14:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's real. The papers actually have to reach the Sun, not the Moon, and you'd have to do it a thousand times, not three
Sacamato ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:22:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Updated my original spreadsheet. It comes out to 1230 times to the sun using my numbers. Close enough!
Edit: except for the typo in the last line, where I still say it's "1/3" of possibilities. That's to get all the possibilities.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:24:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dynamaxion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:25:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes I posted to the link where I saw it. The papers have to reach the Sun, not the Moon, and you have to get to the sun a thousand times to get 1/3rd of the way.
BeautyAndGlamour ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:26:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, could this be true?
Shuffles in a billion years: 3600 * 24 * 365 * 109 โ 1016
Steps required to circumvent Earth: 107 / 1 = 107
Drops in the Pacific Ocean: 1017 / 10-9 = 1026
Sheets of paper to the Moon: 108 / 10-4 = 1012
So:
1016 * 107 * 1026 * 1012 = 1061
Wow!!
Dynamaxion ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:35:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow indeed. Try not to have a panic attack the next time you see a deck of cards.
AdamBombTV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:59:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can't I only drain the pacific ocean once tho?
Geikamir ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:47:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, with that attitude.
petenu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I now no longer have any difficulty visualising this.
The_Panty_Raid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to have a panic attack
Fishflapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where do I put the water I have taken out?
Dynamaxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, I'm sure you could spare a billion years to build another Pacific Basin somewhere. Maybe scrape out the bottom of the Atlantic, make it deeper.
Fishflapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I'll take that.
Wait, where does the soil/ rock go?
a1988eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thank you for this
swim_swim_swim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused wtf taking a drop out of the ocean has to do with this
recoverybelow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck are you dweebs making this so complicated
Devadander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit x2
MrJigglyBrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So...how many times can you go through every combination of decks before you reach infinity?
yotdog2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what timer? I don't get the last sentence
Dynamaxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The website did it by putting 52 factorial seconds on a timer and counting down the seconds, which is the equivalent of shuffling one unique deck arrangement every second.
If you were actually shuffling it would take way longer because you'd get repeat arrangements.
justeversocurious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last sentence got me. XD
smjpilot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
to drain the Pacific Ocean, you would have to drain ALL the oceans, as the water would level out from all around the world. Or do you set up dams first so that you only remove water from the Pacific?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have to build the dams by picking up one grain of sand every time OP's mom got banged.
johnbutler896 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Done.
dantheleon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:44:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In less than 5 minutes too.
_hyperfine_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ran out of sand...
smjpilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
damn!
Dynamaxion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dams. Spend the first billion years containing the Pacific.
dryj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not a practical description of how to reach the sun, it's an analogy of scale.
edit: forgot a word.
smjpilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not very practical... the heat would start burning up the paper...
sage1700 ยท 90 points ยท Posted at 13:30:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 13:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like putting forward answers like that without some real numbers for back up. It makes me feel like a bad buzfeed article if I don't.
TehSalmonOfDoubt ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 14:33:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy tried to SHUFFLE a unique hand of CARDS. What he did next was INCREDIBLE!
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 14:56:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
13 things your card dealer won't tell you!
CaptAhabsMobyDick ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You won't believe number 5
i_love_pencils ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:16:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Casinos hate him!
Baxter4343 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:55:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was shuffling a deck of cards, then THIS happened!
DA_BLING ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:20:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I made ยฃ50000 in somalia in one day, click this to find out!
iremainnameless ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:12:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Casinos hate him.
likeitwhentheyscream ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are there good buzzfeed articles?
DRM_Removal_Bot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:25:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was one, once. That explained why baby jumpers have buttons on the shoulders.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, there are not.
Raider1987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of my university lectures once told me those not citing sources for evidence and making shit up was only acceptable to do if you wrote for buzzfeed or ran for office.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:03:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Notice the distinct lack of recreational fiction on that list.
MrMeltJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why you're amazing!
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:42:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm amazing because /u/amazia was a dolt and took my normal username. I don't really blame him for it though.
DiscordsTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermath
sendmeyourjokes ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:23:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermath
sharpness1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardgraph
AntiMoneySquandering ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did the math, he did the monster math
The monster math, it was a reddit smash
3D-Mint ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:32:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm hoping no one will make the stupid monster math meme.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:38:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonstermath
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:26:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So what about if you're shuffling the decks? How long until you get a double?
I'll be using a Taylor series approximation to approach the problem. The equation is p โ 1 - e(-s2/(2d)) where p is the target percentage, s is the number of shuffles, and d is the number of possible decks. In order to find the number of shuffles it would take in order to have a p% of having a repeat all I need to do is solve for p
01% chance - 1.27x1033 (1.27 decillion) shuffles
25% chance - 6.78x1033 (6.78 decillion) shuffles
50% chance - 1.05x1034 (10.5 decillion) shuffles
99% chance - 2.71x1034 (27.1 decillion) shuffles
So, let's set up a scale. instead of playing poker, the 7.2x107 (7.2 billion) people of the world have gotten bored of interacting together, and will now shuffle decks independently. If they each shuffle at one deck per minute, let's find how many times we will surpass the age of the universe before we have the above chances of getting an order that's not new.
01% chance - 2.4x109 (2.4 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
25% chance - 1.3x1010 (13 billion) times the estimated age of the universe. (This one is interesting because the estimation for the age of the universe I'm using is 1.4x1010 years. this means that for each year in the age of the universe, earth would need to shuffle for roughly the age of the universe. (age of the universe)2 if you will.)
50% chance - 2x1010 (20 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
99% chance - 5.2x1010 (52 billion) times the estimated age of the universe.
The amount of time it would take earth to shuffle into every option systematically would be 1.5x1044 times the estimated age of the universe, so it will take 3.4x1034 times longer to systematically go through all of the options than to have a 99% chance of there being a duplicate.
These numbers are still huge, so let's teach every mammal on the planet (about 1012 of them) to shuffle decks of cards at the same rate as humans.
01% chance - 18,000 times the age of the universe.
25% chance - 94,000 times the age of the universe.
50% chance - 150,000 times the age of the universe.
99% chance - 370,000 times the age of the universe.
let's shrink the chances we're going for, 1% is a lot at this scale, we'll compare how long it would take to have a chance of a double to some rare things:
chance to be struck by lighting in your lifetime: 1/12000 or 8.3x10-3% (0.0083%)
8.3x10-3% chance - 16,0000 times the age of the universe.
chance to win the powerball in one try: 1/175,000,000 or 5.7x10-7% (0.00000057%)
5.7x10-7% chance - 690 times the age of the universe
chance of a meteor landing on your 1,000 square foot house: 1/5.5x1012 or 1.8x10-11%
1.8x10-11% chance - 10.3 billion years (about 3/4 the age of the universe)
chance of all of these happening to one person once: 8.5x10-24% (8.5 chances out of 100 septillion)
8.5x10-24% chance - 7040 years.
Wrapup: So if every mammal on earth shuffles a deck of cards once per minute, for 7040 years, the chances that one of the decks was a duplicate is the same as the chances of you being struck by lightning, winning the powerball, AND having a meteor land on your house.
TL;DR:
I just spent 3 hours doing math, you can take the time to read some of this.A deck of cards is a very random thing, use this power wisely.silverlava ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for taking the time to figure this out! It's very interesting.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:39 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, man! I had a lot of fun doing it. I probably won't do another for a while, and I'm trying to think as to where I should leave it when I do... you have any ideas?
ConnerDavis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:10:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scientific notation is helpful for making things concise, but sometimes it's easier to get a sense of scale when you can see the number written out.
52! = 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000
5.55x1058 = 55500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1.06x1054 = 1060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
7.7x1043 = 77000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. However, I wrote the original on mobile, so that wasn't gonna happen.
Whind_Soull ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:12:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of factorialized 52 then a question mark ending the sentence, I like to read this as you just asking really excitedly how big the number 52 is.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I took an advanced math course... thing... in middle school. We would show up about half an hour before classes started one day a week, get snacks, and do fun math things.
Well one day our math teacher was home sick, so instead of cancelling, she had her friend the English teacher teach for us that day. We went over factorials that day, and she would very emphatically say every factorialed number. We didn't get much done that day.
Equa1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:04:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say your math is way off! But as it turns out, alien blue just isn't displaying any exponents.
Carry on.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't help that I wrote this on mobile and it took three edits to get the formatting right.
effin_nana ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:10:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
Puts it in perspective
santasmic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:19:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was skimming and saw:
My thought was "well, uh... 52? Why the excitement?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understand the math, it all makes sense that way, but I still just can't actually fathom it. Big numbers are so strange. You did such a good job explaining it and it's still just so hard to believe.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't blame you, they're hard. I play a lot of idle clicker games, so I see
bighuge numbers all the time and have a better sense of scale for them than most people.Nomad45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a cool writeup on just how big 52! is. http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! that's a great way to visualize it!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:08:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I get to big powers of 10 I like to compare it to the number of atoms in the universe, which is about 1080.
silverlava ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Your math is probably correct, but you're looking at the problem wrong. What you proved is it's impossible to get every single variation of the deck. The original problem was two people getting the same deck, which is much more likely to happen. If you want an example, here's the birthday problem, which basically says that if you have 23 people in a room, it's likely (over 50% chance) that two of them share a birthday.
Basically what I'm saying is you don't need 8x1067 people in a room with random decks, to have 2 of the same decks. The number of people needed to do this is much less. And with your example, it wouldn't take nearly as long to get two of the same deck, as it would to get every single possible deck. Granted, these numbers are still so high that it will probably never happen.
Tarantio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is possible to calculate birthday problem odds with very large numbers, but I keep breaking wolfram when I try it with these ones.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend with pro, I might have to use his account for that. Or just break down and use a real calculator like a big boy.
Tarantio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2008-2009/TianyiZheng/Birthday.html
The equation for working it out yourself would involve taking the factorial of 8x1067, and also raising it to the power of the prospective number of shuffles you want to calculate the odds for.
There's probably a way to approximate it, but I don't think any normal calculator will be able to pull it off.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I go to an engineering college, I can use MATHLAB while on my IT shift tonight or something.
Tarantio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. If you're looking for a number of shuffles to calculate, my favorite example is the number you'd get if everyone who ever lived shuffled a deck of cards once a second for the entire age of the universe.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28number+of+people+who+ever+lived%29%28age+of+the+universe+in+seconds%29
4.7 times 1028 shuffles (or person seconds, I guess).
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I might use the same one I used above, keep things on the same continuity and all.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's a good point, I should do this math later. My main goal here was more for the sheer scale than a statistical answer though.
Anybody that wants in on that math when I get it should leave a reply here or something, I'm not sure of the best way to get that out to the people interested. Suggestions welcome.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did the math out here!
TheOrdner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks to adventure capitalist I know some of these numbers.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I picked it up from cookie clicker back in the day. Never really forgot.
MVB1837 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:06:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy fucks
Vanceb13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is one of my favorite TL;DR thus far.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do my best! A TL;DR should never be more than two sentences long (usually no more than one) and really only needs to convey generals, but I like to have fun with them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine if there is a joker added!
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One joker brings it up to 53! or 4.3x1069 (4.3 duovigintillion)
two jokers is 54! or 2.3x1071 (230 duovigintillion)
four jokers is 56! or 7.1x1074 (710 tresvigintillion)
Things get interesting once you make it so that you can't tell the jokers apart:
two jokers is 54!/2! or 1.2x1071 (120 duovigintillion)
four jokers is 56!/4! or 3x1073 (30 tesvigintillion)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but what if the aliens play poker too?
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are about 1040 exoplanets that could sustain life. If they all had populations similar to earth's then the final time would be 7700 years. Huh, wish I'd used that one.
iomegabasha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having said this.. it is TECHNICALLY possible to shuffle a deck of cards in the same order by a single person. it is just, as pointed out, SUPER SUPER unlikely.. to say the least.
shootflexo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just because I happened to have been reading about encryption yesterday, can you calculate how many bits of encryption this would be? I'm not sure because it isn't a constant charset of 52 (since each card can only be used once), but it seems like it should be close to 256 bit encryption level.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I've been meaning to learn about encryption, I might take you up on that later.
shootflexo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty cool. The reason I thought of it is because a password with only lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers would have a charset size of 62, in the same ballpark as the cards. Then if the password was 29 characters long, it would be around 128 bit, which already is basically uncrackable.
Here's a couple links:
This one just tells how many bits of entropy the password you type in has http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php
And this one is a math equation where the "64" is the bits and the 4 billion is how many combinations are tried per second. The result is then how long it would take to crack. So with a computer trying 4 billion combinations per second, it would take 146 years to crack a 64 bit password.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%282^%2864%29%2F4%2C000%2C000%2C000%29+%2F+60+%2F+60+%2F+24+%2F+365+years
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, saved in RES for when I have the time, probably tonight on my IT shift. nothing happens on Thursdays.
FrostyBeav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, what you're saying is that this is why I get an unending number of shitty hands in pinochle?
(pinochle is 48!, so slightly better than regular deck but still... )
Derf_Jagged ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My brain naturally avoids math, so all I saw was you excitedly saying
zasdwerty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Just so you can all picture the number.
dupelize ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This does assume that the cards are perfectly shuffled. If you do a quick shuffle of a new deck of cards I bet that formation is significantly more likely to repeat.
It might be a fun (for somebody else to do) experiment to see how much a single round of shuffling randomizes the deck and then use that to estimate how likely it is to have the exact same starting deck if you are lazy with a new deck of cards.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't quite do that, but I did account for actually shuffling the random decks here
DenSem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that take into account the impossible combinations of the shuffle? i.e. the top card is not going to end up anywhere near the bottom of the deck in a normal shuffle. At most, it would end up about halfway down.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
for more reading, here's a version where I found out how long it would take if you were actually shuffling the decks to get a duplicate deck.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It assumes a perfectly random shuffle. Actually, one better than that, it's every possible combination. So you could go through systematically and build them yourself if you wanted to ruin your life.
DenSem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha. I was picturing a typical "Riffle Shuffle".
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like to do that properly one would need to do simulations.
silverlava ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Mobigasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot stop reading
Like you're yelling at me to answer the question.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well!? How big is it!?
Mobigasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I DON'T KNOW, MATH IS HARD. ...BIG?
leroyyrogers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be less, since the odds of a duplicate go up every iteration?
Extreme example: you're down to one deck left - it's almost impossible that you haven't had a repeat yet.
Less extreme example: you're down to 10 decks left.... And so on.
Once you get to halfway through, you're more likely than not to duplicate a formation.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the version with the birthday problem accounted for.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that would be the next step to this. I'm gonna take a crack at it tonight with a modified version of the birthday problem. The above just details a pile of every possible permutation of a deck of cards.
berry_straw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:42:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But is it possible that a combination of the deck HAS repeated itself in history due to luck?? Or does all this math render luck impossible? I just don't GET IT!
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's fairly likely that if you open a new deck of cards, and "shuffle" it by cutting the deck once, that that permutation has been seen before. As well as most of the combinations if you do a single riffle shuffle. But if the deck is randomized well enough (7 rifles should be enough) then the chances are infinitesimal. I should be posting a follow up later tonight where I run the numbers in a format similar to the birthday problem, which will yield answers closer to what you are looking for.
TL;DR: luck still exists, but only gets you so far.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the version that takes the birthday problem into account.
menasan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:59:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations?
so 8 followed by 67 zeros
Spenceh0e ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's even more interesting to me is how many shuffles it would take to actually get all N combinations. I would imagine that its exponentially larger, considering a great deal would be duplicate patterns.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
here's where I did the math around actually shuffling these, instead of just pulling from a pile.
To answer your question though, it would take 8.3*106 times the age of the universe (to twenty decimal places anyway, I didn't feel like rewriting my equation as a limit)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then you get to 0 cards left and it fucks it up.
52x51x50x49...x2x1x0=0
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if you are a shitty shuffler? I agree with the probability, but I wouldn't say "never".
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I might look into the math for this at some point. The point still stands that if you shuffle a deck of cards even just competently, there's a lot of randomness there.
nomadofwaves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the part about three fiddy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:55:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thorough with my math, that's what.
EvisGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1080 atoms in the known universe, you can use that to compare.
ferociouspeanut ยท 1493 points ยท Posted at 11:36:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.7067656e+89 combinations if i'm not mistaken. in real numbers this is probably close to 1 million bajillion
im going to fail my maths exam tomorrow
ruhbluhbluh ยท 539 points ยท Posted at 14:14:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that more or less than a brazillian?
MeddlinQ ยท 1454 points ยท Posted at 16:31:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought "a brazilion" was 6. Or 7-1, if you will.
Cisco_Kid ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 17:07:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not enough people here will understand this but goddamit this is perfect
Dramatic_Kiwi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:36:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explain
vashed ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 17:38:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Score of the world cup final where Germany destroyed Brazil 7-1
deutscherhawk ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 18:05:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Semifinal, but yeah
ethicalcitizen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:55:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here I am sitting and thinking it has something to do with waxing.
Callicles-On-Fire ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:48:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, Brazil got a waxing, that game.
MortalKombatVeteran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you a dalek?
Timothy_Claypole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Football!
joedl1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:56:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some soccer reference. I don't even follow soccer and I knew it
SirCrackWaffle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brรผtal.
Shugbug1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At 1k upvotes, it still isn't enough.
rayverine11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How would people not understand this? It was a huge fucking deal all over the world. Even in the U.S., which has significantly less interest in soccer than the rest of the planet
Mandible_Claw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explanation for the uninitiated?
Rapua ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil hosted the soccer World Cup in 2014. Germany went there and won 7-1.
jpop23mn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah no one watches the World Cup.especially small unknown teams like Brazil and Germany
We_does_this ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:10:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It still hurts. :(
NebuIas ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:32:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BRA71L!
ruhbluhbluh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roasted
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:15:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bravo.
Koopa_Troop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:27:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Top bantz
Kangacrew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soooo, is all of Reddit just going to let this beautiful reference slide?
sault9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon man, too soon
howluckyarewe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shots fired.
Timothy_Claypole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...on goal.
kioopi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
bam!roasted!
ActionHobo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wewlad
OneTime_AtBandCamp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whats 6 in German?
TheHumanFish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
too soon
Spicy-Rolls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice.
MagicSPA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Harsh - but fair!
fuckitimatwork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GOODNESS
Vacster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
shzt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well meme'd
ThunderDonging ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So they lost to Germany by more than a Brazilian?
thedersy1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BRAZIL ON SUICIDE WATCH
TheZbeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please draw a diagram. You lost me.
leroyyrogers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
casc1701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon, dude :(
dmhacks22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Savage
RomanCessna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Christ reddit is killed me again.
Afroapple2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon
lucky0225 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
6!
TheStorMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good one.
Phunky123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SAVAGE
irishgrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That still sounds so brutal
shadowmarn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
too soon
KoreaneseMathew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:06 on January 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You savage motherfucker
Imperialnymph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got some cold water here, PM me if you're a brazilian.
KjoeLjan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch
jimiffondu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:20:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm totally using that in the future, many thanks for sharing your wit..!
_thisisadream_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:43:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ayy lmao
HowToCantaloupe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:46:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's about 171 octovigintillion.
Source: I play adventure capitalist
FrozenSquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quit rounding up. You exaggerate everything.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, 06 does round up to one...
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:57:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
DA_BLING ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:21:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wot
ambivouac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:19:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing's less than a brazilian. They remove ALL of it.
kirbyMonster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think its actually about 12 porn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Less. My mother said I am her everything and, in my book, everything > all things individually.
stinky_toecutter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is likes. Godzillian
McChicken1k99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's about 4 brazillian
SmogBlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's about 2 chameleons.
echtav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure, I could never focus in my Brazzers class
tworkout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Less than a gorrilian!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
only when you multiply the Argentinean
PicturElements ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:56:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1.7067656e+89 is 5252 which, sadly, is not quite right. Use factorial instead, like so: 52!=8.066*1067 .
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:51:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I got to the 67th, how'd you get that number? Just curious.
ferociouspeanut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
5252 i decided was probably close enough to the number i was looking for.
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:03:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that would represent what would happen if every card could be any card from the deck. so you could have a deck of just kings of spades. or one that has no hearts and extra clubs and diamonds. It's an interesting number by it's own right, but not the one needed here.
ferociouspeanut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rip
pvbob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:43:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that in Luke Dunphys voice.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:34:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but think of how many games have been played.
Edit: I'm kidding
Sean081799 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Permutations*
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:39:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/theydidthemath
TomCanyons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Skipping a step /r/theydidthefuckyou
drinks_antifreeze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like a trillion bazillion. Or something.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's with perfect randomness.
Spoiler alert: human shuffling is far from it!
kenmaclean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1089 is about a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion. 89 digits long, it's a stupid big number.
Hastaroth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it 54 factorial? So 2.308437e+71 ?
TakeOffYourMask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Since you don't seem to know what real numbers are, I'd say so :P
ItsSnowingOutside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in our solar system.
kotajacob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's one tenth of a Quindecillion using the long scale
MorleyDotes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so glad I live in America where we only have one math to learn. FWIW I failed that one too.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true.
edit: here you go http://qi.com/infocloud/playing-cards
LinguisticPenguin14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:09:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every episode I am reminded of the soul crushing fact that the following series will not be hosted by Fry anymore.
I don't know if Toksvig will ever live up to that standard.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Nihht ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:42:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Without formatting this doesn't seem quite so remarkable.
...
AmaziaTheAmazing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:48:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think he meant 8x1067 . at least, that's the number I used in my calculations. Reddit does fun things to symbols sometimes, and then they go on vacation.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm bad at maths..
Is 14 billion years * ~31,550,000 seconds per year a bigger number than the amount of possible card decks?
Thunderpantz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:49:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Nope. The possible number of cards is 1.81x1050 times the number of seconds that have happened.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:12:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking fuck
sdsdwwe4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
how does the second fact make sense? if he shuffled the deck once per second wouldnt he shuffle it for more than 1018 times after 1019 seconds?
MyMyner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
10 to the power of 18, not 1018
jordoonearth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The is always the best reaction on Reddit. - "Nope. No way. BS... Edit: TIL"
OMGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
To be fair, there are more orders than could be assembled in 1000 years or whatever the timeline is for this factoid. However, since all new decks come in the same order, the odds of the same order occurring from a single shuffle is actually quite high, at least compared to the way this fact is presented, which says it's impossible.
If you had 1000 decks of cards all in their default order, and cut/shuffled all of them once each, it is almost a certainty that 2 of them will result in the same order. It's even possible for 250 decks to have the same order, if it's a single person doing all the shuffling and they have a certain aptitude with cards.
[deleted] ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 14:25:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your shuffle. Every deck of cards comes out of the original box the same way. If people are like me and do a few bridges, that order has probably happened before. Now if every card was actually put in a random order, ya it probably hasn't happened before.
VerbableNouns ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:49:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Generally speaking, 7 good shuffles should do the...trick.
thevdude ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:23:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I was just thinking about an article I had read before today where someone simulated shuffles and had nice graphics to show when a deck was actually well shuffled, I'll see if I can find it.
EDIT: Man, I really want to find this. The person who put the page together had a program set up to show the new order of the cards as colors (it started as a gradient from one end to the other, and after shuffling was obviously mixed up)
insanococo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As long as you use riffle shuffling you only need about 7 shuffles to get a mathematically random arrangement.
Check out this video that compares different shuffling styles. http://youtu.be/AxJubaijQbI
grim2121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why casinos do some crazy shuffles when using a new deck.
ArkEneru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the original comment assumes that every time a deck of cards is shuffled, the order of the cards is randomized, which is definitely not the case.
kkehoe5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:36:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. Also most people tend to split the deck pretty close to in half. So we have the same starting order and pretty consistent splitting and shuffling of the deck. Not hard to imagine that just because the possibility of endless combinations exists, that number tends to be much much lower.
discOHsteve ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:46:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The only issue I have with this premise is that a new deck of cards comes pre arranged, so the amount of new decks shuffled once for the first time and ended up the same must have statistically happened once by now.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
d_cas ยท 515 points ยท Posted at 18:45:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
King George V, Tsar Nicholas, and Kaiser Wilhelm (the three major world leaders of WW1) were all first cousins. They were all grand children of Queen Victoria and often spent their summers together growing up.
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 209 points ยท Posted at 21:05:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Close. Nicholas and Wilhelm were actually second-cousins-once-removed, and Nicholas was only Victoria's grandson-in-law.
Of course, the royal families were so intwined that they may as well have been siblings, genetically.
AaronWaters ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:02:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What does the "Once removed" mean in terms of family? No one I have asked seems to know.
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:07:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let's say Person A and Person B share great-grandparents. They would be second cousins. Now, let's say Person C is either the parent or child of Person B. One generation removed. Persons A and C would be second cousins, once removed.
beepbeepitsajeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've always just heard that called third cousins.
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, but the generation's only removed/added on one side. Third cousins share great-great-grandparents.
beepbeepitsajeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stop with your complicated family math, it makes my head hurt.
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's really more of a visual thing.
bestjakeisbest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:04:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you haven't even seen a wilhelm
mattdamonsleftnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
history rekt
Timothy_Claypole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Prince Philip nearly had a nasty genetic condition due to inbreeding. He got lucky.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:25:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Supposedly their childhood interaction colored their images of each other, and England, to a very important degree later on.
Wilhelm never really fit in, and resented England, which made negotiating more difficult.
Supposedly. I love learning about Victoria and her descendants, so I'd love to be corrected on this front.
JT_5 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:29:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To them WW1 was probably just a giant game of Risk
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Real life Crusader Kings 2...
trentshipp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
CKII is based on history though...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:15:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
IS WWI NOT HISTORYRR?R????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
ART THOU PLAYETH, SIRE? THY JOKETH GOEST OO'ER MY HEAD.
U havin a lauf, m8?
goblingoodies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It really hits you when you read the Willy-Nicky Telegrams.
TheSliceman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:26:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Most of the world leaders today have a similar close relation. Bush, Kerry, (bill) Clinton and Obama are all cousins to varying degrees, for example.
In the words of George Carlin- "it's all a big club and you ain't in it".
blacktiger226 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:58:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
any source on that?
MathewSK81 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:57:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
W and Obama are 11th cousins which means they share an ancestor that lived in the 1600's. It's such a minor connection that it's only good for trivia.
Alltheothersweretook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm some variation of cousin to Obama. Hold on, I need to look it up.
EDIT: We're 7th cousins. So am I in the club?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't stop them from waging the 2nd bloodiest war in history against each other. OK. Not them. They had people for that.
e101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dan Carlin?
ManThing910 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ageeyin
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
BillyChallenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Somehow I find this to be the most mind blowing fact in this thread.
President_SDR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And George and Nicholas looked like twins.
IAmTheToastGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love reading their old passive aggressive letters to each other
Poopersnoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Family feuds are often the worst.
ManThing910 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hardcore History? Ageeeyin.
Truvo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:09 on December 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man I've seen this so many times on Reddit....makes me want to go to war with my inbred cousins.
EdwardTheVindictive ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think France was as important as those countries in WW1 though.
potatoslasher ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 22:14:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but they killed all of their kings in the revolution
[deleted] ยท 357 points ยท Posted at 16:30:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chevy Chase was Steely Dan's first drummer.
[deleted] ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 16:49:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:24:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! That's nuts!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And they were the only white band signed to Motown.
beaverteeth92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rare Earth doesn't count?
beaverteeth92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And he kidnapped a woman and beat the shit out of her for a week.
Ccollin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:41:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
Boogerschmidt ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:40:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chevy Chase played drums in the band known as "Bad Rock Group" and later as "Leather Canary" with future Steely Dan members Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, while attending Bard College in '68 & '69.
cheekygibletminger ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:42:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technically; He drummed in a few bands with Donald Fagen before he actually formed Steely Dan
sightlab ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:52:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chevy chase didn't actually form Steely Dan, but he did build Walter Becker from spare parts.
AWildGopherAppeared ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:08:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Will Ferrell was The Red Hot Chili Peppers' first drummer.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 20:09:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't the first drummer, that guy passed away. He's the current drummer
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saw that!
projimo87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whhhhhaaa.. i gotta say this is the most shocking info
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Check it out... It's actually true!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
jcpinbkk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe Steely Dan is headed by two guys. Neither is Steely nor Dan. The name come from a large female pleasure toy called the "Steely Dan."
piperluck ยท 1434 points ยท Posted at 11:09:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If out of range for your keyless entry device for your car, put the device under your chin and slightly open your mouth to extend the signal reach
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/tech-myth-holding-the-care-rem-83663
aykontakt ยท 3287 points ยท Posted at 15:35:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I usually put the key in my anus and then scan the parking lot with my mouth open while clenching my buttcheeks. I once parked my car in China by mistake and the clicker picked it up. (I live in the US).
_StatesTheObvious ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I know why some people walk like penguins in the parking lot!
[deleted] ยท 170 points ยท Posted at 16:44:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Arkaichz ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:27:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yo I heard this really works
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 17:16:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh so hard
Wilreadit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:00:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I peed a little
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:51:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh harder than I care to admit
RelyOnIrony ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:34:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or it didn't happen
IAmBecomeEuphoric ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:35:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually how military grade radar works
mixed_biscuits ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:29:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got some fucking weird looks trying to stifle a guffaw on the bus, thank you.
hahahainternet ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:46:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh god here i am laughing about ass keys at work again
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:22:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now get back to work
rhaspytomato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
please explain
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:21:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
stephenhg2009 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:49:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/evenwithcontext
Like-A-Cuban ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:56:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/YOUCANTHANDLETHECONTEXT
scruffys_on_break ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:04:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that's what really happened in Tianjin
Fadobo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:30:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Source: Have been to both China and the US
boringOrgy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I have an anus.
Wilreadit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have keys in it
cabaq ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My sides
saloalv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why we have the serious tag
FUCITADEL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be sympathetic if this wasn't the first time this has happened to you.
INeverMisspell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to do this but this would be great on nocontext.
Beanbomb47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
goddamnit varga- wait, you're not vargas!
AdmiralAkbar1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just trying to fathom how an Americsn can accidentally park in China.
markeydarkey2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/evenwithcontext
NeokratosRed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/evenwithcontext
valley_pete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's amazing
christdeberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God this killed me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just cried laughing. I have never cried from laughter until now
EugenioFV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...and that's how you get strangers to stare at you in the bus for laughing with tears coming out.
_lizardking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
generalmalk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit im crying! That really caught me off guard. Haha
Philosofred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
ENGLANDZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did a little wee after reading this
WessyNessy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's some 4chan shit right there. I wasn't ready
Urgullibl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:40:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamit Vargas
JohnyRingo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:26:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
Demilitarizer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:28:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is probably one of the few instances where going ass to mouth is okay.
Keinichn ยท 580 points ยท Posted at 13:42:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I doubted this at first. Definitely works. I use it all the time to find my car in a parking lot. My girlfriend was skeptical at first. Then I stood in one spot, hit my button a few times, nothing. Put it to my head and hit the button, car honks. You can't explain that.
blimeyfool ยท 1006 points ยท Posted at 15:23:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I think they just did
Keinichn ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 15:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was a joke. Saying you can't explain something that's easily explainable. I just left off the first half. "Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
_Blurgh_ ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:02:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tide in, Tide out --> God exists
Checkmate, Atheists!
Lemon_Hound ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And if we were only 3 inches closer or farther from the sun, we would burn and freeze to death respectively.
What a wonderful universe this God of ours made
MirRelevant ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:47:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's cool and all, but don't ever comment on this post and tell me Im wrong everrrr again. I didnt ask you did I? Answer: NO
KeepItRealTV ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:33:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The earth's distance to the sun varies about 3.1 million miles depending on what month it is.
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:08:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You missed the joke.
Pernic10us ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:44:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK IT! We'll do it live!
Coolstorylucas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait did they just explain that? I'm so confused now.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:50:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your skull acts as an antenna boosting the signal from your remote entry device.
Empty_Allocution ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
YOU CAN'T. EXPLAIN THAT.
SwiggyBooty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You just CAN'T explain that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate atheists
cubitfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How Can Our Cars Be Real if Our Mouths aren't Real.
ManofMaple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, you can't
Caville ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The explanation 'do some kind of crazy wizardry' isn't much of an explanation.
blimeyfool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From the article:
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:12:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You now have cancer
Warpato ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:04:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same, I showed my brother and he still didn't believe me
zerbey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Works great, I use it all the time and get funny looks.
elkins9293 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of those things that I'm caught between believing is real and being afraid to try because you probably look like an idiot doing it.
SeattleIsCool ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:50:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be afraid of looking like an idiot. There are plenty of times you look like an idiot without realizing it.
SosX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean you can explain it
Keinichn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The joke.
Your head.
SosX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh...
lunabright ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tides go in, tides go out, you can't explain that!
At about 0:40 - http://youtu.be/_vU1uN8QwCE
CherryVermilion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learnt that from Top Gear. Thanks Jezza.
PhlipPhlops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate, Atheists.
RT325ci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tide goes in, tide goes out.
needs_help_badly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I'm really curious why it works - like the physics of it.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But... I can explain that.
907Pilot ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 15:35:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or just carry a spare head around so you don't look like a ding dong walking around with a remote on your chin
Mark_1231 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:54:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I wish I knew how to photoship a keyfab into this. Would be perfect!
EDIT:
fob
boringOrgy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AdmiralAkbar1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
An extra head? What would I need three for?
westie3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Calm down there Patrick Bateman.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 15:03:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Jethro_Tully ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe, but it's worth it.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in all seriousness my dad got cancer of the neck somewhere near the tonsils (i was young and dint remember exacts) he was ok but it would have gone into his brain directly and killed him within a month
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neat.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It works because we are all actually androids who believe we are humans.
idontknowwhynot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Frakkin toasters...
trashacount12345 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:17:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mythbusters covered this. It's actually just the height of the remote that matters, so you don't have to hold it up to your chin and look like a fool.
MadPoetModGod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's less signal interference from competing frequencies the higher you go. It's not the action of putting it to your head, but the action of having raised it higher than you normally would. Next time just hold it up in the air. You'll achieve the same result and you won't look like you're trying to engage your mutant power.
Tarantio ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:18:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Former valet with a bachelor's in physics here.
Raising the remote as high as you can gives you the longest range. I can't confirm or deny whether competing frequencies have anything to do with it, but height will help because a higher percentage of the radio signal will make it to the car. Some of them will bounce off the ground and back up to the receiver.
MadPoetModGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plumber who listened to the episode of "Skeptic's Guide to the Universe" that covered it here.
I was just paraphrasing my recollection of their explanation from a year or two ago. Pretty sure they mentioned competing frequencies but it's been a long time. Bottom line though is, yes, height is the key.
Apparently one of the explanations for the myth is that the water in your head amplifies the signal. First of all, pretty sure water is more known for its refractive properties. Second of all, why would someone think a signal passing through a solid object would somehow be stronger than one with no obstacles? People are weird.
myearcandoit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's the reason for this part?
DarkMoon000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think there is, it should work without that.
myearcandoit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct, there is no purpose for opening your mouth. It works because your brain is made of water. I wanted to get piperluck's answer so I could poke fun at him for looking funny for no reason.
Sorry piperluck, all light hearted fun of course.
PS. stop opening your mouth when you snipe unlock your car. You just look silly.
chiefos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I just kind of put it against my skull. Side of the head is generally easiest.
Colonel_of_Wisdom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:45:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hold mine to my temple and it does the same thing.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:42:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
beep boop Holy shit!
raleighNY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
my dad loves this trick. but walking around the parking lot while he can't find his truck with his hand and keys under his chin is pretty embarrassing.
_Relaxed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have to open your mouth. It works if you put it against your forehead.
Catsup_on_EVERYTHING ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:16:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to tell my friends this for years but they don't believe me! I've tried it multiple times and it's worked!
tjfraz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The human body is basically one big potato battery.
greyrights ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:59:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a very interesting fact that I learned from a former Army EOD technician. He told us that in Afghanistan if you see someone doing this they are probably trying to put a few extra feet between themselves and the IED that will go off when they click that button.
BobSacramanto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Works with Dish Network remotes as well. Basically any radio frequency remote control.
ScottRTL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've done this since I was a kid.
jmcstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do this quite often. The drawback is you look like a freaking doing it.
Coffee-Anon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help but this is a prank so I'll look like an idiot every time I'm looking for my car in a big parking lot
piperluck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Brother will be watching you
bangarang710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that is so peculiar. my dad years ago told me this, didn't believe him.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you can do the same thing by holding the remote up to your ear
Skepsis93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can also sends the signal through cell phones. I didn't believe it, but I drove to a parking lot, called my brother and had him unlock it with the spare keys at home a few miles away. It worked for our ford explorer but not for the VW Passat we owned at the time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Skepsis93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the same thing until it worked.
a1988eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gotta try this
Pencil_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you call a friend who doesn't have the key they can hold their phone next to the car and if you press the unlock button next to the receiver of the phone you can unlock your car from anywhere. Not very useful but still
thebigschnoz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or just hold it to your head close to your brain. Water extends the signal.
T0mmyGun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned this from a car alarm installer when I was 15 years old in 2000 and no one has ever believed me that this works and I do it all the time. Thank you for a source.
tossspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact! If you unlock your car at such a distance you are an idiot and you deserve to get all of your stuff stolen by thieves and or magpies
piperluck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The only time I ever do it is if I am not sure I locked it in the first place.
jonny867 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or instead of looking like a tool the same thing works if you just put your key to your forehead ๐
piperluck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that really look all that much better?
jonny867 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. They both look ridiculous. Maybe this one could be more nonchalant.
snappyirides ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a revelation!! Thankyou! :D
OhThatsRich88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is raising the keys that does this, not your head. Lift the keys above your head and you will get greater range.
sineofthetimes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know how many people are going to try this tomorrow?
AntennaeDirector ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think this works for the reason people think it does.
It's all about the direction of the fob. When you are pointing your fob at a car normally, you're holding it at shoulder or less-than shoulder height. The fob is usually parallel to the ground.
When you hold the fob under your chin, you are holding the fob higher than usual. You are also likely to hold the fob perpendicular to the ground, rather than parallel like you normally would.
There's even an old Reddit thread on the subject:
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/18wath/for_what_reason_does_holding_a_car_remote_against/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I use it all the time. It works, but I still feel retarded.
TheRoyalGanj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This only works because you're raising the fob higher than normal thereby increasing its visual range.
recoverybelow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe this
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
dark4ever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If that works for you, what would happen if I stuck it up your butt?
GitEmSteveDave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We eliminated a few guards at my job site by installing flashing lights. If the lights are flashing, you can't bring your horse onto the track. The lights are operated by a modified Viper remote. Well on guy suggested this and now everyone uses this to activate the lights.
krkr8m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I put it against my forehead just over an eye and look at the car with that eye forward. It actually works great, though it probably causes cancer in the State of California.
Your skull is a big dish antenna filled with water and can enhance and focus the radio signal.
NiceFormBro ยท 186 points ยท Posted at 20:52:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The day before the oldest person in the world was born, there was a whole different set of people... On the entire planet.
Eltotsira ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:51:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
NiceFormBro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:55:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah. Sorry man.
Fight Club. You have to give up. You have to realize that one day you're going to die. Until then, you are useless (A little melodramatic, but true)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:37:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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NiceFormBro ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:54:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Insanity
GraysonStealth ยท 299 points ยท Posted at 17:46:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Canada there is an island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island
Source: http://m.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85342
W00DERS0N ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:50:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty dope.
Caltrano ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:53:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Michigan, Moose Boulder is the largest island on the largest lake on the largest island on the largest lake on the largest island on the largest lake in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siskiwit_Lake_(Isle_Royale)
beepbeepitsajeep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When a wikipedia article contains a sentence like that one, you know it's gonna be a good time.
brownianhacker ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:31:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The runner up is Vulcan Point in Philippines. Also an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island but a lot smaller.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taal_Lake
potatoslasher ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:15:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
geography now???
GraysonStealth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:56:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is in Halifax
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Inception island
nvolker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:43:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Located at 69.7925ยฐ N, 108.241ยฐ W
Google Maps Link
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
lilbobeep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dawg?
Libellus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:49:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Annnd the green grass grows all around all around! And the green grass grows all around.
agentsmith2181 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sup dawg...
patentologist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:40:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullseye!
halexh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:00:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that too many times before I gave up and just clicked the link
IAmTheToastGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it doesn't have a separate water source like star island in Minnesota
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:45 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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GraysonStealth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:50 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's in the link
Urgullibl ยท 504 points ยท Posted at 19:22:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The continent with the highest average education level is Antarctica.
Axes_of_Evilness ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 23:55:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it's populated by super smart seals
Rabidwalnut ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 23:52:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
isn't it mostly scientists over there? Because if so that would make sense.
packetguy ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 00:33:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, One would imagine the average is a masters degree.
rawchess ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:02:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Masters? These are mostly researchers who spend their entire lives in academia. I'd be very surprised to find a scientist stationed at Antarctica without a doctorate of some sort.
HotToFoxTrot ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:31:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, they still need interns and grad students to do most of the work for them.
LessThanHero42 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:53:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are ~ 10 Popes per square mile in Vatican City
Urgullibl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More if you count the dead ones.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHA
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do they get shipments over there?
Eltotsira ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
blackbeancat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:02:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do people actually live there? Do they have a government?
mrpilotgamer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:25:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, but they have teams of scientists, most of them, i assume, have master degrees in many scientific fields.
ChiAyeAye ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 18:19:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A little late to this but Laos is the most bombed country in the world. During The Vietnam War pilots were instructed to drop their "leftover or undeliverable" bomb cargo on their return, which just so happened to be Laos. Laos was not in the war. The US denied this activity for years and only recently has admitted all the bombings were planned to cut Viet Cong supply trails.
Thousands of people since then are still being killed/maimed by the UXO's in the mainly rural country. The only way to identify where the cluster bombs are is for a special team to painstakingly walk every square inch of the country with detectors.
tldr: Laos has been bombed more than Germany and Japan combined for a war they were never in.
MoonSpellsPink ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:24:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, the United States has a whole lot of Laotian Hmong people living here that fled their country. So, we bombed the shit out of them and yet they still want to live with us.
ChiAyeAye ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:49:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in Laos, I didn't speak to anyone who said they hated the US as a whole, just that they hate what war does, what it can do, and what it keeps doing. They hated the bombs and they people that authorized the practice.
MoonSpellsPink ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:02:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All these people that hate the US and then you have these people that don't hate the US despite lots of reasons to. I live in a state that has a very high Hmong population. They can farm some really awesome food. They are so different than a lot of the other populations that have moved here from other countries.
ChiAyeAye ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:56:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What state are you in? One of my friends from college is Laotian, dad came awhile back. If you've never had laap, I highly recommend it.
MoonSpellsPink ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:18:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Never had a laap. I'm from Minnesota. We have the second highest Hmong population in the US. I've worked with quite a few of them. Everyone of them that I've worked with has been awesome.
ChiAyeAye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Laap is like the Laos food. Two Thumbs Up.
MoonSpellsPink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I will try for sure! Thanks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is he Chinese or Japanese?
PhlogistonParadise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:05:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, he's Laotian. Aren't ya, Mr. Kahn?
dsvii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The country that has been nuclear bombed the most is the United States
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:05:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck? That's fucking horrible.
nuck_forte_dame ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 13:54:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest it's not that bad once you understand the situation. The north Vietnam forces (the enemy) were using Laos as a supply highway. The US forces were not allowed to center Laos for political reasons. So basically the US was fighting an enemy with a safe house the size of a country running the complete length of the battle field. Basically a huge exposed flank. Bombing was the only way the US could do anything. At one point US ground forces moved into Laos and made lots of progress in capturing supplies but then were told to pull back for politics.
All around it was a dumb situation and the US should of told the politics to fuck off and entered Laos instead of fighting a war where the US is confined to political boundaries but the enemy isn't.
ChiAyeAye ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:27:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ok, maybe you should try being a poor farmer, or child making a fire for his family's dinner and lose an arm, or an eye, or a leg because "it's not that bad" over there.
There are literally, like the actually definition of literally, millions of bombs still buried in the ground in Laos. Did you just skip over that part? Children sometimes think they are toys. The heat from a cooking fire on the ground causes them to burst. A farmer's shovel can set them off.
I'm not talking about the bombs that were targeted, I'm talking about the MILLIONS of cluster bombs dropped on civilians for for goddamn reason because the pilots either missed or couldn't hit their mark in Vietnam.
edit* Maybe this video will help put in perspective the extreme bombing that happening in Laos. The red cluster bombs dropped each contain multiple, fist sized bombs, many of which flew miles away from where they were dropped.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:55:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So with your logic the Germans during WWII were acting ethically sound by torpedoing neutral merchant ships in the Atlantic?
After all the Germans were sinking neutral ships that acted as a supply highway for the forces of the Soviet Union and Great Britain (the enemy).
mehwoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:20 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there are 2 declassified military databases with information about where the bombs were dropped, but they aren't necessarily as accurate as you would like.
But yes there were more bombs dropped in the Vietnam war than during WWII.
ChiAyeAye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:07 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, they know "approximate" dropping locations but the things about cluster bombs is that they break up in the air and have a habit of spreading miles from the precise location. Have you ever walked every inch of an acre, it's painstaking.
sizzlorr26 ยท 717 points ยท Posted at 10:57:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A person produces an average of 450 grams of fecal matter per day.
[deleted] ยท 496 points ยท Posted at 14:04:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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QWOPtain ยท 883 points ยท Posted at 15:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope produces an average of 450 grams of fecal matter per day.
Happy?
CorporalSNAFU ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 16:08:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but does he shit in the woods?
HalkiHaxx ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 16:38:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only if someone can hear him.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:08:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'MA THA POPE'A AND I POOP'A IN'A THE WOODS.
Dalemaunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's an interesting fetish...
Noxylox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And only if that someone is a bear wearing a pointy hat.
Milkscope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know, I don't judge
JayGold ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why you keep asking me that, holmes? Where the Holiness does his business is his business.
3asin3speech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, he just goes to the Vati-can.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pope poops a pound.
ultrachilled ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
1800-Banana-Phone ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:27:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ploki122 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's most probably false...
kleo80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But... Does he produce it in the woods?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does the pope shit in the woods?
romulusnr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody popes.
EskimoBros4Life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You telling me my man don't poop?
super_aardvark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how averages work...
ploki122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's safe to assume that the amount of poop someone produces follows somewhat of a normal/gaussian distribution. So by that logic that was clearly the best unimformed guess he could've made.
I'd argue however that elderly people eat less and thus poop less and that the average is probably closer to 400g.
QWOPtain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've monitored the pope's bowel movements. I measure each and every one.
super_aardvark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
marma182 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But does he do it in the woods?
70MPG_onthishog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the woods
EatsDirtWithPassion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. Prove it.
fizz4m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
GrapeApee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Now I am
fendertweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Christ did too.
Ravnwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm never happy
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is holy shit right there.
Chris_Nash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That makes it sound so much worse lol
MSTRGRPHX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only while in the woods
e101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Popes before him produced significantly more fecal matter than anyone else ever has.
PineappleSlices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, he's an old guy, so it's probably less then that.
MasterEmp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:26:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus would have produced an average of 450g of fecal matter per day.
NinjaDude5186 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:09:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if we measure it in cubits?
TaxiCabShrink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Priests produce an average of 450 grams of fecal matter per day.
OXOXOOXOOOXOOOOO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
maculate conception
gadrell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope produces an average of 450 grams of fecal matter per day.
tanktankjeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...that person is the pope.
RadioactiveWalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A person immaculately conceives an average of 450 grams of fecal matter per day.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:19:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Do you have a source for that? I was just reading about the disposal of human waste in ancient Rome -- it's an interesting paper -- from the journal Past Imperfect and that paper suggests that average daily human waste generation is approximately fifty grams per person per day -- 1/8th of the figure you're quoting. I remember when I read it I thought, offhandedly, "that seems low -- but maybe it's not when you take into account factors like age (you're considering waste generation from everything from infants to healthy adults to the elderly) and diet and frequency." On the other hand, the figure you're quoting seems quite high when considered as a daily average -- though perhaps it's correct for certain subpopulations, e.g., adult males in developed countries that are high meat consumers.
Edit: Encyclopedia Britannica seems to suggest that an average human adult generates between 100 - 250 grams of fecal matter per day -- again, still much lower than the figure that you're quoting, even at the upper-end of that range.
Cast_Away_Bob ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:06:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can confirm. Just dropped 457 grams on my room mate's kitchen scale.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:28:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Cast_Away_Bob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I used paper after I dropped the deuce, does that count?
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source: Your asshole.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:40:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You wanna bet?
HailSatanLoveHaggis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stop shitposting
cf_wyeth ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many Curics is that?
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
nomolos619619 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's my morning dump.
themrpink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:06:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm pretty sure I've just exceeded todays quota. Means I'll definitely have a smaller poo tomorrow right?
ndnsoulja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had to think of this in terms of marijuana to wrap my head around it. holy shit, that's 15.87 ounces of wee...poop!
amrasmin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Disturbing yet very informative
GermanPanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average person shits once a day? Because I go between 4-6
Bahamute ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:36:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You must have some type of illness. Eat more fiber.
GermanPanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I eat a boat load of veggies most every day.
notapantsday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A rule of thumb is everything between 3 times a day and once every 3 days is normal. 4-6 times a day is a little high, you should at least tell your doctor about it at your next visit.
/r/shittingadvice is also a great subreddit for these kinds of things.
APeopleShouldKnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I think this comment needs come clarification. An adult having only one bowel movement every three days on a regular basis is not normal and would recommend, at a minimum, dietary alteration. If you mean that, during periods of mild constipation, you are "okay" to go up to three days before you're able to have a bowel movement, then I agree, that's fine; it sometimes happens. But, again, if, on a routine basis, you're only having a bowel movement once every 72 hours, you should strongly consider altering your diet.
zombeeman90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure the average would be around 320 if I weren't around.
trickmonkey25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that must be the one thing that my coworker excels at, considering that he is about 99% fecal matter
W1ULH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My kids is usually there by lunch time. This is why he does not grow.
informationmissing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plebs...
yodelocity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't the weight of the fecal matter you produce a direct function of the weight of the food you eat.
MishterJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Amateurs..
SWBoards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's that in Kurics?
boyz2men2wolves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
above average again, time to put that on the CV.
OnyxMelon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But I don't think I consume 450 grams of stuff a day...
LazarWulf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I pooped 4.5lbs once. No fakes.
edit: I forgot to convert it for the Canadians & Europeans, it was roughly 1.8 Courics.
Stan_Baniszewski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for signing up to Poop Facts!
KitKatMasterJapan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you have Crohn's. Then it's either half that or doublenotafactbutIknowIsureashellpoopmorethanthat
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I cancel out 9 people then.
IMPENDING_SHITSTORM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have extreme colon slow transit. I can now see why it's so painful.
spartacus2690 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I go to the washroom once a day, so I guess that does not apply to everyone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can I get that in girls per cup?
mulekicks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can't poop a pound.
SummerEvenings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think Randy Marsh would beg to differ. One bono weighs far more than 450g.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
TwoLetters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians produce quadruple that in a single speech.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've currently got gastroenteritis. 450 grams is nothing....
manint71 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:26 on January 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as consumes ._.
unidentifies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. So basically I put out 1200 grams per day. Nice.
WienersBetweenUs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you take dumps that are 2 2/3 bigger than average?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:57:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's on the tail end of the scale.
DrDisastor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:11:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He might be full of shit.
novags500 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:00:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who figured this "shit" out?
I bet that's a pretty "shitty" job to have.
"How was your day at work today?" "shitty"
Ill stop now.
crazy08 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:14:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In other words a pound. Never knew why a US pound is 450 grams.
In Europe a pound is 500 grams.
jdovew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In freedomland a pound is 16 ounces. What's this gram stuff you're talking about?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ryanknapper ยท 774 points ยท Posted at 16:53:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neil Armstrong: born August 5, 1930
Orville Wright: died January 30, 1948
One of the first people to experience powered flight and the first person to set foot on the moon were alive at the same time.
FrismFrasm ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 18:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is inaccurate but how fucking cool would it have been if an 18yr old Neil Armstrong, just getting his career going, had met Orville Wright nearing the end of his life and had some kind of 'passing the torch' pep talk?!
thedeejus ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 21:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
like 5 cools
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 21:52:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thats equal to about 12 porns
Wibbies ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:14:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GOLY THAT IS SO META
wmstewart66 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:39:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or .6 Jareds.
MrCoolioPants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More than that. I'd say at least 7 cools.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:46:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Bit of advice, Neil: get the hell out of Ohio. Staying will only bring sadness." - Orville Wright, 1946. He knew how bad the Browns would be.
SteevyT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Story is that a game of football is what pushed Neil out of Ohio.
I'm not seeing it based on the way Purdue has played the past few years.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:02:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yup
source: ohioan
jpop23mn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:25:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
6 at least
bearsnchairs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:47:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Powered-heavier-than-air flight.
Dirigibles and balloons had been around for a while at that point.
blaghart ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:35:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not really flight if you're hovering and the wind blows you around for you to go anywhere...
bearsnchairs ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:05:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dirigibles have engines on them. They are definitely flying machines.
blaghart ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:53:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was referring to Balloons.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mistake. I meant to say "dirigibles and powered balloons". I was just pointing out that controlled flight did not start with airplanes.
Alistair_Smythe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:03:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you imagine how the Wright brothers must have felt seeing their invention be used as machines of war?
dakboy ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:21:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They sold their aircraft directly to the US military, and licensed the design to multiple European militaries, only 6 years after their first powered flight. They were probably OK with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Model_A
kris_random ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:15:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Orville lived long enough to see jet aircraft. The 20th century was awe inspiring.
SanguisFluens ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Airplanes were used in war before jet aircraft were invented.
i_kn0w_n0thing ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:54:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He never said otherwise
donslaughter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or how their invention turned into a thing that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese?
FeluciousJackson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:20:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
After reading the dates i couldn't help but think this was going to end in half life 3 being confirmed
Captain_Zurich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully we'll have a similar one with Neil and the first dude to walk on mars.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
109InTheSkyWithPigs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This blows my mind more so than anything else I've read on reddit so far and I don't know why.
ZombieJesus1987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:34:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, the fact that Pablo Picasso was alive during all of the moon landings still blows my mind.
paulorepolho ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:50:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saint Dummont
Monster-_- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some people read both articles in their lifetime, that's gotta be trippy as hell.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Charles Lindbergh was at mission control during Apollo 11
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:11:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So was Chuck Yeager! Anybody? Anybody?
WowwhyOFTW ยท 264 points ยท Posted at 16:15:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saturn's density is so low that it could float on Earth's ocean.
softero ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 23:27:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At this point, is Saturn floating on the ocean of the Earth, or is Earth rolling around on Saturn?
Wontons ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 23:57:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yes
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:32:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ok
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:49:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean if you want to be realistic about it, at that point it's probably one big fiery explosion.
TK-427 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:53:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody knows. Particle man.
RequiemStorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! Thank you so much for this reference!
gofishx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth would sink into saturn
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hits blunt
theUSpopulation ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:43:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is not true. Saturn's density is less than water, yes. But it cannot float on Earth's Oceans because there is too little for Saturn to float on. Saturn will just suck up the planet.
TheObviousChild ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:20:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man, what a buzz kill.
theUSpopulation ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:42:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, science majors have a tendency of doing that.
classecrified ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You just sunk the moment.
Hrcnhntr613 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but it would leave a ring.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Venus atmosphere is so dense that earthly submarine could fly in it. Like balloon.
Tawny_Frogmouth ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 18:56:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The crop scientist Norman Borlaug is often credited with saving more lives than any other person in history. He developed types of wheat that would produce high yields for farmers in famine-stricken developing nations. His work expanded the global food supply enough to feed an additional billion people.
Prior to that, the title of "most effective humanitarian" was often applied to Herbert Hoover, of all people. After WWI he was in charge of an aid program that fed about 15 million people per day in devastated parts of Europe. Dude should have quit while he was ahead; now he's only remembered as a shitty president.
Anyway, the reason this is my go-to tidbit is that both were born in my home state of Iowa.
vizard0 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:00:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about Fritz Haber? Invented the method to derive Nitrogen from air in a usable form. Which allows for artificial fertilizer to exist. Which allows an extra 3 billion people to live on the earth. I won't say that they all would have starved. But without artificial fertilizer, the green revolution probably would not have happened.
Oh, he was also the father of Germany's chemical warfare program in WWI.
Tawny_Frogmouth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:46:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I've heard that one too, I wonder if anyone's done a people killed/ people saved analysis.
ImIndignant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He definitely wins for best person to worst name ratio contest. Penn and Teller did a nice mini-doc on him for their BS show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JPwtbrfkPU
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 216 points ยท Posted at 17:59:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is estimated that malaria has killed nearly half the people who have ever lived on this earth. Still blows my mind every time!
Eltotsira ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
tazack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:53:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cough cough mosquitoes were really bad this ye....
theappendixofchrist2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, the fact there is not a widespread resistance makes me wonder how new malaria is. Talk about evolutionary pressure.
djn808 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:50:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it kinda did happen.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/synthetic/images/map_of_sickle_cell_frequencies.gif
closetedpagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It reinforces my skepticism over Intelligent Design. Pretty flawed design, if you ask me.
theappendixofchrist2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the ID folks would shrug and say, "Disease and death are the result of sin, not poor design."
poko610 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thus eliminating all of our predictive capability and severely hindering our ability to find a cure.
ifonlythiswasnothot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We can boast as much as we want with our weapon but remember tanks can't kill mosquitoes
rennaps4 ยท 746 points ยท Posted at 18:06:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman....
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:04:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By 13 days
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:18:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
slow clap
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:45:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favourite.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Numan
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
i4mn30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I came to know about him because his Cars song was in GTA: Vice City's radio station. Can't remember which radio station. Maybe Wave 103
SCX-Kill ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:25:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who?
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:09:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gary Numan is an artist best known for New Wave hits such as Cars.
Gary Oldman is a versatile actor.
SCX-Kill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your Oldman link is broken, but I know him. It's the other one I don't know. Probably should've specified
Sadly your youtube link didn't help. Thanks anyways
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:37:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's a prominent new wave artist. He even had a cameo on the Mighty Boosh. He still tours, but he was more mainstream during the big new wave movement of the late-'70s/ early-'80s.
ferlessleedr ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:16:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gary Numan like "MAIA HIIIIII MAIA HAAAAA MAIA HOOOOO MAIA HA-HA!"?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:27:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gary Numan like "Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors and it's the only way to live: in cars"
rennaps4 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:18:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
alrighty then...
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:16:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you having a stroke?
Darwin73 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:35:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's Gary Brolsma bro.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:12:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No that's Gary Numa. Gary Numan is a Seinfeld character
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, his music career really took a turn for the worse.
idma ยท 171 points ยท Posted at 18:54:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Vikings settled everywhere they landed and didn't mind the cold. Except for Newfoundland. That's how annoying the weather is there
canadian-bacon1867 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:42:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to ruin the party but they left cause they were under constant attack from the native population and decided fuck this shit.
dolenz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:10:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair it was a little of both honestly. The temperatures around the world were dropping, making settling in there places much more difficult.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:39:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Newfoundland? More like NewFUCKYOUland.
BlUeSapia ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:58:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthefuckyou
Luigimario280 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hinga, dinga, durgan!
Eltotsira ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:47:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 653 points ยท Posted at 16:09:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Emma Roberts is older than Julia Roberts was in Pretty Woman.
JournalofFailure ยท 235 points ยท Posted at 16:28:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eric Roberts is almost certainly hammered right now.
kyew ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:31:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The real Dread Pirate Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
Empire_Of_The_Mug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The other Dread Pirate Roberts is in prison for life.
Charles_Grodin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:35:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well duh
Brrringsaythealiens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:59:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eric Roberts got eaten in South Park years ago. Let's keep our facts straight.
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Emma Roberts isn't Julia Roberts's daughter
Love_Your_Faces ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And all three of them are related!
rugtoad ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 17:30:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This one is kinda "meh".
A better one? Ralph Macchio is older today than Pat Morita was while they were filming The Karate Kid.
jedispyder ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 18:29:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Will Smith is older than Uncle Phil was at the start of Fresh Prince.
thedeejus ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 21:37:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there we go.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:38:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Uncle Phil.
rg44_at_the_office ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 19:34:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the characters aged in real time, Bart Simpson is older now than Homer was when the show began.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:25:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
damn people looked old in the 90s.
sandraver ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:26:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit. That got me.
himynameisjoy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This one is the only one that made me say "holy shit"
DylanVincent ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:19:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck's Emma Roberts?
grace_c ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:40:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Julia Roberts' niece
Most recently in Scream Queens, but also Wild Child, Unfabulous, Nancy Drew, and a bunch of other stuff
menasan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:09:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
did not realize she was julia roberts niece
DylanVincent ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:04:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, I've heard of Nancy Drew. Only in book form mind you...
Rockwithsunglasses ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:07:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
She was also in American Horror Story and Scream 4. And We're the Millers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
She had her own tv series for years called "unfabulous" and appeared in kids movies like aquamarine.
blaghart ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:33:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The living incarnation of Tsumugi Kotobuki. Behold
DylanVincent ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:38:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok...
nbomb220 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:27:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you just keep doing you, man
JackAceHole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Ice Cube's son) was 23 when he portrayed his 18 year old father in Straight Outta Compton (Ice Cube's age when he wrote Boyz N tha Hood).
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
-Manananggal- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:18:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who?
ColorMeStunned ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:42:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Star Lord, man.
preperation__h ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:10:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The legendary outlaw...
[deleted] ยท 4100 points ยท Posted at 16:40:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm always too late to these things to get any traction, but i feel like this one should be at the top every time:
When the United States tested the Atom Bomb for the first time, the scientists could not prove that detonating the bomb would not set the entire atmosphere on fire. But they went through with the test anyway.
reubenlowde ยท 1540 points ยท Posted at 17:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in the same way that i cannot prove that im not a very advanced robot
[deleted] ยท 1175 points ยท Posted at 18:44:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Synth!
scarecrowman175 ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 19:14:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a Geiger counter?
Hastaroth ยท 149 points ยท Posted at 19:15:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo Oh no no no no no
mokti ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 19:55:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bingo, bango, bongo, I'm so happy in the Congo I refuse to gooooooo~
Dickcheese_McDoogles ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:44:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
~Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it cleeeeaaar~
That_dumb_guy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:56:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That no matter how they coax me
I'll stay right heeeeeeere
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:32:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
trumpet
hairydiablo132 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:38:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
doot doot
Captain_CrocoMom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
JOHN CENA
AfrikaPanther ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Joooooohhhnnny guitar!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:42:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mokti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You say "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen", I say "My Dear Mr. Shane."
Benny_Andretti ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:37:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They got things like the atom bomb, so I think I'll stay where I om
Chouzetsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Out of an orange colored, purple striped, pretty green polka dot sky!
Flash, bam, alakazaam and goodbye!
TheDeltaLambda ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:29:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mine is in the shop
scarecrowman175 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:39:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good, I have a...package that needs to be delivered. Due to some...unexpected road hazards...I can't deliver it myself. Can you take care of this for me?
WhoReadsThisAnyway ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:18:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[Shoots messenger in the head] Now that's what I call a "dead" drop.
Mudnart ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:19:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In my hand
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:27:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Going off to take some government land, yes indeed.
tehfurrydj ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:47:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mines in the shop
tembrant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got chased by bloodbugs half way across the Commonwealth
Dickcheese_McDoogles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:45:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐ผ๐ถUrAAAAAAAANium fever has gone and got me down๐ถ
Bennykill709 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is in the shop.
Dragonfudge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:29:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is in the shop.
Elderbridge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"No" - "Who is this guy" - "Relax, what he meant to say, was: 'it's in the shop'" Glad I didn't screw that up...
GunBrothersGaming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is only one H.R Geiger... no need to count him.
Willbuscus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mines in the shop
electronicwuss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is in the shop
metalfankevin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine's in the shop.
RandomAnnan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No but I can build one using salvaged ships
Marty_McF1y ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have one in my Pip-Boy.
AceStudios10 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:18:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are no synths in Reddit city, everyone go home.
IDoNotHaveTits ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:24:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck the Institute!
lostmywayboston ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:46:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Comin' straight from the underground!
silverhydra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my Brothers from the Hood!
Gothic_Banana ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:54:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out. Hello, Harkness.
LoverOfLed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hello Harkness my old friend
emlgsh ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:33:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KILL IT AND HARVEST ITS PRECIOUS PLASTIC!
RedGiant925 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's JUST what a SYNTH would say
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:10:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well... you're not wrong.
TheCaptainR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Synth scum more like it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't find the Institute The Institute finds you
Dungeon_Of_Dank_Meme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:45 on December 15, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why do I have you tagged as "Old Gregg?"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, is this a reference to Fallout, Alien, or Blade Runner?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout Four.
xXplainawesomeXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Riley?
nrcar94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a synth! Jesus Christ, we're family!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can just shoot the guy with the gun out, the dialogue cancels and everyone walks away like nothing happened.
nrcar94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was tempted to do that, but I decided not to just in case it would work out. Spoilers: it didn't :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
F5 is your friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK the Institute!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You say that now, but it's obvious you have not visited there yet...
IISycHII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ad victoriam brother
SICCSE7EN ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 18:02:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean we could cut you open and prove it.
[deleted] ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 18:05:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless he was so advanced you couldn't tell.
SICCSE7EN ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 18:17:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well isn't that just what being a human is? We run on electrical impulses from a CPU in our heads right?
chrisonabike22 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 18:18:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So he can't prove it...
CocoSavege ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:39:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But what about the tortoise?
bitter_cynical_angry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seems obvious, but that's a highly controversial philosophical stance. People want to think they're something special, and don't like thinking they're a meat machine.
Dubhuir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yes, but everything is controversial in philosophy. If we dismiss all the silly dualism stuff, we're left with about five different formulations of the same conclusion, which is your meat machine. I think that's far more impressive and beautiful than a ghost in a meat suit.
ratchild1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
plus if you wanna be philosophical/logical, the ghost would just be a ghost machine in a meat suit because you can't be causa sui and if you aren't responsible for your own existence where there is cause and effect you aren't responsible at all, so the ghost may as well be a robot in some sense as it has to be perpetuated by causes to even make sense. Right...? Heck even being bound by systems such as thoughts and emotions means you have to be a machine, if you weren't machine like you couldn't have systems, couldn't even exist really.
not only is there no ghost in the machine, if there was the ghost would have to be a machine in some way too! maybe im just complicating something which already makes sense and accomplishes the same point though
Dubhuir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not so if the ghost in question was created by an uncaused cause like God! Of course this is only pushing back the problem and raising further, far more complicated questions but again, that's a lot of philosophy. Descartes interestingly thought the soul interacted with all the messy physical business via the pineal gland, presumably since no one had a clue what it was for.
In any case, to quote Terry Pratchett, 'I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel'.
JackPoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Check the brain! It'll have a synth node in it!
christian-mann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's more like a distributed network that happens to have a central bulge.
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn G3s...
scirc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Institute tech?
Aero06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More Human than Human is our motto.
reubenlowde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:12:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
very advanced
SilasTheVirous ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:13:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I also cannot prove that I am not a brain in a jar right now.
cowvin2 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:40:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
all the evidence supports that we are all brains in jars. the only question is what material you think the jar is. =)
ActingLikeADick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What evidence is there? Isn't the point of this entire thing that you can't prove or disprove it?
cowvin2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:19 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
just because there's some evidence doesn't mean it's proven.
when we cut open someone's head and take out their brain, they tend to die, leading us to believe that that may be true for ourselves as well.
ZomboniPilot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:50:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well you didn't say "Ye" so you may very well be one.
Sookye ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:34:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is enough for today, reubenlowde-bot. Deactivate.
reubenlowde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.
Bored_Office_Girl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cylon!!
thomolithic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could chop your hand off...
SamusBaratheon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:59:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Skin job, possibly final 5
thatJainaGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something a synth would say!
Dexaan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody on Reddit is a bit except you
SourKitteh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn toaster!
andyrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i could, because im an even more advanced robot
Liesymmetrymanifold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
reubenlowde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Error: @>โฌk}
montrealcowboyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're walking in a desert. You see a tortoise.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
kick tortoise
Iceman0624 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Synthetic scum!
Joba_Fett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you see a plate that says "Free Cookies for Robots" do you take a cookie? If you do, then there you are.
TheSexyMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn Skin Job
Alx1775 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard Richard Hamming tell this story. The physicists working for him weren't sure, so he did the math himself and was satisfied that the atmosphere wouldn't burn up.
CoconutMacaroons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are a robot. Just bio electric as opposed to silicon-based.
janyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, not in the same way. There's no way to tell whether a being you observe is a very advanced robot or not simply because there's no agreed upon definition of a "very advanced robot".
There is, however, an agreed upon observation of the atmosphere being on fire.
czechchequechecker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you a cousin of Rob Lowe?
0zeyn0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or an 80 lady named Gina in an insane asylum imagining my entire life, or a brain in a jar.
i4mn30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm.. I'm very deeply intrigued by this statement.
Now you've injected me with self doubting introspection.
CaptHayes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Come in. Sit down. Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.
reubenlowde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:12:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
46%.. holy shit thats like 50/50 that im a robot
no_en ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:11:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, technically you kind of are. Most of the stuff in the body gets controlled by electricity and the brain is kind of like a cpu. So you are a robot.
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 923 points ยท Posted at 18:28:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They were fairly certain it wouldn't. And logically it shouldn't.
I'm not certain I won't die in a horrible fiery car accident, but I'm still going out for lunch in a bit.
[deleted] ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 18:50:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but if you were only 'fairly certain' that you going to get lunch would not destroy all of humanity, the world would tell you to get delivery.
bearsnchairs ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 20:10:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This is not true, but people will upvote whatever they don't know...
The calculated value was 3 in a million....
If you were worried about a 3 in a million chance I'd tell you to fuck off.
Edit: I'm tired of getting downvoted down below so I'll put it here.
If you read the wiki article on the Manhattan Project and the discussion on what the physicists thought you will see that this was not a concern at all by the time they detonated the bomb.
Teller brought up the possibility of a run away atmospheric reaction, and Bethe quickly did calculations that it was not a concern. Teller's own calculations confirmed this. None of the physicists in charge of the project thought there was a possibility of igniting the atmosphere, just like no actual physicists thought that the LHC would create a black hole that would destroy the world.
And sorry WadeK, you are wrong. The actual odds are not incredibly slim, they are zero that type of reaction is not possible with that bomb in an atmospheric test. The scientists and politicians involved made a very informed decision with the data they had. Fish024 is just making stuff up.
xXPussy_BangerXx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:54:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 3 million, not 3 in 1 million.
WadeK ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 20:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean.. it's a three in a million chance that all life on earth will end in firey pain. Sure, the odds are incredibly slim.... but they're not zero and the consequences are pretty damn dire.
Firehed ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But on the plus side, nobody will be around to complain!
gullale ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:05:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The people in submarines would. For a while, at least.
eau_de_Brute ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:22:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it borders upon astronomical. That's just a scientist's way or expressing uncertainty certainly.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:22:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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WadeK ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:33:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't know it was 0 in a million at the time, they knew it was 3 in a million. I don't know why you're so angry about this, or desperate to call someone a liar or whatever, but I think it's at least pause-worthy to think about the destruction of humanity being only a 3 in a million chance. Even if it's still worth it to proceed.
soontocollege ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The chance of the destruction og humanity wasn't 3 in a million, they calculated it to be 3 in a million. Just be they calculated it to be 3 in a million doesn' mean the true chances were 3 in a million.
LifeguardLizard ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:59:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You make decisions based on what you know, not based on what is true. His point stands.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you that guy from the Lifeguard Forums?
LifeguardLizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:39 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure I'm not. I'm not even a lifeguard
HiiiPowerd ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the other scientists thought it couldn't happen. Just because someone calculated something doesn't mean their calculations were right
WadeK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:59:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right... but the chance that this coin I'm flipping lands on tails is 50/50. I mean... it just landed on heads. So the true chance that it landed on tails was zero. But I didn't know that before the flip, so I still have the possibility of tails in my mind.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That analogy is not applicable here... The actual probability for the coin flip is 50/50. If I have you a coin and some physics equations you might calculate it out to be 40/60 or something. You're arguing that the 40/60 value has actual meaning. It doesn't because it was not calculated correctly.
WadeK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinking more in how you should take things into account. If you honestly believe through all your research and experience that the coin flip is 50/50, then it doesn't matter if the actual probability is 40/60 because of data you don't have (or if someone switched the coin with a double headed one without your knowledge). You should still plan and prepare to land on tails because the probability is not zero - to your knowledge. Hindsight has no bearing on actions as they're taken.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, and they calculated that 999,997 times they'd be ok but the physicists who did the calculations thought that even that calculation was too liberal because they realized how difficult fusion reactions are at atmospheric densities.
PolyUre ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:56:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
World had 2,35 billion people in 1945. 3 : 1 000 000 odds gives expected value of 7050 people killed. Reasonable risk, considering the amount of soldiers dying every day.
AlpineCoder ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:15:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the entire atmosphere were set on fire from a nuclear chain reaction? I'm pretty sure it would be more than that.
PolyUre ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:22:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, in 999 997 cases out of 1 000 000 nobody dies and in 3 cases out of 1 000 000 2,35 billion people die. So expected number of deaths is 7050.
AlpineCoder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one ever remembers the polar bears (and in this case every other plant and animal on earth)...
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The cockroaches would probably be fine, though.
mdk_777 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:22:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are talking about the average number of people killed from a single test. For example if I let you flip a coin, and would give you $100,000 if you got heads, and $0 if you got tails, then the average amount of money you would get from flipping the coin is $50,000, however in reality it's still an all or nothing situation.
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's called expected value. If you win the lottery you get say $10M, but your odds of winning are like 1 in 15 million, so the expected value of one ticket is less than a buck.
AlpineCoder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was pointing out that the expected value of immolating the whole globe should probably account for more than just the people killed, I guess I just worded it poorly.
mmo115 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:33:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really work like that
PolyUre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What doesn't? Risk analysis?
mmo115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do I really need to explain why an expected value doesn't hold any value in determining the risk here? If a failure is observed life on earth ceases to exist.. come on man... this joke sums up your argument:
A physicist, mathematician, and engineer go to target practice. The engineer is up first and hits 5 inches to the right of the bullseye. The physicist says, "No no no, you forgot to account for the curvature of the Earth and the wind." The physicist does his calculations, but misses 5 inches to the left of center. The mathematician yells: "BULLSEYE! Great job guys!!"
zupernam ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how statistics works. The average doesn't matter. All that matters is the yes/no.
PolyUre ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:23:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly how expected value works.
Petruchio_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with your analysis, but you would also need to take into account all the future generations that will be/will not be born if you do/do not use the bomb.
zupernam ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:29:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The expected value doesn't matter. All that matters is the yes/no.
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love how retarded people on Reddit freak out over things they have no clue about.
Did you hear the TPP is going to rape your mother and kill your children!??!
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:04:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's illogical to believe that a nuclear reaction would not stop.
And I don't think any of the scientists had doubts, it's just something that is fun to talk about after the fact, while having cocktails.
DreNoob ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:08:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
President: "So then the scientist says 'But wait, this might set the entire atmosphere on fire!' I respond with 5 more Jameson shots and press the damn button"
MattyFTM ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:45:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's like when people talk about how the Large Hadron Collider could open up a black hole and swallow the planet. Sure. It could. Opening my refrigerator door could open up a time portal to the year 3000, but none of the science involved suggests that it will.
bismuth209 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:26:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I also -could- phase through my bed, since solids are still mostly empty space. doesn't mean actually possible. just it could happen given a realistically impossible set q of conditions
Laust17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How did it go?
NinjaRobotPilot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many micromorts is a car drive for lunch?
Firehed ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:47:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly 0.01, for ~2.5mi roundtrip. Or ~0.4 by motorcycle.
AverageJoeWasTaken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you survive lunch?
akatherder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you have gone out to lunch and not died in a fiery crash before? At least once.
Also if you die in a fiery crash does that terminate all life on the planet?
Kazrock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
F
joemeister1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but a car crash is a much different outcome than instant global nuclear annihilation.
baruchspinoza23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So... Are you still there? Was lunch good?
MCRatzinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Difference is you've been out for lunch before.
WeeferMadness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You also cannot prove you won't die in said fiery accident.
Wolfshirt_Wednesday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So uh... Did you die in a horrible fiery car accident?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't risk it bro! Unless you're going to In&Out
IIII-III-II-I ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OP? Pls respond!
PMmeforsocialANXhelp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Op did you die in a fiery accident?
Plz respond op
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:22:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
logically it shouldn't? atom bomb is a chain reaction of atoms splitting. whats to say when that chain stops??
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Math and physics.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:08:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Eh fuck it"
Temjin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like there are an infinite number of things they could not prove and in general you cannot prove about most activities. But that statement is virtually meaningless.
Is there some authority that suggests this was a real scientific concern and the government looked into the issue and determined there was like a 50% chance of it happening.
For example, there is a propulsion device that NASA has been testing and they get a small amount of thrust without traditional fuel or a model for explaining why. Since they don't know the mechanism of thrust, they can't guarantee it won't travel backwards in time, but the chances are pretty low so I think its fine to just go ahead and keep experimenting.
recoverybelow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:27:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see this all the time and can't emphasize enough how much bullshit it is. They also can't prove God doesn't exist
does_thou_even_hoist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know right im reading though this comment and its reply's and im astounded my the amount of nonfactual bullshit being flung in every direction. Like im flabergasted at the stupidity... Like you cant tell if the LHC will make a black hole..... Life fuck you can. This is bassic shit that scientists knew would not happen.
compugasm ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 17:17:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It does set on fire. But just like lighting a match doesn't explode the earth, neither does an atom bomb.
runetrantor ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 17:43:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The idea wasnt that our atmosphere is combustible and the heat of the bomb would trigger a global firestorm, but that the nature of the bomb, the fission of atoms, could spark a chain reaction as it kept on going using our atmosphere as extra material to be fissioned.
bearsnchairs ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 19:27:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But none of the scientists were concerned with that. Nothing in the atmosphere is fissile and the projected temperatures and pressures for fusion were far greater than what the bomb could produce.
This "fact" is bullshit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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bearsnchairs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:50:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are talking about fusion and fission, not combustion.
Photovoltaic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I've never thought about this, but were they worried about fusion of nitrogen and oxygen, or fission of them?
Either way, modern knowledge would suggest that's VERY unlikely, no? No ridiculous pressure OR temperatures (Nukes are hot, but not fusion hot). How much of nuclear fusion did we understand in the 40s.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:27:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes absolutely no sense, as splitting the gases found in the atmosphere requires energy. So if the atmosphere is "ignited", that would reduce the power of the blast, not increase it. There isn't really any energy in the atmosphere to be released.
compugasm ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. But... hmm.... odd they would think that. I mean, after going through all that trouble to get fissionable material.
JaiMoh ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:30:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many reactions that produce energy still require an input of energy to get the reaction to start in the first place. The concern was that the bomb would provide enough energy to start that reaction in the atmosphere.
compugasm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:34:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
My dumb self thinks the bomb does start the reaction of air. But since it's a gas, it's not dense enough to be maintained. Maybe my knowledge is hindsight.
JaiMoh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:38:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That could be it, actually; your answer sounds plausible to me. I have no idea how it actually works in this scenario, I just know a bit of thermo.
compugasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the atmosphere burnt, then why wouldn't the ground be vaporized as well? It must be due to density.
JaiMoh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Following the logic of density though: the ground is more dense than the air, so it should be more likely to chain react than the air even!
So it means that it's not just density of atoms that matters, but also that the atoms have "enough energy" that the initial energy of the bomb allows them to also undergo fission. And that's not the case on a large scale for either the air or the ground.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't that is isn't dense enough, it is that the atmosphere doesn't contain the right isotopes to undergo fusion at any reasonable temperature/pressure.
compugasm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, well this is already over my head.
probablyhrenrai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the fireball is literally just heat, a side effect of the blast. Rather like lightning in that regard, I suppose... hm.
Actually, now I can think of a reaction that I imagine takes place on at least some level with the air in a nuclear explosion: the creation of ozone (3 O2 => 2 O3). That reaction requires so much energy that typically only lightning can do it. I imagine that a nuke has that much power as well.
compugasm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:15:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right. Some of the atmosphere burns off. But it's not dense enough to sustain the reaction. That's the whole point of having fissionable material in the first place. You need uranium/plutonium to sustain the chain reaction. Otherwise, you could just detonate an empty container of air. Then that blast travel to the ground and vaporize the entire earth. And the deeper the radiation went, the more the earth would explode due to density. But, we can see that doesn't happen.
runetrantor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:59:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I guess the idea was that the Uranium was the spark that sets off the reaction.
And then it could potentially burn the elements in our atmosphere.
Using the match analogy again, it's not that you cant burn flammable materials, but just that the match is easier to lit up.
Then you can just throw it in a forest and burn it all down.
That said, afaik, this concern was fringe, and most of the Manhattan Project scientists didnt see it as too likely. Something like 1% we burn Earth to cinder or something... >_>
Broswagonist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, detonating something like a nuclear bomb wouldn't really be like throwing a match into a forest. More like throwing it onto the sidewalk. Anything immediately next to it might be a bit singed, but really, the match is going to burn out and leave everything else unaffected.
Although, matches typically aren't radioactive, so there's that part. But igniting the atmosphere? Not really much that could happen.
minastirith1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this theoretically possible at all? Sustained fission using only the atmosphere? I thought only extremely heavy radioactive elements held that property.
runetrantor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think not.
It was a rather fringe possibility, I guess since it was the first one, anything was possible, so they even considered this one, but found it quite unlikely.
But I guess better safe than sorry, many new inventions were not expected to be able to do X, and surprise surprise, they could.
Solid_Freakin_Snake ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:42:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest "what's the worst that could happen?" ever.
bearsnchairs ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 22:02:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really, it is in the same level as the LHC black hole misinformation that was going around when it first turned on. A lot of people don't understand the physics going on.
Solid_Freakin_Snake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:51:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except the LHC stuff is misinformation rather than a lack of it.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is this. The scientists did calculations and the calculated chance was 3 in a million. Many of the physicists thought it was even lower than that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Either way, war's over. Job done.
girl-lee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger, maybe 9 or 10, my step dad told me if we went to war with Iraq again Saddam Hussein would probably detonate bombs that would burn all the oxygen in the atmosphere and everyone would die. This literally kept me awake worrying for a long time. Then we went to war with Iraq again. I was a mess for weeks.
blaze8902 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:11 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your step dad is either an idiot or an asshole.
girl-lee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:50 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not an asshole. He's a great guy. I think he was just too honest and I think he thought that might happen.
blaze8902 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:20 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. Well good to hear.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:50:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Think about it though, would it really have been that bad if it did set the atmosphere on fire? Not really. We all basically would have died instantly, so there would be no pain, we would all be dead, so there would be no grief, nobody would know they were going to die, so there would be no regret of a life not well lived, nor would there be any fear of a death they didn't know was coming. It would have actually been beautiful in a poetic macabre sort of way.
a3wagner ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:55:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then there wouldn't have been funny cat videos years later.
Nemothewhale87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/xwxnVZ4el0Q
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:52:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It would be really fascinating to found out if the president had that conversation with his consultants at the time.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:54:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely. Somebody should make a movie or play about it. Sort of like Copenhagen.
SunoftheBum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ya, but it would suck if you were the one guy who happened to be in a sealed room with artificial atmosphere & survived it.
NotCharmander ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:19:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If your only qualification of proof is a test, then the scientists proved it the only way they could.
SilentWalrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Am from U.S. can confirm. This is how we operate
Cookie_Eater108 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To add to this fun fact:
The physicist/mathematician who was responsible for checking if it COULD set the atmosphere on fire was very stressed when it came to checking his work and his numbers. A friend of his responded something like
"Well if you're wrong,nobody will blame you"
LyushkaPushka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it the same thing with the Large Hadron Collider?
loweh3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that moment when I involuntarily "holy shit" at this fact. you deserve a place among the titans.
i_post_news ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If they were wrong, there wouldn't be anyone to point out their mistake.
guitarguy109 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was like one guy with fringe worries about the bomb that most of the other scientists disagreed with. They even ran a bunch of math calculations and came to the conclusion that it was extremely improbable. So, I mean sure it wasn't proven until they tested the thing, but you also can't prove that my coffee farts won't also light the atmosphere ablaze yet you can calculate whether or not it's probable.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is similar to the starting-up-the-large-hadron-collider-will-create-an-earth-swallowing-black-hole thing.
There is a non-zero possibility of this, but it's so vanishingly unlikely that there was no sense worrying about it.
It's not like it was a realistic possibility and the scientists just said "Oh, what the heck, let's see what happens"
axaxaxas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:22 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think /u/restricteddata would probably have something informative to say about this.
ljstens22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't prove that my fart won't exterminate all of humanity too
dragonbringerx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:16:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you think about what it must have taken as a driving force to cause them to make the decision to go ahead with the test anyways. It must have been something along the lines of...well Russia is going to do it one way or another so we might as well be first. That's just seems like to big of a risk for just plain stupidity or not caring.
MunkiRench ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:53:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's because it's not a real risk. Kind of like, I can't prove that sleeping in tomorrow won't cause the moon to implode, but logic says it won't with very high certainty.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This "fact" is not true, that is why they were not concerned.
The calculated value was 3 in a million....
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Just to be safe, we're playing a few hands of poker, and the losers get fired."
Regulators-MountUp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:13:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Before firing up the Large Hadron Collider, the scientists could not prove that the collision would not create a black hole.
Before hitting a flint rock to another rock, the neanderthal scientists could prove neither that the spark would not set the atmosphere on fire, nor that the collision would not create a black hole, but they did it anyway.
Before farting while suffering from food poisoning, the scientists could not prove it wasn't more than a fart. They didn't go through with the test, because there are some risks that just aren't worth it.
KarateJons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm genuinely curious. Why would they even think in the first place that detonating the bomb would set the entire atmosphere on fire?
MtKilimanjaro ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:10:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, basically the way an atomic bomb works is by using a very focused explosion to start a fission reaction. When this happens, an atom from the fissionable material (commonly Uranium-235) splits apart, and the pieces smash in to more uranium, which itself breaks, and so on. This chain reaction continues, with each subsequent splitting releasing more and more energy. If I had to guess, I would say that the potential for fiery-death-explosion came from the scientists not being certain that this chain reaction would continue beyond the uranium present in the bomb, and begin using the molecules that make up the atmosphere to propogate the reaction.
bearsnchairs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:12:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The atmosphere doesn't contain fissionable isotopes...
MtKilimanjaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it doesn't have any isotopes that are unstable enough to produce a fission reaction (like uranium does), but technically any atom can be split if you apply enough energy. I think, at the time, the scientists were not sure if the power produced by the bomb would be enough to cause a fission reaction with the molecules in the air.
bearsnchairs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:02:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any atom can be split, but it would be endothermic so there would be no runaway reaction.
MtKilimanjaro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's definitely the case (as far as I know) but I was going for more of a layman explanation, and I figured a lot of people don't know what an endothermic reaction is. Thank you for the clarification, though!
KarateJons ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would suck though if it did work. An alien race could simply detonate a nuclear weapon in our atmosphere and blow it away. The Earth would shortly be reduced to a cinder crisp by its own sun.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But this doesn't make any sense. Fission of oxygen and nitrogen requires energy. If it happens, it will extinguish the blast. Considering their areas of expertise, the scientists would have known this. The whole story is the kind of thing a journalist would come up with, and which people who don't know much about physics would spread.
PhotonInABox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't think that it would happen. They just couldn't prove that it wouldn't happen.
-o__0- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that's mostly a myth, isn't it? From what I understand, some guy proposed that that might happen but it was considered a fringe idea. Like how some people today say the LHC is going to create a black hole that'll swallow the earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
they'd been talking to this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOH6MuuIPM
lukin187250 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
atom bomb baby
PMFALLOUTSCREENCAPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Please please please please please link to source that's fuvking cool. Somehow
2OQuestions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And they used US Marines in many nuclear tests, because hey, they could be sworn to secrecy.
Many of them had deformed children as a result, and many of them had terrible radiation related medical issues. They are still fighting with the VA for care.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103067/Duck-cover--Astonishing-video-shows-U-S-ground-grunt-guinea-pigs-taking-atomic-bomb-tests-1950s--trenches-protect-radiation.html
ehkodiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"ehhh, it'll probably be ok"
sinister_kid89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They placed bets on whether or not it would ignite the atmosphere.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not true, but people will upvote whatever they don't know...
The calculated value was 3 in a million....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
It was entertained, but once the calculation were done they realized there was absolutely no chance of a fusion or fission chain reaction with the atmosphere.
Gravityalwayswns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to Snopes, Enrico Fermi was waiting for the first test to begin, and he bet $1 (and paid in advance) that New Mexico would be destroyed by the blast. No sources for anyone who actually believed this.
Doctor_of_Something ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought whoever ran the Manhattan project would not let anyone else do that calculation, instead doing it by hand himself to make sure it wouldn't?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Either way, it would have ended the war. Mission accomplished.
DXvegas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one was actually worried that might happen though.
vujalikewoah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Captain_Bathtub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a story regarding this (from memory so I may be wrong on a few details, also I'm not even sure if it's true).
Anyway apparently Richard Feynman did some the mathematics behind trying to see if the atom bomb would indeed ignite the atmosphere and once he finished he asked one of his colleagues to check for any errors in his working. When the colleague realised what he was checking he (understandably) freaked out a bit and went yogis friend and told him he was worried because if he got it wrong he would be partly responsible for the extinction of life on planet earth. His friend comforted him with the fact that if he was wrong it wouldn't matter too much as no one would blame him.
Always made me chuckle.
Spectra88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that during the Cold War, the US nuclear detonation code was just 00000000?
Who needs a card with a memory shaping alloy and a highly elaborate plan to trick your genetically engineered brother into unarming a set of nuclear bombs when you can just sit on the keypad?
KeybladeSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well either way, it would have ended the war.
daanjderuiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And there was that one time they almost accidentally nuked themselves http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/20/goldsboro-revisited-declassified-document
BekkenSlain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We hear the same arguments with the LHC.
IAmDotorg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It shouldn't be top every time, because its not actually true...
kholto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair it is not like you can prove anything in science ever, so that sentence is rather meaningless.
So it is more correct to say, I think, that there was some small theoretical detail suggesting it might be possible but overall it was extremely unlikely.
A bit like when CERN included in a report that some theory suggested the LHC particle accelerator could cause a black hole. They knew it wouldn't because the same particle impacts happen in the atmosphere all the time, but some of the theory pointed at it so they had to mention it.
damienreave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because its extremely difficult to prove a negative.
If I asked you to prove your comment wouldn't set the entire atmosphere on fire, could you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well we now know how that couldve ended...
dsvii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The country with the most nuclear bombs ever dropped on it is the United States.
DeuceLoosely13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This fact was acknowledged in a GWAR song. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ6jsof6Iy8
Hiddencamper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They actually did. The calculation is public now and declassified. It's sound scientifically.
It was classified at the time.
Captain_Zurich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the same way that people weren't certain that the Hadron collider wouldn't spawn a black hole.
The scientists did know better.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well if you were pretty sure your enemy would even if you didn't, why not?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
hungry_lobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was there a legitimate reason to believe that it would?
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For science.
McCubed27388 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's not true
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-scientists-risked-destroying-the-earth-during-nuclear-tests-and-cern.t692/
NealMcBeal__NavySeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They haven't proved evolution is real either, but I'll take their word for it.
Only_Movie_Titles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is so sensationalized. they calculated a statistically insignificant probability and went through with it knowing it was, in essence, impossible
tehftw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds like one of those "7/11 was a part time job, wake up sheeple" movies with yellow subtitles. I mean, really? "Could not prove"? Burden of proof is on the affirming one.
PaintDrinkingPete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is even amazing (to me) is that the Manhattan Project employed over 130,000 people and cost roughly $25 Billion in today's money...and it was all based on nothing but theory and nobody knew if it would actually work.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
#yolo
shawnisboring ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They took bets on it, if I recall.
Sozaiix3 ยท 964 points ยท Posted at 11:31:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pharrel Williams is 42! But dood looks so damn young
suplexcomplex ยท 602 points ยท Posted at 13:09:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eminem is 43.
YawningFox ยท 203 points ยท Posted at 13:49:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As is Jared Leto.
elkins9293 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 16:28:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jared Leto is a goddamn vampire. He's started to show a little more age recently but for the most part that man doesn't age.
durple_pinosaurs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:08:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Watch Mr. Nobody. They try to age him. It's pretty ridiculous.
elkins9293 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah I've seen it. It's crazy. Jared basically peaked in his thirties and has looked the same ever since.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He hasn't even begun to peak!
useillusion ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:00:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Facial structure contributes a lot to how well someone ages in addition to skin color!
jpop23mn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:14:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And make up
dominion1080 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:15:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And wealth.
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:01:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
10/10 would still bang.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Whaaaaaat?
beaverenthusiast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except, how the fuck tall is he???!
ffreudiannipss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had to actually Google his name because I was certain I was thinking of the wrong person being Jared Leto. Nope. That is the correct person.
But how.
SnapCantSnap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:11:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know why but I read that as Jay Leno and was like "NAHHHHH MAN, HOLY SHIT DUDE WTF?!"
djn808 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wat I thought he was like 22
Rawrmonger ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:59:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black dont crack.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snoop Dogg is 102
Deathbyceiling ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:38:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fetty Wap is 1738
Why_Did_It_Stop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard that was the year he was born.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He came out like "Hey, what's up, hello."
Hi_My_Name_Is_Dave ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He looks it though.
Simicrop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:11:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Remember when he told Moby he was too old at 36?
M0T0RB04T ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dre is over 50 years old
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Molly Shannon, who used to do that SNL character "the lady who is 50 YEARS OLD!" is now 50 years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. Really?
Omgopher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
M.I.A. is 40
Robertpdot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But was he alive when a man walked in the moon?
micmea1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It must be weird to be in an industry that wants you to maintain an image of yourself that you created in your twenties.
scruffys_on_break ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ming-Na Wen is over 50. And she does her own stunts.
bzr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not true - actually it is true wow
maxk1236 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Arnold Schwarzenegger is 68.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He lathers himself in Mom's Spaghetti
senatorskeletor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:18:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That little girl Hailie is now like 17.
themadms ยท 321 points ยท Posted at 16:09:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1,41 * 1051 is a lot of years
informationmissing ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:03:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ah, the ol' factorialroo...
jennthemermaid ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:43:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my math, I'm going in!
iamangrierthanyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000
MasterGamer1172 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You hold it!
redditsoaddicting ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:48:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY. I mean you must be high if you're venturing into there.
JessetheTerrible ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:56:29 on January 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Father's journal: day 147
I have started to see strange things, and cannot tell whether they are my thoughts or reality. Perhaps I should sleep and return to my quest later.
thomti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:18 on January 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Forgotten Log 26: I have been thinking of the reason why it is so hard to get to the end. This tunnel is not a normal tunnel. This tunnel must go to a place of paradise. I must journey to this place, I must find paradise.
Lupin_AAGL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematical meta!
will1707 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... what?
fagelholk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In math, x! (where x is a non-negative integer) is called a factorial and equates to:
x * (x-1) * (x-2) * ... * 2 * 1.
This quickly results in a very large number. The commenter wrote "Pharrel Williams is only 42!" 42! roughly equals to 1.41*1051 , which is a ridicolously large number
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*sigh* goddammit take the upvote
Kissmyvj ยท 231 points ยท Posted at 12:23:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black don't crack
[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 17:02:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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grrbarkbarkgrr ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHEN I FINISH THIS WITNESSES WILL CONVEY JUST WHAT I MEAN
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
found the /r/hiphopheads
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:41:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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jsheb121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
poppystreet
dreinn ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:42:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black moisturizes. - Bill Burr
ILOVETRANSIT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
we didnt get the memo on moisturizer
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:27:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cocoa butter baby!!!!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:38:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The blacker the berry
darkbreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:29:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, because of lotion.
PM_your_boobs_girls_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't find the clip right now but Bill Burr has a good explanation of why.
icantplay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:51:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good black don't crack, bad black smokes it.
NickSkye ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 17:51:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black do crack
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:30:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Noel Fielding is 42 as well
JournalofFailure ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:28:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mary-Louise Parker is 50.
DataWhale ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:01:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn he's 1.4050061e+51 years old?
Iancredible56 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gwen Stefani is 46.
alanaa92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lenny Kravitz is 51.
lanadeathray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT
alanaa92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cinna don't age.
ChiefDinoRider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:49:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, 42 x 41 x40 x 39...
fehlings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doug Benson is 50. Older than Gordon Ramsay
kuhawk5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone says this, but I disagree. The dude looks his age.
Sharkn91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He does look very young for being 1.080774e+50 years old.
DickTayta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LL Cool J is 47, man!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_Cool_J
morris1022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black don't crack
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Nalek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His dad looks even younger.
HTLX2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/maxlevel
ploomyBlue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Justin Trudeau is 43โฆ was sure he's in his 30s.
Sozaiix3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's 34
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Freestyled_It ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eminem and Snoop Dogg are the same age. Snoop Dogg and Pharrell could have been in the same class at school.
Stevece ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Joe Louis was 76 years old when he fought Rocky Marciano.
rotll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
36
Stevece ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:41 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For shame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LPddiQXD9c
rotll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:10 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hold my head in shame for missing that reference. Carry on...
rotll ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:12:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why he's HAPPY!
dabarassak ยท 1499 points ยท Posted at 11:00:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president
[deleted] ยท 341 points ยท Posted at 11:12:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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bull319 ยท 1313 points ยท Posted at 11:24:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What he's trying to say is the world population has doubled since Kennedy was in office .
George_E_Hale ยท 693 points ยท Posted at 11:32:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In other words the population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president.
FakeOrcaRape ยท 537 points ยท Posted at 14:36:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so what you're saying is that Kennedy dying was somehow a catalyst to our population doubling...
quintinn ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 16:37:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The man got around, but he didn't live to see his 3.5 billion children being born.
kyew ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we still talking about Kennedy, or Genghis Khan?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:30:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man, if they had a kid, it'd be the greatest leader of all time.
rphillip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wore suits, sometimes. Been inside of more than half of mankind. Let us down but shit, how could we mind? He was a handsome devil, but the kind of devil you like.
mostmediocreguy ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:54:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, he said that the population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president.
shpongolian ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:31:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5 pls
blacy0520 ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 18:52:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Half of Kennedy doubled since the population became president.
indigoreality ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:13:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kennedy did a lot of population when he became President.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's why they made Kentucky, had to tuck em all away somewhere
Proclaim_the_Name ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People keep fucking and make more people that fuck...and so on.
forgotmymainagain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When this old dead guy was alive, there were far less people. I don't know. Here, [click] your show is probably on.
Sookye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
President Kennedy went around killing people* to stop overpopulation. Then he died and now things are getting worse again.
* I hear he bit people using a mask with a huge bird beak dipped in poison.
ilikebourbon_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kennedy was killed by our future species to double the population by this time today in order to ensure we would have enough man power/foot soldiers for the intergalactic wars that start in 2040.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He died for our population gains!
FeverishPuddle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so, what you're saying is, go fuck yourself?
mostmediocreguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, what I am saying is that he said that the population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president.
FeverishPuddle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah that's what I said, "go fuck yourself"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
.....yes?
PissdickMcArse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He wasn't around to make sure his bastards were aborted. The thousands of women who were carrying his lovechildren went on to give birth, thanks to our good friends Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati.
DAHFreedom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a whole lot of people with a really specific fetish
dtg108 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of unprotected terrorist sex that night in celebration
MaleCra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My god...we've been blind this entire time.
doublearon99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes because correlation always equals causation. /s
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5 plz
skelebone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The prophecy says that when a Kennedy dies, people get to humpin'
creepycraig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah. Kennedy had so many affairs that the population doubled. He's just that good at it.
3rdBestUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. Correlation = Causation
austintaylor06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He did have many illegitimate children.
big_nkrumah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Correlation always equals causation. Science rule #1.
domofloge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not, cause a catalyst doesn't get consumed through the course of a rxn. Dude died and was consumed by the earth lol
BallsackMessiah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people had sex that fateful day
Dtruth333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So what you're saying is that Lee Harvey Oswald is an extremely effective aphrodisiac
_StatesTheObvious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He stopped getting all the chicks
192837465ababab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kennedy shot first
cubitfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A lot more sweet tail opened up for he test of us dudes.
GeneralDelgado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like Kennedy's death initiated a massive planetary orgy, or in other words, every single person on the planet during Kennedy's term enacted in mitosis, after his assassination.
MisterOminous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So what you are saying is Kennedy's death increased the amount of unprotected sex being had around the world?
sibwow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's that Kennedy stopped our population growth, and his death meant that the population could grow unencumbered
AdamFSU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which means death = population increase
Professional_Fuckboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
he's using Kennedy to mark a time period that most people can familiarize with
AndrewSaidThis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, after Kennedy died all the other men could finally get laid.
Anticitizen-Zero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So if Obama were to die before his term ends are you saying the planet's population may double in the future?
PM_ME_UR_SWEET_BOSOM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that dude was a real cock block
AlexanderTheGrave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
JoshH21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His death bought upon baby boom 2.0
Kennedy = Literally Hitler
BroJackson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's weird - cause with his reputation, I would have thought the population would take a serious dip once he was out of the picture.
thelonelyturtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The ultimate cock block.
theamazingsteve1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're trying to make another one dammit
PhycopathRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
O_O
Mortealonge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correlation implies causation! Always!
vonFitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would've thought the opposite
TheGreeneMachine ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 15:06:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Current population: A lot
Population when Kennedy was in office: Half that
aggron306 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:12:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WORLD HAS LOT OF PEOPLE NOW
WHEN KENNEDY IN OFFICE WORLD HAVE NOT AS MANY PEOPLE
LoL4Life ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understood this better because you yelled it.
MortemLuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SUCH IS LIFE
slaya45 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:29:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
karmisson ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 15:55:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In other words the Kennedy of the world was half of what it is now when the president was the world.
slaya45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh okay thanks I get it now. Man Kennedy must have been a big guy.
TheCultist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:21:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For you
Esfer25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was getting shot part of his plan?
Jonathan_Strange1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't matter.
Supernova126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh.
I_Will_Procrastinate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so let me get this straight, if I halved the population of the world when Kennedy was President it would be a quarter of what it is now?
Nalivai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, good old extrapolation
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:37:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Getting confused again. What is the rate of Kennedy dollars to Schrute bucks to Stanley nickels?
UnsinkableRubberDuck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:19:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When I was born, there were about 5 billion people alive. Now, there's close to 8. I'm only in my early 30s, so we're definitely in the exponential population explosion phase.
TaxiCabShrink ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To put it another way, if you add the population now to the population when Kennedy was president, you'll get a number three times as big as the population when Kennedy was president.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:01:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wat?
Levelagon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:07:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What he's trying to say is the world population has doubled since Kennedy was in office .
Ripe_Tomato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To put it into a different perspective, the amount people alive during Kenned's presidency was half of what it is now.
bearfly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also could be said that population has doubled since Kennedy was in office
doubledongbot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this is like wearing socks in the tub.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit..I don't know why that was so fuckin funny. Just laughed for a good minute. Thanks :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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George_E_Hale ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:51:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The world population has doubled since Kennedy was in office .
shakawkaw000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:00:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wut
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:41:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kennedy had alot of kids.
qngff ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:39:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You see, the population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president.
csbsju_guyyy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:32:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In alternate terms the number of inhabitants of the 3rd rock from the sun was precicely halved compared to current figures during the reign of president Kennedy.
Birdyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wat?
jakielim ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:07:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I knew Kennedy was quite a womanizer but not that much.
Majop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
drewsnyder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wat?
Mintaka7 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:22:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, if you want to reanimate JFK, you need to kill half the world population.
Nalivai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
And kill some more to make him a president again.
Edit: spelling. sigh
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not a bad deal
MaK_1337 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:46:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of Kennedy was half of the world now president
DovahSpy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:41:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He said: "THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD WAS HALF OF WHAT IT IS NOW WHEN KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT."
funkengruven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WAT??
DovahSpy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He said:
"THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD WAS HALF OF WHAT IT IS NOW WHEN KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT."
MeNotSanta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of the world was half of what it is now when Kennedy was president
srichardsonsbeard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:52:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kennedy was responsible for having sex with every female henceforth doubling the population all by himself. Pretty remarkable actually
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: humans are a virus. The earth is our host.
PM_ME_YOUR_NIPPLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You look familiar
_PM_ME_YOUR_NIPPLES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brother!
hurley21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:30 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! My favourite wtf fact. I dunno how people dont freak out about this. It took humans sooooo long to get to where we are. Weve had a lot of time to reproduce. Seems fair that after all these years humans have made it to 8 billion. BUT in the year 1970, there was only 4 billion people on earth. Weve doubled in 45 years. Fucking crazy. They arent called baby boomers for nothin.
UlyssesSKrunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? Is that so hard to believe?
leversonic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:26:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD WAS HALF OF WHAT IT IS NOW WHEN KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT.
Bahamute ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 16:30:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you could have worded that in a more confusing way.
ferlessleedr ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 19:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When Kennedy was president the population of the world was half of what it is now.
However, both sentences are grammatically acceptable because English is the language of fuck you, you worthless piece of human garbage.
bcGrimm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( ยฐ อสอกยฐ)โญโฉโฎ
The_Yar ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Population now of the world compared to the time of the presidency would be the latter half of the former if that presidency were Kennedy's.
Bahamute ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that yours isn't grammatically correct /u/dabarassak's is.
The_Yar ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is as well.
Bahamute ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:44:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't think it is. "Population now of the world..." Just doesn't sound right.
However, I cannot point to the grammatical rule it breaks. Unfortunately, as a native speaker, I never learned formal sentence structure analysis. so my idea of grammatically correct is based solely on how it sounds.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:05:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the scariest one
TheNumberMuncher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, to be fair, World War 1 killed 38 million people. Many of those would have created families and their kids would have created families.
But, having said that, the world population in 1910 was 1.8 Billion. In 2010 if was 6.9 Billion. We're gonna need a bigger boat.
Grumlin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:31:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source
THUMB5UP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
The2500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:00:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We can probably stop making so many people now.
IMBJR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, in my lifetime - born in the late 60s - the world's population has doubled.
_Destram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of the world was half of what it is now minus one when Kennedy was assassinated.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:03:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you took all the food produced in the last 10000 years and put it in a pile. That's how much food we need in the next 35 years.
LYNCHY36 ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 17:50:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If takes an atomic bomb to set off a hydrogen bomb
HenryRasia ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:14:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest atomic bomb ever was an atomic bomb that set off a hydrogen bomb which set off a larger hydrogen bomb source
brokenmike ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:35:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty much the bomb that stopped the nuclear arms race.
jesjimher ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:54:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Impressive, but pretty useless in a war scenario. It's so strong that the plane throwing it can barely get far enough from the detonation point to survive.
brokenmike ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:13:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't exactly call that useless. Especially at the time of its construction. That thing was powerful enough to wipe out a small state. Not only that, but the design tested was designed to hold twice the tested payload.
jesjimher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:37:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's impossible to throw at the enemy without dying. And a bomb with half the megatons already disintegrates most targets anyway.
But, who knows, perhaps in a world of unmanned drones it might be usable. But it definitely wasn't at the time, it was more a political effort.
brokenmike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would say it's less useable now. We didn't have much for defense from nuclear attacks besides shooting down the planes. Now we have the ability to shoot the warhead right out of the sky. The ability to take out a massive military compound and close to 20000 square miles with it at the possible risk of losing the pilot wouldn't be off the table of a country losing a war. That and the original test proved it could be delivered without incident.
aVerySmallPenis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:51:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know, some people are willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause - Like suicide bombers and kamikaze-pilots.
HenryRasia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:28 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cough cough ICBMs
jesjimher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:57 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tsar bomb weighted 27 tons, while the biggest ICBM ever built has a maximum payload weight of less that 9 tons.
And then there's the question of which target would you want to destroy with 50 megatons that wouldn't be already disintegrated with "just" 10 megatons.
jesjimher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And there's no theoretical limit on how many times you can repeat the fission - fusion - fission process. This means that there's no upper limit on how powerful a hydrogen bomb can be built.
skiman224 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:42:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"This is equivalent to about 1,350โ1,570 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in World War II"
BobXCIV ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:15:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's the case for the Teller-Ulam design.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
patentologist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:44:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists are working on that now.
netflixnwill ยท 2589 points ยท Posted at 10:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Doomchicken7 ยท 925 points ยท Posted at 12:07:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's insane how quickly technology has moved since the Industrial Revolution.
KleioKalypso ยท 616 points ยท Posted at 12:22:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technological evolution is a perfect example of a snowball effect.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1017 points ยท Posted at 13:41:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2005: Flash drives were $100 for 4gb
2015: Flash drives are $8 for 8gb
ToniD_76 ยท 371 points ยท Posted at 13:52:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1956:5MB hard drive 35.000$ and 2204,62lbs heavy
PhiladelphiaCollins6 ยท 813 points ยท Posted at 14:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reading that makes my brain hurt
atrociousxcracka ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 17:32:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think they meant.
toddthewraith ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:46:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in Europe (at least Germany) they say 35.000 and 2204,62
atrociousxcracka ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:52:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah....but they used a $ so it was kinda confusing.
lechatron ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:06:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They also used Freedom units.
reatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, be proud to use the Imperial units. You know which Empire?
Also it is so much more handy to calcualte the feet in a mile than the metres in a kilometre.
1 mile = 1.760 yards = 5.280 feet = 63.360 inches, very pracitcal
1 kilometre = 1.000 metres = 1.000.000 millimeters.
You also confuse . and , when displaying decimals.
/r/metricmasterrace
edit: Holy shit fact for me, this subreddit exists.
JoshH21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the reason was on ELI5 today.
flunky_the_majestic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of US units and notations don't make sense, but I think the Comma as a thousands divider and a period as a decimal divider makes the most sense. It makes use of the punctuation in a similar way to its use in language. There's only one period in a sentence, and the comma separates and organizes within the sentence.
fiddle05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 2204.62 lbs? Pretty specific.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you say "About" doesn't that make any decimal point irrelevant?
Kismonos ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 16:32:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are too close to your device's screen
Birdyer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1956 a 5MB hard drive costs 35,000$ and weighs 2204,62lbs.
Propinkwity ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 17:03:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1956, a 5MB hard drive costs $35,000 and weighs 2,204.62lbs.
chrisonabike22 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:15:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having decimal points in imperial units wrinkles my brain
narf007 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:04:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that and people putting $ after the number. That's not how it works!
Also annoying when I read something like "yeah it was $50 bucks"... Seriously?
EndlessOcean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have dollarbucks where you're from?
D_K_Schrute ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3.50$
johnnnbockkk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1956 a 5MB hard drive costs 35,000$ and weighs 2204,62lbs
Birdyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On 195.6 a 5MB% hard drive costs 35,0.0,0$ or ways %220.4,62poundlbs
Birdyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit
PhilxBefore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:02:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy gets it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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drmoocow ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:01:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A hard drive that weighed 5 milligrams did not weigh 220,462 pounds.
a3wagner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:51:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's a 5mg hard drive. Then you have to count the several tons of rocks that come with it.
The '50s were a wild time, my friend.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:03:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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narf007 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cost
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine too. But only because he didn't use the metric system.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mega is part of the metric system.
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:53:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lbs are not though.
DataWhale ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:59:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny too because that weight in pounds is almost exactly 1 metric ton.
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did the math (i.e. Google did) and it's exactly 1 metric ton. The small difference is just because of rounding.
VERTIKAL19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I know, lbs is a weird unit of weight
iop90- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doc Brown?
Vinny_Gambini ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:43:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just glad he specified "lbs heavy", cause at first I thought that was the exchange rate in 1956
poopmahpants ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:26:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you using European decimal and comma places and yet u still use imperial measurements?
Duffman5755 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:04:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
My favorite one is that we Went to the moon with Apollo
1311 with roughly the same technology available that's in a basic calculator now-a-days.EDIT: Wrong Apollo
SuperWoody64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yet for some reason we can't go back now. Don't we already have the tech? Let's go!
DuckyFreeman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:53:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of course we can. We just don't need to.
SuperWoody64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But they're working on it. If we really already went then dust off the hardware and fire it up.
DuckyFreeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's because we don't want to go just to the moon. We want to beyond the moon, the moon is just a convenient staging point. So we need new gear.
elmz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except Apollo 13 never made it to the moon. Why did you pick a mission that never landed?
Duffman5755 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Honstly...it was just a typo, meant to say 11.
Naldaen ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:11:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your shit's all backwards.
poptart2nd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what.
UpvoteBecauseIcan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nowordsleft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
$35 seems pretty reasonable
loscampesinos11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:47:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Probably still expensive. 5mb harddrives are like almost extinct now.
TheSlothFather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you broke my brain with that sentence.
knightni73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think that your comma is wrong...
enlighteningbug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If only they were 2204lbs light.
novelty_bone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
can you translate those numbers to american?
Obie_Trice_Kenobi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
35.000$%?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your punctuation confuses me.
joes_nipples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How did you manage to get the decimal and comma backwards?
SnakeEater14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was this formatted in the '50s?
MortemLuna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/commentgore?
Cyerdous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1956: A 5MB hard drive cost $35,000 and weighed 2204.62 lbs.
ToniD_76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that seems right how you wrote it but i am to lazy to change it ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
collinjames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
35 dollars and 000 cents isn't too bad!
Chaseroonie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only $35? Wow!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Dusk_Walker ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:43:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude I got a 128gig for like, $30 a few months ago.
It's one of those tiny ones though, it's weird.
donoteatthatfrog ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:19:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
micro sd card?
Dusk_Walker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:50:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Usb flash drive. It's just the smaller version, like This one.
LeftyRougeFreckles ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:28:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
$8. Fuck 128gb flash drives are $20
MMdomain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Link? If that's true I feel silly.
tembrant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All around $30 it seems
BosphorusScalene ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd go with a slightly more expensive brand name but here's one for $13.95.
Always go to newegg or a real PC store (Micro Center etc.), CVS by me charges $40 for the same 4gb SD card I can get at Micro Center for $3.49 because they know their average customer doesn't know any better and they can get away with it.
Angeldown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People still pay money for flash drives? I'm pretty sure all of mine have just sort of appeared...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember I didn't buy a flash drive until like 2011 because when they first came out, they were too damn expensive. I didn't understand how so many people could suddenly afford these $100 things and treat them so casually. I had just never gone back to check the damn price.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
$40 for my shitty 512 MB. Still use it all the time.
Arttherapist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in 1990 is was $1 a megabyte for 3.5inch diskettes ($15 for 10 1.5 meg disks) and $250 for a 100mb hard drive.
TenTonApe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which means in 2025 we'll have....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think this price is correct. I bought one near the end of 2004 and it was $100 for 128mb.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My bad, I meant 1gb, too lazy to change it
osuwhitey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're getting the wrong flash drives. I just bought 16GB for $6.
circuital14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bought a 32gb for $8
PrincessAloria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember even seeing a 4gb flash back in 2005, but I got my 1 gig for 75 bucks!
MotherFuckinTom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At my job we sell 8gb flash drives for $3. I bought my first flash drive in 2005. It was 256mb for like $30 I believe.
rogercopernicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2004 I paid $50 for a 56 mb flash drive. 2006 my roommate bought an 1gb flash drive for $100 on a black friday sale. by 2009 I got a 1gb for free for a promotional thing and bought a 4 gb for $16.
Eddie_Hitler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got my first ever USB flash drive in 2005. It was 512MB and cost nearly ยฃ20... just unbelievable.
preperation__h ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
JackPoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a microcenter near where I live that has 64 gig flashes for 16$.
lannister80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My Mac from 1998 came with 32 megabytes of RAM.
MIKE6792 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was at Staples yesterday 3 8GB flash drives were 15$.
profeDB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bought my first in 2004 from Dell. 50 for 64 MB. Yes, you read that correctly.
aim_at_me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus really? Pretty sure I paid $100 for 1gb in 2005
BuddhistNudist987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can still buy a 4GB flash drive for $100. You just have to be a really bad shopper.
JackSpringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Half a year ago I bought a unused 32GB card for 15โฌ. I was pissed because I thought it was to much...
Duke_Jopper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you may be overpaying.
Gibtraf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Flash drives here are $19.99 for 32GB.
The_Prophet_Muhammed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're getting ripped off man. Yesterday I saw a 128gb flash drive for 10 bucks.
insomniac20k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bought a 64 gig flash drive for 11 bucks. It's about a quarter of the size of the 8 gig one I bought 3 years ago for 12 bucks.
It's not super surprising though. Flash memory has seen a huge boom because smartphones.
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2000: flash drives?
Poopersnoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
8000BC: One load was 1.5TB 2015: One load is still 1.5TB
poko610 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being amazed that my friend had an 8gb flash drive. We could store anything on that thing.
jakielim ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:04:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And also progress in medicine and population increase.
user1492 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:48:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rolling a snowball down a hill is an even better example of a snowball effect.
wizbanger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Moore's Law is pretty cool
derekhee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
same with my feeding botlane
TheGoldenJ00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the snowball effect is when a chick spi.... wait, we're on the same page
mkc2020 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah as soon as people stop killing scientists because religion told them to it really is shocking what we can do...
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Moore's law
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Moore's law
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, a snowball rolling down a hill would be the perfect example.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If snowballs followed technology's growth curve, snowballs would be a threat to all humanity.
Books_and_Cleverness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As much as we shit on capitalism around here, I think it's done a pretty bang-up job helping all that shit along.
Honey-Badger ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The industrial revolution could have easily happened in a communist country. I dont know why you think capitalism spawned it, it started in the UK which has never been particularly capitalist.
Books_and_Cleverness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:08:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on I think we're way off base if we're saying the UK "has never been particularly capitalist."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism
The UK was one of the birthplaces of capitalism and is today still very much a capitalist economy.
Honey-Badger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it's not like it was as capitalist as the US. I never said we weren't capitalist, that is why I careful chose my words to say 'particularly capitalist'. Also has been socialist a few times in the last century, only has been capitalist since the election before last, the mid 90s to 2010 we were socialist 'with a small s.'
This is neither hear nor there as you're focusing on a small comment I made and not addressing the fact that my point was the industrial revolution could have happened in a communist country
AgentElman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
especially jets and rockets
MediocreJones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were plenty of people alive in 1969, when we landed on the moon, who could say "I remember when the Wright brothers first flew a plane at Kitty Hawk."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It would be interesting to see if technology is actually improving faster since the industrial revolution, or if it's just that the Industrial Revolution made technology cheaper and more easily available, making it seem like it moved faster
TSwizzlesNipples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's never played Civilization.
c0796 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And insane how much is held back. You still fly roughly the same speed on similar type of jet today as you would have 40 years ago when travelling. That shit's by design but given the advancements in technology this one stands out to me every time I smell kerosene by an airport. Oh, and how long ago was the first electric car built? That Tesla car' range is saddening considering how far tech has come.
MJWood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's insane how much history Egypt already had by Cleopatra's time.
tanksforthegold ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well there was a wall before automation came to fruition. After things have been building ever since.
PacoTaco321 ยท 617 points ยท Posted at 13:56:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this also where we mention Oxford being older than the Aztecs and Steve Buscemi being a volunteer firefighter in NY during 9/11?
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 556 points ยท Posted at 15:24:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We should also mention that Steve Buscemi is an Aztec that went to Oxford.[citation needed]
qwerty_ca ยท 118 points ยท Posted at 16:42:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Buscemi is an Aztec who went to Oxford during 9/11.
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:57:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Buscemi is an Oxford that went to 9/11 during Aztec.
DuncanIdahoTaterTots ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:19:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steve drove to Oxnard in an Aztek to buy some Bruschetta for $9.11.
milktoast96 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:18:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was also a better tractor builder than Henry "Ferrari" Ford
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plus taxes.
JackKelly1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh yes
Mr_Tony_Stark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wow. TIL.
InfernoVulpix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
here you go.
Alonminatti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/circlejerk is the only citation you'll ever need
iop90- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr T fought fires with Keshas IQ
benign-indifference ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That Buscemi? Albert Einstein
InSRCommentPostsYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's Steve Buscemi. That Buscemi was his father.
senatorskeletor ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:15:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trent Reznor even said that Johnny Cash owns that song now.
PacoTaco321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:00:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nine Inch can't melt steel Nails.
Esfer25 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He cut his hand while filming but kept acting anyway.
laststandman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And mammoths played on the Cubs when the Ottomans built the Pyramids.
mixed_biscuits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:33:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey haha, I live in Oxford and never knew that. We also have Europe's oldest coffee shop, founded in 1456 I think?
How does that fucking feel America?
Lightning-Dust ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:53:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Feels ok
mixed_biscuits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It feels pretty indifferent, though I would like to try that shop's coffee and see if it's any good, and so I can tell people I had a latte at the oldest coffee shop in Europe.
mixed_biscuits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't thought about it too much, but now I think I'll go in and buy a coffee just to be able to say that. Thanks dude!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let me know if the coffee's any good.
BScatterplot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No I think Steve Buscemi was a volunteer Aztec at a 7/11
AcceptDefaults ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, yes it is. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3tf1yh/whats_your_favorite_holy_shit_fact/cx5pkbn
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
steve buscemi what?
PacoTaco321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Flyingmonkeyofdoom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was actually a member of the FDNY for about 4 years during the 70's and 80's and returned to help look for survivors with the rest of the guys who survived from his firehouse.
macphile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's just always existed. Like, no one in history ever remembers it being built. It was just there, with each civilization believing it to be a product of the previous one. In fact, I'm inclined to wonder whether its faculty have aged at all...
(The internet tells me it's actually from the 10th century. Close enough.)
ChipChippersonAMA ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:33:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Also she's not even Egyptian, but greek. She did bother to learn the local language however which helped her endear herself to the people
AbsintheEnema ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:49:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is crazy because of how Greek-sounding her name is. Cleo-patra. Kleos - pater.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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ChipChippersonAMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
She did that too
MaK_1337 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:34:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every damn time
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When was she alive and when were the pyramids built?
Warpato ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:01:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:04:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, I didn't realize how far apart the timeline was!
Warpato ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:11:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And more importantly Cleopatra was born in 69 ;)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:15:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Heh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Ancient Egypt was as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us. And one day we'll be Ancient Atomic age or something.
Dynamaxion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:18:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world for over 3,000 years.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
SlobBarker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were still wooly mammoths around when the pyramids were built.
Friendlyvoices ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that she was the first of her line to actually speak the Egyptian language too. All the rulers before her spoke Greek, if I remember correctly.
Naelin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also they were Mammoths alive when the great pyramid was constructed.
alextoria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Harvard is older than Calculus.
ferlessleedr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird, she could look at her society and say "This has been here for thousands of years" and look back on their recorded history of some of that, but my country has been here for just over three centuries. Total. The country that ruled us before we declared independence is just about 1000 years old.
My world isn't as old as Cleopatra's world.
Cambridge_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cleopatra was Greek. Not Egyptian.
reubsey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And every time you drink a glass of water, there is ~100% probability that some of the water molecules were once in her bathtub.
Fredfredbug4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In other words, Cleopatra looked to the Pyramids like we look to Cleopatra.
Ih8Hondas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't comprehend this. Time is nuts.
eau_de_Brute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. This is my favorite.
Rain12913 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to us than it did to Stegosaurus.
Edit: Well, about twenty five people said this before me, so my night's ruined.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
jcoguy33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder why whenever I hear about facts about closer in time (such as the t-rex fact), they always say moon landing.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I watch Vsauce too!!!
hismikeness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ahem. The grain storage pyramids of Giza.
TheMobHasSpoken ยท 433 points ยท Posted at 13:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy who wrote Rocky Horror and played Riff Raff in the movie also did the voice of the dad on "Phineas and Ferb."
kutuup1989 ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 17:14:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also hosted The Crystal Maze.
aindovin ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:48:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and he was in Flash Gordon trapped in the water cage with him
Elranzer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:55:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... in silver underwear
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:14:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Claude Rains was the invisible man...
SoldierHawk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:17:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then something went wrong for Fae Wray and King Kong...
DarkFox ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:19:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They got caught in a celluloid jam...
strongwilleditalian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:48:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah JAM!
diarrhea_pocket ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:14:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then at a deadly pace, it came from...
I_AM_LOOKING_AT_YOU ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ON JANET'S FACE!
_Born_To_Be_Mild_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:16:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love the Crystal Maze.
"WILL YOU START THE FANS PLEASE!!!"
Panoolied ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:31:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dun dun dun dah dundundun
g00dn1ghtm4r3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
GOD DAMN THE CRYSTAL MAZE WAS SO GOOD.
bjkman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
F'n love that show
SaavikSaid ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:44:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And he sang the opening song, although it's female lips lip syncing.
Elranzer ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:54:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The lips were Patricia Quinn's (Magenta).
She thought she was singing it, but Richard O'Brien dubber the lips with his own voice before the movie published.
TheMobHasSpoken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting! I did not know that.
Elranzer ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:56:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show called Shock Treatment that nobody saw.
But it has much of the same cast, and lots of singing, like RHPS.
ferlessleedr ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:15:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's astounding.
ElderCunningham ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:27:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time is fleeting
W1ULH ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:28:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Madness takes it's toll?
TheAmazingJesusC ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:29:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But listen closely
PolkaDotsandPenguins ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:32:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not for very much longer
ElderCunningham ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've got to
PolkaDotsandPenguins ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:47:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
keep controllll
domkey5 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:05:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:21:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:23:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Drinking, those moments when...
NoifenF ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:47:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Richard O Brien.
glowsticksuit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:31:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's also transgender! Specifically he says he's "the third sex"
FaboulousMike ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:32:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I won't be so sure about calling him guy
BloodBride ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:03:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
he also has tits.
Gnivil ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:12:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My Dad's friends with his cousin and he always says he was "the odd one of the family."
venivitavici ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:44:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Richard O'Brien
nmejia1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
CinnamonBunzAttack72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes!! Richard O'brien is awesome!
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
elkingyboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Richard O'Brian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Brien
trawkins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:17:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Tim Curry (who played Frank, the main character in RHPS) also played
Marvthe hotel receptionist in home aloneseries2.edit: apparently I repeat things on the internet without fact-checking them first.
ipfreeman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was this sarcastic? Because Marv was played by Daniel Stern, Tim Curry was the hotel receptionist in Home Alone 2.
-Jive-Turkey- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we talking about the same Riff Raff here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=niHSDx4Y_zs
PolkaDotsandPenguins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not even close. I hope to God you were joking
troyblefla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, Chucky Grey, he's ok. Just got no fucking neck!
FatalisDrakari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Were you in my class yesterday?
One of my students shared this exact same fact.
TheMobHasSpoken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funny! No, I'm pretty sure I'm not in your class. I'm 44 and finished my last round of schooling about 17 years ago...
Wombinatar ยท 1474 points ยท Posted at 13:17:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All things considered, fat people use more soap.
[deleted] ยท 1318 points ยท Posted at 14:21:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ehh I know some fat people who don't use any soap.
Wombinatar ยท 1043 points ยท Posted at 14:22:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed
KamuKid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:23:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
__Parallax__ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:31:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharkn91 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:51:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that, fuck you.
FTFY
Undeadicated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saying it doesn't fix the problem
j1nzo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
unless they have increasing economies of scale
CabbageSlut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That
Raknarg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so fucking triggered you shitlord
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:47:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All things considered, fat people should USE more soap.
Zardif ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fit people work out often getting sweaty and dirty. I'm fat but not enough that I sweat all that much, So I shower once a day. My fit friend will shower twice a day 3 out of 7 days when he works out. I don't think my extra soap will out do his extra 3 showers worth of extra soap.
taco_anus1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:07:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fat and I use a lot of soap. Gotta keep those rolls clean.
Cast_Away_Bob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and slippery...
randomdud3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So 90% of redditor's?
RyudoKills ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:08:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
redditor's what?
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ever been to a Magic the Gathering tournament? Smells like sour dish rag spent the night in a gym locker under wet socks then hitched a ride to the tournament in a hobos armpit.
JackAceHole ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:56:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Plus, their stubby arms can only reach so far.
calmlunatic ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:32:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Americans use more soap than Canadians. No special reason, there's just more of them.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:44:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Chinese use more than both combined!
SkeevyPete ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:11:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Questionable.
arnoldwhat ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:35:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Fight Club the Paper St Soap Company made soap out of fat people!
BigWiggly1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:25:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well to be fair soap uses more fat people.
calicosiside ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:39:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But less per mass as the volume increases more quickly than the surface area
cf_wyeth ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:56:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More food and fuel too
recoverybelow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite facts always start with "all things considered"
paulvs88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:46:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
And fat people that "don't care about what people think of their looks" still use makeup and comb their hair.
flangler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of my favorite, long forgotten quotes. Do you happen to remember the source?
Contexual_Healing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Initially read this like a headline implying fat people and the staff of NPR's All Things Considered use more soap.
"All Things Considered, Fat People Use More Soap"
stateofhappiness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks - now everyone in my cube space area is looking at me and wondering why I'm giggling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fat people make more soap too.
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey that's a fair Snap Judgement.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And you can MAKE more soap out of fat people than you can from thin people.
NAMASTE_BITCHES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soap is also made of fat.
aVerySmallPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe fat people are fat because they use more soap, and not vice versa?
NAMASTE_BITCHES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well they have to, because they are bigger. Then using more soap make them fatter which leads to more soap use. Eventually they explode.
TheSliceman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not the one that I live with, unfortunately.
SashaTheBOLD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, what you mean is "all other things being equal, fat people use more soap."
If you want to sound all fancy-pantsy, you could say "ceteris paribus, fat people use more soap." Then, everybody overeducated enough to know latin will think you're a git, but will be unable to fault you on your logic.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soap is made from fat
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/MildlyInteresting
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Takheos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You would hope.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fat people use more everything.
Edit: Except good judgement.
lobehold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But they make more soap too.
DrDisastor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really holy shit material, mildly interesting at best.
Intanjible ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's assuming that they bathe as frequently as people who aren't fat.
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gabourey Sidibe has the same number of fat cells as Kate Upton.
Nithryok ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 18:54:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FPH is leaking!
RealityTimeshare ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And as we learned in fight club, they can be used to make more soap.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 16:39:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd this cause bedsit only when they just verify cuz they have to buy want to lol. But if ya got 2 many roles on ya belly will.... Sux 4 u lol. I distrust need me not only being such Kirk drink just for pleasure. Fucking portray!!
RRettig ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:24:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that and now I am literally retarded. Thanks.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
~ummm, AWKWARD. Hav u per chance maybe once over thought then bout getting reading glasses??? Srry cant help u, maybe u Ned an ANT 2 read 4 u. XD XD ~
[deleted] ยท 293 points ยท Posted at 16:53:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you make $30,000 usd a year you are in the top 1% in the world.
*Edit: It's actually an income of $34,000 a year. Just straight income. Article
imarki360 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 23:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That can't be right... 7bil * .01 = 70 million.
Around 50% of US population makes over 30k/yr, which is over 150 million people. >$30k/yr puts you in the top 5% most likely though
purpleketchup ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:10:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah its if you make 30k have no debts. Debt is a real bitch
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:58:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand how that works. Income is one measurement of prosperity, wealth is another. Income is a flow (per year), wealth is a stock (net income over many years).
So when they say that an income of $30,000 and a net debt of zero puts you in the top 1%...what are they actually saying? Top 1% of what? Income? Wealth? Some arbitrary combination?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:11:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earnings.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But what does that mean? Debt is not earnings. Paying off your debt and/or making interested payments will affect your earnings, but you can't determine what that affect will be by sorting people into one group with zero debt and one group with > 0 debt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are in the top 1% of earners in the world or total income if you prefer. Does not take into account debt, cost of living or anything else. Looked it up and the number is actually $34,000.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy I was replying to said it included debt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah he was trying to read more into it than there is. It is an interesting number but not particularly useful as any kind of indication of prosperity which may have been his point.
purpleketchup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
your looking at it wrong. consider the majority of the statistic from third world countries where accounting for different amounts of debts in the western still has no merit against the daily earnings of a worm farmer.
AustinTransmog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wealth is not "net income over many years". Wealth is when one's accumulated assets are greater than one's debt.
purpleketchup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lets go with arbitrary combination
AggressionSsb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
whattttttt
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here is the first link that popped up http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-need-34k-income-global-elite--half-worlds-richest-live-U-S.html
mopedophile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
About 45% of Americans that are over 15 and have an income earn over $30k according to wikipedia. Only around 63% of Americans over the age of 15 are in the work force. Once you drop out the children and unemployed its really around 15% of Americans earn $30K+. That makes it around 45 million Americans in the top 1%, which still sounds wrong but much closer.
Edit: Ignore my math, you can just sum the number of individuals on that chart on Wikipedia and get ~95 million. The $30K+ making you a 1%er is clearly off.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:36:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I make a good amount more than that and feel poor
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 19:28:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah me too. Now I feel poor and ungrateful.
TheSliceman ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 00:34:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This brings up a interesting dilemma for those 30k earners in the US who want the wealth of the top 1% distributed down to them.
Would the same principle they are standing on to demand the US 1% redistribute its wealth to them not apply to the rest of the worlds 99% in relation to their own 1%??
If such principle did really exist, then the only proper course of action would be for them to give away most of their money to starving kids in Haiti and Honduras and the like. They are, in fact, the 1%. It just wouldnt be fair for them to hold such a concentration of wealth, regardless of if others have even more than them.
mootmeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I guess that's why countries have borders. There's a sense that a country has an obligation to it's citizens. But a country doesn't have an obligation to the world's citizens.
Bing10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've said exactly this to Americans who have done the "were the 99%" stuff. It's hypocrisy, thinly veiled with arbitrary borders.
klethra ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
But do those kids in Honduras have to pay 10k a year for a roof over their heads? I could make a shelter outside, but then Id be arrested. Can't work without an address either.
rumham1701 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:21:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but... Bernie 2016
PKMNtrainerKing ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you have $10 in your pocket and no debts to anyone, you are part of the top 5% of the world.
TheSliceman ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:36:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of net worth, yes, but that can be misleading to say that an Indian farmer whos life savings is 10$ is in a higher wealth bracket than an American businessman who just went bankrupt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Poop
PKMNtrainerKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I assumed that was implied, in terms of net worth
quietIntensity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump once pointed to a homeless man on the street as he rolled past in his limousine, and pointed out that the homeless man was worth $100 million more than him at the moment, since he was so far in the hole. There's a lot of relativity when it comes to wealth.
Koupers ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:02:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woot! In the top 1% and below the poverty line, yeah!
glowsticksuit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:34:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's specifically if you make that and have zero debts
ladyoflate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:45:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I'm still not in the goddamned 1%.
RedAccount1330 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what's worse, that that fact is true, or that I don't make that much.
A7XGlock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:45:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
good thing I don't, bourgeoisie scum.
Chairboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:00:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's just not right. How do you reconcile that with tools like this?
http://www.whatsmypercent.com/EDIT: Wrong site, was US-only. Meant http://www.worldwealthcalculator.org/[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Accept that there are other countries besides America and then get the owner of the site to add that data to it.
Chairboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I'm an idiot. I remembered going to one of these sites and googled... poorly.
http://www.worldwealthcalculator.org/ states that 33,500 would put you in the top 5% worldwide, not top 1%. Your thoughts?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The article I read was from 2012. Good chance that data was a few years old when they calculated it. The rich could have got richer, they tend to do that. Also could be a difference in estimations. Economics is only sort of a science. I don't know enough to say that your site is wrong.
*Edit: ...or that mine is right.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
saokku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
PPP?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:00:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read the entire article before spouting nonsense. It says you have to make base salary of $134k a year to make the global top 1%.
You have to be pretty high up in management to get that as your base salary.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:20:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go read it again cunt and work on your reading comprehension while you're at it. Anyone individual who makes over 34000 after taxes is in the 1%. For a family of four to make the 1% the calculation is 34000 ร 4 + the deducted taxes = 136000.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:44:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK...so the question of OP is: "What fucking amazing fact do you know that will blow everyone's mind?"
Right? We can agree on that, no?
And, then, you respond:
"If a toddler or grade school pupil pull in $34k a year they are considered the top 1% of the planet in term of income?"
To be puzzled by this fact means that you are either very, very, very, very, bad at math; or that you are the inbred son of old money that never made it to Uni...
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 21:20:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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potatoslasher ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:17:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you dont know how money works it seems...
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it was only a joke
potatoslasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
jesus it was not funny.....like at all....I feel bad for you now
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:02:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
source
nmejia1337 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:11:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol
ALLSTARTRIPOD ยท 2845 points ยท Posted at 10:40:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KFC
IS OWNED
BY PEPSI.
-Head Explodes-
oceanjunkie ยท 1200 points ยท Posted at 12:27:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
[deleted] ยท 1667 points ยท Posted at 14:09:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm at the Pizza Hut. What? I'm at the Taco Bell. WHAT? I'M AT THE COOOOOMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL
shawneestrings ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 15:47:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
greatest piece of music ever composed
wulfguitar ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 16:03:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad that that song overshadows every other piece of music they've written though, as Das Racist are actually all talented lyricists.
resay5 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:14:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too bad they broke up.
Loscoh ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:35:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But we still got Heems
jackunderscore ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:05:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Kool AD too...?
pagoodma ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:19:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
he released one of my favorite songs/videos ever after they broke up. Hes a fucking riot. also his Vice column is fucking awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4DvsihB6HA
highpotethical ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:25:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this satire? I really don't get it and as a result I won't dismiss it but at the same time I'm not compelled to do any research. ELI5, what is Kool AD getting at with this video?
resay5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:38:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the same..
tinwooki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
eh
detabudash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:14:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
White people love me, like they love subaru's
still laugh everytime i hear it**
jlmawp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:17:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Older white women say I'm very articulate"
By far my favorite song of theirs.
wulfguitar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Das Space Racist
aggravated_owl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:24:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Help me out here...What song are yall referencing?
Princip1914 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:45:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell Very talented folks, loads of good stuff, not my cup of tea though...
Stan_Baniszewski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Wallpaper remix is better.
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna save somebody some time and let ya'll know the first 10 seconds of lyrics are repeated throughout the song. That's the whole song.
CrazyCommunist ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:43:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell by Das Racist. it was a joke song two friends wrote that literally launched their careers as rappers.
GsusIsChord ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:47:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read "launched" as "haunted," but both are accurate anyway.
CrazyCommunist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
definitely, i don't think they're particularly fond of the song, especially Heems
DaBearsMan_72 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your insides disagree.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tiny ass sandwiches tiny ass chicken sandwiches kid
mcgangsta12 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:06:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KENTACO HUT
m4ttsson ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Paco Hell
EightRoper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Been to one. Felt sick afterwards. Was great.
Bladelink ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:30:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
JAMAICA AVENUE
JAMAICA AVENUE
The combination pizza hut and taco bell on Jamaica Avenue.
ChipChippersonAMA ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:31:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I forgot about that song
Mountainbillygoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:00:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understood!
vicelordjohn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yet you can't get a taco pizza. Or a pizza taco.
cuphalfphil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see you here, dawg
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
This was our song as we drove across the country.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can see that being a really endearing and a really annoying memory. Good job!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was pretty great. We drove through the middle of nowhere (Nebraska, E-W through South Dakota, etc.), so by the third day we were just desperate for anything to break the monotony.
Things got weird.
doubledongbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's racist.
andy83991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, we had one near my campus back in College. We called it the "KenTacoHut" and it was open until 2am. Many alcohol-fueled (and maybe some Green Leaf) nights I found myself there. Good stuff.
Populationindex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At Jamaican avenue?
slowgoins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is going on?
Dungeon_Of_Dank_Meme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's this place in Clearfield, PA that has KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. I am sure it is not the only of its kind, but the locals call it Kentaco Hut.
huevosMagnificos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's calledKenTacoHut
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see you here dawg
Mister_MacEff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On Jamaica Avenue?
imjusta_bill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We call them Taco Huts. Add a KFC and it becomes a Kentaco Hut
kogasapls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Dark Souls
Tarentino8o8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ur just high af
mehmenmike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Paco Hell
Knhyqls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Das racist
leeshya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On Jamaica avenue
Glarseceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Co-co-comboooo!!!!
partytimeboat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KenTacoHut is what we called it in college.
Vhu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I for some reason read that in Terry Crews' voice from the Old Spice commercials.
dbatchison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And long john silvers
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"TACO BUT"
Boner_All_Day1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got heartburn just reading that...
dajuwilson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All restaurants are Taco Bell
Mitemaximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm at soup!
Amphabian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got that taco gut, I got that pizza butt, I'm at that combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
Turdthon_Ferguson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kentacohuts are the best.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't see you here dog
rg90184 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KenTacoHut is the best place on earth. So much america
Aregisteredusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yo, das racist!
Traceyt715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:29:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah a Kentacohut.
Pyrexsilus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This Pizza Hut? MORE LIKE PIZZA BUTT!!
TheInvaderZim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some say if you hold it close enough to your nose, you can still smell the weed those guys were smoking through your earbuds.
DeathStarJedi ยท 120 points ยท Posted at 13:27:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, and these are the seeds of how the franchise wars begin. My money is on Taco Bell.
misadelph ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:49:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dat reference
partthethird ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:14:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Goodness from the garden. Garden in the valley. Valley of the jolly green giant"
mister_leroy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hotdooooooooogs.
Tinfoilpain ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:23:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
std::cout << &dat << std::endl;
razznab3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only time I ever wanted a rat burger
KingKingsons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explain please?
YoungFreshGoose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:04:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Demolition man. It's great. Stallone fucks his daughter
TVCasualtydotorg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If my daughter looked like Sandra Bullock...
And now I'm on a list.
YoungFreshGoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
She'd be blindsided by the gravity of my dong!
TripleOGeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pizza Hut is international yo
TheVagaKnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could you pass the salt?
Davidsup11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
my local one is a taco bell/kfc combo, they should just do that for every location
SirCaelus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In a fair fight, KFC would win. If it's prison rules, then definitely Taco Bell.
chokingduck ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 14:27:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of the biggest reasons I gained weight in college was due to the fact there was a Kentacohut at the base of my dorm building.
d1ecast ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:48:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gezundheit
PacoTaco321 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And that's why they have those combined Taco Bell Pizza Hut buildings.
uberskillz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:28:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I always tell my friends to meet me at KENTACOHUT
TheGuywithTehHat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:08:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KFC is owned by 3 separate companies?
oceanjunkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kfc, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut are owned by Pepsi.
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are not owned by Pepsi anymore. They are owned by YUM!
oceanjunkie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:33:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is owned by Pepsi.
TheGuywithTehHat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know, I was just purposely misinterpreting what /u/oceanjunkie said.
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OrSpeeder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Happily they stopped being retared in Brazil (Coca-Cola is MUCH more popular in Brazil, despite Pepsi having a large amount of Brazillian shareholders, so Pepsi recently finally gave up and let Pizza Hut to sell Coca-Cola... seemly it worked, since I am seeing a rise in amount of Pizza Hut restaurants)
cgrant993 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, yes... The evasive Ken-Taco-Hut. Have one here in KC.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Doritos
AfroNinjaNation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum Foods yo.
KamuiT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember finding this out around the time Star Wars Episode 1 was released. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC all did a cross-promotional thing where you collected "coins" or Pogs or whatever to try to win prizes.
smjpilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!
SourCreamWater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Carl's Jr and Green Burrito?
The_Nipple_Tickler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, KFC is owned by lots of companies!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was just in the Yum! Center on Tuesday.
What an absolutely retarded name for a basketball arena.
wut3va ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The beloved KenTacoHut
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All owned by Sheinhardt Wig Company
OccupyDeezNutz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kentaco Hut
Dickcheese_McDoogles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KFC is owned by Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Pepsi?
DrumParty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like Pizza Butt!
HomelessHannah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I think about it, KCF and PizzaHut do have a lot of similar advertising campaigns. It's always a meal deal, and someone bringing it home for the family, who always have one son and one daughter. AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE PEPSI AS THEIR DRINK!
Darwin73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why those are the only places that serve Pepsi.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget Sabra.
PJDubsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that explains some things
Lehk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
after the franchise wars, every restaurant is a taco bell.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who owns A&W?
Undeadicated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and A&W...wherever the fuck they are cuz i ain't ever seen one
oh and long john silvers
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also Long John Silver's and...one other I can't remember. That's how they can do the combination restaurants and it doesn't screw up profits, because it's all going to the same place. (I used to work at a Taco Bell/KFC)
SquidLoaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So the only chains to actually use Pepsi products are owned by Pepsi.
GoddamnSusanBoyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamnit that's why I have to get Diet Pepsi with my fucking chalupas
Whylizlovesyou ยท 767 points ยท Posted at 14:37:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
formerly owned by Pepsi.
It is now a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, who also now owns Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
Fun fact, UofL's basketball teams play in a stadium called the "KFC YUM! Center" - which some locals lovingly call "The Bucket."
EDIT: denoted that only some locals are hip to the groove.
iPlunder ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 16:25:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One time I saw McDonald's promoting an event there. There was something strangely entertaining about McDonalds having to put KFC on their signs.
odie4evr ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:35:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds very American.
iPlunder ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:56:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're god damn right it does.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:30:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a local of Louisville and I don't call it the bucket. I don't know anyone that calls it the Bucket. Is this a thing? /u/choppadoo is this a thing?
mdchap01 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:46:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
UofL alum here. All of my friends called it the bucket.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an alumni too and work for UofL. I must be totally out of the loop.
littlefitcat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:13:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Local here. Never heard it called The Bucket...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am not a fan of UofL so maybe its amongst the fans or something?
littlefitcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a lot of friends who are fans and I asked them and they've never heard it being called the bucket either lol.
Dokturigs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in Bowling Green surrounded by UofL fans, never heard it either
Whylizlovesyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps it's just in certain circles. Everyone I know calls it "The Bucket."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting.
vicelordjohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am from Arizona and I call it The Bucket.
choppadoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have never heard anyone call it the bucket in my entire effin' life brosephina. (Cred: UofL fan and alumnus and also I saw Stevie Wonder there)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:42:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why we are soulmates.
choppadoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:20:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gross
Tenordrummer ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:46:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who goes to UofL and is from Louisville... I'm pretty sure I've never heard anyone call the Yum! Center the bucket. Just the Yum! Center
Whylizlovesyou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also from Louisville, also from UofL, and I guess you're just not cool enough to be in the club and know our secret code words.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not anymore!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:28:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We do? Wish someone had told me.
CaptJYossarian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I bought their stock back when they were Tricon Global.
DrDisastor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This needs more visibility , I commented similarly.
Amannelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've never been to The Bucket, but whenever I pass through Louisville I see it, glimmering in the distance looking all majestic-like.
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you ask me, from the river view, it looks like Rosie the Robot's face.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum!? Never heard of them before.
PinheadX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I try to get people to call Minute Maid Park "The Juicebox", but they just won't do it.
BigDamnHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pepsi owned KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut and spun them out into a separate company called Yum!.
choppadoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Called "Tricon Global" for a while before "Yum!", then they added other companies (A&W, Long John Silver's) and got bad press for exploitative labor practices (see: Coalition of Immokalee Workers), both leading toward the name change
Zephyr104 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is also why Kentucky Taco Huts exist.
PatrickBecerra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I went to Louisville I saw that stadium from the freeway and I was like "da fuck?"
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like Rosie the Robot from the highway, in my opinion.
Dear_Watson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
YUM! Brands is a spin off of PepsiCo. Which is why they still use Pepsi products, and Doritos (Lays and Quaker Oats are also owned by PepsiCo)... From what I found after a quick search Pepsi still has the controlling shares in YUM! Brands too, which means Pepsi effectively owns/controls them.
fishfur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I call it the "shit hole". Like an anus, but with the word shit.
l0calher0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question135546.html
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aye, another louisvillian!
joshualeet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hi Liz. I'm Josh. I lived in Louisville for 20 years, from baby to 20 years old and moved away 5 years ago. I've never heard anyone call it the bucket, however that makes me laugh. I know a few Liz's from Louisville. We might know each other. Don't look at my post history.
Have a good one.
jongargia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:30 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum! Brands is owned by Pepsi. So that's still the case.
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:41 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. It's not.
Yum! was spun off from PepsiCo.
Yum! started out as Tricon Global Restaurants, which was a subsidiary of PepsiCo until the spin-off in 1997. Tricon owned Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC. It is no longer directly under Pepsi Co. They are related, but one is not owned by the other.
jongargia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:29 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. TIL
xxkoloblicinxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum brands to my knowledge is just a branch company of Pepsi. To avoid creating a monopoly.
trentblase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:52:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, Vanguard is the #1 shareholder.
xxkoloblicinxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then the kfc employee orientation video was bullshit.
trentblase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It could have been an old video
xxkoloblicinxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was dated for 2008 if I recall but its been a while.
thehotfreshness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:02:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Q:How many prostitutes has Ricky P banged in there?
A: None, Louisville doesn't exist.
tswpoker1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy gets it.
CATS!
tswpoker1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:28:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a UK fan and someone that had to drive by that place almost every day, I like to call it 'The Crusty Bucket Arena'.
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a fan of the United Kingdom, too, I guess, but what does that have to do with an arena in Kentucky?
cckynv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He means University of Kentucky :P
piperluck ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 11:05:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum
[deleted] ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 13:46:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
! Brands
InterimFatGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is Yum not Brands?
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our mission statement is to own the shittiest version of each type of food.
casparh ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 13:43:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understand this reference.
[deleted] ยท 442 points ยท Posted at 10:49:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why I can't have Coke. When I get KFC it's like the only time I ever get Mountain Dew.
ALLSTARTRIPOD ยท 259 points ยท Posted at 10:51:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is exactly for that reason.
I was drunk when I found this out and my whole world just made sense.
[deleted] ยท 136 points ยท Posted at 10:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love when you find out a fact that is probably not going to change your life in any significant way, but it's completely mindblowing.
The_Pace_To_Pry ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:01:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What are you saying? This changes everything!!
InterwebCeleb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except OP is lying. They are owned by Yum! brands, not Pepsi.
Hellshitfuckasscunt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:55:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And yet when you try to explain this to a stoned teenager they think you can just "make it happen". No dude, this is Taco Bell, and if you want Coca-Cola, I need to make a goddamn multi-quadrillion dollar deal happen, so here's a dr.pepper and enjoy your incoming diarrhea. NEXT
sweetmojaveraiin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow, but don't most restaurants have a contract or whatever saying they can only serve one or the other?
PatrickBecerra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, so, it's not really for that reason. Its because fast food chains are profitable.
alexx138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But could you taste the chicken?
LickOnDeezNuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking pisses me off whenever I go to campuses or businesses and only see Pepsi products, shit tastes like shit dog.
Tim-Fu ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:20:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just leave this here to read - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11540985
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhh what!! I am pretty jealous my KFC hasn't done that.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god, I fuckin hate Pepsi.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:41:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The KFC in that photo is the worst KFC I have ever been to. Haven't been there in years, though.
touchy-banana ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:41:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In my country, they have Coke anyway.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm old enough to remember when you could have both.
Screw YUM brands. SCREW. THEM.
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Baja blast is where its at son
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ew. Dr. Pepper (Pibb?) is obviously the next best choice.
edit: Thanks to the one other guy who knows what good soda is.
kindall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For a while (might still be true) there were KFC franchises that had contracts with Coke that predated their acquisition by Pepsi. At these locations it was possible to get Coke products but not Pepsi products, until their Coke contracts ran out anyway.
fansworth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:11:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In NZ they are in the process of changing to Coke
darknessintheway ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KFC is like the ONLY place where you can get Mountain Dew. That shits delishius.
AnalTyrant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are a few places where these sorts of franchises are setup with restrictions that only allow them to serve sodas from the other major cola company. Usually these are at stadiums, malls, or some college campuses that have contracts in place.
It's kind of weird, drinking a Pepsi at mcdonalds, or something. Kind of reshapes the whole meal.
TehBatmon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:45 on December 9, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can get coke at KFC in Peru. I was thoroughly confused. Along with another Coke brand, 'Inka Cola'
moochiemonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:14:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mormons own Coca-Cola.
kruimeltje ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I should think twice before drinking that stuff. It's 's illegal in many other countries. That should ring a bell..
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which drink are you referring to? First I'm hearing of it.
kruimeltje ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I was talking about mountain dew. Here's an article about it. http://robynobrien.com/mountain-dew-ingredient-banned-100-countries/
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL vegetable oil is an ingredient in soda.
astrogaijin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Taco Bell makes up for it by having Baja Blast. Coke>Baja Blast>Everything else>Pepsi.
vicelordjohn ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 14:55:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't. Yum! Owns KFC.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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vicelordjohn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Pizza Hut, and formerly A&W and a few others.
vnilla_gorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Long john silvers as well. Not sure if that's still true
Whylizlovesyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, they sold Long John Silver's a while ago, but yes it was owned by YUM! at one time.
Zero36 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe this literally false statement is up voted so much
vicelordjohn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:20:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum! is not a subsidiary of PepsiCo and Yum! owns KFC.
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:25:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the beauty of crowdsourcing information.
This is also why I never believe anything I read on Reddit.
(Did you know that federal law protects any restaurant that donates food from liability if that food makes people sick? Ask a redditor why restaurants don't donate food and they will go on a rant about liability and lawyers and getting sued for making people sick.
The hivemind has an IQ of about 50.)
Zero36 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a test? Can I believe you? Can I believe anyone? Ahhhh!!!!
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996
CheeseBadger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And who owns Yum? That's right, Frank Stallone.
RIPmurphy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:16:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You guessed it!
ALLSTARTRIPOD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that must be a recent thing then. But it was owned by PepsiCo and when it was my head exploded.
mushperv ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:17:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum was created by Pepsi back in the 90s to oversee all the fast food restaurants they own. It has since spun off on its own from Pepsi.
CarRamRod44 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:42:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If 1997 is recent to you, then yes, it was a recent thing.
xxkoloblicinxx ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I worked for kfc in 2010 and it was owned by Pepsi still then.
CarRamRod44 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On October 6, 1997, PepsiCo spun off its restaurant business into a new, and separate, company called Tricon Global Restaurants (now known as Yum!) for a one time purchase price of $4.5 billion. PepsiCo used this money to purchase shares in the new company so it did own stock in the company and there was a partnership to supply products to the company, but it was no longer under PepsiCo's control or umbrella of subsidiaries.
xxkoloblicinxx ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:01:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then that orientation video was bullshit! Also a bunch of our shit said "a subsidiary of Pepsico"
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:08:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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vicelordjohn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:17:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't.
xxkoloblicinxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently not anymore. It grew too powerful and overthrew its master.
Dudemanbrosirguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats some LoTR shit right there.
BigDamnHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pepsi owns shares in Yum!, but it does not own Yum!. It used to own Yum! in the 90's.
Dudemanbrosirguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oops.
WhiteGrapeGames ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:25:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's just not true...
Pepsi spun off Yum! Brands in the 90s and currently isn't even in their top 10 largest institutional shareholders.
Halafax ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:11:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Yum! Brands, Inc., or Yum! and formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American fast food company. A Fortune 500 corporation, Yum operates the licensed brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet worldwide. Prior to 2011, Yum! also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants."
I learned about Yum! because of a weird little burger place that opened (and then rapidly closed) near me back in the late 80's. Hot 'n Now, it was called. It opened with no fan-fair or advertising, then closed just as quietly.
I looked into it, because I thought that was weird. Who opens a restaurant just to kill it? It turned out that the chain was purchased expressly to apply pressure to the established burger chains to carry Pepsi products. I don't think Yum! had any interest in it being a going concern. Which taught me that corporate logic is very alien.
amrasmin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:51:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are owned by YUM brands arent they?
kosif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
herrmister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
nodlehssuiram ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:42:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pepsi no longer owns KFC. KFC is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (formerly Tricon Global Restaurants), which spun out of PepsiCo in 1997.
Yum! also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
blackorc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:15:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are owned by YUM brands arent they?
eyeclaudius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People who eat KFC, have they never even tried Popeye's or is it just that they live in a part of the country that doesn't have it?
amrasmin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:51:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are owned by YUM brands arent they?
kosif ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
herrmister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No
amrasmin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are owned by YUM brands aren't they?
herrmister ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. I don't know...
kosif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought they were owned by Yum!
Doebino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They actually own Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut.
That's why you usually see them all combined into a KFC/Pizza Hut and KFC/Taco Bell
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow I just checked and it was bought in 1997. This goes exactly with the time period I began thinking about how shitty it had become.
As a child I loved it but the one in my town closed down so I didn't get to have it for 2 years. Then we had it as a family and made everyone sick around 1998. From there it had never been as good as before. The regular crispy sandwich is decent but the rest falls flat. Even the regular chicken buckets are no longer as good.
DrDisastor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They own YUM! Brands? I thought that dissolved in 1997. When I worked for them they were under contract to only use Pepsi products but were traded as YUM! (formally Tricon) publicly not PepsiCo.
Cyrius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They don't own Yum Brands. Dumabsses keep repeating information that's 20 years out of date.
senatorskeletor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yum!
-Manananggal- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explains why I can't get a decent cola at KFC
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't, it's owned by Yum Brands.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut are all the same company.
Not to be that guy, but it is actually PepsiCo. Pepsi is a subsidiary of PepsiCo, if I am not mistaken.
kobetwofour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bro..... How rich is pepsi
nomadofwaves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually the Yum brand spun off from PepsiCo but because of a lifetime(?) contract with Pepsi they will only serve Pepsi products with the exception that the A&W restaurants can serve Root beer and Dr. Pepper. Dr. Pepper is owned by Snapple.
2_minutes_in_the_box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah who else would carry pepsi products. Fucking savages.
Doctor_Crunchwrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is wrong and has over 1000 upvotes, makes me suspicious of the other facts in this thread
kindall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't actually true anymore. PepsiCo spun off their restaurant division in 1997 into a separate company called Tricon Global. It is now called Yum! Brands and is a publicly-traded company. Pepsi doesn't own a significant stake in the company today, but I believe they still have a long-term beverage supply contract.
xxkoloblicinxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pepsi also owns Lay's and a variety of other food companies such as Kraft.
Yeah Pepsi owns Kraft Mac and cheese too.
donoteatthatfrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it Yum!?
OhCrapImBusted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is Frito Lay...so those Doritos shelled Taco Locos, and Taco Bell and Pizza Hut flavored Doritos are making more sense now, huh?
It's only a matter of time before Grandma's brand cookies (also a Frito Lay product) make an appearance at KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fast food chains are huge sellers of soda, and soda is basically their one and only profitable product. It only makes sense that a lot of them become arms of a soda giant. They're basically branch offices for Coke and Pepsi either way.
seaboardist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No wonder I can't get a fucking Coke at Taco Bell.
InterwebCeleb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's not. Did you even bother to search Google?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=who+owns+kfc%3F
Chasegold19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is Pepsi ok?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then why are KFC stores in NZ switching to Coca-Cola?
Friendlyvoices ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
helimx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And A&W? There's a kfc/A&W combo in my town....
the2belo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
7-11 is a Japanese company now
Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This hasn't been true since 1997.
Lowtiercomputer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is Quaker oats and lots of other food stuff.
giblets24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a KFC here in Cardiff that is owned/franchised by...coke.... (it has the most flavours of coke I've seen outside of Five Guys)
jtj-H ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Australia it is owned and is a sister company to hungry jacks (rebranded Burger King)
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
ihatemarmalade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NZ KFC will stop selling pepsi, and instead will be selling coca cola. Whats the logic in that then?
Frankandthatsit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
was
kyleadam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But kfc sells coke.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
ColonelSanders_1930 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I should never have let those greedy bastards buy me out. KFC just isn't the same anymore
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
fyjimo8103 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In college I worked for a carpet company. One week we did work at a large regional coca cola facility. I grabbed taco bell for lunch and came back to eat it. They physically escorted me off the grounds and told me to return once I was finished my lunch.
reseph ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:39:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good. Coke is nasty. Pepsi has this fine sharp taste to it.
Keinichn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:39:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also owned by the same folks that own Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Have a restaurant around here we call the Taco-Chicken-Hut because it's all three in one building with the same employees and order counter.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:07:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so is taco bell and mountain dew
Adelu1219 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:12:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pepsi also owns Frito-Lay.
iswearatnuns ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 17:54:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the space between the sub-atomic particles (protons, neutrons and electrons) was removed so that the particles were all packed together tightly, the entire population of the Earth would fit into an area approximately the size if a sugar cube
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:32:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except OPs mom, they would need a second sugar cube
Fish_Happens ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:38:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
VOLUME
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ive heard the entire mass of the earth would be the size of a pencil eraser. Someone wanna use their google fu, im at work?
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:25:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the earth collapsed into a black hole it would be about the size of a peanut, so that's pretty close. (You couldn't pack the mass into a smaller space than a black hole)
joelthezombie15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. You need the earth to be compressed to the size of a peanut to cause a black hole.
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't contradict what I said.
jesjimher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I know, a black hole has no size. It's a singularity, so it's infinitely small.
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The event horizon of the black hole defines the size, which means the radius is proportional to the mass inside the horizon.
jesjimher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:56:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But the event horizon is just a convention, a theoretical line. A black hole, while having a definite mass, doesn't have a definite size as far as I know, they're infinitely small.
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:31:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not a convention, it separates the inside of the black hole (where nothing can escape from) from the outside. It's definitely a physically meaningful thing to talk about.
jesjimher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's meaningful, but it doesn't define its physical size at all.
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:03 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Properties_and_structure
Not sure why you're claiming this if you've never even read the wiki page about black holes.
jesjimher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:38 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry if I seemed rude, I was in a hurry and writing from mobile...
What I was trying to say is that what we call "size" of a black hole is not the same as the size of any conventional object. And that's because a black hole shrinks space around it, and it's size is actually infinitely small, even if we define another concept as size, for practicity.
But well, I suppose it's more a semantics thing.
mehwoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:36 on November 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, by convention, we use size to refer to the radius of the event horizon, but it isn't the same thing as what most normal people would consider size to mean. It's overloading the meaning of the term "size" to be useful for black holes because by the classical definition of the word size they don't have one.
HylianHero95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it was all compressed to be that small it would become a black hole.
AHyperCube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right before violently collapsing into a black hole.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Wadsworth_McStumpy ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 21:53:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody born after 1935 has walked on the moon.
janerowdy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:49:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen a few about the age of astronauts, but I like your phrasing the best.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
carkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1934*
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still technically correct.
carkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True.
baconistic ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 19:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1933 J.P. Morgan conspired to overthrow the U.S. government and set up a fascist government. Gen. Smedley Butler was asked to lead the revolt but instead told U.S. Congress who confirmed that at least some of his testimony was true. Nobody was prosecuted.
propilotcharlieboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not that i disagree, but do you have a source ?
baconistic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:06:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because money...
AverageMerica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because power...
And then... to get to the root of all evil:
Because possession.
Grumpy_Kong ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sound way to world wise to be an average American.
NuklearAngel ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 14:05:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you were to take a picture of the universe, where our solar system showed up as a single pixel, it would be 14.66 x 1016 pixels wide.
If you just wanted to display the width of that photo (not the whole photo, just a 1080 pixel-thick strip) on a series of bezelless 32' 1080p TV's, you'd need over 76,000,000,000,000 of them stretching ~31,000,000,000 miles, about a third of the distance from the earth to the sun.
Everyone knows the universe is pretty big, but very few people actually know how monstrously huge it actually is.
umer901 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And that's just the observable universe...
dezeiram ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:44:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's so much that "very few people know". It's more of the fact that the size is just impossible to truly grasp. Yeah you can think about all the numerical values and think "Holy shit the universe is huge" but it's impossible to properly picture how big it really is, no metaphors or comparisons. Just how big the universe is.
NotAloneInMyBasement ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
14.66 times 10 to the power of 16. The little up arrow doesn't show up on my end, though possibly due to me being on mobile.
VrIgHtEr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so you have a length in pixels... the length of 1080 pixels depends on the size of the screen. So I'd save some distance by using 5" 1080p phone screens
NuklearAngel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Sorry, forgot to mention I was basing it off a 32 inch screen (not including any borders). I'll update my post.
Edit: And to explain the choice of size, I wanted a screen most people would be familiar with seeing - phone screens vary a lot.
xlax69 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:02:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
80% of soviet men born in 1923 didn't see the end of world war 2
Noooooooooobody ยท 3360 points ยท Posted at 11:23:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't stuck in traffic. You are traffic.
Linked713 ยท 1016 points ยท Posted at 14:46:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Hey boss, I will be late this morning I became traffic.
Shower Thought Edit: Are Traffic cones humans that became traffic and couldn't get out and then adapted themselves? Someone update the Darwin evolution chart!
Urgullibl ยท 951 points ยท Posted at 19:30:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I am become traffic, destroyer of schedules.
PickiestGamer ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:08:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our numbers will darken the highways of every world, we are eternal, we are infinite, I am the vanguard of your frustration
Omnicide ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 23:09:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the best thing I've read today.
wateryoudoinghere ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:24:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something something Guru Lakhima
thvnderfvck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Surprised you've heard of him
indigoreality ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:12:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's my secret, I'm always traffic
keyblade_crafter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:29:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Im asphalt-kin and this triggers me
BestGarbagePerson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:01:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This needs more upvotes. Roadkill-kin here. Needs NSFW-tag.
Fudgms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am become traffic, destroyer of punctuality
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fired because you're the one who made everyone else late.
Account_Banned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Sorry boss I am traffic."
ZippityDooDoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that in Mitch Hedberg's voice.
RedAlert2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am become traffic, the destroyer of commutes.
yen223 ยท 1897 points ยท Posted at 11:57:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't caught in a pickle. You are a pickle.
csbsju_guyyy ยท 736 points ยท Posted at 13:34:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't surrounded by assholes. You are the asshole
DrInsano ยท 376 points ยท Posted at 13:45:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then who was phone?
preasefanks ยท 137 points ยท Posted at 14:27:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Banana
coriamon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doo doo doo doo doo doo dooo banana phone
Kaoryn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:06:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DO DO DO DOODOODOO!
KilianaNightwolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:37:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Banana phone!
Shadowmant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING!
milama ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:37:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, this is Patrick.
I_Am_Rainbow- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:19:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yellow jelly bean
FrossttyFTW ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:23:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bread
possumgumbo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:38:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY
dojosnow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:54:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mah nah mah nah
h2ogie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do do do do do do
thedersy1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:23:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's always money in the banana phone.
NinjaRobotPilot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:50:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, BANANA PHONE!
Boop boo de boo doo doop!
Davadam27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LPOTL?
CyberDagger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was me, Austin. It was me all along
DrInsano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aww sunuvabitch!
encens-moi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Insert Dick
her_butt_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are the phone.
Coolstorylucas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No you are phone, I'm traffic.
OfficialFrench_Toast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:46:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
JOHN CENA!
shpongolian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:22:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then who is champ?
Libertyprime117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom.
amoebaslice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is babby formed?
super_witty_name ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Phone was kill
BanterburyTales ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nosferatu?
Rampage2527 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But who's on first?
DeckerR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hello i am bus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you
bakedcake420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is dog
Luigimario280 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
MY DAD'S NOT A PHONE
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hello, this is dog
Yoshiman400 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, this is Patrick.
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:30:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to whale wash you get a whale of a wash and the price OH MY GOSH!
CappnKrunk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:01:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
KEEP FIRING, ASSHOLES
Sam3323 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:32:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i mean, you CAN be surrounded by assholes.
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You definitely can. Also, no reason it can't be both.
odie4evr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:31:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're in retail.
BestGarbagePerson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You lie with dogs you get fleas though.
druknirish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am the liquor.
--NiNjA-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should coin that
CertifiedMemeGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Real facts here
DrDisastor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are what you eat.
benartmao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't sucking dicks. you ARE the dick
TechGeek01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As it was spoken here once, by a user whose name I do not remember,
W00DERS0N ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, depends if the person is a native of Massachusetts.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you're surrounded by asshole, aren't you inside the asshole.
tehsuigi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:05:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You'd best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one.
bmckinney323 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Keep firing, assholes!
QutatogWrotack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm surrounded by assholes!"
SchlomoTheJew ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chains?
thoma5nator ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:04:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
RIP PD2.
Cobalt_Theremin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:16:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Get the fuck up!
Watchmaker85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's made his choice
VladmirPuto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:43:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
CHAINS IS IN A PICKLE!
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Life doesn't give you lemons. You are the lemons
GTFOReligion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're a cucumber first?
vicarious1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You used to work at The Pickle. You now OWN The Pickle.
Dennyboy101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who let Jayden on Reddit
Slapmypickle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
Cronyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oooo! I was supposed ta get pickles. For a party. You wanna come? There's gonna be pickles! :D
If I get em!
shotbymaggie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
jaxxon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not stuck between a rock and a hard place. You are.. oh never mind!
ErasmusDarwin ยท 132 points ยท Posted at 15:54:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The problem with this statement is that it's attributing all traffic problems to just the volume of cars. While that's a factor, there are still a lot of traffic problems that are ripple effects from individual drivers doing extra-stupid things.
joshg8 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:56:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The other problem with it is that it's not a fact, just a philosophical perspective and argument about semantics.
Unorthobox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what your definition of "is" is.
DeathPreys ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:24:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like riding too close and constant braking. There was a study done with Cars driving in a circle, they would get too close, then brake. This causes a rippling effect then the cars eventually created a stand still or something
bitter_cynical_angry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:24:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yep, there's a video of it on YouTube. When the traffic density gets above a certain threshold, standing waves start to develop. And actually they're not "standing", they propagate backwards at, IIRC, a particular constant speed. The wave is caused by drivers not leaving enough buffer space in front of their car; the lag inherent in trying to match the driver in front of you causes a ripple effect that eventually results in stop and go traffic. I've personally stopped standing waves before by leaving a very long buffer in front of my car and keeping a steady speed rather than speeding up and slowing down like the person in front of me. It's hard to stay disciplined about doing that though, and of course people keep cutting in front thinking they're going to get where they're going faster. I've also read that if some relatively small percentage of cars, like 20%, are equipped with adaptive cruise control, that's enough to keep the standing wave phenomena from happening, because adaptive cruise control doesn't have an ego and so doesn't try to stay right on the ass of the person ahead of it.
Edit: autocorrect typo
Death2154 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found it
theoreticaldickjokes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yesterday I was stuck in traffic behind a horse. A fucking horse caused a traffic jam yesterday.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I recently observed this in San Jose
runetrantor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:34:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True, but if said driver does this extra-stupid thing at 1am when no one is around, does it create traffic?
AuNanoMan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:49:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No but it's about context. If you drive like a moron during busy ours, you are going to have a more profound affect on those around you. It's not an absolutist argument we are having here.
anotherOnlineCoward ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah like not riding a bike to work. fucking bricks in the wall maaaaaaaaan
lizardscum ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 12:47:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can't it be both.
Account-1234 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 14:49:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, and it is both.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
big_al11 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Por que no los dos?
crazyknowscrazy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's really more that when you're stuck in traffic, you are also contributing to the traffic of the other individual people who comprise your traffic and vice versa.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you lizard scum or lizard's cum?
lizardscum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you decide. for me its Lizard Scum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4maV6EJQM
Uehm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
puffingpale ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:15:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're the last car. Then you are being inconvenienced
TheRiverOtter ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:07:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if I'm on a public bus trying to navigate a gridlocked sea of single occupant cars? Then I'd be stuck in traffic.
terrifiedNEET ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:33:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm sorry I'm late for work. I was traffic."
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:13:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Surely you're both?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:32:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, actually, lately I've started to notice that there's really never congestion - ie there's not too many cars on the road. Someone is first in the fucking line. It's very obvious on non-curvy stretches of road where you can see the fucking asshole who is in the passing lane without passing, literally creating rush hour.
Red_AtNight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The traffic engineering term for those lineups is "platoons."
A highway's level of service is based on what percentage of time drivers spend in platoons.
JuDGe3690 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cycling LPT: Platoons form on most urban streets with a grid and stoplight system, so you can often have significant stretches of the road to yourself between platoons.
Red_AtNight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, I always refer to those as the "all-tourist idiot peloton," since the regular commuter cyclists in my city ride fast enough to time the stoplights.
JuDGe3690 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I do the same on my ride to work. It's a 35 mph zone for 2 miles with a bunch of stoplights, but the average traffic speed with those lights (especially on the way home going toward downtown) is only 18-20 mph, right about my average speed. If I'm going faster than 23 mph I usually have to stop at a light, but 19-20 means I come up to the light right as it turns green, so I'm really not holding up anybody (it is two lanes each way, but sometimes people can't find an opening to change lanes in rush hour).
Jessepiano ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you can be stuck in a high volume of traffic that you're not responsible for like a sporting event letting out.
yrreiht ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:47:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Boss, I am running a little late for the reunion, because I am traffic!"
ilovetoeatpie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:08:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not in danger, I am the danger.
krizalid70559 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am not being knocked, I am the only who knocks
--NiNjA-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, wouldn't just your car be traffic? We would all be stuck in it.
Bladelink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not me. I'm trying to get somewhere. These other assholes are driving 10 under the speed limit like they're mosying back to the retirement home to die.
CrabbyBlueberry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I'm on a bus. I am neither in traffic nor a part of it.
PieMaster64 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Sorry honey, I'm going to be a bit late for dinner, I'm traffic"
aezyph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am the Liquor.
Eman5805 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then I was a truck.
serpentine91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rush Hour: Repercussions of Traffic
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
ChoobTube ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of my English teachers always said this!
basashi11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:32:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whether you are driving a car or riding a bike... you are traffic.
echtav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you, I'm better than the rest of these people
ArsenalOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Sorry I'm late, I was really bad traffic today."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Easy Jaden no need to blow our minds just yet.
tunersharkbitten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i could make a goddamn bumper sticker of that...
BuffyArlington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I'm late, I was traffic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Noooooooooobody knooooooooowwwwwsssss.....
Pokegic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
IF YOURE NOT MOVING DO SOMETHING
jkman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but you can't call in to work and say
"I'll be late boss, i'm traffic"
hooskies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And you're "the" worst
xMuttonChopx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Yeah I'll be home soon I am traffic right now"
_Sycophant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do not overtake on a bend!
DOOO SOMETHING
senatorskeletor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree with this one. I mean, yes, literally, we all constitute traffic.
But next time you're in slow traffic on the highway, wait until you have an upcoming turn or crest a hill and can see ahead. In my experience, about 2/3 of the time, it's because these two damn idiots are both going exactly 55mph next to each other in both lanes.
So in that case, I'm not traffic. I'm stuck behind two jerks.
globox85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I'm not in traffic, Skyler. I am the traffic. A guy gets in a traffic jam on his home from work and you think that of me? No. I am the one who honks!
stakoverflo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that I keep my distance and put along in first gear never touching the breaks, because I don't ride the bumper of the car on front of me.
Schneiderman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're on a motorcycle and lane splitting is legal.
Unfortunately, lane splitting is illegal in most of the US for no reason.
Archimode ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, i'm at home so I don't think i'm either.
probablyhrenrai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, you can't be stuck in traffic; "traffic," in its literal sense, means "the moving of something." If it's not moving, it's not in traffic.
Yes, I'm being pedantic here, but I still find it interesting that "traffic" can mean "a lack of movement" and "movement." Contronyms are weird.
T_at ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I ride a motorbike, so I'm neither :-P
talktochuckfinley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely going to start saying that instead.
Me: "Hi Boss, I'm running late this morning."
Boss: "Ok, why?"
Me: "Oh, it's because I'm traffic."
nsto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SORRY I AM LATE BOSS I AM TRAFFIC
allothernamestaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Traffic is stuck in here with me"
L1FTED ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I'm late boss, I was traffic for 2 hours.
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going 40 in the fast lane while texting on my phone, thankyouverymuch.
PinheadX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have a brain, you are a brain.
anothertrad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I might be, but that super slow guy in a motorcycle in the left lane is still an asshole
GuerrillaApe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
r/bicycling is leaking.
illsouryourmilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think people realize the word traffic just means the movement of something, like the movement of vehicles on a roadway. So even if you are driving 1 car on a completely otherwise empty road, you are still traffic. The better word to use is congestion.
thedersy1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Look upon my tailights, ye Commuters, and despair!
morris1022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This gets posted a lot but i always disagree.
Let's say i go to work Monday at 8am. There aren't a lot of cars so i get to the office at 845
Tuesday i go and it's about the same. I get too work at 850.
Wednesday i go and my commute takes over an hour, so i don't get to work until 915. Assuming i left at the same time, drove the same route, and my commute was extended solely because of extra volume on the road, those people are traffic.
OdysseusX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm not stuck in here with you! You are all stuck in here with me!"
yakovgolyadkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one drop feels responsible for the flood.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're a motorcycle. But even then most of the U.S. is too retarded to legalize lane splitting.
BuddhistNudist987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we simply material? Yes. We don't have bodies. We are bodies. - Christopher Hitchens
jakerodger1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do something by Slaves???
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Society doesn't judge you, you is society motherfukaaa.
EJ88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The people in front of me are traffic. The people behind I couldn't give a shit about.
Fancy_Pantsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:27:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No single drop of rain believes it's responsible for the flood.
RiPont ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well then, I probably shouldn't be reading reddit.
sseidl88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not in danger, I am the danger
ZiggyPalffyLA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am the one who honks!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:47 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sucking your own dick doesn't feel like getting your dick sucked, it feels like sucking a dick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:42 on November 24, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i'm not trapped in here with you.
you're trapped in here with me.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
ColonelSanders_1930 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Go back to /r/bicycling
BeefBayonet03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah dude
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
qngff ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:38:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm stuck in myself. AM I MYSELF!!!!!
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AM I BEING DETAINED?
Ferelar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
.... By myself???
emperorko ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 20:08:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The United States CIA actually really did secretly drug, abduct, brainwash, and torture unwitting US citizens for about 20 years straight... mostly just to see what they could do, but ultimately to try to find a way to create mind-controlled slave spies that could infiltrate other countries.
xianoth ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:13:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Project MKUltra.. Fascinating and terrifying read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
PhlogistonParadise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit :(
TomTheNurse ยท 2061 points ยท Posted at 10:52:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in the universe then there are grains of sand on this planet. There are more atoms in a single grain of sand then there are stars in the universe.
bearsnchairs ยท 765 points ยท Posted at 15:28:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The second half is not true. The number of atoms in a grain of sand is on the order of 1020 whereas the number of stars in the visible universe is 1023 -1026 .
Pandipoop ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 18:03:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthefuckyou
bcGrimm ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 19:36:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonsterfuckyou
kbobdc3 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:27:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itwasagraveyardfuckyou
BlUeSapia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:57:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/itcaughtoninafuckyou
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am so incredibly happy that that is a real subreddit
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemonsterfuckyou
mcandhp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Should not be surprised that is an actual sub.
logitewty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:06:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...That's a thing. Very fitting for this thread.
forgotmymainagain ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:48:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was false too. but 1020 atoms in a grain of sand is right? Holy shit.
bearsnchairs ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is a very rough estimate because I don't feel like doing the math, but a mol of a substance has ~1023 particles and for silicon dioxide it would weigh ~60 grams.
A piece of sand is about 1 miligram, but SiO2 has three atoms in it. Once you do the math you get somewhere around 1020 atoms per sand grain.
forgotmymainagain ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:00:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I googled it and found this: https://www.quora.com/How-many-atoms-are-there-in-a-grain-of-sand
Mind actually blown. Didn't realize atoms were that small.
GroundhogExpert ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 18:24:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you want a way to visualize this, imagine a drop of water being represented by the size of our planet. The size of a water molecule would be about the size of a cherry on that scale, and that's three atoms.
Moudy90 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:36:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn
GroundhogExpert ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:40:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually have a little game/quiz I like to go through with people. I call it which is bigger, so these size comparisons are pretty well ingrained into my head. In case you're wondering, it takes about ten droplets of water before we have roughly the same number of atoms of water as there are stars in the observable universe. I usually present that information as "which is bigger, the number of atoms in a glass of water, or the stars? Shot glass or stars? A thimble full of water or the stars?" It's always the water.
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just clarifying, you mean atoms and not molecules, right?
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Mind blown.
jkman ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:01:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
again proving that people will upvote shit they believe and know nothing about.
ParanoidDrone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you'd need 3k to 6k grains of sand for the number of atoms to catch up, if I'm doing my math right?
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Close, but not quite. You would need 1000 to 1000000.
ParanoidDrone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why I avoided fields that require scientific notation.
welloktheniwil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How about this one?
This is just theoretical, its not physically possible but..
Take the fact that you have 100 billion neurons in your brain. And every neuron has roughly 2000 possible connections... Your brain has more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe.
Now obviously this is not possible because neurons can only connect with other neurons in close proximity, but it's still a cool fact.
iTrolling ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Thank you! I couldn't even get my mind around that one. The Universe is also larger than the observable Universe (duh), so there was no way it could hold true.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
10 ^ 23
Your app doesn't do formatting well.
olyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup... Thought about it for a second and it hit me haha
yodelocity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When ever we say universe we mean observable universe, right?
EatsDirtWithPassion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a really, really big grain of sand.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
106 - so just a little bit more, then.
reddit_for_ross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wouldn't 1023 -1026 be a negative number?
Unless im really stupid
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is a range.
reddit_for_ross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I was thinking subtraction
Hohepas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So how many grains of sands would it take to have more atoms than stars in the universe?
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhere between 1000 and 1000000. So about a handful to a small bucket.
mr_burnzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't the number of stars infinite because we don't have the technology to see them all?
abucketofpuppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a strange assumption if I ever heard one.
codekaizen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Google pegs a grain of sand to be defined over 5 orders of magnitude, so it could fit, depending on the definition.
chain83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let us use a slightly smaller grain of sand then for the sake of argument. ;)
WunDumGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but then it would be a pebble.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you need to measure more "plus-sized" sand grains.
Level126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that negative?
bearsnchairs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your app might not do the formatting. 10 ^ 23 - 10 ^ 26 . It is a range.
Level126 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:19:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:D
Deluxe07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
StealthNL ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:12:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, but are there more atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on earth?
bearsnchairs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe so, but it depends very heavily on the size of the sand grains.
For a 1 mm diameter sand grain you get a mass of about 1 mg. 1020 mg is 1014 kg of sand. This is around 0.000000001% the mass of Earth. I'd venture there is probably more sand than that on earth.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:52:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:04:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, -3 ?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:39:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's your problem, bud? You looking for a fight...
/r/TheyDidTheMeth
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 360 points ยท Posted at 12:41:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sea =\= Land
JSKlunk ยท 176 points ยท Posted at 12:43:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 16:44:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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F4ST_M4ST3R ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that pun shore was unnecessary
knightni73 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:02:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Better than Sealand I suppose.
mannyrmz123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sealand? It is still not a Country.... Yet!
Arkantos12345 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:08:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. My. God.
Derf_Jagged ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like this fact better
DrunkHurricane ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:55:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Expect it isn't a fact. It's just a coincidence.
smooothh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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bxtk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SEa Air and Land?
jackdatbyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
oceanjunkie ยท 1793 points ยท Posted at 12:29:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in our galaxy than atoms in the entire universe.
TomTheNurse ยท 873 points ยท Posted at 12:39:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyfacts
Sir_Llama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:20:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/kenm
Kismonos ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:30:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyfarts
theattractionguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/sharts
yen223 ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 12:39:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do not see any flaw in this logic.
sanjeetsuhag ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:38:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the Fault in our Stars.
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:42:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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TheMexicanPenguinII ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Think he was sarcastic there
JSKlunk ยท 283 points ยท Posted at 12:43:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
PolybiusNightmare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People don't think stars be like they is but it do.
leroyyrogers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ben Carson?
JSKlunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neil "Smoke" Degrasse Tyson
yousedditreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-ken M
ElCaptainRon ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black Science matters.
Staticprimer ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:04:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that you, Ken M?
Shoelace_Farmer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:27:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more atoms in our brains than brains in our entire head!
wyfiman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:27:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
when you think about it, we know less about the ocean than we know about our own immediate vicinity
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:27:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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faatiydut ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 13:35:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
programming_student0 was available when you made your username, you should be ashamed.
Bronium2 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:11:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Forever a student, I suppose.
inconspicuous_male ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's a FORTRAN student maybe?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Alexanderdaawesome ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think he is referring to the fact arrays start at 0
Orbitir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what have whole numbers got to do with anything?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Orbitir ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Is that a standard? Never heard of it defined this way before. 'Whole numbers' is just colloquial and a somewhat dumbed-down way of saying the integers to me
Guessing you're not French then.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Orbitir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know what natural numbers are.
Sergiotor9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he means that he counts with naturals, hence the first one is 1.
Just a wild guess.
Joelerific ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more Adams than Stars on our planet
Source: met only one Star, know a couple of Adams
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more galaxies in a grain of sand than universes in an atom.
ghastrimsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-Ben Carson
WangMuncher900 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in our brain than there are brains in our body
BaconPit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more grains of sand in the universe than there are stars on earth.
minastirith1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Omg thank you for cracking me up in public and making me look like a weird lonesome manic
HHhunter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:12:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
can someone explain?
nowordsleft ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, because he's joking. Stars are made of atoms so there can't be more stars than atoms.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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nowordsleft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ions are atoms that are either missing an electron or two, or have extra. Still atoms.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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nowordsleft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:29:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would disagree with your definition of atom. A hydrogen ion and a helium ion are atoms in my world.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:35:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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nowordsleft ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I simply disagree with your assertion that atoms must be neutral. An atom that loses a single electron does not cease to be an atom. I concede the definition gets a little fuzzier when you're talking about protons and alpha particles because of their lack of electrons, but an ionized oxygen atom is still an oxygen atom.
BlopBleepBloop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, are stars not made of atoms?
TheSqrtMinus1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what
MinecraftHardon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a Ken M I can't think of off the top of my head.
steelbeamsdankmemes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound correct, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
seventhmizukage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We have more cells in our brain than brains in our entire body
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in your brain than brains in your entire body.
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more galaxies in our star than universes in an entire atom
McClural ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in our galaxy than Adams in the entire universe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LOL
NikitaMann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more atoms in our brain than brains in our entire body !!
toonytoon180 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more grains of sand on a beach than atoms in a star in the universe.
ejoman113 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more atoms in the entire universe than polar bears.
SniperLoLs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/KenM
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:42:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit
oceanjunkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope it's true.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:16:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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oceanjunkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Wishpower ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:37:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You might also be surprised to learn that there are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand in an entire atom.
Levelagon ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 15:06:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That does not seem right.
bearsnchairs ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:27:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't. Atoms in a grain of sand is on the order of 1020 while the number of stars is 1023 - 1026 .
Combogalis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:26:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think we know the number of stars in the universe...
IHadACatOnce ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 14:57:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is nobody else being driven insane by the use of "then" instead of "than"?
SkoliarRS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! I see loads of people do it on the internet. Drives me up the wall.
Threeedaaawwwg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's chronological. Stars came before sand, and than atoms came before stars and sand.
gladashell ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:17:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was on my way already, but yes, it may have pushed me over the edge. Before the Internet came along, there was limited exposure to the spelling and grammatical foibles of others, now our evolving disregard for the correct use of language is on display everyday. To be fair, I'm not saying that language cannot change over time, it is the correct current usage that we all agree upon that makes it a language. For me it's more than the misuse of then and than or the fall of the great dictionaries to net-speak, it represents the disintegration of the great linguistic tie that binds us together in our respective societies.
Bigstar976 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:26:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
than
tidder212 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Techically it is not a fact, it's just a theory.
Toastwaver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in the universe than words and sounds ever uttered in human history.
HailSatanLoveHaggis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read stars as 'stairs' and thought 'wow that is amazing!'
Zentopian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:04:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait...really? I never really got given a reference to atomic scale before...
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:40:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is an oft quoted incorrect fact. Atoms in a grain of sand ~ 1020 , stars in the visible universe ~ 1023 - 1026
Zentopian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. It did seem kind of outrageous.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's an estimation, but it sounds really funny that it's estimated about 1023 - 1026. It's a huge fucking difference. Yeah, I get it, but it's still funny to look at.
VroomVroomBraaaaaap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:00:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body.
0zeyn0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"this planet" maybe youre talking about earth. I don't know, there's a lot of sand over here on Mars.
TomTheNurse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Okay Mark Watney.
AG9090 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And I think there are more synapses in our brain than stars. Or something like that.
DarkMoon000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More synapses in the brain (1.5*1014 ) than stars in the milky way (4*1011 ) .
However there are 1.7*1011 Galaxies out there, so the number of stars in the visible universe is still bigger than the number of synapses in the brains of all of humanity.
AG9090 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I knew I was wrong in someway
Tinfoilpain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just think-The light from that star was emitted in the previous presidential administration.
silverbackjack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more sands of grain in the star than there are universes of sand in our atoms
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Lord_Metagross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i saw a r/theydidthemath on this proving it wrong
femmepensee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have never, ever believed this but apparently it's true...Holy Shit!
StockholmKung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Were you by chance at Bill Nyes lecture at PSU last night...he went over this.
BridgetteBane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
False.
Sick_Boy_Paddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stephen King's Dark Tower series is more or less based on this.
bigscience87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more planets in a grain of sand than galaxies in a star.
AalewisX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in a grain of sand then atoms in the entire universe
imferguson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Than vs. then ???
TheEzMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you believe in God?
acidrainstorms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps the sand has more atoms than stars in the observable universe, I have the necessary knowledge dispute that, but there's no way there are more atoms than stars in the entire freaking universe, which is as we understand, infinite.
Thesnowpoet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i heard there are more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on earth. there are more stars in the galaxy than galaxy in the universe and more atoms in a grain of sand than stars in the universe
morris1022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My brain hurts
blue_dreams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Back during the days of Ask Google, my cousin had them investigate this theory. If I find their write-up on it, I'll post it here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The universe, what a concept.
pavetheatmosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The observable universe? I can't imagine we have any idea how big the full universe is.
DerpHerpDerpston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like sand. Its coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Festiveandregal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*than *than
PeterPorky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
There are more potential synapses in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe.
1UPZ_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Visible universe?
TheMalec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I always wonder about this. Is it known that the universe is finite?
MAD_OR_NAW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that really true? Nah. There has to be only a trillion atoms in a grain of sand.
scoobiedthedoobie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Than*
i_dont_give_a_care ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Than.
Fancy_Pantsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I hear that something has more atoms than there are stars in the universe I wonder if that's really true. I mean, isn't the universe supposed to be infinitely big? And can't we only see a relatively small percentage of that infinitely large space? Would it be more accurate to say that a single grain of sand has more atoms in it than there are stars in the visible universe?
KurtisPlaysGames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you said more stairs and got confused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Kwiatkowski?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Quarter_Twenty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...In the visible universe--maybe. There's nothing we know of, so far, to say that the universe is finite. And infinite means infinite.
c0796 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How would one know how many stars are in the universe if the universe hasn't been mapped?
Kalapuya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And there are about as many atoms in a grain of sand as there are grains of sand on the Earth.
tysnastyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was, there are more atoms in 10 drops of water than there are stars in the universe?
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
MacDaddyTits ยท 591 points ยท Posted at 10:41:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Beetles taste like apples,Wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Dusk_Walker ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 14:44:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've eaten a worm ($20 bet. I won.) Before. It tasted like dirt.
Nothing else..
handsomesteve88 ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 20:35:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm imagining a scenario where you ate a worm and lost the bet...
Friend: I bet you $20 you will eat this worm, Dusk_Walker
Dusk_Walker: You're on
Dusk_Walker: (eats worm)
Dusk_Walker: Dammit!
edit: formatting
Dusk_Walker ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:46:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like that.. Except they bet me I wouldn't.
Then when I did, they ran away.. No money for me, and gritty dirt in my mouth.
ShadowBlitz44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Should have run him down and stuffed worms down his throat.
Dusk_Walker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Her.
And her mom was a bitch who thought her kids could so no wrong.
ShadowBlitz44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry those kids rarely get far in life. Sometimes they do though and no one is happy.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:54:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because you didn't eat fried worms.
Dusk_Walker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense! Fried bacon? Delicious. Fried catfish? Delicious. Fried worms? Probably delicious!
PhilxBefore ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:03:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meal worms taste like a nutty popcorn to me.
Benny_Andretti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:41:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you indulge often?
RadGrinArcher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Considering they're basically a tube full of dirt this makes sense. More so than people, even.
rasputine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have to clean them...
Dusk_Walker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did. To the point of wiping all the dirt off of it.
Which, let's be honest.. That's about as far as a 13 year old's gonna go to get a quick $20 just for eating a little worm.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dusk_Walker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I.. May need to try this.. For... Science..?
heyduckyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude you gotta fry it first
1337_IT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you gotta cook the worm?
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Easy rubles amirite
memorablemember ยท 116 points ยท Posted at 16:37:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sewer rats could taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers.
freethinkingbum ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:03:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about dogs?
BonerForJustice ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:52:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't eat dog either.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, but I mean do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
whalt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:30:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
MikeTaylorPhoto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:37:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, so by that rationale if a pig had a better personality it would cease to be a filthy animal.
freethinkingbum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But do you consider dogs to be filthy animals?
AbsintheEnema ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:54:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We got a bad motherfucker over here.
nealius ยท 237 points ยท Posted at 10:53:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And cicadas taste like shrimp.
MacDaddyTits ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 10:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't heard of that. Interesting.
nealius ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 11:12:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard it from the Japanese who heard it from the Chinese. So YMMV.
GeneralMalaiseRB ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:46:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd try it. After all, YORO!
uoenoMeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit!!
tjt2896 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 11:03:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Crickets also tastes like shrimp :)
ilovetoeatpie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:58:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shrimp also tastes like shrimp :)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:58:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alright alright, now I'm calling bullshit.
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit also tastes like shrimp.
SosX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Either you've never had crickets or shrimp
DarldmeirReturns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've had crickets and they didn't taste like shrimp at all. How do you prepare them to get that taste?
Rapier_and_Pwnard ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:05:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Boil them in shrimp stock
Papy_Wouane ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:15:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That- that's about it.
tjt2896 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I fried them with tomatoes :)
theBEARdjew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found crickets to taste a lot like sunflower seeds
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think they taste like popcorn without butter
tjt2896 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We cooked ours so maybe that changed the taste.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:16:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker.
IronOhki ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:30:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I met an entomologist who breeds bugs for food. I got over myself and tried the bugs she brought to eat specifically because I think shrimp are basically bugs.
I did not tell the entomologist this.
michaelscottforprez ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:45:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And snozberries taste like snozberries.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:00:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
semen also tastes like shrimp
Babaganesha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And cockroaches taste like fried chicken and waffles
MiffedCanadian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have to prep them a certain way? I ate a cicada while drunk once and it tasted like grass, not at all like shrimp.
nealius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard what the Chinese do is rip off the wings/legs, cook the body over a cigarette lighter, crack it open and suck out the insides.
clander270 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
LIKE A SPIDER
Badcompany18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And sugar ants like cranberries
ShadyCicada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neat
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If that is true I really missed out this summer
gotmynamefromcaptcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My brother said cicadas taste like almonds, he ate one when we had swarms of them a few summers ago in Chicago.
_merpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not testing any of this.
nealius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me neither.
Delision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And my penis tastes like... Well I'm not really too sure.
Fluffinn ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 12:59:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And ants taste really bad
SosX ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:52:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ants taste good
DickTayta ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am adamant about this!
ThatDudeWithoutKarma ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:06:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The big black ones taste like lemon drops actually.
applepwnz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:56:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I remember when I was a kid finding out that some ants tasted like lemon, but you'd have to squish them before you put them in your mouth or they'd bite you on the tongue.
ThatDudeWithoutKarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned it in the air force. Worms also taste like shit.
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend on my block when I was like 11 or 12 who would eat ants sometimes and he told they had a citrus-y flavor. They weren't the big ones if I remember right, just small and black.
TheWestButt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:46:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No that's grass.
mishkamishka47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
subtle
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:49:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I tried one once when I was in grade school and it tasted like vanilla. It was weird.
Geekmonster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, IT was weird...
1337_IT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! IT isnt weird.
hailthedragonmaster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And fireflies.
SkyrocketDelight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dip them in chocolate
thisischeski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
'ant chutney is good' - gordan ramsey
codythomashunsberger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So does grass
CaitlinSarah87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I understood that reference.
Akarious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
taste really sour. they don't taste that bad
spartanburt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because of acidity, ive heard.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*currant
lobehold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta fry them, everything tastes better when fried.
SopHocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell no they taste nice and minty
PotatoPink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ants taste like salt and vinegar chips. So... You aren't wrong.
UroBROros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually heard that most ants taste vaguely citrusy and have a pleasant lemon taste. Ymmv tho
KidLimbo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not fair to ants
ericdared3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno your aunt tasted ok to me.
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt has a mustache btw
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
spicy actually (yes, I've eaten them)
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So have I.. on my rice krispies treat accidentally. Not fun
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol, i was 5 and just ate them raw. was not fun either
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. This happened a few months ago to me
Lucifer_Hirsch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No they dont. Ant ass is a delicious traditional dish in Brazil, tastes like an orgy of lesbian fairies in your mouth.
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tmi but ok
awkward-silent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Carpenter ants are sour.
hellojocelyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
they taste like pepper. pepper that moves.
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god no.... They dont taste like pepper at all to me....
Phantom8legs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They taste like burning
Fluffinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burning what lol
Polarbones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like salty lemon
fattiefalldown ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:55:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only player haters don't like the taste of formic acid, g
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 10:43:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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MacDaddyTits ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 10:44:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ive only tried worms and beetles and they were spot on. Back when I was a young Lad in the good ole boy scouts.
[deleted] ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 12:04:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What does bullshit taste like?
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 13:47:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit
solomondg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:30:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was not kawaii.
knightni73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nutty grasses.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lies
RusskayaRuletka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like..umm...Shit?
MacDaddyTits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
scouts honor
Billz2me ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tastes like scoutmasters cock
SeattleIsCool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...after visiting the other boys
DDAisADD ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:10:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians.
arib510 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how does one eat fried worms?
TheUnimportant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! I understood that reference! Great book! Made me vomit!
Coolstorylucas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bad movie though.
Powmow123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard there's a book about it, you should check it out
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:01:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you.
lalisa4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:22:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've eaten a wasp. It just tasted like pain.
ParkourPants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:07:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you try the big worms or just the little worms?
rivermandan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
worms do not taste in any way at all like bacon, they are bland aside from their bitterness
aykontakt ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:18:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And pussy tastes like cinnamon chewing gum.
jayrmcm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They smell like tuna, but they taste like chicken!
jayrmcm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They smell like tuna, but they taste like chicken!
TheShittyBeatles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What do dung beetles taste like?
mirbb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:23:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would imagine they taste like shit
TheShittyBeatles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So would you say they're...shitty beetles?
justa_flesh_wound ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:49:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And The Beatles taste like the 60s
Nerd_Hulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
a beetle a day keeps the friends and neighbors away
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Majop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Point for the worm.
usfchem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm going to go home and eat a handful of wasps
LastKill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Deer meat tastes like human meat.
americangame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about Beatles?
SP_SpecTre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try! I'm not eating worms.
beardedheathen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i'ma need a source on that worm flavor
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just feel like you're trying to trick me into eating bugs. It won't work.
Ebert_Humperdink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Grasshoppers taste like oregano
MrSquicky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.
A kid would ivy too. Wouldn't you?
rattfink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana,
justsamilarity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't lie to me, mom
iammrsbug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're just trying to make me eat bugs!
triina1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worms do not taste like fried bacon
I have eaten three
Contexual_Healing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Beatles taste like Apples
Sozaiix3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this how commercials convinces me to eat them
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Figs taste like wasps, because they contain wasps.
satanicmartyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I will take your word on this one.
johnnyrd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
whatever dude. my friend dared me to eat a dead wasp for $5 and it really did not taste like pine nuts. I enjoy pine nuts.
JackAceHole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And France is bacon.
rivermandan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not nightcrawlers or the normal worms around here, they are just bitter
DickTayta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Beatles record album : Apple!
It's a conspiracy people!
BorneByTheBlood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can anyone really confirm? Raw or cooked?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
After being cooked? Or raw?
xerox13ster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wood ants taste like lemon
morris1022 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cooked or raw?
Ibanez7271 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But texture wise they are all vastly different. I am a texture fiend so that stuff would be very unsettling.
OdensGirth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The bigger black carpenter ants taste like lemon lime Gatorade. I tried them when I was in jr. high because our biology teacher told us they taste like that. Spot on description of the taste and not that bad actually
RandyRhythm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apple records makes more sense now.
say_or_do ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, they taste like what they are. Any chef will you that foods/ingredients don't taste like other foods/ingredients but the actual thing it is. That's how you fine tune dishes to what you really were looking for.
Wilf55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this is something that the hacker 4chan would say to make people eat worms...
Qender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But what do grasshoppers taste like?
BaconLondoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck me I need to get me some worms!
ITprophessional ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canned silk worm pupae taste a lot like black-eyed peas.
Phantom8legs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slimy yet satisfying
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apple was made of Beatles
Spacetravelinmyblood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And john Lennon is worm food
OhTheHueManatee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meal Worms taste like peanut butter. I use to have an iguana and we'd have lunch together sometimes.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Iiiiii'm just gonna take your word for it.
Daniel_A_Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone likes fried bacon.
ereldar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And ants taste like lemon drops.
Dubalubawubwub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Spiders taste like nope.
recoverybelow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't trust you
pyromaniacaardvark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also cockroaches taste like buckwheat.
maranthjrm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what about fried worms?
A_Fisherman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source? Have you ever asked a worm whether it liked fried bacon?!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
IAmTheToastGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm told ants taste like pickles
mcwilg ยท 1226 points ยท Posted at 11:53:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tim Allen, aka, Buzzlight Year / Home Improvements was a drug runner, got caught and for a reduction in his sentence got another 30 odd people arrested lol
Kazz3lrath ยท 2975 points ยท Posted at 15:51:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DUDE. Buzz Lightyear. Christ.
Ausemere ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 17:02:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaah, that's what /u/mcwilg meant. Holy fuck, I'm dying at how he spelt.
mcwilg ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:10:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sorry, taking calls and typing on Reddit as the same time lol
Feedthemcake ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:39:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Put the buzzlight down.
MarcusXXIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i read it maybe 5 times before giving up on what he ment exactly.
ThinkInAbstract ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:26:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://p-fst1.pixstatic.com/5069e509dbd0cb3061000c5f._w.600_s.fit_.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Spelt is how you spell "spelled" in British English.
TenThousandArabs ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 17:27:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck why is this so funny?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzzbite Beer
Jaikellr ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 18:02:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight Beer
poktanju ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:27:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jee Suschrist!
Skithy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:35:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzzal Drin
wigwam2323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzzledrin
EasyE103 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:08:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pass the Buzz Light
BlUeSapia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Year
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:47:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I usually hate spelling corrections on Reddit, but wow, holy crap this one right here.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:04:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why this made me laugh so hard, but I enjoyed it
mrseanjc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:42:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buz Zlighty Ear
beardedheathen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever! Uppity space toys...
GnegSalaban ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even notice until I read your post. Now I feel sick :/
SirArseToucher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What you dont like cracking open a cold Buzzlight after a long hot day?
theycallhimthestug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzz light is what I'm going to call my low grade beginner weed when it's legalized up here.
SuperWoody64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Have a bud lightbeer
Prichtofu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzz Lightbeer
MagicScotsman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bud Light Year
lookitsjustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight Year
BadPasswordGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think Tim Allen has played Jesus, but I would totally see that movie.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That blew me away more than Tim Allen being a drug runner
Matt2486 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funniest shit i've read in a long time
allothernamestaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like Buzzkill Snitchoftheyear, amirite?
AbombicTom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mind is blown more by that spelling error more than his Tim Allen fact
WellIGaveItAShot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzz Lightyear would be a great drug dealer name.
KingSwaggleV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Buzz Lightweights.
falcoperegrinus82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the show was called Home Improvement without the "s".
Jman0123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Year of the Buzzlight is upon us
Thenmatwaslike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More like Buzzed Lightyear, amirite!?
pavetheatmosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that in Jeff Davis's voice
OrnsteinSolaireChild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually Buzzlig Htyear.
kuruslice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzz lightyer joint for you.
ProfessorMetallica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A.k.a. Home Improvements
gotmynamefromcaptcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight beer.
Bn_scarpia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't always drink while watching Toy Story, but when I do I prefer Buzz Light.
terminbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight Year.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's Mr. Christ to you!
TheRandomHero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:16:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah he was a low ABV lager.
homelesspie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzz Killington
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Went full Christopher Walken
pepperonly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woo Dy
tokyorockz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bud Light Year?
caseoscurvy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm slow. Tell it to me like I'm a seventh eight year old Chinese woman who spoke fluent English.
Lionel_Herkabe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:01 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To think that all these years he thought my favorite Toy Story character since childhood was spelled that way makes me incredibly frustrated.
Moneybags99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:27:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
didn't you see the 'lol' at the end of his post? lol
mpbems ยท 434 points ยท Posted at 12:48:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During one week in November (21 years ago) he starred in the highest grossing film, the top rated television series, and was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
buckus69 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 16:03:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
See that, kids? Don't do drugs!
Animal_Inside_You ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:01:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean, do drugs. It worked for Tim Allen.
thisissmitty ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 17:18:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sell drugs then narc EVERYONE
whats_the_deal22 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snitches get
stitchesfreed from jail and continue to have an extremely successful acting career.MyKidsAreOCD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:34:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And his book is really good too. The best part is that his real last name is Dick, so he will call restaurants and reserve a table and when they host/hostess calls them, he/she has to say "Dick, party of four" out loud.
fran_the_man ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:07:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is incredibly impressive. Has anyone else ever achieved this?
mugwump867 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:13:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And when he stopped in to his hometown bookstore that holiday season to special order a book we all pretended we didn't know who he was even though his mug was smiling at us from the top of the NY Times Bestseller rack. We placed the order for Mr. Timothy Dick and sent him on his way. He seemed completely flummoxed.
AdamBombTV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...please tell me that's not Toy Story. (I believe the highest grossing film, but it can't be 21 years ago)
mpbems ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:15:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was The Santa Clause, but Toy Story came out in 95. Damn I feel old.
NowWithVitaminR ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:19:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...The Santa Clause came out 21 years ago?
Good Lord.
embrasse-moi_bien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's like EGOT-ing !
ItsRevolutionary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The hat trick for actors.
lol-community ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And still had to run drugs to make money. Makes you wonder.
TroubleEntendre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now he makes Christmas movies once a decade, and keeps hoping for Pixar to call him again.
PulltoOpen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting fact: Micheal Crichton did this as well.
runekn ยท 260 points ยท Posted at 14:23:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure 30 is even
docking-bay-94 ยท 223 points ยท Posted at 14:56:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is but those thirty people were just really weird.
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:20:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you met some middle aged to elderly person who claims they spent fifteen years in prison because of the dude from the Santa Claus, you would think them pretty odd, tbf.
_____Matt_____ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I ask who George Dean is, will I get any answer that isn't "a cunt"?
ArguesWithEverything ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No no they were strange people
CarlMuhfuckinSagan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Those thirty people just couldn't even.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy clearly can't even.
adrianisepic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No they were odd as in weird. Duh /s
DManTech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He must mean that the people were weird.
prince_kepler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But they were all very odd people....
torpiddynamo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
bILLy4004 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means the people were all weird.
acamu5x ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:53:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzzlight year.
cryptdemon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pause I'm putting in there feels like I'm tripping over a whale.
mini6ulrich66 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:20:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, Mark Wahlberg was a fucking asshole as a kid.
From his wiki:
stuft_animal_cruelty ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf, I watch this dude's movies
mcwilg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was an evil wee bastard lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He basically still is. As far as I know, he refuses to apologize for blinding a man, but he "forgave himself" for it, or some stupid shit like that.
I could be wrong about that specifically, but I'm pretty sure he's still a shithead.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, he wrote a song dedicated to them called "Good Vibe Asians".
dcone2001 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:11:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He has a book that talks about all that
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:24:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found the other person that read Tim Allen's books.
dcone2001 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:54:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was actually my father who read it. Lol
Trelifaxx1640 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found the other father that read Tim Allen's books.
JustCallMeEro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:00:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man- it's actually enjoyable, pure 1990s Tim Allen.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read it, loved it. Did you read I'm Not Really Here?
JustCallMeEro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did not. I'll have to check it out!
seandalawn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:05:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I guess in his case, snitches get riches
escoterica ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:27:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, my mom went to high school with him. You missed the best part, though - before he changed it, his name was Tim Dick.
Hight5 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:13:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 22 years old and just noticed that Tim Allen voiced Buzz Lightyear.....
mcwilg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:15:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I only recently found out Christian Bale was the wee kid in Empire of the Sun
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:38:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woody is voiced by Tom Hanks
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
LegendOfDylan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His full name is Timothy Allen Dick I believe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He went to my university. Tons of people have his mugshot on their wall
GasTsnk87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:49:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hello fellow Bronco!
bluehelios ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man - this is never forgotten. Thousands of years from now, still remember when he ratted.
novelty_bone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tim Allen was caught trying to sell a large amount of cocaine to an undercover cop.
RRettig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When he was younger that show home improvment came on and it got to to the part where tim allen goes"AAUGH!" and he got so excited he ran down the stairs and hit his head because he wasn't used to his own height and he has been a little slow since then.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So he did the right thing in the end? Good on him.
shoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Budlight Year. This character is really watered down.
TheSovietGoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From Buzz Lightyear to Officer Buzzkill
IpAriAhI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also got wasted and pissed in the fountain at wmu
HooDooOperator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wait, tim allen was a rat?
respect lost.
EvilTOJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To add to that, his last name is actually Dick, but for TV went with his middle name instead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bud Lightyear
FoodBasedLubricant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tim Dick
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐
rmbiss92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and he actually honed is stand up skills in jail by entertaining is fellow inmates
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude you mean Buzz Aldrin
pantysmasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Buzzlight Year would be a great name for a beer.
ireland123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In Ireland Tim Allen is famous chef who was convicted of possession of child pornography and bought a get out of jail free card for โฌ40,000.
http://m.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/shameful-truth-that-lay-behind-ballymaloes-wholesome-image-26228305.html
F4ST_M4ST3R ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so before he went to infinity and beyond, he took people to infinity and beyond
xXDigital_DecayXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What a hoe
WhompWump ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've always known he was a snitch. He also keeps his career afloat by making shitty kid movies. Fuck Tim Allen
respectthegoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I saw his mugshot framed at a Missouri flee market the guy was also selling grenades and stacks of playboys.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
BeachBum09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He also is a hardcore republican. Not knocking his political views. Just saying hardcore republicans tend to be the ones who have the idea that drugs are bad and harsh prison terms should be given for them.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:49:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What was so odd about them?
Hoffmeisterfan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah so Tim Allen was a snitch? Bitch ass hoe
mcwilg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol So would you if it was gonna be life or 2 year in jail lol
rugtoad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:28:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's funny how hard people talk about "snitching" when they aren't sitting across the aisle from an overzealous prosecutor in an election year.
Everyone has a price. Most folks sing for a lot less than a lifetime sentence, too.
gcanyon ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 14:49:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We don't know what "matter" is. "matter does not have a universal definition, nor is it a fundamental concept in physics today" wikipedia As far as we know, all mass derives from energy, not whatever "matter" is, if it exists at all.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 17:18:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Matter exists it just isn't will defined. Life isn't well defined but we can say that squirrels are able to move around at their own accord and rocks need an external force.
Edit: ok life is well-defined but I still stand by my position that matter, while not rigorously defined, is still a thing.
Pimptastic_Brad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:12:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but life is fairly well defined (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life look under definitions).
Although there are still a lot of fringe cases for where calling it life is kinda fuzzy, notably viruses.
The_Yar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:24:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fire.
A fetus.
MoarDakkaGoodSir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:24:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is fire fizzy on being alive or not?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:25:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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I_am_fed_up_of_SAP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A star fits that definition too, right?
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess so, doesn't really spread like a fire.
MoarDakkaGoodSir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aah, right, I getcha.
Rodents210 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The whole "viruses aren't alive" thing always legitimately pissed me off. The technicalities by which they are disqualified from "life" always seemed really arbitrary. Then again, I'm not a biologist. But I really think if your definition of "life" excludes viruses then you need a better definition.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:40:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As an aspiring biologist, it's not that weird at all. They need another host to even be able to live. And that's just one part. They reproduce, but have no metabolism. It's hard.
chrisonabike22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True. They don't even replicate on their own.
I mean, you can have obligate parasitic bacteria which need a host otherwise they'll die.
Viruses on the other hand don't even have the machinery to replicate. They just hijack the host replication enzymes.
There are some viruses which are so lazy (or well adapted, take your pick), that they permanently sit in your DNA and only replicate when you do.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a retrovirus, right? HIV, for example? Or am I confusing terms?
chrisonabike22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. Some, like HIV, are still infective between individuals. Some have sat in your DNA for generations.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think I was wrong actually. I rechecked and it seems to be called a provirus. HIV is a provirus though, so I was half right.
chrisonabike22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:58 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, a provirus is the term given when a retrovirus is integrated into a genome
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:56 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was that not what you said in your original comment? Perhaps not.
chrisonabike22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:14 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Retroviruses have the capacity to integrate, a provirus is when the retrovirus is integrated.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:00 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, exactly. I'm not a good biology student...
gcanyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No one is denying that matter is a thing (I don't think). It's just that if it is a thing, we don't have a firm grasp of what it is or does, apart from the effects of the energy tied up in it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
spartanburt ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:43:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We know what matter is because we defined it. Whtat you should say is that we're still learning the exact nature of mas and energy.
gcanyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:16:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I understand it the exact opposite is true. We understand mass and energy pretty well, as described by m = E/c2 That's the point: as far as we know, all mass derives from energy, through Einstein's equation.
CuteThingsAndLove ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:50:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's a matter?
Geekmonster ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:56:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing really matters. Anyone can see.
gcanyon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:21:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing really matters...to meeeeeeeeee.
FleaHunter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:36:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Any way the wind blows...
SteevyT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anyway the wind.....blows....
gong
sittingcow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's a matter with you?
gcanyon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:27:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone looking for the full mind-blowing experience: http://youtu.be/Xo232kyTsO0
bearsnchairs ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:42:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are misunderstanding that sentence. We know very well what "matter" is comprised of.
The gist of the sentence is that some people define matter as particles with mass, or collections of particles with mass while other sources include all elementary particles in their definition.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The particles derive their mass, as far as we know, from the energy within them. There is, as far as I understand it, no consequence we can point to yet that derives from "matter" rather than energy. If there is, I look forward to hearing what it is.
bearsnchairs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:16:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure there is. A system would be completely different if it consisted of 10 GeV of protons and electrons vs 10 GeV of photons. One is a plasma the other is just light.
Matter is more of conceptualization of physical things that can be "touched", and you're just misusing definitions.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I should have added: is the difference in some way attributable to "matter?"
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:12:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because energy doesn't have charge whereas some matter does.
Ireallywantto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
charge surprisingly isn't fundamental, spin etc. is fundamental and results in charge. whats even weirder is that these fundamental properties can come together in different ways to result in what we call charge, and even vastly different combinations produce a similar range of equal and opposite charges. energy is some measurement of these fundamental properties, and results in charge, its difficult to say if energy doesn't have charge because it is the result of how that energy is produced/measured.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with what you are saying and this is the root of the definition problem. Particles, which are generally considered matter are excitations of those particle fields so it all comes down to different types of energy.
Still, a useful definition of matter is that it is comprised of particles and interacting particles with mass.
gcanyon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:31:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"conceptualization of physical things" is circular reasoning. And in this context what does "touched" even mean?
akatherunt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:08:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only one so far that actually hurts my brain. Congrats.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thx
nwo_platinum_member ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:36:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The matter we can see in a galaxy is not enough to keep the galaxy from flying apart. Therefore, it must be dark matter. And the expansion of the universe must be dark energy.
Jackomatrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
pro-life-dicks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:29 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't matter
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
gcanyon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:29:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As far as we know the mass comes from energy, not "matter," whatever that is. And taking up space doesn't count I don't think, since, for one example, ice takes up more space than water does, without there being more matter.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't say taking up space was a correlating measurement.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then what does taking up space mean in this context? At a macro level, things take up space because of electron repulsion. But at a smaller scale there's plenty of empty-ish space within "matter". I'm not seeing how taking up space is useful in this context.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because of how much space your mom takes up.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Take your up vote, but that still doesn't explain matter.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know. The definition is "anything that has mass and takes up space" and the definition of mass is "an amount of matter." It's always been problematic. There's never been a clear way to grasp it or put it in words.
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The definition of mass is definitely not an amount of matter. In the video he describes how a hydrogen atom weighs less than a separate proton and electron, and an oxygen molecule weighs less than twice the mass of an oxygen atom.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/mass.html
gcanyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's the Newtonian definition, and it's fine for everyday use, but it's incorrect.
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, it's obviously always had problems. I feel as if people aren't really paying attention to the discussion they are in here.
sillygoofysexy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:50:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Horses wink their vaginas when they are horny
gmikoner ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:54:38 on December 13, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dont google it dont google it dont google it dont google it
farieniall ยท 189 points ยท Posted at 17:06:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It fucked me up when I found out California has more population than all of Canada. For comparison Canada has 35 million while California has 38 million. I also read earlier that India has over 1 billion people (that's like 27 Canada) and I cant comprehend any of this.
GingerUniversity ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 20:49:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 billion = 27 Canada
Math
thelyfeaquatic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:19:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
California also has more people than Australia. I was more shocked by the Canada comparison though. I also think it's crazy that the economy of CA, if it were counted as its own country, has the 8th highest GDP in the world. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#Economy
insite ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:31:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
China has 1.3 billion people. The US has 0.3 billion people.
farieniall ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:46:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
shhhhh let's not think about these things. I'm content to live in my little ol country
ckyu ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 20:22:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
china is ~4 americas
america is ~4 germanies
germany is ~4 romanias
romania is ~4 norways
norway is ~4 estonias
estonia is ~4 icelands
iceland is ~4 andorras
andorra is ~4 palaus
palau is ~2 naurus
naru is ~16 vatican cities
vatican city is ~4 wake islands
wake island is ~4 midway atolls
midway atoll is ~3 american public secondary school classrooms
american public secondary school classroom is ~2 starting 11 for the San Jose Earthquakes
starting 11 for the San Jose Earthquakes is ~2 Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses is ~5 ppds
ppd is salt
yodelocity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:20:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where is this meme from? Counterstrike?
ckyu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:25:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
close, dota2. ppd is the captain of a team called evil geniuses. there's a big tournament happening this week (ends on sunday). they say he's salty
Edwizzy102 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:49:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sodium was first isolated by Peter Dager in 1807. A chemical component of salt, he named it Na in honor of the saltiest region on earth
yodelocity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah OK.
Coffee-Anon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:55:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 countries out of 196 contain over 35% of the world's population
mxmr47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
China has 20% of the worlds population
donoteatthatfrog ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:27:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
India has approx 3 times the population of USA in a land size one third that of USA. Basically, the population density of India is 10 times as that of USA.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And wait until they have more people than China. 2022 is only a few short years away.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33720723
Scottz0rz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3 divided by a third is about 10, yes.
I'm not sure if this is very mindblowing or "Holy Shit"-saying-inducing.
donoteatthatfrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Totally agreed. It wasn't a main-post.
It was response to the post which said 'holy shit' by comparing the population densities of Canada & California. Mine tried to say there is 'holier shitter' fact than that . :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a good one. Blew my mind too.
frzferdinand72 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:56:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would like 1 Canada please
kami_kameleon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:59:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About half of us in cali live on the 5, so it's really not that crowded elsewhere.
Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I checked, it's actually 36.6 Canada's.
http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=ratio+of+population+comparing+India+to+Canada&x=0&y=0
AK840 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:40:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
India - 1.25 billion, actually
You'll comprehend this better when you meet Indians (myself included) and notice their lack of concept of personal space
farieniall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Canadians really love our space
Sardalucky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1,251,695,584: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
-mikew- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tokoyo city has more people than all of Canada.......
hurtinyofeelins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's like 27 Canada!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The UK is about half the size of California but has double the population. Well that was true about 10 years ago.
RedAccount1330 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
India is very large. You just have bias maps.
issr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't look up Indonesia
farieniall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My head hurts rn so I'll trust you on this
mcandhp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That should be a new unit of measurement.
farieniall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you trying to say it isn't a real measurement?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Furansowa-San ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So does Metropolitan Tokyo IIRC
Capricorgicorn ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:33:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once Liechtenstein sent 80 men off to war, they came back with 81 because along the way they made a friend.
slid3r ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:39:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's blond, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists, Lichtenstein!
VarioussiteTARDISES ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:00:25 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!
Zentopian ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 15:42:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
During a city-wide blackout, there were several distress calls to 911 about strange lights in the sky.
They were stars.
EDIT: According to a quick Google Search, it was '94 LA, apparently.
[deleted] ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 18:54:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I work at the Kennedy Space Center. We had 2 launches recently (in the last 3 months) that went off at about 5am. What happens is the plume is high enough in the air that it's exposed to sunlight while the rest of the area is still in darkness. What results is this awesome moving shape.
I saw this awesome facebook thread with thousands of comments. Most claiming that it was a secret government coverup or UFOs. There were a few KSC employees explaining exactly what this was but the ignorant masses would shut that person down and call them dumb.
It was a lot of fun to read.
MoarDakkaGoodSir ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:30:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's a plume?
In fact, could you ELI5 your whole post?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 22:44:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Here's a picture to help (not to scale)
The yellow is sunlight, the purple is night.
The people are standing where it's still night, but close to sunrise. The rocket goes high enough that it's in sunlight, so it gets lit up like a cloud during the day, but is seen in the night sky.
Edit: Seen not sceen
MoarDakkaGoodSir ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:13:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, this is beautiful. Thanks, all cleared up!
91Caleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this is such a brilliant explanation, and i still can't get over how you spelled seen
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:00:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed, thank you. I am a aweful speller
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, this drawing explains why the ISS is visable. It illustrates why you can only see it just after sunset or just before sunrise.
jerk40 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:37:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
very cool!
gr8ver ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:59:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As cool as that looks, I'd probably shit myself if I saw that in the sky.
crlast86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:53:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is equally creepy and awesome. Thank you for this little tidbit of information.
Makeadodge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:15:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's essentially a space flight version of alpenglow!
Shmurfy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:25:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It wasn't just lights, the milky way appears almost like a cloud of some sort when there is no other light, people thought there was some kind of gas descending on the city
Zentopian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:30:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how many cities would, if a worldwide blackout were to occur for the next 24 hours, have reports of strange lights and gas clouds in the sky.
Leozilla ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was the milky way, yes it was LA
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Semantiks ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:18:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The relative size of our solar system to the Milky Way is about the same as a CD to the Earth.
b3ta_max ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
fanaticalkevc ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 18:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Probably will end up seeing all these facts on r/TIL tomorrow.
ironpete ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit you're right.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or Buzzfeed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Number 3 will boggle your mind!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
DRiiFTYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But then wouldn't that be YESTERDAY I learned.
Sharaghe ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:07:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 Great-Grandparents etc. When you go back to the 14th century you would have 1.000.000.000 realtives, but the population to that time was about 500.000.000
ljseminarist ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:52:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which means all your ancestors were incesters.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:20:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Incest is the Wincest ;)
MissAnthropy1982 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are spreading out all the relatives in a timeline as opposed to them being alive all at once.
Sharaghe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It simply means, that your related to everyone twice (when you go back to the 14th century)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:45 on November 25, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because somewhere in there it doesn't double. Say one set of your great grandparents may have had a son and daughter. If the son married the daughter of another set of your great grandparents, and the daughter married the son of another set of your great grandparents, you would only have six great grandparents.
Modern_Hermit ยท 795 points ยท Posted at 12:24:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 1905 points ยท Posted at 15:36:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Monday the 2nd."
berfels ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 17:36:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin have Friday's
MightyLabooshe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:21:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TGI Fridays have happy hour everyday, not just on Friday.
BlUeSapia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Years that end have Friday's
Am I doing this right?
i_sigh_less ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good way to look on the bright side!
hand_unsanitizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All of them?
mrmdc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:20:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that have a Friday the 13th will always have a Saturday the 28th
Vinny_Gambini ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:49:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ha... There was a thing going around Facebook like "this is the first time a month has had 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in 34 years" or some dumb shit. Opened a calendar, it happens like 3 times a year. Calendar things are much more common than people think they are.
Kylekins47 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:54:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll need a source for that, buddy.
Ollylolz ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:28:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Tuesday the 3rd."
bonobosonson ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 16:41:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Sunday the 1st"
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 18:20:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday are exactly one month long.
funkengruven ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always follow a month that ended on a Saturday.
zanyquack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:51:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on Sunday will always have a wednesday following the tuesday.
_crackling ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:59:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will NEVER have a "Wednesday the 35th."
staypositiveasshole ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
An often-overlooked fact.
slowgoins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:21:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will never have a Sunday the 2nd.
Eagle671 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:37:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind = blown
soproductive ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:53:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Wednesday the 4th"
LionofLebanon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:42:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin in a Sunday will not have a Wednesday the 5
Ninjahkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3spoopy5me
pwines14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit
--NiNjA-- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As months that have a "Monday the 2nd" will ALWAYS have a "Thursday The Twelfth."
VanQuackers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm gonna need a source for that
hismikeness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Equally as rare.
night-wing-politics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And a Tuesday the 3rd?
mixed_biscuits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, TIL.
Solid364 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mind=blown
BlahYourHamster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just looked this up on my calendar. Checks out.
AlphaAgain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They will not, however, ever have a Tuesday the 3rd.
knifewrench_for_kids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2spooky4me
gorampardos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sunday, Monday: happy days. Tuesday, Wednesday: happy days.
Thursday and Friday? Also happy days.
WienerSnitchelg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similarily, months that begin on a Sunday begin with a Sunday the 1st
attempt_number_two ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoaa. What about Tuesday?
UpSimbaUp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! You like that you fucking retard?!
RT325ci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:14:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday always have a "sunday the first".
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Great Scott!
Delision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Sunday the 1st"
ooo_bastard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you George Dean?
THE_IRISHMAN_35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Months that begins with Sunday will always have a Tuesday in them.
SirPuffufuf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:26 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
cool
branden_kozicki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Books_and_Cleverness ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:03:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most mild fact I've read in last several fact-readings.
joeyadams ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:54:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Halloween falls on Friday the 13th next year.
Elranzer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:48:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the first time in 666 years. Spooky!
sheawey ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:54:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Paris Attacks happened on Friday the 13th
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:29:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:35:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Never baguette
c0ldbl00d ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:35:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
trop tรดt
NonorientableSurface ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even more important, there are exactly 14 calendars out there.
Proof - Every day falls on exactly one of 7 days. They are determined by the previous day. Hence, every calendar is determined by the day Jan 1 falls on. The only variation is a leap year, in which it shuffles the dates down one from Feb 29 onwards. Hence, there are 2 sets of 7, or 14 calendars.
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But now we have Leap Second...
NonorientableSurface ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't fundamentally change a calendar. That second doesn't get allocated to a new day, and it's that day for a short second. It's allocated to Feb 28 etc. So that doesn't change this. Sorry.
havek23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:25:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's how counting works.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People born in December will always have a birthday in December.
hehyih ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
spooky
TurdFerguson495 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next year is the 666th Holoween that is on a Friday the 13th.
AgentElman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Days that end in a Y will not always have 24 hours.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly a "Holy Shit" fact. That's just simple math.
GodofCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you didn't know math and you found this out, you would use math or look at a calender and say "Holy shit, that's right!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"If you didn't know math...you would use math..." lol
recoverybelow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Word
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
jbhall36 ยท 1050 points ยท Posted at 14:38:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Women can't touch their elbows together.
ka_PAU ยท 214 points ยท Posted at 17:23:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm at work. Colleague next to me (female) didn't believe you and tried it. She realised after a few seconds, but still.
Coffee-Anon ยท 142 points ยท Posted at 18:28:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This works two ways, I've always heard it as, "women can't touch their elbows behind their back", they try and just end up sticking their boobs out
teh_maxh ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 18:40:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it's in front, there's three options. Do it at chest level, in which case the breasts do get pushed together but are covered by the arms; do it at face level, and the breasts don't get pushed together; or kick the guy in the gametes for being a douche.
blackstrips ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 19:18:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to order The Breasts pushed together one, please.
CommodoreBendyStraw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:53:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do the upgraded version: "you can't touch both elbows to your belly button at the same time"
teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Elbows to the front, then down.
j_sunrise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No matter how I do it, the breasts are not pushed together.
GabrielGray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean gonads
teh_maxh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. I mean kick him so hard the gonads get destroyed, allowing a hit to the gametes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kick him in his sperm?
teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Kick him so damn hard the testicles are completely destroyed.
ltscale ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:45:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW
Like this.
http://www.gfycat.com/LikelyAmpleConey#
hyperbolical ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Likely ample" indeed.
Dauthdaertya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Not a woman, so I can't confirm, but I cannot actually do this one. Can anyone touch elbows behind his/her back?
Edit: I see the merit in this, yes, but I was curious if anyone could. It seems like something you should be able to do (like putting them together in front)
abucketofpuppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. I can't do it either (male). When I read Coffee's comment I assumed the female would put their elbows together and realize it was a prank. I wonder how many times a lady tried this and never realized it was a prank because it was true.
jbhall36 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 19:11:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HR would like a word with you.
RedAccount1330 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:30:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Ayyy lmao"
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:42:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Loooool... Good. Some pervert.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:25:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like this is going to go over many heads
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 14:44:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, thank you.
GraysonStealth ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 17:53:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( โข ) ( โข )
Sarke1 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 23:16:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( โข Y โข )
Flower_Boogerface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
(o)(o)
dj_underboob ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:08:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's absolutely possible when sitting in an arm chair. Keeps your hands anchored,furthering the stretch. Had a lot of fun teasing boys when I was in middle school with this.
MoarDakkaGoodSir ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 20:32:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure how to tell you this...
dj_underboob ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:19:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't get my username by chance ;)
aznanimality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you, PM me a photo/video so I can have some evidence
nicolee0712 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:13:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just did. What ?
jaypenn3 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 18:26:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We need pics for proof.
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:06:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For science. Of some kind.
scroom38 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:17:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its to get you to expose your boobs more.
Either by squeezing them together (touch elbows in front), or pushing them out (touching elbows in back).
nicolee0712 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:14:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit, I tried this in the middle of class too
BattlingMink28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes both happens.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:08:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Men can't put their palm on the same shoulder, bit women can
RanchyDoom ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:52:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what is this one supposed to do
RayFails ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 18:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It flexes the biceps, broh! Makes your arms look big, broh!
Doughy123 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:40:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what biceps?
really_original_name ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you even lift broh!
ScroteMcGoate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But my palm can touch my shoulder... :(
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:03:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean you don't get off to women placing their palm on their own shoulder?
LuitenantDan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I too am confused.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it gets shy guys to flex by making them try to put their hand on their shoulder. It's slightly easier for women to do it because their bicps don't in the way as much.
ATruePeiceOfShit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? I just did it
Dauthdaertya ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:39:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mine doesn't reach :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
your biceps are too big then. kudos!
LastKill ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:22:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or it didn't happen.
Mail_Chimp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hmm I just did it? I guess its cuz im chimp irl
meno123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you relax the arm and push with the other, it's pretty easy even if you have biceps.
Alleyria ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nobody cares.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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jbhall36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or I don't believe you.
GenevieveThunderbird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I fell for this and I'm not even angry
dj1026 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a woman with slightly larger than average breasts, I was not happy when I fell for this in high school.
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta try it in front and behind.
friskykittey420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i can touch my elbows together but i am freakishly symmetrical and proportionate i cant do it behind my back though
starsthatarentstars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Being a woman, I just tried this and looked at my own boobs. If I could up vote twice, I would.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice! (Really ladies, give it a try! I volunteer to watch you try and to judge if you touch them or not!)
MisterOminous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait. What? Cause of the boobs? What if they have itty bitty Titties?
Educated_Spam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just confirmed I am male.
realjefftaylor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, in front of the chest or behind their back? Better have them try both.
Megaprr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sneaky you...
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Women can't take nude pictures of themselves and PM them to me.
shifty_coder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You. I like you.
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ha!
savvygrizzly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
PM photo if you are one of the very very few who can.
LDM123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Behind their backs, to be specific.
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hear some can, but absolutely none of them can jump up and down at the same time.
PoppetRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have the distinct feeling I'm missing a joke here.
medalleaf- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Facts
DeemSleep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if they have small boobs
Rebredd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just tried that... I see what you did there.
_Nicky_Flash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But girls can
xenthura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not falling for this one again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aww sweet I'm gonna tell this one to my whole family at thanksgiving!
Geekfest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the breast one in the list.
xyz33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, good sir! Just told my wife and she preceded to try.
JohnnyFatWallet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The hero we need
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
almost tried this before I though, "my boobs probably won't let me"
kobel1dj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
โฆ behind their back
_merpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes my small boobs are squeezed but I just did!!
ThePurpleNinjaTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bless you
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
tokyorockz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I almost went and asked my mom to confirm before I realized what was going on.
Droppedyourpocket1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck man, I asked my mom about this!
Delision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
;)
KEBBE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just did?
Psuphilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*behind their back
ParadiseSold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's just not true?
account_AIDS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ayyyy,I see what you did there.
SavannahWinslow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this supposed to be a joke? It's completely untrue. What is true, however, is that women can bend and place their foreheads against a wall and lift a chair that's beneath them, but men cannot.
PMmeforsocialANXhelp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ma man ;)
cosmo_bucks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:12 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey! Woman here. I just did. ๐
jbhall36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:36 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or it didn't happen
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:48 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was bored so I did it anyways, it hurt. You sir are not a nice person
Kon_Artist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some can if they try it while jumping up and down
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:15:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
now, that's just not true
I_Am_Rainbow- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:36:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got a girl to do this in swim class in middleschool. Fun times.
GoldenOlive ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:49:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you look up to the sky at night, what you see happened hundreds and even tens of thousands of years ago.
Gunrun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can see galaxies 10 billion light years away (thus 10 billion years ago) with the naked eye on a clear night with low light pollution
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you are looking at Alpha Centauri, in which case it happened four years ago.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Andromeda321 you wanna weigh in on this?
Andromeda321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:58:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hi! Most stars we see with our naked eye are less than a thousand light years away. That's insignificant if you're a star that lives millions or billions of years.
GoldenOlive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of course. But still, it's crazy to think that one we look up, we see the sky's history.
EebamXela ยท 2958 points ยท Posted at 15:38:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you took out all of your veins and arteries and laid them all end to end on a football field you would die.
SaavikSaid ยท 204 points ยท Posted at 17:42:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't even have to be a football field either. Could be any old field.
DEVILneverCRIES ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 18:00:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, I can survive if I use any new field?
Xx420VAPEITxX ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 18:13:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly.
Fresh_Bulgarian_Miak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody should test this.
rabid_communicator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:15:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the veins and arteries?
I'll just get started while I wait for an answ
mr_suppaman_not_here ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:18:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, are you ok? Blink twice if you're not ok. Don't blink if you're ok.
Xx420VAPEITxX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:21:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He ded
indigoreality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I say you he ded
Future_Jared ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The colonel!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Nivian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah you'll be fine.
otacon227 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:24:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't even have to lay them out. Just take them out.
p3n1s14nd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The field doesn't even need to be old. It could be any new field.
SaavikSaid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good point.
TheOctophant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even Mike?
singaporeguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit!
pyromaniacaardvark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What happens if I wrap my veins and arteries around Mike Oldfield?
AnticitizenPrime ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 18:05:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If everyone on Earth held hands and formed a chain of people wrapping around the world, many of them would drown.
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You got me thinking. If they never released their grip, I wonder how much weight would be pulling the folks on land from the bodies sinking into the ocean.. But wait, they'd be pulled from both sides right? Who would get their arms ripped off?! I need answers people.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The weakest link. Or more likely, no one. They'd fall into the water, but would float. Within minutes people far out at sea would drown or get eaten by sharks or something, and wouldn't be able to hold on to each other anymore, so the middle of the chain would be gone and there would gradually be less weight to worry about.
DoofusMagnus ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today he'd be scratching at the lid of his coffin and screaming for help.
YourDadsBanana ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:57:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
source?
sharestories ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:20:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL new things
Rosssauced ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:14:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one made me chuckle.
dreyan1625 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:06:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit
thespickler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Just tried. Definitely dead.
Mustache_Kitty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:52:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, you're right!
CptSandblaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brb, gotta try this
sniperdude12a ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:22:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And don't forget capillaries
Sozaiix3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sooooo if I lay them, say, 4/5 of the football field length would I be 1/5 alive?
Contexual_Healing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gonna need a source on this
Laslight_Hanthem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
OfferChakon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Before or after?
AeonsApart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:08:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Shit!
heyhey91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just choked on my coffee.
EebamXela ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome.
ocean365 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like this one. I miss anti-jokes
TenTonApe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
flameon247 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
XxShnukexX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THIS FACT IS SO INTENSE!
expaticus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit!
EebamXela ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. Try it!
ProperLogic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So this thread is just a copypasta of the other previous fact threads?
xxdeathx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's the fact we were expecting to hear?
EebamXela ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the blood vessels of the human body have a total length of 100,000 km (62,000 mi): they could encompass the Earth by 2.5 times.
xxdeathx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a lot of football fields
medalleaf- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rly?
auctor_ignotus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true. Am dead.
lordpsymon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am now dead.
nik282000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you were to print every page on the internet and stack them environmentalists would be pissed.
Lereas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a humpback whale across a football field, they would have to cancel the game.
Captain_smart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
rex2oo9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! I didn't know that!
Fr4t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This stupid joke never fails to make me laugh.
FockOffMate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:35 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
GroriousNipponSteer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
judestiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He actually said this (roughly).
anoelr1963 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
literally
shakawkaw000 ยท 1944 points ยท Posted at 11:16:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
George_E_Hale ยท 418 points ยท Posted at 11:34:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
--Judge Judy
SendNudesForUpvotes ยท 149 points ยท Posted at 12:02:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
----Michael Scott
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 13:46:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-------Black Science Man
UpOnCoffee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:25:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---------Darkkmane
shzt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:36:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---------- black ddk
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:40:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---------Wayne Gretzky
kirbyMonster ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:55:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
--------JOHN CENA
MrTThompson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:42:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Black science, man.
CommanderDub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-------shakawkaw000
I_Am_Rainbow- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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TheRandomRedditUser ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
----------------Old Science Man
eudamme ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---------poop
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
eudamme ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:35:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wewlad
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
------------- Bill Nye the Black Science Guy
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 14:10:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---Astrophysics black guy
preasefanks ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 14:28:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---Wayne Gretsky
Rombolio ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:41:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
---Brent Gretzky
Ferelar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:50:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Metachondria
nomonkez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fitbrah ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:04:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This went meta quick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it meta? Whats the joke?
aipom45 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:10:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone on reddit said there isn't a thing I learned in school that Judge Judy has said or something similar and a reply said the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
-Judge Judy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok thanks
aarongaming100 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
META E T A
TheVoiceOfRiesen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
--JOHN CENA
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
--Mahatma Ghandi
blistermania ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:32:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/gallery/smXdc
Dance_Solo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:43:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Motherfuck. .not this shit again.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:22:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A cool fact about the Mitochondrion...during reproduction, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that is passed from parent to child is 100% MATERNAL DNA. Yep. So go give your mother a hug for your metabolism.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:26:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
...and apparently the reason mDNA is separate is because mitochondria used to be a separate organism. They began living inside other cells way back in the day and developed a symbiosis. Not a biologist but I thought this was cool when I took bio in high school.
Edit: there are actually multiple theories on this. Endosymbiosis is the most popular. See wikipedia.
troutpoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, there are only about 17 different versions of mtDNA...so look around your office, odds are you have the same mitochondria as some of them!
CrypticallyDecoded ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*Are
If I'm not mistaken.
Just to be pedantic.
ldn6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:44:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ARE. Mitochondria is a plural noun!
lebanesemale ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:16:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mightychondria FTFY
BlueCowDragon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so out of the loop. Why is this a meme?
OurPersonalStalker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The mitochondria is what allows cell respiration therefore producing ATP which is the energy.
CogswellCogs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Bubba" is the powerhouse of the cell. And you better find him a cigarette.
hablomuchoingles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Never spent a lesson on current events, instead I studied the old American west
tjfraz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought is was midichlorians?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I could be jumbling up the facts a bit because I'm too lazy, but I believe that mitochondra were once a seaparate organism that evolved to have a symbiotic relationship with our cells. Now they just hang out there being awesome. Someone please correct me, that doesn't sounds right.
Hellknightx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I learned in 7th grade biology, too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Burn.
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Midichloreans
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
jesus christ holy sh--
troutpoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
An actual interesting fact about mitochondria is that there are theories that suggest that some of the first cells ever alive on earth were just single mitochondrion with a circle of DNA in them that acted like the nucleus. That means we all came from single mitochondrion!
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your maternal lineage can be tracked back though mitochondrial DNA...it can also be found in clones, making them not exactly the same DNA wise
tehjoshers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Jedi.
TheFencingCoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Jedi.
havek23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And mitochondria used to be single-celled organisms of their own until they were incorporated into living cells to help fuel them. That's why your mitochondrial DNA is different than in the rest of your cells.
ValdemarSt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The queso is the powerhouse of the taco.
SpiderFnJerusalem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of amazes me, because it seems to cross language barriers. We have the exact same translation, word for word in german text books.
One of the few things that I remember as well...
Armedandmustached ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Midichlorians are what power The Force. More midichlorians=More control over The Force.
_merpi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God, I will never forget this.
fournameslater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Stink_pizza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you mean midichlorians, NOT mitochondria!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, might-mightyChondria
seabass321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sitting in bio class reading this and my teacher walked behind me about to kick me out, read this comment, smiled and walked away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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originalgangster27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Photosynthesis.
MixedMedia_Eli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow really! I thought Mitochondria was the name of the metal band most emo people listen to.
thatwasnotkawaii ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Metalchondria
Undecided_Username_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-- Squirrel Turtle
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Nice_Dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHat about the endoplasmic reticulum?
allie_cat_attack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
smooth AND bumpy!
SemiFormalJesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
--Mr. J
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:39:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Luigithebeast805 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did not know this thanks, I thought queso powered the taco
THUMB5UP ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:32:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
Selfcannibal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:35:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, Bio 101 is not fun
Colonel_of_Wisdom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:43:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
LewsTherinTelamon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:28:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 02:30:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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91Caleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:57:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
bravo on the ring finish
brizzad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:52:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just ask OPs mom from the Uranus fact a few posts up
RudegarWithFunnyHat ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 10:56:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this
gambola ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 12:49:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So, literally a 'holy shit' fact?
_Kyu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:51:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy mindblown
karmisson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:57:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you make holy water?
You boil the hell out of it.
RudegarWithFunnyHat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well back in the old days in much of europe the water in many lakes and streams was not fit to drink, because of all the shit from animals and people, so they made beer because the process would purify it, and the ones who were very active in perfecting that process were the monks, so maybe beer is holy water
it_is_not_science ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Freeze it and drill holes. But the holes do somewhat reduce the effectiveness of throwing it at demons.
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
SmartAlec105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah so Family Guy was right?
talktochuckfinley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No shit. Oh, wait...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But.... Any water can be holy water. They just need to bless it
ILikeLenexa ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand is on its own continent that no one talks about: Zealandia.
aykontakt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or Jersey.
sticky_gecko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're talking about Jersey right now. Jersey, Jersey, Jersey.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be a cool band name.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:13 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Madagascar is more interesting I'd say, because you look at the map and think "This island is obviously a part of the African continent" but it's not, it's a piece of India that floated away.
K3R3G3 ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 19:16:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm way too late, as always, but...
A 0.1 millimeter dot is halfway between the Planck length and the width of the observable universe.
yggdrassiltree ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 00:49:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Logarithmically. In the same way that 100 is "halfway between" 10 and 1000.
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed.
kri5 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? Source? Because... Fuck
K3R3G3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:17:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Using chale19's numbers...
Planck length: 1.6 x 10-35 m
Width of the observable universe: 8.8 x 1026 m
And 0.1mm = 1x10-4 m
So, the Planck length exponent is -35 which is 31 orders of magnitude beneath the -4 exponent of 0.1mm (-4 - 31 = -35). The -4 exponent is 30 orders of magnitude below the exponent of 26 for the observable universe (-4 + 30 = 26), which goes to about 31 when you factor in the 8.8, which is almost 10, resulting in one more added to the exponent. Therefore, it's the halfway point. 62 orders of magnitude between Planck and observable universe, 62/2 = 31. So 0.1mm is in the middle. A little dotting of an "i" with your pen or on your computer screen.
chale19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:05:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Planck length: 1.6 x 10-35 m Width of the observable universe: 8.8 x 1026 m Making a difference of roughly 61 orders of magnitude.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:35:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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K3R3G3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's my preferred size for the Pilot G2.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:37:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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K3R3G3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. They're not smooth...they'll basically rip your paper. Then the bigger one...1.0 or 1.2...it's just too big and clumsy. 0.7mm is the way.
PM_Me_your_poetry_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody get this man some upvotes! Stat!
Thetrufflehunter ยท 368 points ยท Posted at 15:03:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you lined up everything on earth by size with a subatomic particle being at one and and the entire planet on the other end, you know what falls in the middle?
A dust mite.
Edit: I am totally okay with this being my most upvoted comment by miles.
TheGuywithTehHat ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 16:16:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So there are more small things on earth than big things? TIL.
[deleted] ยท 94 points ยท Posted at 17:13:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Small and big is relative. Especially when I steal your girl.
TheGuywithTehHat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:48:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ha joke's on you I don't have one.
http://i.imgur.com/rB4Hux7.gif
Coffee-Anon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:22:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
riggity rekt!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Wake_and_Poi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
OldPolishProverb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
SP_SpecTre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rektum
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rektangle
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shrek'd
ccfreak2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's more bacterial cells in you than human cells.
AK_Happy ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 17:55:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every time this is posted, someone has to explain it refers to a logarithmic scale. So I'll do that. This refers to a logarithmic scale.
abucketofpuppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like he curved up everything on earth by size
Reverie_of_an_INTP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:51:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this one of every distinct item by size or like every dust mite side by side?
ADreamByAnyOtherName ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:39:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Starting your arrays at an index of 1? Found the Matlab Programmer.
TheUnimportant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
duclos015 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where's the source on this? That's awesome.
atrociousxcracka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So basically.....there's a lot of tiny shit on the planet?
Derf_Jagged ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tried to find the joke with the punchline "A dust might", it didn't work out so well
a3wagner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well if that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then I don't know what will.
dirkthesexytoddler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Median or mean?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ive always had this inkling that we are actually giant and your fact proves it to me
GrapeApee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can prove SHIT!
WhatWouldSatanDo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why did it fall?
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reach for the stars there, 240 karma. You can do better, get out there and do!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Ogden-TO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get this, because the little things make up the big things. There are many subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, &c. inside e.g., an elephant. So in my estimation, for every big thing there are trillions or more of little things. I would guess the middle would most likely be a subatomic particle.
Sir_Doughnut ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 15:26:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I weight exactly as much on Earth as the Earth weighs on me.
HerbAsher1618 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:16:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What up, Atlas?
A_Deep_Sigh ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 19:27:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Australia once lost a war with emus.
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:24:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Never fuck with Australian wildlife, m8.
BlUeSapia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Especially those dang drop bears. Those things ain't of this world, I tell ya!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About sixty years after bunch of Fenians took a boat from America to Australia to bust their comrades out of prison.
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:00 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, they didn't. It was basically a guy culling emu populations with a machine gun until he ran out of bullets. They officially declared a war because machine guns are illegal to use outside of wars.
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm probably just young and stupid but I'm pretty confident I could beat an emu to death with my bare hands if it were a life or death thing.
farfrought ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:56:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good luck, they're pretty much velociraptors.
SynagogueOfSatan1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:23:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt it, they can get up to 6 feet tall and weigh over 100 pounds. They also have a very hard and thick skeleton with large sharp claws and beak.
DicalebMutombo ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 16:38:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a man to survive the Titanic, Lusitania, and Empress of Ireland shipwrecks Frank Tower.
Proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Tower
compugasm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:21:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not a verifiable fact though.
PaulsRedditUsername ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:05:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...who drowned in his bathtub.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
throwawayetp ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 16:28:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year. 1929.
compugasm ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:25:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only the good die young.
yourpostisashitpost ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:46:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Barbara is still alive...
compugasm ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:21:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I was kind of insulting Walters there. The good ones are dead, and we have this vapid husk of a corporate shill still alive. It's a shame.
yourpostisashitpost ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 23:10:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/lewronggeneration?
gobobluth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 was killed in her youth and the other was killed in his middle age.
So does that mean someone is going to kill Barbara Waters soon?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Fritzkreig ยท 833 points ยท Posted at 10:50:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You never actually touch anything, repulsive forces of the atoms create this illusion.
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 1424 points ยท Posted at 10:55:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you define touching something as feeling the repulsive force of its atoms.
Fritzkreig ยท 575 points ยท Posted at 11:02:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess it is semantics alllllllllllllll the way down!
[deleted] ยท 146 points ยท Posted at 11:24:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
dubbledizzle ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 17:12:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who...i just realized squirrel turtle = squirtle
Derf_Jagged ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:44:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This should be the #1 fact on this thread
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely the first one that actually blew my mind.
i_sigh_less ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of thought it was squirting turtle...
Sterling_-_Archer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Incorrect. Squirtle = squirt + turtle.
Based_Lord_Shaxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:48 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Goddfucking DAMNIT. A few comments ago Buzz Lightyear is buzz because BUZZ ALDRIN!!!
qngff ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:37:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soooooo Meta
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 13:55:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is so Meta. even this acronym . . .
MysticKirby ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...is overused!
kinectking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
sunbandit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:56:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Squirtles?
MrTThompson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:45:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that. Fuck you.
Bibbleisthetits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Told you I was a virgin mom!
kibblznbitz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:59:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Every argument becomes a semantics argument if it goes on long enough."
~Someone I can't fuckin' remember
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got that reference. I think.
TheFakeJerrySeinfeld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's like saying "I'm not touching you" when you're poking someone with a pencil, you're not actually touching them if you want to be pedantic about it, and you're also an asshole
whitehatguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it's turtles!
Cymen90 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 12:49:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But people are still mind blown that we are not touching any mass. We are basically just touching a force field.
TheWestButt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So even if I am touching you, I'm not touching you?
Cymen90 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:17:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I told HER!
Lateusvir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Basically we all use the force.
Spartanhero613 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:56:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a scientist, but isn't EVERYTHING (maybe) a force/energy once you scale down enough? Just repulsion or pulling, or some other fucking weird one?
Cymen90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. You never touch anything in your life.
aykontakt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:39:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mass, force. You say tomato, I say tomato.
damien665 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I also say tomato. But only in random contexts.
MoarVespenegas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:54:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That would be because your idea of touching does not exist.
Particles don't take up physical space, only the fields they generate do and interact with each other.
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MoarVespenegas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Things don't take up space as you imagine them to. The idea that most of an atom is empty space is misleading because all of an atom is "empty space". Particles have position but all their volume comes from the fields the produce. So if you consider electrons' electric field repelling each other on two objects as not touching then nothing can ever touch anything else because the only way particles can interact with each other is through fields.
A particle colliding with another particle is just an interaction of their fields, just different ones than electromagnetic ones, such as the strong or weak nuclear force.
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MoarVespenegas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's the point. They don't. All the "space" they take up is just their different fields.
fitbrah ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 12:03:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This, I hate people that bring up "youre never really touching something" Yes I do, feel this fist in your face? Definitely touches
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:56:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Nope, what I felt was the repulsive force of the atoms in your fist"
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fitbrah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, its good to know how it works
Anonate ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except that electron degeneracy pressure is not something that is taught in basic chemistry.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No but atomic repulsion certainly is.
Anonate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:23:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In this instance, atomic repulsion is caused by electron degeneracy pressure and not electrostatic repulsion.
aykontakt ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:42:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just an illusion. If you bang your head against a wall for eternity eventually the atoms will line up so your head will go through the wall and you will be wearing a wall necklace around your neck.
iwilldrumonyou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:04:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on it - I'll report back after eternity is up.
Nice_Dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're dead as long as you define dead as being alive
Darbaergar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna use this when I sucker punch somebody in the balls.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So my penis never felt my own hand?
montrealcowboyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had a relationship that was just like this.
_Nicky_Flash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes far more sense, if we define touching the other way, not only did my fingers never touch my touch screen while typing this, but the atoms that make up my finger have never touched each other
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what ops mom defines it as.
humpers96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your skin never comes into contact with any other surface.
HawkeyeSucks ยท 120 points ยท Posted at 14:15:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By that logic, you're not really a cohesive object. You're more of an abnormally well-defined cloud
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 190 points ยท Posted at 15:30:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I identify as a mist, bigot.
Enzown ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:45:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fog for life.
AngeloGi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, attack helicopter here!
KarockGrok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason this tickled me in a very hilarious way.
Thank you for your humor, kind internet stranger.
PhlogistonParadise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What are your preferred pronouns?
MikeDBil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, geez. That wasn't PC bro.
cynoclast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've thought about this before. In scifi shows where you get teleported or somehow whole-body-acted on, how they define where "you" start and where the ground/air ends at the atomic level?
Is a Nitrogen atom that happens to be really close to you at the time of teleportation considered part of you? Are skin cells sloughing off not?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Developmental biologist think of humans as over-complicated donuts.
BFQueb ยท 433 points ยท Posted at 13:04:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to her lawyer.
shmeebz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:02:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if this fact has ever been brought up in court.
BFQueb ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:14:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Brought up? Most propably.
Worked? Don't think so.
BorneByTheBlood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I did. She cried, her parents cried and yelled at me, and the judge gave me 15 years.
poetryslam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, baby. Your atoms don't feel that repulsed.
Trutillo ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:19:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, what if you press like, really hard.
Empty_Allocution ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking this as I read it and then I got confused because you mirrored my thought.
freedomna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Read this as I pressed really hard on my head...
SickleWings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This guy's on to something...
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your body is ripped apart atom by atom followed by everything in the universe, but it takes forever because time stops working and the only guy who can fix it is out to lunch and technically his lunch is now forever. So, thanks a lot dude.
Duman_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering we have been able to smash the nuclei of atoms together. Yes! If you press really, really hard
IpodCoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You go BOOM.
JohnD1451 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:27:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean to tell me that I have been levitating my entire life and didn't even notice?
buhburkz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much yeah. Kinda cool, right ?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:30:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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logicalmike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And you're more attracted to fat people than they are to you!
Chaotic-Genes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you experience the feeling of different textures then?
narcolepsyinc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:18:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe I'm just not reading this one right, because it doesn't make sense to me either. Also, how do we leave oils or fingerprints on things we "touch"?
Books_and_Cleverness ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:59:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's being silly, really, but his basic idea is that atoms are mostly empty space, and when you press down on a table or whatever you are just putting the electron fields of your atoms really close to the electron fields of other atoms.
The electrons and protons and shit aren't actually in physical contact with one another, they're technically separated by a tiny, tiny amount of space.
DarkMoon000 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:42:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, though the thing everyone forgets to mention is that the same empty space also separates the atoms inside of your body.
Which is a far more stunning fact your body consists of 99.999 (there are more 9s after that, I forgot how many) percent empty space
silverbackjack ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:37:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So that sexual harassment charge will be dropped right?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this is really dumb. As u/GeorgeDeanIsACunt rightly points out "touch" is the term we use to describe the feeling of the repulsive force of atoms. That's not semantics, that's basic common sense.
SkylerYee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you never really hug someone?
THANKS CHRIS D.!
kris_random ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it Brandon Farmahini? I remember Burnie and Gus really fucking with him for that. It was at that drafthouse when Gavin sprayed Gus with beer.
SkylerYee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember. Kind of spur of the moment when I typed that
Captain_Curlyfry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So what you're saying is that we could fly?
logicalchemist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned this at a very young age and exploited it for the "I'm not touching you" game.
HyperMidgit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
even if I press down hella hard?
ITrainWithDyroneTonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Babe, I never touched her. I promise I didn't. I would never do that to you."
TheNavidsonLP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"You can't touch music. But music can touch you..."
Reverie_of_an_INTP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking magnets! How do they work?
RobberDucky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In shock, and an attempt to defy this, I slammed my finger down on my table as hard as I could. It hurt, but I'd like to think i touched the table.
jmcstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
what about if you lick something?
spartanburt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My hand actually passes through things i try to touch.
ItsShiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So i've never been touched? Aww, now i need a hug...fuck.
uwsxmuldoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if you're touching acid and it starts chemically reacting with your fingertip?
GalacticPoltergeist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck yes.
CrypticallyDecoded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm not mistaken, it is possible to touch stuff.
I'll try and find it, but I remember reading somewhere that something to do with you emitting radiation and it entering other peoples atoms would "touch" them.
But I'm not sure, so don't quote me.
americangame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By that logic, the atoms in our bodies aren't really touching each other. They're just hanging out in close proximity.
JacksonSqueaks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just reached out and touched my towel rack after reading this.
GrandMasterReddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Elaborate?
Lazy_Osprey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying I'm repulsive ?
lolajayne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate this fact because when my little brother heard about it, he would touch me and when I told him to stop he would say "I'm not touching you" because I grew up in a 90's sitcom.
Fang88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Futhermore, the mass of atoms themselves are an illusion:
The quarks that makes up proton and neutron of an atom have only 1/2000 of the mass of the atom that they make up. The mass of an atom is mostly just the potential energy of it's subatomic particles. This means if you were to rip apart the subatomic particles of an atom, it's mass would almost completely disappear.
E=MC2 doesn't mean that energy can be converted into mass. It means that energy is mass.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"A tree is not a tree. It is actually a structure composed of many parts, including bark, leaves, and branches."
"A piece of paper is not a piece of paper. It is a collection of atoms."
I want to punch you.
dawnsavenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm floating above the toilet right now?
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU!!!
FundamentAle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you are involved in a nuclear explosion. You'll die, but you'll finally be able to touch.
freym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I CAN use the force!
Fearlessleader85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't actually true. The magnetic fields of atoms absolutely do touch. Fields are real, not just magic bullshit. They are part of the atom. Saying that atoms don't touch is like saying that you've never touched another person because you haven't grabbed their spinal cord.
TimTeboners ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
how do we know texture then?
You_shallnot_fap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I figured this out when I was about 9. People said I was crazy.
INeverMisspell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, due to atoms having an electron cloud, you are mostly nothing. Sorry to break it to you.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_cloud
MongooseAttack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But...the germs?!!
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
Whats_Up4444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So basically everything is a mini-forcefield.
gmikoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:54 on December 13, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't rape her officer. I didn't even touch her!
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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thatwasnotkawaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ballistic Fist irl
Zentopian ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 16:21:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fact: The fatter you are, the more attractive you are.
Teehee! Gravity joke.
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impingainteasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TRIGGERED.
EMINEM_4Evah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:16:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Guess that explains why everyone loves OPs mom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it cupid me! Tehehe
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
I_EAT_GUSHERS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see you also have overweight relatives.
Zentopian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually don't, to be honest. The relatives I know are stick thin, me included.
GodofCat ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 20:03:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you were to travel directly north, south, east or west from Stamford, Connecticut, you would hit New York state
2_1_p_i_l_o_t_s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wut
GodofCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Going directly north from Stamford, Connecticut, you might hit a place called Pound Ridge, New York. South takes you across the water into Long Island. East takes you to NYC and going directly west, you would hit part of the tip of Long Island
Cherrenstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good dis, it shows an outline of stamford and you can see what he means.
IllusiveParsnip ยท 525 points ยท Posted at 11:20:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sand is called sand because it's between sea and land
[deleted] ยท 813 points ยท Posted at 11:27:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not. It's named after John Sand. He invented it.
IllusiveParsnip ยท 367 points ยท Posted at 11:31:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Mind=blown
Edit: he should have called it john
shakawkaw000 ยท 262 points ยท Posted at 12:02:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Mom! I've got some John in my pants!"
"Well let's go wash the John out of your crotch then!"
aggron306 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:14:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow the new episode of SandTron is out
Luigimario280 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A new episode coming out is an alternate universe on its own
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:56:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I want to name my first son Sand now.
Stabfist_Frankenkill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate John. It's coarse, and it gets everywhere.
doorkn00b ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:50:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know nothin', Sand Snow.
Skaahr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
novags500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hes got John in his vagina.
usfchem ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:11:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He?
antesignanus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:41:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose a biologically female person could identify as a man and just never have gotten a sex change operation.
theycallhimthestug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about the shame? How do I wash that off?
Rush_nj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest washing a john out of a crotch has been done by many a prostitute over the years
Zajdo1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like John. He's coarse and rough, and he gets everywhere!
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have a ham johnwich.
MrJigglyBrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pocket John!
Sha-sha-sha
ReadySteady_GO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate it when John gets all up in my ass crack! It's so hard to get out!
notjohndoetoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got sand in my pants!
HeatingHades ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At least it's not Jared
BlUeSapia ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:06:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
AND HIS NAME IS SAND CENA
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:04:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't bring John to the beach.
the_man_Sam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate John, it's rough and course, and it gets all up in my dickhole
SairtDelicious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So Philly was right the whole time!
aintnos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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krizalid70559 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like jawn
like that jawn over there
spriteburn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Grasshopper walks into a bar. Bartender says "You know we have a drink named after you?" Grasshopper responds "You have a drink named Steve?!"
2cott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pocket John!
Minsc_and_Boo_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate John. It's so rough and it gets everywhere
cgrant993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steps into a deli So, what Johnwich specials do you have today?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ive got John in my ass crack
vision1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate john.
Zardif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer the planet George.
3316chica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the inventor of the "john" (toilet) was Mr. Crapper.
SodaCanSuperman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
John Sand eh
PacoTaco321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:01:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh so like John Cotton, the inventor of cotton candy?
sheawey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL someone invented sand.
Guess I better get and invent dirt.
clinkyec ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too late, that was Joe Dirt.
sheawey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dammit
RedditIsAShitehole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So all those women who have had sand in their vagina were really having sex with John?
atrociousxcracka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
....then who invented Snow?
Newestmember ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know nothing John Sand.
Jesus-chan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Duh
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Going off on a tangent here, but you started it... The sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, which is a town of <5,000 people in Kent, England. It originally meant "a trading place on sand". Also Hawaii was originally named the Sandwich Islands, by Captain James Cook, after the same dude.
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was the Earl of Sandwich.
Deligion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
JOHN CENAND!!!!
MetathranSoldier ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 11:41:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow a wordplay that also works in german...i am in awe!
[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 12:06:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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MetathranSoldier ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 12:31:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well none of this is anything in german. In fact the german and english terms are just two characters off "sea and land" compared to "See und Land".
izzels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
But sea = Meer, not See. See = lake. edit: nope I am wrong
MetathranSoldier ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:33:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not true. "Der See" means lake but "Die See" means the sea ;-)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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HammletHST ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Die See is an older term for Meer
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sea is "meer" and lake is "see".
Sea is not "see".
MetathranSoldier ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. "Die See" refers to the sea. "Meer" is just another word for it. I live in germany for 27 years now...i think i know how this language works, thank you ;-)
Edit: Try learning german articles like "Der, Die, Das" they get confusing and not all of them make sense but they are important to understand this language.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 13:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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tombue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY.
Two mistakes in a sentence with three words.
laurelwood1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It was three tho
h -> H; f -> F; u -> รผ
karmisson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:58:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
though
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:33:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is germany nice this time of year?
MetathranSoldier ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:41:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god no :D
Right now it's raining like hell and windy as fuck. But that is actually Aachen all year long. Christmas decorations are kinda awkward around here since most people fall on the all or nothing scale and it usually goes like...brightest house ever with 40 santa clauses coming out of the windows, then 4 houses without decorations, then a lonely star, 4 houses without and another lightfest.
Though christmas market is great if you like to drink because everyone is drunk.
TheUnimportant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:53:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL my neighborhood is German.
laurelwood1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, the Christmas market has not started yet, i think it starts tomorrow? Definitely sometime this weekend
Also, the weather was pretty good the last one to two weeks, definitely not normal november weather. On the other hand, we had like a 2 hours of (light) snow in mid october, so nothing is normal this year
karmisson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm making Magenbrot this weekend. Mein deutscher Kumpel hat mir Magenbrot geschickt. Es ist so lecker.
Allllliiiii ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:47:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I absolutely love the German Christmas markets! Although I was a kid the last time I visited so I'd probably appreciate it more now.
antnybeard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:33:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read that in a thick German accent, just so you know.
Germany is awesome by the way, the Christmas markets are great.
MetathranSoldier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually when i speak english i always mimic an english accent and i have no idea why and can't stop myself. But iff you feel betta i cahn spek thatt to!!!
Spirit_Theory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:04:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason German Christmas markets are a thing in some places over here in the UK, and they're great.
SmartAlec105 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:01:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read a web comic, Sandra and Woo, that is published in both English and German. It's pretty surprising how often it happens.
IronOhki ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:34:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here is the actual etymology of sand.
Echilon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:32 on November 26, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sabulum... That must be where the word 'sablรฉ' comes from. It's a type of crumbly (sandy?) cookie.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:35:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the second time I've seen this piece of ludicrous misinformation in this thread. Is this some oh-so-meta joke that I'm not getting or do you mouthbreathers actually believe this dimwittery?
Splatypus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any source for that? It seems like someone noticed a similarity in the words an made it up.
TorreyL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with you on that: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sand
Gandavien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:59:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except when it's in a landlocked desert.
badbeatnik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHY ISNT IT CALLED SLAND
shelteredsun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is so far from being true that I hope you're joking but in case you're not...
"Sand" comes from the proto-Germanic word "sandam" which itself comes from the proto-indo-European "bhs-amadho" where the root "bhes" meant "to rub".
For starters most of the world's sand is in deserts, so not between sea and land, and more importantly two seconds of critical thinking would tell you that we probably didn't wait until we had the modern English words "sea" and "land" before we decided to name that grainy yellow stuff that went in between them.
So next time you hear about the etymology of a word and it seems really neat and cute, 99% of the time it is a made up origin. The process by which words are created and change over time is really fucking complicated and often entirely arbitrary.
BrohanGutenburg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For all those who don't want to get Google slammed at Thanksgiving dinner, this is not true.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sand
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Throw_away_cant_see ยท 949 points ยท Posted at 14:07:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Dogs can't look up and the rifle above the bar in the Winchester is real.
Zoithica ยท 442 points ยท Posted at 14:54:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dog looks up at me all the time, not sure what you're talking about there.
razorboomarang ยท 1920 points ยท Posted at 16:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no he means like information. dogs can't research
saadakhtar ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 16:46:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mayen they research stuff online all the time. It's just that on the internet nobody knows they're dogs...
Shark_Porn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:08:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woof
I mean yeah
NINJAMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are Terrible at online search, that is why Lycos bombed...
Helix9001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that sounds like something a dog would say...
Duckshark_ ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:06:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the love of God, it's a Shaun of the Dead reference
razorboomarang ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:20:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well don't I feel like an idiot
juandh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:32:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And his original joke was many times funnier than rehashing the same reference that's already died and gone to doggy heaven by now.
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
finishcrumbs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhhh
ab00 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a matter of time until they develop a tablet for dogs.
It's the cat im more worried about, he'd probably start ordering bulk deliveries of cat food on my credit card
crlast86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Delivery man: Delivery for /u/ab00!
/u/ab00: I don't recall ordering anything.
Delivery man: Where do you want your 200 lbs of cat nip?
/u/ab00: MITTENS!!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's so sad
ChamsRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dog just completed his thesis dissertation, not sure what you're talking about there.
maggos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They can't look things up because they still use dogpile
eudamme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means the eyes individually.
cubitfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dog researches at the library all the time, not sure what you're talking about there.
JackAceHole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my dog looked for his bone, couldn't find it, then researched for it another time.
juandh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:34:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let us know if he digs up a clue
LDM123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah? Well this picture says otherwise
AlienScrotum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can't or won't?
Obie_Trice_Kenobi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:03:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They only know how to Bing
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:00:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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GodofCat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:36:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs cant look up is a reference from a movie.
blackstrips ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:14:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I never had a dog. Not like he'll look up something for me if I need him to.
the__itis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:38:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it's wolves that can't look up, they don't live in houses with lights.
Bildoinshebagdad ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 15:40:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shaun of the Dead. Do yourself a favor and watch it. Like 13 times.
'There is no I in team but there is an I in pie...'
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:57:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And there's an "i" in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team...
Bildoinshebagdad ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:30:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what he's talking about
[deleted] ยท -32 points ยท Posted at 16:28:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Unobud ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:42:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope it doesn't. You just don't like it. Opinions, brother.
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 18:49:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Unobud ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
thejaf711 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:21:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch Shaun of the Dead.
Forsaken23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:55:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shaun of the dead, mate. Go watch it. Well worth your time.
g-love ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just kick back, have a pint, and wait for this to all blow over.
kekekefear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:18:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His references are out of control.
TheGreatGumbino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone knows that.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:37:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hooray for not getting the Shaun of the dead reference
Throw_away_cant_see ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:37:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's from a film called Shaun of the dead go watch it then comeback
Mustachesteve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:50:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woosh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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AWildGopherAppeared ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:18:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then how do you explain this
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:00:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're dog is a homeless man in disguise
el_ema214 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Their heads can face up, not their eyes...
IXenomorph9605 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:09:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dog can damn near put the back of her head to her back
TheAbsurdPrince ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:55:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs can't look up using just their eyes maybe? They can tilt their head up but idk if they can look upward without moving their head. Could be what he means (please note; I'm guessing based off OP's statement)
dfn85 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:22:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What this is supposed to mean, is that because of the placement of the skull on the spine of quadrupedal animals, they can't tilt their head up to look straight up if they're standing on all 4 feet. They have to sit down, in order to be able to tilt their head up.
pdmcmahon ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 16:22:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Al says so.
whohw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:08:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yeh yeh yeh.
ApatheticBear ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:50:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.
armyrope115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a me in team though
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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armyrope115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god I was trying to think of an anagram of murder and just realised that's what redrum is... Holy shit I should have finished the book...
Mushtang68 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:42:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You've got red on you.
Ghost_R11121 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:41:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Winchester is not loaded!
heisyounghewillwalk ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:34:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How's that for a slice of fried gold?
Throw_away_cant_see ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:54:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Come and get it! It's a running buffet! All you can eat!
killin_ur_doodz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:26:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Big Al also says that dogs can't look up!"
DescendantOfLuke ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true, Big Al says it is.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what Big Al told me.
shifty_coder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Al says so.
pickleman_22 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:55:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What
Jweisblat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Al says so.
Chromonian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How do you like that for a slice of fried gold
AnalTyrant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Was he arguing that it was loaded, or just that it was real and still functional? I feel like I remember him loading the shell when he pulls it down, rather than it already being loaded.
Therealbigteddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a girl in the garden
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
brainwrinkled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big Al says so!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought is was pigs
chizmack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:29:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
'andy wivva blade
Rock_scotch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:34:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give.
musicmast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:46:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
are those two separate facts?
BigBillyGoatGriff ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:54:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you re-write this so it makes sense? I'm curious what the dogs can or can't do and how it is effected by ammunition
Hinderwood ยท 378 points ยท Posted at 17:57:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The word slang is derived from...
Wait for it.....
Short-Language.
MichaelSilverV ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 19:25:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not
MortemLuna ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:16:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
how
MichaelSilverV ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:29:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Dunno, but I ain't complaining. I guess I tickled the fancy of an etymology junkie.
MortemLuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:16:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah lol
MrFalconGarcia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:24:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it only takes one to gild.
BrazenGear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you ruin everything
Ukleon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:36:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a source? Every etymology one I've just looked at doesn't mention that at all
Teddie1056 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:29:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shut the fuck up
protagonizer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:26:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. I can't tell if this is fake or not.
lrhoades1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:02:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ebonics is a blend of "ebony" and "phonics".
Lola_got_a_Lazerface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Utter bollocks, son.
shelteredsun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All I seem to be doing in this thread is disproving supposed origins of words...
Anyway we actually have no idea where "slang" comes from. It might be related to Norwegian "slengenamn" meaning "nickname", or "slengja kjeften" meaning "to verbally abuse", but the date of when "slang" first appeared (1756) doesn't really match up with those as we weren't borrowing a lot of Norwegian words in the 18th Century.
So yeah, the only thing we do know is it is definitely not a contraction of "short language". A lot of slang terms are longer than the original word anyway, just look at Cockney rhyming slang, e.g. "Apples and pears" = "upstairs. Slang serves a social function far more than an efficiency function.
garhole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that that's true.
ploomyBlue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slang itself is slangโฆ
Humanstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not.
It's of dubious origin but it's almost definitely not related to English. The most common belief among etymologists seems to be that it is from a Scandinavian source, such as Norwegian slengenamn "nickname," slengja kjeften "to abuse with words," literally "to sling the jaw," related to Old Norse slyngva "to sling".
But definitely not "shortened language".
Delision ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a lot of sense
infez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, slang is slang for short language.
Mogg_the_Poet ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 11:23:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The length of your intestines is bullshit.
I JUST CAN'T FATHOM IT
Rad_Spencer ยท 312 points ยท Posted at 14:09:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I stretched out your intestines from one end to the other it would show up on the news.
Sephus ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 16:18:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:30:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People die when they are killed
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha holy fuck that's funny. Not sure why...
flakAttack510 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That joke is older than he is.
PM_ME_VALYRIAN_STEEL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He is truly a very wise man
Ham_B0n3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you stretch out your intestines and measured 1 end to the other, you'd be dead
Invalid_Uzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As would your murder trial.
HawkeyeSucks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:17:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The length of my intestines is not bullshit! It's human shit.
Mcquiz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:28:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cut open a small animal and then you shall believe. I just cut one marten open today(I'm a biology major, chill). It was a pretty small specimen but it's intestines were about a meter long.
Poached_Polyps ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
3.33 fathoms. There you go.
Captain_Curlyfry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:58:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT'S THE LENGHT?!
Edit: For those who want to know the small intestine is about 20ft long while the large intestine is about 5ft long.
ferlessleedr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's human shit.
drfinnn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's human shit
Torvaltz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's human shit.
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
ashley_n ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 20:08:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of Britain's smallest towns, Berwick-upon-Tweed, was officially at war with Russia for over a century. This town lies on the border between England and Scotland, and over many centuries changed hands between the two. So it was often known as "England, Scotland and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed". When the declaration of the Crimean War against Russia was signed by Queen Victoria in 1853, she signed it with "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed and all British Dominions". When the Treaty of Paris was signed to conclude the war, "Berwick-upon-Tweed" was left out. This lay undiscovered until 1966 when war was formally ended between Berwick and Russia. The Mayor of Berwick said in the declaration of peace "Please tell the Russian people through your newspaper that they can sleep peacefully in their beds."
tunaman808 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From Wiki:
ohwhatthefuuu ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:26:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Geckos don't blink cause they don't have eyelids. They lick their eyeballs instead to keep them wet.
BillyShears17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have a Crested Gecko and watching him do that is a highlight
pupilsOMG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In bars, I lick my eyebrows to attract the ladies.
ZZBC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on the species of gecko. Leopard geckos have eyelids, though they still do occasionally lick their eyeballs.
crow_among_crows ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Potatoes are a new world food.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:51:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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GSnow ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:04:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, who was born during George Washington's presidency, has two currently living grandsons.
NextTimeDHubert ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Man I hope they die soon I'm tired of this TIL.
Mr_Locke ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 17:15:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
99.9999999999996% of a hydrogen atom is empty space. Even heavy elements are over 99% empty space. So that means that the entire universe is over 99% empty space.
Source:
http://education.jlab.org/qa/how-much-of-an-atom-is-empty-space.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/question221.htm
Arcola56 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 18:03:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
facts like these are very misleading. While it's technically true, it's not representative of reality. Electrons are more wave-like in nature and occupy all parts of the atom at the same time. In fact, the wavelength of the electron is partly what defines the quantum nature of orbitals.
MirRelevant ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:01:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are always only more or less probably at some point in the orbit, and somehow everywhere at once, so yeah, electrons are weird.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:08:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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MirRelevant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have a point
illyafromuncle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not really related but you seem to know about such things.
I had really shitty teachers in H.S. and I was confused because they always said an Atom is the smallest particle there is! Yet the atom was made up of neutrons, protons and electrons. So wouldn't the particles that make up an atom be smaller than an atom? thus making them the smallest particle? can you explain that for me because it has always bugged me. And on top of that, what are the individual parts made out of? I'm going out on a explain it like im 5 so I can try to sort of understand it. Salamat.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well an atom is the smallest particle of an element. The smallest amount of gold you can have is one atom of gold. If you divide up the subatomic particles, you don't have gold anymore, because gold is defined by its atomic structure.
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, as it turns out, even the components of atoms are made of even smaller things. Electrons are fundamental particles, but neutrons and protons are not. They are made of "quarks" which are even smaller particles that convey properties such as mass and charge.
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You seem knowledgeable about this material. Where does the one-electron universe postulate fit into this?
Brightt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:50:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's very hard to explain if you don't know a bunch of background on elementary particle physics, but I'll try.
Basically, in Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), elementary processes can be schematically represented by Feynman graphs. Certain fundamental particles, like electrons can't 'change' during such processes due to a bunch of conservation rules (in the case of an electron, conservation of lepton number).
Some professor somewhere probably got high some time and started thinking about QED. He got the idea that you could technically arrange all elementary processes in the universe so that they would be governed by 1 electron, and it would be technically correct in the QED sense. So he concluded that all electrons are identical because they are all the same electron.
This is basically just a funny twist on the mystery of why all electrons are identical.
(Source: master student physics, but my class on elementary particles was a while ago, so not sure my explanation is 100% correct.)
Kattib ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still not quite right, the one electron hypothesis is more to do with positrons being time reversed electrons. So really one could consider all electrons and positrons to be a single electron moving backwards and forwards in time interacting with itself. This is the one electron hypothesis. However the indistinguishabllility of electrons and positrons is critical to this.
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still further than I was a few hours ago. Thanks to both of you. :)
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I never had formal education on this postulate, but I can tell you that electrons are fundamental particles and by definition must have the same charge and mass. Beyond this, I do not know enough to comment further on the nature of fundamental particles.
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt it's a formal thing anyway, it's just another one of those stories involving Feynman really, but it is something I am genuinely interested in and curious about.
I was hoping to discover a bit more information on the topic but it looks like I'll have to settle for getting downvoted instead....
Arcola56 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol welcome to Reddit. But really at a certain fundamental level the explanation must be that that's the way it is.
Avatar_Of_Brodin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but why?
There was a point where people believed we had learned everything there was to learn and yet we kept going. I'd say we're nowhere near beating the game yet.
Arcola56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps not, but my point was that eventually there will come a time when we discover the fundamental constants of the universe. That may be due to us being vastly intelligent or we may run into a physical limitation of instruments to measure what we need. Either way, we are left with no other explanation other than, that's just the nature of the universe. That's the way it must be.
Dauthdaertya ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:43:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Greater than 99% of the universe was already empty space (depending on your definition of empty space and the universe).
It's an awful long way from here to the next closest star.
Fang88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:52:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Futhermore, the mass of atoms themselves are an illusion:
The quarks that makes up proton and neutron of an atom have only 1/2000 of the mass of the atom that they make up. The mass of an atom is mostly just the potential energy of it's subatomic particles. This means if you were to rip apart the subatomic particles of an atom, it's mass would almost completely disappear.
E=MC2 doesn't mean that energy can be converted into mass. It means that energy is mass.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A proton weighs ~ 1GeV, and is made to uud quarks which weigh about 7 MeV in total. That is much closer to 1/200 the mass of the atom.
Fang88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should send a message to the PBS spacetime youtube channel. They might fix it.
johnnyrip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This fact seems hollow.
Warfared ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there a recent study showing that it isn't empty space and it is actually filled with gluon-field interactions?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 13:39:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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bearsnchairs ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:39:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No lab safety guidelines say this...
doomneer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:32:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a reason for this, or is it just a funny by-product of another rule?
ferlessleedr ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 19:17:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine what they're actually told is to clean liquid spills with water and solid matter spills with sand, and the rule makers hope that people will be sensible if they spill simple water or sand and just mop/sweep that stuff up.
bearsnchairs ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:40:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, this is just made up. You use sand to put out fires. No guidelines will require anything beyond paper towels, or something similar, to clean up a pure water spill.
Even then, when liquids spill you want to dike them or use a proper absorbent.
ferlessleedr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:16:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"And in today's lab we'll be learning about feedback loops!"
St0ned_Hearth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Vindaloop
bp92009 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the lab safety guides were written by the water and sand companies
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 12:04:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 3 people in the UK will get cancer at some point
ou_wo ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 14:39:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So if I move do I get better odds?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Move to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and make sure you isolate yourself from any people so you don't catch anything. I hear this almost completely removes the risk of cancer. Avoiding eating fish helps too, and bathing in sunscreen.
chasin_waterfarts ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 18:36:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and your teeth magically straighten out.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:50:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I met the funny guy.
Oh wait.
chasin_waterfarts ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:28:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too clichรฉ?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yawn.
ofcourseimanxious ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:28:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
100% of people get cancer at some point, we just don't know about it because your killer T cells get it before it becomes a problem.
el_loco_avs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr T is so bad-ass!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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ofcourseimanxious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Statistics: worse liars than lawyers.
Mcquiz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:29:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The comforting fact about it is that you know those really old people who "die of old age"? Yeah, most of them had cancer.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:09:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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sizzlelikeasnail ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:08:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I called bs on it when i first heard it too. But it's true which is scary
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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sizzlelikeasnail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
apparently it's even worse than i thought
joes_nipples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still only a 33% chance
theappendixofchrist2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the US it's 1 in 2
bustbustbustamove ยท 267 points ยท Posted at 15:40:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That the brain named itself :0
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 17:13:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The brain is the most important part of your body. According to the brain, of course.
sniperdude12a ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 19:27:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Self righteous bastard
Varthorne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You just made mine explode D:
AFRICAN_BUM_DISEASE ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As did the universe.
Trelifaxx1640 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:45:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The universe has many names. Is this a sign of multiple personality disorder?
AnonymousWritings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:11:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The quote I like on this note goes something like:
"Given enough time, a large collection of hydrogen atoms will begin thinking about itself."
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:10:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THE BRAIN REALIZED IT CREATED ITSELF
Hamju ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:08:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Along those same lines if you watch a doctor performing brain surgery on yourself and are grossed out, that's the brain being disgusted with itself.
LoL4Life ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:09:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a brain did at one time, and other brains at the time agreed. Then all brains after that just went with it.
BrohanGutenburg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mind named the brain.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hate this statement. It's not deep, nor is it mind blowing. Something that names things named a thing and then much later realized that that name was referring to itself.
ill_tonkso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck...
PunsInc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐
Nice_Dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a brain named itself
Sk8On ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or that we are the universe thinking about itself.
The_Legend_of_Jaelon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So did hydrogen
Zardif ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So did Dr loki skylizard.
DrMarioLutherKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow where'd you hear that one?
FirstTime1992 ยท 652 points ยท Posted at 10:37:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Squirrel+Turtle=Squirtle
[deleted] ยท 393 points ยท Posted at 11:40:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Marcusaralius76 ยท 263 points ยท Posted at 11:59:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
look up a picture of Squirtle, and look at the tail
Undecided_Username_ ยท 334 points ยท Posted at 14:40:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK.
douchecookies ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:08:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So this isn't a "holy shit" fact, it's a "FUCK" fact.
Marcusaralius76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right!
Shredder77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I FEEL LIKE SO MUCH OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE...
Twizzar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No man, look at the title
rollinca ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:18:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's definitely supposed to be like a curling wave kind of thing. Not a squirrel tail. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:38:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude look it up. You're right as fuck. It's not squirrel at all.
namesflory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
look up its evolution, warturtle
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:15:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Combination of war, tortoise, and turtle. Wartortle.
Marcusaralius76 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You must be if you don't think that's a squirrel tail.
rollinca ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:50:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Look at wartortle's tail...the "wave" evolved into a bigger, more complex "wave."
Besides, wtf does a squirrel have to do with squirtle or any of that evolutionary chain? Makes literally no sense at all.
Squirt+turtle=squirtle
cantwaitforthis ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:02:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you're right, people are dumb.
FakeOrcaRape ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:40:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so Squirtail?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nah look it up. It's squirt and turtle.
nesQuicksilver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:31:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
SpecialGnu ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions not clear. Looked up squirt. Am now happy.
Marcusaralius76 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now go take a shower.
pavetheatmosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's an almost complex play on words
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right actually.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 14:08:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Squirtle doesn't shoot water. it is a highly dense foam
Bahamute ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could argue that for the move Bubble, but not for Water Gun or Water Blast.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
go ahead and read the Gen I pokedex. does not use water
Bahamute ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:57:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Starting with Yellow it says water instead of foam. Plus you can clearly see that the water gun animation is water. I'm going to guess the foam was a mistranslation.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
red and blue say foam. they predate yellow
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am aware of that. What I meant was that given that it only says that in the first games, it was likely a mistranslation from Japanese.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well each generation says something different to add to the universe
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yellow wasn't a different generation.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum ect. are all special versions of the others. red and blue came out a year before yellow
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am aware that it came out later. That does not change the fact that yellow is still a first generation Pokรฉmon game. It only had the original 151 Pokรฉmon.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
missingno?
and Mew
Ninja edit: when you trade missingno to gold/silver/crystal, it is a remoraid
Bahamute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Missingno is a glitch and doesn't count, and I included Mew.
Neolife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on Red/Blue or Yellow.
RB: Powerfully sprays foam from its mouth.
Y: Shoots water at prey while in water.
Also, Pokedex entries are pretty ridiculous at times. Wartortle supposedly lives 10,000 years. Kadabra is the result of a boy with ESP suddenly becoming a Pokemon. Magcargo is ~2 times hotter than the sun, but can exist on Earth.
Leggomyeggo69 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes they are ridiculous, but they are canon
KilianaNightwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*canon. A cannon is something you shoot projectiles out of.
antesignanus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Foam or water debate aside, they are both acting as projectiles.
Bewgajew ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 13:23:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, the rest of the evolution line has nothing to do with squirrels. If you look at the word "blastoise", it's "blast" (water blast) and toise (relating to the tortoise family), so for them to start off relating the Pokemon to a squirrel and then just killing off that part of the name would not make sense. "Squirt" and "turtle" are more likely to be the meaning of its name.
Flacvest ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:14:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's because it evolved; evolution pushed the squirtle to be more like a turtle and less like a squirrel. That's how evolution works.
If the environment favored squirrels over turtles then you would have a squirrel-hybrid instead of a turtle one.
/simplebiology
BrindleIsGod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:19:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could be a double pun. Whoever made Squirtle's name must be really proud of himself.
pavetheatmosphere ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:33:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it's obviously a double pun
DrInsano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:43:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What about Wartortle?
Bewgajew ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:01:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still no relation to a squirrel.
DrInsano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know, but there's no relation to squirting or anything like it either.
Dusk_Walker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:46:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tortle.
It's like my grandpa saying 'warsh'.
slaya45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Apper it's a mixture between "Warrior" and "Tortoise" and a little bit of "Turtle".
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wartortle_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Origin
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Squirtle has a squirrel tail.
FakeOrcaRape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
none of the pokemon in the line have a reference to squirrel in the name
Kaoryn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How would your explain wartortle then?
JonathanWarner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is a different Pokรฉmon and follows a new theme because continuity isn't important in the Pokรฉmon universe.
pavetheatmosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is the curly squirrel like tail related to being a turtle or squirting water?
Undecided_Username_ ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But his TAIL! I just figured this out!!! I thought it was squirting water too man! This shit's insane!
Smailien ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:14:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a curling wave, fuckin' 'ell, people
DeemSleep ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's got a squirrel tail tho
yeartwo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:28:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wart + tortle.
BrohanGutenburg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:30:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and their names aren't sSuirtle.
ProcastinatingAgain ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 11:55:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No I'm 98% sure Squirte is a word mix between squirt and turtle
Some sauce with that?: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Squirtle_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Name_origin
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right as rain.
CoffeeAndKarma ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:40:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's definitely squirt, not squirrel. Evolutionary lines typically have a theme to their names. Squirrel has nothing to do with anything, except that it happens to have a fancy tail. Squirt ties into the theme of war and blast that the other names have. Also, squirtle's main feature is that it can spray water. In other words, it can squirt water.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Look it up. It's a combo of squirt and turtle. Not squirrel.
--NiNjA-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I was a Blastoise fan. That would be devistating to find out.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Squirt ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Hinderwood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Char+man-duhhh = charmander
ssr12321 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, it checks out.
ECBrahBrah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And kadabra is a kangaroo
Elranzer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Warui + Mario = Wario
Warui + Luigi = Waluigi
("warui" is Japanese for "bad")
("Luigi" is pronounced "ruigi" in Japanese)
Nemothewhale87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
War + Tort law = Wartortle
lysdexicllama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Stop spreading lies. You are actually incorrect.
Dudetius_maximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Furthermore, all the first gen starters (original 3) are reptillian. We have a dinosaur, a turtle, and a lizard!
jsmys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ekans = Snake backwards
Smashbrawler777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No this is completely a coincidence. I've done the research
account_AIDS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah dude
Cymen90 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit... That is why he has a curly tail.
Enchilada_McMustang ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
O_O
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:02:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
... Do other people not find this obvious?
Also, bulb (plant organ) + saur (reptile) = bulbasaur
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god
Rio_Bravo ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Sterling_-_Archer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because it's wrong... It's a water based Pokemon that is a turtle. Squirt-turtle. Squirtle.
silentmikhail ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
my life is a lie
Sterling_-_Archer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:53:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just a little note, he's wrong. It's a combination of squirt and turtle.
greffedufois ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:14:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The human liver can be split, half can be donated to someone needing a transplant, and both lobes will regenerate into full sized fully functioning livers. I'm proof of this like many others, my aunt gave me her right lobe so I could see 20.
Because of her I got to see 20, and now I'm 25. I live in Alaska and I'm engaged to an incredible guy. We're getting married in October. We have two kitties. I lost my cat allergy after the transplant. Docs are unsure why that happened but some guess it's the immunosuppressive medications. Others think it's because my aunt isn't allergic. Who knows, I'm just glad to get to have my own kitty now! ๐
JennyBeckman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:39:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations on all of that!
greffedufois ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! ๐
somecallmeinsane ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:47:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow...thats a pretty big tangent
aww-yisss ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:20:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bugatti, Porsche, Lamborghini and Audi are all Volkswagen.
whiskytango74 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
plus Bentley, Seat and, Skoda
damien665 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:05:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Saturn, holden, opel, GMC, Vauxhall, Saab, and maybe some others I'm forgetting are or were all General Motors. The funniest part is that most of those brands shared parts or even cars amongst each other enough that they really were pretty general.
TVCasualtydotorg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The remaining brands of GM are more or less interchangeable still.
amaxen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:31:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
South Korea's economy is so large relative to North Korea's that the 4-5% growth it gets every year more than exceeds North Korea's economy. TL;DR, South Korea adds more than a North Korea's entire economy to its own economy every year.
If this keeps up, with compounding, A South Korean Junior High Cheerleading squad will have more budget available to it than the North Korean army in 20 years.
FlatSixer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:01:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only seven years passed from the time The Beatles released their first album until they released their final album.
It blows my mind how much material they made over that time and how different the early stuff sounds vs the later.
trans1st ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:34:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and MMT were all released in less than 3 years.
4KGB ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:36:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North America AND South America with 12" (30.48 cm) of water.
TehSalmonOfDoubt ยท 156 points ยท Posted at 11:49:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus pooped too like everybody else
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 15:38:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're wrong
"15 The Lord answered him, โYou hypocrites! Doesnโt each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? 16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?โ
"17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing, and that he didn't poop."
Lateusvir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you might have a bad translation...
Coffee-Anon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm putting "John 3:17" on a big sign at the next sporting event I go to. New favorite verse
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:27:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
John 3:17 is a really dope verse, tbh.
Kylekins47 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:57:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You say everyone else, but it's a known fact that Kim Jung-un doesn't..
livinkale ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:38:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
quite literally.... holy shit
TheRandomRedditUser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:59:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even Jesus went through puberty.
FlabbergastedFish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's quite the holy shit fact
Poached_Polyps ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could you imagine that, just walking through the shit hole desert and you see the son of God pinching a loaf? Then later that week you see this guy raise Lazarus from the dead and you're like "that dude takes the biggest shits..."
TummyDrums ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except my girlfriend. She says she doesn't poop.
1337Noooob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
450 grams a day.
stinky_toecutter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Jesus Alberto Rojales Alarcon ?
thecandidfrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pics or it didn't happen
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Except Kim Jong Un
The_Yar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Females don't poop, so no, not like everybody else.
Drink_39 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is literally the only "Holy Shit" fact in the thread.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cylindrical object in motion within Jesus' sphincter. That's like basically gay sex
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the glorious leader is better than Jesus.
qwerty12qwerty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Always wondered, Jesus never sinned. Going through puberty/adulthood and having wet dreams, I bet one of those atleast had that hot girl from the temple he liked in it. Thus = lust.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
don't invoke the name of the holy shit
Nice_Dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But did Jesus get morning wood?
aykontakt ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:18:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus pooped like Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy.
TheChickening ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so edgy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You better delete that before you get your XBox taken away again.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed on before him. And his mother was a supporter of truth. They both used to eat food. Look how We make clear to them the signs; then look how they are deluded."
[The Qur'an - Chapter 5 - Verse 75]
Anything that eats, has to defecate... It's beyond me how they can justify worshiping the creation. He was a HUMMMAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Majop ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 15:17:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like this fact from A short history of nearly everything:
Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result-eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly-in you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:07:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because you're looking from hindsight. Many potential alive people have never been born because their potential ancestors got smashed. It's not impressive.
100YR-and-M ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:51:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking thank you
aykontakt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprisingly those who were never born or were born but are now dead cannot tell us their part of the story. It's not really a mystery of the Universe.
campoanywhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This read like a Carl Sagan quote
ty5haun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The whole book does, I would recommend it
Frankandthatsit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
two words: survivorship bias
lifeslittlelunatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I adore that book. It should be part of required reading for school
Majop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I totatlly agree with you.
green_meklar ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:12:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 1983, the first 3.5-inch hard drives were released, with a capacity of 10MB.
In 2007, Seagate shipped the first 1-terabyte hard drives. In 2014, they shipped the first 8-terabyte drives.
During those seven years, the average rate of increase in hard drive capacity was equal to one entire 1983 hard drive every six minutes.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:51:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The oldest woman ever died at 122 in 1997 and recalled meeting Vincent Van Gogh.
the_power_of_glove ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:06:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
kurt cobain died the same year justin beiber was born
abetheschizoid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He must have seen it coming.
IllusiveParsnip ยท 186 points ยท Posted at 11:22:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Leaves called leaves because they leave the tree
George_E_Hale ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 11:37:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And vzit the ground.
finishcrumbs ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:16:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bless you.
soggy316 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:10:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea why, but I find your comment absolutely hilarious
ZXDarkblade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gesundheit.
linedrive18 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:42:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not just the plural of leaf?
--NiNjA-- ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It's plural for leaf
Nice_Dude ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:12:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Leaf OP alone
--NiNjA-- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fine, I'm just gonna leaf.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fall is called fall because leaves fall during fall.
Koopa_Troop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fall called fall cuz leaf fall down.
EZE16lg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So make like a tree, and get outta here.
Qender ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why we call branches "stays"?
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is called earth because it is part of the Earth.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is the biggest planet on Earth.
Logofascinated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to the OED Online entry for leaf:
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was a branch on a tree in my backyard that broke, but was still hanging in the tree. When autumn came, all of the leaves in the tree fell off except for the leaves on the broken branch. That was when I realized that the leaves don't fall, they are pushed.
IllusiveParsnip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was beautiful yet sad
Animalmutha76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you make like a tree and get outa here
stevevecc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Leaves leave their tree, like my father left me.
What a witty rhyme....:(
SunShineNomad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then why is it called a leaf?
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 15:14:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This blew my mind when I first heard it and in some since it does a good job at illustrating the nature or man. About a year before president Lincoln's assassination John Wilkes Booth's eldest brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's eldest son.
reubenlowde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:53:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well is it nature, or man?
Peachykeen9 ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 11:38:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you fold a single piece of paper 45 times, it would be tall enough to reach the moon
RegentYeti ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 17:49:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fool_on_a_hill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:43:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Care to expand a bit?
Shredder77 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:16:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It has to do with how the thickness of the paper grows exponentially when you fold it. On the first fold, the paper is now twice as thick. The second time, 4 times as thick. The third, 8 times as thick. This can be modeled with one of those bullshit equations we never use after math class (2x).
So if you take the thickness of the paper multiplied by 245 (folded in half 45 times), you will have the distance from here to the moon (roughly).
techie_bastard ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:01:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And of course the area of the paper surface has the inverse effect (2-x).
Which means that by the time the "thickness" of the paper reaches the moon, the "width" of the paper is only about 40nm (5000x smaller than a human hair).
Taz-erton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:09:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are we assuming an 8.5" x 11" piece?
techie_bastard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A4 size, so I think that's about right. In saying that when I did it earlier used some pretty broad strokes in my maths (so now I need to check).
Area of A4 = 0.210 x 0.297 m2
Thickness of A4 = 0.0001 m
Diameter of human hair (roughly) = 0.0001m
Distance to the moon = 384 Mm
Thickness x 245 = 3.5 Gm (about 9 times farther than the moon)
Length of one side of the paper = Sqrt(Area x 2-45) = 42 nm (assuming a square piece of paper)
Hair / 42 nm = 2400.
Oops, my bad, its only 2400 times smaller than a human hair, rather than my original claim of 5000.
But using an exponent that actually gets us to the moon (rather than way past) its about 800 times smaller.
TL;DR: I fucked up some maths, spent way too much time checking it.
RegentYeti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm... not sure that I can. Unless it was unclear that the original comment didn't specify the nature of the folds, and thus an accordion folded paper would qualify.
Taz-erton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As would (folding and unfolding) x 45
SneersJeersandBeers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:21:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just folded a piece of paper in half 45 times. It took about 45 seconds and in the end the paper was still the same size. To make things easier I used the same crease each time.
Taz-erton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:08:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
heh, got'em
HeWhoKnox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You got sauce on this?
Coffee-Anon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fold it in half 45 times, doubling the thickness every time
Anyone could fold a piece of paper 45 times into a sweet zig-zag pattern, but that ain't gonna make it to the moon
cantwaitforthis ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:06:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not with that attitude.
HeWhoKnox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So is there sauce?
Coffee-Anon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sauce is punch 245 into a calculator and you get a mind-bogglingly huge number. Multiply that number by the thickness of paper and you get how thick the folded paper would be.
Also something that should be added to the initial statement is if it were possible to fold a piece of paper in half 45 times... it's only possible to fold a regular 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper in half about 7 or 8 times IIRC
BTennant1234 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:32:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you fold it 103 times it would be as thick as the entire universe.
KCchemist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:59:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly though, you can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 9 times.
Coffee-Anon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Similar Trick: Kids ask your parents for an allowance for a month paid out as 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the next day, 4 cents the day after that, then 8 cents, and so on for 30 days. Unless your dad is Warren Buffett, your parents would be bankrupt in a few weeks
FuzzeeLumpkins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:13:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much is a sheet of paper these days? Somebody tell NASA they don't need a big budget no maow.
clappingdog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:18:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you can only fold it 7 times. Right?
zubatman4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's crazy.
Running the math, a piece of paper is 1/10mm (according to google, so 0.0001 meters.
The distance from the earth to the moon is 384ish million meters, so 3.84*108 meters
245 comes out to 3.518ish*1013 millimeters
Divide that by 10,000 is 3.518*109 meters
This is almost 10 times the distance. What the shit?
a3wagner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Psst... a millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter.
Warfared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and at 103 folds you get the observable universe.
1UPZ_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If I could stretch my arms 384,000 kilometers... I can touch the moon too.
Satans_Pet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you cant fold a piece of paper more than 7 times tho
MentalFrogg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also if you folded that just one more time it wold be enough to get to the moon and back
NinjaDude5186 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Not only that. If we take the standard width of a paper, .1mm, and have that doubled 45 times (.1mm(245)), we get 3.51844e12 mm or 3,518,440 km The average distance between the earth and moon is 372,517 km. This means it could make a round trip to the moon from earth 4.7 times. Now, the object would also be immeasurably thin, at .1mm/(245) or 2.8422e-15. In comparison this is the size a relatively scaled atom would be to me if I were the size of an atom, but 10 times smaller than that.
Edit: Error raising to the 44th instead of the 45th and formatting. The point still remains...
eskanonen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:28:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't the height be 0.1mm * 245 ? Each time you fold the paper, you're doubling the height.
defectiveawesomdude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, the guy above you doesn't know what he's talking about
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking the same thing. This is definitely the correct answer. Have some reddit bronze
NinjaDude5186 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, you are correct. I've done it like that in the past but was sick of trying to format it correctly on mobile and decided everyone would assume that it was implied. I guess I should be more thorough with all the pieces though.. Edit: After reading it again I messed it up completely on the first bit. I'll fix it now.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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sizzlelikeasnail ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:11:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That's roughly 350000000000000 layers of paper assuming it's folded 45 times (245 ).
Idk how thick paper is but i assume of you multiplied the thickness by that number, the distance would be colossal. Not quite sure how high though.
Sergiotor9 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:29:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth to moon is 384.000km, if you consider paper to be 0,1mm thick, and 90g/m2 paper is, it checks out.
tombue ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:39:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's funny that people just say "I call bullshit" instead of spending the 10 seconds to calculate (or estimate) it.
psychodreamr ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:15:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I call bullshit on your length of time estimate.
tombue ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:30:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
245 = a lot
CaptainFizzRed ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:03:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Google it, true oddly Seen it a year or so ago
qngff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow...
Peachykeen9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:04:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*See link below
Evil-Imp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
เฒ _เฒ
Truan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not. consider folding the paper in times 8 times, how thick it is already. You're doubling that more and more, but to a point whre it's impossible to fold anymore.
edit: I couldn't even hit 7.
SilasTheVirous ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:11:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? When you fold a paper you are making it smaller...is there a joke I'm missing?
Lazy_Osprey ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're also making twice as thick.
cantwaitforthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's what she said.
AmNotSatan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That how she like it though
SilasTheVirous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh...well if you want to be inefficient about it yea.
mlady42069 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:55:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neutron stars, which sometimes result from a supernova, are simply balls of neutrons with absolutely no empty space in between them. Typical matter is almost entirely empty space (imagine a football stadium is an atom; an ant in the middle would be the nucleus). The fact that neutron stars lack this emptiness gives them a density around 800 billion kilograms per milliliter at their core. Despite only being about 20km across, they can weigh twice as much as our sun.
Fritzkreig ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 10:51:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We live closer to the time the Romans arrived in Britain then when they arrived and Stonehenge was built.
Chocobolove ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 12:40:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, could you rephrase that?
TheHollowJester ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 13:00:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 - - - 2 - - 3
1 - time when Stonehenge was built
2 - time when Romans arrived in Britain
3 - now
EDIT: obviously not to scale
Wombinatar ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:16:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Need a banana for scale
touchy-banana ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:43:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Present.
Wombinatar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of banana ELIF
Xenocide321 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It will need to be a 4th dimensional banana.
Ninjahkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/\ V \ \ _ \,'.
-. |\.. ( \.-. _,.-:\ \ \.-._ __..--' ,-';/ \.-.-....---' _.--' ,'/..-._ __..--' ,' /.-_--..'' _.-' ,'--.___ __,--' ,'-.----""" __.-' hh--..____..--'Wombinatar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
dafaq
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's a banana. Obviously.
sagsun0093 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still unclear. Can you provide a scale model?
FakeOrcaRape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so im at least one dash closer to romans than stonehenge..YES!!!
ms__marvel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you
JSKlunk ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 12:46:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The time period between the construction of Stonehenge and the Roman arrival in Britain is longer than the time period between the Roman arrival in Britain and the current day.
Delta10P ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:55:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The time at which the romans got to britain is closer to the present than to when stonehenge was made.
BradC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every top-level comment in this thread needs that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This was some of the worst phrasing I have ever had the misfortune to read.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BUT ALIENS BUILT IT
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Romans didn't build Stonehenge...
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
guidoninja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This fact has an expiration date.
zehamberglar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is why people are confused.
millertime369 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:40:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
a million seconds 11 days, a billion seconds 31.5 years
muirnoire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A trillion seconds is 31,709 years.
tb8592 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dirk Nowitzki will pass shaq this season as the 6th highest scoring basketball player in history. Literally no one believes me when I try to tell them this stat.
TAOxEaglex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe you.
Sorry for now forcing you to edit your post =(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:28:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dirk!
Frankandthatsit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I believe you. So now it literally not everybody.
skylinrcr01 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 19:00:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you put a blue whale on a basketball court the game would be cancelled. ๐ณ
KnowMatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also if you took all the veins from a human body and laid them end on end that person would die.
Grizzy_Greene ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:13:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can eat an entire family size bucket of chicken from KFC and you don't even have to have a family.
ConspirOC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:10 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
God... The world of possibilities this opens for me...
Hearsch ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 15:43:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What gives the raspberry it's taste is a molecule called :Ethyl formate Or it happens that Ethyl formate is also one of the molecule that compose the space of the milky way. So technically, the Milky way taste like raspberry !
reubenlowde ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 17:56:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
doesnt the milky way have.. like.. every type of molecule somewhere in it?
[deleted] ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 18:15:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No just raspberry and milk. Pay attention.
reubenlowde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:58:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
rasperry way?
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I watched a Tom and Jerry episode when I was a kid where all these kittens were trying to escape the house and Tom was supposed to be looking after them. I don't really remember what happened, but at some point they went to like the center of the milky way and were in kitty heaven because there was fucking free-flowing milk everywhere. I'll have you know there were no raspberries in that scene so.. QED.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. There are plenty of molecules that are only stable in exotic conditions, like very low temperature, high magnetic fields, or high pressure.
reubenlowde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...most of which are probably present somewhere in
thereherebearsnchairs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not even close to a high probability, especially since molecules can be arbitrarily large.
There is not enough matter in the milky way or even the entire universe to make every possible molecule.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The milky way absolutely has every single molecule that we know if somewhere in it, because we, and everything we can really measure with much certainty on the atomic scale are in the milky way.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, because there are plenty of molecules that we've theorized or know are possible that we haven't made.
Not to mention you can make polymers of arbitrary length that would be different molecules and we haven't even come close to making them all. This doesn't even touch on co-polymers.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But at that point your saying that each crystal is entirely unique and different, because their dislocations, holes, etc aren't identical.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Crystals aren't molecules, although there are crystals made of molecules.
That doesn't affect my point.
Fearlessleader85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You must see the connection between crystals and polymers, though, don't you? A repeated pattern of arbitrary size?
And I didn't say crystals are molecules, just that a different size of a crystal doesn't mean it's a fundamentally different crystal.
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:30:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that is why I brought up copolymers which have drastically different properties based on composition.
I said that because you brought up crystals when we were talking about molecules.
A block copolymer is fundamentally different than a random copolymer.
Elranzer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly chocolate and nougat.
bitter_cynical_angry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lone Star!
impingainteasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the main ingredient in artificial raspberry flavouring is a chemical found in the anal glands of beavers.
Over_Unity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Rum!
MyFirstOtherAccount ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:49:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
neat
BringTheNewAge ยท 175 points ยท Posted at 11:13:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you are one creature on one planet in one solar system in one star cluster in one arm of one galaxy of one galactic cluster in the universe. So in the grand scheme of things nothing you can or will ever do will matter, so in short you wanna eat a whole cake go for it!
WowzersInMyTrowzers ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:19:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is kind of a joke but I always hate when I hear stuff like this. All that matters to me is my consciousness and my perception of the world around me. And that applies to everyone in existence. Our own perception is our universe in a way. Everything that happens to you and affects you is infinitely important because your own existence is all you know.
blistermania ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you eat more cake, I think you definitely will matter more. Eh? EH?
antnybeard ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:30:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think anyone ever thinks that eating a whole cake will have a universal effect. I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if that cake has they key to saving the universe?
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now how on earth would that occur? Are we talking about an enthropy reversing cake here or what?
BringTheNewAge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:00:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That overall nothing anyone does matters because we are all less than an insignificant speak in the universe
TheBankIsOpen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:12:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It matters to us, though. I don't care if what I do impacts the entire universe.
BringTheNewAge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:15:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it doesn't matter if it matters to you :P
TheBankIsOpen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think we all know that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't.
bsmith7028 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it definitely matters to a certain subset of redditors though.
AdamBombTV ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:12:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I hear this, I'm always reminded of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle. (I'd link it, but I'm at work)
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know the one, I can't link I'm at work too
intoxicated_potato ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Watching the Hubble space odyssey in IMAX really put this into perspective on how tiny and insignificant we are to the cosmos
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At the moment, but chaos theory basically says our actions will have a profound impact on humanity when we reach the stars.
AbsintheEnema ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can you go into detail? I've read about chaos theory before but I don't remember much about it.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Chaos Theory states that seemingly insignificant changes in initial conditions will cause significant changes later.
xerox13ster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fatlogic
PriorityRaptor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, now have diabetes.
BringTheNewAge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good news! It doesn't matter overall.
ConsistentlyThatGuy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it does increase your overall matter.
Ayy lmao
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That meme is reserved for aliens only. Please show me your alien licence and we can all be on our way
ConsistentlyThatGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here you go sir:
๐ฝ Ayylien ๐ฝ
AC-Stark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Checks out
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, apologies Mr President! Right this way
qwerty12qwerty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have my cake can I eat it too?
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah
EZ19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our curiosity and drive to explore the possibly infinite cosmos and leave our one planet doesn't make us small, it makes us grand. We're the only thing we know of with such potential.
BringTheNewAge ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:12:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which is more a testament to how limited our knowledge of everything is more than anything.
100YR-and-M ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well isn't that just lovely -
You used a bunch of words and concepts, invented by humanity, to describe the grandeur of humanity. Hate to break it to you, but a desire to exist elsewhere in this completely meaningless occurrence of space-time doesn't make us special snowflakes with purpose and meaning. This "potential" you speak of may lead us to colonize many star-systems, galaxies, clusters, etc. But at the end of all of this, when the last organism breathes the last breath, and the universe expands off into infinite black nothingness, no one will exist to give a fuck about how cool humans were.
AdamBombTV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:13:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're a "Glass is half empty" kinda guy, ain't ya.
100YR-and-M ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:14:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Glass is twice as goddamned big as it needs to be
calicosiside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a very Chernobyl way of thinking about it
clinkyec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Doctor seems to think otherwise.
DeathDevilize ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not true, if this would apply to every person it would apply to every lifeform which would mean life will never achieve anything even given unlimited time which is highly unlikely.
OwlSeeYouLater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm trying to lose weight so I can have better sex with my SO. I'll pass on the cake.
Animal_Inside_You ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. I don't want to die, but I don't care if I do.
It doesn't fucking matter.
BregaladHS ยท 275 points ยท Posted at 11:34:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A second is called "second" because it is the second division of the hour by 60.
branden_kozicki ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 16:39:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you've seen the front page recently?
qngff ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 12:45:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then why isn't a minute "first?"
BregaladHS ยท 156 points ยท Posted at 12:47:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
(Wikipedia)
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 15:03:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt
aggron306 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So really a second should be called minutae
Or a minute should be called a prime
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but humans use the words that feel the nicest in our mouths.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:48:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many times a day do you say balls?
Derf_Jagged ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:50:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ooooooooooooooo OoOoOoOoh racked!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You don't put them in your mouth you fondle them, savage.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
Thorolf_Kveldulfsson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the other guy said, and also because language is irrational
_____Matt_____ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:05:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
SEAReviver ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:27:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck That Fuck You?
Aqualungfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining someone getting really pissed off at one of these facts being real and just not able to accept it :p
antesignanus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:39:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fixed that for you.
Not sure if you genuinely don't know though.
SEAReviver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:37 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I know what it is. It's just that there was an askreddit thread about things you didn't know and someone there said he/she thought FTFY means Fuck That Fuck You.
MasteringTheFlames ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhat related: the kilogram is the only SI unit with a number prefix. This is because they originally used the grave, which was equal to the kilogram. Then they decided the grave was too big, so they took 1/1000 of it and called it a gramme. Later they realised the gramme was too small, so they took 1000 grammes, stuck them together, and called it a kilogramme (kilo meaning one thousand)
JackAceHole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then why isn't a "minute" called a "first"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's the first? I am confused.
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The minute.
kauaicuda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So why aren't minutes known as "firsts"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I realised until now that the word "second" as in 1/60 of a minute is the same as 2nd.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I just realised 2nd and seconds are the same words.
Thundergrunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The duration of one second is defined as the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
What this precisely means, I have absolutely no clue.
Jarof_Mayonaise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose we should start calling minutes firsts
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why aren't minutes called firsts?
Aromir19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So why don't we call minutes firsts?
Zondatastic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:07:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then ELI5 why a minute isn't called a first.
Pete_the_rawdog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cause 57 firsts doesn't sound as good?
The_Yar ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:31:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OMG when does the narwhal bacon?!
solisu ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 11:27:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first lunar module that landed on the moon had far less electronics than in a single cellphone.
bearsnchairs ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 15:33:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It had far more electronics, hundreds of pounds, they just weren't very powerful.
SA_Swiss ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:14:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From what I read a simple pocket calculator of today (+, -, /, and x) has more computational power than the first lunar module had.
bearsnchairs ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:32:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is not correct, a computer pretty much is an adding machine and the Apollo computer was capable of those functions and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
A graphing calculator would probably beat it though.
TeamJim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:55:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing it had less computing power than a Furby.
Sugarsmacks23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But was significantly better at it than your cellphone would be.
Your phone has more processing power than the Apollo program but would kill you if you tried to run Apollo with it.
Meaning that the Apollo computers did one thing so well they didn't need massive computers and processing power
GeorgeDeanIsACunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But it had Snake, right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, so can I download an app that takes me to the moon?
ReallyNiceGuy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:36:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame also does the voice of The Joker (Batman Animated Series), Ozai (The Last Airbender), and Skips (Regular Show) among others.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:50:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's a really prolific voice actor! Even though Harrison Ford is still immensely successful and Carrie Fischer had her golden time in the 80s, I'd argue that Hamill, even though you never see his face, is the only one of the main cast that has had consistent, regular work since Return of the Jedi.
Zeppelinman1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea he was skips. Holy shit, hes good.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:45:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only fact in the entire thread that I knew.
I'm clearly a genius.
pacificnwbro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And also had a bit part in The Kingsmen.
negcap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's also Ice King on Adventure Time.
Zeppelinman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea he was skips. Holy shit, hes good.
V1per41 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 17:13:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The closest US State to Africa is... Maine
thumpah_da_wolf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:02:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Having lived in Maine all my life there's been many occasions where planes land in Bangor or Portland for emergencies because we're the first airports in the USA. Can be a little funny when they land in the winter and its -15 and snowing. Bangor was also a space shuttle emergency landing site. Just some fun facts lol
genericusername26 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:40:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maine represent
thumpah_da_wolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:09:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hollah the'yah bub
MyFirstOtherAccount ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:21:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused, I saw this elsewhere in this thread, why is that surprising? Isn't Maine the eastern most state?
The_Pudding_King ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:09:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Maine is not the Eastern most state, believe it or not Alaska is because it crosses the
international date line180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.Edit. Fixed my mistake, it is the 180th meridian, not the international date line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
wurblefurtz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:43:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. The International Date Line has a huge kink in it just so none of Alaska is over it.
What Alaska does is cross the 180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.
V1per41 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is, but it's also the northern most. Most people (Americans at least) think of Africa being much further south that it is and would probabaly guess that Florida is the closest state.
Since Maine is over 1,000mi from Florida, and the most northern state on the Atlantic, most people are very surprised by this fact.
vacuousaptitude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the northernmost state. Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state have considerable land mass north of the northernmost point of Maine.
V1per41 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"the most northern state on the Atlantic"
Last I checked, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state were not on the Atlantic.
vacuousaptitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No 'on the Atlantic' modifier. Last I checked.
thetrollfarmer ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 20:19:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Out of the 750,000 refugees admitted to the US since 9/11 there have been ZERO charged with acts of terrorism.
kooknboo ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 01:54:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which proves what?
nirnaeth-arnoediad ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:23:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Apollo moon vehicle burned 960,000 gallons of fuel in two and a half minutes to move a six mi!llion pound vehicle from a dead start to 6500 mph-one hundred and twenty million horsepower.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that 6 million pounds include the weight of all that fuel?
F0oker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, it's known as the tyranny of the rocket.
You need fuel to lift, but fuel weighs, so you need more fuel to lift that fuel, and more fuel to lift that... Most rockets are just fuel to lift the fuel to send the tiny bit at the top 300Kms up. That's why stuff like the EM drive if possible would change (almost) everything about space travel.
nirnaeth-arnoediad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. The first stage, fully fueled, weighed roughly 4.5 million pounds.Empty, 450,000 pounds.
paulvs88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:43:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You were once the youngest person on earth
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:34:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For about a fraction of a second, yes.
HankyLanky2 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:31:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has less than two legs.
HippoHorse ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:31:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ben Carson was a neurosurgeon, and Sarah Palin was almost a 70 year old man's heartbeat away from being the President of the United States.
franksymptoms ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:13:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"The Most Interesting Man In The World" was a Star Trek crewman.
Slanderous ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:30:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More time separates Triceratops (~68 Million years ago) and Stegosaurus (150-155 Million years ago) than you and a Triceratops.
k9catforce ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:25:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The world's largest Air Force?
The US Air Force.
The world's second largest Air Force?
The US Navy.
DebatableJ ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 18:39:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase "be there or be square" comes from that fact that if you aren't there, you won't be around.
lancakes ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:15:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was just because square was slang for uncool. Like if someone was a lame nerd they were a square. So if you were inviting someone to something, you would say "be there or be square", like if you don't come to the drive in or the diner or the sock hop you're a loser.
anOGREandHisSWAMP ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:46:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right.
adam_demamps_wingman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it might have originated from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott2
GodofCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Pa5trick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually from the phrase "don't be a square", Meaning "don't be lame". So it actually means "be there or be lame".
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty proud of yourself for this troll?
Couldnotbehelpd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not where this phrase comes from, that is not true.
insite ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:18:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
T. rex was more related to a more chicken than a Triceratops. T rex. lived closer to us in time than to a Stegosaurus. T. rex likely never saw grass. Stegosaurus likely never saw flowers. Feathers evolved before flight in birds. Dinosaurs came to be the dominant land animal group because of a mass extinction.
naughtydismutase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like mammals after them.
damien665 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:37:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The T Rex also didn't sleep well at night because his arms were too short to make his bed properly.
kevinthediltz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More related to a more chicken?
insite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know, grammar nazis were their top prey! Yeah, I goofed. ;)
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What was the dominant land animal before that?
toolong_cannotread ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:51:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more bones in the human skeleton that there are skeletons in an entire human body!
I can't speak for other species. We may never know!
1337Noooob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I'm confused, what?
The way I'm reading it is that there's more bones in a human's skeleton than there are skeletons in a human body. But there's only 1 skeleton in a human.
What?
Aztec_Reaper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:08:50 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess what he's saying is that there's about 206(?) bones in the adult human where they make up 1 complete skeleton.
SonOfTheViral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where does this come in?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312985/Janelly-Martinez-Amador-Incredible-bravery-girl-6-born-bones-overcome-illness-learn-dance.html
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:24:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is running for president of the United States.
baldtigger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:44:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and is leading in the polls.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ikr
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 18:40:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
NASA's funding is equivalent to about 0.5% of the federal budget.
If you took half of one percent of funding away from defense (20%), bringing it down to 19.5% of the national budget. or half of one percent from social security (24%), bringing it down to 23.5%, and gave that to NASA you would effectively double their operating capacity.
This is especially crazy when you look at how much the United States actually has in the way of defense. The second largest air force in the world is the United States Navy. We own more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined, by a pretty good margin if I'm not mistaken. According to this Wikipedia article we spend the most on defense, and by such a wide margin that if the next 9 countries on the list decided to form one country we would still outspend that new mega country. Also, here is that list of the top ten countries in terms of defense spending.
ssaa6oo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY: Top 10 coutries in terms of defense spendings.
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:53:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
danke
Frodor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the United States currently has 19 aircraft carriers. The rest of the world has 19 put together. France, IIRC, has the second most, with 4. China and Russia each have one.
Also, our smallest carriers are still larger than most country's carriers. Our largest carriers, the 10 Nimitz-class carriers, are all over 100,000 tons, whereas the closest foreign competitor is the Chinese Liaoning at 59,000 tons.
And we are still constructing more. We have three carriers currently under construction and 16 more planned.
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
BUT WHY?
Frankandthatsit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Good luck reducing SS, Batshitcrazy
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
hey man, I'm Batshitcrazy.
I was just trying pick a more agreed upon government program so it didn't just sound like a liberal bashing defense spending, even though that is kind of what it turned out to be. And, I was going to mention welfare originally but that was actually a smaller portion of the federal budget than I thought it was
GabrielGray ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:40:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True, but it's important to note that because we spend so much on defense that our allies and other countries don't have to.
streetsahead6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That is such a lie. It's because the leaders like money, power, and that sweet, sweet oil.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:50:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's how they can afford free health care. If we cut back on defense spending they would most likely have to increase theirs, cutting into that health care budget they brag about..
GabrielGray ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can I just ask why you think the EU would need to increase its defence budget if the US cut theirs? There are three counties from the EU in the top ten for defence spending as it is.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because those countries join the U.S. for almost all of our adventures.. Without us they would have to pick up the tab
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That really doesn't explain anything.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It means you guys are dependent on american muscle to solve everything fit you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, you still haven't explained anything relevant. You're just spouting nonsense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's to explain.. The money we spend on defense could help us fund healthcare.. Most of Europe doesn't need to spend much on defense because they have America to rush to their rescue.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you just repeating what Fox news tells you to repeat?
'The US has the highest health spending in the world - equivalent to 17.9% of its gross domestic product (GDP)'.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthcare-spending-world-country
The fact is you can blame it on 'having to defend the Euros' all you want. The fact of the matter is the US healthcare system is incredibly flawed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. is also responsible for creating most of the new drugs in the world that everyone else uses.
But I'm sure the democrats will come up with a plan to lower costs.. Oh wait, costs have went up after Obama care.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, people like Martin Shkreli who purchased the rights to Daraprim and then marked up the price from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. But that's capitalism for you. But go ahead and blame the fact Americans aren't getting fair healthcare on having to defend the poor Europeans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, first off, you Brits are capitalist in everything but healthcare.
Second, before Obama care that problem wouldn't have happened because insurance companies would've refused to pay that much, forcing then to lower the price back down..
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:47 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it would. Health care system was a disaster before Obama as well.
US citizens learn to stitch their own wounds to avoid hospital bills. Medical bills are the most common reason for bankruptcy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:39 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And it's gotten worse. Now they can't refuse treatment no matter how much it costs, so they are jacking up the prices.. The medical industry has been reporting higher profits then they already were (which was allot before).
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:51 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They are jacking up the prices because they can get away with it.
I have no idea how did the American citizens get brainwashed with the whole "we have no free healthcare because our military protects the world" meme.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:37 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Healthcare is a big part of the economy. Free healthcare will not be passed regardless of which political party is in power.. Life if America is probably still cheaper and better then most of Europe overall anyway.
I didn't say our military protected the world. But it does serve the economic interest of us and our allies
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:50 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Massive healthcare spending, and yet insane amounts of people dying from preventable diseases, horrendous mental care (cheaper to close the asylums and dump mental patients onto streets), et cetera, et cetera.
No shit, given the opinions of an average american on the topic (i.e. they are fucking idiotic)
Your country is effectively a giant parasite.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:27 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let me guess?? Your not even american yet somehow your afucking expert on our country?
Let me guess, you watched a Netflix documentary and now your an expert?? Middle class here typically has new cars, nice 2000 sq foot houses, cheap food. Unless your from Germany I'm guessing your country is shit in comparison
thefran ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:16 on November 28, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you sell your country as the best so hard, and then it turns out that you're just... the not worst.
GabrielGray ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 22:40:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True, but it's important to note that because we spend so much on defense that our allies and other countries don't have to.
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True, but these statistics raise the question: Who are we trying to outspend here?
I know that we aren't just fighting another country and this money goes to fighting terrorism and upkeeping all our military bases and to maintaining presents in different countries, but it just seems excessive
BobSacramanto ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Atlanta, Texas is closer to Atlanta, Georgia (a city 3 1/2 states away) than it is to El Paso, Texas.
Montanx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:45:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Quick whats the age of consent across the entire US? 18 right? WRONG. The age is actually 16 or 17 in far more states than it is 18. Like 30 or more, not just backwater alabama or whatever you were thinking.
cogitoergoiratus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, most other western nations set it at or around 16.
Koupers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Age of consent is as open as it sounds however. In some states it'll be 16 but there'll be a rule about an appropriate age gap. 16 is just the age at which someone is capable of providing consent.
MeowntainMan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:05:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Electrons act as both waves and matter but the change in state is caused by the simple act of trying to "observe" the electrons going through the double slit.
Double Slit Experiment.
nvolker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is a lot less impressive when you realize that the only way to "observe" subatomic particles is to interact with them in some way.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've been wondering about this. Electrons have some small amount of mass. Therefore, they attract other particles via gravity and are attracted to all other particles. Aren't all particles with mass constantly "observing" each other?
MeowntainMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I should have worded it differently. The craziest part of the double slit experiment is that particles can act as both matter and waves.
Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:16:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Photons, FTFY
BlazeOrangeDeer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's also true of electrons, and every other particle
Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Woah, really? IANAP
MeowntainMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The wikipedia page is actually a pretty good read.
Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It really was! Thanks mate
TvventyThree ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:18:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When thinking about the difference between a million and a billion, a million seconds is 11 and a half days a billion seconds is 31 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
a trillion seconds is 32 thousand years +/-
yoooouuurrr___mmoomm ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:02:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are an infinite number of numbers between any finite numbers
nvolker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more real numbers between 1 and 2 than there are integers, period.
yoooouuurrr___mmoomm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
thats a juicy period
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be clear, this means all integers, not just the integers between 1 and 2. More simply, there are more real numbers than there are integers.
nvolker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correct. I suppose my wording there was a bit ambiguous.
This is also true, but it's not the statement that I was originally trying to make. The set of all integers being smaller than the set of all real numbers is a lot less "holy shit" than the set of all integers being smaller than the set of all real numbers between 1 and 2.
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even more wow factor: There are more reals in any interval, no matter how small, than the entire set of rationals.
getoffmypropartay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:12:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That gilfoil from Silicon Valley is bill from freaks and geeks.
Iamjohn37 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Really? He doesn't look or act that different.
Cosmonaut_Princess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually said holy shit to this one
Rolfin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:21:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Today is World Toilet Day 2015 and 2.4 billion people still don't have access to a toilet or sanitation capacities. #wtd2015 yay!!
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2.4 billion people is an incomprehensible number.
Rolfin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's like, you, you, yeah you don't. Or do i get you wrong?
Sir_Justinian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:56:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sterculius is the Roman God of Fertilizer- aka he's the god of shit. He is the holy shit
FridgeFather ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In only 39 % percent of Americans who were alive in the year 1983 are still alive today.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've been looking for a source or way to calculate what % of people my age have died. IOW, how many people my age have I outlived? I'm 39 and feeling mortal.
PhlogistonParadise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:06 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I looked up actuarial statistics myself - I'm 44 and wondering if shit's about to go sideways.
Good news, everybody! People don't really start dropping like flies until they hit 65. :)
jmwbb ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:57:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can take all the planets in the solar system and lay themside by side (excluding Earth) and they'll fit nicely between the Earth and the moon. I believe this only works when the moon is at its furthest. In addition, when I say "you can", I don't mean you can go lasso Jupiter into the Earth's sphere of influence. I mean that if you could, it'd fit. Along with all the other planets. Before everything collapsed. If that wasn't obvious.
Panhead09 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:14:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pistol shrimp can shoot air bubbles whose internal temperature is nearly that of the surface of the sun.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:29:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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donslaughter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:15:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY.
slorthe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:15:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When you clean a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner.
Forky7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:59:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The brain named itself. Also, the brain is amazed that it named itself and is wondering how it did it.
bdransf1 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:23:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are not the voice inside your head, you are the one who hears it.
bdransf1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:23:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm, realized this isn't a fact, per se. Still a cool idea though.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:27:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just comment on your own post?
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:28:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell yeah he did. What a nerd.
bdransf1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yer goddamn right I did.
KoboldCommando ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's as much a fact as most of the stuff in this thread. It's also a pretty big philosophical revelation that I don't think many people make or accept easily. You are not the sum of your actions, but you also are not your thoughts. The things you think and say to yourself do not necessarily define you at any given point. In other words, "I think therefore I am" is kind of bullshit.
If you want implicit proof, we all accept the existence of unstable mental states, crimes of passion and impulsive actions. Those things are valid because despite the person acting of their own accord, they are not themselves. They garner some degree of less responsibility, despite being a decision made with the same mental faculties they always have.
Sirromnad ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:05:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's uh, not really what the phrase "I think therefore I am" means
LimeZ201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Do you happen to have a source on this? I'd love to read more about it.
lyooblyoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you just read the source...
I believe what OP begins to discuss is the idea that consciousness is not static, or that the existence that you experience is ever changing. You are a different person than the person who read the previous sentence. It's, more or less, accepted as being a reasonably accurate assessment of consciousness. We don't quite have the tools to demonstrate it, but it seems to fit well enough. However, the condemnation of Descartes' most famous sentence is ridiculous. Cogito ergo sum, or "I think, therefore I am," is the simplification of a logical proof for the existence of the self. It's valid, and it's sound, and it cannot be so easily dismissed by calling it bullshit.
LimeZ201 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm.. That's intriguing. If it hasn't been done before, I might want to do a full analysis of the theory. Assuming I actually make it through the decade of school and all that. Though I've always viewed that quote to mean "I have sentient thought, therefore I do exist". May be a naive conclusion but I've held that since I was 10.
lyooblyoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty spot on, actually. To keep it simple, Descartes reasoned that the number of things that you can be absolutely sure of, without any doubt at all, can be counted on one hand. One of those things is your own existence. The very fact that you are contemplating your own existence, is evidence for your existence.
If you're interested in this idea, which is one of the most fundamental logical proofs you can discuss, I can highly recommend reading through some Descartes
AbsintheEnema ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is especially mind blowing when you really think about it and realize the voice doesn't sound like you. I remember reading somewhere that your brain uses memories of sounds to put together the thoughts in your head and they're rarely of your own voice.
bbturtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wut
JohnnyRussell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:58 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But are you the voice inside your yeead?
hugh985 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this?
bull319 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:25:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 4 Americans have herpes ... Be careful
Wombinatar ยท 123 points ยท Posted at 13:16:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One in every 2 1/2 men have AIDS
some1stolemyshit ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh no, he didn't....
slowgoins ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You deserve platinum.
guidoninja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Too soon
ill_tonkso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch
slowgoins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You deserve platinum.
DickTayta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
too soon
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
*HIV
*has
xmotorboatmygoatx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:47:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bro..
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:21:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it mostly harmless like cold sores?
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, herpes is not very dangerous and is pretty well controlled with drugs.
Bay1Bri ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:44:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Still something you should avoid. The flu isn't "dangerous" to healthy people (in general) but who wants to make out with someone with the flu?
bearsnchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't the point I'm making. I'm just saying that it isn't really life-ending.
cbelaski ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:03:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
technically, 90% of humans have some type of herpes. what you are referring to is HSV 1 and HSV 2 (oral and genital herpes), but if you look at the whole family of herpesviruses (herpesviridae), then you also have to include varicella zoster (chicken-pox and shingles), epstein-barr (mono), and a few other less common types. there are 8 types of herpes that cause disease in humans, and over 130 total types across all aminals
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I has HSV1 and my doctor told me almost everyone does.
CanadaIsOkay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is it and how does almost everyone have it?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.aad.org/dermatology-a-to-z/diseases-and-treatments/e---h/herpes-simplex/who-gets-causes
I've never had an outbreak or even cold sore. From what I understand it's not dangerous; I'm pretty sure I contracted it through unprotected sex with about a dozen different women over the years. Worth it.
CanadaIsOkay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, /u/hugeveinycock. I appreciate it!
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hsv 1 is oral right? I remember hearing that almost everyone has it, just that most people rarely or never show symptoms of it during their life, so they don't even know.
CUM_BLASTED_CORPSE ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:34:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your entire life is dependent on a lump of meat in your body that has been making thumping motions since before you were born.
If something makes it stop thumping for a minute you die.
Madlibsluver ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:42:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that insight cum blasted corpse...
CUM_BLASTED_CORPSE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:29:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No problem friend.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Omg, I am gonna put aloe on myself. I think I got a proximity burn.
bearsnchairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could get one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_heart
FAGATRON_3000 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:28:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last Roman emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos died 39 years before Columbus set sail for the new world
muirnoire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kamehameha the Great was a contemporary of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.
humpers96 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:05:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a bit late but:
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your ownโpopulated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited crazinessโan epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that youโll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
whatisthisidontevenf ยท 136 points ยท Posted at 10:55:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The reason why we don't float off to space is because of gravity.
AgentElman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:08:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are in space.
DickTayta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are space.
SpaceVX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No i am
DickTayta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or is space you?
Nihht ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 11:44:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Without gravity you wouldn't float off into space either, unless you pushed yourself off of something toward the sky.
stainedglassceiling ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 12:08:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes you would. You would be spun off into space because you would continue to travel in the direction you were traveling in when gravity stopped. Think spinning a yoyo around your head. Let go of the string. Bub bye yoyo. Gravity acts like the string. No gravity, bub bye Nihht.
Nihht ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:11:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In which case floating into space is far from the best word.
stainedglassceiling ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 12:19:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well you would have no other forces acting on you. You wouldn't accelerate. So technically yes you would float away. Just at about 1000mph.
Nihht ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:25:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most people don't think they'd float at those speeds.
stainedglassceiling ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:51:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So the earth is about 7900 miles in diameter. As gravity stops you continue in a straight line at 1000mph. Not perpendicular to earth's rotation. Tangentially. So you would move away from the surface apparently slowly at first but as the rotation carries the point you were standing on around the circumference you would appear to accelerate.
As to the speed of floating, you are whizzing around the centre of the earth at 1000mph. Does it feel like it? No? That's because everything else around you is also whizzing around the centre of the earth at 1000mph. So everything that is not firmly anchored to the ground is also floating off into space with you. Relative speed will influence your perception of floating.
And again, no acceleration, so no feeling of being pushed. You would just noticed the ground going away.
Centrifugal force aside, with no gravity anything which pushes against is going to send you off. Cushions are just springs. No gravity, spring expands, off you go. Even your legs are constantly pushing against gravity.
Also with no gravity the earth itself is going to fly apart so we've got that to distract us.
Kall45 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This just made me imagine a weapon which nullifies earths gravity and we all slowly and terrifyingly float away into space.
TearsOfAClown27 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:03:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Simpler version: you'll see none of this because it will kill you when you smash into something
Flacvest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You came, you conquered, and you stuck around to beat the intelligence into your enemy.
You are a true internet soldier.
PacoTaco321 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:09:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You would be going a hell of a lot faster than that. Gravity has completely stopped existing, so every galaxy instantly broke apart. We would be flying at more than 500,000 miles an hour since that is our angular velocity around the Milky Way. And that's not even factoring in the movement of the Milky Way (1.3 million mph)
stainedglassceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Weeeeeeeeeee!
FatalisDrakari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't you just float in place until the earth rotated some shit into you?
stainedglassceiling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. You're already traveling at 1000mph. Take away the force holding you on a curved path and you go straight.
FatalisDrakari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I'd just fuck off into the sky then? Man. I need to learn physics again.
Too_much_nothing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They all float down here Georgie. And when you have no gravity. You'll float too!
spiritriser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So would the earth. Unless you or the earth is acted on by a magnetic field, you would technically not float away until you applied a force.
MyFirstOtherAccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok wait. Lets pretend that the earth stays together and you're in a building that is strong enough to stay attached to the earth as it spins. You would end up being trapped but pushed against the ceiling/walls due to centripetal force. How strong would that force be? Would you just end up standing on the ceiling or wall, or would you be flattened?
aykontakt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:55:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You believe in gravitism? You don't see two rocks drawn to each other by gravity, do you? Gravitism was made up by "scientists" so they could get their jobs funded. There is zero evidence for gravity.
giggleworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right. It's only a theory anyway.
leftleftleftleft ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Something that trips me up is if Earth's gravity suddenly stopped, we would not be looking up to the sky but rather down into the void (as we fall into it).
Tinfoilpain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's no gravity in space or else all the planets would fall down.
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
missingmyaudi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking amazing man.
malfilatre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
CaptainObvious_1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is that mind blowing?
SaneAids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity is only a theory.
BeefGriller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no gravity - the Earth sucks.
Seriou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit bro
mrseanjc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How is this a holy shit fact?..
Qender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also ropes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is in space
We are on Earth
Therefore, we are in space
crazy08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Gravity wouldn't hold you to earth to pick up the speed though. Earth would just spin below you at an insane speed.... until you get swatted by a mountain range or something else tall.
qngff ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Sandra Bullock!
Naggins ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Isn't this blindingly obvious?
dgran73 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:19:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are the only evolved creature on Earth that has advanced cognitive ability*. From an evolutionary standpoint you have to conclude that being "smart" isn't really important because there are millions of genetically successful life forms.
AverageMerica ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:17:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is record of only one animal to ever ask a existential question.
It was a parrot that asked what color it was.
Habtra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Given how we now rule the world of living things, I'd say that "picking" the intelligence trait proves to be a very risky, but high reward "bet".
Kinda anthropomorphised evolution, but you know what I mean
FleaHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some would argue dolphins are just as advanced as us and the only reason we look at them as being primitive are because we live under the Lucifer Experiment and dolphins do not.
slid3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
FleaHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Explaining is hard. It's not my own personal belief either.
Basically, one way of looking at the concept is to start with that because God is infallible, everything happens because he wants it to. Thus he created Lucifer. He let Lucifer do what he wanted.
So, the Lucifer Experiment says that Lucifer opposed God and choose to view reality different than God. The world of technology is reality as viewed by Lucifer. A world in God's view is extra dimensional.
There are stories that dolphins choose to reject Lucifer's view and thus live free.
The whole stories, theories, etc are pretty nuts. There is a YouTube video you can easily find narrated by a blue ... Something ... Which goes into crazy detail about Atlantis, Mars, Lucifer Experiment, etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wat
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:14:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying humans are smarter than other animals? Not exactly a holy shit fact
dgran73 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:22:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm saying that it is an eye opening fact that intelligence isn't necessarily a useful evolutionary trait. We presume that it is, but if you look around you see that many more life forms with lower levels of intelligence are successful.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh okay I get what you're saying. I never really thought about how people might not understand this
Mishmoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Disputable at best. Self-sufficient organisms rarely reach similar population levels, or mastery of their environment. (E.G Dolphins, Wolves, Deer), while non-self-sufficient organisms are too bizarre to really categorize as individual living 'beings'.
You can survive in nature with any number of traits. But none have allowed a species to thrive in the way that intelligence has.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:36:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Johnnyhiveisalive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to another comment it was a dust mite, now I'm confused.
CheshireSwift ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:11:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Median average vs linear scaling.
Icrytoo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:26:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Locusts are grasshoppers that have begun to swarm. Grasshoppers start as harmless grasshoppers and usually stay grasshoppers until they die. But sometimes (due to weather conditions, food supply, population, and other conditionsn- all it takes a very small change in brain chemicals) they begin to swarm and undergo a metamorphosis into big-ass locusts. Not all grasshopper species btw. So all locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.
maxwellj02 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 15:37:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every day, 3,200 people under 18 smoke their first cigarette.
atomicllama1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:14:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are 7 billion people on earth. That seems really low.
maxwellj02 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:04:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the US* sorry
swahl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how you can only smoke your first cigarette once, but you can smoke your last cigarette many times.
Canes360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Mmmmmmhhmmmm."
- Al Gore
Xander_The_Great ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:06:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That statistic is probably outdated by now *#vapelyfe
didn't think I needed a /s
Jondoe1791 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:13:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Have a source for that one?
maxwellj02 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/ scroll down to "Cigarette Smoking in the United States"
SnarkSnout ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:17:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What a fucking waste of beer money.
tommyjohnpauljones ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:04:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If elected, Hillary Clinton would be only ten months younger than Ronald Reagan was on his first inauguration day.
jstizz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:04:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and we'll all be fucked
Theworstmaker ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How was is second?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:40:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The green Haribo gummy bear is strawberry flavored
Boojanglese ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:30:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was roughly 60 million people displaced by war and conflict in 2014 according to the United Nations High Council for Refugees. That's approximately the population of Italy.
alpha1two ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:14:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2/3 of the earth's surface is covered by 1000 ft of water or more.
BadPasswordGuy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:26:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a still-living tree in California which has been alive since before the Pyramids were built.
inarizushisama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where?
BadPasswordGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the White Mountains.
I suspect the national park service (or whoever) won't say exactly where, to prevent some moron from going up there and killing it so he can post a video on YouTube "I kill the world's oldest thing!"
http://www.rmtrr.org/oldlist.htm
howboutislapyourshit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:54:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
That "touch" is just electromagnetic fields repelling one another.
RAZERblast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All republican candidates for US presidency do not believe climate change is affected by humans.
anoelr1963 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A woman credits Gwyneth Paltrow with saving her life on 9/11, when she stopped to talk, thereby making her miss her train to work at the World Trade Center
allothernamestaken ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:37:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Let hydrogen sit around for billions of years, and it eventually becomes self-aware.
With-a-Cactus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
allothernamestaken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes confirmed. Word.
zoidbert ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:04:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Astronaut Michael Collins is the only human, alive or dead, who isnโt in the frame of the picture he took from his capsule in 1969. (article)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it looks like at least 3/4 of the globe is covered
shiner_bock ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:05:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite Texas fact:
If you're in El Paso, TX, you're closer to San Diego, CA than you are to Houston, TX.
schitz240sx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:59:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I drove from Los Angeles to Houston non stop. 12 Hours in and you are in Texas but still had another 12 hours till I was in Houston. That drive sucked. Texarkana is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso.
UmmmmmNick ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:08:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
50 Cent and Charlie Chaplin were alive at the same time
sexycheesewriter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Since there are billions of bacteria on your digestive track, your cells are only the 10% of the living things within the limits of your body, so technically, you are just 10% human. (I'm a med student).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trillions.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:08:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Jared Fogle had 5.6 Terabytes of child porn
CaffeineExperiment ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:21:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Acceleration due to gravity is about 90% of the sea-level value on the ISS. They're just constantly falling and missing the Earth, so they're in free-fall. That's what an orbit is.
TrendyTepig ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:40:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have never personally known a world without Internet.
_NW_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember not having color TV.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:12:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The distance between the southernmost city in Canada (Windsor Ontario) and the northernmost settlement in Canada (Canadian Forces Station Alert) is 4,522 kilometres.
The distance between Windsor and Caracas is a mere 3,859 kilometres.
skiman224 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:11:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The united states did not persecute war criminals in Japan for performing human experimentation so long as they gave the U.S. their data
KingTriple ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:16:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The government has never taken taxes out of anyone's checks...even though 90% of the people think they do. Your employer actually does..makes interest off of that money...and doesn't turn it over to the IRS until the deadline of Jan. 30th of the following year.
ill_tonkso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Eh? Which government is this, because that's not how it happens in the UK
KingTriple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:34 on December 3, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The US
SchwillyMaysHere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:39:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting.
Do you have a source for this?
KingTriple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:46 on December 3, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's been this way forever.....www.irs.gov
Coplius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:27:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you lay on the ground and look up into the night sky,the only thing keeping you from being flung into the universe is the force of earth's gravity.
Wiskullsin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:29:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At the height of his drug empire, Escobar spent $2,500 USD a month on rubber bands for bricks of cash.
glassjoe92 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:36:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.
patrickkellyf3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:46:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The little plastic nubs on the end of laces are called "aglets."
MR1120 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And their true purpose is sinister
Makeadodge ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:16:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Large Marge really died that night.
sdcinerama ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:35:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only one of the first three directors of the six Star Wars films is still alive.
Sputniki ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:59:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That time is relative. We all view it from a linear, absolute perspective, but time is in fact malleable, and relative to a host of factors. The potential consequences of learning how to manipulate it are absolutely astounding.
jesuschristitsalion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey...
Bee040 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In fact, from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view, time is more like a big ball of wibbbily wobbly timey - wimey stuff.
The_Flying_KV-4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:59:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The surface of a sphere with a infinite radius is a flat plane
JesusWasANinja ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:03:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung makes weapons of mass destruction.
mattwilk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:09:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A koala's fingerprints are indistinguishable compared to that of human fingerprints. So much so that they get confused at crime scenes.
dianagama ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:06:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many horrible crimes will forever go unsolved because no one ever suspects the koalas?
ebolalunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:39:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the last time - its the drop bears you gotta worry about!
ponchoskunk420 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:10:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On a time scale, a Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to seeing us than it is to seeing a Stegasaurus
CarterDee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:03:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
MLK Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.
hawkeye18 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:06:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one single E-2C Hawkeye over the state of Alaska can detect and track every moving object in a circle roughly between Prudhoe Bay, the tip of the Kenai Peninsula, Nome, and a bit east of the Canadian border.
Stationed where I-64 crosses from VA to WV, it can see every moving object between NYC and Huntsville, Alabama, Toronto, Ontario and Savannah, GA.
Chrisrus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:54:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
There is a brain parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) that controls general trends in individual personalities and therefore the course of history.
Almost everyone has it but it causes no disease until your immune system fails.
It makes people more adventurous and open to new ideas like moving somewhere far away so it can expand its territory by getting it into the brain of a sewer rat when you poop far away. Then it makes the rat get eaten by a cat, make the cozy up to humans, and you catch it from cat poop.
MONKAYBAWLZ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:05:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fuck is this.
Chrisrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:12:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.livescience.com/933-study-cat-parasite-affects-human-culture.html
MONKAYBAWLZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:48:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
Chrisrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly.
Nixsy924 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:24:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
sex with a horse is legal in 23 states
Lilslilz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:42:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Schrodinger's Cat
AssholeBot9000 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:01:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was told in college that he came up with that to mock somebody else's idea and not actually present it as a real thing.
Shady_Ops ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:05:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Soldier here: On the top of each flagpole there is a brass ball. This is historically called a "truck", and inside the truck is a match, a 45 cal. bullet, and a razor blade. These items were for the following reasons: If the post was being overrun (presumably by the French, the Indians, or the British) then the garrison commander was supposed to take the flag down, and using the razor blade cut the stars out of it, slice the stripes horizontally, and use the match to burn the remains. That way the flag could never be captured and denigrated by the enemy. Although most flags still retain the "truck" the contents of them is probably a historical anecdote, although... Oh, and the bullet was for the last man standing to kill himself.
talllongblackhair ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:48:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together in the 60's that was signed to Motown. The Mynah Birds.
ILikeMyBlueEyes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:31:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.marshillmaine.com
I use to live in this tiny town and was wowed when I first learned this. It's pretty cool I think.
Edwin_Chalmers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:37:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it will reach the moon.
Fold it in half 103 times and it will be as large as the universe.
aqua995 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:46:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Next time you want to complain about your ping , think about how they transfer data from your PC to a server in a few ms.
pigapocalypse ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:03:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Animal agriculture causes more damage to the environment than transportation, but most green organizations don't say much about it because of either blatant corruption (when asked whether or not the meat industry donates to green organizations they refuse to comment on it) or fear that nothing will happen if they do.
Bay1Bri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've never been clear about this, because in my understanding, the things organisms do is just rearrange the molecules that are already in the environment. The carbon in CO2 is already in the carbon cycle, in other words it doesn't increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in any permanent way. But burning fossil fuel is adding to the amount of carbon in the environment because the carbon in CO2 that results from burning fossil fuels has been sequestered out of the environment for millions of years.
I know that livestock produce a lot of methane, but TBH i don't know much about methane as a greenhouse gas, it's production, life-cycle etc. If I'm missing something here I would love an explanation.
ADDED: Relevant username?
tyrannustyrannus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and what about the billions of Bison and other large animals that aren't around anymore? Haven't cattle just replaced them?
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of cattle produced regularly dwarfs the amount of bison and other large animals that once walked the earth.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:23:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but now its ebil becaus humans or something...
Also: I think that there are more cows now than there were bison then, but I'm not a pre-colonial Americas bison so I can't be sure.
tyrannustyrannus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I should clarify, man made climate change is absolutely real, but I feel like anything trying to blame it on the meat industry instead of the fossil fuel industry can probably be traced directly to the Koch Brothers.
Ahallbom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:12:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The grain fed meat industry is partially to blame mostly because of fossil fuels. The ammounts of fuel, machinery, and fertilizer needed are huge. This is true for industrial agriculture in general, but feeding people meat instead of grains means more land must be put under cultivation. Meat can be a relatively environmentally benign product, but not the kind of meat we are producing en masse.
tyrannustyrannus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't disagree on the impact of the meat industry, it goes far beyond the climate issue as well.
But when I hear things like "worse than the transportation industry" red flags go up.
pigapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should take a look at the sources I provided below, because science disagrees with your take.
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Lol what the fuck are you talking about? Worldwatch, FAO, the humane society, these are all in the pocket of Koch? Are you joking?
According to various scientific studies the meat industry creates between 14.5% to 51% of all annual GHG emissions. Transportation accounts for 13% to 18%.
tyrannustyrannus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Working for the Audubon Society, I can tell you for a fact that the Koch Brothers are behind some of the anti-wind turbine studies making exaggerated claims of the amount of birds killed by wind turbines.
Grumpy_Kong ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, I agree on the worries of human caused climate change.
Methane from cows is a greenhouse gas, though nowhere near as copious as human-created CO2.
pigapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Methane from cattle is human-created as well, and the industry outputs CO2 as well as methane. Cattle produces 37 percent of all man made methane, and methane is 33 times more effective at trapping heat than CO2 is.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:28:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wow you are really try-hard aren't you?
Protip: There is literally nothing you can tell me that I haven't already heard regarding going vegan, and I have yet to find an argument compelling enough to convince me to stop eating animals.
But feel free to keep on trying.
Because even if we ended, magically, overnight every factory farm and fast food joint, our world is still fucked because of fossil fuels.
So I'm damn well going to enjoy a steak while everything burns down around me.
Because there is literally nothing we can do about it now, it's too late.
And there will be no place for my great-grandchildren to call home.
And whether or not I give up one of the few things that makes my life enjoyable means not a single jot in the entire equation of human consumption.
pigapocalypse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:40:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Who asked about your inability to reason?
pigapocalypse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:03:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are around 1.4 billion cows in the world right now. I sincerely doubt there has ever been that many bison on the planet at one time.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:21:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, that is what I said.
Boy you sure are argumentative. Do you know that is a sign of low fat intake? Are you hangry? Would you like a cheeseburger?
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol try harder
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I really recommend reading the PDF linked, which will answer at least some of your questions here. The first few pages deal with what I think you're getting at wrt organism's CO2 impact: FAO argues that much of the CO2 from livestock is offset by photosynthesis, though that study disagrees. One must also consider that animal agriculture is the largest driving force of deforestation, which means that while they're raising their CO2 output in clearing this land, they're making it harder for photosynthesis to work.
The PDF has a large part about methane as well, which begins on pg. 13.
Also wrt methane, according to NASA methane is 33 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2 is, which means that it's much, much worse for the environment in the short-termโthat also means the removal of it would mean we'd see a change way more quickly than we would if we stopped outputting CO2. (This 33 figure is up from what was originally thought to be only 20 times more effective, so you'll probably find some resources with that old information.)
If you're interested in learning more about this stuff in an easy to understand manner I really recommend Cowspiracy on Netflix Instant. Most of it's data is on point but some of it isn't, so after you watch it I recommend reading this to get the whole story. That article will explain where some of the numbers come from, and how some of them might not be exactly true. Also note that that article is over a year old, so some of the data it deals with may have changed as well.
The 51% figure in particular is debatable, though I think it's generally sound which is why I link to it most oftenโit comes from an FAO study (as the PDF will point out) that found animal agriculture to account for 14.5% of all GHG emissions, but to arrive at the 51% figure they've readjusted and updated some calculations because some data and some understanding of that data has changed since the 14.5% (FAO) study. Other studies have found the figure to be 18% and 25%. However the (again, generally) undisputed fact is that animal agriculture definitely accounts for more than transportationโtransportation is generally said to account for around 13%. Whatever the exact numbers are, animal agriculture is something we can generally do without, at least to the extent that it's at today, and it's something we need to take a very critical look at.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You made an alt just to push this on reddit?
Seriously?
pigapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Alt? What the honest fuck are you talking about? I'm not pushing anything besides actual, real life science.
Grumpy_Kong ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, this ones only been on reddit a month, and you seem pretty reddit savvy, and you are aggressively vegan.
I can't imagine this all being a coincidence from a month ago when you decided to visit that reddit site and show all the carnivores how they are screwing up the world simply by existing.
pigapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf are you talking about? Lol who do you think I am?
I don't think carnivores are fucking up by existing, but I do think they're making the wrong decision ethically and environmentally.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are either amusingly naive or acting so for some reason.
Your user account is just a month and a half old.
You post a lot in /r/vegan, and in what you must assume is an intellectual and sardonic manner.
And your username is highly specific to some of the posts you submit (including this one).
So yah, a specially crafted alt to attach all of the outrage reddit has against sources of human-caused global warming to your favorite pet project which is apparently not eating delicious animals.
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're fucking paranoid bud
Grumpy_Kong ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Said like a well-trained shill.
pigapocalypse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:39:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Said like a grade-A moron
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:12:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm kind of interested why you would respond to every single one of my comments I'm pretty much the same manner. I'll answer them all here.
Your rhetoric is weak and your ideals are untenable in a practical world. Your sanctimonious attitude is obvious in nearly every sentence you type. I suggest you temper your approach.
pigapocalypse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol okay guy. Screw off into oblivion with no regards to the consequences of your own actions.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most crisps go out of date on a saturday.
Jambls ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:18:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's chips to you americans.
phys1cstothemax ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:59:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a woman who survived the commercial plane she was on exploding at 30,000 feet. She landed on an extremely steep incline (70 degrees) high up in the Andes in the winter so there was like 9 feet of snow. She broke like all her bones (exaggeration) but she did survive.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:04:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Several people have survived insane falls like this. Although when you consider than they hit terminal velocity long before hitting the ground, it means that surviving a 3,000 foot fall and a 30,000 foot fall aren't really that different.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:55 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
you have a heck of a lot more time to think about it though. Just imagine..
SirCatMaster ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:19:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
M Knight shamylamamalan wrote the screenplay to Stewart Little.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
u w0t, m8?
Koupers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine he spent the entire time writing like "The child isn't actually a child he's a mouse, WHAT A TWIST!"
Jason_Anaminus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Graham's number.
The fact that it exists and even, bigger numbers which not equal to infinity exists.
Renerrix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:45:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: Graham's number.
shinobi163 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
It's a number so large that the number of digits in Graham's number has not been defined.
You should probably watch this
Shredder77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy maths, batman..
siouxperfly ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:51:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you are female, you are part of an unbroken line of women who have also succeeded in giving birth to another female going back to a time before your earliest human ancestor.
exhaltedbowl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:32:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really late to the party but I think it's important to say that they are more slaves in the world today than there have ever been in the history of humanity and that some of these people are being used by companies you buy and use in your home like Kraft and Nestle.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:34:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a favorite of mine. Jerry cans are called such because the Germans unique fuel can design in world war 2 was often seen as superior to the fuel cans the British used. So British troops in North Africa would often capture and use German fuel cans. Allied war slang would often refer to the Germans as "Jerrys" and so the name "Jerry can" was coined.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:00:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there are 5.8x1054 calories in a cubic lightyear of butter.
muffledvoice ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:36:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from the earth to the moon.
You can only actually fold a piece of paper 7 times, but I think what makes this astounding is the degree to which the human mind doesn't readily grasp or visualize exponential increase.
Frankandthatsit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:20:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so there is enough matter in one piece of paper to stretch all the one to the moon?
muffledvoice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:34 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually there is. The number of atoms laid end to end in order to reach the moon would be approximately 1.922*1018. Cellulose molecules have 21 atoms, so the number you would need in order to reach the moon would be fewer than that number. Meanwhile, the number of molecules of cellulose in a piece of paper is approximately 1.07โ1022. IOW, a sheet of paper has in cellulose molecules over three orders of magnitude the number of atoms you would have to lay end to end to reach the moon.
aezart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see where /u/muffledvoice is going with this. If you fold a paper once, it's 2 sheets thick. Then 4 sheets, then 8. The 42nd fold would be 242 pages thick (about 4.39x1012).
Only being able to fold a paper 7 times is a myth.
muffledvoice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:53:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The known limit for a normal sheet of notebook paper is seven folds.
http://www.brainstuffshow.com/blog/why-cant-you-fold-a-piece-of-paper-more-than-seven-times/
thekneemonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
in half******
mikkylock ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:09:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The United States is the third most populous country in the world.
joes_nipples ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:24:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes there's a difference between regular herpes and genital herpes
DraketheDrakeist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:56:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong thread.
sticky_gecko ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:23:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why is that a 'holy shit' fact?
mikkylock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:33:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
While I knew that China and India have over 1 billion people each, it seems crazy to me that the next most populous country is
370320 million.Additionally, it explained a lot for me, regarding the economy and why Americans have so much purchasing power globally.
EdwardTheVindictive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
320 million*
mikkylock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oops! For some reason I've had the wrong # in my brain for a while then, hah.
m15wallis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:30:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Big guns that can kill you from half the world away also help.
Our Navy has at least three times more active Carrier Groups (the current standard Naval formation) at a higher combat strength at any one time than any other nation has in their entire navy, and that's not including our reserves, submarines, and other Battlegroup formations. We could engage any nation on the planet and, if casualties were in a 1:1 ratio, we would still be at combat effectiveness while the other nation would be utterly destroyed, and virtually no navy is as technologically powerful or as skilled as the US navy is, so casualties would be even higher than that.
Gunboat diplomacy works pretty well in opening a lot of doors that dollars won't.
TheHaak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But is it the most popular?
neoriply379 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I asked the nearest college student and it turns out the United States is "literally worse than Hitler".
__lony__ ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:24:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I work 80 hrs for pay of 40 hrs :-(
imhonestopinion ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:01:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Change jobs?
__lony__ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:03:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Working on that right now. But holy shit moment was enlightening moment.
imhonestopinion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, good luck finding a new place though. Hopefully 40 hours pay for less than 40 hours work :P
dopey_giraffe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:10:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What do you do? I'm guessing (hoping) you're salaried and not one of those warehouse workers dealing with wage theft.
__lony__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Salaried, programmer by profession :-/
dopey_giraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Ugh. I'm a programmer too, but I work in IT atm.
/r/cscareerquestions if you didn't already know. Good luck.
siulnoep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Wage theft"?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Working without pay.
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
even if he is salaried, they owe him money for the overtime worked
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My old boss was salaried, does at least 70 hours a week, but instead of overtime pay he gets to take more days off to make up for the extra days hes worked. Then they swamp him with work and he doesnt get to take time off. If you knew how hard and often he worked you would be astounded, particularly for about 40k a year
bp92009 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a fan of the idea that's floating around to simply make salaried positions that make less than 70,000 a year get mandatory overtime for over 40 hours of work in week. If you are making over 70k/yr, that seems to me a decent starting point where there's actual growth in the field, but under that? simply wage theft.
dopey_giraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ideally yes, but a lot of salaried positions are exempt.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:28:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which, if you ask me, is the only reason to make someone salaried, so you don't have to pay them overtime.
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not as many as you would think. there are a lot of rules that go into who is exempt and who isn't. a lot of employers will tell you your position is exempt from overtime even if it isn't, you actually have to look at the rules and see if overtime is owed to you.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:21:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe move to a country with human rights
AverageMerica ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Move to a planet with human rights.
scrappy6262 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same :(
worstsupervillanever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:40:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. Don't go to culinary school to make a career out of cooking, kids.
diaper_fetish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:45:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
There is a building in Derby Line, Vermont where you can enter the building through the entrance in Vermont and exit the building in Canada.
EDIT: This is the link to the building.
crazy08 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:06:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you go north long enough, you'll go south.
Tinkletyme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:25:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 5000 babies are born with an imperforate asshole.
windowjumper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:42:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
annnnnddd now I have learned to take my baby to the hospital if he poops out the base of his penis...thanks
Rowanbuds ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:37:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fax machine was patented in the same year that the pony express began operations. More concerning is the fact that some documentation is still required to be submitted via fax instead of email or snail mail.
DiZeez ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:50:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it is amazing to me as well, but it is actually significantly safer to send legal documents or protected health information via fax. The problem is that the email leaves copies in places you can't control during transit. If it is encrypted you are safer, but the only thing dangerous about a fax is sending it to the wrong number.
ASKL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fax's are secure (dedicated phone lines) where email is not, hence the reason why medical offices and insurance companies use fax machines.
Rowanbuds ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:02:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But I though security and things like encryption let the terrorists win. That's not a good enough reason. /s
TheGarp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the United states' northern, western and EASTERN-MOST state!
banginbowties ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:33:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
trees_are_tall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some of the Aleutian Islands cross the 180ยฐ meridian of longitude, so they're actually in the far eastern hemisphere, and technically east of nearly everything, mainland U.S. included.
TheGarp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/nsewusa.htm
dastard82 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:28:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
fecal molecules can penetrate up to 5 sheets of toilet paper, so make sure to fold and layer it
teh_maxh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:56:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or just wash your damn hands.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:08:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or just use a bidet.
teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And then still wash your goddamn hands.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
After touching just your pants? The point of a bidet is sp you don't have to wash your hands because they never touch anything.
DraketheDrakeist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse for wadding.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the most part it really doesn't matter... Just flushing the toilet sends untold billions/trillions of fecal matter molecules into the air.
And onto your toothbrush.
Literally EVERYWHERE humans are has shit coating it on a microscopic level.
Which is why I find germophobes hilarious. I keep trying to get them to do skin cultures...
edit: yes I understand the dangers of concentration, but come on if you are worried about the amount that makes it through 2 layers of 2ply, then you should be more worried about the amount of other people's shit that gets deposited on the things that go into your mouth.
dastard82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's why it's a good idea to put down the lid before flushing
Grumpy_Kong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:11:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you understand how particle diffusion in gas works.
Unless you have a hermetically sealed toilet seat it doesn't really matter if you close the lid (other than water spray of course).
Also, it doesn't matter because whenever you smile in public your teeth are immediately coated with hundreds of thousands of random people's fecal particles.
Have fun with that thought.
dastard82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice breakdown, this is why I'll never smile again
AQuickSurvey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:21:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you move 10,000 miles away from something and then you move another 10,000 miles away, youre not 20,000 miles away, youre only 12,500 miles away the exact furthest point you can be from something on Earth.
hedgecore77 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm radioactive. You are too!
Zartrok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:44:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All of the planets in our solar system would fit in between the earth and moon with 5000 miles to spare
andretti42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:48:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saturn is less dense then salt water. So theoretically it could float in the ocean
SourCreamWater ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:53:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just think about how much blood there is everywhere.
Chimichangazz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:02:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That probably 3/4 of the comments will show up on the front page as a TIL within the next week.
pr0fess0r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:15:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Around 14 people a year are raped by dolphins
sacknsave ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:18:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our brains process so little visually that if you were having a brief conversation with a guy and he traded places mid-way through the conversation with another guy who looked nothing like him and wore different clothes, you probably wouldn't notice. It's called change blindness. They did an experiment just like this and 75% of people didn't notice the change.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:20:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Queen Elizabeth II has been queen for more than a quarter of the time that the US has existed.
elister ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of Congress is Progress
machaeradente ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:28:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A tomato is a fruit.
I still don't believe it.
GBralta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
machaeradente ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:50:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, peppers, eggplant and olives are all fruits.
Note to self: My life was a lie.
Adelaar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A tomato is botanically a fruit. But it is culinarily and politically a vegetable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
Urgullibl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:34:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The youngest man to ever walk on the moon turned 80 last month.
fwaming_dragon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:43:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the universe is made up almost entirely of empty space.
chocki305 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alvin and the Chipmunks was the first group to use autotune.
Skegetchy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I read this on reddit years back so repost: The University of Oxford is older than the Aztecs.
MacbethAUT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:09:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You Could Fit All the Planets Between the Earth and the Moon. http://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/
satanist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:49:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are eight light minutes away from our sun.
Spearka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:50:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On Earth earthquakes happen when the crust undergoes a sudden process where the crust either slips or grinds along tectonic plates.
A lesser known fact is that this can happen to Neutron stars too; a starquake happens in a similar way where the hyperdense crust that is literally MADE of iron nuclei slips by a few millimetres in the space of a few milliseconds.
This happened to SGR 1806-20, giving a starquake of 32 on the RICHTER scale... yes... 32, by comparison the most powerful recorded earthquake was 9.5 In Chile but because the Richter scale is LOGARITHMIC it means that the SGR 1806-20 starquake is....
100000000000000000000000 times more powerful. But that's still not it.
We know this happened because in addition to the quake it throws up a gigantic solar flare that is more like an explosion than a flare; when we actually detected it it was actually a gigantic blast wave that shook the magnetic field with gamma and X-rays. Whoops! almost forgot, SGR 1806-20 is 50'000 light years away (aka on the other side of the damn galaxy). if it were even closer, say, 3ly the blast would have completely stripped the Ozone layer and would have also sterilised the surface of the entire planet.
5StringThunder ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More men have walked on the moon than scored against Mariano Rivera in the playoffs
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more molecules of air in a single breath of air than there are breaths of air on the planet.
asifbaig ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:02:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Googolplex is an insanely large number.
It's 10googol where googol is 10100. So a googolplex is 1010100 or 1010000....continue...till...100...zeros.
How big is that?
The observable universe contains about 1080 atoms. If every single atom represented a zero, you'd still not have enough zeroes to represent the total number of zeroes in a googolplex. Since you'd need 1 googol of zeros (10100 ), you'd need to multiply the universe by 1020...
...to represent not the googolplex number itself, only how many zeroes it contains.
In case that last line confused you, consider that:
102 is 100. The number of zeroes in it is 2 but its actual value is 100 (98 more than 2).
1015 is 1,000,000,000,000,000. The number of zeroes is 15 but the actual value is 1,000,000,000,000,000 (999,999,999,999,985 greater than 15).
A googolplex (10googol) is 1 followed by 10100 (1 googol) zeroes. The number of zeroes is 1 googol but its actual value is.....you get the idea.
So as I said, googolplex is an insanely large number.
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And the "Holy Shit!" moment for me when someone made me realize that...
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...the distance from 1 to infinity and googolplex to infinity is approximately the same.
robschroeder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Googolplex? How quaint. Take a look at Graham's Number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo
cogitoergoiratus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Graham's NumberGraham's Number aka the Fuck Graham Number.
asifbaig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:48:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The distance from 1 to infinity and Fuck Graham Number to infinity is approximately the same as well.
In other words, as far as infinity is concerned, all these numbers are equal.
ArcanisGuile ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bats form approximately a quarter of all mammal species.
Bet you didn't see that one coming.
robschroeder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bat you didn't see that one coming.
Spectra88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:22:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia's surface area is roughly the same as Pluto's.
exorbitantwealth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People spent ~$1.3 Billion inside Candy Crush in 2014 alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_(company)
sufferpuppet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's crazy. That game is boring as all hell.
HaleNo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:30:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We all live on a giant rock that just floats in space, that we are in the grand scheme of this we're just a speck in a universe that for all when know is just a speck in something larger.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:23:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pale Blue Dot man, it's rugged.
Jedekai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:42:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The LD-50 of latrotoxin is so minute, a pinhead amount in a 1L saline bag will kill five people in a line.
Unfocusedbrain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:58:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The diameter of the observable universe is around 92 billion light years. We don't know how big the unobservable universe is since its so far away the light cant never reach us. It may be infinite.
Max_Tongueweight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:20:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The beautiful white sand beaches of the Caribbean are basically parrotfish shit.
whiteknight521 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:32:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Photons going through a lens refract via interference with other photons upon spontaneous re-emission, but even so a single photon will still refract through the lens when no other photons are present. One explanation is that the lone photon interferes with photons in other universes in order for refraction to occur.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:34:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that the US military budget is 665 billion dollars
b3ta_max ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:48:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
BagelGlory ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:43:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Julie Bowen, the actress that plays the mother on modern family, is the same actress that played happy gilmores girlfriend.
1UPZ_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:46:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1.
keviniscool111 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:58:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When wasps sting you they are actually injecting their larvae into your skin. Luckily our body isn't a suitable host for them so they die and float around your body until they break down or get flushed out.
KeybladeSpirit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:00:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you line up every planet in the solar system from end to end, it would fit between Earth and Luna.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That depends where Luna is standing. If she walks closer, they might not all fit then.
zero_dgz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:06:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
London is not at the same latitude as New York. It is at the same latitude as St. Anthony, Newfoundland. It's farther north than all of the USA, including Minnesota and all the other places that turn into a frozen wasteland in the winter.
Garimasaurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's farther north than all of the *continental USA
zero_dgz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
True. But we'll discount all those pesky penguins in Alaska.
ebolalunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What? Alaska is next to Hawaii, both located southwest of the west coast of America. ;)
VarioussiteTARDISES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:03:15 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's the UK's position that makes it much warmer than the latitude would suggest.
ErisGrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:07:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The vast majority of water in our solar system is on/in the sun, in the form of water Vapor.
There are more unnamed numbers; million, billion, trillion, etc; then there are words to name them.
Original-jankster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:20:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the ants in the world weigh as much as all the humans in the world.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:24:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All I've learned from this thread is that due to discrepancies between flat maps and globes, America has some facts that will blow your mind.
Onlyhereforthelaughs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope, does in fact, shit. Wether or not he blesses it is unknown.
EscapeFromTexas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:14:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But... does he shit in the woods?
Onlyhereforthelaughs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unlikely, unless the former Pope shat in the golds, and this new one is continuing to be more humble than him.
EscapeFromTexas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:14:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was referencing the old joke "Does a Bear shit in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic?"
cloverskull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:28:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you try to consider infinity in terms of actual numbers, there are as many rational numbers from zero to infinity as there are irrational numbers between zero and one.
Edited out of respect for the English language
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:35:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not true. For any interval, no matter how small, there are more irrational numbers in that interval than the set of all rational numbers.
cloverskull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I see someone in this thread knows how to fact check "Holy Shit" facts!
Chickiepie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:41:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series the Ottoman Empire still existed.
Analpoopapoolooza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:46:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...Back to back world series champions BABY! 1907 and 1908
anooblol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:42:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Take the number line of real numbers, throw a dart, and hit a random number on that line. There is a 100% chance you will hit an irrational number.
ebolalunch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:00:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5?
anooblol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:47:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to explain, look up measure theory. But here's a similar scenario:
Take a square dart board. What's the probability of hitting the left half? Well the left half takes up 1/2 the area. So it's a 50% chance to hit the left half. So the percentage of area is equivalent to the chance you'll hit it. Now what about hitting the diagonal of the board. It exists, but has no area. So there's 0% chance you'll hit it. So even though the diagonal is a subset of the points on the board you're not going to hit it.
When I say there's a 100% chance to hit a irrational number, theoretically it's possible to miss... But statistics say otherwise.
Look up measure theory or the lebesgue integral for more in depth explanations.
_NW_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are way more irrational numbers than rational numbers. So many more that there is 0% chance of hitting a rational number.
Karo2theG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Both Danny Carey and Josh Freese worked on the Man of Steel soundtracks
CLXIX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:00:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No kidding. Im a big tool fan , I had no idea
b3ta_max ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:14:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The star 'VY Canis Majoris' is so big that a passenger airplane traveling along the surface at an average cruising speed of 900km/h would take over 1,100 years to complete one circuit.
dumplestilskin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:37:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At the height of production during WWII, a new B-17 bomber rolled off the assembly line every 63 minutes. America.
leftofzen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:52:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a dying star/s and scattered across the universe in it's supernova/e.
This matter eventually coalesced under gravity to form the Sun, Earth, and everything else in the Solar System, and eventually life on Earth, and ultimately you.
There are plenty of articles on this:
etc etc
SomeJadedGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:58:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i just blazed up then i read this...... maaaaan....
dianagama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
MOBY WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG.
Kasperticus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ants on earth than humans, by mass.
NightFire19 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Many people die from shoveling their driveways.
godzillamikey100 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:10:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Locust are just grasshoppers that are dosed up on a chemical that changes how grasshoppers behave
Polite_Werewolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:19:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The James Bond movies are American produced films.
Dabrybry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you started counting 1 second at a time as soon as you were born, you'd only be hitting 1 billion by the time you were 30 years old. To count to 1 trillion, you would be 30,000 years old.
Edit: words
Edit: Even crazier stuff: 1 trillion = 30,000 years worth of seconds. One light year = 6.7 TRILLION miles!
Even traveling at 1 mile/second, it would take you ~290,000 years to traverse one pathetic light year. The universe is big, and we're very slow :(
JohnnyRussell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:51:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Counting what? Seconds?
Dabrybry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sorry. Seconds, one at a time.
UnderWaterTree ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Newfoundland had 11 Prime Ministers that Ruled it up until 1934
ItsNotNotLupus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ohio is the only state that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:42:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Logarithms need to be used in order to fit a scale model of the solar system in a textbook.
frogbug ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:51:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The speed at which the universe is expanding and some galaxies that are moving away from us are moving faster than the speed of light. No one really knows exactly how but many think dark energy plays a part in this odd but fascinating phenomenon.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/104-the-universe/cosmology-and-the-big-bang/expansion-of-the-universe/616-is-the-universe-expanding-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-intermediate
t3hPoundcake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The speed of light is the speed of causality, space-time doesn't care about a speed limit, it can expand or contract as fast or slow as it would like to.
The_M4G ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:02:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Scientists cannot measure the true size of the Pacific garbage patch and almost none of it is recyclable.
dianagama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't actually exist, thats probably why they can't measure it.
-ImYourHuckleberry- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you took all of the atoms that make up every living human being and removed the empty space between the electrons and the nucleus, you could fit the entire population of humans on the face of a quarter.
hylianknight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The GOP hasn't won a Presidential race without a Nixon or Bush on the ticket since 1928.
DoctorNoname98 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:51:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Adolphe Sax in his childhood:
fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and could barely stand
drank, at the age of three, a bowl full of vitriolized water and later swallowed a pin
burnt himself seriously in a gunpowder explosion
fell onto a hot cast iron frying pan, burning his one side as a result
survived poisoning and suffocation in his own bedroom, where varnished items were kept during the night.
was hit on the head by a cobblestone.
fell into a river and was saved by the skin of his teeth.
And in his adulthood he invented the saxophone.
Tzar_Ivan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The worlds 15 biggest ships create more pollution than ever single car on the planet combined (and there's over a billion cars now).
Hotman_Paris ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:57:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only 10% of the world's population lives in the southern hemisphere.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump has a legitimate chance at becoming our eternal overlord and king in 2016.
But_Ox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am not important
DoctorNoname98 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:10:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The air on planes use to be much cleaner when they allowed smoking. When they banned smoking they stopped filtering the air.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dad works at a tech company. The other day he came home and told me he'd been in a meeting where the execs were talking about buying some top-of-the-line smartphones, tablets, and laptops, straight from the manufacturers, which they would then add their software too. The cost of these high-end devices? $10 per phone, $16 per tablet, and $60 per laptop. For tech equivalent to what Apple sells for $400, $800, and $1300.
TrollJegus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:22:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 then there are atoms on Earth. 52 factorial, so it comes out to about 8.0658175e+67 possible combinations.
cbelt3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Over 1,000 nuclear weapons have been tested on our planet. No mutant apocalypse. Sorry , Hollywood.
CyFus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:31:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mutantcancer apocalypseFakezaga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:44:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many people do you suppose tigers have killed in the last 200 years or so? Take a moment to think about it.
2,000? 20,000? 100,000??
373,000!! Mostly in the Sundarbans region of India which has a high concentration of tigers and people. There is some speculation that tigers there have developed a taste for people because flooding each year sends hundreds of bodies floating downstream which make for easy tiger snacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack
dirtyprawn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:33:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a droppin' knowledge with the kid?
Fakezaga ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have watched that podcast and know what you mean, but I didn't hear it there.
dirtyprawn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:25:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The way you posed it sounds like the kid. Congrats though on a nice bit of knowledge
beaverteeth92 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:50:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Azerbaijani is the only language that has a schwa (ษ) in its alphabet.
class_wifi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were as old to the ancient Romans as ancient Romans are to us
MrGbear1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We still don't know what the hell makes up gravity
snipekill1997 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest known black hole is 26 times wider than the solar system, by volume it is 17500 times more voluminous. As to the brightness*, it is 25 thousand times brighter ... than the entire Milky Way. As to how many stars are in it, well its quite a lot. This video is illustrative of the size of the black hole at the center of the Phoenix cluster, it's half as massive.
* As the matter is sucked towards the black hole it becomes incredibly dense and fuses, thus while feeding black holes are extremely bright.
inflamesskater ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:15:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That you never actually touch anything.
Proof: http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/why-you-can-never-actually-touch-anything/.
Jolivegarden ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More people of Irish descent live in America than Ireland.
the_power_of_glove ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:34 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
part of bill gate's residency was designed on a mac
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all the planets in the solar system between the earth and moon. The solar system is WAYYY bigger than you think. Google "If the Moon was One pixel". It's an accurate model of the solar system with a The Moon:One pixel Scale. I'm on mobile so I don't have the link. You do a ton of scrolling.
majortomdickandharry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That the FBI estimates there are between 40-50 active serial killers in the U.S. at any given time.
appledippers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy who gets put in the boo box in the movie Hook...yeah that's Glenn Close
laxaddict11 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:32:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all of the planets in our solar system lined up between the earth and the moon
F4rsight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:39:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
when the Pyramids at Giza were being built, there were still isolated populations of mammoths alive in Siberia.
iBajan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more ways of arranging a deck of cards than there have been seconds since the universe began.
Number of possible card arrangements: 8.06582 x 1067
Number of seconds since the big bang: 5.1 x 1017 (Estimate of 16 billion years since the big bang)
kimjongunderdog ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:03:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Woolly Mammoth and the Great Pyramids existed at the same time.
Most of the mammoths died 10,000 years ago, but there was a small group that lived on an island off the coast of Russia until 1650 BC.
That's 3600 years ago.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fritz Haber, attempting to develop a way for Germany to produce more bombs for its military, accidentally saved billions of lives. He and Karl Bosch invented the process for producing nitrogen fertilizer/explosives that is now responsible for half of the nitrogen in your body.
He also pioneered chemical warfare during WWI.
He also invented Zyklon-A, an insecticide that was then reformulated and used to murder his family.
brkdncr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest nuclear accident in the US wasn't 3-mile island. It was in a town right next to Los Angeles.
Ultrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:37:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that sun will consume earth some day made me go holy shit.
ACDChook ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:05:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fuel pumps in the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket produced 55000 horsepower EACH.
I_am_jacks_reddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:08:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There was only 49 years between the first commercial air flight in the moon landing.
slowshot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:15:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am unique, just like everybody else.
bonafidegiggles ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:41:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That a tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus didn't live in the same Era.
Kapparino1104 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Graham's number is so large that it's actually incomprehensible.
Let me give you an example.
The Planck volume is the theoretical smallest size anything can exist in. It is about 10-105 m3.
The observable universe is about 93 billion light years across, and has a volume on the order of 1080 m3.
So you can fit around 10185 of the smallest possible thing into the observable Universe.
This isn't even close to Graham's number, let alone the FIRST LEVEL of Graham's number, which is G1. Graham's number is G64.
To compute for G1, we must first learn the Knuth's up arrow notation.
3x3x3 = 3 โ 3 which is equal to 27.
3 โโ 3 = 3โ(3โ3) which is 327 or roughly 37,625,597,484,987 That's 3 Raised to fucking 7 trillion, and we're not even close to G1.
3โโโ3 = 3โโ3 (3โโ3). 3โโ3 is equal to 37,625,597,484,987. so 3โโโ3 = 3โโ7,625,597,484,987. This number is so big, it might even surpass yo mama's weight.
G1 is 3โโโโ3 which is 3โโโ(3โโโ3).
You want to know G2? G2 is 3 (G1 arrows) 3. That's right. G1 is so large, yet it is shit compared to G2.
G3 is 3โโโ....G2โโ 3.
Continue up to 64 times. G64 is Graham's number.
tomonome ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Considering that we have butts now, one of our ancestor species had to have died because they didn't have butts.
cfb_rolley ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:34:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How much fuel a top fuel engine consumes per cylinder
elyisgreat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:56:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a movie about the Pope and Toilets, which literally involves holy shit (depending on your beliefs).
acro-bat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:48:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is three times bigger than North America. Mexico is larger than Alaska. The map you were taught global geography on in school (the Mercator map) is wrong.
JKrevy2294 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:58:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The second you were born, you were probably the youngest person on the Earth.
celebez ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
umm, at one point in your life you were the youngest person on earth
Slimjawb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I know this thread is dead but I keep missing my chance to post this so fuck it, here it goes:
The perfume Chanel No. 5 contains ground-up beak from the giant squid. Before any physical specimens had been seen or caught, Chanel acquired the beaks from the stomachs of whales that were caught by whalers.
Cobbleking32486 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:21:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
canada has less people then pewdiepie has subscribers. he's that popular.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:51:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Easter Island heads are just the top of head and body statues that are partially buried.
Gemberlain ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:58:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire
HowardMoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Oxford English Dictionary is older than the Pontiac Aztec.
troyblefla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But not the Incas and don't get me started on the Olmecs, those crazy bastards.
shakingunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck?
chief_erl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:19:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in the universe than every grain of sand on every beach on earth.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If someone would have started to shuffle a deck of 52 cards once per second since the beginning of the universe, he would not have the same deck of cards twice until this day
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well that is not true. Unless he is shuffling the deck the exact same way everytime the outcome is random and so you could say odds are it would have taken this long it possibly could have been the same day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yeah mr. partycannon, that's right.
simply stated:
(amount of possible combinations in a deck of 52 cards) > (seconds since the beginning of the known universe)
BLUDxETHAN ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:10:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Smart phones are more powerful than the computers that sent people to the moon in the 60's
Mechashinsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So was my calculator watch in grade 2.
*not really a fact, just an exaggeration
Letmepickausername ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:22:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every time you remember something, you are not actually remembering the original event but the last time you remembered that original event. Of course, that probably wasn't the original event either. In fact, the only time you remember the original event is the first time.
phivtoosyx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:26:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Radiolab taught me that
evolvedfish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The human body is comprised of about 10% human cells and over 500 species
KarthusWins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of those species is a mite that eats dead skin cells in your eyelashes.
PM_ME_UR_SHRIMPS ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:15:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more cells in your brain than there are brains in your entire body.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
well there's only one brain
PM_ME_UR_SHRIMPS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yes
IronOhki ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:23:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When my parents were born, there was no TV.
When I was born, there was no internet.
PirateInsomniac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I guess your grandparents and parents had to find other kinds of entertainment....
IronOhki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I heard once they threw a rock at another rock.
TheJuda2112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When I was born there was no google or Wifi or iProducts
General_GTFO ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:24:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The iron in your mom's favorite seasoned cast iron skillet killed a star.
Stars can only fuse up to iron, at which point they begin to run out of fuel. They eventually explode in a glorious supernova that forges the heavier elements.
kingdong696969 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:29:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One russian admiral said no, opposite the other admirals, to nuking the US during the cold war to stop it from happening.
LH44Gooner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a documentary about this called 'The man who saved the world' or something like that. Was really interesting.
CopperPlague ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
His name was Vasiliji Arkhipov. Remember it.
jdotvintage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:56:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a car passed the start line of a quarter-mile dragstrip going 200mph and a top-fuel dragster started from a stop at that exact moment, the top-fuel dragster will still finish first!
Crazy.
majinjohnny ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:14:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
7-11 is essentially Japanese
Rorrexx44 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:53:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sean bean (Ned Stark) plays the voice of Martin Septim in Oblivion.
AverageMerica ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:30:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
SPOILER
Even in video games sean bean can't stay alive.
martin_grosse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:55:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This was one of the best parts of the Martian. When the director asks Sean Bean essentially "At some point, don't we just let the one guy die?" and the look of outrage on Sean Bean's face where he's like, "It's guys like you that keep getting guys like me killed. Fuck no we don't let him die!"
Rorrexx44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hell ill do ya one better, all this hype around fallout 4, lots of ppl just getting into the series dont kno Liam Neesons plays your dad in Fallout 3. Liam neesons is my shiiiiiiiiiiiii....evaporates
walruz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:58:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If a woman gives birth under water, the baby can live its entire life without once coming up for air.
criticalbuzz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:13:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bowser is a turtle.
zudomo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:35:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting Fact: For some reason my sister and I thought the Koopa's were ducks. I'm sure it was an association because Mario came with Duck Hunt, but we didnt' realize we were wrong until our late 20's.
We also called Donkey Kong in Super Mario Kart "Moley". We thought he was a mole. lol
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:21:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't happen to live in a house with lead based paint, did you?
newfunk ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 13:14:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jeff
kiddos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:32:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What is Jeff?
Coffee-Anon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:42:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correct!
DaddyRocka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mY NAME
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...holy shit.
Pootanged ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:43:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population. Human greed sux!
Siadry42 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 15:22:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if you realise that you only need to make 16 500$ usd to be part of the top 10%...
Villyer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:45:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a source on this? This is more of a holy shit fact to me than OP's.
Siadry42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, my economy teacher told me that. But give me a minite and I can find some things for you (I'm on mobile right now). Edit: Well, the sources don't really agree... The article that /u/Villyer found says that you need 12K a year to be part of the 10%. At the same time this calculator thingy declares that you need around 13 750$ a year while this one says you only need 16 500$ if you live alone (It seems to have the same source as my teacher).
While none of these are really great sources, I assume y'all get the image that you Americans and us Canadians shouldn't really talk about the rich folk of this planet like the're pieces of defecation... I probably could find netter sources, but I need to go to the pharmacy (another proof that we trully are Bloody rich compared to other places around the globe).
Villyer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:03:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found this article that claims the top 1% of the world is $34,000. While it sounds like a biased article, that's still a surprising amount. I'm guessing your economy teacher may have even rounded up for that figure.
Geekmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a good thing. 90% of the world have less.
Siadry42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:41:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree with you. He was just talking like he wasn't part of the 10%.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:53:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Siadry42 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:59:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
We're talking about the world's population, not just the us. Edit: For the US, you'd need 113 799$ if you believe the super reliable source of the Financial Samurai.
Armyforce ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My apologies, simply a misunderstanding :)
Siadry42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No problem mate
Warpato ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 15:10:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair that's probably more equality than anytime in history, and income inequality has been decreasing globally for like the last 70 years
TenBeers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Citation? Does this negate the phrase "The rich get richer..."?
Warpato ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:30:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And no the rich are still getting richer, especially if yoi invest, compounding interest basically guarantees that, and strong arguments could be made that inequality isn't decreasing because of benevolent wealth redistribution but rather advances in technology, and the general growing of the global economy
jmlinden7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The rich have always gotten richer but for the first time in history, so are the poor
Geekmonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:59:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's far from fair.
MakesShitUp4Fun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Or, looking at it more optimistically, human ambition is amazing.
OpenuptheMac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This always made me curious. Like.. What do they do with it?
Rockabillyoyster ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:48:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is enough room to fit all of the planets in between us and the moon, and then some
reubenlowde ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
at its furthest point there is ample space, at its closest point there isn't quite enough. But basically yeah
aykontakt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You would need to move the Moon more than three times further from Earth to fit in the Sun.
Rockabillyoyster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats why I said planets, not stars
PhilxBefore ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:12:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He was just adding another fact.
circuital14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ALL the planets?
Genlsis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:45:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every time you hit search on google, it uses a AA battery worth of power to give you an answer. Simply the transistors switching on servers uses this.
spinosaurus7 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:00:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not that I don't believe you, but source?
FleaHunter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I definitely don't believe him. That's over an amp just for one search? If someone totaled up the usage, that would probably exceed all current human power generation.
Edit: 3.5 billion searches per day x 1000mAh/search x 120v/amp = 40,509 watts/second processing. 105PW per month? Anybody care to double check me? Very likely I missed something in the equation.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, I may be doing this wrong as well, but THIS gives the storage of an lithium ion AA battery as 3.1Whrs.
And THIS gives the global consumption of electricity as 20PWhrs per year.
3.5 billion searches/day x 365 day/year x 3.1Whrs/search would give 3.96*1012 Whrs/year, or 0.00396PWhrs/year.
I could also be wrong with my math, but I don't think this is an unreasonable number to assume that google searches consume. I am not sure where you got your conversions, and I felt it was easier to leave things in terms of Whrs.
Let me know your thoughts.
FleaHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Argh mobile ate my reply. So, I got the mAh to Wh conversion wrong. Your calculations are correct. Wh for AA batteries tho vary +/- 3-4Wh.
I think I can demonstrate that this is simply too much power.
Servers involved in search handle multiple requests concurrently. Potentially thousands of requests per second. Let's ignore this and say a server uses 100% of its power to handle a single request. Let's say a single search utilizes ten whole servers each operating at 500Wh input.
10 servers x 500Wh = 5000Wh
That's 2.7Wh for two seconds of processing time. Less than but close to the AA battery. Comes out to 0.98GWh per year for a server cluster the size of Google.
Given the reality is those ten machines are handling a loooot more than one request at a time, the cost per request is chopped to a mere fraction of a fraction of that 2.7Wh.
Even if I am off the mark for number of servers involved in a single search and/or the power draw of the equipment the end result tells me this power claim is not accurate.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So Here is another source that puts the math back in my ballcourt, claiming an average search uses 0.3Whrs. (btw I'm claiming +/- an order of magnituted "in my ballpark" ;-) )
Here is the infographic itself from google that the other source uses.
I think the top down approach you are using simply can't be accurate, although I'm not sure why. Maybe the timescale is off? Over what timescale does your 500Wh data come from?
Again, my original source is regarding the nano-scale energy it takes to switch a single transistor on a chip, scaled up, so its likely they lost or found a factor of 10 along the way. The fact that it gets so close to matching Googles own estimates is impressive based on its ground up approace. The efficiency you mentioned is important on a larger scale, but irrelevant to the processor transistors individually, as "parallel" processing is still processing that must be done. Going faster does not mean going more efficiently. I still think my "fact" is accurate.
Genlsis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, source was an internal meeting at the largest semiconductor tool manufacturer, discussing projections and road maps for the computers over the next fifteen years. This data point was highlighted to emphasize that efficiency is going to be critical if we expect to maintain moores law.
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 11:29:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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HorseWoman99 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 14:13:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It can't melt metal beams, that is correct. But it can weaken metal beams enough to collapse.
staypositiveasshole ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:06:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mental gymnastics
MisterWoodhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You need to light it on fire first, though. Otherwise, it won't weaken anything made of steel.
HorseWoman99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:18:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sure thing, but we all know that in the motors a redox reaction was going on (redox is when something burns) that means that once the fuel was exposed, it was lit by the redox reaction inside the motor (the motor could've been broken, I think it was, considering the facts about damage etc.).
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
7/11 was a part time job
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:44:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steel fuel cant melt jet beams.
Shredder77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steel fuel can't melt dank memes.
Kylekins47 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
jet fuel can compromise the structural stability of said beams, causing the needed damage for collapse
staypositiveasshole ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And the only buildings to experience this were those that collapsed on 9/11! Even one that wasn't hit by a plane! Amazing stuff!
MixedMedia_Eli ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:46:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't NOT melt steel beams.
_____Matt_____ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:10:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I Can't Believe It Doesn't Melt Steel Beams!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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MeNotSanta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ayyyy
TheRandomRedditUser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's all it does!
aykontakt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
C4 can't melt steel beams.
Rad_Spencer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can't melt wood either.
umer901 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It can't melt dank memes either.
weiga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What if you light it?
Sharkn91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alien fuel can't melt vault beams.
atomicllama1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My friends tell me I tend to yell this when I get black out drunk.
arcadeon94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get this.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:35:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are people that are actually attracted to me, and chances are there are people that find you attractive too.
DavenportCabinet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:38:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You made me happy.
Buonka ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:56:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wayne Gretzky ate four hot dogs before every game.
TemplesOfSyrinx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:17:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If Gretzky hadn't scores a single goal in his entire NHL career, he'd still be the all-time points leader (based solely on his assists).
DavenportCabinet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Knows about hockey. Rush themed username. I bet money you are a white male. Source : Am white male.
Coffee-Anon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you were gonna say "Canadian"
Zeppelinman1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dont have to be canadian to love rush.
Source: am american who loves rush.
Coffee-Anon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:35 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a shame. And yet you have such a classy username...
Zeppelinman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But Rush is sooo great. Their first album is a rip off of Led Zeppelin I, and caress of steel is mostly shitty, but 2112 on to moving pictures are completely amazing.
Coffee-Anon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like Working Man but that's about it. I find Geddy Lee's vocals and lyrics irritating. He is a pretty sick bass player tho...
Zeppelinman1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's a great bass player, but Neil Peart writes almost all the lyrics. Not liking Geddy's voice is a criticism i can respect. I personally love it, but can understand how someone wouldnt.
phys1cstothemax ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:01:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In a vacuum chamber you can drop a 1 lb iron ball and a 1 lb burlap sack full of feathers at the same time from the same height and they will both hit the earth simultaneously (there are video examples of this somewhere online).
mirroredfate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:12:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The United States is just 3% smaller than the whole of Europe.
inarizushisama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only post on here to which I reflexivity thought, "Well, shite!"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:20:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Koenigsegg Agera R can go 0-200-0 mph in 20.71 seconds.
Urgullibl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:39:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Life is a chemical reaction that has been going on for over 4 billion years.
rytis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:40:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are 21-36 million human slaves in the world in 2015. The US has about 60,000 slaves. Fact sheet
scr1mmage ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:25:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more black men in prison in the United States today than there were enslaved in 1850.
foopyx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:15:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not in prison, but in the correctional system (including probation).
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8088989/john-legend-oscars-speech-quote
Still shocking nonetheless, but I'm sure you like accurate statements and saying "in prison" is slightly misleading <3
Harrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit...
Accountomakethisjoke ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Inside everyone is a spooky skeleton.
relaxok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:45:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so tempted to give gold
timoweic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
and they force the flesh bags around them to expand to compensate for its growth! skeletons man, they're devious bastards.
Hankbelly ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:42:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cats will eat earwax. Ewwwww. More of an observation than a fact. You're still gonna test it, aren't you? You're gonna pick your ear and feed it to your cat, you sick fuck!
Source: Tried it once, and so will you.
sarcastroll ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:53:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Brady and myself have an average of 2 superbowl wins between us.
ChilieMacPalmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Me too!
Chenja ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:18:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a skeleton inside each and every one of us. Every. One.
nvolker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:59:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A typical person has enough bones in their body to build an entire human skeleton.
VarioussiteTARDISES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:27 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And we are the masters of them.
bonkerdonkers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:18:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If your hand is larger than your face you have cancer.
ty5haun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
damn
successful_syndrome ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:32:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:14:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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ebolalunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but it seems like an eternity.
Uberfisch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:23:11 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body
novags500 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:16:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Some Native americans had a third gender. It was men who lived as women. They were considered gay and they weren't discriminated against. Also, in some native American cultures they would have the young boys perform oral sex on the warriors in the group and they would have to swallow. It wasn't considered sexual, they thought it made the young boys stronger and better warriors.
Edit: They weren't considered gay
Maadrussian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For real?
Tongimong ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:29:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ehh... The third gender was a thing. It was a role in their society. Some were born warriors, shamans or that. I've never heard of native Americans doing the oral thing but it's still a ritual in many African tribes.
novags500 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:36:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I cant remember what tribe it was that did the oral thing.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:56:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You aren't even on the right fucking continent...
novags500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, it was in the americans. There could be more than one culture that did it.
Grumpy_Kong ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another example of of an anthropology degree obtained from internet university ladies and gentlemen...
novags500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I actually do have a degree from a university in anthropology. Its been over 10 years ago since I graduated so I don't remember all tribe names.
Grumpy_Kong ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:29:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And winged porcines regularly emit from my anus...
novags500 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:30:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
um...ok
Grumpy_Kong ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I mean: "I don't believe you".
Sorry your reading comprehension is suboptimal.
The literal translation is 'Yeah right, and pigs fly out of my ass.'
Next time I will use less metaphor and illustration if that will make it easier on you.
novags500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's fine that you don't believe me. Read the question. It is suppose to be a fact that would make you think "holy shit, that's hard to believe." The thing is, like I said earlier, I have a degree from an actual university in anthropology and I also worked on a prehistoric Native American site with the University of South Alabama archeology lab for a year and a half. By you saying that you don't believe me just shows that I answered the question accurately.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh look, more pigs, flying out of my ass...
Look, you don't have to prove anything to me, I'm just a guy on the internet.
That's the interesting thing about the internet. It doesn't matter what your degree is if you are wrong.
novags500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, you are just a guy on the internet. But having a conversation and arguing is what this website is about. Don't get upset when someone backs up what they say when you call "bullshit." With that said, and Im just wondering, what knowledge do you have that I don't that contradicts what I am saying?
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:45 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And here I thought cats and memes was what reddit is about.
Also, claiming to have a degree is not exactly backing anything up because Argument from Authority isn't a very strong form of rhetoric.
So, how about a link? Because I've been searching on and off for a few hours and I haven't found anything to support your assertion.
Hey, you can even just tell me the name of the textbook you had for the class and I'll go do the research my self.
And THEN come back and reveal that you have been a bundle of sticks the entire time.
novags500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:29 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
oh ok. I get it. You're trolling. Im done.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
..............finish your damn thought already.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is true of most cultures, Samoans call them Fa'afafine, and they are actually a well respected member of many families.
DualShocker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:26:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DiCaprio still hasn't got an oscar.
segasaturns ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:59:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
63.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Twiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
58% of the people who read that won't believe it.
TheTrueHolyOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
86% of people scrolled past this
damien665 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:10:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
76% of people won't scroll down this far.
Twiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
5% of those who do scroll down this far will answer your post.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of India (currently 1.29 billion) was 395 million only half a century ago.
aykontakt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:02:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was in 1950s millions though.
batty3108 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:06:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope doesn't shit in the woods.
DiZeez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And bears are not, in fact, Catholic. Who knew?
Lincoln_Prime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
96% of people contain the gene that codes for proteins that can be misfolded into prions, proteins that basically eat away at your brain, Mad Cow Disease being the most well known example. Also, the median age of death for some of these prion-related diseases, such as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is 28 years old.
GRat9717 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are mostly water.
officialcrimsonchin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:29:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
all of the planets in the solar system can fit in between the moon and the earth with 8000 km to spare
Wright4000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the next 100 years six billion people will die.
insite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are currently over seven billion on the planet, and many have yet to die that will die in the next hundred years. Yes, six billion will die, as will many, many more.
D_Trox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All life on Earth is related: https://youtu.be/BhtgINeaJWg
michaelberry2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can line up all 8 of the other planets between Earth and the moon, and still have room to spare.
BartManCometh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Something about the Romans being closer in time to the dinosaurs than we are to the romans....
punkrawkintrev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this is not correct
Danda_Nakka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland looks bigger than Australia in many world maps but in reality it is not.
GoldenOlive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The size difference between Earth and a Ping Pong ball, is roughly equal to the difference in size between a Ping Pong ball and an Atom.
JustAnotherPlebeian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The duck has a corkscrew penis.
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Birds and mammals are the only vertebrates capable of color vision
slowshot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:05:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know FISH were mammals. Or are they birds?
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Lol i forgot to add terrestrial to that statement good catch
SilverbackRekt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sea cucumbers breathe through their assholes
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:47:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So do many of my coworkers.
HEpennypackerNH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
was going to type this reply word for word. well done sir/madame.
himishim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 share in this company called Berkshire Hathaway costs around $200,000.
compugasm ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:09:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when it was $9,000.
polot38 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are different "sizes" of infinity.
AdHocSpock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The East coast of the U.S.A. is as far west as the west coast of South America.. And Reno is further west than L.A..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this said holy shit face and I was gonna put PogChamp
ImageNationAt3AM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you lined up the population of china and had them walk in a line giving you high fives. The line would never end, their birthrate is too high.
teh_maxh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:13:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The birth rate would probably fall pretty sharply if they were all stuck in a queue.
untitled_redditor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid I thought it was amazing that liquid water and water vapor (clouds) are exactly the same thing. The hydrogen/oxygen positions shift and expand. It's just as heavy, but it's lighter than air because it expands to take up more space. Simple, but to a young mind that was super cool.
Genlsis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By 2020 there will be more transistors than cells on planet earth.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average home computer transistors "fire" at a much higher rate than your neurons.
josephdevon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, NV is further west than Los Angeles, CA.
Madamecoco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Right now I can only think of this one: 4 of 5 members of a band died in a nightclub fire on halloween this year. Shortly before the fire started they played their new song "The day we die". Really sad.
Edit: The band was named " Goodbye to gravity" in case anyone likes to know.
fyrenang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did the other 2 die? I looked it up and only saw that 2 guitarists had died...
Firework_Sandwich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the Western-most, and Eastern-most state in the Union.
tesseract4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Northern-most, obviously.
haemaker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you are on earth, and the sun went supernova (...and was magically large enough), you'd be killed by the neutrinos alone.
DJ027X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are only 2300 atoms in the universe, or 1090
SambaLando ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guy that narrates the intro at the start of each episode of Gurren Lagann, is the older Simon we see at the end of the series.
LUClEN ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pearls dissolve in vinegar
Whylizlovesyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doritos were invented at Disneyland!
Sosowski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bugs in your code did not come from space. They are puzzles that your brain has come up with for you to solve.
Mswizzle23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Margerine was invented by the French when Napoleon III was around.
zynthesis1981 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cant burp and fart at the same time.
ironpete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I always heard if you burp, fart and sneeze at the same time you would die.
CozyChameleon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maine is the closest state in the US to Africa.
paulvs88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't live near a Starbucks.
mainguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At the centre of every galaxy is a huge motherfukin supermassive black hole (about a billion suns worth) just sucking all of that beautiful star matter, complex life and artistry slowly up.
Wantreprenoob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Climate prediction is based on models. Including climate change.
Wafflesorbust ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:19:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If Wayne Gretzky never scored a single goal in his entire career, he would still be the NHL's all-time leading scorer.
teh_maxh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:24:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Vatican City contains 2,3 popes per square kilometre, but only 25% of the world's pope population (pope-ulation).
_rainwalker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:24:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no lobster in prawns with lobster sauce.
OozhassnyDevotchka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:36:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can drink a pint of beer in a London pub that's older than the USA (the pub, not the beer)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A severely disproportionate amount of presidents and Nobel prize winners have been left handed, in comparison to the rest of the United States. Depending on which scientist you ask the answer is either "coincidence" or that left handed people, due to living in a world designed for right handed people, learn to adapt and thrive in a world not suited for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
ingen0000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:36:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean that a severely disproportionate amount of Nobel prize winners aren't even from the United States?
Sheesh!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:23 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mistakes were made
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The technology we are using to share these facts, started with our curiosity of lightning.
fishslushy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:48:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The avg American infantryman in WWII saw 10 days of combat per year, the avg American infantryman in Vietnam saw 232 days of combat per year.
Timelapseninja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is 13 million termites for every person on earth.
RT_Ryanlloyd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:59:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Australian people see the moon upside down
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:01:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more people alive today than would be if everyone died!
pretty--witty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:10:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Animal Agriculture is the #1 contributor to climate change at 51%, more than the entire transportation industry when looking at total carbon footprint (#1 source of deforestation & freshwater depletion, too) and is the most easily reversible if we stop breeding & eating animals.
froggyman6000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
99.9 percent of all matter in the universe is plasma.
Source: Just read it in a physics book, just dunno if translated correctly lol
Run-GMC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:13:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
.9bar = 1
siqniz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:14:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There were black people in Hitlers SS
Actual_Unicorn_AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
While a fluff, a blessing, and even a unicornucopia are sometimes accepted, the correct collective noun for unicorns is a fondle. Source: am a unicorn.
tupungato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When the oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of people on Earth. Every single one of them.
Megaprr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How close we came to nuclear war. I heard about one story where a nuclear bomb fell by accident and 4/5 fail-safes needed to set off the bomb were active.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Happened in North Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
teo314 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first Star Wars move came out the same year as the last execution with a guillotine in France.
pygmyshrew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyes can swivel in their sockets in a weird way...
Look in a mirror - nod your head "yes" while looking into your eyes - your eyeballs swivel back and forth in their sockets (around the X-axis). Now shake your head "no" - your eyes swivel in their sockets from side to side (around the Y-axis)
Now tip your head from side to side like a dog does when it's confused. Your eyeballs will actually swivel slightly to stay level (around the Z-axis).
Eww.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone who read the last fact, played along with the movements described above. MAGIC
jeepdave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Vatican has a solid gold toilet.
0ddStranger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more variations on a game of chess than there are stars in the known universe
secretlysaab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Only 5% of the worlds data is transferred via satellite. 95% utilizes submarine cables, or just ya know, normal cables.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My list changes frequently, but I really like this one:
Current troop levels of the USA in Iraq: < 1,500 Current troop levels of the USA in Germany: > 50,000
maatc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mathematically, there are 5,9 popes per quare mile in the Vatican.
jmytape ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
maatc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well the area of the Vatican is much smaller than a square mile. So if you take the amount of Popes (1) living in that small area, you'd have to multiply it by 5,9 to get a square mile.
So while of course there is only one pope in the Vatican, the amount in a sq mile by math logic would be 5,9.
fake_yank ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The same number of people (6) have committed suicide from the Monument to the Fire of London, as were officially killed by the Fire of London.
T_Henson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Black Brant Scare. In 1995 Norway launched a rocket for the purpose of studying Aurora Borealis. It popped up on Russia's radars and they thought the US was launching a nuclear attack. The "nuclear suitcase" was brought to Yeltsin marking the first and last time any nuclear keys have ever been activated.
We were literally moments from having nuclear weapons launched at us because someone forgot to pass along the message that Norway likes the pretty lights.
BANDITTHEBITCHWAGON ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The 6 heirs to the Walmart fortune have more money than the bottom 40% off America... :(
ApeWithBone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Kenny, the voice of Sponge Bob, is the guy in the Smashing Pumpkins' video "Tonight, Tonight"
Daymanahaaah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:11:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
McDonalds gives away more Hienz Ketchup than Heinz ketchup sells in a calendar year.
Tirapon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't McDonalds buy it from Heinz though?
mecrowe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But Heinz Ketchup sell the Heinz Ketchup to McDonalds before McDonalds gives away the Heinz Ketchup.
Daymanahaaah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, outside of of sales to McDonalds, Mcdonalds gives away more Ketchup than Heinz total sales world wide.
whoisgrievous ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i wouldn't say they give it a way...i am positive it's factored into their menu prices. so in reality if you don't use the ketchup you aren't getting your full money's worth!
Daymanahaaah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
McDonalds is probably paying around $.02 - $.01 for each .32 oz serving of ketchup. I don't think you have to worry about getting your money's worth.
whoisgrievous ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
yes this is true. to a handful of people that isn't a big deal. but think, if 50% of the people who go to mcdonlads don't get ketchup, and i dunno how many people eat at mcdonalds a day (a quick google says upwards of 68 million world wide), that is a nice sum of money they are saving in ketchup! 340,000 to $680,000 a day from people who are paying that extra penny or two on their meal but not taking any ketchup
00blar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:14:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Little late but...
If you spent 1 million dollars per DAY starting at the beginning of human history (5000 years total for simplicity) you still would not have out spent the US National Debt. Not even close! Only 1.83 trillion.
So if we're to stop borrowing and remove interest, it would take nearly 50,000 years to pay off by spending 1 million per day.
This blows my mind every time I think about it.
whoisgrievous ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:39:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this is true. but it is less mind blowing when you think of it in relation to the amount of money the government spends
1 million is about .00003% of the US budget. when you multiple it by 365 days it comes to .012%. which is about the equivalent of you making payments on a $200,000 mortgage of 6 cents a day, or $22 a year. or if you make the median wage in the US (50,500), it's about $5.67 out of your annual gross income
Daymanahaaah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of Australia: 23 Million The population of Florida: 20 million
Potomac_Fever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
On July 4, 1826, John Adams, the second president, and Thomas Jefferson, the third president, both died, exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams' last words were "Jefferson lives."
asianbison ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:20:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last Chinese dynasty, the Qing Dynasty only ended last century in 1912.
WheresMyMoneyDenny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:21:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more people alive on this planet right now than have ever lived before combined... ever.
ill_tonkso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Which has been proven to be false.
WheresMyMoneyDenny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:51 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It can't be I read it on the internet!
Ethonal13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A pigs orgasm can last 30 minutes.
sameth1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
The second largest country (Canada) could go on an arctic anschluss spree, annexing Greenland, Alaska, Norway, Finland and Sweden but we still wouldn't be larger than Russia.
Thinkingpotato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more possible Connections in the Human Brain than Atoms in the Universe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Greenland is ice and Iceland is green
Jeffp88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Panama Canal travels generally west to east when going from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In case anybody isn't noticing the direction, let me help. The Gulf end of the Canal is further west than the Pacific end.
GrymEdm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a type of star called a magnetar, which is a neutron star (a star core just short of a collapsing into a black hole) with a magnetic field that is up to a quadrillion times stronger than the sun's. The crust of the star is under intense pressure and is also tightly bound to the magnetic field. If the crust shifts as little as 1 cm (called a starquake), the magnetic field can release a burst of energy that is as powerful as the sun's total energy output for 250,000 years. In 2004, we were hit by a massive blast of x-rays that blinded x-ray telescopes in orbit, compressed the magnetic field of the earth, and ionized our upper atmosphere. The source was a magnetar 50,000 light years away from us (which is halfway across the galaxy). So a drop of ~1cm on that magnetar nearly sterilized earth from across the galaxy. Source for info is this video by Crash Course Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMvUL8HFlM
VarioussiteTARDISES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:08:12 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Space is freaking terrifying.
joho0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All of the essential elements of life are toxic in large quantities.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correlation implies causation in some alternate universe probably
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Colombia after becoming an independent nation colonised northern Colombia, creating Colombian Colombia.
POP_TART_TACO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest cargo plane in the world the Antonov AN-225 has a longer cargo bay than the wright brothers first flight.
poncho5202 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
a honeybee will produce just less that 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
criMsOn_Orc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:01:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
80% of German military casualties were on the Eastern Front. The Soviets managed to beat the Germans almost entirely on their own. D-Day wasn't the difference between defeating Nazi Germany or not, but rather between a Communist or Democratic Western Europe.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a giant mass called the Great Attractor that is within our observable universe but we can't see it for some reason, and our entire supercluster is slowly being pulled toward it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's a black hole which has the mass of 12 billion suns, or about 12,000,000,000,000 earths.
Symotix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America ,to outdo over country's in providing for their troops, built a icecream parlor on a US navy ship in the 50's
callaghan87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Einstein's relativity predicts that our universe is not continuous at sizes of 10-41 meters. In other words, there are very small holes in our universe that are not a part of our universe whatsoever.
PickpocketJones ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:36:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In 2007 when Navy beat Notre Dame in football, the world's population had doubled since the last time Navy had beaten Notre Dame in football.
MILF_SLAMMER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The liver is called the liver because you need it to live.
brotoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
secreting organ of the body, Old English lifer, from Proto-Germanic *librn (cognates: Old Norse lifr, Old Frisian livere, Middle Dutch levere, Dutch lever, Old High German lebara, German Leber "liver"), perhaps from PIE *leip- "to stick adhere; fat." Formerly believed to be the body's blood-producing organ; in medieval times it rivaled the heart as the supposed seat of love and passion, hence lily-livered. Liver-spots, once thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the organ, is attested from 1730.
http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=Liver&searchmode=none
phasesofthemoon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Human chromosome 2 is irrefutable evidence to support the theory of evolution.
olafthebent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:41:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Finnish soldiers would attack Russian tanks using logs during the Winter war
... and they were successful
jesusisgored ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fact: there exists a number in the set of natural numbers that is the amount of women that have wanted to or do want to sleep with me
martin_grosse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No...I'm pretty sure that's an imaginary number.
Carifax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno NV is also north of San Francisco
2tall4a200 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Saturn V rocket could empty an Olympic sized swimming pool in a little over 3 seconds.
TheDarkRider ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Cuba did have nuke and where ready to use them , During the Cuban missile crisis.
TetonCharles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:59:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are about halfway in size between the smallest subatomic particle and the average star.
brotoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on the scale you use. If we use a linear scale, that which most people intuitively use, we're nowhere near halfway! On a scale of meters, people are 1-2m. The smallest particle is practically 0m, and the largest star is some billions of meters. This makes us under a billionth of the way between the smallest particle and the largest star.
TetonCharles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:56 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think wherever this came from is was a powers of 10 scale.
chilltrek97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
China is going to run out of fresh water before 2050.
Gannicius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mosquitos have caused the death of ~50% of all humans that have ever lived.
TheAmazingMrHinx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
From the late paleolitic era until the Middle Ages and a bit into the Renaissance, everyone was always mildly drunk.
Bad water supply often made people rely on beer and wine for hydration. Strong wine was also often diluted into water, so that the alcohol would kill most patogens in it and make it drinkable.
TL;DR, everyone back in the day was hammered.
I_Xertz_Tittynopes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit every planet in our solar system (even Pluto!) into the space between the Earth and Moon.
Bismarcus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There's enough calcium in the Sun to make a ball of calcium the size of Earth.
ManFromTheMun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:06:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Doot doot?
Clausewitz1996 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During an 18-month period from 1971-1972, there were 2,500 domestic bombings in the United States.
ahdguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you live a long life to 80-ish, you'll only be alive for 29,000 days : (
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more atoms in a spoonful of water, than there are spoonfuls of water in all the oceans and seas of the world.
tommysmuffins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible for an asteroid or comet to strike the earth with energy equivalent to several thousand times the power of the atomic bomb that struck Hiroshima.
ojzoh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:04:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have 10x more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
AussieGamingTV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:07:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are almost twice the amount of people living in California (38.8 million) than in the whole of Australia (23.1 million).
extreme_douchebag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:30:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Slugs have four noses
CruelDamnation ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
noses or nostril?
airiu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The language of the universe is telepathy and at any given moment a being could be listening to your thoughts and judging you like the NSA 3000.
HEADDYHD33 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are there any subreddits that are for Holy Shit facts?
ezrasharpe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/todayilearned often has some crazy facts
Mr_Softy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy smells like rum!
anubis632 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is full of shit...literally. This fact while not 100% semanticly accurate causes pause to question most things. This is my favorite 'Holy Shit' thought.
FitnessMrs610 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:24:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once ounce of human stool has more bacteria in it than there are stars in the known universe.
AND
Our bodies contain more bacterial cells than human cells.
AmorDeCosmos97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Related: Nine Kings in One Photo
MR1120 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, 7 badass mustaches, and 2 poor attempts.
iamnotmagritte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:31:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Space. It's pretty big.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You think it's a long way down to the chemist but that's peanuts compared to space.
WIENS21 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:40:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit!
seanpclayton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
THe corn in your shit is actually filled with shit, not the kernel.
somecallmeinsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...really?
seanpclayton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:20:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes this is true. Not my favorite just the only one I could think of. Although, it is funny to tell students in my bio class this little tidbit and watch their expression.
Avocado_OverDose ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
State GDPs in the USA are similar to many countries in the world.
rainbowdashtheawesom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Catnip is several times better than deet at repelling insects.
Ammastaro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, the Ottoman Empire was still around.
serrompalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The terminal velocity of all those old Cold War ICBMs is like Mach 17.
UncleIncest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The scene in Fury at the very end, the whole last stand moment, was based on the feats of one man: Audie Murphy. They had to add people to make it more realistic. Sometimes the truth is more unbelievable.
TruckerTimmah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think the best one I've come across is that the average forklift can lift an entire
spank-you ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
One of my favorites delivered by Eddie Izzard
https://youtu.be/1IRX2WTWvlQ?t=39
P9LE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All I consumed today was the blood and body of Christ. Holy Shit is a fact
Ultrey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that holy shit has nothing to do with holiness or shit
LTP123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the earth were made out of blueberries, the number of blueberries would be less than the number of atoms in a peach.
wirecats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:52:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
this video about black holes
DeeDeeInDC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:22:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What's that dinosaur fact people always bring up? The t-rex lived closer to today than it did the stegosaurus, something like that?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:25:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Jobs was half Syrian.
appepuppe26 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:30:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How many 12 year old kids has layed whit my mum
arkaysha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:34:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All beautiful tropical white sand beaches are really just fish poop.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:52:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
if you google image loins you get lions
iamangrierthanyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?ย
mcsheepwan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Antibiotic resistance will kill us all in a few years
Dhampire01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:53:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit the planets of our solar system side by side between earth and moon
xXOLD_MANXx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That coconuts are not nuts.
bluelightnight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the army, you're more likely to be raped than killed if you're a woman.
tatsuedoa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:04:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is not a single record found that references Jesus taking a poop.
Scuba_jim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our closest large Galaxy neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, is currently hurtling straight towards us at 600 000 km/h (373 000 mph). It will take three billion years for it to reach the Milky Way and us.
BatPidge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
During the filming of Alien, only Ridley Scott and John Hurt knew what was going to happen in the chestbuster scene, so the actors reactions are that of a genuine 'What on Nostromo has burst out of John Hurt's chest?!'
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
In order to witness the last public execution in England (26 May 1868), many spectators traveled on the newly constructed London Underground Train.
Oh and when Emperor Musa of Mali went on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th Century, he brought so much gold with him that it destabilised the economy of the nations that he passed through. This allowed European merchants to purchase valuables from these nations at very low prices. This new found wealth in Europe kick-started the Renaissance.
LWMR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:43 on December 1, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That last part sounds very ad hoc.
zackiscool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
24lilC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That top fuel dragsters engines are rebuilt after every race in 40 min.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Between 470BC - 479BC Confucius, Buddha and Socrates we're alive at the same time.
Opitovo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mormons are not actually polygamous
john0893 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually isn't there an and that's a delicacy since its abdomen fills with a sweet liquid.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:11:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Terrorism fatalities are currently the highest they've ever been.
circuital14 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:07:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wont they always be at an all time high? ...unless some victims reincarnate
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well more in the fact that their happening at a much higher rate than perceived before. But yeah I see what you mean.
zudomo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
that's probably just due to the advancement of technology though
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meh
reubenlowde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i aint dead yet
Important_Opinion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends how you define terrorism, and also how you measure it, per capita?
Saudi-Prince ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:32:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
American bombs kill ~100 Laotian civilians every year.
Kjakastolemynick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The noise you hear in a thunder is actually a lightning warming the molecules in the air so that they exceed the speed of sound, thus resulting a sonic blast 2153252436 times.
WillzSkills ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:04:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S averages one fatal shark attack every two years, whilst humans MURDER 100 million sharks per year.
JLSaun ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:20:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so we are winning?
WillzSkills ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For now...
MyFirstOtherAccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how many AMERICANS murder sharks?
Jaereth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharklivesmatter
oobydewby ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:33:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That very few people in this thread know what the definition of a "fact" is.
techsuppr0t ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:06:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That isn't a fact that is an assumption.
oobydewby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:19:39 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it's a truth, because I believe it. Admittedly I did not interview every poster and ask their definition of a fact, which would allow me to call my original statement a fact. But going on the evidence presented, it's beyond a reasonable doubt ;P
asillyname ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you take all of the veins in a human body and lay them end to end... said human will die.
Modern_Hermit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:22:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A crocodile cannot stick it's tounge out.
aykontakt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is more like "so what" fact for me.
circuital14 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:06:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm more baffled by what a "tounge" is
slyfoxy12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All life in the universe is essentially just the universe exploring itself
aykontakt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:12:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I talked to Universe and it said it couldn't care less about itself.
Mustachesteve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We could fit everyone in the world in the state of Indiana, each person having a 4x6 foot square
migueltrabajador ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:02:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If it's 4x6 ft., it's not a square.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthefuckyou
RTranzit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are closer to the year 2030 than we are to 2000.
BigOldCar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa.
stuckbtwnstations ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average cloud weighs over 1 million pounds!
ruffcats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps claims that he has never used an ATM.
karmaceutical ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:34:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you were to stretch your colon from end to end and measure it, you would die a horrible death.
BobLawblawed ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:06:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The time span from us the when Jesus was alive is shorter than the time span from his life to when the pyramids were built. In other words, Jesus is closer in time to us than he was to the building of the pyramids.
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so was cleopatra
cush134 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus only appears in fiction
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Earth has more than one moon.
i-d-even-k- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
wait what
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The earth has several other natural satellites which can be classed as moons. None of them are as big as 'The Moon' or even big enough to see with the naked eye. Our second moon is known as 'Cruithne' but there are arguments for several other moons, and some even propose that there are hundred or maybes thousands of moons orbiting the Earth at any one time.
If that doesn't sit well with you, you can take the other side of the argument. That the Earth in fact has no moons, and that 'The Moon' actually has cause to be classed as a planet.
JimDixon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:40:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claimed_moons_of_Earth
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, Cruithne does not always orbit Earth. However, it is considered to be a temporary moon for the time that it does. As are the many other natural satellites that may become linked with Earth.
I wouldn't take Wikipedia as gospel. While there is a lot of credible information there, I would say it is showing a one sided view of the debate.
But it does state;
Thereby supporting the idea of temporary moons. To further support one of my original statements, it can be taken to mean that Earth has more than one moon at any given time.
SAC0001 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:09:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more Jugalos on earth than Panda Bears.
It makes me sad to think about it.
sufferpuppet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe we could cross breed them.
Hollowsong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People used to pay churches to get to 'better' places in heaven.
... wait... sorry... you wanted a "holy shit" fact, not a "shit holy" fact. My bad.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:52:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year. (1929)
throwaway241214 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:29:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In StarWars Episode I, II, & III, Obi One was played by Ewan McGregor, his brother Richard is an RAF Pilot, his handle is...
Obi two.
BrokenBrain666 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:40:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That, according to a Harris Pole, 74% of adults in the U.S. Believe in god. It's declining but that number is rather large still.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/poll-americans-belief-god-strong-declining
JimDixon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:11:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you fly straight south from Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit, MI, the first foreign country you fly over is Canada.
edm81363 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:49:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Two pieces of the Wright Brothers plane went to the moon on Apollo 11, only 66 years after mans first flight.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Neoxite23 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:27:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh Parasite Eve.....I learned much of mitochondria then.
GloriousGlory ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:01:16 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About half the world's Muslim population is inbred due to the widespread practice of marrying first cousins.
querceton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:59:19 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm 2 of my uncles were married to first cousins and my mom was married to my grandmas cousin
MaggieNoodle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:14:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
As old as Cleopatra is to us is how old the Pyramids were to her.
Taman_Should ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For the past four years, the "hottest global year" record has been broken the following year.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
did you know hitler had two dicks?
Berlinia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:51:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anything said in rick and morty's voice
shredgnar85 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:09:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unacceptable!!!
all4hurricanes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
grass tastes bad
100YR-and-M ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And that's the waaaaaaay the news goes.
aggron306 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Both of their voices simultaneously?
Berlinia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. It exists
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Berlinia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't it involve Morty putting a giant fruit into his rectum?
Saudi-Prince ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE
"In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as intensely creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101. The result was The Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring Doc Brown and Marty McFly, characters from the Back to the Future film trilogy.[9] In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization," Doc Brown urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty
Berlinia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Could be both. I remember the anus thing pretty well
Saudi-Prince ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you don't remember this? http://i.imgur.com/4MhKbnQ.jpg
Berlinia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a parody!!
Grumpy_Kong ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think you misspelled 'pilot'.
Used_Giraffe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:36:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Awh, jeez Rick, th-tha-that's pretty crazy!
TheNerdySimulation ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:13:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope owns and regularly uses a toilet to defecate in.
Shit can't get much more holy than that! :D
PopeInnocentXIV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair the toilet belongs to the Holy See.
dezeiram ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tihs Yloh backwards spells "Holy shit"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 14:25:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They can look at the sky, it's just that their whole body has to be pointed that way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's not very helpful innit
MoonSpellsPink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I taught my pet pig (that I had when I was a kid) how to sit up like a dog so he could very easily look at the sky.
zudomo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:25:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so can they really fly but just don't know that up is a direction?
reubenlowde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
pick em up and point em
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:18:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The distance from now to 1985, is the same distance from 1955 to 1985.
That's heavy.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:57:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time = Distance ?
Who the hell upvoted you?
Also: I certainly hope you aren't a surveyor...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not thinking about time as a line, man.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:10:59 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, because it isn't except in the elementary school abstraction of subjective experience that /r/iam14andverysmart pseudophysicists love to trot out. The behaviors of subatomic particles showed us that several decades ago.
BigOldCar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Great Scot!
colwyn69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Your forearm is the same size as your foot.
reubenlowde ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:58:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
mines about an inch off.
MrAmazingApple ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Freak.
EL_TATICH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And your waist size too.
inarizushisama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:58 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:05 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't.
Urgullibl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you stacked all the elephants in the world on top of each other, most of them would die.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:29:25 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Garimasaurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has almost one testicle and almost one breast and almost one ovary
MysteryVoice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, just over one breast, just over one ovary
t3hPoundcake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody else gets it, have an upvote.
Noisy_Plastic_Bird ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:55:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We're still doing these huh?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:43:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People keep saying that ISIS is not practicing real Islam, yet I'm not sure those people realize what Islam actually requires from its adherents.
If ISIS is adhering 100% to their Quranic verses, then does that not mean they are the true version of Islam? The Islam as it was meant to be portrayed, originally as in the 8th century?
It is a matter of fact that Islam required 100% submission to the will of Allah. To provide any less is to not be a real Muslim.
And when you have a PhD in Islamic Studies, as well as having been a preacher for at least a decade, it's pretty obvious one knows what they are practicing.
You know who has this? Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the Caliph leader of ISIS.
You know who he was inspired by? Sayyid Qutb, the original Scholar advocating to offensive Jihad.
Qutbism principles include:
Adherence to Sharia as sacred law accessible to humans, without which Islam cannot exist
Adherence to Sharia as a complete way of life that will bring not only justice, but peace, personal serenity, scientific discovery, complete freedom from servitude, and other benefits
Avoidance of Western and non-Islamic "evil and corruption," including socialism , nationalism and consumerist capitalism.
Vigilance against Western and Jewish conspiracies against Islam
A two-pronged attack of 1) preaching to convert and 2) jihad to forcibly eliminate the "structures" of Jahiliyya
The importance of offensive Jihad to eliminate Jahiliyya not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the earth
If this sounds familiar, it's because many of the prolific terrorist groups (and some nations) follow this extreme ideology.
Sounds familiar, in terms of terrorist tactics.
Qutbist followers include Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri (OLB's mentor), and Anwar al-Awlaki. Qutb also influenced the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian Liberation Front (responsible for the Munich Olympics massacre). Hardly one group, and hardly located in one small region.
Jihad, in the proper sense, is no longer about a personal struggle (for the individual interpretation), but is now about global offensives. It has now returned to its roots - spreading the religion by the sword.
We also need to understand that religion should not be taken as seriously as Islam is. It is also a political system in addition to a religion, and is simply incompatible with the Western world.
Critical thinking about Allah's commands is not allowed, and the penalty for apostasy is death. It is a political and religious ideology fuelled by oppression, and by oppressing others.
It's main goal is to spread the idea of the Caliphate. They just disagree on how best to do it. But in their silence, there is complicit approval of such terrorist tactics (as seen in Paris multiple times over the last year).
Because of the Quran, extremist muslims want to kill you. Because of the Quran, moderate muslims want extremist muslims to kill you.
Moderates are supposed to show hardline stances, by the very decree of their ideology.
Do you know why ISIS agents attacked Charlie Hebdo? Because their enemy is not the West, it's other (moderate) Muslims. By attacking a newspaper known for insulting their prophet, they knew that moderate Muslims would be implicitly approving it, essentially victim-blaming the cartoonists for their drawings. After all, it is blasphemy in Islam to insult the Prophet, regardless of the tactics used to silence the cartoonists.. Do you know what happened when Charlie Hebdo insulted athletes, politicians, Christians, and Jews?
They all sued, because that is how things are done in a Western society. Those groups all lost, because freedom to publish is an inherent privilege of society, but at least they went through the proper Western channels to change it. ISIS knew that such attacks would garner more support for their cause, as the hate train would overwhelm moderate Muslims to becoming more radicalized (essentially convincing them to act on their beliefs rather than instilling new ones in them). Win-Win, as they'd be more in tune with how Islam was originally planned, and how it was meant to be observed.
Christianity changed from the historical evidence of hostile takeovers between kings, from the restructuring of the Church under Henry VIII, from the consistent abridged adaptations of the Bible by Kings, from the widespread gospel of the missionaries advocating for their own brand of religion. At this point, Christian scripture to prove any point ever is considered useless, as it is now fundamentally un-Christian to be a diehard Christian. It is no longer acceptable to follow Christianity as it was originally written, because over a millenia, it has become watered down to the point where it's all about spreading the gospel of Christ through love and understanding.
Islam never underwent that reformation. It never underwent hostile takeovers between Muslim kings, it never underwent re-structuring of the faith, it never underwent multiple changes of the Quran, the gospel nowadays is still the same as it was in the 7th century - the original word of Allah, the original word of Muhammed, 100% submission of wills.
It may be hard to believe, but if you are not a bonafide muslim (even a convert), you will always be the heretic, the infidel, and less than human to them. The majority of the Quranic verses are dedicated to controlling non-Muslims - telling them what to do, how to dress, etc. oddly enough, even if you're a bonafide Muslim, you might not be the bonafide Muslim acceptable in the country - there is far more intra-sectarian religious violence committed by different Islamic faiths than against the West. Sunni vs Shia, it's a debate as old as Islam.
Keep in mind that France is one of 18 countries that experienced Islamic terror in just the past week. I wonder why.
People quip "World domination, same old dream", except that it has absolutely everything to do with Islam, as per the First Pillar of Islam, the Shadaha (literally the first acceptance of Islam by a follower):
Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."
This passage sanctions the slaughter (rendered "merciless" and "horrible murder" in other translations) against three groups: Hypocrites (Muslims who refuse to "fight in the way of Allah" (3:167) and hence don't act as Muslims should), those with "diseased hearts" (which include Jews and Christians 5:51-52), and "alarmists" or "agitators who include those who merely speak out against Islam, according to Muhammad's biographers.
It is worth noting that the victims are to be sought out by Muslims, which is what today's terrorists do. If this passage is meant merely to apply to the city of Medina, then it is unclear why it is included in Allah's eternal word to Muslim generations.
There's a reason Islam means "to submit". Its followers are only after one thing (religiously and politically) - a global Caliphate.
It's almost like people are forgetting the 750 year reign of the Ottoman Empire.
I believe Islam has an existentialist problem and it needs to be acknowledged.
mainsoda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:24:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Great post, very interesting.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:25:42 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, it got me banned from /r/worldnews!
mainsoda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it did. You spoke the truth and the news wants nothing to do with that.
furancis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
gg propaganda
0utlook ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:51:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dad? Is that you?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:18:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Back in the 80's NATO had this plan that if a war ever broke out with Russia that all NATO infantry would take this super-ecstasy pill that let you stay awake and fight for 7 days in a row. If at the end of those 7 days Russia was winning... we're going nuclear. Also everyone who took that pill would die after the 7 days cause HOLY SHIT that's a lot of drugs. Source: Army Reservist at the time told me so
Skepsis93 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You sure it wasn't just a crackpot in the army?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:43:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like 110% certain. T'was the Cold War as well Skepsis-tical person
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you can source this, I'm calling complete BS.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok it probably would not have been EVERY infantryman, but my source came from within the Reserves. No declassified documents here ok.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not being a dick, but I'd imagine that this is a pretty huge load of shit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I do not have an answer for you. Feel free to extrapolate. However it would mean Russia would not be taking land in Eastern Europe and possibly farther.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He may have been fucking with you.. Yep, pretty sure he was fucking with you
CapnTwoSpeed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
go to the fridge and grab a magnetand use it to pick up anything magnetic then I want you to think about what you just did you grabbed a magnet probably the size of a fingernail and is powerful enough to out muscle Earth's gravity
sorry about my lack of punctuation I have severe trigger finger on my thumbs and don't want to type
Grumpy_Kong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but gravity is like a SJW argument: Hella weak but it goes on pretty much forever.
karmaceutical ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:35:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you were to stack all of the elephants that ever existed on top of one another and measure it, you would be committing a heinous act of murder of countless elephants
kissmyasthma123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:00:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Priests and Popes have their shit holy.
drunkrabbit99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is hilarious why aren't you getting upvoted...
silverbackjack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If, after being passed through the digestive tract and anus, sweetcorn were to evaporate it would result in...
xmotorboatmygoatx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet corn vapor?
silverbackjack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holey shit
robbydeepwater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope is very regular.
xmotorboatmygoatx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Like... digestively speaking?
CWalston108 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. Menstrually speaking.
robbydeepwater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
zerbey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I got two:
Humans and Mammoths once existed at the same time.
Humans and Neaderthals, and possibly other types of pre-Humans existed at the same time and possibly interbred.
aykontakt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Humans and Netherlanders co-exist on Earth today.
McAulay_a ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The smallest measurement human's can see with current technology (and probably any technology ever, considering for us to see something smaller, it would require so much energy that a black hole would form) is a planck length. That is the smallest observable thing. The largest observable thing is of course the observable universe. Now, the crazy thing is, is that the number of planck lengths that it would take to get from one end of a human brain cell to another, it the exact same number of human brain cells that it would take to lay across the entire observable universe. So, in a sense, humans are the center of the universe.
clinkyec ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That last sentence just doesn't make any sense.
MrTrevT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:09:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
NASA gets 0.5% of the federal budget.
Matt_Zackmann ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late to this party, but i'll tell my fact. Havent done much research on this, however my college professor told me this. Apparently back during the cuban missile crisis in 62, there was apparently soviet spies that infiltrated the pentagon and were building an atomic bomb in the basements of the Pentagon.
boxhead99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
7% of humans ever lived on earth are alive today
fwaming_dragon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:00:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are all just fuck trophies.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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nineteen-sixty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I was about to say this makes me sad, but I guess it actually made me sad...
J-Ram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In the United States if you run full speed at an automatic door it HAS to be able to open for you BY LAW.
MrP8978 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:58:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Led Zeppelin, Radiohead & The Who have zero number 1 UK singles between them
70MPG_onthishog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Using statistics, your head could be in an ice cold freezer and feet in a burning hot oven and you could say "on average, I feel fine"
Crusty_Dick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It is impossible to die alive, or wake up dead.
Jacob_exe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:43:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Kansas City Chiefs had 0 touchdowns with a wide receiver last season and managed to go 9-7
muffledvoice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Every extra pound of body fat in your body requires your heart to pump blood through an additional 6-7 miles of blood vessels.
techsuppr0t ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Does that count as cardio?teehee
gameboy17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you lined up every other planet in the solar system between the Earth and the Moon, gravity would pull them all together and we would have 8-9 fewer planets.
XrayAlpha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
chase_the_conqueror ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We know more about the moon than our oceans
gronke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:51:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope defecates, just like everyone else.
KitKatMasterJapan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit indeed.
PoniardBlade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
All the planets in our solar system could fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon.
Top_Wop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:19:41 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where I live right now, (USA) is almost exactly, to the second, the same latitude as my grand parents hometown is back in Italy.
ShitKebab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:30:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The woolly mammoth was still around when the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built.
mgrote ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are two living grandchildren from John Tyler, the 10th president.
mookpool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:41:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America suffers a Paris Attack level of firearm deaths every 36 hours.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:57:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The closest US state to Africa, is Maine.
NightGore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:14:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
100% of people that drink water die. /s
barnyardstrutter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:23:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that I'm not dead.
djlateralus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Playstation 4 is called Playstation 4 because it is the 4th Playstation
Barold_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:24 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit
Readityesterday2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A million seconds is a little over 12 days. A billion seconds is over 32,000 years!
And yet we casually talk about million v billion as if they are the same!
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:05:44 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're thinking of a trillion seconds being 32,000 years. Because a billion seconds = 32 years
Texpatriate2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more people in Mexico City than the entire State of Texas.
BlooFlea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:53 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wooly mammoths and cleopatra coexisted
zacktheking ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:01:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No. Cleopatra was very late in Egyptian history. The pyramids were as old to her then as she is to us now.
BlooFlea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:52:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Its this stupid reoccuring answer that always turns up on these "interesting facts" posts.
zacktheking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:21 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. I'm still right. The extinction of the mammoths was between the pyramids and Cleopatra.
BlooFlea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:14:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ K
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The opposite of Christopher Reeves is Christopher Walken.
JT_5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Babies aren't dishwasher safe
GGWAG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Richard Nixon's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, hired G. Gordon Liddy and another man to murder journalist Jack Anderson. Liddy testified to this in court, went into detail about the murder plans in his book, and has never denied or retracted any part of it.
Reddd69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope poops.
Tinfoilpain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:26:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That I'm considered an 'adult'...
twizttid1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A 2x4 piece of lumber is not 2 inches by 4 inches. It is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Lumber Standards changed, how the lumber was referenced however, did not.
KnowsGooderThanYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That banks are just con artists and money (currency) is imaginary
gilbetron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has less than 10 fingers.
Lasmamoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:55:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You have enough bones in your body to make up an entire human skeleton.
Imtheprofessordammit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:18 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Glass is technically a liquid
TerraChron ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 10:40:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 5 women has been sexually assaulted. If not more.
Skepsis93 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:51:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, this statistic is very controversial. There are many studies out there doing the same thing and many are getting different results. The 1 in 5 is not the end all be all on how many women are sexually assaulted and the truth is we currently don't know. But as someone who is very close to someone who has been affected by this, it's definitely an issue that needs focused on.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:59:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Worldly speaking, 1 in 4 women ll be abused b4 18, and 1 in 6 men
TerraChron ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 11:02:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I love how people are down voting me for this.
QEDLondon ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:15:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Because that statistic is suspect. care to provide a source?
Edit: link to article by two authors of a 1 in 5 study explaining why it is not generally applicable:
http://time.com/3633903/campus-rape-1-in-5-sexual-assault-setting-record-straight/
TerraChron ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 11:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And here a study that cites 18% prevalence in the us: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#cite_note-dfr-ic-fr-report-10
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 11:23:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've up voted
ofcourseimanxious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In my family of three women, me, mom, and sister, I'm the only one who hasn't been.
TerraChron ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:27:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why are people downvoting you for this? Because it makes them uncomfortable?
Unknownirish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:53:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Because they weren't ones doing the sexual assaulting.
ofcourseimanxious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they think I'm trying to point out that more than 1/5 women are abused or something which wasn't my point.
For a long time even, I had no idea any of my family members had had it happen to them, until recently even. I was just sharing what I thought was shocking.
Grun-beld ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not a fact.
Eight words into your comment and you don't sound so sure anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 in 5 women claim they have been sexually assaulted.
kewday96 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 10:44:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the darkest shade of holy shit.
Crossy_ ยท -29 points ยท Posted at 11:13:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Who the fuck would down vote this?
It is because of the way people try hide this shit is why the number is so high. You all need to realize that this shit ruins people's lives and the people around them.
Let me put this shit in perspective for you ignorant fucks. that means 1 in 5 women have serious trust issues. 1 in 5 woman suffer form night terrors for months after the incident. 1 in 5 women can't stand the touch of another person because of 1 persons actions. And you want to know the worst part? A lot of these people will get away with what they have done.
/u/TerraChron SHOULD HAVE THE MOST UP VOTED POST HERE BECAUSE THIS FACT IS BEYOND HOLY SHIT.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 12:35:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's not even a real statistic you fucking twat
Crossy_ ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 12:39:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well last I check in Australia is was 1 in 7. 1 in 5 sounded right for around the world. My point still stands though.
shakawkaw000 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:45:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I downvoted you because Bold text does not make me recognise your opinion more.
Also, yeah true. But the question from OP was not posted to incite a women's rights debate. READ THE TITLE OF THE POST. If you would like to voice your concerns and take part in a constructive debate about this, I will gladly point you towards the appropriate subs.
Crossy_ ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 11:47:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not looking to start a discussion. I'm just sick of this shit going unnoticed. Trust me when I say I'm no SJW....
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 11:52:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Crossy_ ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 12:01:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just gonna stop here, I've only got 32 comment karma left....
shakawkaw000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:07:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, you only have 29 now.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Crossy_ ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 12:12:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, I just so low I can only comment every 10 minutes. It's annoying.
Even replying to this takes 4 minutes.
TerraChron ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 11:16:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's a knee-jerk reaction. After all, it's something sjw's say, and all sjw's are terrible.
Crossy_ ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 11:23:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, This topic really fucks me off though. Probably shouldn't rant like this over the internet.
Naldaen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You should fuck off harder.
TerraChron ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same here.
George_E_Hale ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 11:35:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's true, you're right. Calm down, though. But you're right.
dOnee4 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 11:25:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
then again, maybe not.
jasonsu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ekans from pokemon is actually 'snake' backwards
ChocolatePanther ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Arbok = Kobra
jasonsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
muk = ...... nvm
ChocolatePanther ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It makes sense...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Newest pokemon: Mreps!
jasonsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Poison-type pokemon
IL_Duce848 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Arbok is kobra backwards.
gmtan91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
not sure if this is already on here, but Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.
AtHomeToday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Nazi's were Christians.
Ardaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the Earth was the same size as a billiard/pool ball, the earth would feel smoother to the touch.
Lazyboyn97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The world population in 1960 was 3 billion
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more dead people on Earth then people who are alive
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're partially made from people who were dead.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit
levels_jerry_levels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That 1 in 6 people have genial herpes, substantially higher than I thought it would be.
Bay1Bri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What I find disturbing related to this is I've seen seeral people (including ones before that AMA) that tell people herpes is no big deal. Sure, it isn't ebola, but jesus don't act like it's not an issue.
tonofun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In dyno graphs showing an engines power (bhp) and torque (lbft) outputs, the two graph lines will always touch/cross each other at 5252 rpms...
virgil2600 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The soviets had over 1 million guys at the battle of kurst
TemplesOfSyrinx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are people who have planted over a million trees in their lifetime...lots of them.
InstantCanoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It really isn't butter.
thisischeski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Magnets, eg. ones stuck up on a fridge, aren't using any energy because they aren't moving.
slice_of_pi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope does not, in fact, shit in the woods.
Kmaster224 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The average person has 1 fallopian tube
lightwright ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The universe is 93,000,000,000 light years across. Or 550,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles in diameter.
ajygv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If someone were to have access to all the conscious contents within your conscious field, we can predict every action you will take.
Xx420VAPEITxX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Raspberry and vanilla flavoring comes from beaver anal glands.Apparently this isn't true.
trees_are_tall ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:19:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well, not really.
SevenStar7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bob Ross the painter was a 20 year retired Air Force Master Sargent and drill instructor.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't see that one coming.
iamnihill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you put 1 penny on the 1st square of a chess board then 2 on the 2nd square then 4 on the 3rd square and keep doing that to all 64 squares, then you would have more money than the entire worlds money supply on your chess board.
banjoesq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earth's atmosphere is proportionally thinner than the skin of an apple.
Strangolio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest animal to ever live on our planet is the blue whale. Pretty cool
ButtMarkets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Rhythm doesn't have any rhymes.
idontstfu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:29:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Schism?
Mechashinsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:59:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jizm
beard_meat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That humans exist on this lovely world as the result of an unknowable number of happy accidents. If any of a trillion trillion different little things happened differently or not at all throughout the history of the universe, we wouldn't be here upvoting NDT memes.
skirtsIssue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The four largest Muslim populations are not Arab. The largest predominantly Muslim country isn't either.
IronOhki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Comments with real facts followed by comments with shitty facts.
Next_Gen_Nyquil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
demetri Martin is 42
Whats_with_that_guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I learned yesterday that railroad car wheels turn a train because the wheels are coned in that the outside of the wheel has a greater diameter than the inside. This is also what keeps trains on the track. Proof
thecatman456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pewdiepie has more subscribers than the population of Canada (as of 2013 Canada had ~35.16 million and pewdiepie has ~40 million subscribers)
sean1240 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Saturday the 14th is as rare as Friday the 13th
Valaden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
https://m.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3dtrrf/til_the_tsar_bomba_the_single_most_physically
willywalloo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1995 Best Buy with millions in inventory is completely trash crap today.
adam_demamps_wingman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
American-grown white rice has 6 times the level of the carcinogen arsenic than Egyptian-grown white rice.
U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The "carrots are good for your eyesight" myth came from british world war II propaganda.
RBCsavage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you wanted to write out every digit in a googolplex, you would have to pack the entire observable universe with sand, and on each grain of sand write 10 billion zeros. There would have to be a one in there somewhere.
GroundhogExpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tall people and fat people, all things held equal, are at greater risk of cancer. They simply have more cells that can malfunction.
ironpete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I recently read an article along those lines that wondered why there was such a low instance of cancer in elephants.
GroundhogExpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For starters, their population is just tiny. That alone makes the expected occurrence lower, even if rates are the same. If you're trying to compare it to humans, we are exposed to all sorts of caustic chemicals and conditions which make us far more prone to cancer.
ironpete ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:52:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK.If your interested google elephants and cancer and you'll get a bunch of articles on the subject.
GroundhogExpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not. If you want to provide a source, fine. But I'm not in the business of doing your research for you.
ironpete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You brought up a "holy shit" fact that I had never thought about before reading an article a couple of weeks ago-the more cells you have the more likely you are to get cancer. I thought you might be interested in research being done as to why elephants don't have a higher incidence of the disease and suggested googling the subject since there are a dozen or so articles from difference sources for you to pick from. Since I already read one of them your comment about you doing my research for me made no sense.
GroundhogExpert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Then give me a link ...
paulvs88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more insects in a square mile than there are humans on Earth.
feildpaint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia is bigger than Pluto.
tamsinese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Russia makes up more than 1/10 of the world's landmass.
-Rafi- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That one day I and everyone I know will be dead.
MagicSPA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Just as you have a birthday, so you have a day of the year on which you will die. You have passed this date before many times without noticing it.
M0rqu1ng4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the end of your finger was the size of Earth, you'd be able to sense the difference between a house and a car!
ThisDudePaul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fact: Bears eat beets
thequietone710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The dime is the only US coin currency that does not explicitly state its value.
Skyr579 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
World class sprinters spend about 60% of the race off the ground.
LocoRocoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The longest living person ever recorded smoke cigarettes from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Username_forwhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Africa is bigger than Greenland
j-j-jason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most pulsars spin "only" a few times a second or every few seconds, but it's estimated that this particular pulsar got so fast because it has a companion star that's giving it more material, which gives it an extra "kick."
typicallydownvoted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more Mormons in the world than jews.
Carifax ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
give it another few weeks.... Mormons are losing about 2k per week in protest to anti-gay stance.....
Hmmm.... Does this mean that soon all Mormons will be Republican?
septastic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Penguins have knees!
Holy_Shit_Snacks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They can be utilized as snacks.
cammibis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Time is not linear, we just perceive it that way 0__o
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine waking up to 4th grade....
Stroker81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you took out your DNA and stretched it out it would be a tenth of a light year long, so it would stretch beyond the Solar System.
FitChemist432 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you count the number of cells (of all kinds) in a human body, There are roughly 10 times more bacterial or other cells than human cells.
INTERNET_TRASHCAN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I googled "Taqqiya".
shaggytits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
we're all gonna die. its especially holyshitty if you scream it and start running.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last prosecution for witchcraft in the Western World was in 1833 in Tennessee.
catfroman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I would've thought it'd be much later. Like 1920's or so.
sufferpuppet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Given it's Tennessee, I'd have believed him if he said 1990.
catfroman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:08 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, no kidding.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Andy Milonakis is 39. And was 38 last year!
Zen0X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Porto won the champions league under Mourinho.
omgtldr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Trees release CO2 back into the atmoshpere (http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=826)
Koklikio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
To have a free will we need the second law of thermodynamics. https://youtu.be/sMb00lz-IfE?t=7m50s
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shaq only hit one 3 point shot in his entire career. He attempted about one a year.
WisconsnNymphomaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The discovery of nuclear fission occurred in 1938. The first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
Plazma60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
They actually have toilets in the Vatican
Luftwaffle88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The largest creature to have ever lived on this planet is living in our time. The blue whale is the boss.
Like all life it evolved in the sea, then walked on the land and developed lungs to breath air, then after the dinosaurs died it got tired of all the other mammals and went back into the sea to become the biggest badass ever.
Also sharks are older than trees.
curious_iguana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If your mum only had sons, she is the last of an unbroken family line of females going back beyond the dawn of humanity. Right back until the moment gendered organisms emerged.
Scipion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The closer you get to the speed of light the slower time goes for you. Thus a photon is absorbed the instant it is created and experiences no passage of time. They exist apart from time itself.
CheCheDaWaff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you got all the viruses in all the world's oceans and lined them up end to end, the resulting chain would be a long as the Milky Way is wide (that's 100,000 light years!).
ecorich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Prosecutors laid out why his child porn conviction is so heinous ... there was an enormous amount of child porn in the various devices of Fogle and Russell Taylor, including 5.6 terabytes of data. There were 16 smart phones, 6 laptops, 22 DVDs, 159,634 text messages, 3,394 videos and 47,623 pictures.
Holy shit.
kit_hairington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Martin Luther, key perpetrator of the Reformation of the Church and it's split into Catholicism and Protestantism, allegedly claimed to have battled the devil by defecating in his face.
If that isn't a holy shit fact I don't know what is
mattsoca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
corran450 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as bad as 1, it's the loneliest number since the number 1
corran450 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:47 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as bad as 1, it's the loneliest number since the number 1
corran450 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:01 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
2 can be as bad as 1, it's the loneliest number since the number 1
lennardusprime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bees have five eyes. http://www.honeybeesuite.com/my-teacher-says-bees-have-five-eyes-shes-creepy/
robertfrench29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That of the nearly 200 countries in the world, Great Britain has invaded all but 22 of them.
5280native ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Um....
BerserkD91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Penises can break
nutano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The iPad was only officially released 5 years ago.
operator0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are better odds of you being crushed to death by a vending machine than you winning the mega millions jackpot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If all of the atoms in our body were condensed so there would be no space between other atoms and also no space between the particles in the atom, all of humanity would fit into the size of a sugar cube
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:18 on December 1, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Demographically speaking, the person least likely to suffer heart disease is a Chinese woman living in China. (About 2%) However, you take that same Chinese woman and relocate her to the United States, and her risk of heart disease goes up to that of anyone else living here. (Around 30%)
GISP ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could be the last person to die EVER. As research in immortality is slowly progressing forward.
Sander071 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:56:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That only eliminates death by natural cause.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:04:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Immortality doesn't mean you can't die.
Naldaen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what stage we're looking at.
aggron306 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people who have the option of immortality will probably kill themselves
aykontakt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:10:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Research in immortality will continue until everyone dies.
Skepsis93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
By the few and the rich. It's currently just a curiosity indulged by those who can afford doing the research and if it results in anything, the general public won't get it for a very long time. Also, do we really want to live forever?
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:11:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather live for a few millenia than a few decades. Especially if everyone else I know does too.
Skepsis93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can only imagine the stagnation and boredom the human race would devolve into. If everyone could live forever, children would have to be kept at a very minimum and the youth is the portion of our society that brings about change and new perspectives. But I wouldn't be opposed to adding a few decades to my life, a few millennia and I'd kill myself out of boredom though.
Jib96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:00 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Immortality prevents aging, not me stabbing your throat
oneeff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A Roman woman, Pero, who secretlyย breastfeedsย her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. She is found out by a jailer, but her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her father's release.
KaizenGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A person has already been born that will die due to catastrophic failure of the planet.
JohnnyRussell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:30 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
EndOfTheWorldGuy ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 14:44:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If we were to somehow tax the "1%" for 100% of their money, we would get a little more than a trillion dollars. That revenue would still not be enough to support Medicaid for 3 years. Meanwhile Bernie wants to spend approximately infinity dollars on free everything.
Edit- Go ahead. Downvote numbers.
aykontakt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But if you tax the top 10%, 50% then you get 50% of 82% of money and that's much more than 1% of 100%.
EndOfTheWorldGuy ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But why do they keep producing money when it will only be taken from them?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
because they still make much much more money than most people, even with big taxes. The rich didn't stop getting rich when they were taxed 90% under Dwight D. Eisenhower
troyblefla ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:39:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, when the Federal government had these usurious tax rates they also had multitudes of levels. Somewhere in the 12-14 different brackets. This was due to their desire to social engineer their constituency; you do what I say and put your money where I lead you and you can lower your taxable income. Under Carter it reached the point of fuck you and Reagan was elected. He shit canned all the loop holes, lowered the tax rate and cut the levels down to 3-4. The max tax rate under him was around 35%, but you paid your due. He won reelection the second time around 49 States to 1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:20 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, dope history lesson, thanks!
troyblefla ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know that the top 10% of workers in the US would mean taking half of everyone's check that made above roughly 60,000 a year. Not going to happen.
VerbableNouns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anytime anyone does anything an infinite number of universes could have been exactly the same up until that point in time.
Another infinite number of universes will also only be different for that minute instant
Yet another set of infinite universes are still the same and may or may not deviate in the future.
Saudi-Prince ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's just like, your opinion, man!
kknaso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that the zipper on male pants isn't actually made to hang out "the snake" it's in fact made to just get in and out of the pants with less struggle.
showme1946 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The major suppliers and enablers of ISIS are U.S. and/or NATO allies.
whatsthatpidge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can't stand on one leg with your eyes closed for 60 seconds.
erock1119 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:13:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i just did!
whatsthatpidge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
without hopping? no way.
erock1119 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:23:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i mean i got a little wobbly for a while but i never hopped up and my other foot never touched the ground!
shempaholic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:37:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take that bet. Hold my beer.
Mechashinsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:12 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/holdmybeer
BaconBob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
tried it...lasted 30 seconds. well done, sir
Xannin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am sure this is true for most people since most people don't work on their balance.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is complete bullshit, it all depends one your equilibrium fluid, which depends on your age as well as how much you practice balancing on one leg.
nannulators ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Even the Pope takes twosies.
krathen78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you are smelling, is actually little particles of the origin. So when you smell a fart, there are little fart particles up your nose.
Papa_Nipples ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:18:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We in the industry call them farticles.
himynameisjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The only difference intellectually between you and the ancient Egyptians is your education.
That is to say, you can get an ancient Egyptian and raise them in modern society and they'll be indistinguishable from a modern human.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:32:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, so sorry. This isn't the case actually.
You really do underestimate the impact of a quality diet on cognitive capabilities, especially infant and child nutrition.
I love it when people say this though, chronocentrism is a serious problem that people like you are doing your best to bring it to light.
Fight the good fight brother, and be less wrong next time.
himynameisjoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The statement was worded for more dramatic impact, no need to be patronizing. The point is anatomically modern humans have been around for 200,000 years and behaviorally modern humans have been around for around 40,000 years
Try not to be condescending next time, it really paints you in a poor light.
Grumpy_Kong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:07:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Patronizing and condescension are my primary modes, you sophomoric armchair anthropologist.
edit: is 'patronization' a word?
himynameisjoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:19:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Charming
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought ancient people were really short.
IAmMTheGamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: /r/TodayILearned for weeks
The_Juggler17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are in fact nearing the end of habitability of Earth (on a relative scale).
The sun is steadily getting more luminous over time, which interrupts the process of recycling carbon into the atmosphere. Without this, carbon dioxide levels will fall, and all life that relies on carbon dioxide (and oxygen) will cease to exist, which is all of multicellular life that has ever existed.
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We have about about 800 million years until the oxygen runs out.
This means we're currently in the last third of the time this planet will be habitable.
JohnnyRussell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:55 on November 22, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any life that does not rely on carbon dioxide? Dumb question I know lol
The_Juggler17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:53 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, at least in some manner, all known life relies on carbon dioxide to exist. Nothing, not even microscopic life can stay alive forever without it.
In fact, that's why the discovery of liquid water on Mars is such a big deal. There are species on earth right now that could live and even reproduce on Mars if it has liquid water at least some of the time. They have always went to a lot of trouble to keep contaminations off the probes we send there for concern that microbes might survive the trip and be able to survive on Mars.
That's a crazy thought too eh? That we could accidentally contaminate Mars.
PartiallyFlaccid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ovechkin (whos jersey number is 8) currently has 8 goals, 8 assists, his +/- is 8 and he has 88 shots on goal.
This was just posted to r/hockey by ShinyCaper. Was quite the "Holy Shit" fact for me.
burn1nat0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There will come a day when I'm either an ancestor to all living humans, or to none of them.
Credit XKCD: Strengths and Weaknesses
leequarella ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
More time in history separates the triceratops from the t-rex than separates the t-rex from us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens from outer space exist and are running the American government.
VarioussiteTARDISES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:12 on November 21, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ayy lmao
ender_wiggum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:06:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Are you a lizard?
Twiny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, they are Gray men.
drdaddyzen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We are all just koi fish swimming around in an atmosphere pond
ImTheFreakingPope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
34.6 percent of facts are made up.
CupcakesAtWork ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:39:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"64% of statistics are made up, and the other 46% are inaccurate"
Or at least that's how I heard it a long time ago
ZugginAround ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:04 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can use statistics to prove anything, 15% of all people know that.
Uncle_Drew258 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:32 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For you sports junkies out there THE NATIONAL LEAGUE MVP IS YOUNGER THEN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE ROY.... LIKE SERIOUSLY
Jewels_Vern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Chinese did not invent the airplane because two Wongs don't make a Wright.
The Chinese are yellow because two Wongs don't make a white.
The Chinese ... Oh, never mind!
rwwman50 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You win!
jess_ticles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nigel Farage is younger than Johnny Depp
dylanna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks don't have any bones. (It's all cartilage.)
AgentElman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:11:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, most sharks have bones in their stomachs.
dylanna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:16:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This took me a minute. lmao
karmisson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks don't have any phones.
dylanna ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:22:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But how do they stay current?
zudomo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:31:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
omg, that was great
Frigguggi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:00:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't their jaws bony?
dylanna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Their jaws are basically ossified cartilage, fortified with calcium salts. Here:
jacubus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
,If I interpret it correctly...
According to Einstein's theory of relativity, there is no pulling in nature.
If you consider a truck pulling a trailer, its actually the leading edge of the ball hitch attached to the truck that is pushing the leading edge anterior of the cup attached to the trailer.
Or some such shit...
ill_tonkso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That... makes sense...
aykontakt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So if you are pulling a rope you are actually pushing the other end of the rope?
jacubus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
If you are holding the end of the rope, you are pushing that end forward. The rest of it is just going along for the ride.
If you fold it in half, that point is being pushed forward. Again, the rest is moving in the same direction.
Ok. Now grab the other end. . .
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Billy likes to drink soda!
WheresThaGravy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Miss Lippy's car is green.
ProfessorPromethium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are only 2 groups of the superclass Agnatha (jawless fish) alive today: Hagfishes and Lampreys. The rest are extinct.
coldcookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in the universe is on the same plane.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Define "plane". If you're talking plane as in cartesian coordinates that isn't correct.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Define "plane". If you're talking plane as in cartesian coordinates that isn't correct.
coldcookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Meaning in a 3D world everything could have been all over the place. But they are as if a plate...
Bay1Bri ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What?
calciumimaged ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Carson (the butler) is married to Dolores Umbridge.
ZachTheBrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jupiter is big enough that the Sun and Jupiter both orbit a neutral point between them.
Zombiecidialfreak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Technically that is the case with all objects orbiting the sun. It's also misleading because people might think the point is out in space, it isn't. Even though everything orbits a shared center of mass, that center is still inside the sun.
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:56 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The barycenter of the solar system is not always inside the sun.
aysecube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When a Drone Bee mates with the Queen Bee, the climax is so intense their penis explodes so loud it can be heard by humanzzzzzzzzz
Mechashinsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shhhhh....if you listen closely you can hear a bee's penis explode. pop
TheresNoTimeForLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no time for light.
WhatAMoroon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The inside of your microwave is made of metal.
Seriously, go knock your knuckle on it to fact check me.
CareGiverPDM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Once all of the ice melts in the north and south poles, ocean levels will rise so high that we will no longer have Florida as a state; it will all be underwater.
Scary part is that there's a very good chance of that happening in the future.
theslutsonthisboard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Some people eat bugs.....ewugh.
longjia97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
"Some" is an understatement.
Crabcaked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If every planet in our solar system was place side by side touching one another, they would fit between the earth and the moon.
Junjawe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Someone soon will invent a piece of software that will be able to consistently make money in the stock market and that software will make its way on the internet where it will be pirated and will become available to almost anyone who wants it
Arkilleus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you scaled the width of a hair up to the size of the observable universe, planck's length would be around the width of a hair.
jr33zy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
China has more "smart" the people than the US has people. I remember seeing a PowerPoint or video relating facts like this.
KickerofElves123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more than one hundred people out there with the name "Mike."
_NW_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are at least two people in NYC that have the same number of hairs on their head.
Dubstyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The gastrointestinal tract is continuous with the outside of your body. AKA your stomach is on the outside of your body.
thelastbatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Great Pyramid of Giza was more ancient to the Imperial Romans than the Roman Empire is to us.
Toraden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit all the planets in our solar system between the earth and the moon.
icantbenormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Not a "fun fact," but just a surprising and horrifying truth about society:
Approximately 5% of rapes in America end with the perpetrator going to jail.
(This has to do mainly with people being too afraid to report, police not investigating properly, and people generally not knowing the facts about rape/trauma. To someone who doesn't know, someone in trauma can look like someone who is lying and apathetic to the situation.)
DrunkHonesty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That there is a higher population of people in California than there is in all of Canada.
rufnek2kx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In wrestling, Paul Bearer is named Paul Bearer because he is the Pallbearer.
I only realised this in 2015.
cush134 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:15 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're not bright
yeeeaaaarrrgggh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no present, there is only past and future
CityFarming ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:44:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no past or future. There is ONLY the present moment.
yeeeaaaarrrgggh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:55:23 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
by the time that is realized its already gone, so we are thinking about the past in the future.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be the future in the past?
yeeeaaaarrrgggh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:13:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nah, the past is everything but the future.
muffledvoice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but we are doing it in the present. I believe what you're trying to say is that we are incapable of referencing the present as it happens.
CityFarming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The alternative is to not think at all. As a result you become fully aware of everything around you and begin to act on intuition. Not to say that sometimes planning is not important. My point is, people spend too much time in their heads.
Vojta7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yet nobody can see it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:52 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the amount of money spent on the syrian conflict by coalition forces so far could have paid for 2,000 trips to mars and back. (aboard india's most recent successful mars orbiter. )
the first US attack involving aircraft carriers and f22s and cruise missles alone would've covered fully 500 of those trips)
yeah. keep telling me its too expensive and theres no voter interest...
liquidpig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The southernmost point in Canada is at the same latitude as northern California
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
About 10% of the sound you hear when tuned to an empty station on the radio is from the birth of the universe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of sharks we kill each day. Holy shit
figthingirish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:18 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Furret (the pokemon) is almost 6 feet tall... Taller than 90% of all humans.
jake_newton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:57 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My biggest holy shit fact is that MLK and Anne Frank were the same age, actually born a month a part...it doesn't seem right
Re-AnImAt0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
only for 15 years......
jake_newton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:52 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't heard anything about them in a while...I hope they're doing alright
VagueRaconteur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Sea otters, the cute animal known for holding hands in water so they don't drift apart, rape baby dolphins to death sometimes.
armahillo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are grains of sand on the earth.
Wazzoo1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:12:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wilt Chamberlain once averaged 48.5 minutes per game during an entire NBA season. There are 48 minutes in a regulation NBA game.
mnwinterite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
1 million seconds in 11 days. 1 billion seconds in 32 years.
JJGBM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:30 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A billion seconds is over 31 years. It really puts into perspective how much a billion dollars is, or how a human cell reads/replicates its DNA (over 3 billion bps) in about 8 hours.
sarcastroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Plank Length is like the universe's resolution.
brotoes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:20:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You're thinking of the Planck length. The plank length is what you need you need at the hardware store
sarcastroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:32:06 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! Good point!
muffledvoice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly half of all people are below average in intelligence. That's an unerring statistical fact.
stainz169 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:24:17 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Negative. Half are below median intelligence.
Lets have a guess where you are? jk
muffledvoice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Setting aside the central tendency aspect of a middle value (i.e. median), the fact that the distribution is heavily concentrated near the center in what is more or less a bell curve means that the difference between the median and average level of intelligence is apt to be negligible.
In other words, the median correlates strongly with the average in this case, as roughly (actually almost exactly) the same group that sits below the median level also sits below the average.
Shrek_Wins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ezekiel 4:15
Then he said to me, โSee, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.โ
http://www.openbible.info/topics/poop
Analpoopapoolooza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You know how in the 50's, everybody was afraid of martians coming to earth? Now, by 2030, it'll be Humans going to mars.
ManFromTheMun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:06:11 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So..we will be the martians
explodinglamas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:56:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
earthans... or something
JohnnyRussell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:36 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Earthtians*
Kskelton4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That artificial vanilla comes from the anal glands of beavers. It's in everything!
tr621 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:26 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
iFlyZone101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is no spoon.
Realscience666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:43 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope actually poops every day
Whaleqer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:57 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The universe is impossibly big!
Wyve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Fish are too stupid to feel pain.
dianagama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
no.
yodadasoda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:13 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Tsar Bomb. That is all.
claque ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Our bodies are made from star dust.
romancity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:46 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The US state closest to Africa.
Random-Miser ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:10:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
According to various intelligence agencies 15-25% of the Muslim population actively participate in terrorist activities. That's close to 300 million people who think it is ok to murder innocent people for no other reason than their religious beliefs.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:52:21 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
there are more stars in our galaxy than atoms in the universe
IL_Duce848 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:38 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This makes no sense. If each of those stars were made up of just one atom (they're not) and then there was just one more star outside our galaxy. Ohhhhhh idk like in any of the other galaxies. Then that would mean there was more atoms in our universe than stars in our galaxy. Now please tell me you just wrote this wrong somehow.
Norberton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:33 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He's just abusing the fact that this thread doesn't have a serious tag.
IL_Duce848 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I hope so. And if so. I'm sorry.
Norberton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be sorry. It's easy to mix up people who are joking and people who are actually stupid.
JJHall_ID ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Unless I'm missing something, that is easily proven to be false. Even if there were only one galaxy in the universe, and every star system had exactly one atom, the number would still be equal. However, the are numerous galaxies in the observable universe (who knows beyond) and every single star, let alone star system, is made of multiple atoms.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:18:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
it's a joke fact, it's obviously not real.
JJHall_ID ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:42 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
D'oh. I really wish the Serious tag was default on this sub. I fell for that one hook, line, and sinker.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:27:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Lake Tahoe is west of LA
Edit: Downvotes? Am I the only one who was surprised by this?
cush134 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:49 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No, you're just the 1000000000 person to mention it
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:10 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Really?! I guess I have a new "holy shit" fact.
sawatdee_Krap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:40 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why do coaches always run screens on 3rd and insanely long....
demonchefofportland ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:08:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is full of "I'm not racist, but I hate Islam", and other "non racial" bigotry.
KassHS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:47:55 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Religion still exists.
LeaderFuzzy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People die when they are killed.
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:17:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that whole death thing is a bitch. Though there are theories that state that while an observable death occurs to an individual. in view of others. The individual may actually "survive" and continue on with their lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
FridgeFather ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:54 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Roughly 57% of Americans living in Nevada between the years 1960 and 1980 are currently alive today. This can be attributed to their lifestyle.
Also, another fact is that what I just said is entirely bullshit.
jesajajobbigstalker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:43:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope is on the toilet the same amount of time as anyone else
TemplesOfSyrinx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:17:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If Gretzky hadn't scores a single goal in his entire NHL career, he'd still be the all-time points leader (based solely on his assists).
herpesmyderpes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Most people technically aren't mentally handicapped.
hounddawg1776 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:35:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope took a shit today
MagicalKartWizard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:10:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap!
poseitom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:07:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that whenever you shuffle a deck of cards, it is quite likely that you are making history?
A deck of 52 cards can be ordered in 52! = 52 x 51 x 50 x...x 2 x 1 ways. This is because there are 52 ways to choose the first card, 51 ways to choose the 2nd, 50 ways to choose the 3rd, etc. But 52! is a very large number: larger than
8 x 1067.
How big is this number? Well, someone shuffling a deck of cards once per second since the beginning of the universe (believed to be about 14 billion years ago) would not have shuffled the deck more than 1018 times.
sauce
Adelaar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I came here to state this one... my job is done... (by you, thanks)
poseitom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
nou ja :)
FucklesTheCat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The sun is closer to Earth than Mars.
CaptHayes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:39:08 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The population of California is higher than that of Canada
FartingBob ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:55:24 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The most western point in the US is in Alaska.
The most eastern point in the US is also in Alaska.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:03:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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KIRBCZECH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:35:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pyramids were constructred in 2560BC Cleopatra was born in 69BC
did you mean to say Cleopatra lived closer to the present day than the construction of the pyramids?
BScottyJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, yeah. I guess I flipped them around, fixed it.
that_random_Italian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:26:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
the Ottoman Empire Still Existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won their last world series
GotchaBackJack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:30:31 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
People don't know who Google is.
sarcastroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:29 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on you- I'll just yahoo "google" to find out!
FabooblousBooty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:41:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nazi killed millions.
Twiny ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:54:37 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The world did not exist before I was born and it will cease to exist when I die.
willis1988 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:13:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the furthest western and eastern state.
martin_grosse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:12 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
And Northern
bluecanaryflood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:41:37 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pyramids were older to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was when she died :(
MechanicalHorse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:20:27 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit all of the other planets between the earth and the moon.
DeanisBatman ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 12:47:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Approximately 1-in-2 Americans has currently, or has had, an STI. Play safe, people.
Earths_Mortician ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:24:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I don't own a Subaru :(
DeanisBatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But you have a 50% chance of owning a Sexually Transmitted Infection.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He doesn't own a house or a car.. Let the man own something, damnit!
Jib96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:28 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Also, know how to play it safe. Protection is actually used incorrectly in a large number of cases. Whe used correctly a condom protects you 99% of the time, but if you use it wrong it drops to 0% of the time
DeanisBatman ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:22 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Precisely. A large number of people get STIs from not using preventative measures correctly and consistently.
sawatdee_Krap ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:28:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit.
just make normal playcalls coaches. for fucks sake
ebstl3314 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
87% of facts are made up on the spot. (Much like this one)
TheHaak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:42:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:27 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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the_power_of_glove ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:07 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i like that treehouse of horror episode
b3ta_max ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:41:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We have a winner folks.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:13:48 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think the soul splits, so we are left with two, lesser human beings.
JohnnyRussell ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:50:31 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: the Pope, space, time
Sk8On ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:03:30 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That Jesus used to take big dumps
Stillwaters73 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:09 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus pooped.
Gbreeze25 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 18:52:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That this country is controlled by liberal asshats
diet_rc ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Albert Cohol was under the age of 21 when he accidentally invented Bud Light.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
When Lucifer in the Prophecy said, "I can lay you out and fill your mouth with you mother's feces....or we can talk."
what? It's a fact. See.
https://youtu.be/tMmcCBEyEj0
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If the entire universe were scaled to the size of a 1mm dot, the difference in size between that dot and the actual size of the universe would be the same as between the dot...and Planck length, our smallest conceivable measurement.
...or something like that.
frosted1030 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The pope jacks it into a glass every day.
Sturgeon_Genital ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:51 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what?
frosted1030 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:14 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You heard me.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:28:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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notuninglishteecher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
...didn't they fold it 11 times?
Chili_dick ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:37:51 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Reno, Nevada is further west than Los Angeles.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:38:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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NeoinKarasuYuu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is not correct. One might attempt a proof like this. However it makes a basic mistake when dealing with infinities. It assumes that one can get from 1-A = A to 1 = 2A by adding A to both sides(1-A +A= A+A). Adding A to -A equals A as does A + A and one is left with 1-A = A and therefore this step in the proof is incorrect. The rest of the proof uses similar incorrect methods.
jlew24asu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:28:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
light travels at 187,000 miles PER SECOND.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:31:40 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Detroit is east of Atlanta.
punkrawkintrev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:13 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are also cities in Michigan north of Toronto Canada
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:33:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Everything (including us) is made up from the matter created from exploding stars.
tick123tock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:46:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You could fit all the planets in our solar system fit between Earth and the moon.
RockyRockyRoads ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:54:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pyramids were older to the Romans than the Romans are old to us.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:08:43 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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polot38 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are incorrect. Two sets are considered to have to same number of elements if you can find a mapping of one set onto the other such that each element of the first set is mapped to exactly one element of the second set, and vice versa, essentially "pairing off" elements of each set. This mapping, in your case, is simply mapping x to 10x; every number in the set 0 through 1 is mapped to 10 times itself.
There are, however, examples of infinite sets where they don't have the same number of elements. For example, the number of integers is less than the number of reals, as there is no such bijection. In fact, the number of real numbers between 0 and 1 is greater than the number of integers from 0 to infinity.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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polot38 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that isn't what more numbers mean. You have no idea what you are talking about; I gave you what is literally the definition of cardinality, a.k.a. size, a.k.a. what "more numbers" means.
YnotX ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:35:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more combinations of a deck of cards (52!) than there are atoms on earth
kazborat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Alaska is the farthest North, East and West state.
Sick_Boy_Paddy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:52:33 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Inertia is a property of matter.
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Bill Bill Bill Nye
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The number of ways a deck of 52 unique cards, such as playing cards, can be arranged is greater than estimates of the number of atoms in the earth.
tesseract4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A better way to put this is: Every time you shuffle a deck of cards to the point that it is completely random (7 shuffles is standard), it is the first time in the history of the universe that a deck of cards has ever been in that particular order.
spdrv89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:09:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
90 percent of your body is compromised of other stuff like bacteria and microorganisms.
Darktidemage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:12:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus took at least 12045 dumps in his 33 years.
Unless he skipped some miraculously.
Bat_Shitcrazy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
does this number account for him not eating for 40 days.
Mechashinsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
He only took rabbit-sized dumps during those days.
makomania ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:15:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pigs orgasms can last up to 30 minutes.
markovitch1928 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:28:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The one David Cameron shagged complained it was much less for him
Dorchevsky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:18:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A piece of paper folded 103 times is as thick as the universe.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:22:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Kylo Ren is Luke.
Rough_Cut ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:30:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You can fit every planet in the solar system between the earth in the moon.
runnin-on-luck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:30:49 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am going to piss some people off but... Anyone who is of Hispanic origin or Arabic origin is white/Caucasian.
though your ethnicities are different your race is not. Sorry
RelevantRoll ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:32:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The oldest living person in the world is older than every other human being on the planet.
Joliet_Jake_Blues ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:32:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you take a duck that plays the guitar and breed it with a beaver that plays the keyboard, the offspring is a duck-billed platypus that plays the keytar.
TransgenderPride ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:00:48 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!
I know, I know. It's mindblowing.
Imissyourgirlfriend2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:11:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope deficates just like everyone else.
ascii122 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:55 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
But in the woods.
Ukleon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:20:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That if you take all the planets in our solar system and butt them up next to the Earth, they would not reach to the moon.
First time I read that on here, it was like a slap in the face. I had to check other sources.
N6TJA ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:43:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The guillotine was last used to execute someone the same year Star Wars came out.
kaptenhefty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:49:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That jet fuel can melt steel beams
xianoth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No.. It can not.
Jet Fuel Maximum Temperature: 1472 degrees Fahrenheit Minimum Temperature to melt Steel Beams: 2795 degrees Fahrenheit
I am not certain if you are just saying this to be sarcastic, however, having the actual information helps.
ScoobyD00BIEdoo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:53:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure that nobody would argue that Jesus' Shit was in fact Holy.
TribalDancer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:53:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That all of the planets in our solar system can fit, end to end, in the orbit between Earth and the Moon.
TyrionWins ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:59:38 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The Pope's poop, is in fact, holy
xianoth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:18:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
A consecrated sacrament.. :)
GrumpyBert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap!
IcedCoffeeAndBeer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:05:41 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Corridor only has one "o" between the D and R. When i realized that it wasn't Corridoor, i had to take a few minutes to reevaluate everything i had done in my life.
jalalapeno ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:12:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
when God goes to the toilet....
Bsn8810500 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:25:26 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more stars in space than specs of sand on every beach on earth combined.
Persarum ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:28:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There are more water molecules in a glass of water than there are observable stars in our universe.
AngryTheian ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:50:07 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
There is a prevailing
theoryhypothesis that Earth once shared its orbit with a slightly smaller planet named Theia. Ultimately the two planets collided, vaporizing Theia and leaving its debris in orbit around earth and eventually amassing into our moon.ipsissimus666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:55:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
bitcoin...
Hobbit_Swag ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:39 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I am Revan.
5280native ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:59:11 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series, the Ottoman empire still existed.
vanceco ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:00:56 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
100 years ago, there was no plastic litter in the oceans.
The_Pudding_King ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:11:00 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
Alaska is the Eastern, Northern and Western most state. It is the the Eastern most because it crosses the
international date line180th meridian, making it fall into the Eastern hemisphere.Edit. Fixed my mistake, it is the 180th meridian, not the international date line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres. I remember the fact, but got the reason it was true wrong.
mtb1443 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:09 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
At what point does it cross the dateline? The date line does a western jaunt to avoid the Aleutian Islands it appears.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/International_Date_Line.png
The_Pudding_King ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:32 on November 23, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
OK, it doesn't cross the international date line, it crosses the 180 meridian (separating the Eastern and Western hemisphere). My fact was correct (Alaska is the Eastern most state, but my reason why it is the Eastern most state was wrong).
GinervaPotter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:25:03 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and Sirius Black were both played by Gary Oldman! I'm still having a hard time processing that.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 22:22:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:20 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Almost every death from hunger on earth right now, is a needless preventable death, that a small group of people are responsible for.
rimarua ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:05 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jet fuel can't melt Bernie Sanders.
karmaceutical ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:38:16 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you rotated the empire state building 90 degrees every day for a year that would be something.
Potatostickman ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 21:48:50 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Anne Frank did 911
_I_AM_BATMAN_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:14 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The popes poo is holier than yours. Holy shit
Beaver_Taint ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:47 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes have no arms......that's why they don't wear vests
3_tasty_oranges ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:59 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
There is a skelton inside everyone.
Denalix ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:35 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
America has 500 Thousand more prisoners than china, even with chinas population being 5 times that of the U.S. America has by far the highest rate of incarceration than any nation on earth.
EDIT:500 thousand
ae121584 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:34:28 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
America's population (imprisoned and otherwise) is only about 320 million. Seems unlike we're all currently being incarcerated 1.5 times. Even if that was just a mistype, here are 2 important facts. 1) The US is very open with public records. China, not so much. 2) it takes a LOT of work to snuff someone in America, vs throw them in jail. PRC kills people rather than imprison them all the time.
Not that you're wrong in your greater point, the systems are just completely different t and comparisons aren't so easy to make.
Denalix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:53 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Valid points i haven't considered.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
500 million? Are you sure about this? The U.S. population is a little over 300 million
Denalix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Changed it lol 500 thousand ๐
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
;)
Dr0ug ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:06 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
James Joseph (Jim) Parsons, sheldon cooper in the Big Bang theory, is now 42 years old.
TadShackles ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:34 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That CAVES are called CAVES because a CAVE is a short/small CAVERN so CAVE is LITERALLY short for CAVERN
_-Oh-_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:58 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Shit isn't holy.
relaxok ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:32 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: made-up facts
BeCurry ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:06:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE WAS A CLEOPATEA IN THE PEERAMIDS WHEN TIME HAD ALREADY EVENLY DIVIDED THE TWO OF THEM FROM PRESENT SCIENCE HUUUURRRR DUUUUURRRRR
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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Mister_Kurtz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:32:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
kwark_uk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:36 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's fan fiction. A world in which Einstein built atomic weapons in, I guess, the 30s and the United States was so eager to test them that rather than just using the desert they convinced Japan to invade, then spent 4 years at war with Japan (for plausible deniability) and then used them. Then they made up the Manhattan Project and all the people who worked there to give them an explanation for where the bombs came from so that nobody would blame Einstein. Oppenheimer was actually played by two dwarfs wearing a lab coat, one on the shoulders of the other. His less famous brother, also called Oppenheimer, was actually the same two dwarfs but with the other one on top. That's why the two brothers have never been photographed in the same room.
Mister_Kurtz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:49:15 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Now I feel better. I could never come up with something that creative.
smurf123_123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:50:02 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Tinfoil hat much?
You really think the American just let it happen? If they knew what was going to happen you would think that they would have swapped out some of the boats at least.
A holocaust based on retribution is absurd. Germans were fanatic record keepers. It's pretty clear that retribution had nothing to do with ethnic cleansing.
There was this little thing called world war one, it did a pretty good job of setting the stage for the events of world war two.
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[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:54 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:45 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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thatgurl78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:49:04 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I can only say this to you, that unless you were able to know what was in the mind of the actual person or rather the people involved that perpetuated these atrocities all we have are theories. This thread was for serious facts that made you say "Holy Shit". Not theories that make some people think you subscribe to the tin foil hat club and are a paying member. You put yourself out there as saying these were actual facts not conspiracy theories and then get all up in arms and calling people out for responding to these theories and questioning the validity of your "facts". I am in no way able to presume to know what these people were thinking when they did what they did, all I can do is have empathy for those involved and hurt by these horrors. There are things that will remain unknown and others that will always be speculated about, but I dear sir or madam will never claim to know something as fact that is inexplicable by anyone other than the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.
originalgangster27 ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 13:05:17 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The tv show 'The Biggest Loser' is titled so as it is referring to the winner of the show; whom has lost the most weight and is deemed as 'The Biggest Loser (of weight).
originalgangster27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:02 on November 20, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
why has this been down voted so much... I was shocked when I found out this fact...
Cantmakeanametoremem ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:07:19 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hollow Earth is real.
c0ldbl00d ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 15:28:01 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If you are male and you fail to have a son, you will be the first in your lineage to do so. The same goes for females and daughters.
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:10 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
If my mother had no brothers it would mean her father had no sons, and he's certainly part of my lineage
Tongimong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:25 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure he's referring to the family name's lineage, not the family.
Mr-Marshmallow ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:24:46 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit actually comes from Jesus.
Guido420 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 20:38:44 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
President Obama is allowing 250,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S.
Wrestling2015 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 18:04:22 on November 19, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
We Control Terrorism from all over the world.